Good Times...

So I fly all the way back to Chicago (from LA) for a Cubs game this weekend against the Cardinals only to see the absolute worst game of the season. St Louis scored 5 in the first and another in the 2nd. It was 9-0 before I even finished my 1st Old Style and I had to leave to take a "calm me down" walk after the 3rd batter of the game (Pujols). Lou pulled all the starters after the 4th so from then on it was like watching the Cubs in Mesa in March. Awesome! Ended up losing 12-6...and as of today, Sept 23, their only loss in a week. That's what I bring to the Cubs...bad luck! So, I'm making my pledge now to stay away from all post-season games! The Cubs have a great chance to come out here to LA and play the Dodgers...I will not be there. In fact, I may fly to Chicago to be as far away from them as I can...
On another note....The Cubs clinched on Saturday and there was nothing better than seeing the team on the field celebrating with the fans who wouldn't leave and just kept singing "Go Cubs Go." Big Z pouring champagne into a fans mouth in the first row (was he even 21?), DeRosa dumping Bud Light over Fukudome...just a grand scene all around! We'll see what happens the last week of the season. So far so good. No hangover on Sunday and then Marquis has the game of his life on Monday keeping the Mets in another collapse situation. Also, who could have asked for a better weekend in Chicago and Purdue...Good time & Great friends!! A big thanks to all of those who made the effort to hang out even if just for a little while. I had a blast...even though Harry's wasn't in the picture! Seriously though, good shit!!!! We need to do it again soon. In the meantime...Go Cubs!! Da Bears!! Boiler up!! BYE!!

Brett Favre

So it was "reported" today that Brett Favre's family is pushing him to come out of retirement...BIG SHOCK!! I'm just surprised it took this long...Evidently he has already spoken to the Packers. ESPN just had breaking news: "The Green Bay Packers' reaction to this was that they have no reaction." That's honest to God what the guy on ESPNews just said!! If you've read my previous post about the NBA draft and how much useless "breaking news" or "reports" ESPN provides these days it shouldn't come as a shock that the reported no news coming out of Green Bay...That station better be careful or they are gonna end up like MTV. Remember when MTV used to be good and play actual music videos and game shows like "Remote Control?" Then they slowly got away from all that and are now a useless station. I love ESPN more than most things, but when they keep reporting breaking news that there is no news that's when I start to question my love...

On another note...I purchased a bright red Mazda Miata today with a matching fanny pack. Pretty soon I'll have my walker and clapper and begin eating dinner at 3 in the afternoon after playing bingo down at the Moose!

BYE!!!

Thoughts....

*Does anyone really care that Floyd Landis lost his Tour de France title today in court? Does anyone even remember who Floyd Landis was?

*It pains me to do so, but...I take back all the negative things I said about the Chicago White Sox last week...

*Just once I'd like to work and actually get paid for it!

*Manny Ramirez got into a one-sided shoving match over the weekend with the traveling secretary for the Red Sox...Really? An argument with the traveling secretary? All because he thought that getting you 16 tickets for friends might not be possible...on the road in Houston. This isn't "Manny being Manny," this is Manny being Asshole.

* !!Viva Espana!!

*Congrats to the Angels and Dodgers who put all SoCal baseball fans to sleep this weekend with their 2 1-0 games! And a special "here's to you" to the dumbass Angels who managed to lose while throwing a no-hitter! Cheers!

*Too bad for the almighty O.J. Mayo...The kid basketball people have been talking about since he was like 13 yrs old. Supposed to be the #1 pick in the NBA Draft, the next great one...too bad the NBA came out with the 19 yr old rule and that 2 guys named D.Rose and M. Beasley came along in the meantime. They get drafted ahead of him and get to go to Chicago and Miami, while poor O.J. has to suffer in Memphis...albeit suffer with $35 million...

*Cheers to the NFL off season. If it wasn't for that a lot of cops would be jobless...

