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The Sportsocracy Show Returns Tomorrow!

By Thejim
25 Aug 2010 12:29 pm

I’m as surprised as you are.  I had an alcohol-fueled conversation with T-Ray earlier this summer in which he unexpectedly exclaimed “We should start fucking podcasting again!”.  I didn’t quite know what to say.  The last show we did was way back in January 2009 and as far as I was concerned, we had not looked back at all.  The site was grinding to a halt as was the show, mostly due to the intrusion of houses, marriages, babies, and all of that grown-up stuff you see on sitcoms starring Ray Romano or some fat guy married to an unreasonably hot chick (in relation to him at least).

However, recently, I’ve been in the process of rebooting the site…plugging the finest links in the universe over on the sportsocracy.net Tumblr, saying stupid things on Twitter, writing a little more here (and much more to come), and now the true crown jewel, broadcasting words you can actually hear.  I have a bunch of friends, acquaintances, and people I openly hate, all of whom seem to want to talk about Pittsburgh sports, their terrible taste in movies, and general stupidness.  I’ll be forcing them to come onto the show in the future for the purposes of shame and humiliation, plus it might provide just an iota of entertainment.  Well, probably not.  First taping goes down tomorrow night at 9pm.  See yinz there?  You can follow along live on the Talkshoe widget over at thesportsocracyshow.com or get the finished product, whatever that means, on ITunes.

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Dixon Is Kordell?

By Thejim
18 Aug 2010 8:58 am

After Saturday’s preseason opener against the Lions, there’s even more Steelers QB drama running amok in the general public.  There’s a weird clamor going around and getting louder for Dennis Dixon to take over as the starter while Big Ben serves out his suspension at the beginning of the season.

Byron Leftwich started the game (as he should), but looked pretty shaky out there and basically did his best impersonation of a freezer, nailed to the floor, attached to an anchor, only less mobile.  In Iron Byron’s defense, pass protection for the short time he played was pretty atrocious.  I’m looking at you, Flozell Adams.  From far away, so you don’t kill me.

Dixon put up good numbers, 6/7 for 128 yards, buoyed by a 68-yard TD to the smoking fast Antonio Brown.  However, the majority of his play time came against scrubs and more specifically, Detroit Lions scrubs.  And if you watched any of the game at all, Dixon took off running a bunch of times at the first sign of any pressure in the pocket.  On the surface, you look at his stat line of 6 rushes for 31 yards and think that’s totally okay.  Again though, you’re talking about most of that coming against guys that will be bagging groceries in two weeks.  It’s appropriate that Dixon changed his number to 10 this year, because he’s starting to play exactly like a certain other guy that wore that number and played QB.  You remember Kordell right?  You remember how the public fell in love with the guy, the denizens of Schenley Park notwithstanding, and how that worked out right?  Be careful what you wish for, yinzers.

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