For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Ultimate Hate List

You know all those things you hate in life? All those pet peeves? Well my cousin started a blog that will cover it: Ultimate Hate List.

Think "Stuff White People Like"...but the opposite.

My favorite one (and one of my biggest pet peeves) is their #1 hate: The Bathroom Attendants. They aren't just at high class bars anymore but at any run-of-the-mill restaurant or dive bar. The worst one is one I saw recently at the New York City midtown restaurant, Asia de Cuba. They actually had a bathroom attendant OUTSIDE the bathroom. The person didn't give you paper towels, turn on the water for you, or pump the soap...they just sat out there with a few sticks of gum and expected a tip. As I said in the comments to that, I rather wipe my ass with the dollar bill than give it to a bathroom attendant.

For sports fans (and New York sports fans especially), here's my a list of 25 of my biggest hates (in no particular order, and I know I forgot some good ones) that I hope UHL gets to:

1. Bad broadcasting (Tim McCarver, Joe Morgan and John Madden, please stand up)
2. "Red Sox Nation" (and basically everything to do the Red Sox from Kevin Millar and Curt Schilling on down)
3. Carl Pavano, Stephon Marbury, Wade Redden, and every other overpaid, undeserving New York contract given out in the past decade  (Pavano got traded to the Twins today, amazingly, and the awful GM job done by Isiah Thomas and Glen Sather can be blamed for the rest)
4. People who "don't care about stats" (sometimes includes "People who think Joba Chamberlain should be in the bullpen")
5. Corporate suits at sporting events taking up the good seats and not watching the game (give me the seat and go upstairs and talk on your BlackBerry)
6. People who sit next to you at sporting events and don't know what they're talking about ("of course you can throw 5 balls")
7. Major League Soccer (or people who say that soccer is "really catching on the US")
8. People who are really into NASCAR (or Formula 1 or anyone with a Dale Earnhardt sticker on their car)
9. That "Happy Youngster" guy who catches all the home run balls (though glad to see that other people feel the same way) and basically anyone who knocks over people to catch a homerun/foul ball
10. Not doing the National Anthem live (ahem, Yankees)
11. Ticketmaster (could they make it any harder?)
12. Jim Rome (how is this guy still on the air? Who likes him?)
13. The NFL's blackout rule (so stupid)
14. The NHL on Versus (so bad)
15. The NBA regular season (so boring)
16. The MLB draft system (so ridiculous--just include all countries, have actual slots/maximums and make draft picks tradable)
17. Hockey players diving (Sidney Crosby, I'm looking at you) and basketball players flopping
18. Dane Cook even being associated with baseball (This is NOT October)
19. Lockouts and strikes (1994 for baseball and the hockey one that cancelled an entire season, though that changed the sport for the better)
20. The guy who calls up sports talk radio and says "I have a trade for you" ("Kei Igawa and Ramiro Pena straight up for Roy Halladay because they need a shortstop and starting pitcher")
21. The price of everything at sporting events (tickets, food, beer, etc.)
22. Not having dividers on urinals (I definitely do NOT want to go to a game and see the guy next to me pissing, thanks)
23. The amount of advertisements ALL over the place (outfield walls and hockey boards/ice, especially, and Jay thinks radio broadcasts as well)
24. Guys who can't figure out if they're going to retire or not and that being a huge story and then they come out of retirement anyways (Roger Clemens, Brett Favre, Derek Mason, etc.)
25. Michael Kay

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