Things I love (In response to the Things I hate articles)

[Mayor McCheese]

Heres the top 10 things I love, with some honorable mentions

1.  MU victories ( and MU basketball in general )
2.  Women/Lady-Types ( the cute fun ones, not the mad bitchy ones - mark those into the things I hate category )
3.  March Madness ( lets face it, this is the best time of the year, not Super Bowl Sunday, not Christmas )
4.  Milwaukee Brewers
5.  Green Bay Packers
6.  Keller Williams (a musician for those of you who don't know)
7.  Brett Favre ( He has been the QB of the team ever since I can remember, it has been a great Packer life I have had )
8.  Travis Diener
9.  Gonzaga Bulldogs ( Back in the Casey Calvary/Dan Dickau days I loved them, and Adam Morrison deserved POY last year )
10.  Disc Golfing

Honorable Mention:

Jam Bands in General, Warm Sunny Days Aaron Hutchins and Anthony Pieper (reason why I started to like MU basketball over UW basketball), Summerfest, IPODs, Sailing, Easy Exams, Girls in Bikinis(go back to rule #2), Bars, Rum and Cokes, Poker, Foosball, Happy Hour, Intramural Sports (and winning them), Samuel Eto'o, Italian National Soccer Team (Italian, always have liked them, not just because they won it this year, although that was pretty sweet!), Van Persie, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Bill Hall (for he looks like Don Cheadle and was the most underrated player in MLB last year), hookah

more to come

[Wade for President]

Keller Williams...hell yeah.  Boob Job....Top 10 greatest songs of all time.

[WashDCWarrior]

1. Marquette Basketball
2. Redskins
3. Packers
4. D-Wade Highlights
5. Rare steak
6. Interesting Beer
7. Snow Days (I know they don't really exist now with all the communication options, but I can hope)
8. Tailgating
9. Memphis & Carolina style barbeque
10. 2-putt birdies

Honorable Mention: Diener and Novak getting playing time, The Nationals, Family Guy, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 4th of July, St. Patty's

[🏀]

1.) Jim Hegarty's: Whether it be 25 cent wings with a bucket of PBR or just Saturday night.
2.) Chicago Cubs: Cubs fan longer.
3.) Marquette Basketball: Third because interest could dwindle after graduation.
4.) XBox 360
5.) Classic Beers: PBR, OM, Schlitz, Blatz.
6.) Summerfest/The Rave
7.) HDTV/DVR
8.) Sleep
9.) Hookah
10.) Those bikes with one really big front wheel and a tiny back tire.

[MUfan12]

Keeping my list only sporting things..

1. Marquette Basketball
2. The Milwaukee Brewers
3. Dwyane Wade
4. Brett Favre
5. The Green Bay Packers
6. Liverpool FC
7. Duke Basketball
8. Coach Michael Krzyzewski
9. Bob Uecker calling a ballgame
10. Bill Hall

[NavinRJohnson]

In no particular order:

- Martinis (real ones - Gin mixed with olives, not the ones with fruit juice and other assorted crap that gets in the way.
- Paul Westerberg/Replacements
- Elvis
- My wife and kids
- Italians (as many people who know me can attest, I would trade in my Irish for Italian in a second.)
- Chicken Vessuvio
- Sitting on my deck
- Going out to dinner
- Seinfeld
- Osso Buco
- The Godfather
- The Godfather II
- Having the house to myself watching an MU game (or Packer or Brewer game - depends on th season), eating ribs.
- Gibson's
- Room service
- Skiing
- Robin Yount
- Brett Favre
- A clean house
- Guitars

There are others. but that's enough for now.

[rocky_warrior]

3.) Marquette Basketball: Third because interest could dwindle after graduation.

I highly doubt that...the interest dwindling part...

[DoubleMU0609]

10. 2-putt birdies

Happy about missing a putt for eagle???

