No tinsel. No distractions.
Happy Festivus everyone! It’s a Festivus for the rest of us on this butt cold December 23rd. Be sure to gather around the Festivus pole. Air your grievances. And remember, Festivus isn’t over until you pin your old man.
“Let’s rumble!”
I have a few grievances to air, so hear me now.
Why is it when you go into a public restroom with three urinals in it, there’s always some drunken monkey all by himself, going in the middle urinal. I don’t want to pull up next to that! I always go to the right or the left if I’m in there alone, because I’m a nice guy. People ought to have a buffer zone!
OK, so that was a weird one. I’ll try and keep it Cardinal related–Stop raising ticket prices, you Scrooge McDuck, swimming in money, urinal hocking pyscho profit Nazis! I would like to come to the games without having to spend half my paycheck! Also, to MLB and sports in general. STOP PULLING GAMES OFF THE AIR for the common person. Crap like the Big Ten Network, the NFL Network, MLB Extra Innings (which isn’t available on cable in my area) is starting to tick me off. I remember the good old days when baseball was on TV all summer long, and you didn’t even have to have cable. Now you suits got me going crotchety old man, reminiscing. I’m 28 years old, this ought not be!
And another thing. I’m happy the Cardinal games are at least on radio in my fine town of Cedar Rapids, home of the giant toilet brush in the sky. 
But when I’m coming home from work, and I switch on the radio expecting to hear a Cardinal broadcast, I expect to hear the Cardinals, not a freaking minor league hockey team play by play. I don’t want to hear about a bunch of 20 year old toothless college dropouts on skates chasing a puck! I want to hear baseball, don’t you idiots get that!?!? You would think they would realized that NO ONE GIVES A CRAP about the city’s minor league hockey team. They don’t sell out tickets even though they are basically giving them away, who needs to hear about it on the radio!? I can barely follow a hockey game on TV.
OK, that was my one nonsensical rant of the year in which this blog will be the outlet of. That’s Festivus.
Feel free to air your grievances and celebrate your Festivus Miracles in the comments between now and midnight.
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venting is good for the soul and should not be limited to a once per year event. also, yo on the urinals and distribution of major league baseball amongst the media types. thanks for all your efforts this year, i greatly enjoy my visits.
I’m happy for MLB Extra Innings. My job has relocated me to Chicago, without it I could not watch my Cardinals play. I would’ve missed all of the fun of the 2004-2006 Cardinals, no thanks. Years ago it wasn’t available, all of the many people like me were screwed. When I was in the Navy, stationed near Seattle, I missed five summers of Cardinals baseball, including much of the 1998 HR chase, and the magical 1996 season.
That really sucked.
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Though I dont know anything about your Minor League Hockey team. I have to say there is nothing that gets me through the Cardinals offseason better then BLUES HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus they have a helluva team this year you should check them out!
Grievances:
1. Stringing Reyes along - STOP!
2. Sinking more money in Mulder when we could have gotten a 1st Supp for him last year…
3. Trading Edmonds for virtually nothing (even if he asked for it)
4. Rolen’s complaints - old and stale
5. Replacing the old Busch
Also, the urinal thing - that is very annoying, although, I was once asked if Jack Nicholson peed on me in a urinal would I be happy or sad…
I for one would be happy.