Four Things

1. I'm sure everyone remembers when Fox did this thing, but I've never actually seen it before. Nothing short of incredible. The commentary alone is transcendent.

2. Incidentally, a trend that I have noticed for a while now — people use "v." as the abbreviation for "vs." in all contexts. But, for whatever reason, in years past, "v." was always used exclusively in legal case names. DC vs. Marvel; Brown v. Board of Education. Somewhere along the way, people decided that "v." was always right and "vs." was always wrong. I am sure that this happened, but I have no idea when or why.
3. When I woke up today, I took a walk to the local non-Starbucks coffee shop, which legitimately offers superior lattes, albeit more expensive ones. At one point I looked at the sidewalk beneath me, and I saw a little red piece of paper. I looked more closely: yup. Just as I had suspected. The upper right corner of a Magic card. Color: red. Type: creature (a dragon of some kind). Summoning cost: three red and three generic mana. Ridiculously expensive, in other words. This was the kind of card that I and every other schmucky little boy just adored when we started to play the game — holy shit, a dragon! It can do so much damage! It is so tough! (In fact, a name occurs to me: Shiva Dragon? Is that the kind of dragon I have the top right corner of?) It only takes a few weeks to realize that these kinds of cards are pretty much useless if you're playing against anyone with a sense of strategy or a well-honed deck. Unfortunately, I had neither, but I was smart enough to realize that people with such things were superior to me, so I had aspirations. As a result, I shunned cards like Shiva Dragon, only to have them hand my ass to me on multiple occasions because I was talking the talk of intelligent play but not walking the walk.
4. I always preferred White Weenie decks to Control decks. Always.