7. Duke Basketball
8. Coach Michael Krzyzewski

HERATIC!!! BLASPHAMY!!! I move to temporarily ban MUfan12 until a proper psychiatric exam can be done.

[NateDoggMarq]

1. Marquette Basketball
2. A shotty Vegas Casino at 6am
3. Getting that First Beer before an 11am game at the BC
4. My Wife (Sorry had to)
5. Getting past Soda Popinski in Tysons Punch Out
6. Watching Return of the Jedi while drinking a 40 of Colt 45 while watching Billy D Williams play Lando Calrissian at a bar on Cloud City
7. That feeling you get after a big MU win
8. That 20 year old quite church type co-ed who  is cute, but with a makeover you can imagine her just being smoking
9. An Ice Cold Beer on a Scorching Hot Day
10. Putting down 150 lbs of Granuar Fertilizer on an immaculate lawn during the heat of summer
11. Watching Re-Runs of Entourge on a Wednesday Night
12. A perfectly executed Hanni-Goshi throw during Judo Practice
13. The Fox 6 sports report with Jen Ladda
14. That Girl who plays Sloan in Entourage
15. Listening to Frank Zappa in the car while heading on a road trip
16. The smell of the sausage biscuit from McDonalds while you wait for your 6:30 am flight to see a Marquette Game out of town
17. Hearing Marquettes Name get called during Selection Sunday
18. Drinking Beers witht the Skokie Crew
19. Talking to somebody from my home town who is thinking about going to Marquette
20. Being a member of the MU community

[spiral97]

7. Duke Basketball
8. Coach Michael Krzyzewski

HERATIC!!! BLASPHAMY!!! I move to temporarily ban MUfan12 until a proper psychiatric exam can be done.

denied.. after all, if it weren't for those two items, we wouldn't have beaten them!

[DoubleMU0609]

7. Duke Basketball
8. Coach Michael Krzyzewski

HERATIC!!! BLASPHAMY!!! I move to temporarily ban MUfan12 until a proper psychiatric exam can be done.

denied.. after all, if it weren't for those two items, we wouldn't have beaten them!

Hmm... Love something so you can whoop up on it?  Intersting theory.

Does this mean that the "Things I Hate" thread and the "Things I Love" thread are actually the same thing?  I feel a rip forming in the space/time continuum...

[jmayer1]

1. GF, God, and Family
2. Marquette basketball and degree
3. Packers
4. St Louis Cardinals
5. Being on a hot streak in Vegas absolutely blasted
6. 6 am bars
7. DWADE
8. Brewers, especially opening day
9. Bucks
10. crapty beer that can be easily slammed, especially Blatz heavy

[mu0804]

1. Being a Marquette Alum
2. The fact I look fantastic in blue and gold
3. That I can watch Marquette highlights and read the message boards instead of paying attention in my boring night classes.
4. Ben Wallace
5. Chicago Bears
6. White Sox baby
7. The idea of finding one of those ever elusive gold sweater vests
8. The Wire
9. Jeopardy!
10. That my family lives in three different times zones but they all drop everything when there's a Marquette basketball game on TV because they know I'll call when it's over and make sure they were cheering.

[marquette09]

Sports wise this is it

1. Chicago Cubs
2. Marquette Basketball
3. Chicago Bulls
4. Ohio State Football
5. Chicago Bears

[77ncaachamps]

I love...

MU HOOPS!
March Madness
Good food with good people equals good times
49er football
FB sundays
Music...almost any kind
Kopps custard
travelling
Movies worth full price
Hebrew National hot dogs
UCLA losses
Nike Air Max and Ecco shoes
Summer girls in their summer dresses
Getting free tickets to a game
A nice comfy pair of jeans
Smartwool socks
cool fall weather
BW3's
Sprecher Root Beer
churros con chocolate
my girl  

[DoubleMU0609]

Kopps custard

Good call.  (mint chip, grasshopper fudge, and mr. fudgie)

I used a online personality test that told you your favorite ice cream flavor (mint obviously) to convince my would-be girl friend that we were perfect for each other.  Year and a half later we still get out to Kopps for mint chip as often as we can.

