Sunday, December 28, 2008

End of the week

So, Christmas has passed and the new year is coming shortly, the football regular season is just about done. I must say that I'm pretty happy with the way that Notre Dame finished its season by crushing Hawai'i. In case you missed it my boy Jimmy Clausen broke the ND bowl record for yards in a game and td's in a game, by half time. Ha ha. He ended up breaking the passing completion record also. Plus Golden Tate went off again. Just like Clausen he broke the ND receiving records for yards and td's in a game. It was just crazy. Plus, the Irish returned their first kick off for a td in forever(I think it's like 2003, but I could be wrong). I think this is the end that the Irish needed to propel them into next season.

I'm just waiting for the last game to finish before I write about the postseason for the NFL. There's just one game to go and it will decide the AFC West. I think the best part about this season is the fact that the Patriots won't make it to the playoffs. That makes me feel sooooo much better, he he. Let's just hope that the Gmen go on another streak like last season. The three teams in the NFC who scare me the most are the Falcons(because of their running game), the Panthers(they took the gmen to OT) and the Eagles(because they've been on a pretty hot streak and they destroyed the Cowboys). Oh yeah, I also love the fact that Romo sucked in another high pressure game and the cowboys are out.

I have one last funny story to tell. I went out to Pizzaria Uno's last night for dinner. We sat in the bar and our waitress was wearing a Tony Romo jersey. I was thinking of something funny to say but nothing great came up(I thought of saying, after I ordered, "oh yeah, and I'll take an Eagles win tomorrow" but decided I didn't want spit on my food) so instead after I paid for for the meal I wrote on the bottom of the check, Go Eagles! He he.

Monday, December 22, 2008

It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas

Malone, why did you go to bed? Once the defense stopped the Panthers that one time I knew we were still in the game. That's the great thing about the Giants, they just seem to be able to make changes pretty well. I've noticed that a lot about this team. That game was insane though. I almost died of a heart attack twice in overtime, the first time when we went 3 and out and the second time when McQuarters muffed the punt. Personally, I was happy that the team got back into the game. I would have been happy with a close loss because the Giants are pretty good at getting teams back in the playoffs, especially on the road(see 2007-08 playoffs). But I was floored after Ward broke off those three big runs in OT. Pretty crazy. Here's my question. Who is the Giants MVP? Is it Jacobs? Eli? Ward? Feagles? It's pretty hard to say.

Well, since it is Christmas time I've decided to post my favorite Christmas movies, in no particular order.

#1. Home Alone - You know, even to this day I can still watch this movie. Not sooo much the second one, which isn't bad, just not as good. I've never sat through all of the third or fourth ones and I never will. But this movie was just really put together well, the story was a little absurd but still I could buy it. My two favorite parts will always be the end when he sets up to defend the house and when Kevin orders pizza and uses the movie to scare the crap out of the delivery guy. Sadly I still laugh out loud during those parts. What can I say? I'm an 8 year old trapped inside a 29 year old's body.

#2. Die Hard 2 - This one just beats out the first one, but just because there were more references to Christmas and there was actually snow. The plot was good, the actions better and the lines by Bruce Willis were great. This is a tradition that I'd like to start where I watch at least the first two Die Hard movies during the Christmas time. But honestly, I'll probably watch all 4 because I like them. Plus, we all know there's going to be a fifth movie.

#3. The Office Christmas Special(BBC Version) - Ahhhh, the office. Probably one of the top 3 comedies of all time, especially when you combine the British and American versions. I will say that I do like the BBC version just a tiny bit more than the American one. For those of you who don't know, the BBC version only consisted of two seasons(both 6 episodes long) plus a holiday special that was to take place a few years after season two ended. It was Christmas time and everyone was invited back for a catch up. I think one side reason why I like it sooooo much is because I remember when I was out in London for the Christmas-New Years in 2004(just before I started working at TicketNetwork) and one night before I fell asleep I was watching tv and BBC was running their list of the top 100 Christmas moments and the moment at the very end of the special was in the top 5. I must say that I do miss London and I can't wait to go back someday.

#4. All of those short Christmas clay figure movies - You know, the ones about Santa and Rudolph and frosty and anything to do with Christmas. I can still watch those at any time. I also like the cartoon one for How the Grinch Stole Christmas. These are just great movies that I can watch during this time. Not sooo much during the summer or any other time, but definitely during Christmas.

#5. Love Actually - Go ahead and laugh, I don't care, but I really do like this movie. I think what I really like about this movie is that its not your typical chick flick because not everyone ends up happy. I don't know why that makes me like it so much, but I do. I also like how so many of the stories intertwine and theres also a lot of famous people in it. Plus, Kiera Knightley's in it. You can't go wrong with that, he he. I think my two favorite scenes in the movie, and they go together, are Hugh Grant's speach sticking up for England(I love the lines about Harry Potter and David Beckham) and then his dance through his house after the song is dedicated to him. Just great.

#6. The Harry Potter movies - I don't know why they're on this list, but I'm always reminded of the movies when I think of Christmas. It's probably because they get played during ABC Family's 25 days of Christmas, but whatever. I like the scenes during Christmas in the movies, especially during the first movie and the third movie. Now, the movies don't match up with the books at all, but they're still enjoyable.

#7. The Muppet's Christmas Special - You guys all know this one, the one where the Muppets go away for Christmas and get stranded at this cabin with this old man and his dog and then the Fraggles are there and then Sesame Street shows up. Ha ha, just great. My favorite Muppet will always be the Swedish Chef. He makes me laugh.

Well, one movie that people might be surprised to not see on this list is the Christmas story and that's because I can't stand the movie. I'm not sure why, I guess it's the fact that TBS plays it non stop for 24 freakin' hours every year, but I just don't like it too much. Some other movies that make me think of Christmas that I should probably have on the list are the original Star Wars movies and the Back to the Future trilogy. I just always remember them being at tv when I was over at my Grandparents house and watching them after opening up presents. Maybe I'm making it up but I swear they were.

Lastly, I have an open invitation to you guys if you are interested. The US is playing Mexico on February 11th out here in Columbus. If anyone would be interested in going to the game at all you are more than welcome to stay at my place. I've already taken off the 11th and 12th so I would be able to pick people up from the airport if needed. Tickets haven't gone on sale yet but I do plan on buying a ticket when they do. Let me know if you're interested, I think it would be a fun game to go to, even though it will be bitterly cold.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Are you kidding me?

So, it looks like Malone could be wrong about Big Tex. But my one question is when did he become one of the 5 best players? In fact, he's not even the best firstbasemen and he deserves 8 years $200 mil? Really? I'm sorry but I hope no one gives him that much money. He should just take the Nats offer of 8 years $160 and just go away. He's not worth $200 mil. I hope everyone takes their offers off of the table and he ends up signing a 1 year $12 mil contract with the Royals, ha ha. That would be funny. It won't happen because we all know someone will buckle and fork over the money, but it will still be funny.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Ehhhhhhhh, yeah

Listen, the last post was not me going corporate or anything like that. In fact, I don't know if I'm allowed to write anything bad about dish so I might be screwed already, ha ha, but I will say this. We don't do a lot of things right, but when it actually happens you have to give credit where credit is due. And the slingbox was doing something right, for once. And yes, I'm aware that's its been around for a few years but I believe the new ones are not that old, so there. When I finally get a new computer the next thing I plan to get a slingbox.

It was nice to hear CC talking about looking for his new house and when the realtor asked what team he played for he said the Yankees and he had the nice fuzzy warm feeling about saying that when a week ago he said that he didn't even want to play there. Yeah, right CC. We all believe you. You couldn't wait to play for the Yankees. I thought that was nice.

Also funny on yahoo they have a list of 11 teams that almost had different names. And of course the Mets were one of them. It was an interesting list. Here's the link to the story
http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21090.html
I think my favorite is what the Raptors were almost called. Ha ha. I got a kick out of that.

Joe Horn was brought in by the Giants to try out but we didn't sign him. There was an interesting article on deadspin about how Joe Horn thought he was brought in to trick the other receivers into believing that he was going to replace them. Personally I think it would have been a good tactic because we've sucked the past two games. The receiving corp could use something to get them to play better. Lets hope it actually rubs off.

It's nice to know that the Mets hired someone like me to spell the new AAA team's name.
http://deadspin.com/5112677/mets-welcome-redundant-gramatically-questionable-triple+a-team

Well, that's all I've got for now. And remember, Jesus didn't tap.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Eh

Sooooo, I'm not really known to really endorse any products out there, well, besides the DVR. Well, I'm here to tell you about another product that will once again help shape the universe. This one is called the slingbox. Here's the website, www.slingbox.com and this is what it does. Basically what it is is a box that you can connect your tv up to and then your tv receiver box and your internet modem box and it will allow you to watch your tv through your computer or a cellphone that has a g3 network(iphone and those types) so if you ever go somewhere and you have your computer/cellphone with you you can watch your tv! Plus, if you have a dvr you can also use that! And you can hook up a dvd player to it. It's just insane! Now slingbox was boughtout by my company, and no they're not paying me to write this, I just like to pass on cool information, but there's also a special that you can get a reduced price for the box(there are actually a couple different options to use) at www.slingbox.com/Dishspecial so if this interests you I'd get one. It's just awesome(see Jim, when you're not doing work at ticketnetwork you can watch your tv).

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Panic!!!

Soooo, I'm starting to get into panic mode now. Yes, we've clinched the division and a playoff spot but the past two weeks the offense has looked horrible. Absolutely horrible. I didn't think that the Plaxico situation would be a distraction but we've looked lost since. The team seems soooooo distracted by everything. Well, I shouldn't say the team, the offense does. I really didn't think we'd need him but it looks like I'm wrong. It's been soooo frustrating watching this team the past two weeks and the offense can't get anything done. I'm wondering if part of that is also because Jacobs hasn't played either. Of course last year I think we lost the last two games(at home against the Redskins and Patriots) so I know this team can bounce back but at least we scored some points in those games. I'm really worried about the game next week. Hopefully we'll play well enough for me not too worry, ha ha. We'll see.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

A farewell to Endy!

