Would You Rather...
I was watching The Best Damned Sports Show Period this afternoon. First off all thats a pretty cocky name for a show. Second of all if thats the name for your show you should at the absolute least try to be in the top half of good sports shows. Third of all this show really isn't very good. Okay, I didn't come here to rip on the show all day though. They had a segment on the show entitled 'Would You Rather', and of all their crappy options, one was actually pretty good. So I've decided we should try to make this a semi-regular feature around here too. I'll kick it off with the one that inspired this post, and then throw in a couple of my own. Hit the comments and let me know where you stand.

Would you rather:

Win a championship or get voted into the Hall of Fame?
Sit through the collective works of Vin Diesel or Mark Wahlberg?
Always lose or never play?

Personally, I'm taking the HoF, Vin, and being a big losing loser.
- posted by Mike @ 4:52 PM 8 comments

 
Best 1-2 Punch in the Majors.
Roy Halladay and A.J. Burnett just became my two favorite pitchers in the American League. Of course The Doc was already my favorite, but now hes got a solid partner in crime. Man, if I was making $10+ mill a year imagine the pranks I could pull. Holy shit, is it sunday yet?
- posted by Mike @ 12:25 PM 0 comments

 
This is the intro
Okay I promise this post will have nothing to do with fantasy sports. Back to talking about one of my other favorite topics...music. We haven't had a Top 5 list in a while, and I started working on this one a week or two ago. My plan was to do the top 5 song intros, but then defining what was considered an intro got tricky. So the definition that I'm working with is that the intro should build up to the main beat of the song. This eliminates a lot of hip hop songs that have really good beats but are no different from the first note to the last. In fact it pretty much eliminated all hip hop songs. At least the ones I could come up with.

5. Right Now - Van Halen
4. Fixxxer - Metallica
3. Simon Says - Pharoahe Monch
2. Thunderstruck - AC/DC
1. Hells Bells - AC/DC

So basically this scientific study has proven that AC/DC know what they're doing when it comes to making a solid intro. I almost put PopoZao on that list just for the grubby trailer park laugh at the begining. Okay thats a lie. Billy Peddle by Great Big Sea should get an honerable meantion because its got a great intro, but I don't really know where it ends cause its kind of lacking in the lyrics department. I think I'm going to have to expand this list someday, because I'm definitly leaving some quality intros off the list.

This is the outro.
- posted by Mike @ 5:06 PM 2 comments

 
Fantasy Baseball Draft Stratagy (Part 3)
This is an article from ESPN's Page 2 thats a couple years old. In fact I think I probably linked to it before last season too. Its got some good tips in it (other than #4), and a couple that I keep in mind during a draft.

Yeah, you want to win whatever pool you're in, but you don't want to do it with a team full of douchebags. If Barry Bonds carries my public team to the championship, I'm gonna feel dirty winning it. Thats why I tried to surround him with players that I like, such as Berkman, Helton, Willingham, Huff and Young. Now if those guys carry my team I can win with a smile on my face. Plus if Bonds disapoints then I can bitch about him even more.

So my final piece of advice is to draft at least one player from your favorite team or the hometown team because those are the games you're most likely going to be watching regardless of who you drafted. And its just a little more fun when you see a guy come up to the plate and you know that hes one of 'your boys'. Then when he strikes out looking with runners in scoring position you can really get excited.
- posted by Mike @ 2:31 PM 4 comments

 
Fantasy Baseball Drafting Stratagy (Part 2)
Okay lets get right into this and pick up where I left off.

Outfield:
There is a lot of depth at this position so it gives you multiple options on who and when to grab. In a 12 team pool you're looking at a minimum of 36 outfielders being drafted, but the actual number taken will probably be closer to 60 because a lot of teams will use an outfielder in their utility spot and bench, plus there are a few of these guys with multiple position eligibility. So we might as well start at the top.

Vlady Guerrero (1st and 1st)
Manny Ramirez (1st and 1st)
Carl Crawford (1st and 1st)
Miguel Cabrera (2nd and 1st)
Bobby Abreu (2nd and 2nd)
Chad Kroger (2nd and 1st)
Gary Sheffield (3rd and 2nd)
Ichiro Suzuki (1st and 2nd)
Andruw Jones (3rd and 3rd)
Chone Figgins (2nd and 3rd)
Lance Berkman (3rd and 4th)

Cabrera is an interesting player because he can be used at either 3rd or OF so if you draft him make sure you're aware of the flexability when making pick later on. So if you don't like some of the OFs available in one round but a guy like Chavez or Rolen is still kicking around on the 3B list you know what to do. Again, if you're taking Figgins you really want to be using him at 2B, but depending how the draft goes just remember to be aware of player flexability. Berkmen went in the 4th round with the pick right before mine, otherwise I'd have him in both pools. I love Berkman, which might be making me biased, but I think hes going to have a monster year. With Bagwell out the move to first will put less strain on his body and he should be able to mash all season. In case you hadn't figured it out yet, Chad Kroger is actually Canada's baseball golden boy Jason Bay, hes got a slightly improved lineup around him and Sean Casey is in a contract year so I definitly like his outlook. I'm avoiding Abreu and Sheff just because there are other players of equal value that I'd rather cheer for all season.

