[Shakes]

President Bush is really stupid.

I wasn't quite sure how to illustrate this one, but I'll go with what Pinella said during one of the playoff games recently: "If they just keep hitting the ball, they will win... maybe not this game, but...." Yes, Lou Pinella predicted that a baseball team capable of hitting the baseball would eventually win a game. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm tired of sports announcers (all of them, but particularly...) who make such conservative predictions that the cease to be predictions.

Any sports announcer who coyly mentions the point spread. It's very cool when done every once in a while, but it's gotten out of hand lately. "They might not win the game, but they'll keep it closer than people think... if you know what I mean". Yes, we know what you mean. You're a degenerate.

Anything on TV where the joke is that the woman is surprisingly into a sporting event. I saw this done on a commercial no more than a year ago, on several sitcoms that I can't remember, and in movies. Yes, we know that men tend to obsess over sports more than women.

And speaking of that, women who declare that they are really into X team or Y sport, and then as the conversation progresses, you learn that they really don't know much of anything about X or Y.

People who point out the "announcer jinx" on kickers in football. That is, when the announcer points out how great the kicker has been lately just before the kick, and then the kicker misses.