Okay so computer broke, eyes got infected, but at last I'm back.
A couple of things to mention quickly...gotta go to work.
1. Kobe rules, 49 and 10 dimes....Yeah!!!
2. Nash isn't as good as he's led people to believe, he will go down as the only MVP to never reach the finals, shame on you voters.
3. CP3 is the real deal
4. Bron Bron is one scary mofo, I feel sorry for you celtics, round 2 is gonna be bad ass.
5. Tim Duncan hits a 3....to win a game....WHAT!!!!
later
Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
I'm so irritated...
So I'm a waste of space server for a sushi restaurant (okay maybe not a waste of space, but it seems that way to most people who come in lately). Anyways, I love where I work, my boss' rock and it's the best job I've ever had. So what's got me lately is how RUDE and annoying people can be. Where I work the food is world class, and I'm not kidding, it is, I've worked at high end places all over Canada, and well to be honest, this little Sushi joint I work at can rival any major Sushi restaurant in Vancouver and abroad; and yes I do realize that I live in Saskatoon. So how can that be possible? Easy, it's called having well trained sushi chefs who care and work hard to make the best. Anyways, what's gotten me so irritated lately is how customers can come into Sushiro and demand HIGH QUALITY food in minutes, and if it doesn't come out in record time, we're considered a slow and bad restaurant.
For example, I had a number of tables a couple days back complain that "we're in a hurry, how long with it be" when in actuality, EVERY single table that complained had only been waiting 10 - 20 minutes. How is this acceptable!!!
If you head to any great restaurant that has high quality food, do you expect to be in and out in 20 minutes? Does this happen at Carvers? John's? Calories? NO, I highly doubt it. So then why does this happen to Sushiro? Our food is just as high quality, if not better, just different.
This is very frustrating. I hate sushi restaurants that pre-make their sushi, it creates a stigma that sushi is fast food, which it can be if it is done that way. But here's the thing, PRE-MADE SUSHI SUCKS!!! Try it if you don't believe me, it's garbage and not worth paying for. So then, if you're a sushi fan, why can't you take pleasure in the fact that Sushiro sushi is made to order, fresh and with care. Patience people, it's not slow, it just takes a little longer than pre-made garbage.
Oh and to top it off, these two assholes came in two days ago, and boy could they not shut the fuck up. First, they walked in and grabbed whatever table they wanted, blatantly ignoring the "Please wait to be seated" sign that was openly displayed for them to see. This isn't your home guys, treat us with respect and so will we. Second, they interrupted me while I taking an order from another table, then once I'd taken their order, they proceeded to demand their food and soups immediately. Every 2 seconds"where's my soup?", "is my soup coming soon?" and so forth. Take me on this, I WANTED TO KILL THEM, THEY NEEDED A GOOD PUNCH IN THE TEETH, I've never had rude customers like that, ever. Anyways, as my boss was frantically trying to meet their speedy demands, which by the time I took the order to the time they received it, took a total of 18 minutes, soups before this mind you, I was excited to getting them the fuck out. But that wasn't all they had to offer me in the realm of irritation. As they were paying their bill, one of them had the audacity to proclaim to me that they would come here more often if the sushi didn't take so long...I ALMOST LOST IT, BLOOD BOILING, FIST CLENCHED AND TEETH GRINDING ANGER. They said they go to the Samurai more often because it comes out quicker. I told them the Samurai is shit, which it is, their Japanese food is good, but their sushi blows, so if you want to get quick shit sushi, heading to the Samurai is fine by me. Then I said bye with a nice evil stare.
Okay so I pussied out, I should have punched them, whatever though, blogging about it was way more fun.
later
For example, I had a number of tables a couple days back complain that "we're in a hurry, how long with it be" when in actuality, EVERY single table that complained had only been waiting 10 - 20 minutes. How is this acceptable!!!
If you head to any great restaurant that has high quality food, do you expect to be in and out in 20 minutes? Does this happen at Carvers? John's? Calories? NO, I highly doubt it. So then why does this happen to Sushiro? Our food is just as high quality, if not better, just different.
This is very frustrating. I hate sushi restaurants that pre-make their sushi, it creates a stigma that sushi is fast food, which it can be if it is done that way. But here's the thing, PRE-MADE SUSHI SUCKS!!! Try it if you don't believe me, it's garbage and not worth paying for. So then, if you're a sushi fan, why can't you take pleasure in the fact that Sushiro sushi is made to order, fresh and with care. Patience people, it's not slow, it just takes a little longer than pre-made garbage.