Carlos Lee (4th and 4th)
Grady Sizemore (5th and 6th)
Carlos Beltran (5th and 4th)
Juan Pierre (5th and 4th)
Adam Dunn (6th and 4th)
Jhonny Damon (6th and 6th)
Scott Podsednik (6th and 4th)
Hideki Matsui (7th and 5th)
Vernon Wells (7th and 6th)
Pat Burrell (9th and 8th)
Griffey Jr. (8th and 4th)
Barry Bonds (7th and 8th)

Yeah, I drafted Barry Bonds, big whoop, wanna fight?? I fucking hate the guy, but hes a machine and if you can get passed having him on your team you might want to look at him. This is hard for me to type as an Astros fan, but I was looking to take Carlos Beltran in both pools too, last year had to be a fluke plus hes gonna have Delgado with him this year. I hate the guy, but I'd put him on my team. Ugh, damn I gotta go have a shower now, thats how dirty I feel after talking about taking those two guys. Matsui always seems to be undervalued to me and hes definitly worth grabbing even if he is a Yankee. On the other hand, fuck Damon. Same for Adam Dunn. Last season was the first time in the history of my fantasy sports days that I didn't draft Griffey, and he ended up getting almost 500 ABs. I didn't draft him again this year so hes probably going to hit 300 HRs...on opening day. Scotty Pod is a steal monster, but hes kinda risky. V-Dub wasn't great last year, but adding Overbay and Glaus has to help right? Right.

Jim Edmonds
Chad Tracy (10th and 10th)
Coco Crisp (10th and 10th)
Matt Holliday (10th and 8th)
Aubrey Huff (12th and 10th)
Brian Giles
Randy Winn
Michael Bradley
Willy Tavaras (13th and 11th)
Aaron Rowand

I'm not even considering the guys that I didn't put draft positions down for. Coco should be good hitting at the top of the Red Sox lineup. Holliday plays home games at Coors Field so thats worth a couple points. Huff is my homeboy so I always like him. Berkman going to first should give Tavaras the starting job in center, and when he gets on base he can run. Its just getting there thats the issue. Okay these next guys are my sleeperish picks.

Brad Wilkerson (16th and 13th)
Preston Wilson (15th and 18th)
Rocco Baldelli (undrafted and 13th)
Alex Rios (undrafted and 9th)
Austin Kearns (16th and undrafted)
Jeremy Burnitz (undrafted and 18th)
Wily Mo Pena (undrafted and undrafted)
Joey Gathright (undrafted and undrafted)
Jeremy Hermidia (16th and 16th)

Moving from the Nationals lineup into the Rangers one can't hurt, but Wilkerson has some shoulder issues, so there is a risk there. Preston Wilson joins the Astros and I expect him to take full advantage of the Crawford Boxes in left. But that might be my bias again. Baldelli missed all last season, and hes not 100% right now, but if he plays he might be work grabbing with a late pick. Gathright is a freak, hes got speed for days, and with Aubrey Huff potentially moving to third, Delmon Young being sent down to AAA (who I drafted by the way) and Baldelli banged up he might just have a starting job. If he plays, hes gonna steal bases, a lot of them. Hermidia is one of the favorite to challenge for the ROTY in the National League and has been put into the #2 spot hitting in front of Miguel Cabrera and Josh Willingham.

Alrighty, well that takes care of the batting positions. Time to move on to the guys throwing heat.

Starting Pitchers
The key to having a winning team in a head to head pool is having the right balance between hitting and pitching. I've never really mastered that philosophy, in my public pool I went hitting strong and in the 14 man pool I targeted pitching. Last year I went pitching strong in all my pools and had three 2nd place finishes to go along with my one win. Who knows what this year will bring.

Johann Santana (1st and 1st
Pedro Martinez (2nd and 2nd)
Chris Carpenter (2nd and 2nd)
Jake Peavy (3rd and 2nd)
Roy Oswalt (3rd and 2nd)
Roy Halladay (3rd and 2nd)
The Big Unit (5th and 3rd)
Carlos Zambrano (5th and 4th)
Rich Harden (5th and 4th)
Dontrelle Willis (1st and 4th)
Ben Sheets (5th and 5th)
Felix Hernandez (6th and 5th)
Mark Prior (7th and 4th)
Andy Pettitte (7th and 3rd)
Bartolo Colon (7th and 3rd)
Mark Buehrle (4th and 4th)

You'll want to get at least one of these guys (although you'll notice I didn't in my public pool), but you also don't want to be the guy taking Willis in the first round. I love Oswalt and Halladay, The Doc I expect to be dominant and challenge for the Cy Young this year, Oswalt has had back to back 20 win seasons and I hate to say it but he might be due for some DL time. I've got him in my other 2 pools though, and as an Astros fan I'm planning on him being his old dominant self. I'm avoiding Cubs pitchers because they've hurt me in the past so I'm staying away from Zambrano, Prior and Wood. I'm also staying away from The Unit because hes old and hes lost the Mullet Power that made him so dominant.

Brett Myers (8th and 8th)
John Smoltz (9th and 5th)
Brandon Webb (9th and 6th)
Barry Zito (6th and 6th)
John Patterson (9th and 8th)
Jason Schmidt (9th and 4th)
Cliff Lee (5th and 9th)
A.J. Burnett (9th and 5th)
Roger Clemens (10th and 9th)
Curt Schilling (5th and 8th)
Josh Beckett (6th and 5th)
Freddy Garcia (10th and 10th)
Nate Lowry (11th and 10th)
C.C. Sabathia (11th and 10th)
John Garland (8th and 9th)
Doug Davis (11th and 11th)
John Lackey (8th and 7th)
Jose Contreras (11th and 9th)
Danny Haren (10th and 8th)
Mark Mulder (9th and 8th)
Tim Hudson (12th and 11th)

The experts are saying to stay away from the ex-Marlins Burnett and Beckett, and they're probably right. I like A's and ex-A's which is why I've got Haren, Hudson, Harden, and Mulder. Zito isn't a bad option either. In this block of guys I feel like you can just take whoever you like most and the difference maker will probably be health. The Rocket still hasn't commited to the season, and I would avoid him. Other than the A's guys I like Davis and Schmidt, and they would make good options on any rotation.

