FireSide Chat with Cindy – Volume 2
The BackBlast:
So after breaking my own record last Friday of 10,000 hits on one BackBlast (Busted Paw Diaries previous winner), the Metro leadership has agreed to pay me to keep this going weekly. I appreciate everyone’s fanboy letters they sent me. I was overcome with emotion. So let’s try to “lean in” a little harder this week and see what we get.
Monday: Mutha – Q Fishwrap…Fish summed things up with precision. Read his BB. I had 100% confidence nobody would show up to Fish’s Mutha challenge.
Tuesday: SIB – Q Nash…Per GetWeird’s BB a week ago, SIB has become an absolute monster. And GITMO doesn’t qualify anymore to attend that workout so not sure why he even went. After years of fine instruction from Ceesus, Nash has turned SIB into a complete smoke show. Minimum 8 miles and you will get dropped. Including me. Sometimes. He pretends to come back every once in a while but he doesn’t mean it. It’s a complete test how big set of balls you got from an endurance standpoint. Highlight of the workout: My man EasyRings who is teetering on F3 retirement made an appearance this week. My favorite part about Rings is that he absolutely knows he is going to get dropped every SIB but still shows up for a fight. I want that kind of dude on my team. Anyways, enough ball washing…So every Monday night Rings digs into the old “Excuse Bag” to see what he comes up with so he doesn’t have to go to SIB the next morning. He made the mistake in telling us what the excuse was this past Monday night. He went back for seconds for the Coconut Cake!! WTF – who has Coconut Cake on a Monday night?!? And Coconut Cake tastes like Coach K’s last 2 games against Carolina. Dog Shit.
**Fun Fact** – does everyone know how EasyRings got his name? So Scott’s first workout was Sweet6 and just so happened both myself and some broken old man they call Dread was there. COT was hysterical. The best college basketball team ever was just coming off their first National Championship as the second best basketball coach ever had saved the program from the Doherty years. Some claim said second greatest coach ever used Doherty’s recruits to win the championship. Those people include Dread. Thus the name EasyRings was born. I miss that old Dread…
Wednesday: RAnGEr – Q Swamp…You know it’s going to be good. And you know the Super Loop is coming right off the back. Typical 2 mile smoker to the Mutha. Did the famous suicide up the Ship. That sucks ballz. Did some other shit. Went home. Highlight of the workout: We welcomed our first Sicilian refugee into RAnGEr. Slutzz got a sweet picture of him standing outside his piece of shit mini-van that F3 donated to him which is attached to this BB. He looked a lot like Thin Slice so we named him Alabama. Alabama?? WTF?? Well as the morning went along, and we continued to get to know our new friend, we discovered his favorite movie was True Romance. And his favorite movie scene of all time is the one in the trailer with Dennis Hopper talking about blood lines. Woooo dude…it looks like you found a home here at RAnGEr. Welcome Alabama!!
**Fun Fact** – Did everyone know that the first Wednesday workout in F3 Nation’s history is something called Gamucci?? And it still exists today. Kind of. Been a couple times this year to pay my respects to the old fucks who actually paved the way for all the good parts that remain in F3. You know…working out and shooting the shit. Zero Q-Source mentions. Zero Shield Lock crap. Just working out and shooting the shit. Hat tip to Cougz, Six-Mike, Spoons, Brennan’s, Rook, and the rest of you senior citizens.
Thursday: SharkTank – Q TML…Roger Meatball Briggs always brings solid workouts to the table. Energy wise he brings what equates to a Lifetime movie. You know the ones that Chelms/TatorTot/FrenchDip DVR’s each week? The Nanny sleeps with the married man, wife finds out, kills the Nanny, and it’s over. For the workout, we basically didn’t leave within a mile radius of the parking lot. The bums were out in full force on the greenway. Did get a quick pull of one of the dudes Old E. TML did bring back some old school wheelbarrows and partner carries. Surprise showing by the GayLick football champion of the year, Bunny. Bun sporting the beautifully permed mullet. During partner carries, I found a pack of jimmies, screwdriver, and an old Topps Shawn Kemp basketball card. If you know Bun at all, it’s not weird at all.