[77ncaachamps]

Kopps custard

Good call.  (mint chip, grasshopper fudge, and mr. fudgie)

I used a online personality test that told you your favorite ice cream flavor (mint obviously) to convince my would-be girl friend that we were perfect for each other.  Year and a half later we still get out to Kopps for mint chip as often as we can.

Very nice...

My girl (who's never been to WI) and I are from CA...for valentine's day two years ago, she got me a Kopps Custard 10-pint pack....WHOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEE! Love that girl!

But it wasn't the same (didn't tell her that though).

Living in CA and being away from Kopps custard is perfectly defined by "absence makes the heart grow fonder."

[dwaderoy2004]

sports hierarchy:
1.  marquette basketball
2.  chicago white sox
3.  chicago bears
4.  chicago bulls
5.  michigan wolverine football
6.  orlando magic/houston rockets/miami heat

situational (these are in no particular order):
1.  that first warm day of spring when you can sit on your porch and just drink a 12-er with your friends
2.  finding a happy hour with dollar bottles and 25 cent wings
3.  waking up hungover around noon and watching college basketball
4.  the feeling you get when the lights go out and marquette introductions begin...goosebumps
5.  when the white sox sweep the cubs in wrigley
6.  bluffin your way to a big pot
7.  setting your alarm clock so you can get up and drink before any sporting event and tailgating in general
8.  sports brawls
9.  goin to a road game in gold head to toe, messing with the home crowd and walking out with a victory
10.  bein the first person to tee-off on the course for the day and breaking the silence with a ping
11.  marquette highlights on sportscenter
12.  and so many more...
  

[NYWarrior]

Things I love.......

1. Marquette basketball
2. The Boston Red Sox
3. Pitchers/cathers reporting day
4. Ice cold beer pulled from a cooler on a summer day
5. Opening day (this should be a national holiday)
6. Game 7 in any sport
7. Running in the morning when its dark and quiet.
8. the sound of a single basketball bouncing in an empty gym.
9. A sold-out baseball stadium.
10. Drinking beer on my porch or deck in the summer.
11. Fine red wine.
12. Seinfeld reruns.
13. Blogging.
14. Traveling.  anywhere......it does not matter.
15. Skiing...mountains in the winter -- the cold is worth it.
16. New York City.  Its a magical place.
17. The beach in the summer time.
18. Tuscany
19. Sold-out Kyle Field on game days.....best experience in college football bar none
20. Real boobies

 

[CTWarrior]

1.  My wife
2.  My family

... OK, she's gone.  Here are 10 other things I really love, in no particular order

1.  Marquette Hoops
2.  A-Rod batting in a big spot against the Sox
3.  Watching David Ortiz or Manny Ramirez hit (for all you Red Sox Yankee haters, one thing you need to know is that baseball is the top sport in NY, MA and CT.  Bigger than football.  Not sure if it is anywhere else)
4.  When a lesser kid I'm coaching in baseball or basketball does something really good
5. The Simpsons (thru around season 12 or so)
6.  Cherry Coke and a good bagel (breakfast of champions)
7.  A "one-pot" dinner from my wife
8.  A night with no meetings, no coaching, nothing needed to be done (I'm actually working now from home on a boring conf call with Japan)
9.  Christmas, and last but not least...
10.  The idea that Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz might be more than just "friends"

[Henry Sugar]

A friend of mine once told me a quote that I've kept in mind ever since.  "Life is all about simple joys and baby steps".