Kerry Wood (12th and 11th)
Kevin Millwod (12th and 12th)
Matt Cain (13th and 14th)
Zach Duke (13th and 10th)
Jeremy Bonderman (15th and 12th)
Jake Westbrook (15th and 15th)
Aaron Harang (15th and 12th)
Scott Kazmir (14th and 12th)
Francisco Liriano (17th and 20th)
Greg Maddux (20th and 10th)
Josh Towers (21st and 16th)
Jaarod Washburn (17th and 18th)
Kelvim Escobar (undrafted and 19th)
Oliver Perez (21st and 21st)

Wood and Maddux are Cubs so I'm not looking at them. Cain, Kazmir and Duke are all young guys that are expected to have half decent numbers. Bonderman probably shouldn't go as high as he is, but he might be worth it if he drops a couple rounds. If you want one more pitcher in the last two rounds I like taking any combonation of Towers, Perez or Escobar.

Okay, all we've got left now are the relievers. I don't think I have too much to say about these guys so I'll get on with wrapping this thing up.

Relief Pitchers:
You want to have at least one of the top guys, if you can swing two or more you're laughing.

Mariano Rivera (3rd and 3rd)
Brad Lidge (4th and 5th)
Francisco Rodriguez (5th and 5th)
Billy Wagner (6th and 6th)
Joe Nathen (6th and 7th)
B.J. Ryan (6th and 7th)
Huston Street (6th and 7th)
Chad Cordero (7th and 8th)
Eric Gagne (7th and 3rd)
Eddie Guardado (9th and 9th)
Trevor Hoffman (7th and 6th)
Jason Isringhausen (7th and 5th)

If you can get one of those top 4 guys and then add another one like Gagne or Cordero provided you put a decent team together you should be able to handle the pitching stats each week.

Francisco Cordero (8th and 9th)
Derrick Turnbow (7th and 9th)
Brian Fuentes (10th and 12th)
Todd Jones (10th and 12th)
Keith Foulke (12th and 13th)
Bobby Jenks (12th and 11th)
Tom Gordon (13th and 14th)
Armando Benitez (14th and 9th)
Jose Valverde (14th and 11th)
Bob Wickman (12th and 14th)
Ryan Dempster (10th and 11th)
Joe Borowski (14th and 17th)
Mike Gonzalez (14th and 15th)
Dan Wheeler (19th and 19th)
Neal Cotts (undrafted, but picked up and undrafted, but picked up)
Ambiorix Burgos(18th and undrafted, but picked up)

These are your second tier guys, Cotts has jumped off the FA list because Jenks has had trouble in spring training and might lose the closer job. Burgos should have the closing job in KC for at least the start of the season, and if he looks good he might just keep it. Okay I guess I'm just avoiding Cubs starters, because I kinda like Dempster. Wheeler is one of the best non-closing relievers in the league, and if Lidge gets hurt hes the guy to step in. Another guy worth keeping an eye on is Mike Timlin in Boston should Foulke blow it out of the start.

Okay thats all I've got on the players. I'll be back again tomorrow with some more general thoughts on draft stratagy.
- posted by Mike @ 5:45 PM 2 comments

 
Fantasy Baseball Drafting Stratagy (Part 1)
My homeboy Steve-o has a pair of drafts comming up this week so these next couple of posts are mostly for him to use as guidelines to (hopefully) success. Either that or we're both gonna have crappy fantasy seasons. So if there is anyone else reading these that totally disagrees with what I have to say, or has some tips and hints they'd like to share hit em up in the comments.

My plan for today is to run through the infield positions and then go through pitchers and the outfielders tomorrow. The order that players are listed is the same as they appear in Yahoo's rankings just because thats where all these drafts are taking place. The two drafts that I'm using as markers for where players are expected to go are a 14 team private pool and a 12 team public one that I have already drafted in, any time that I meantion draft position it will be public pool first, and bolded numbers indicate my picks. Well, lets get this thing started with the guys behind the plate...

Catchers: My gameplan for catchers has been get Mauer or Martinez or take someone else in the later rounds. No shocker there. Martinez went in the 3rd round of both drafts, while I took Mauer 5th round in both. The other catchers either come off the board earlier then I feel comfortable taking them or I just don't want them.
Javy Lopez (2nd and 6th)
Jason Varitek (4th and 7th)
Ivan Rodriguez (12th and 7th)
Kenji Johijima (14th and 12th)
Jorge Posada (11th and 7th)
Ramon Hernandez (14th and 16th)
Mike Piazza (16th and 16th)

I prefer to pass on those guys and wait on the 3rd tier guys that (usually) come a lot cheaper.

Josh Willingham (17th and 17th)
Benji Molina (14th and 9th)
Michael Barrett (20th and 16th)
A.J. Pierzynski (undrafted and 16th)
Rod Barajas (18th and 20th)
Mike Lieberthal (21st and 19th)
Javier Valentin (undrafted and undrafted)
Brian McCann (21st and undrafted)

Obviously I like Willingham, since I took him twice. But I wouldn't be crying about having Molina (although he went a lot earlier then I thought he should in both drafts), Barajas, Valentin or McCann either.

First Base:
Pujols, Teixeira, Ortiz and Lee are all gone by the 10th pick of the first round at the latest, and they're generally going within one pick of where Yahoo has them ranked. So if your draft position matches one of those guys its a safe pick to snag em. If they're gone or you take someone else with your pick here is the rest of the pack...

The four guys I've got in my second teir to target are
Carlos Delgado (3rd and 3rd)
Lance Berkman (3rd and 4th)
Todd Helton (4th and 3rd)
Paul Konerko (4th and 5th)
Berkman also has OF eligibility which is why I took him and Helton with back to back picks in my public pool. Then comes the 3rd tier...

