One of the general plans of this blog project was not to include any of the recurring features in it. The main reason for that is by and large those features had some semblance of borrowed material to them. Whether they be the karaoke posts, hockey videos, stolen content, or even the asshats, they all reference back to something else that is already on the web. One however does not, and that would be the Things I Think I Think, or TITIT blogs. Since those are just part of my own cranial rumblings, I am comfortable enough to make an exception for them when it comes to the Multiply 365 project. So, the people that bring you the Multiply 365 project are proud to present TITIT #6.
Kudos to the Pittsburgh Penguins, who save for a loss Sunday to the Washington Capitals, have played some inspired hockey sans the talents of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Since Crosby has left the lineup with a concussion, the Penguins are 8-4-1. That being said, with Malkin out for the season, and Crosby still not back in the lineup, the roster as it is currently constituted just isn't good enough to make a deep playoff run. Perhaps Crosby will make it back in time to be a factor before the season ends (to which I am keeping my fingers crossed), but without him the Penguins go from a Stanley Cup favorite to Stanley Cup afterthought.
I know that Troy Polamalu was voted Defensive Player of the Year by the NFL, but you would be hard pressed to confirm that by his play in the postseason. The Steelers made it to the Super Bowl despite him, not because of him.
Seeing Slash on stage of the Super Bowl halftime show playing guitar while Fergie proceeded to butcher the G N R catalog with her rendition of Sweet Child of Mine makes Slash less of a master of the guitar and more just the Black Eyed Peas bitch.
Kudos to the management at US Steel who sent out a memo stating that anyone who called off sick on Sunday or Monday without just cause so that they could sit home and watch the Super Bowl would face disciplinary action and may be fired for doing so. I get it, it's a big game, and I get it in that I am a sports fan but at the end of the day it is just a game and at some point sanity has to enter into the equation. The world doesn't shut down just because you want to sit on your ass, the world will gladly move on without you. In a time where unemployment in the region hovers around 9% if you believe that a game is more important than your job, I am sure there are plenty of people out there who will more than willingly take your place.
Most ironic moment of the Super Bowl; the military did their customary fly over even though the roof on Cowboys Stadium was closed, meaning that people who had paid hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to be in attendance got to watch the flyover just like the rest of us, on TV.
As bad as the halftime show was, it still doesn't compare to Ashley Simpson at the Orange Bowl, a spectacle that was so bad that the 80,000 in attendance booed her off the stage afterward.
Major League Baseball is just around the corner, the first real sign of spring. Pitchers and catchers for the Pittsburgh Pirates are scheduled to report in 7 days to Bradenton Florida. That means there are only 8 days until the Pirates are officially removed from playoff contention.
Lastly I will say this to the State Department when it comes to the events in Egypt; Leave it alone. Far too much time and money has been spent propping up what best can be described as a psuedo-dictator in Mubarak to think that you will come in on a white horse to save the day and restore order. Credibility tends to get lost when you willingly support a leader who regularly stops on such ideals and freedom of speech, press and expression. While the policies regarding Egypt were not explicitly linked to the current administration (though it too viewed Mubarak as an ally), it was just as guilty in turning a blind eye to the events that were taking place to somehow now expect to be seen as anything less than complicit in the sufferings of the Egyptian people. Maybe when the process eventually unfolds there will be a chance to once again build bridges, but that time is not now, Now is simply the time to sit back and see the chaos and disorder that you helped foment by your previous actions or lack thereof.
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