Hey, I wrote before that I would write that post and then follow it up the next day. Stop complaining. I write about stuff that's important to me. But anywho, enough complaining, time for some baseball talk.

I must say that I'm surprised with how quickly the big free agents have signed. First K-Rod goes to the Mets and then the day after CC goes to the Yankees. Yes, Rob you called it but there were still a lot of teams that were interested. In fact, the day that the deal was reported one of my customers said that the LA papers listed a story that he was talking to them about signing. Also the Brewers made an offer and I'm sure the Angels made one too and the Red Sox were thinking about it. I'm wondering if the Mets thought about offering a similar deal but that contract is a scary one. 7 years/$161 million is a really big contract, especially for a pitcher. Personally I thought CC would get Santana type money but the Yankees blew that out of the water. I think if the Yankees had offered what Santana got that CC might not have signed with them. Of course there is the opt out afte 3 years. Does anyone know if that's just a player opt out or if the Yankees can opt out too? If the Yankees can I would say then that it's a good contract for the Yankees. If not I hope CC blows his elbow out midway through the next season and pulls an Albert Bell and doesn't retire and just sits around collecting his money, ha ha.

I'm loving what the Mets have done so far this offseason. I think Omar has done a great job. I love the trade for JJ and the fact that we got rid of two pitchers who weren't cutting it last season. For some reason Heilman just couldn't put it together the past two seasons. He was awesome in '06 but I wonder if he's going through Brad Lidge syndrome where Lidge was a shell of what he used to be after the Pujols homer? He really hasn't been the same since giving up the homer to lose the '06 season. Maybe he'll do better, maybe he'll just continue to fall apart. Only time will tell. I think Heilman will either become great again or he'll be out of the league in two years. I think it's that tramatic. Joe Smith was good when he first came up but people learned how to hit him and he basically lost his effectiveness.

The player I'll miss the most is Endy. Honestly I'll never forget Endy after the '06 season. He was just soooooo clutch that year, coming up with huge base hits at the end of games and with his fielding. His catch in game 7 is the greatest catch ever in Mets history. Ever. I can still remember where I was when it happened(TGI Fridays in Manchester, a bunch of us from TicketNetwork were there and I had just come from having dinner with the Account Management Team at that Fish restaurant) and how I just wanted to jump up and down and all around after that catch. The next season started off well but once he got injured he was really never the same. You could tell that this past season and his struggles continued. He will be missed.

But, I love our bullpen now, he he. With K-Rod closing things out and Putz setting him up, we finally have a steady end of the rotation. And, on the odd night that K-Rod can't go we have Putz to close. I think he'll pick up at least 5 saves next year. Plus, we still have Feliciano in the pen and hopefully Duaner can get back to the way he was in '06 before the shoulder injury. But now the Mets need to focus on getting, I think, two more starters. Our 1-2-3 are set with Santana, Maine & Pelfrey but there's no 4-5. I think Knight & Niese are a year or two away from the big leagues so we need to start looking and seeing what's out there. I think we'll go after D-Lowe and add him. Not too bad of a 4 or 5 starter and hopefully the Mets can re-sign Perez. That would be a pretty sweet rotation going Santana, Maine, Perez, Pelfrey, Lowe. AJ Burnett is out there but I don't think the Mets will make a play for him. He's too much of a contract year pitcher for me to want the Mets to sign him, unless it was for a 1 year deal. But we all know he won't take that. Well, only time will tell what'll happen.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

In Defense of Charlie Weis

So, I've finally gotten around to writing this article. Actually I almost called up one of the local talk shows on Friday about this because they were talking about ND and how they thought ND should let Charlie go and that he wasn't doing that great of a job. An Irish fan called up and said that he didn't like when they signed him to begin with and I almost called up and called the guy a moron and then I was going to go into my reasons to defend him. Now, this season and last season didn't go too well but there were signs that the team would struggle, which I'll go over in a minute, but I'd also like to say that ND needs to win next year and that's it. I'm giving Charlie one more year to bring this team back to where it was when he first came in. If next year turns out to be another 6-6 team believe me I won't be writing the same article, I'll be writing to have him fired. I think next season is the season where the team must grow and turn into winners. So, here we go. Hope you enjoy:

#1. Memory
I'm not like most sports fans when it comes to the Irish. Well, I guess this Irish team. I have patiences. I understand that there will be growing pains and that this team and last years team were going to struggle. I accepted it because of what happened in the past. I think people who want Charlie Weis gone have a memory of the Irish that started last year, when they were bad, really bad. They don't seem to remember his first two years where the team was awesome. They were just plain fun to watch and they won a whole bunch of games and each Saturday I just wondered what they would do? I also remember the years under Tyrone Willingham and how bad the teams were. Not only his last two years but his first season when he won his first 8 games. What I didn't like about those teams were how bad the offense was. They just really didn't seem to be able to do anything offensively. They couldn't really move the ball and it was frustrating and boring to watch them. It really was. I also remember the teams under Bob Davie and it was just about the same type of team. What I also remember was the fact that Tyrone couldn't recruit. He just plain couldn't. He did find some good players every once in a while but he didn't really do anything with them. This I'll actually save for later. But what I also remember is what happened to lead the Irish to hire Charlie. See, Willingham was fired at the end of the season after and the Irish went after Urban Meyer who ultimately turned them down to sign with Florida, which has been a good thing for him, but what it also did was it screwed the Irish over. See, they didn't have a head coach. There was no one there to help develop these kids and also, too recruit. See, that's one of the biggest responsibilities of a coach is to go out and find the next players to come play for your school and there was no one there to do this that season. And that killed the team. They basically threw away a year of recruiting, cutting out the legs from beneath the team. Charlie wasn't able to sign to coach ND under after the pro football season was over, and if people can remember, the Patriots were in the Super Bowl that year so Charlie couldn't become the head coach until after that. Which gave him about a month to recruit players or at least keep the players that were going to go to ND. And that recruiting class was bad. It was. I think he was lucky to get 14 guys to commit to ND, which is just a horrible recruiting class. You can't keep a team going by doing that and it hurt ND. That's probably the biggest reason why we had the season we had last year. There were no leaders for that team. In fact, the Irish only lost 4 players at the end of the season. Now, the next recruiting class was just okay. Charlie recruited a lot of players, but nothing like the recruiting classes he's had the past two seasons or as he will have this year. I'm not saying that he didn't bring in any good players, just not like the dynamic ones he's brought in the past two seasons, which would also help cause the season the Irish had this year.

Now, there are also two reasons why I'm also patient with this team. The first reason comes from my high school days and from the hockey team. When I was a freshman the hockey team wasn't any good. In fact, they were horrible. I believe they won something like 3 or 4 games. They had a new coach that year and we figured to not play that well. Well my sophmore year the team got a lot better. In fact, they ended up making the playoffs but I believe they lost in the first or second round. Well, my junior year the team kept on getting better and they lost in the quarterfinals. As you can guess, my senior year we lost in the Semifinals. And the year after I graduated we won the whole things.

The second reason comes from college and the soccer team. Now the Messiah team was actually pretty decent before I got there. We'd made the playoffs every year for the past few years but couldn't really do much in it. So, once again my freshman year we made the playoffs but lost in the second round. Well, something happened my sophmore year and we grew a lot and lost in the quarterfinals. My junior year I expected us to lose in the Semifinals but we actually won the tournament. My senior year, unfortunately the team lost in the Semifinals, a little backwards but the team was in the right place, and they've also won 5 out of the past 6 national championships. And I can see the growth with this team, but they need to make a huge stride next year.

#2. Recruiting
I touched on this already but I'll go over it again. His first two official recruiting classes weren't that special. The first one was bad because he only had a month to get some recruits in and the second one because, I believe, he was still finding out how the system goes. Well, these past two years he's done a lot better job. Plus, Willingham was a bad recruiter and this is really what helped cost him his job. The athletic director realized that he wasn't bringing in the players that we needed and it just helped cause the situation we're in now. But, I do believe the team will be a lot better next year and the years after.

#3. Losses
This year the Irish have gone 6-6 with a bowl game left to play. Now, out of those 6 losses I believe the Irish could have won 5 of those games and I'll go through each loss and show you why. The first loss was at Michigan State 23-7. There were five plays that changed this game, the first two were turnovers in the red zone by the Irish, one interception and one fumble. The Irish also missed two field goals. The last was an interception inside their own red zone that lead to a Michigan State TD. If good things had happened on those plays instead of bad one you have a different game. The second loss was at UNC, which the Irish lead at half time and blew the lead. They also had a chance to win the game but there was a fumble on UNC's 7 yard line with 3 seconds left to play. They should have won that game. Next was a loss in 4 ot's at home against Pitt. Once again the Irish were up at half time only to blow the game in the second half. The d played pretty well but the offense just couldn't get it done in the second half. This game, I believe killed the team for the rest of the season. You could tell it in the way they played. They just weren't there. The next loss was at BC 17-0. Once again, 3 plays changed the game. Two interceptions in the red zone again and also a third int that was returned for a td. The d only gave up 10 points and if the Irish had scored on the two red zone possessions it would have been a better game. The last was a loss at home 24-23 to Syracuse. There was no excuse to lose this game. They should have killed the Orangemen but lost instead. I believe if the Irish had won these games instead it would have been a different game at USC.

#4. Young Starters
If you look at the ND starters most of them are either Freshman or Sophmores. In fact the Irish are only losing 2 starters from this years team. Of the main positions(QB, RB, WR, TE) on offense they're all freshman and sophmores. Of their 4 starting LB's 3 are freshman or sophmores. Of the starting CB's one is a freshman the other a senior. There are just sooo many young guys starting that it's hard to win with a team like that. In fact I believe that many of the problems that occured with the team were because of that. I think if this team were a year older they would have won the games that they ended up losing. That's why I have such high hopes for this team next year. I think the trials and tribulations of this season will help prepare them for next year.