Oh and to top it off, these two assholes came in two days ago, and boy could they not shut the fuck up. First, they walked in and grabbed whatever table they wanted, blatantly ignoring the "Please wait to be seated" sign that was openly displayed for them to see. This isn't your home guys, treat us with respect and so will we. Second, they interrupted me while I taking an order from another table, then once I'd taken their order, they proceeded to demand their food and soups immediately. Every 2 seconds"where's my soup?", "is my soup coming soon?" and so forth. Take me on this, I WANTED TO KILL THEM, THEY NEEDED A GOOD PUNCH IN THE TEETH, I've never had rude customers like that, ever. Anyways, as my boss was frantically trying to meet their speedy demands, which by the time I took the order to the time they received it, took a total of 18 minutes, soups before this mind you, I was excited to getting them the fuck out. But that wasn't all they had to offer me in the realm of irritation. As they were paying their bill, one of them had the audacity to proclaim to me that they would come here more often if the sushi didn't take so long...I ALMOST LOST IT, BLOOD BOILING, FIST CLENCHED AND TEETH GRINDING ANGER. They said they go to the Samurai more often because it comes out quicker. I told them the Samurai is shit, which it is, their Japanese food is good, but their sushi blows, so if you want to get quick shit sushi, heading to the Samurai is fine by me. Then I said bye with a nice evil stare.
Okay so I pussied out, I should have punched them, whatever though, blogging about it was way more fun.
later
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
1997, The year it all changed for the worse.
Just read a very interesting article by my boy Ric Bucher at Espn (y'know for the longest time I hated how they always proclaimed themselves to being the leader in sports news and entertainment, I found it to be so arrogant and pompous. However, as time has passed and as my feelings have loosened a bit, I now feel that in a way they are right, Espn does kick ass. I guess I just hate when I'm proved wrong, whatever though) his article brought light to a topic I have pondered and fought over in my head and with many others over the years. How do you rank/rate or pick the league MVP? You see for me it has always been a simple calculation where you pick the BEST player in the league and give that guy the award. Up until 1997 this way of thinking actually took place amongst the league. The guy that was clear head and shoulders above everyone else usually won the award, even if his team/himself lacked sometimes in other areas (ie, most wins, best stats, etc...), the award most often went to the best player. Now I'm not saying that this always happened but for the most part, if you look back in the history books
http://www.nba.com/history/awards_mvp.html
you will see that it did happen. For me the league has always been easy to follow and if you watch a good amount of games it is usually quite evident as to who is the best player in the league. If you go back and think of a time and era and try to pick who was said best player of that era, you can usually come down to one or two guys who clearly stood above everyone else. For example, the 60's were dominated by two men, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, plain and simple. And well guess how many awards they won. Russell 5, Chamberlain 4, and well we all know that Chamberlain should have more, he was robbed quite often by a huge number of voters because of his overall dominance that quite frankly was taken for granted, very similar to Shaq, who should be appalled at how he's only received ONE, count it ONE mvp. Anyways, look towards the 70's and clearly one man dominated that decade, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was by far the most dominating force; he won 6 by the way. The 80's were dominated by who? You guessed it, Magic and Larry, and well they each have 3 a piece, which could have been more had Jordan not developed so prominently and quickly. The 90's is a obvious, Jordan 5, but for some reason in 97' things started to change, that was the year that Karl Malone won over Michael Jordan is what many call the biggest farce in league MVP history (for me it's second to Nash winning the award, twice too many, but that's another story all together).
1997 was the year that changed it all, (well 93' also, but hey I didn't want to go that far), it was the year that voters decided that "hey I'm sick of Jordan winning this thing every year; so what if his team won 69 games and had the best record again, Utah is our Cinderella team to upset them, we need to vote for the underdog". I mean how can you not give it to Jordan that year, he led the league in scoring, his team almost won 70 again, he led and made his teammates better, etc... whatever you get my point. Anyways, after that all hell broke loose. Okay so they've done it right here and there, 98 was good (Jordan), 2000 (O'Neal), 2003 (Duncan) and 2004 (Garnett) and that's about it. Every other year it has gone to either, the Cinderella team's best player (Iverson in 01', Nash 05', 06' and Nowitski last year) or "well he's due" (Malone again in 99' and Duncan in 02'), which to me is a shame. This award has now become the most hotly debated and criticized award ever, I mean it's almost comical, for instance, how can Dirk win the award when his team gets clobbered by and 8th seed in the FIRST ROUND, no MVP I can remember has ever let that happen. Anyways, you can see my point by now, things need to change. Which brings me to the question of , How?