Therefore, some simple joys in no particular order (except the first)

Mrs. Henry Sugar and Little Henry

MU Basketball
Being ranked
The History of MU montage before the games - it gets a little dusty in the BC
Looking into the corners on big games and seeing the student section filled with gold.
The big heads
Running into random people at the BC and at the bars afterwards
We start three sophomores, a junior, and a freshman!
Tivo'ing a game and watching it over again (only when we win, of course)

The Internet
MU Message Boards
Priceline.com and a $40 room at the Hyatt for the Pitt game
iTunes and "The Circuit" podcasts
desipio.com and goatriders.org
Online Poker

Food
Breyers Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
A cool red center steak
Kefir

Sports
A day game at Wrigley that ends with the "W" flag
Reading FC (How about that, EPL fans?)
Chicago Fire and sitting with Section 8 - man I wish we could get that sort of atmosphere for MU games
Seeing Carlos Zambrano pitch
Taking a vacation day for the start of March Madness - it's like Christmas!
The feeling after a good, tiring run or set of squats
Nike + iTunes

Misc
Places without open container restrictions
Collecting Quotes
Putting up Christmas lights and decorations
Offering a sign of peace at mass

[maxpower773]

Really in no order, but I'll keep it short...
-Marquette basketball
-the time between November and early April(its like one long holiday)
-playing guitar
-jam bands...Grateful Dead(Ratdog, The Other Ones, The Dead, etc.) , The Allman Brothers, Derek Trucks, String Cheese Incident (and I did see Keller Williams at summerfest...opened for ratdog and string cheese....while i'm not a fan of his cd stuff he is good live. it was cool seeing how he plays all the instruments and puts the songs together)
-music in general, Zeppelin, Clapton, almost any blues/rock/classic rock stuff
-seeing the badgers lose(i can hate them and like them at the same time right? just different reasons)
-Real Chili..and I didn't read all the posts...but was there a Real Chili somewhere? cause to see that off of some people's lists...well thats just pure insanity
-i hate sarcasm...i really can't stand it at all, i don't get it and i don't know how to use it.
-cannoli...which leads into the Godfather I and II(3 wasn't horrible, but what the hell was Sophia Copola doing in that movie...it wasn't acting and having sex with your cousin is not cool unless you're from WV or Kentucky)
-Being a student at Marquette
-proudly calling my school the Marquette Warriors with no hesitation...the way it should be

[NavinRJohnson]

7.  A "one-pot" dinner from my wife

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

[CTWarrior]

7.  A "one-pot" dinner from my wife

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

I sure as heck am not a kid.  (I actually could run for President and honestly say I never took a puff of anything.  Had a beer or 20 from time to time, though)  A one-pot is when my wife just throws a whole bunch of stuff she finds in the kitchen in a pot and makes a stew.  Never the same twice and always delicious.

[Chili]

Sports
Marquette Basketball
Brewers Baseball
Packers Football
Arizona Wildcat Basketball and Football
Detroit Red Wings

Foods
Real Chili at any time preferably at the Marquette location
Double double with cheese animal style and a Coke from In N Out
Fish taco’s from Rubio’s in San Diego
Chicken burrito with gringo sauce from Los Bettos in Tucson
Oysters from Acme in the French Quarter with a few Turbo Dogs
Saz’s Sampler at Summerfest with 15 Miller Lite’s or High Life’s
Going to Butch’s with a group of friends for steaks
An ICE cold High Life or High Life Light while playing bags in the summer

Places
Traveling to see MU play in the tournament even though you said you wouldn’t (San Diego, Minnesota, New Orleans, St. Louis)
Jimmy Buffett Concert EVERY YEAR
The 1st and 18th tee’s at Butler National
Tailgating at Miller Park on a warm Sunday afternoon and never making it into the game and just partying with friends listening to Uecker
Walking around DC or Manhattan
San Diego
Vegas
Ireland
New Orleans
Vegas – oh yeah, said that

Misc Items
My Cleveland Irons and Wedges
HDTV
Reef flip flops
311
Rolling Stones
Jimmy Buffett
Girls in the "UofA" shorts