**Fun Fact** – Do all you “diehard” Metro chumps know all the Natans that were assigned as the fake leader of Metro? Hyannis, TML, FISHWRAP, Sump (Easily the Best), Grizzly (Who?), and What Didn’t. What Didn’t couldn’t be imitating Joe Biden any better at the moment.
Friday: Sparta – Q Snots…See TML Q from Sharktank. Always brings a solid workout however energy wise we are now talking about one of those USA’s movies. So instead of the Nanny sleeping with the married man, she ends up sleeping with the married women and they run off and get married in Myrtle Beach. I think Snots has said 17 words his entire life. Asked him today why he hasn’t been at SIB lately (Snots actually qualifies for SIB), he made up some weird story about being in Idaho on Tuesdays. Idaho? Out of nowhere, BigCalfs, artist formerly known as Want-Ad, screams Idaho women are hot! Ok Bro. I literally had to stop half way through this workout to see if anyone was alive. Zero words. Pressed Old Man Winter (I don’t even know his real name) and told me “Fuck You”. YES! Making progress I am on these men…
All and all, pretty strong week with several Top10 Q’s leading the way. See everyone at the Core Olympics Saturday morning. Hey DoReMi, what time does the mall open Saturday mornings and this thing get started? I’ve got the over/under at 5 laps around the mall ya’ll can do under an hour. Hopefully Auntie Anne’s isn’t open yet. Totally see Sharona sneak in some pretzel bites.
Oh Yea…one last thing. How can I forget??? Does anyone have Zamboni’s number? He seems like an awesome dude based on this comment on my BB from last Friday: “Overall, you sound like a whiny asshole that won’t step up to the plate but has no problem criticizing everyone else’s swing.”
Swamp and I have an opening in our Shield Lock after Hillary left us for Rich Island for the rest of the year. Actually, never mind. Have Z call me. 800-Eat-Shit
Better than last week. Room for improvement. Laughed a little this time. Keep practicing your wording.
Miss the ol’ Dredd but he does return occasionally…
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Lifetime has some good shows – very informative
It’s been awhile since Cindy stirred up a hornets’ nest. (See the 2014 NY Times Best Seller ‘Busted Paw Diaries’. Fun fact – buy it on Amazon & receive a free autographed copy of ‘Freed to Lead’) When people first encounter Cindy thru his on-line posts, they clutch their pearls & bring out their pitchforks. In doing so, they miss Ceesus’ real message.
To be clear, Cindy doesn’t need me to defend him & probably doesn’t want me writing about him. But because F3 is important to me & Ceesus is important to F3, I want to make sure PAX know his impact.
For starters, I have heard from many Pax they are stronger/ faster & overall better as a result of Cindy calling them out. He rode guys relentlessly so they worked harder than ever to reach that next level.
Back Blasts were key to F3’s success when it started & Cindy wrote legendary ones. Just like Howard Stern, whether they loved Ceesus or hated him, Pax couldn’t wait to read his BBs because they wanted to know what Ceesus would say next. His BBs got the Pax talking & as result brought all corners of Metro closer together.
In his Back Blasts, trash talk was off the charts & Cindy spared no one. Guess what? The motivation not to be skewered in a Cindy BB pushed Pax to be their best.
More importantly (IMO), Cindy wrote a lot about being a good father. He called out Pax for being on their phones or choosing to work out every morning on a family vacation instead of spending that time with their kids. Too often, we get focused on personal goals & forget about the truly important things. Not Ceesus.
Back in the day, the old Dread once said ‘if Metro didn’t have Cindy, we would need to create one.’ That’s the impact Cindy has had on Metro.
We can’t all be batflippers but we can all be the best we can be. Because of Cindy, many Pax are.
Aye,
Sump
Ceesus – well done. Sump – well said. To understand Ceesus is to appreciate him.
Who the heck is Zamboni? Keep it up Cindy. If u post in Nantucket, you’ll get a real man’s workout.