Easy. Let the coach's and players vote, they play the games and know who's the king more than stupid writers and sports analysts who tend to weigh in criteria and biases that can overshadow who's most deserving. But hey that's just me, this thing will always come with some criticism and I guess that's maybe the point, it's fun writing stories like this and it sure is fun blabbering away while drunk to someone who opposes your choice. Maybe I'm bitter, maybe I'm just being fanatical, but I sure hope I'm being clear, that things need to change. If Chris Paul wins the damn award this year, I'm going to kill someone.
Anyways, below are my picks of who should have won since 97'.
97' - Jordan
98' - Jordan
99' - Shaq
00' - Shaq
01' - Shaq
02' - Shaq
03' - Duncan
04' - Garnett
05' - Duncan
06' - Kobe
07' - Kobe
08' - Kobe
later
http://www.nba.com/history/awards_mvp.html
you will see that it did happen. For me the league has always been easy to follow and if you watch a good amount of games it is usually quite evident as to who is the best player in the league. If you go back and think of a time and era and try to pick who was said best player of that era, you can usually come down to one or two guys who clearly stood above everyone else. For example, the 60's were dominated by two men, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, plain and simple. And well guess how many awards they won. Russell 5, Chamberlain 4, and well we all know that Chamberlain should have more, he was robbed quite often by a huge number of voters because of his overall dominance that quite frankly was taken for granted, very similar to Shaq, who should be appalled at how he's only received ONE, count it ONE mvp. Anyways, look towards the 70's and clearly one man dominated that decade, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was by far the most dominating force; he won 6 by the way. The 80's were dominated by who? You guessed it, Magic and Larry, and well they each have 3 a piece, which could have been more had Jordan not developed so prominently and quickly. The 90's is a obvious, Jordan 5, but for some reason in 97' things started to change, that was the year that Karl Malone won over Michael Jordan is what many call the biggest farce in league MVP history (for me it's second to Nash winning the award, twice too many, but that's another story all together).
1997 was the year that changed it all, (well 93' also, but hey I didn't want to go that far), it was the year that voters decided that "hey I'm sick of Jordan winning this thing every year; so what if his team won 69 games and had the best record again, Utah is our Cinderella team to upset them, we need to vote for the underdog". I mean how can you not give it to Jordan that year, he led the league in scoring, his team almost won 70 again, he led and made his teammates better, etc... whatever you get my point. Anyways, after that all hell broke loose. Okay so they've done it right here and there, 98 was good (Jordan), 2000 (O'Neal), 2003 (Duncan) and 2004 (Garnett) and that's about it. Every other year it has gone to either, the Cinderella team's best player (Iverson in 01', Nash 05', 06' and Nowitski last year) or "well he's due" (Malone again in 99' and Duncan in 02'), which to me is a shame. This award has now become the most hotly debated and criticized award ever, I mean it's almost comical, for instance, how can Dirk win the award when his team gets clobbered by and 8th seed in the FIRST ROUND, no MVP I can remember has ever let that happen. Anyways, you can see my point by now, things need to change. Which brings me to the question of , How?
Easy. Let the coach's and players vote, they play the games and know who's the king more than stupid writers and sports analysts who tend to weigh in criteria and biases that can overshadow who's most deserving. But hey that's just me, this thing will always come with some criticism and I guess that's maybe the point, it's fun writing stories like this and it sure is fun blabbering away while drunk to someone who opposes your choice. Maybe I'm bitter, maybe I'm just being fanatical, but I sure hope I'm being clear, that things need to change. If Chris Paul wins the damn award this year, I'm going to kill someone.
Anyways, below are my picks of who should have won since 97'.
97' - Jordan
98' - Jordan
99' - Shaq
00' - Shaq
01' - Shaq
02' - Shaq
03' - Duncan
04' - Garnett
05' - Duncan
06' - Kobe
07' - Kobe
08' - Kobe
later
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