Ryan Howard (4th and 5th)
Chad Tracy (10th and 10th)
Aubrey Huff (12th and 10th)
Justin Morneau (17th and 12th)
Prince Fielder (18th and 17th)
Lyle Overbay (18th and 14th)

Okay I should probably give Howard more credit, but I just don't trust the guy, or Phillies in general. Huff and Tracy are also both OF eligible so if you get one of the big guns on first they are still worth looking at. Also, Sean Casey is in a contract year, so if you're desperate late he might be worth looking at, he went in the 18th and 13th rounds of my drafts, I wouldn't take him before anyone listed above though.

Second Base:
This is always the hardest position for me to draft. There arn't many top of the game talents so it usually ends up either jumping at someone earlier than I should or waiting til the end and taking some junker. In both pools this year, I jumped early.

Alfonso Soriano (2nd and 2nd)
Chone Figgins (2nd and 3rd)
Chase Utley (3rd and 3rd)
Jeff Kent (3rd and 3rd)
Marcus Giles (6th and 6th)
Jorge Cantu (6th and 7th)
Filipe Lopez (8th and 8th)

Judging by this small sample size I'd say its safe to project where these guys can be expected to be taken. I'm not too big on Giles, but the others are all aight picks. I chose to grab Soriano and Figgins early because I feel like there is enough depth at the other positions to get value later. After those guys I don't have much feel for the rest of the pack at the two bag though, so maybe grab Rickie Weeks (11th and 10th) or someone else, I don't really know. It should also be noted that Figgins can be used at third or the OF, Kent and Utley both can go at 1B, Cantu can play third and Lopez has shortstop eligibilty. If you do end up with one of these guys, you'll want to be using them at second, putting them anywhere else drops their value.

Shortstop:
The middle infield is another tough spot, there is definitly more value then 2B, but the line between talent levels feels fuzzier to me.
Michael Young (1st and 1st)
Miguel Tejada (2nd and 1st)
Jose Reyes (2nd and 2nd)
Jimmy Rollins (4th and 2nd)
Derek Jeter (2nd and 2nd)
Rafael Furcal (4th and 5th)
Jhonny Peralta (8th and 7th)
Filipe Lopez (8th and 8th)

Based on where these guys are going, I'm avoiding Tejada and Furcal...and like I said above you should be using Lopez at second base anyway.

Julio Lugo (11th and 8th)
Edgar Renteria (13th and 5th)
Nomar Garciaparra (12th and 2nd)
Clint Barmes (15th and 11th)
Bobby Crosby (10th and 13th)
David Eckstein (19th and 13th)
Ian Kinsler (20th and undrafted)

I dunno what was going on with Renteria and No-mah going so early in that other pool, but I wouldn't expect that to be the norm. Barmes is the sexy pick for a comeback season after last year's freak injury and I don't mind taking him where hes going. Eckstein is a solid pick in the last 3 rounds, but I wouldn't take him as high as the 13th. Kinsler should have the starting job at second base in Texas so he will end up with dual eligibility and I like taking him late. In fact I just picked him up in that pool he went undrafted in so he can take Figgins' spot because I need to move Delmon Young to my bench...but thats a whole other story.

Third Base:
There are a lot of quality guys you can take here, and there is hardly anyone I'm avoiding.

A-Rod - If he goes anywhere but 1st overall someone fucked up
David Wright (2nd and 1st)
Miguel Cabrera (2nd and 1st)
Chone Figgins (2nd and 3rd)
Aramis Ramirez (4th and 3rd)
Morgan Ensberg (5th and 3rd)
Jorge Cantu (6th and 7th)
Chipper Jones (7th and 6th)
Eric Chavez (8th and 7th)
Troy Glaus (8th and 6th)
Hank Blaylock (8th and 6th)
Scott Rolen (8th and 6th)
Melvin Mora (9th and 10th)
Garrett Atkins (17th and 9th)

You want one of these guys. You also want to be the one starting the run on third basemen not the one taking Atkins in the 9th round like a chump because you were sure at least one of those other guys would make it back to you when you wanted them. If you want to go for a sleeper backup guy try Zimmerman out of Washington. But what do I know, I'm the chump taking Atkins in the 9th. Can you guess which pick I want back yet? Oh and I'm avoiding Chipper because fuck the Braves, thats why.

Aight I'll be back tomorrow with the outfielders and pitchers...actually I guess thats later today now...damn I'm awesome.
- posted by Mike @ 1:49 AM 1 comments

 
Thoughts From The Stands updated

Jeff Bagwell was officially placed on the DL today. As an Astros fan I'm conflicted about his return attempt. For as long as I've watched baseball Bagwell has been the Houston first basemen, hes partly the reason why I wanted to play the position to begin with. I'd love to see him play one more healthy year, especially now that the Astros have been deep in the playoffs, but it looks like it wasn't meant to be. On the plus side this actually helps the Astros lineup, it allows Lance Berkman to move to first base and it solidifies the outfield situation which actually makes Houston a better team. Ahh well, at least Bagwell will be the first Astro into the Hall of Fame.

Stephen Ames won the players championship on the PGA Tour this afternoon. I don't really have anything to say about it, but it definitly got me more pumped up for golf season. Man I can't wait to dust the clubs off.

The Leafs arn't mathematically eliminated from the playoffs yet, but after dropping back to back games with the Canadians its pretty much over. I'm hearing three things from Leaf fans. 1)Belfour needs to go 2)Quinn needs to go 3)Sundin needs to go. I'm with you on two thirds of those demands at least. I would be shocked beyond belief if the Leafs didn't buyout The Eagle after this season. I'm iffier (thats a word, right? right.) about Quinn, I always had his back in other seasons, but this year I think hes lost his mind. Plus, Toronto has Paul Mourice down in the minors who could jump in right away. If Sundin gets shipped out of town, depending what comes in return, it could go down as one of the worst deals ever. Sure Mats has had an awful season, but look at who they're giving him as wingers.