#5. Not Losing Players
ND is only losing something like 4 players off of this years team. And only two are starters. That means that a lot of players gained a lot of experience this season that'll help them for next year. That shows you two things, first that the team can be really great next season but also that the team wasn't bringing in the players that it needed to those couple years where Tyrone was fired and when Charlie was first hired. If Willingham had done his job well then ND wouldn't have had bad seasons this year and last year. They would have just kept on rolling like Charlie's first two season.

#6. Developing Players
I heard this just briefly last Friday on the talk show, but I guess they were saying that Charlie Weis couldn't develop talent. That's what got me fired up and I almost called in. It's sad but true. Unfortunately I didn't hear the whole conversation, but I really wish I had. I'm sorry but without Charlie Weis no one would know who Brady Quinn is, who Jeff Samardzija is(in fact I wouldn't know how to spell his last name) or Maurice Stovall or Rhema McKnight, or Darius Walker or Tom Zbikowski or Trevor Laws. All of these players would have been no ones or duds. In fact, Samardzija was going to quit football and just concentrate on baseball. Without Charlie Weis there's no one I would have gotten a ND 83 jersey or a 10 jersey or a 7 jersey. There's no chance of that. In fact he's done a pretty good job with the players he's recruited. Jimmy Clausen's done a lot better this season than last. Golden Tate, I think, will be the best wide receiver ever at ND. And Michael Floyd will probably be #2. These guys are insane. Plus Armando Allen had a much better year this season. Without Charlie Weis we don't have any of that. In fact, if you look at the two best ND players in the NFL, that would be Justin Tuck and Ryan Grant, the ND coaches didn't do that good of a job with them. Tuck was drafted in the 4th round and Grant was either late in the draft or went undrafted(both started their careers with the Giants, I might add). If these other coaches were that good then I don't think they would have gone that low.

So, here are my reasons why I want Charlie around for at least one more year. I think he'll do a great job next year and I can see the team getting a BCS bid. Or at least that's what I'm hoping. Ha ha.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Oh boy

So it's been a couple days so there are a few things that have gone on. Plax is gone from the team, not sure if he'll be back or not b/c the players union is challenging the suspension. I must say that maybe the Giants could have used him today. It did seem that they were not completely focuses because I've never seen them play this bad since the Cleveland game. It just seemed that they could stop the eagles at all and they offense was soooooo bad. I've never seen them drop so many passes. The worst one was Hixon's drop pass. That would have been a td and maybe the Giants would have won the game. Maybe not. What I'm hoping now is that somehow the Steelers can pull this game out against the Cowboys. I'm not sure though. I really don't want to see either the Eagles or the Cowboys in the playoffs, I'll tell you that.

I was pretty impressed by the Gators yesterday. That was a big win by them and I think we'll have a great national championship game in January. In fact I would have been happy if either Alabama or Texas had made it too. I think those are the four best teams in the nation and if there had been a playoff I think those would be the final four teams. I really can't say who I think will win it all or not.

Did any of you see the Dela Hoya fight last night? Well dish was nice enough to make everyone work yesterday so I had the joy to work from 6-11pm last night. I left just as the fight started. I could have stayed and watched it but it didn't seem like it would be a good fight. And by the sounds of it it wasn't. I must say that I was surprised that Dela Hoya quit. I didn't think he was the type of person to do that. I guess he's really not the golden boy anymore, eh?

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Playoffs

Rob, I think we'll have a pretty good playoff match as our teams are pretty eventually matched. I looked back and you beat me by 3 points when we played in like week 4 so it should be pretty close. I'm hoping Hixon has a huge game against the Eagles to help carry me to victory! It should be pretty interesting. I love how Koho didn't make the playoffs after getting off to a hot start, ha ha. It just goes to show that you do have to know at least a little bit to get by.

So tonight there was a happy hour for maureen and the other doctors that I got to go to. They had the Uconn game on tv and it was nice to see them struggle against a powerhouse like Buffalo. Buffalo? Really? I was waiting for the bulls to hit the game winning 3 at the end of the game but they didn't take it. Instead they drove in and tried to pass it to a center who can't catch. It made me laugh. Does anyone think that UNC can be stopped? After beating the Irish by 15 and then crushing Michigan State by over 30 points at Michigan State I don't know if they can. It's pretty scary, as much as I hate to admit it. Hopefully they'll get upset by the 16 seed in the tourny.

Did anyone see the Rutgers game tonight? I wouldn't have watched it if it wasn't on tv during the happy hour but by half time the Rutgers qb had 343 yards passing and 6 tds and Rutgers was up 49-0(which is a big east half time record). Maybe the Eagles will draft him so they can have a real qb? We shall see.

Just a quick note, I'm glad Brady Quinn wasn't taken #1 by the Raiders because they're aweful and it looks like JaMarcus Russell isn't that good, ha ha.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A Plaxico Tale

Well, as we've all found out today Plaxico Burress has played his last game for the giants. The Giants have suspended him for the rest of the year and he also can't play in the postseason. I would have been worried if the Giants hadn't been playing without him for most of the season. If fact, Burress really hasn't had that much impact this year. Plus, I think Hixon will be a better receiver than Plax but I will admit that not having Plax could be a huge blow and I'll miss having him on the team. He always seemed like a good blanket for the giants to use in case they were ever in an emergency. But, when you keep on getting into trouble like Plaxico has been it's just finally time to cut the cord and let him go.

Plaxico makes me think of the movie A Bronx Tale and one of it's themes, which is wasted talent. There is soooo much that he could have done, I personally think he could have been the best receiver in the league if he wouldn't let things get in the way. I understand why Pittsburgh let him go. I was happy about the signing but I feared that he would implode in NY. There just seemed to be too many distractions for him and now we know what happens. I can remember the good games that he would have, a couple years ago in Philly when the Giants came back from 17 down in the fourth to win in OT with a 45 yard td pass to Plax. I remember the playoffs and his Super Bowl winning catch. I'll never forget that, but I also won't forget all the trouble he brought. I'm just hoping that he doesn't rip apart the team. I don't think he will but you never know. Not only did he get himself in trouble but he could get two key players also in trouble. Only time will tell. Now I'm just hoping that Hixon can step up now and maybe we'll get a Mario Manningham sighting, which could be good. Maybe he can step up like Kevin Boss stepped up last season. What do you guys think about the Burress situation? Do you think the Giants did the right thing?

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Late Sunday Night

Hello Everyone,
So, it's late Sunday night and the work week is just hours away, ugghhhh. Something bad's starting to happen with work where I really dread my drive to work. It's sorta like how I feel with the gym. I hate going to the gym, I really do. The whole way to the gym I just want to tell myself to turn around and go back home but when I get there I like it. It's strange, I know I'm going to like being at the gym but I still don't want to go. It's weird. Well, that's the way I'm starting to feel about work. I dread the drive to work. I don't want to go and every morning I wake up and I just want to call out. But when I get to work it's really not that bad. I can't complain too much, it's a pretty simple job and I always feel good when I can help someone. But I really don't want to do it for the rest of my life. So, once again I'm going to check around for another job and try and do something different, something I haven't done before. We'll see what happens this time, ha ha.

It was a nice win by the Giants today. You know what's scary about this team? They keep on beating good teams. They've had the hardest schedule this year and they're still 11-1. I'll be honest, I thought the gmen would struggle just to make the playoffs, especially after Osi went down but now they look a lot better than last year. It'll be interesting to see how far they can go in the playoffs. I think the only team I'm a little scared of right now are the Cowboys. They're still loaded, even if they don't have chemistry they'll be hard to beat in the playoffs. I'm hoping they slip up again and don't make it. We'll really know what the Giants are made of the next time they play.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Happy Black Friday

Well, it looks like Rob is turning into the lady's man we all knew he could be, ha ha. Now lets see if Koho & Perrotti can step up to the table. My thanksgiving was okay. I had to work from 8 to noon and then I left and played some Madden. The gf was working and everyone else I know here was with family. After that I went to the movies and I watched the Bond movie, which I agree with Malone was good, your average Bond flick, but I liked the first one better. Then I snuck into Twilight which was actually pretty good. It's about Vampires and I enjoyed it. The theater was packed, which surprised me. Unfortuantely I was surrounded by little teens who constantly yelled in my ear waiting for the movie to start. Luckily they shut up when the movie started, ha ha. I think I'll probably read the books now. It seemed pretty interesting and I bet they left out some stuff, like what always happens when you make a movie out of a book. Now I'm back at work, oh well. It feels like I'm working on a Saturday even though it's actually Friday. Strange.

I read this article today. It's always nice when people are polite when trying to get the Black Friday deals. I guess we know where they get the title for today from.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Wednesday Night

So, it's Wednesday night, tomorrow is thanksgiving. I have to work tomorrow, so that's fun. Luckily I only have to work a half day so I'll be done at noon. The woman has to work tomorrow so I think I'll be spending the afternoon at the movies. There are a bunch of movies out there that I haven't seen yet that I'd like to so that's what I'm planning on doing. Of course I'm also known for just being lazy and sitting at home and playing playstation or watching tv, he he. I know I'll at least see one movie(probably the new Bond movie. It looks pretty good, has anyone seen it?). I hope you guys have a good thanksgiving.

I must say that I liked the story. I can just imagine what the people were thinking at the gas station when you guys would go back, ha ha. Rob, who is this lady that they speak of? Is it Malone's sister? Or is it Amy?

I'll be honest, I'm really really impressed with the Giants now. I really thought they were going to get killed by the Cardinals. It had all the makings of a beating. Kurt Warner playing against his old team. On the road at a division leader. The Cardinals have a high powered offense. Brandon Jacobs was out. Plax got injured in the first quarter. The running game didn't do much. I thought it was going to be the Browns game all over again where Eli throws 3 picks and the Giants get squashed. Then Hixon happened. I must say, besides Osi & Justin Tuck he is my favorite Giant. He's just awesome. Also, it's nice when Eli throws 3 td's. Let's just hope this continues. I think the most important game will be at the Cowboys, that's when we'll see what our team is made of. Let's hope Tony implodes again and TO cries for his qb. I love it.

