Pizza Hut and Losing: A Sad Commentary

Remember when I said the party was just getting started at the CWS? That is called a blog tease. It's kind of like when a chick flirts with you long enough to get you to pay for something (dinner, drinks, etc.), while giving you a semi, before leaving you hanging with nothing to show for it. It's kind of like that, except much less exciting. I was planning on delivering on my tease because, A) I thought I had something to offer and B) I hate those chicks. I don't want to hate myself. I'll leave that to the emo kids. Anyway, after I thought about it, I realized that despite everyone in the entire town knowing we had an AWESOME time, there were only a few things that stood out in my mind from Sunday and Monday before Addy left.

We continued to stick it to the NCAA by way of bringing my 'binoculars' to the game. Although we sat right behind home plate, they were very useful in keeping the buzz of college baseball alive in the stadium. It kind of sounded like a world cup soccer match. That was probably just in my head.

I was encouraged by some middle-age lady folk to 'take it off!' as I walked by their tailgate. After I told them to be careful what they wish for, I joined their tailgate for the remainder of the night. Evidently I made a good impression, because somewhere in between listening to one lady's life story and drinking their beer, a dude took my picture and sent it to his sister-in-law telling me he would introduce us.

Later we saw Christopher Walken wandering through the lot. He came up to us and asked us if we wanted to go smoke a couple cigars out on the dock. To which we of course answered, 'Stogies? Why not?'

Ok, one of the above things didn't happen, but I'm not telling which. Addy later caught a ride to the airport from a girl he met one night in Omaha over a year ago when passing through. If you met a girl for one night, could you make enough of an impression on her so that, over one year later, she would give you a ride to the airport if you randomly showed up and asked her to? I think you need super powers to do that. Through deductive reasoning, I have determined that Addy is a superhero. My best friend is a superhero. I thought it would be cool to know a superhero, but once I realized he uses his powers to help himself only, instead of others, I got over it.

Thank goodness I got that out of the way so I can bring up the main topic of this post. Has anyone seen that fairly new Pizza Hut commercial that has been airing for the last few weeks? It has two little leaguers talking about how losing isn't bad because their coach takes them to Pizza Hut afterwards. Don't try and tell me it's supposed to be light-hearted and funny. Make a joke about something that doesn't give losing a thumbs up. What kind of message are we sending to America's youth with this crap? What kind of people work for Pizza Hut advertising? How did they get their jobs? I bet it wasn't with that attitude.

'Oh darn! They didn't go for our ad pitch and now we are homeless and jobless. Don't worry, once I have a slice of pepperoni lovers, it won't matter anymore! Who cares if we lost the job!? Someone will take care of us, even if we can't do it ourselves. Someone will pay for my gas and my mortgage, it'll be like Christmas!'

Sorry I blew up. Maybe I'm overreacting (although highly unlikely). I need one of my three readers to weigh in on this and tell me I'm not crazy.*

*Hint - That means if you think I am crazy, keep your opinion to yourself.