George Mason?! Wow, maddness indeed. Thanks to Florida's win today I think I'm ending up tied with Steve for the win in our NCAA pool. To be honest I haven't watched much of it since the first two days, but the highlights have been solid.

Yawn...

Adam Vinatieri has left the Patriots to sign with the ugh...Colts. I'm not going to get mad at it though, because the Patriots have made the right calls on letting players go that I would have kept around before. So until he kicks a game winner to get the Colts passed New England in the playoffs I'm going to assume this was the right call.

My next few post are going to be all about baseball, so if you don't care what I think about fantasy pools and the comming season you might want to just stay away til about thursday.

Although Steve is due to break his blogging silence one of these days, so you might want to check back for that.

Almost forgot a couple things, I had microwave popcorn last night, and then today I put Lay's ketsup chips in the same bowl. It was all good until I got to the bottom, by that point some of the chips had absorbed the buttery popcorn taste, so they were buttery ketsup chips and it was gross. I'm only posting this so you don't make the same mistake.

Shit...I already forgot what the second thing was that I came back here for. Hmmmm, I'll probably be back again later now.

I knew I'd remember sooner or later, does anyone else have this Desktop Earth thing? It basically updates your background picture to look like what the earth looks like from space at any given moment. At first I thought it was really cool cause I liked the picture and everything, but now its starting to freak me out a little. Have you seen The Chronicles of Riddik? Y'know when they're on that planet with the crazy sun, and they're running to saftey and you can see the light 'chasing' them as it moves across the landscape. Its like that, I'll be working on something and then I'll close a window and the desktop will have updated, all of a sudden the darkness is a lot closer, but I still haven't got much work done...AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT!! Only Vin Diesel isn't here to save me.

- posted by Mike @ 7:49 PM 0 comments

 
No more fun and games
I kinda forgot about the quiz that I gave a while ago, so I never posted the answers (even though only one person took the quiz). So I'm reposting the questions with the answers, and throwing in a couple time killing games that I've been hooked on for the last couple days.

1. Does it matter that Wyclef just got a "fresh new bentley"?
a) Yes
b) No

From the song It Doesn't Matter featuring The Rock:
Wyclef: Hey Rock, I just got a fresh new bentley
The Rock: It doesn't matter if you just bought a fresh bentley!

2. What is the difference between you and Xzibit?
a) About 5 bank accounts
b) 3 Ounces
c) 2 Vehicles
d) All of the above

From the song What's the Difference off of Dr. Dre's 2001 album: "Whats the difference between me and you? About 5 bank accounts, 3 ounces and 2 Vehicles."

3. What does Ludacris have permission to do?
a) Roll on 20's
b) Smoke weed everyday
c) Put your mother in a headlock
d) Get crunked up

The very first line in Luda's Block Lockdown is "I've got permission to put yo' momma in a headlock"

4. According to Black Rob, what are bank accounts like?
a) Whoa!
b) Ragu sauce
c) Phat dollar
d) Cheese factories

This was my trick question, from the song Warrior "Bank accounts like Ragu Sauce, its in there", to the best of mt recolection there is no specific reference to bank accounts in Whoa! or any of its remixes

5. How many levels above you is Puff Daddy?
a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 1

This is from Diddy's intro in the song Victory "you know that I'm two levels above you baby, hug me baby, i'mma make you love me baby"

6. What "must" Redman's first name be?
a) He ain't shit
b) He Hate Me
c) Reggie
d) Doc

In Redman's I'll Bee Dat! he says "My first name must be he ain't shit, cause every time i'm in the car bitches be like 'he ain't shit'"

Aight now, here are a couple games to get you through the day. Bounce Out from yahoo games, my all-time high score is 155,364. Or if you prefer a slower paced puzzle game try out Splash Back, I can't remember my highest level, but I think it was somewhere in the low 20s. If anyone cares to try and beat those records I'll post proof later.
- posted by Mike @ 1:42 PM 0 comments

 
This is stolen property
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 24 and find line 5.
"Blitzed three levels last year, showing speed, power, and good on-base ability. Somewhat overlooked still, meaning he could be a fantasy bargin in many leagues."
Thank you Fantasy Baseball Index 2006. If you're curious that quote is talking about Kevin Melillo, 2nd base prospect for the Oakland A's

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what do you find?
A bunch of crap on my desk. Alarm clock, calculator, half empty bottle of Pepsi, lamp, speaker, pack o' gum, my watch, a grocery recipt and a tub of gummi bears.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.
"Finish this sentence: put me in _______"
"Put me in NOW"
"Okay great, now start this sentence"
"......."

4. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
The wind blowing outside and my iPod, right now its playing New Orleans is Sinking by the Tragically Hip

5. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Yesterday, around 1:30 comming home from class.

6. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Some blogs and my fantasy pools. What do you think of this trade offer: Clint Barmes and Matt Holliday for Jason Bay and Roger Clemens?

7. What are you wearing?
Plaid pajama pants, an old ripped sweatshirt and green boxers. I should go find some socks though cause my feet are cold.

8. Did you dream last night?
Probably. Don't you dream almost everynight, you just don't remember it? I think I heard that somewhere.

9. When did you last laugh?
Reading this blog: "time to make like a baby and head out" I love it.
Update: my sister just messeged with this one "make like a fetus and get up outta this mother"

10. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Just a four month planner. I've got a roll of fun posters that I've been supposed to put up since September. I don't think I'm going to get around to it.

11. Seen anything weird lately?
There was almost a fight in one of my classes yesterday all over reading a journal article. That was kinda weird.

12. What do you think of this quiz?
I think this question should be at the end, and not in the middle so I can give a proper answer. But so far it seems aight.