On a down note, I'm sad that Brady Quinn's season is over now :-( I thought he was playing well and it would have been nice to see what he would have done the rest of the season. I'm hoping that Derek Alexander craps the bed and has a horrible end of the season. Then in the draft the Browns can take a wr who can actually catch the ball. I also think that the Browns will fire Romeo and get a real coach. On my home from work I listen to a sport talk radio show and this one guy called in and said that he goes to the pre-season camps and the browns players just don't seem to care and don't work too hard. It seems like Romeo just doesn't have control of that team and that is why I think he's gone. Only time will tell.

Just a warning sometime later this week or next week I'm going to put up an article about why Notre Dame should never, ever fire Charlie Weis. It's going to be long and probably bore you so I'll put up another post the next day. Feel free to ignore it but the whole situation is bothering me and I feel I need to get my thoughts down on paper. It will make me feel better. I've actually come really close to calling that talk show but I've held back, so far. Ha ha.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Sat Morning

So, it's Saturday morning. In less than an hour Ohio State will start their dismantling of a horrible Michigan team. I'd go drive somewhere but there's sooooo much traffic around here there's no point. I remember my first Saturday working at dish during an OSU homegame, I left right after the game got over and it took me 45 minute when it should have taken me 15. Ha ha. Oh well.

So, last week I broke down and I bought season one of the show Jeremiah. I'm pretty sure I've written about it before and you guys probably just ignored it but it's a show that was on Showtime and it stars Luke Perry & Malcom Jamaal Warner(Theo from the Cosby show) in a post-apocalyptic America. I like it, not surprising, but I must say I had a good experience buying it. I looked around a couple websites to see who had the best price because you can't find it in stores. Best Buy, Circuit City, Barnes & Noble and Borders were all too expensive. Walmart & Amazon had the best prices but I decided to go with Walmart because they have the ship to store option in which they just send the product to the store and you go pick it up with no shipping charges. I thought that was pretty nice. The website says that it takes about 7-10 business days for the product to arrive and then you have like 2 weeks to pick it up. Well, it only took like 3 days for the item to arrive, which I thought was pretty quick. And it only took like 5 seconds for them to find the package. All in all it was a really good experience and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to buy something online and not have to pay for shipping and not really wait that long. One problem with shipping an item to your house is that most of the time you're at work(unless you're Malone) so they either leave it there, where someone can steal it, or leave you a tag on your door and then you have to go to fedex/ups/dhs place to pick it up. Walmart takes these problems away with their ship to store(I'm pretty sure everyone else has this but still, it's pretty cool when a rare item gets to you this quickly with no hassle). So, that's that.

Well, the only big free agent off the market now is Ryan Dempster re-signed with the Cubs. I was hoping the Mets would have had a chance to sign him but I can't be mad at the cubs for getting him back. Now the question is will he be as good as he was last year?

I saw Zack and Miri make a porno last night. I was actually pretty surprised by it. I read a bad review of it so I wasn't sure what to think of the movie but I pretty much laughed throughout the movie. I'm starting to wonder when the guys from the Kevin Smith movies started to morph with the guys from the Judd Apatow shows/movies? It just seems like they're all just one big gang and they're just all in each other movies. Now all they have to do is add in Adam Sandler and all of his buddies and you'd have "the empire" of comedians. I saw this at the movie tavern out here which is one of the top 2 places to watch movies around here because the food is amazing. If you guys ever make it out here(oh yeah, I forgot to say this before, Rob my 30th b-day falls on a friday so you guys could come out to celebrate) we'll have to go so you can see how great it is.

Has any watched either The Terminator: The Sarah Conor Chronicles or Sons of Anarchy? I really like both shows. I don't think The Terminator will last another season but I think it's a really great show. Sons of Anarchy got signed on another season so I know there will be a season 2.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Interesting

Hmmmm... thanks Mikey for that post about Heilman. I remember is 2006, when he was good, that he wasn't happy about being put into the bullpen. He was a starter at Notre Dame and in the minors and he wanted to go back to that. Unfortunately he was never really good as a starter with the Mets, that's why they put him in the pen. Then he got good. Now he's bad. I would have no problem with the Mets trading Heilman as long as they got something back. Depending on how things go, I don't think there'll be a spot in the rotation for him, but you never know. I think the Mets should wait on him until we get closer to spring training and see what the Mets do with free agency. If there's a spot, I think I'd be okay with him in it as long as there's a backup option. If not, trading him would be okay with me.

I'm not sure if anyone watched the UFC ppv on Saturday. I forgot to write about this so I'll do it now but Brock Lesner won the heavy weight title and is now the champion. He's only fought 4 times so far in UFC so I'm not sure if he 100% deserves it. I think he's improved a lot and I think he'll be almost unbeatable in a year or two but right now I think someone could take him down. I think he'll always be contending or holding the title while he's at UFC. What do you guys think?

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

OK, I'm not dead

Woooooooooooooooooooo, sorry it's taken me soooo long to write something but I was without internet for a while, I got it back on Sunday night but I've been busy so I couldn't write anything. There's been a bunch of stuff that's happened so I don't know if I can cover them all, or even remember them all. Ha ha.

I guess I'll start off with this. I thought the Giants looked pretty good on Sunday. It's always nice to put up over 200 yards rushing on the #1 ranked rush defense. I think the Giants are the only team to have 3 guys who can beat you in different ways. I was a little scared that Jacobs was hurt and going to be out for a while but it looks like he's okay. It was smart to rest him because when he got hurt we were already up a bunch. For a minute there I thought the Ravens were going to make a come back but then Ross got the interception returned for a TD and it put the game out of reach. How crazy would the superbowl be if the Giants were 15-1(I guess 17-1 with playoffs) and they played the 16-0(18-0w/playoffs) Titans? Would that be the best combined record for a superbowl? I think the Giants would win it because their offense is a whole lot better than the Titans and the defense is just as good. Could be an interesting super bowl.

Secondly, it was nice for my boy Brady Quinn to get his first win in the NFL last night. That was a weird game. It would have been funny if the Browns lost because they would have been the first team to blow 3 straight leads of 13 or more points. But, it looks like the Bills are still haunted by the Super Bowl as their game winning field goal went wide right, again. He he. What happened to the Bills? Remember when they were good and undefeated and on their way to cruise to the AFC East title and now they're at the bottom? Interesting how a season goes. Should they just tank the rest of the season to get a good draft pick?

I'll just say this about Notre Dame. We're looking bad. I thought we were going to lose the Navy game but the gods spared us another embarrassing loss. Wew! At least we have Syracuse this week before the USC game.

Who does everyone think will be the first big free agent to sign this offseason in baseball? It should be interesting. I'm thinking CC will go first, but it could be Texiera or K-Rod.

Lastly, what is the story that I missed? Can someone please fill me in?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Oh boy

So, I'm sitting here Wednesday night and I'm waiting on my laundry and also for some food to be delivered. There are a few things I want to touch upon so I'm not sure how to start. I guess the first thing is to say Rob, I can't read German. WTF? It reminds me of a story of a roommate that Mike and I had our senior year. Our roomie Jimmy told me that during college he had to write a 15 page paper for a class so the night that he was writing it he decided to smoke some weed. Well, he passed it in and a couple days later he got a message to see his professor. The professor asked him to re-write part of the paper. Jimmy asked why? Apparently he had written pages 9-13 in french, he he. Rob, were you high when you wrote that?

Well, I thought I'd go over the funny story from this past weekend. I drove to the other side of Pa to hang out with some friends from college in the Poconos. We watched scary movies all weekend long and it was a lot of fun. Maureen couldn't go because she had to work a 30 hour shift on Friday to Saturday. Not fun. Well, I had some PTO left over so I decided to leave 3 hours early from work. Of course it didn't work out this way. I ended up getting stuck on a call and having to leave 30 minutes later than when I wanted to. So, I was late to start the weekend. When I finally left Columbus it was raining. It rained throughout Ohio. I decided to stop off and get gas near the boarder of PA/OH because I was low on fuel. Just before I stopped off I noticed that the truck in front of me had three stickers on the back windows. The left window had "Millenium", the right window had "Falcon" and the middle one had a picture of R2D2. The licenses plate read JEDI KT. Couldn't go wrong with that! So, I followed the truck for a little bit but I had to get gas so I got off at an exit. After I filled up I started back towards my car, reached into my pocket for my keys but I didn't feel them. So, I searched my other pockets and I still couldn't find them. I looked in my car and I saw on the passanger seat my keys. Crap. I was hoping I didn't lock my car doors but I did. I had locked myself out of my car at the gas pump during rush hour with the gas station filling up. Dejected I went inside to let them know and see what could be done. I told the guy at the register I locked myself out and this is the conversation I had:
Me: "I locked myself out of my car"
Him: "Well, you can use the phone to call the locksmith"
Me: "OK"
Him: "Here's his card, look his name is John Carpenter, he he. You know, like the guy who directed Halloween"
Me: "Oh okay, where's the phone?"
Him: "We don't have one but you can use the cordless up at the register"

First off, how weird is it that I'm on my way to watch scary movies all weekend long, lock myself out of my car and the guy who's coming to get me out is named John Carpenter? How does that happen? Secondly, how clueless is the guy to tell me there's no phone to use but I can use the one at the register? What???? Well, anywho 15 minutes and $50 later I was back in my car on my way again. It was a fun weekend and I'm glad I came away with a good story, even if it did cost me $50.

