So I decided I should probably update, cause you know, my ones and ones of readers demand that I write. So, I shall write.
It’s only fitting that my first update in over 3 months be about the same topic as the last update I had. Houston Dynamo faced the LA Galaxy last night in a sham of a game. Landon and Beckham were their usual douchebag selves, only furthering my anger at the ridiculous BS going on in the field of play. First of all, memo to the Galaxy. Before you sign a washed up player for 250 million, you might want to pay your light bill. Rolling blackouts? Is Ken Lay back from beyond the grave? Not once, but twice, the lights went out at Home Depot Center. It is rare to ever see the clock in a soccer game stop in the middle of a game, and it happened twice.
I could live with that had the refs not decided to put the game in their own hands. 2nd half of the game, it seemed like every little touch was a warning or yellow card for Houston. Brian Ching was taken out on more than one occasion, thrown to the ground, and nothing. Meanwhile a few timely dives for the Galaxy put them within range for a few direct kick attempts. Dynamo finally got a great scoring opportunity. Not only that, THEY SCORED! …wait, what do you mean it’s not a goal? A FOUL!? SERIOUSLY?! … Garbage call takes a Dynamo goal away with minutes to go in regulation, and would have put the Dynamo up 1-0.
So of course, we get to extra time, and in the first extra period, another Galaxy player goes flying like he was shot out of a canon. Penalty kick. It looks like Landon Donovan got a scouting report on himself, because every time I’ve seen him kick a PK, it’s in the lower right hand corner of the goal. That’s even the direction Pat Onstad dove, but Donovan went oppo and drilled it into the top left part of the net. Galaxy went on to score again, but it should have never even gotten to that point. Dynamo were robbed of a goal late in regulation that should have won the game for them.
I won’t update too much on the Rockets, except that it appears they are doing much better than I expected them to be this year. I’m hoping Tracy stays FAR FAR away, I want Morey to get him as far away from this team as humanly possible. Please? It’s time to cut bait. I refuse to watch the Rockets if he is playing for them at any point this year, unless he proves he’s going to give it his all, like the entire team has shown all preseason and the first 2 weeks of the regular season.
Onto another Houston team. The Coogs just went back to UH alums only caring about them. Case Keenum’s Heisman invite just went down the drain there. It’s time to just hope you can finish the season ranked, and get into the C-USA championship game, then win your bowl game. I’ll still be watching, but I know a lot of people who jumped on this season will now not care anymore. It’s understandable, it’s the Houston way.
Finally, Texans are off this week. I don’t think I can take another Houston loss this weekend, or another close game that comes down to the last 3 seconds of the game. I’ve had enough of those in the past month.
And just so this isn’t all sports related… Here’s, in order of favorite to least favorite, the list of movies I saw in theatres this year. Enjoy.
Movies of 2009:
- Public Enemies
- Law Abiding Ciizen
- Moon
- The Hangover
- Taken
- Gran Torino
- The Watchmen
- Inglourious Basterds
- Transformers 2: Rise Of The Fallen
- Fast and Furious
- District 9
- The Haunting In Connecticut
I won’t bore you with reviews, but I’ve been very happy with the year in terms of movies.