Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Spanish Team Stinks, and We Have Proof

This is no ordinary bracket. You don't go by seeding, and you don't let the Genesis set up the brackets for you. Nope, in the America's Cup, they do it their own way.

So the round robin races are over, and China Team are going home. They aren't the only team that was eliminated, but they are the only team that will actually sail home on their boat. Crazy. It seems like the Chinese government was so mad about how horrible they performed, that the crew was ordered to sail home. No, the America's Cup yachts were not designed for voyages of that length, and they can't store the supplies necessary for the trip. So how will they make it? By pirating of course. The Chinese are expert pirates, and will terrorize every other ship they see on their way home. Don't be affraid though, cause if you seem them comming you can just run away and they will NEVER catch you.

Also going home in disgrace are the Germans. They can't sail home because their country is land locked. Instead, they are supposedly filling their boat with beer and trying to drink it all by the time the trucks reach Germany.

Right, so the brackets... well in the America's Cup, the team that finishes in first place gets to pick its opponent. Yep, they basically get to call out one of the top four teams and say, "Clearly, you are the worst team here." In this case, it was Team New Zealand calling out the Spanish team and their stupid green boat. And can you blame them? The Spaniards are obviously a team of scrubs. Their skipper is a distant relative of Pat Jablonski, the starting keeper for Tampa Bay in NL' 94.

The other semi final sees Luna Rosa take on BMW Oracle. Should be very interesting. Best 5 out of 9, yeah 5 out of 9, wins.

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