13. What is the last film you saw?
Land of the Dead. Hilarious, one of the best bad movies I've seen in a while. I'm talking Exit Wounds levels here folks.

14. If you turned a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A new golf bag and maybe a digital camera. Wait, fuck 'maybe' of course I would by it I'm a multi-millionaire now I can buy all the useless shit I want. Oh yeah, and happiness, I would totally buy some happiness.

15. Tell me something about you that I don't know.
It would be helpful if I already knew what you know, y'know? Is there anything you want to know? I had hot dogs for dinner last night, unless there is something you want to know thats all you're getting.

16. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do?
Make myself a multi-millionaire? World peace? Eliminate student debt? Eliminate all debt? Clothing optional? Well if its regardless of guilt that really opens up pandora's box on some crazy shit you could do and get away with right? Fuck it, I'm cutting the earth's population but 75%, if you're reading this I hope you make the cut.

17. Do you like to Dance?
Nope.

18. George Bush.
Thats not even a question, you stupid meme. Stephen Harper.

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Kiddo, or champ, maybe I'll mix in a slugger every once and a while. I just cut the global population by 3/4, I'd be kind of a dick if I just turned around and then had a kid though eh?

20. Imagine your boyfriend is making sweet love to his Xbox 360, what would you do?
My boyfriend huh? Well I guess that could've gone up in that question about what you don't know about me. As long as it was "sweet love" I think I'd be okay with it. If he was "fucking the shit" out of an Xbox there might be a problem. Oh, and Xboxes suck, that is all.

21. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yeah, of course. I'd be pretty narrow minded to say I wouldn't even consider it. I think I'd rather stay somewhere in Canada, but at the very least I would consider moving.

22. What would you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
Whats up buddy? C'mon in.

23. 4 people who must also do this meme in their journal.
You, you, that guy over there and don't think I didn't see you trying to hide in the back, you're sure as fuck doing this thing. And I'm out.
- posted by Mike @ 1:33 PM 0 comments

 
Concert Week
well its been awhile since i've been to a concert, but i've got two this week, or had two. oasis was last night and it was great. liam was as cocky as ever, and got to hear noel yell to the crowd "was that you boooing fatty?". diane got a setlist, which was pretty much the same as last time i saw them. still had a better time thou, since we were on the floor. coldplay is coming up on thursday, i think i'm bringing my camera, since so many people had them at oasis, guess they don't really check. might see some pics on friday.

i'll try to post something funny next time.
- posted by steve @ 11:31 PM 1 comments

 
Everything he sees is something to kill and eat

Alfonso Soriano is a dick. I'm not going to get into this one right now, cause I'm even more angry about something else, but lets just say that Soriano can go fornicate himself with the business end of a shovel and leave it at that for now. I don't even have this guy on any of my fantasy teams.

I love 24, its a great show, but they really pissed me off last week. Okay if you've got it taped and haven't watched it yet, get out of here right now. I'm not kidding, fuck off. Look I'm even doing you the favour of just writing this junk so that your eyes don't mistakenly pickup words in the lines below and ruin anything. See this sentence has absolutely nothing to do with anything, its only here for your benefit. Alright, I'll assume that if you're still with me it won't be a shock to know that Edgar died on 24 two weeks ago. It sucked for him (and Chloe too I guess), but when he died he got the 'silent clock treatment'. Normally at every show break the clock ticks away, with only a couple exceptions reserved for when an emotional scene occurs almost always after a major characters untimely death (once it happened before). Edgar dies, gets the silent clock everything is fine and dandy. Then the next week the show ends with Tony 'Cubs Mug' Almeda getting killed. No silent clock. At first I was super pissed, Tony was my favorite character not named Bauer on that show and it was bad enough that they killed him, but then they disrespected his memory by not giving him the silent clock. This post almost happened right after that episode, but then a better theory was brought up. Of course Tony Almeda would get a silent clock, after all hes one of the few guys that have been there from the begining, so the lack of the silent clock must mean that he didn't die, he just got fucked up again. It was not to be, last night's episode confirmed that Tony is very much dead. Motherfuckers. Thats bullshit right there.

Terrell Owens signed with the Dallas Cowboys the other day, and as much as I hate the Cowboys I hope Drew Bledsoe throws him bombs all season and breaks Peyton Manning's single season record. Because as much as I hate the 'boys Drew is still my hommie.

I don't watch American Idol so I want to know how many people are still left on that show? Why do they still need a 2 hour timeslot? GO AWAY! Stick to your 1 hour slot and let me watch House you fuckers! I haven't seen it for 3 weeks now because of damned singers that no one is going to care about two months from now. Seriously, what happened to that big fat dude from before? Did he die, or did people just stop caring? Man, I'm gonna feel really bad if he actually died...well kinda bad anyway. Other then Kelly Clarkson has anyone from that show gone on to do anything semi-significant? Fuck your cranky black-shirted judge, I want my cranky quick-witted doctor back.

At least LOST is new tomorrow, that should calm me down a little.

I like to post rap lyrics that I find particularily amusing from time to time, but I tend to ignore some of the other stuff, like country. There is some funny shit in country music, and so I'll leave you with this little snippit from one of my new favorite songs:

"Well I was drunk, the day my mom, got out of prison
and I went, to pick her up, in the ray-eyaah-eyain (rain)
but before I, get to the station in my, pickup truck
she got runned over by a damned old traaaay-eyain (train)"

Fuckin' classic.

- posted by Mike @ 6:16 PM 0 comments

 
Party up in here, up in here


I almost missed my party day again, I was sitting here procrastinating from an assignment thinking 'hmmmm, the 20th, there was something about today wasn't there'. Then it hit me, so grab a hat and a sandwich, kick back and lets do this thing.

