Things that are making me mad lately

Why have a blog if you can't complain about stuff.

1) My ankle for obvious reasons.
2) NASCAR. Maybe I'm just losing interest because I know what lies at the end of the season, but all the cautions for competition and debris is ruining the races. I mean every race it seems like there is a caution with about 10 laps to go and if one of the cars doesn't cause it then there will be debris or some other fantasy yellow. Just let 'em race and who ever had the best car that day is the one that deserves to win. Not everybody wants to see Junior Jeff or Jimmy win every race. I was glad when they wrecked, because I thought we would see a good finish, but lately NASCAR has been blatant about screwing over Toyota. Gibbs put a spacer on their gas pedal so that the engine wouldn't be too powerful when then put in on the dynamo test because the Toyota's had already been penalized. So Gibbs with Toyota can build a more powerful engine, so what. Aren't they already regulated on size and and different parts they can use. Why doesn't NASCAR just build the cars/engines and have the teams show up on Sunday with a pit crew, crew chief and driver to run the races on Sunday. Wouldn't that be a lot simpler. That's enough for now.
3) The women's gymnastics' controversy. Part 1) Granted the scoring is ridiculous, when someone can fall down on a vault and still outscore someone. Now I see why they changed the scoring format to help the high-risk Chinese. Before the scoring used to be out of 10 so no matter how good you did the most you could get was 10. Didn't matter if you did eight triple back flips, as long as you met all the skill requirements the most you could get was a 10. Now you can get a 20 or 30 I guess if you do enough crazy stuff, but it begs the question:Which is truly better - A routine that isn't quite as difficult, but is perfect or a routine that is more difficult, but has some flaws in the performance. Aside from coming out and doing somersaults flawlessly, I would rather see the perfect routine get the higher score. I suspect that the rules will probably be changed again after the Olympics.
Part two of this rant includes the age controversy. I have less of a problem with younger girls competing at the Olympics than I do about the scoring. See Nadia Comaneci was 14 when she had 7 perfect 10s, and Mary Lou Retton was 14 when she won the gold, so having a 13 or 14 year old in the Olympics doesn't bother me. What bothers me is putting an age restriction of 16 in place because 'the girls' bodies are still growing and letting them compete at an early age would damage their bodies.' That statement smells, it is so full of B.S. Do the people in charge honestly think that these girls don't start training until they are 16? Heck there are probably gymnasts that have had career ending injuries before they were 12. It isn't competing in the Olympics that hurts these girls it is all the training they do from the time they are able to walk. Do you think there is a reason none of the girls are over 5' tall? To impose some artificial age restriction to make FIG feel better is crazy. These girls are already damaged, because of the systems they are brought up in. If a 10 year old can win the gold then let her try, then she can retire by 12 and have a chance to grow normally. You know unless she gets screwed by the scoring.
4) AT&T - Give me my Money!