On another note...a giant cheers to one of my buddies who turned 30 this week and in doing so, also got engaged!! Congrats to you, you know who you are!!!! I'd also like to say that I'm not agreeing to the pact...Oh, and I'd like to announce that I failed to make the Olympic javelin team. They drug tested and found that I was too high on life!!!

BYE!!

NBA Draft

Is it really necessary for ESPN to have a 2 hour Draft special everyday? I mean, they have been televising this Draft special show for 2 hours a day for the past week or two telling us what might happen! I don't need to know that Miami might or might not take Michael Beasley with the #2 pick. That's why I watch the draft! It's getting to the point where the leagues (NFL & NBA) don't even need to televise the draft anymore. There is soooo much saturation of information for the 2 weeks leading up to these drafts that there's no reason to watch. I don't need to hear that Memphis is leaning toward one player but has 3 others in mind and is undecided whether or not to trade down or not...That doesn't tell me ANYTHING!!! Of course they have a player or 2 in mind and have a backup plan! That's common sense and doesn't need to be reported on a 2 hour Draft Special Edition! I also don't need to see on the "bottom line" that the Chicago Bulls have reached contract agreement with Derrick Rose the day before the draft takes place. That is why the draft is televised!! It's really getting o.o.c (out of control). And now everyone has to put together their "mock" drafts and they name them Mock 6.0, 6.1 etc....And they update them daily. It seems like ESPN and these other sports news companies are just looking for ways to hire their friends and pay them decent $ to be draft "experts." "Uh, hey Pete you need a job right? Well, put together a mock draft and tell a little about each player and we'll put it on our website and call it Pete's Mock 1.4." It's really fascinating how much useless and redundant information is being reported these days. With all of it coming at you it almost makes the drafts an afterthought now.

On another note...After sweeping and completely dominating the 1st place White Sox over the weekend the Cubs go and shit the bed against the cellar dwelling Orioles. I mean, I know their 14 game home win streak had to end sometime, but to the Orioles? C'mon. Of course it would be the Orioles since the Cubs talked all spring training about getting Brian Roberts (3-5, 2R, 1 RBI) and after Ryan Dempster and Kevin Millar (Millaaa) went back and forth trading jabs. Look for them to come out strong tonight; I guess 2 out of 3 aint bad...
Finally, theres a good chance that after this weekend I'll be a member of the U.S. Olympic javelin team. I'm the 2nd alternate and the 1st alternate got hit in the head with a shot put the other day in practice while getting out of the way from a flying javelin. Soooo, barring a miracle recovery from him I should be good to go!!

BYE!!!

Wow. What else can you say about what Shaq and Don Imus said yesterday.



Good times Shaq...
I've been a Shaq fan since he was at LSU and lost to IU in the NCAA tournament. I love his personality, I think he's a great interview and he's good. I took his side in the whole feud with Kobe when they were with the Lakers. In fact, that's a big reason why I am a Kobe/Laker "hater" today. In case you haven't heard or seen the video (it's in the blog in case you missed it!) Shaq got onstage at a NY nightclub last night and freestyle rapped about topics such as Kareem, Hakeem the Dream and, of course Kobe. Again, I like to hear Shaq talk and say what he says, but there comes a time when you just gotta let it go and shut it! He raps about how Kobe needs him and can't win a championship without him. True points. Then he has to add "Kobe, how does my ass taste?" Really? You had to go there? Now, Shaq claims it was all in fun, that they used to do it all the time in the locker room back and forth, battle rhyming so to speak. There's no "battle" to it when it's just you onstage and no other rapper! So when he says "all in fun" I don't think that's entirely true. When you insenuate that someone has tasted your ass and they aren't there to spit something back at you then that's just disrespecting the person. I'm not here to defend Kobe believe me and I think it's hilarious that Shaq could care less what people think, but to taste your ass? A little much...