I don't remember why this site got started, the three of us (yes there are actually 3 people here, the other two are just really good at hide n' go seek) each had our own blogs, but its probably safe to assume it was some kind of procrastination project. I do remember brainstorming for the name of this thing, and I have to say I'm happy we went with 'Bacon Strips' over ideas like 'Suck My Blog' and other titles that were only funny for about 5 minutes. Wait, thats not true because I giggled just now as I wrote 'suck my blog'. Although if we had gone with that just think what kind of picture I would have had to put up there instead of a sandwich. I say we made the right call.

In our first year we've had 220 posts, some of which are actually worth reading. Suprisingly of those 220 only 37 made some kind of meantion about fantasty sports. Yes I actually went through the archives and counted, thats why I throw the most kickass blog parties, pure dedication. Remember those "weekly" Top 5 lists we were supposed to do? Well we ended up with 19 of them, when in theory we should have had 104, guess we kinda dropped the ball on that one. We watch a lot of TV around here and the television shows House and LOST were brought up 16 and 13 times respectivly. Sadly Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers had the same number of meantions as Canada's Golden Boy Chad Kroger with two.

According to our site meter doohickey we had about 5500 hits in our first year, but that also counts the 15 times a day that I check this site so I think that means we really only had something like 25 hits, which is pretty cool to me at least. The two biggest search engine events in our sites history were (not counting people looking for "bacon strips" because thats just too easy) people trying to understand Young Jeezy's 'patty cake, patty cake microwave' lyric and the folks looking for pictures of olympian Tanith Belbin in various stages of undress. I'd like to take a second to personally apologize to those people for not having the content they were looking for. I'd also like to thank Desiree and Jona, Hendo and the H77 Crew, Maine and the ESC for sending people our way because honestly everyone can use more bacon in their lives.

Okay well thats all I had to really say, and I was thinking about being a dick and just kicking you out right here. But don't you hate when a party host starts flicking the lights on and off just because someone puked in their pillow? I know I do, so stick around as long as you like, help yourself to another sandwich and please, don't puke in my pillow. And if you're gonna stay, why don't you check out a few of my favorite posts:
My first 'real' post
Tom's Foul Ball Experience
My Top 20 Movie Quotes
Steve is so angry
I love this picture
This is for the Hulkamaniacs
Our site's longest post
Mike eats a hot dog
Best. Video. Ever.

On that note, we cue the music. Take er easy folks.
- posted by Mike @ 1:31 PM 1 comments

 
Need to kill some time?
"Dad, Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet"
- posted by Mike @ 2:50 PM 0 comments

 
This is what broken looks like








And I'm not sure how much I like NC State's chances against Texas
- posted by Mike @ 12:34 AM 0 comments

 
A New Kind of Maddness
12:00 - I've decided to do a 'live' blog today. I've seen all kinds of things liveblogged before, from the oscars, to that one hit wonder show, to the NHL trade deadline. I always wanted to do one, but anything that I cared enough about I was always too into watching it to bother writing anything. Today I'm sitting in my room randomly working on peer evaluations and stats assignments and all kinds of fun stuff. But I'm really paying more attention to the Maddness on TV right now, and since I know you care what I do all day, I'm gonna fill you in. Sportsnet started their coverage with Jack Armstrong wearing a gigantic leprecaun hat, ahh good times already. So stay tuned, or check back tonight to see when I actually lose interest and quit this thing.

12:13 - One of my buddies just messaged me to make sure I knew I was a clown for picking Syracuse. After one day of games I'm sitting tied for 2nd place in my pool. Or tied for deadlast depending on how you look at it. Yeah there wasn't much of a turnout, Steve is currently winning though. So thats cool, I guess.

12:17 - The Ohio State (2) vs. Davidson (15) game just started, I've got Ohio winning because I don't bet against 1 or 2 seeds in the first round.

12:22 - The score is 10-8 for Davidson, and one guy has all their points (Ian Johnson). The announcers have already proclaimed that Davidson "really plays more like a #2 seed". Just a hunch, but it might still be a little early to make that call. I'd wait till the 2nd highest scorer on a team had more than 0 points.

12:27 - Iowa (3) vs. Northwestern State (14) just started, I've got Iowa, and blogger appears to be having some issues. This might be the shortest liveblog ever.

12:31 - Arizona (8) vs. Wisconsin (9) and Arkansas (8) vs Bucknell (9) both just got underway. I took the two 9 seeds to win, because thats what I do. Speaking of things that I do I just opened a bag of Ruffles Baked Cheddar and Sour Cream chips, you could mix anything with sour cream, throw in on a chip and have a winner on your hands I bet.

1:37 - Okay, blogger kicked me out for a while and some crazy stuff happened in the last hour. Iowa went from being up 18-4 to being tied at 18 after not scoring for over 10 minutes! I didn't think that was possible. Arizona is killing Wisconsin, Bucknell is up by a few points and Davidson is playing Ohio State pretty tough with just under 10 minutes to go in the 2nd half.

1:42 - If someone from Northwestern and someone from Iowa ran full speed into each other I think a Lakers jersey would be formed.

1:47 - I don't even know what to day about this, but if you can watch it all without laughing and/or swearing you're a champ. Seriously, just try to watch it all I dare you.

2:01 - Jack Armstrong just made a 'shout out' to Coors Light, because he shouldn't be drinking water on St. Patrick's Day.

2:03 - Ohio is up 9 with just under 3 minutes to play, unless I curse them right here they should be okay.

2:12 - Ohio just won, Iowa looks like they should make it, Arizona hasn't been worried about anything all game and Bucknell has a 7 point lead with 8 minutes to go. I'd be happy to go 3/4 on the early games.

2:26 - This is why the NCAA tourny is so much fun, Iowa, who looked safe a few minutes ago are doing their best implosion routine and are now up by just 5 with 3 minutes to go.

