Mostly just because I need one location where I can access my favorite sports rants from the last few years, below is a buffet, the best of the best, for your viewing pleasure. Your boss too focused on a non-issue? Boom – Iverson talking about practice. Some fool in the cubicle next to you dreaming [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
MLB Power Rankings – September 30th
Welcome to the final edition of the Cubicle GM MLB Power Rankings for 2009. While the MLB rankings may be coming to a close, be sure to check in next week for our playoff predictions column. And if you haven’t had your fill of Power Rankings, be sure to check out our NFL rankings.
The top [...]
NFL Week 3 Status Meeting: Fandom as Masochism
Mickey: Three weeks in, and you should know the shape of your team. For me, tonight, this is incredibly disturbing. The Carolina Panthers have limped into the 2009 season, standing as one of six teams sitting at 0-3. In the eight games the Carolina Panthers have played in 2009 — one playoff game, four [...]
NFL Power Rankings – Week 3
Welcome to the Week 3 edition of the Cubicle GM NFL Power Rankings. Every Tuesday you can look forward to our composite rankings, as well as a bit of brief insight and analysis about each of the 32 teams.
The rankings are determined by simply taking the average of each of the contributors here at The [...]
Story Time: Sidling Up On Your Cube
When I’m at work, I try to keep a few stories “on tap” for those all-too-frequent cases when you find yourself grabbing a soda or standing in the elevator next to someone at work who you have nothing to talk about with. Often these situations go like this:
Me: Hey, [NAME]. Good to see you. How’s it going?
Coworker: Oh, [...]
The Fax of Life: Poopin’
My ten-year high school reunion will occur sometime next year, bringing with it various significances. Naturally, the first and foremost is that it will mark a decade of my life without a dishwasher. Since graduating high school I have washed damn near every dish I’ve ever eaten off of. The amount of dishwashing I do [...]
New Coaches Find Early Success
After months of off-season trash talk between Lane Kiffin and Urban Meyer, college football pundits and fans alike were predicting a beat down of epic proportions when Tennessee took on Florida in Gainesville this past weekend; the official spread from Vegas was even a large 30 points. Yet the Vols were able to keep it [...]
MLB Performance Review – September 23rd
Welcome to another edition of the Cubicle GM MLB Performance Review. With one playoff race heating up, the rankings saw a bit of a shakeup in the middle. However, it has become abundantly clear that there are three distinct groupings of teams in MLB.
The top seven teams remain in a group of their own, as [...]
NFL Week 2 Status Meeting: A Master Course in Schadenfreude
Smokey Week two of the National Football League’s regular 2009-2010 season wraps up tonight with the Miami Dolphins’ home opener against Pey Pey and the Colts. Regardless of what ESPN would have you believe with their constant barrage of advertising, I don’t much care about tonight’s game. My Monday morning status report shows I’m about [...]