Back to the free agents for the Mets. Well, we've covered pitching, which should be the main focus of the offseason. The infield is pretty solid and we don't really need to get any infielders. I would say maybe a catcher but there aren't any good free agent catchers out there. Now, in the outfield the only position that's really set is center field with Beltran. Who knows what'll happen with Church and if he can fully recover from PTSD. He was killing it until he got injured and when he came back he wasn't as good as before. Hopefully he can make a good comeback. We re-signed Fernando Tatis, I think to a two year deal. Not too bad because he played pretty well. I like the young guys we've got but I think they're still a year away from being ready. There isn't anyone I'd love to see the Mets get. I think you have to cross Manny off your list because he'll re-sign with the Dodgers. The outfielders are ok. I think I'd be happy if the Mets signed Bobby Abreau, he can hit for average, drive in runs, score runs, and he'll hit 15-20 home runs. He's not the home run hitter he used to be but he's still a good all around player. Plus, he knows what it's like to play in NY. I'm not sure how I would feel if the Mets sign Adam Dunn. He's weird because he can hit a ton of home runs plus he walks a lot, but his batting average is really low and he strikes out a lot. It's a really weird combo so it's hard to decide if he helps or hurts you. I really don't care too much for any of the other OF free agents. It could help if they signed Scott Podsednik to come off the bench, I think I'd be happy with that because he's super fast and would be a great boost off the bench. Other than that there aren't too many good players out there. Also on a side note for pitching, now that Hoffman won't re-sign with the Padres maybe the Mets could offer a one year deal for him to setup whoever's the closer. Not sure if he'd take it but it wouldn't be bad to have a guy like him in the pen.

Did you guys watch the end of the main event? I thought it was pretty exciting. I thought that Eastgate was going to win. He seemed to play the best out of the people left. I still can't get over the fact that the one Canadian player made it too the final table even though he's the worst player I've ever seen since Koho. And that's saying something. His playing reminded me of when a girl would win the NCAA pool by picking teams that "sounded nice". Figures.

Congrats!

To Mike as he is now a new father. I've been meaning to say something about it but I've been lazy, I mean busy. I just wanted to post a quick congrats. I'm going to put up another post tonight going over some stuff. It could be a longer post because it's been a while since my last post, of course I was away for the weekend. Also, Malone thanks for the card. I'm glad Michelle likes the walfo maker, it was the last one I could take from my mom, ha ha.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Rrrriiiggghhhtttt

Okay so there are a couple things to touch upon since this will be my last post of the week. I must say I've gotten off to a better start than in any month so what are you odds I keep it up? I'm guessing zero, ha ha. First off I'd like to wish Mike(the old one not the new one, but it may apply to the new one but I'm not sure) a happy late b-day. Mike is now 29 just like me and I believe he will also be a father very soon. One quick story about Mike and I'll move on. This makes me laugh now but it didn't when it happened. Mike my was roommate my senior year of college. I believe Mike had an early class way before any of mine and I was convinced Mike wanted to make me pay because of this. So, his alarm would go off for him to wake up and of course Mike wouldn't do anything about it until I would move. It wouldn't take much of a move to get him to turn off the alarm, usually I would start to stretch my arm out to grab something to throw at him, but before I could get anything he would turn it off. It makes me laugh now, but not much then. He he.



Secondly I'm not surprised by the election. I thought that the election really came down to two things, Obama convincing everyone that McCain was another Bush and McCain trying to convince everyone that Obama has no experience. Well, as we found out Obama did a better job. But here's the thing, I don't remember McCain being a Bush lackey? Where did this come from? I always remembered McCain as the rogue Senator who wouldn't always vote Republican even though he is one. Am I wrong about this? Was there something I missed? Well, congrats to Obama. I think another problem that the Republicans had was the fact that they didn't really rally their voters. I was watching a tv piece on the campaigns and thats what the Republicans said. There were a lot of Republicans who just didn't go out to vote and that hurt McCain. Well, we'll see what happens with everything.



Malone, sorry but I can't make the tourny. I'd love to, but I can't. Maybe you should have a Columbus Invitational? Eh???? Not bad.



Also, I think it was Malone who asked what I thought about the free agents and who the Mets should go after. Here are my thoughts on it. First off the Mets need pitching. They need pitching in a bad way, both starting pitching and in the bullpen. Here are my ranks of who the Mets should go after for starting pitching:

#1. CC Sabathia - I really don't think the Mets will get him, infact I think he'll go back to the Brewers, but if the Mets could land him then we'd be sick. We have the Money to offer him and I'd have no problem offering him the same money we offered Johan but we'll see if we do.



#2. Oliver Perez - We need to re-sign him because there really aren't a lot of good starting pitchers out there. I'm hoping that we do re-sign him but I don't think we should pay him more than he made last year. Perez is definitely really inconsistent and too inconsistent to make more than last year. Will someone offer him more and will he take it? Who knows. But, you know how I like to think about this, if the Mets land CC & Perez this is the starting rotation, Santana, CC, Pelfrey, Perez, and Maine. How sick is that? It's a dream and will never come true but I'll still think about it.



#3. Ryan Dempster - Dempster had a huge season last year as a first year starter and he did a great job. I wouldn't give him a long term deal but something around 3 years would be good. I think he'd pitch well in NY after he pitched so well in Chicago.



#4. John Smoltz - Smoltz is probably one of the best big game pitchers out there. Smoltz pitched better in the post season than Glavine(Judas) or Maddox and it wouldn't be a bad idea for the Mets to bring him in for a season. I wouldn't sign him longer than 1 year because he's old and who knows if he'll be able to pitch the whole season or if he'll get injured once again?



Relief Pitchers

#1. F-Rod - He's by far the best closer out there and he's young. Wagner is out for the year so we need a closer. Whatever we did last year didn't work so it's time to sure up the pen. F-Rod's agent said that he's asking for Mariano type money($15 mil/season) but he would go somewhere if it didn't offer him that much but offered something "interesting", i.e. a lot of years. We'll see what happens.



#2. Brian Fuentes - If we can't get F-Rod the Mets better get Fuentes. He's the only other closer I'd like to see the Mets throw some money at. He's young, too which would be nice. I'd like to see the Mets offer a 3 or 4 year deal, preferably a 3 year one. Will he sign it? Probably not.

#3. Kerry Wood - Yes, yes, yes, he's an injury waiting to happen but he also had a great year last year as the Cubs closer. I think that'll be a perfect position for him and he mike be able to stay healthy. With Wood I wouldn't want to offer him more than a two year deal. He'll probably want more but if the Mets get him they better not offer him a 4 or 5 year deal. He'll probably stay in Chicago but it would be neat to have him at the end of the bullpen.

#4. Matt Herges - Not only do we need a closer but we also need some setup help. Herges has had a few good seasons and would be great in NY. He pitched pretty well in Colorado so that's saying something.

#5. Darren Oliver - Okay, yes he's like 50 years old in baseball years but he was key to the Mets run in 2006. He's pitched really well in Anaheim so why not get him back again? Would that be too bad? Once he was gone and Chad Bradford were gone the Mets pen went to pieces.

#6. David Weathers - Weathers is actually an ex-Met. I forgot that. He had two really good years and a bad half season before we shipped him out. He's been in Cincinatti the past 3 seasons and has pitched pretty well for in Cincy. It wouldn't be too bad to bring him back. Come one, if we can let Aaron Heilman have a spot in the bullpen we can sign Weathers.

Okay, it's getting late and I want to go to bed soon so I'll keep what the Mets should do with fielders til next week. The Browns lost like they typically do, blowing a lead. Brady Quinn played pretty well and I was happy with what he did. Hopefully the d can show up for a game and maybe they'll win more.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

I guess something important happens tonight, but I can't remember

Okay, why are you guys stopping over in Cleveland on the way to Vegas? I really can't go, I have no money, ha ha. Plus, I guess I should start saving for an engagement ring. I hope all voted for Nader. It would nice for him to get 6 votes this year. Well, I'm going to wait for all the votes to come in before I write anything about the election so I thought I'd put up some links to things I find funny, once again most coming from deadspin. This first one though, does not.



#1. http://www.empiremovies.com/movie/fanboys/11518/preview

I saw a preview for this movie over a year ago, actually I think I watched it one Saturday when I was working at ticketnetwork while waiting for my lunch to get delivered, ha ha. Anywho, it seems pretty funny.



#2. http://deadspin.com/5075707/oaks-christian-has-an-overabundance-of-famous-progeny

What are the odds that Nick ends up at Notre Dame since his brother Nate is already there? Also, Joe why didn't you name your sons with first names that start with J? Is there no Joe Montana, Jr?



#3. http://deadspin.com/5072329/seven+year+old-football-fan-meets-erin-andrews-inspires-a-nation-with-video

If only Uconn would play a game that Erin Andrews would go to then you guys could be like this kid.



#4. http://deadspin.com/5075984/the-real-question-here-is-who-felt-the-need-to-foul-him

Now we know how to get MCC, or is it MCTC? onto the news.



#5. http://deadspin.com/5075742/hey-thats-hate-speech

I thought this was pretty funny. It made me laugh out loud at work and made people look at me funny. Well, they were probably looking at me funny already but whatever.


Well, I'll probably end it here with the links for you guys. Just some fun for you. I must say that I'm happy that Quinn is now the starter for the Browns. I'm not sure how it'll end up, but it'll be interesting. I'll be away this weekend so I'll try to put up one more post by Thursday and that'll probably my last one until Monday.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Sunday Night

Well, just a little while ago I got a text from Rob telling me that the fall video game review was completed and emailed to me. So, I'll post it in a sec, just a couple things to go over with. First off, Perrotti, how did you not take the Giants over the Cowboys with your 4 pointer? Yes, the game is over but I could have told you the Gmen were going to destroy them. Brad Johnson was the starting qb, you knew my boy Justin Tuck was going to kill him(to a tune of 2.5 sacks) and there was no way the Cowboys weren't going to get destroyed. I couldn't have picked any other game with certainty except this one. Secondly, sorry guys, it's football season. I love ND. I'm going to write about them. I probably won't do one like the last one it's just the only time I had to write was during the game, so there. I didn't think it would come down to OT, but it did and I didn't want to waste an opportunity like that. So suck it up. Lastly, I found out from Imran tonight that a chick won the poker tournament and I guess she took out Bagley and he was pretty pissed as usual. Can I get a better rundown so I know what happened. I also heard there was a bet that Ayo would be the first guy out and he was. Can someone please confirm this for me? A guest post with a write up about it would be sweet. Now, here's Rob's post. I hope you like it.

