On Wednesday, I posted my top 16 rankings of the X Factor USA contestants . It wasn’t a very popular list and in fact, my Popblerd Reality Check podcast co-host, Tiffany (aka @TVProducerLady ) tweeted this at me today in response to my request…
The X Factor is back for season two after a fairly entertaining season one. After putting all his American Idol eggs into his X Factor basket, Simon Cowell brought over his very successful UK show to an American audience, but it wasn’t a hit …
This is the first of three upcoming posts about the 2012-2013 NBA season. Because of the Olympics, it feels like the season just ended . For hoop fans, this is great. We had a two and a half month break with no basketball and now they’re back…
In my last post, I talked about how I felt really good about game three because even after winning the first two games, the “experts” were saying that the Giants were lucky and they were getting all the breaks. And most of them picked t…
Thanks to a lucky break and some fantastic co-workers , I was able to attend game one of the World Series at AT&T Park. The closest I’d come to being at a game of this magnitude was in 2010 when the San Francisco Giants were playing the P…
The thing I liked most about the NLCS match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants was that it was a duel between the two previous World Series winners. To win a championship is hard. To defend that championship is even hard…
Former pro wrestler Superstar Billy Graham had one of the greatest raps of all-time. One of them could be used to describe Ryan Vogelsong tonight. “I’m the man of the hour, the man with power, too sweet to be sour.” And while Vogel…
After I wrote many words about Tim Lincecum and his alarming regression in 2012, I added a couple paragraphs about #RallyZito . At the time of my writing, it was a fun little Twitter meme that Giants fans were using to try to stay positive about the…
The Cardinals and Giants have played in the NLCS twice before. Giants fans remember the team being up 3-2 in 1987, only to lose the next two games in St. Louis. There was the 1-0 John Tudor vs. Dave Dravecky masterpiece and the Atlee Hammaker implos…
Giants fans have been accustomed to Buster Posey’s theatrics all season long. The probable National League MVP hit a league leading .336 (thanks Melky Cabrera) with twenty four home runs and seemingly a big hit in every important game. Yet, in…
If you’ve ready any of my baseball posts around these parts, you may know that Tim Lincecum fascinates me. He fascinates me when he does well, and he also fascinates me when he’s not doing well at all . He’s the most charismatic ba…
Early Tuesday before the Giants tried to hold on to their playoff hopes for dear life, there were whispers that Hunter Pence delivered an inspired speech to the team. After Pence struck out in the second inning, I joked on Twitter that Pence’s…
In my post after Saturday night’s debacle , I mentioned that Sunday’s game was now a must-must-win. So what is Tuesday’s game three then? It may be “Mission Impossible”. The Giants looked flat on Saturday night in game …
The SF Giants Heat Check crew has covered the San Francisco Giants in an in depth fashion from spring training (my favorite search term for the Spring Training Edition was “brandon crawford mormon”), all the way until now, the end of the…
Much was made about the new American Idol judges over the summer. Exit J. Lo and Steven Tyler. Enter Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban, and Ellen DeGeneres again. Just kidding. No Ellen. Enter Mariah Carey. The Carey, Minaj, Urban, and Randy Jackson quartet …
As a 49ers fan, I don’t get to see AFC teams as often as I’d like. Because of the way the NFL does the scheduling, I only get to see AFC teams play the 49ers once every three years. I watch many of the big nationally televised games, and…
Tiffany ( @tvproducerlady on Twitter) and I have been doing this podcast for nearly a year now. And it finally has a name. Welcome to The Popblerd Reality Check. We chop it up for nearly 80 minutes of fun and games and here are some of the things we…
I’ll give a quick primer on the long-time reality TV show Big Brother for those who haven’t watched it before. If you have, skip to the next paragraph. An even number of people, called house guests, are selected to join the Big Brother h…
Even after winning 13 games last year, prognosticators weren’t sold on the 49ers this year. After beating Green Bay (in Green Bay), that has to change.
I love discussing steroids. Growing up as a wrestling fan and now also following MMA closely, I feel like I’ve been aware of steroids for longer than most, including many sports writers today. The fact that writers were defending Ryan Braun in…
On August 15, 2009 I sat in media row to witness the first ever big-time MMA main event headlined by women. MMA (most of you know it as the UFC) is a male-dominated sport. Currently, the UFC, which is the number one MMA organization in the world, do…
As a NBA enthusiast (I’m not really a college basketball fan, like at all), I feel greedy every four years. After the ups and downs of the NBA season, which is now the best soap opera going on today (sorry WWE and other soap operas), you get a…
Internet: Did you hear Kobe Bryant say that Team USA can beat the Dream Team? He’s an idiot! They could never win! Me: What did you expect him to say? That they would lose? Yep, that would be a great way to market Olympic basketball this summe…
For the last several years, I’ve taken my kids on a bit of a baseball vacation. We head out to San Francisco, CA from our dwellings in the South Bay and take in a few games in a row. Ever since the Giants won the World Series in 2010, that tr…
Oh, what great timing I have. Below is what I posted early Friday morning before Jennifer Lopez told Ryan Seacrest that she’s out as judge on American Idol. With news that Steven Tyler is leaving American Idol, the eyeballs turn toward Jennife…
Once upon a time I cared about the All-Star game. Somewhere in a garbage dumpster in heaven, my old VHS tapes of All-Star games from 1985-1993 are gathering dust. It was the one time that you could see all the stars of the game, hence the All-Star …
My Popblerd brothers and sisters are putting together their top albums for the first half of 2012 . I’m throwing my hat into the ring. Much like my man Stephen , I don’t quite have a full list of 10, but I won’t steal his gimmick o…
Haters gon’ hate. (Even though LeBron’s 2012 season was Michael, Magic, and Larry all rolled into one.) But what they won’t be able to say is that he’s not an NBA champion. In the penultimate game of his NBA career, LeBron J…
