Bench Cast Episode 4

So here we are with episode 4 of the Bench Cast, we have a large cast today with Uji, Ron, Fran and myself.  We talk about the Haslem weed bust, the new Jazz uniforms, BYU going independent, the joy around the blogfrica about Mariotti going to jail and a little on Favre.  http://dnpcd.podbean.com/

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We should be back with another podcast on Wednesday, so it will actually be up on Thursday is my guess, it will be the NFC preview and then Saturday we will do an AFC preview to get you all geared up for the season.  Until then stay tuned for our regular posts on the site.

Local Roundup with New Jazz Uniforms and Boozer as the ex-girlfriend

Since I haven’t done the locals only post I always claim I want to do, I thought I would use the unvailing of the new Jazz uniforms to highlight a couple local sports blogs, SLC Dunk which unlike me bothered to go down and actually take some pictures and Salt City Hoops which had a little article about Carlos Boozer as a girlfriend out of the Jazz’s league, a sports meme in this city that I don’t really like.

John has some great pictures from the event last night and some stills of the new uniforms, but doesn’t really talk about them except the crowed reaction.  I think there is quite a bit to say. 

Let’s start out with the good, the complete dropping of the mountains from the actual jersey is a huge plus, now if they could just get it off the floor, although the color change is a plus.  I also like the simplicity of the logo, no Utah on it, the ball is a little much on the home uniforms with 3 actual colors, but I’m glad they went with like color shadows for the homes.  Using the alternate color for the numbers is good too, the green is especially a good touch.

I can’t tell if the roads are the purple color of the Jazz logo or a blue, I think they are blue which makes no sense since that is not one of the colors any more.  I don’t think there would have been anything wrong with going green for the roads, I love the throw back greens and hope they are used about 80% of the time this year.

Which brings us to the problems with these uniforms, the trim.  Three stripes on the upper trim and then the alternate color blocks going down the sides has been very popular in the early 2000s, but makes them look armature to say the least.  The best part about the green uniforms is color consistency and a simple yellow trim.  The trim causes busyness around the face of the players and the stripe breaks up the consistent outline of the body, just not good aesthetics.  Also, with the blue they look like some kind of alternate Pacer’s uniform, and nothing good can come of that.

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Now a quick little mention of Dan Evans’s article on Boozer over at Salt City.  He goes into the very tired metaphor about being in high school and dating a girl out of his league, like Boozer was to the Jazz then realizing that she was a pain in the ass after they broke up.  This idea is fresh in my mind after watching the extremely average She’s Out of My League last night for me other site.

I know that Boozer was a fairly big time free agent, but he was not really that big, so I don’t understand why he was so far out of our league, I mean isn’t Jefferson pretty much at his level?  Also I don’t buy this implication that the Jazz need people that are grateful to be here, sure we aren’t the favorite place of most 24 year old millionaires, but that doesn’t mean we have to wallow in self pity about it.  That’s what people who think they are not good enough to date hot girls say.  You do what you have to do to be in the picture, many of things we’ve be doing, like spending money and having a winning team.  We need to be like the nerdy kid in high school that got to college started running track, got into shape, started up a company and now rich and decent to look at.

On The Google Machine

The internet, and it’s tubes.

KSK - Peter King: I link to this post almost every week because it’s awesome.  I can never get enough of Drew breaking down Peter King’s weekly diatribe on coffee, loving Bret the Indecisive and what hotels are on Pete’s shit list this week.

Juggalos at Film Drunk: Unfortunately this doesn’t have anything to do with Miss Tequila getting Juggaloed off the stage, I guess no one gives a shit about throwing the first stone when you’re a piece of shit meth head.  But it does have Tom Green and some hilarious quotes.

Ice Ice Soccer at With Leather:  The Icelandic soccer team is back at it with some new goal celebrations, now if only they could fix what I call the “goal celibacy” problem with soccer.

New Jazz Uniforms: Brad Rock talks about the new Jazz unis, he’s right on almost every point except the skyline Nuggets uniforms which are fucking awesome.

Fiesta Bowl

This will be an unusually short post, but my initial perception of the Fiesta Bowl is that Boise and TCU have by far the ugliest uniforms in college football.  They are a stunning combination of looking extremely dated in a that modern way that Nike has mastered over the last couple of years.

Specifically TCU has attempted to create a modeled, almost metallic texture to their helmets and pants that already is starting to look like that metallic finish that home stereos were given in the late 70s.  While the Broncos uniforms have the same aesthetic as the t-shirts on Jersey Shore, timelessly dated in every way.
While I was writing this the Broncos got a pick 6, so if you had any questions about what kind of sports blog this is, it's the kind that drinks Scotch and misses big plays while complaining about uniforms and making references to Jersey Shore and thinking the Culture Club reference in that Fed Ex commercial was strangely perfect.
Maybe Uj and Ron will be more to your liking.