Fall Videogame Roundup

Well, the Fall Videogame preview is a little late this year as most of the holiday season's highly anticipated games have already been released. It seems to be the year of the sequel. I will make my preview XBox 360 specific since that's my main system. There are a lot more games being released than these, but these are the ones I looked forward to the most and it turns out that these are generally the best reviewed games. Malone, I'm not sure you would like any of these first three games. For PS3 exclusives, Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 are both really hyped shooters that haven't been released yet and should be very good. Also on PS3 only, LittleBigPlanet is a kid game that I personally would never play but was supposed to be very unique.

Fable 2 (XBox 360 only)
Release Date: October 21
Genre: Action RPG
Do I own this game: Yes
Fable 2 is the sequel to the disappointing, yet tantalizingly promising, oft-delayed original which was released on the first XBox console. Fable 2 features a fully explorable world ten times the size of the original game's world, a strength-skill-will based experience points/level up system, and a pretty well developed good/evil morality system. It's an RPG, but has an action flavor to it. There are many side quests from the main story, and you can buy any number of properties, hold jobs, and get married. You can also choose to have sex (protected or unprotected) and have children or get STDs. The graphics throughout the game are very good. To me, this game plays too much like an arcade game and needs more advanced character development options, but it is no doubt a highly polished and enjoyable play.
Rob's score: 8/10

Far Cry 2 (XBox 360, PS3, PC)
Release Date: October 21
Genre: Action/Shooter
Do I own this game: Yes (roommate)
This game is basically Grand Theft Auto, except it is set in a generic African country. You are plunged into a basic revenge/get-the-bad-guy-boss storyline. There is much to explore, from jungles to swamps to prairies to cities. The game map is very large. The game is gorgeous, and the environments and player/NPC animations are equally beautiful. It controls as a standard first person shooter, with a large array of weapons. One of the more gruesome and unique parts of this game involves healing your player - the game will show your player pulling bullets or glass out of your arms or legs in gory detail. This game will always be compared to Grand Theft auto, but it is still a terrific game in its own right.
Rob's score: 8/10.

Fallout 3 (XBox 360, PS3, PC)
Release Date: October 31
Genre: RPG
Do I own this game: Yes
Fallout 3 is, for many hardcore gamers, a perfect game. Set in a post-nuclear war Washington DC (and the surrounding countryside), you are free to explore a gigantic game world inhabited by mutated animals, "raiders", super-mutants, militias, and other characters. If you have ever seen Mad Max, this game will remind you a little of their world. The attention to detail for such a huge game world is nothing less than astounding, as you can see the former civilization reduced to rubble and debris. The RPG aspects of the game, character creation and development, are very robust and building your character's attributes, finding good weapons, becomes a labor of love. I have never played a game that was a better value for only $60. You could play this game easily for over one hundred hours. This game has it all - sound, graphics, gameplay, atmosphere, presentation - you name it. Warning: this game is not for people who only like playing sports games! This game is firmly in my top 5 favorite games of all time, and I've only played it for about 11 hours.
Rob's score: 10/10.
Stay tuned for:Gears of War 2 (XBox 360 only)
Release Date: November 7
Genre: Action/Shooter
This game is supposed to be one of the best looking games ever, and it's bound to be a huge hit since they have improved upon the already terrific Gears of War.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Saturday

Soooo, did anyone go out trick or treating last night? Koho, we know you did. I'm watching the end of the ND game and Pitt just scored and they need the extra point to tie it. I'll keep writing while watching the game. Pitt threw the same pass 3 times in a row and finally scored on it. Dang it, tie game. But a good thing is the Irish have over 2 minutes to score to win the game. I've got confidence they will. Did anyone see Saw 5? I still haven't seen Saw 4 and I heard it wasn't that good. I was kinda disappointed about Saw 3 after how good the second movie was. The first movie was good, too. It's been a pretty good day of college football with some crazy finishes so far and this game should be another good finish. My favorite game so far was the Michigan-Purdue game where Purdue scored with 25 seconds left on a hook and ladder, made famous from the movie Varsity Blues. Of course they missed the extra point and Michigan still had a chance to win it but the Hail Mary was not answered.

I have no idea what to pick for tomorrow's games so I didn't even put them up. I did a league like this for a few years and it sucked. The guy who ran it his mom would always come back to win the league in the last few weeks. It was always funny because we would pick all of the games with the spread and the last few weeks she would always get 12-13-14 picks right a week. How does that happen? I won it one week and I was happy about that. The only time that ever happened for me when I did it.

I finally watched Atonement on Thursday night. I wasn't sure how I felt about the movie until the end. It had a twist at the end that I thought made it good. The movie was strange because they would play part of the movie and then the next scene would be earlier than when the previous scene happened, then it would skip ahead sometime and then go back a little bit and then at the very end it skips ahead a longtime. It wasn't the greatest movie I ever saw but it was pretty good, definitely not what I thought.

Well, the ND game is now in overtime, lets hope something good happens for our boys, ha ha. I'll keep you posted. ND won the toss and elected to go on defense first. First play pitt has an incomplete pass. I thought there was an early jump by Pitt but it wasn't called. Now on the other end of the field the sprinklers have gone off, ha ha. Pitt runs for a first down on second down, just like they've been doing against us since the second quarter, ugghhh. On first and goal the ND defense holds pitt to a 1 yard run. On second and goal Pitt throws to the RB who loses 4 yards, now it's 3rd & goal from the 13. On third down 8 yard run for 4th & goal. Pitt makes a field goal, 27-24 Pitt. Lets see what the Irish can do now.

Great, one of the Irish o-linemen gets injured walking out onto the field, that's a great sign. I don't think I should have said that. 7 yard run on first down. Good start so far. 8 yard run on second down, first and goal. Armando Allen's third straight run, this one for 7 yards, second and goal from the 3. Pitt stuff's Allen, 3rd and goal. I'm feeling a play action pass on this down. Pitt holds and forces Jimmy to throw it away. Time for a field goal. I don't think it's a good thing that the announcers keep on talking about how the kicker has struggled. It didn't work, field goal good. ND gets the ball for the second OT.

Well this will be interesting, they're now playing on the side where the sprinklers went off. Jimmy C overthrows a wide open Michael Floyd who would have easily scored. That sucks. Allen with a nice 4 yard run. But, it's 3rd and 6. 10 yard catch & run by Michael Floyd, first down. Loss of 2 on a run, not a good start. Ugghhhhhhh....... Nice 5 yard catch, 3rd and 7 again. Just over the head of Floyd, ND has to kick again. And the kicker makes it. ND up 30-27 and we need to hold them.

2 yard run by McCoy. This guy is the second best RB ND has seen this season. Pitt runs a screen pass and it looked like McCoy was going to break it but ND stops it, 3rd and 1. ND stops McCoy, 4th and 1 now. Pitt makes their FG, tied at 30.

Pitt gets the ball now. If someone scores a TD from now on they have to go for 2. I like this about College football. McCoy 1 yard run on first down. False start on Pitt, 2nd and 14 now. Jeez, this McCoy guys is amazing. Catches a screen for 16 yards and a first down. The backup RB rushes for 2 yards. Pitt runs a draw for 2 yards, 3rd and 6. I think I might puke now. Incomplete pass, almost picked off, Pitt to kick another field goal. FG good, Pitt up 33-30.

Ok guys, lets score a td now and end this game. Just run the ball with Allen, is that too much to ask? Maybe not, Allen 1 yard run. Incomplete pass, 3rd and 9, not looking good. I just puked in my mouth. Clausen sacked, first one today and it's really looking back, it's going to be a 48 yard fg to tie. Wow, somehow he made it, we're tied again. 4th ot.

ND ball again. Aldrige nice 4-5 yard run on first down. Let's keep it going. 1 yard run, 3rd and 5 now. I'd like at this point to thank Malone for sending my check for the home run league and putting "Entertainment" on the check. Thanks. Incomplete pass and now I have to wait through another field goal. Just what I thought. Finally ND misses a fg. Just pushed to the left. Looks like ND's 3rd loss of the year.

I can't really blame the kicker for that one, the offense hasn't done anything in the second half. ND stops the run, second and 10. I don't think Pitt will throw on this drive, they have a great kicker. Big run by McCoy, first and goal for Pitt from the 6. Uggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....... McCoy runs to the middle for a 1 yard game. Now Pitt will make a fg to win it and I will go cry in the bathroom because I don't want anyone to see me. And I'm headed to the bathroom to cry. Pitt wins 36-33.

Friday, October 31, 2008

End of the month

Happy Halloween everyone, blah blah blah. It's been an interesting month with the longest delay in a world series and unfortunately the phillies taking the crown. Who would have thunk it? Not me. They totally reversed the long layover jinx that has plagued the past few world series. I thought the Rays would beat them easily, but of course just like many things, I'm wrong. Ha ha. Malone, I'll put up a post later on the free agents. One problem is is that I think they have like 15 days to file for it so that list will grow longer. Then we'll see what happens in this crazy world. Well, my breaks running low so I'm going to have to cut this one short. I'll try and get a longer, better one tomorrow. Oh yeah, before I forget, how was the poker party? What happened in the tournament and who won the best costumes?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Tuesday Night

Well, so I wanted to hand the World Series over to the Phillies but the rain decided to keep that from them. I don't mind. I don't think they deserve to have their title yet. I don't really have any good reason why just that I don't like the Phillies, ha ha. There's not much on tv so I'm watching the Great Outdoors, one of my favorite John Candy movies behind Spaceballs & Uncle Buck. The most believable part of the movie is that fact that John Candy's oldest son meets a girl one night, she treats him like crap, then he sees her the next day and then they're boyfriend & girlfriend even though he's leaving in 3 days. Nothing better than a 3 day gf. Maybe that would make life easier? The second thing is John Candy eating a 96 ounce steak.

