Table Tennis needs to be taken seriously, according to Nike and Puma. The two companies have collaborated  to make new products specifically for ping pong enthusiasts everywhere. Nike’s new shoe, the Sportswear Star Classic TT, are some hott kicks that are quilted and have a paddle rubber sole for the ultimate pong experience. Puma has made a paddle carrying case, part of the PT3 Ultramagnetic Collection. I guess if this doesn’t work out they can always market the items to hardcore beer pong-ers.

The New Balance 420 has been re-issued. They decided to restore their 420 retro model. They were pretty iconic back in the days of the 80’s and are great running shoes.. meaning they’re super comfortable. Pick up some new fresh kicks and learn how to tie those laces right.

If you’re wondering why the previously unstoppable churn of our blog has slowed to a snail’s pace, its that the majority of the Synthesis office is currently suffering from a debilitating case of WordDepression, which has necessitated the inputting by hand of the oodles of HTML code that makes our blog fancy. And since we’re all basically lazy pieces of shit, we’ve been sitting on our hands, waiting for our blog-guru Na3s to come through and save the day once again. However, something happened today, of such great magnitude, of such utter import that I am forced to bring it to you, hand-coding and all.

This event is known in office parlance as “Worth My While,” which is what we call it when someone sends us free shit, making our time spent building this machine worth our while. Today’s bringer of worthiness are our old friends at Saucony shoes, who were kind enough to lace me and fellow Synthesis Editorial Mastermind Spencer up (pun intended) with a free pair of Saucony Jazz kicks just because we rep their shit on this here blog. And this isn’t even the first time! Back in 2006, Saucony was also responsible for saving the lives of myself and Mr. Teilmann at SXSW, when they provided us footwear suited well to the marathon of walking that is covering SXSW, something we had both neglected to think of ahead of time (note: the dudes who used to play basketball in Chuck Taylors must have hated their lives after every game, or just been tough ass motherfuckers). If you’ve never worn a pair of Saucony Jazz shoes you seriously don’t know what you’re missing. They feel so smooth its like walking on a pair of babies asses. If you’re feeling adventurous, pick up a pair at Zappos.com TODAY!

So the moral of the story is, even if you have a busted ass Wordpress blog, you can still get rad ass folks at sweet shoe companies to recognize game. Thanks Team Saucony!!!111

Last week, Team Saucony wrote me a nice little note, telling me about their web site, www.teamsaucony-originals.com. The site focuses on Saucony’s sponsorship of alternative team sports, the ones “that don’t require cleats, pads or helmets.” That’s totally up my alley. The reason why I got into music in the first place was because I could not for the life of me catch a football or shoot a basket. The first day of little league I got a black eye while they were trying me out as a pitcher. No joke. I just really suck at sports.

But Dodgeball? Four-Square? Holy shit! I am awes-…okay, I’m not great at those either, but I can at least hold my own. {side note: personally, for me, playing sports is like holding my own, you know… But as previously documented, I do like to talk about balls…}

Team Saucony is organizing a summer sports league, focusing on the sports you played during recess.

From Team Saucony:

This summer in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, Saucony is going to sponsor some select offices to compete against other offices in sports that you may not have played since you were about 12.

Dodgeball? Kickball? Four Square? FOR REAL!

We’ll provide the equipment, uniforms and, of course, some sweet Saucony Jazz Originals. Win or lose, we’ll hook everyone up with plenty of free suds at the local watering hole (clarification: water = booze, hole = your mouth), where you can re-live your sporting glory, or drown those memories of athletic incompetence.

San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Chicago: the only 4 cities that matter. EAT THAT LA! fuckers. You can read about the stipulations for signing up your office on their site. All interested parties can contact sauconyoriginals@drillteammarketing.com to sign up.

If SF wasn’t a 3 hour drive from the Synthesis office we would be all over that. Besides, most of us are too busy with the Synthesis Softball team:

EAT THAT, OTHER LOCAL MEDIA.