Intern Diaries: Weekend Warrior

July 19, 2011 by Leave a comment

Being an intern is like swimming in the Dead Sea: as hard as you try day after day, you just don’t do anything or get anywhere. But with years of interning experience under our collective belts, we here at the Creatures have picked up on some tricks of the trade.

There’s nothing quite like the weekend. It’s the two and a half day period of the week where you can forgot about all the shittiness that is your internship and just let loose. But as great as the weekend is, there’s no feeling as deflating as trudging back into your office the following Monday morning and facing that always inevitable question from your boss: how was your weekend?

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Intern Diaries: The Art of the Corporate Event, Part 2

July 18, 2011 by Leave a comment

Being an intern is like swimming in the Dead Sea: as hard as you try day after day, you just don’t do anything or get anywhere. But with years of interning experience under our collective belts, we here at the Creatures have picked up on some tricks of the trade.

Back on Wednesday, Sway detailed the daunting corporate challenge(s) that he faced on Thursday evening. Now he’s back with a quick recap of both events, one of which went as expected, and the other of which turned out to be a bit better than expected. Here’s the recap that we know you’ve been waiting an entire WKND for after the jump.

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The Big Analytical

July 15, 2011 by Leave a comment

Finally, ESPN lost one. The network that seems to be collecting every valuable talking head that’s out there couldn’t close the deal on the biggest one of all. Literally, the biggest. After much speculation and hearsay, Turner Broadcasting officially announced yesterday that Shaquille O’Neal would be joining Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, and Charles Barkley on the set of TV’s best pregame show. Now although the thought of the big guy going back and forth with Barkley is fantastic in theory, I have a few thoughts and questions about his decision.  Read more of this post

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Intern Diaries: The Art of the Corporate Event, Part 1

July 14, 2011 by 1 Comment

Being an intern is like swimming in the Dead Sea: as hard as you try day after day, you just don’t do anything or get anywhere. But with years of interning experience under our collective belts, we here at the Creatures have picked up on some tricks of the trade.

There’s nothing quite like the corporate, “outside of the office” event, especially when you’re an intern. It’s always extremely awkward, and that combined with the fact your boss is probably picking up the tab, means its a prime forum to get fairly loaded. Speaking of corporate events, one of the Creatures own, Sway, will be participating in a company race tomorrow (hold for applause). While that’s all good and fun, it’s the event after the race that Sway has his eye on. And that particular event raises the age old question: to ID or not to ID?

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Photo/Lesson/Idiot of the Day

July 12, 2011 by Leave a comment

As you can see in the picture at the left, baseball fan Keith Carmickle came periously close to falling 20 feet headfirst at Monday night’s Home Run Derby before being miraculously caught by his friend and his brother.  Now, just about everyone knows about the tragedy that occurred in Texas last Thursday night. 39 year-old Rangers fan Shannon Stone fell a similar distance headfirst after reaching over a railing to catch a foul ball thrown to him by Josh Hamilton. Stone, who was attending the game with his 6-year old son, died en route to the hospital, in what has to be one of the saddest incidents to take place at a baseball game in a long, long time. Now, not to make light of that tragedy, but after last night’s near incident, it’s clear that baseball fans need to be a little more careful when it comes to catching balls. Especially this guy Carmickle, who I have no problem calling an absolute idiot. The guy stepped up onto a metal table about 18 inches wide and reached down to catch a home-run ball hit by Prince Fielder. When it fell short of his glove, his momentum carried him forward and he almost tumbled to his death. And, to top it off, he already had caught 3 home run balls as it was. What a stupid move! Was that ball really worth more than your life? Especially after what happened in Texas not one week ago, did ya think it was a smart idea to stand up on a small table and reach over a 20 foot drop to catch a useless baseball? Everyone is saying how Major League Baseball needs to make ballparks safer for fans in light of the Texas tragedy. But maybe the real issue is not the safety of the ballparks but some people’s lack of safety for their own well being. It’s just a round, leather ball. I’d hope everyone reading this would agree their life is worth more. (AP Photo/Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski)

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Intern Diaries: Use and Abuse of the Lunch Break

July 8, 2011 by Leave a comment

Being an intern is like swimming in the Dead Sea: as hard as you try day after day, you just don’t do anything or get anywhere. But with years of interning experience under our collective belts, we here at the Creatures have picked up on some tricks of the trade. And one of those has to do with everyone’s favorite part of the day (besides Happy Hour): lunch. It’s a vital part of anyone’s internship, although some seem to take the idea of a lunch break lightly. And C-LO is not afraid to mince words like meat when it comes to those who would rather value stock IPO’s than their lunch break. Time to eat, people! Read more of this post

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Intern Diaries: The Fine Art of “Poop Spacing”

July 6, 2011 by 2 Comments

Being an intern is like swimming in the Dead Sea: as hard as you try day after day, you just don’t do anything or get anywhere. But with years of interning experience under our collective belts here at the Creatures, we’ve picked up on some tricks of the trade. So when Kar-El pitched the idea that we start a weekly series called Intern Diaries, we thought it was, in the words of Jim Rome, a phee-nomenal idea. So with that, we present to you part 1 of Intern Diaries. Be sure to keep checking back week after week for some more words of wisdom on everyone’s least favorite part of the summer: Internships. Read more of this post

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Beach Days

August 22, 2008 by Leave a comment

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As diehard reader John Tomashoff pointed out to us today, there has not been much posting in the past few days. This is due to the fact that school starts up in about a week and the Creatures have decided to take a short vacation from writing while out at the beach. Once we’re back though, expect an Olympics wrapup, NFL and College Football previews, and an MLB playoff preview. Be well friends and be ready to hop back on the Bleacher Creature train in less than a week.

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The Worldwide Leader?

May 21, 2008 by Leave a comment

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ESPN calls itself the worldwide leader in sports. Why then, after one of the most exciting soccer games in recent history was played, do they still have the results of the NBA Draft Lottery as the main headline? It boggles my mind as to why ESPN would think the NBA Draft Lottery, which took place last night mind you, would be more important than what is soccer’s version of the Super Bowl. Sure the NBA Draft Lottery is an important and exciting event during the season. But more important and exciting than an epic championship match in the world’s most popular sport? Absolutely not. If ESPN wants to truly be the worldwide leader, than they have to understand what take priority in the sporting world. No one in Europe gives a damn about Chad Ford’s first mock draft. Not even most people in the United States care that the Bulls have a tough decision to pick between Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley (a fact that we will be reminded of way too often in the coming weeks). It upsets me that ESPN is so biased to certain sports (cough basketball cough). It is really too bad that they can’t acknowledge a phenomenal game, even if it took place thousands of miles away. Until they prove me otherwise, I don’t find ESPN to be the worldwide leader in anything. Anyways, a short recap of the Man U-Chelsea contest is below.

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One Year Later…

March 26, 2008 by Leave a comment

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Disregard the homosexuality of the picture above, as it is simply their to help those readers who aren’t too great with words, and work better with pictorial representations. Anyways, if you are still trying to figure out the gist of the post (we hope you have gotten an idea), we acknowledge this day, March 26th, 2008, as the one-year anniversary of the creation of The Bleacher Creatures. We thank all our readers for being with us for one-year, and as C-LO said in the inaugural post, it’s great to have everyone along for the ride!

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