What's so wrong with starting David Price? You're down 3 games to 1 and everyone knows Kazmir can't pitch out of the fifth because he throws too many pitches. Madden had enough confidence in him to pitch in game 7 to close out the series why not start him in game 5? If they had won they could have had Kazmir pitch game 6 at home on full rest & Shields game 7 on full rest with Garza coming out of the pen if Shields gets into trouble. I guess now it's okay because of the rain delay now you have all hands on deck if there's a game 7, besides Shields who will pitch game 6. Of course, this is if the Rays win game 5, which they won't. He he.

Well, onto making fun of myself for a little bit. I started my new shift yesterday. We have a webpage that lists our breaks & lunch. Well, I tried to get to the webpage but alas, it didn't work. So, I talked to my coach and he came over at like 9:30ish to give me my break schedule. So I had something on my lists of breaks that was new so I asked my coach and he didn't know. He checked and apartently I had an interview in about 15 minutes for a QA position. I had submitted a request to interview for this position last week but I didn't know if I would get one so it came as a surprise to me. Well, as you can guess I wasn't at my best in the interview and for a couple questions I didn't really know what to say. I was at a loss for words and it made the interview kinda funny. I can laugh at it now because I don't think I'd take the job if they offered it to me. I'm happy to finally get my weekends off and I don't think I'd get them off if I took the job so I'm not going to complain. So, the job search continues, but not that hard. Maybe someday I'll find a better job, maybe.

Monday, October 27, 2008

The cloud has cleared

So after a crazy weekend of sports it looks like the dust is about to settle and this is what we've learned this weekend:
Sorry Mikey but I don't think the Rays will pull it out. Personally I would have started David Price tonight because it would have been interesting to see him in a big game and then you could have Scott Kazmir in game 6 and James Shield in game 7 if it had reached that. It was nice for Carlos Pena & Evan Longoria to go a combined 2 for 109820980982 in the World Series, give or take a couple. I'll have to hand it to the Phillies, they deserved to win it. I never thought I'd say it. I guess it's nice for the NL East to be the World Series champs. Now if only the NFC East can repeat as NFL Champs(the Giants winning it again) and I'll be happy. Actually I don't think I can complain about football for at least 5 years, I believe that's the law.

I was surprised by the Giants game. First how badly they played in the Red Zone, then how good their front 7 are or how bad Pittsburgh's o-line is, then what a rollercoaster game Eli can give you from going from 4th & 1 to 4th & 6 to throwing that crazy pass to Amani and only to get a field goal from it, to then driving the G-men down for the winning td after the safety. It's nice to see the Giants beat another highly ranked team(personally if the offense was insynch that game we should have killed them. I'm not sure if I should give credit to the Steeler's D or get mad at the bad red zone offense.) Personally I think the Giants are the best team in the league. The Browns game was a bad game but the Gmen usually play blahly this time of year. We've got the hardest part of the schedule the rest of the season so we'll see what we're made of.

In college football it looks like Penn State has a clear ride to the national championship game if they can win out against easy teams. Who will they play? I'm not sure, it's hard to say. Personally I don't think it's going to be USC or Alabama. I wouldn't be surprised if the winner of the Georgia - Florida game makes it. Or the Texas - Texas Tech game.

Onto a non-sports topic I've listened to a bunch of new music and I must say that I'm not too satisfied with any of it. Mike, what do you think is the best music album of 2008 so far? Also Rob, can you email a guest post for the video games to look forward to for Fall 2008-Winter2009? That would be a cool post and something I'd look forward to read.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

You can smell it in the air

Right now I feel like it's the calm before the storm. There are soooo many big and good games this weekend it's going to be hard to keep up with all of them. For today we have in college footbal: #8Texas Tech at #23 Kansas, #6Oklahoma State at #1 Texas(on a funny side note Desmond Howard just called Ok State the real OSU while at Ohio State. You've got to love the hatred Michigan players have for Ohio State) , #7 Georgia at #13 LSU, #3 Penn State at #9 Ohio State(this being the 9th night game at OSU), and my favorite game of Saturday being Notre Dame at Washington because once again its Charlie Weis against Ty Willingham and I think we'll crush them, which is awesome because I can easily see ND being like Washington(0-6) if Ty had stayed.

Now on Sunday we have in the NFL TB at Dallas to see how far Dallas will fall(Does anyone think they'll fall to 4-6? And if they do how much fun will it be to watch this team implode?), Giants at Pittsburgh matching espn's #2 & #3 ranked teams, a former superbowl matchup in the resurging Rams at the evil Pats, I really like the Atlanta at Philly game(and I must say I laughed at Michael's Ron Mexicoed comment, I used to refer to Marcus as New Mexico), and I think it'll be a good game on Monday night of Indy at Tennesse to see if the guard has changed in the AFC South.

And then on top of it all is the World Series. It's going to be interesting to see if they can get game 3 in tonight and how interesting it'll be if they don't and then we'll get the last 5 games in a row. I think the edge has to be with Tampa Bay right now seeing how they have better starting pitching the next 3 games than the Phillies and that's the most important thing. Plus they have the David Price X-Factor. It'll be interesting. I'm taking the Rays in 5 now.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Guess What?

So, I guess today is my birthday. I don't feel older or wiser, I just feel the same, ha ha. Can anyone guess how old I am now? Well, anyone besides Mike since we were born a couple weeks apart. Now onto other stuff:

So, I just woke up and I'm watching sportscenter now and they have a story about Tom Brady and he's having complications from his surgery on his knee. It looks like he might have to have his surgery done again and it could take months to fix everything. I'm wondering if something like this could end his career or at least keep him out of a lot of next season? Personally I didn't think he would be the same qb when he first got hurt(like Carson Palmer) but this could be much worse. I guess the Pats are going to have to draft a qb or sign someone in the offseason.

Well, I must say that I'm surprised that the Phillies won. Chase Utley came up huge in the first and Cole Hamels was pretty good. But, I don't count the Rays out. This kind of reminds me of the Sixers-Lakers(I think it was the Lakers, it could have been the Spurs) NBA Finals series when the Sixers took game one but then lost the next four. We shall see. Remember, the Rays lost game 1 last series and then beat the Sox in 7. Here's a little trivia for you. The last team to win game 1 and lose the next four? The Phillies in 1983. So hopefully we'll have a good series.

Here are my picks Perrotti, and they'll probably be really really bad.
#4: Ravens over Raiders - The Raiders are just bad and the Ravens d is good enough to shut down the Raiders. Plus the game is at home so that's an extra benefits to the Ravens. This game won't be close.
#3: Bucs over the Cowboys - The Cowboys are bad now. Romo isn't playing. They just lost to the Rams. Their offense isn't as good with Brad Johnson as QB. I think the Bucs will come in and shock the Cowboys.
#2: Bills over Dolphins - I think this game will be closer than people think. It's hard to win on the road, especially at a division rival and that's why I don't have as much faith in this game.
#1: Titans over Colts - There's something that I've learned about Peyton Manning over the years. Don't ever count him out. Just when you think he's down and out for the count he'll come out and pull a big upset. I could be completely wrong about this so Perrotti chose what you want to, but I think this game will be close and if you pick this as your four point game you might be sweating it out.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Monday(

Well, I thought I'd put up some links before I write anything else. I'm watching the webgems show on espn and surprisingly David Wright won webgem of the year for 3rdbase and infielder. I missed the play he won it for 3rdbase but they showed a collection of plays for best infielder and he made a ton a great plays last season. Anyways, back onto the links here we go(I got these from deadspin):
#1. http://deadspin.com/5065869/why-we-love-soccer-the-long-impossible-circus+like-goals
This one is of a guy for the NY/NJ Red Bulls who scores an 81 yard goal. Yes, 81 yards. It's pretty cool

#2. http://deadspin.com/5065810/the-angryville-chronicles-stories-about-philadelphias-ferociously-loyal-amusingly-vile-fanbase

This is a bunch of stories about how great philly fans are. These stories are priceless. And this is why I hate all Philly team.

#3. http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/3EFBFFFF018DACBE001700A422BA/

I'll leave you with this one. It's pretty funny


Now, onto baseball. Sorry Koho, but the season isn't over so I can still write about it until free agency starts. Which is after the World Series. Ha ha. The Rays-Sox series was amazing. By far the most enjoying series since the Mets-Dodgers series of '06. It really had everything you could imagine in it. The Rays taking a 3-1 lead, up 7-0 game 5, blowing that, losing the next game, trailing early in game 7, coming back to lead it, bases loaded with one of the Sox clutch hitters up, a rookie who only came up in September getting the call to close out the series. Who would have thunk he'd do it? It was just amazing. Now, lets just hope they can finish it off by beating the Phillies. They're #5 on the top teams I hate in baseball. Rob, I disagree that CC goes to the Yankees. I think he'll stay in the NL because he said earlier he likes the NL and he likes to hit(plus one less decent hitter he has to face since he has to pitch against pitchers). But, we'll see what happens.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Sunday

Soooo I've finally completed by last weekend that I have to work, until they screw me over on Wednesday and tell me that I have to keep my schedule. fun stuff. Today wasn't that bad until the end of the day when I had two crazy ladies call me and didn't really want to hear what I had to say or explain to them. I live by the theory that for every child a woman has they become 12% crazier. These women easily had 4 kids, that's how crazy they were. Well, I started to feel better today when I got home and saw the Giants were winning & the Cowboys were getting killed. That's a pretty good way to come home. How crazy was the bears-vikes game? When do those teams combine for over 80 points? Is Kyle Orton really this good? I liked Dan Orlowsky's(spelling is bad) game for the lines. He was like 11 for 24 for 260 yards. Didn't this team just trade their best wr? WTF?