Now we turn our attention to Don Imus...obviously a guy who doesn't get it. We heard of him a little over a year ago whe he called the Rutgers girls basketball team "nappy headed ho's." Got fired then rehired, apologized and moved on. That caused quite a stir among minorities and also threw up red flags to everyone who may not have heard of Imus that this guy is racist. That's a totally understandable reaction if it was the first time you ever heard about him. He since then has been flying a bit under the radar...until yesterday. On his radio show the topic of Adam "Pacman" Jones came up. Now I don't listen to him so I don't know how the topic came up. But, it did and he asked his co-host "what color is he?" Of course he answered, "african-american," and Imus comes back with, "of course he is." Now he's back in the headlines for being racist again and basically saying that all african americans get in trouble with the law. He claims that it was all sacrcastic and was even, in a way, on Pacman's side saying that African-Americans get wrongly arrested all the time just because they are black. Ok, so maybe he was making that point, like I said I didn't hear the entire segment and don't know how it started or where it went. But the point is, when you already have a reputation like he does from 2 years ago why would you even come close to that subject again? It just doesn't make sense. Just talk about what an idiot Pacman is and leave it. No reason to bring his color or race into it! You know that minority groups are watching/listening to you with huge dumbo sized ears waiting for you to slip up again. It doesn't look like he's going to be disciplined or fined or anything, but this surely isn't just going to blow over. He's managed to get himself back in the headlines though...good job!

There comes a time when certain people need to just shut it and move on...

On another note...
What a weekend in Chicago, if you're a Cubs fan that is!! Just complete domination of their cross town "rivals." They completely outplayed them in all aspects of the game. After listening to the White Sox announcers in game 1 on Friday go on and on about how the Cubs can't play their style of ball (Sox were up 3-1 at the time) they go on to win on 2 hr's and then erupted for 9 runs in one inning on Saturday and cruised the rest of the series. Awesome!
Also, is there anything better than going to a wedding and hearing the groom give a drunken speech about his bride? Again, Awesome!
Tonight...Cubs 9 Orioles 2

BYE!!!

Windy City Showdown??

I thought the Cubs and White Sox were supposed to play this weekend. I've yet to see another MLB team on the field other than the Cubs thus far...

So the Cubs have taken the first 2 games against the cross-town White Sox this weekend. Let's recap...

Game 1: First, the game was on WGN TV, great. But it was broadcast through the White Sox so I had to torture myself listening to "Hawk" Harelson and Daren Jackson...THE worst television announcers in all of sports. Their 2 "catch phrases" if you want to call them that; "you can put it on the board...yes!" (homerun call) and "he gone!" everytime a player from the opposing team strikes out. It's like they hopped on a short bus destined for a special learning center and asked the kid with the helmet on what he thought they should say on air over national television. I'd rather slide down a razor blade slide into a pool of fresh lemon juice than listen to those two attempt to talk baseball. Which is exactly what I did. I then sat in the pool and watched the game on mute. I did catch one thing they said before I muted the TV. I believe after the White Sox's 2nd homerun of the day Hawk Harelson said, "if you want to slug with us good luck!" Well the Cubs did just that, in particular Aramis Ramirez. He went ahead and "slugged" 2 homeruns the 2nd of which came tied 3-3 in the bottom of the 9th...Cubs Win! Put that on the board bitches! They gone!

Game 2: Well we got to revisit Hawk Harelson's quote about getting into a slugfest with the almighty White Sox. The Cubs calmly scored 9 runs in the 4th inning hitting 4 homeruns including back to back shots by Jim Edmonds and Mike Fontenot (or is it Fonteyes?). Ramirez went ahead and hit another 3 run shot and then Edmonds came up in the same inning and hit another homerun joining Mark Bellhorn (on my alltime fav Cubs list) and Sammy Sosa as the only Cubs in history to hit 2 HR's in one inning. The Sox never presented a challenge after that and Cubs win 11-7. You can put that on the board again bitches!! They gone...again!!

On another note....I don't mean to talk so negatively about the White Sox and their announcers, it's strictly for entertainment purposes onl.....who am I kidding? I can't stand them!! They suck, their park is horrible and their announcers are worse than that! And I won't even start about their fans! Go Cubs!!

I'm gone!!

BYE!!!!

The Name Game!!!