Rob, if the Red Sox win tonight I invite you to write a guest blog for me and I will post it. If they don't then I will post something on Monday about how relieved I am that the Rays won and I don't have to watch them sweep the Phillies. Fair? Koho when did you get cool?

Friday, October 17, 2008

Here we go

I wanted to post this on Monday but then I got lazy and then another topic popped into my mind so I was going to post that one but then Malone emailed me and I posted his, so these are the two posts that I was going to do. It might get kinda long so get a cup of coffee and let's go!

The first one:
Have you ever had a day where everything was going your way, you had a great day and were really happy but then something happens and then the day just changes? I had that kind of day on Monday. The day at work was pretty good, nothing to bad with the phone calls and at the end of the I found out that I got the new shift that I wanted, Monday to Friday 8am to 4:30pm so after 7 months I finally have my weekends free! Then I came home and I was able to watch the Rays take a big lead on the sox. And then it happened. I was tired so I took a nap. When I woke up things started to change. Well, at first they were good. By the time I woke up the Rays game was just about over, then I started to watch the Dodgers game and they ended up taking a big lead on the Phillies. I was also watching the Gmen play on Monday Night Football. Then things went bad. The Giants D couldn't do anything and Eli threw his second pick of the night. At halftime, though the Giants pulled in close. Only down 17-14 and getting the ball back to start the second half seemed like the usual Giants. The Dodgers were up 5-1 on the Phillies. How could things go bad? How could they? Well, the dodgers game up 3 two run homers and lost to the Phillies to go down 3-1 in the series and Eli threw a pick on the first drive to kill any hopes of a Giants comeback. Later on as the Giants were driving against down 31-17 into the Red Zone Eli threw another interception that was returned for a td. Just great. Honestly, how does something turn around that quickly. It seems like it just takes one thing, one thought, one action to turn everything around. Usually it doesn't happen to often. Well, this past week it's happened 3 times! There was Monday. It also happened on Saturday. With the Irish up 17-9 on UNC and getting the ball to start the second half I thought that the Irish had the game in hand. This was their first game against a team ranked in the top 25 and their offense couldn't be stopped. Then on the first play of the second half Jimmy Clausen threw a pick 6 and the irish were up 17-16. The game changed there and the Irish lost. Well, the bad luck continued last night. I didn't watch the beginning of the game. I was actually playing the new star wars video game until I beat the game. Then I turned the game on and watched the Rays go up 7-0 in the top of the seventh. Then it happened. I heard the announcers saying that Kazmir is going to be coming out of the game and I thought to myself, wouldn't it suck if the Rays lost this game because they took Kazmir out? So, I turned to watch something else and I got a text from a friend cursing Big Papi's name. 7-4 Rays. So I watched the comeback of all comebacks. ugghhhhhhhh. And now I'm scared that the Sox will come back and win the series. This would be the third time since 2004 that the Sox have come back from either a 3-0 or 3-1 deficit to take a series. We shall see.

The second one:
I got this idea from watching the Iron Man dvd. How did Robert Downey, Jr. turn his career around? Does anyone know how this happened? I remember when he was a big star when I was younger. And then he kind of went nowhere because of his drug and alcohol problems. And then all of a sudden he turned his career around. Now he's an action hero star? Where does this come from? Personally I think it started with the movie Zodiac. I really like this movie and I thought RDJ was really good in this movie. He was really funny and the movie was great overall. It was definitely a bigger movie than he had done in the past few years. From there he was in a little movie called Charlie Bartlett where he played a principal for a high school in Connecticut. He was great in that movie, too. Then out of nowhere he was announced as the guy to play Tony Stark & Iron Man. What? Hold on, what? Who would cast him as this role? I was definitely sure this was a mistake that would make this movie horrible. He'd never been a leading role in an action movie before. I was certain this was a huge mistake. And then I went to the movie. And I was proven wrong. The movie was awesome. It was by far one of my top 3 movies from this summer. He followed that up with a cameo in the Hulk movie(as Tony Stark) and then he made Tropic Thunder which killed in the box office, too. Sadly I have not seen this movie but I heard it was really good. I'm hoping to see it soon, either in the cheap theater or on dvd. Now he has two more big movies soon, one as Sherlock Holmes and the other is Iron Man 2. Talk about turning your career around.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Guest Post: Heeeee's Back!

Well I'm back from the honeymoon and I know you all missed me terribly. I think I read all of the posts that were placed while I was gone. Luckily Roger slacked a little and there weren't too many. I enjoyed both Roger's and Perrotti's recaps of the wedding. Here are a couple of things that stuck out in my mind:

- Kohanski was the drunkest I've ever seen him. I don't know if you all were drunk as well and didn't notice it as much as me, but it was hilarious. The best line of the night was right at the end when we were packing up to leave and Koho was trashed. We were talking about dancing and Michelle's mom couldn't remember if she danced with Koho or not. I believe he said "Yeah we danced together twice... and they were the best two dances of my life!" He could have taken her home right there if he wanted.
- The garter toss was pretty funny as well. I'm surprised both Roger and Perrotti failed to comment on it (Perrotti touched on it in a later comment). My first toss of the garter was embarassingly bad, but the second toss was great since Roger snatched it out of the air like it was Star Wars figurine. Then watching him rush to put it on Amy was hilarious. Especially since the DJ made fun of him and made Amy put it on his leg. I believe she grabbed his crotch, but we'll have to go to the video recap for that.
- The dancing by Perrotti and Rob was very disappointing. At least Koho drank enough to not care what he looked like. Trust me, I was probably the worst dancer there and there is probably plenty of proof of it on camera. It was good to see Roger bust a move as well and Ryan Andrew was definitely "That Guy" at the wedding.
- It definitely was hilarious that the priest made fun of Perrotti. I can't get over that.
There are a lot of other good moments, but Perrotti and Roger hit most of them.

As for the honeymoon, I'm sure you all want to hear how it went. We'll lets just start off by saying that I had sex... with a girl. And it was everything I dreamed about. OK, now take a moment to get that image out of your head. The trip was pretty nice, overall I'd give it a B. The reason it didn't get an A is that it rained a lot so we didnt' get much sun, and we got to the resort a day late due to Delta's suckiness (more on that in the next paragraph). The resort was pretty nice, but it didn't handle all of the rain very well. There were puddles everywhere and the pools were gross at the end and needed some cleaning. We were at Sandals though, which is all-inclusive, so that was really nice. I had a ton of white russians. I tried a bunch of girly drinks too since I drink beer all the time at home. The beer they had though actually wasn't bad. They had Heinekin and some other brand called Piton which tasted similar to Amstel Light to me. The food was really good too and there was plenty of it. I'll share the photos with you guys sometime soon.

As for the trip down, it was quite an adventure. Our flight out of Hartford was delayed about half an hour and we only had 40 minutes to make the connection in Atlanta as it was. When we got to Atlanta, we got stuck on the runway for about 5 more minutes and we sprinted from our arrival gate to the next gate. We got there 7 minutes BEFORE the scheduled departure time, with the plane still sitting next to the jetway, but they wouldn't let us on the plane becuase "by law international flights must close the gates 10 minutes prior to departure". The douchebag at the gate told us to go talk to the Delta reps and made it sound like we'd easily get another flight out. Well as you can guess, flying to St. Lucia isn't exactly the same as flying to Chicago. Delta didn't have another flight going there for at least 3 more days, and they couldn't find any other airlines (that they had agreements with) with flights there the same day. So the best possible solution they had was to fly us to Trinidad for the night and then get a flight from there early the next morning. Apparently this isn't even close to the first time Delta has had this problem and the lady at the desk was pissed that it happened again. She was nice enough to help us out though and give us some free drink vouchers for the plane. Luckily for us, we weren't the only couple with this problem. Another couple from Boston had the same issue and they were with us all the way to St. Lucia. They were really nice too so that was cool.

So anyways, we arrive in Trinidad that night and Delta was nice enough to put us up in a hotel room (which they should of). Of course though, they picked the cheapest fucking hotel they could find. We got put in some majorly sketchy hotel about 5 minutes from the airport in basically the ghetto of Trinidad. Our room was something straight out of a horror movie. Dirty sheets on the bed, hot as hell with a 1970's air conditioner, the bathroom was moist, and the remote was sticky. Amazingly they had a TV so we tried to stay up all night watching that because we were afraid to fall asleep. I seriously thought we were going to get raped and murdered in there. I even put the suitcases in front of the doors so that we could hear someone trying to break in and we'd have a little extra time to prepare ourselves for the ass-pounding. Somehow we managed to get about 2 hours of sleep and then we got the hell out of there and back to the airport as early as we could. It was an excellent start to our honeymoon. I'm hoping Judge Dre can get Delta to pay for the day we missed at the resort because it was probably about 15 times more expensive than the hotel room they put us up in that night. Needless to say, we will not be visiting Trinidad again.

They had most major TV stations in St. Lucia, so I was able to keep up with sports for the most part. It sucks that the Red Sox beat the Angels and I lost my bet, but they look like the bad news Bears against the Rays, so that's nice. I hope the Rays crush the Phillies in the World Series, although it is nice to see that the NL East is proving that it actually is a tough division. I was also very happy to see that Perrotti's man-crush Tony "I'm a homo" Romo has been injured and is out for several weeks(on a side note, espn is quoting that RoNo!!! might play this weekend, which sucks for the Giants b/c I was hoping he'd be out for that game. Oh yeah, this is Roger typing). Things like that just make me smile.

Anyways we'll have to hang out together soon (except Roger who left us again). Michelle said I'm allowed to hang out with you guys once a month as long as she is told where we're going and when. Just kidding, I can probably do something Friday and/or Saturday this weekend. Let me know what you're up to.