2:30 - Iowa is up by 1 in the final minute and now they're playing the foul game. Arkansas/Bucknell is a crazy game right now too, they're flipping back and forth more then I do. Its great!

2:37 - WOW! Northwestern just hit a crazy 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left on a scrambled second attempt to win by 1 and upset the #3 seed Iowa. Damn that was maddness indeed. Now Bucknell is up by 2 with 30 seconds to go and are in a timeout.

2:40 - Bucknell just missed 3 consecutive freethrows, Arkansas took the ball down the court and they kicked it around for about 20 seconds with everyone on the court tipping it at least once. Another timeout.

2:44 - Bucknell wins, not very exciting after that Northwestern 3-pointer. I gotta go walk the dog now. Jack Armstrong just said the word "balls" about 65 times in his last 3 sentences.

3:06 - Gerogetown (7) and Northern Iowa (10) is the only game going right now, hopefully Northern Iowa does better than regular Iowa beacuse I've picked them to upset.

3:10 - West Virginia (6) vs. Southern Illinois (11) and Villanova (1) vs. some 16th seed just started. I've got 'nova going to the Final Four and I've got S. Illinois making it out of this round.

3:16 - Shit! I forgot West Virginia had Kevin Pittsnogle. Man, that is an entertaining name. I should go find out who Killingsworth plays for, cause thats my favorite name in the tourny.

3:18 - Marco Killingsworth plays for Indiana, who won yesterday (and I picked), now they get Gonzaga in the 2nd round.

3:20 - Memphis (1) and Oral Roberts (16) just got underway, according to some bald guy if a #1 seed is going to be upset this is the game to see it in. The Colbert Report had something about Oral Roberts starting a 900 foot Jesus on the show the other night, but I forget what it was all about. You'll just have to trust me that it was funny.

3:52 - I've been looking for a clip of the 900 foot Jesus, but the best I can do is some Threat Downs. On an actual basketball note Oral Roberts is up by 3 points with just over 5 minutes to go in the first half.

4:14 - Can someone please explain to me the Mr. Sub commercial where the guy gets into the drawer?

4:25 - About 5 minutes into the 2nd half and Villanova only has 32 points, that seems kinda low for a #1 seed. Gerogetown is up 6 with 4 to play, Memphis is pulling away from the 900 foot Jesus, and West Virginia is up 13 on Southern Illinois. Also, I'm hungry.

4:40 - Georgetown is about to win...unless some maddness happens. Considering I picked Northern Iowa, I'm hopeing for some maddness. The favorites in the other 3 games appear pretty safe at this point.

4:44 - Stupid Georgetown...thats the last time I bet on teams from Iowa. Whats in Iowa anyway?

4:58 - To answer my own question here are some of the things in Iowa: The world's largest bull, tiniest church, oldest Dairy Queen, an "axe murder house", the field of dreams and a pink elephant. Road trip?

5:19 - The ends of those other 3 games wern't very exciting, in fact the anouncers were giving history lessons while I was playing Funky Truck. The next games don't start til 7:10 so I'm going to go clean the bathroom. Jealous of my Saint Patrick's Day yet?

6:31 - Cleanest bathroom in town! I think I'm a little high on cleaning solution now though. Current Pool Standings: Maine - 18, Steve - 17, Me - 15. With 8 games to go tonight even if I go 8 for 8 I'll still be sitting in the basement.

7:29 - UConn (1) vs. Alabama (16), Michigan State (6) vs. George Mason (11), Pittsburgh (5) vs. Kent State (12) and California (7) vs. North Carolina State (10) are all underway now. I took all the favorites except N.C. State.

7:32 - The Guelph Storm is playing the Owen Sound Attack tonight, so I'm probably not going to watch much of these basketball matchups. Plus Las Vegas and Ghost Whisperer are on later too.

7:35 - The 'Irish Count' is up to 3 now, I've seen Jack Armstrong and Chuck Swirsky with the leprecaun hats. I just flipped over to PTI and Tony Kornheiser is in FULL leprecaun gear. I'm talking hat, bow tie and jacket, I can't see his belt but I'm willing to assume its a big gold buckle.

7:42 - PTI came back from commercial and the other guy (Its not Wilbon) has a big green hat on now too (Irish Count: 4)

9:52 - The Guelph Storm played a good game and won 3-1, I flipped over to to the basketball a couple times and UConn had a bit of a scare thrown into them right up until about 5 minutes to go in the game. This is probably a good spot to end this for the night. My heartfelt congratulations to anyone that actually read this whole thing.
- posted by Mike @ 12:01 PM 0 comments

 

- posted by Mike @ 1:42 AM 1 comments

 
Stupid Orange, nothing even rhymes with it
I shoulda stuck to my rule book and bet against the Syracuse Orange in the first round. Instead I decided to pick them to upset Duke and go to the final 4. Yeah my bracket just took a bit of a hit, and lets just say that watching Gonzaga play today didn't instill much confidance in my pick to have them win the whole thing.
- posted by Mike @ 12:11 AM 3 comments

 
I am slowly going crazy...

and this game doesn't help. Its fun, but it might break your brain. Try to beat my highscore anyway. It beats being productive at least.
- posted by Mike @ 6:00 PM 0 comments

 
March Maddness? More like March Insanity!
Hey guess what? I've got another pool you can join! Tournament Pick'em in Yahoo, all you've gotta do is pick the winners. If you've never done one of these before, or if you've never even watched a NCAA game it doesn't matter. From my experience its the person with the least amount of knowledge that always wins these things. Or if you've ever wanted to beat me in a pool so you can talk shit for life, this is probably your best chance because I don't know anything about most of these teams.

Just to help you out, here are some of the ways I make my picks*:

I like to pick the 9th seed over the 8th almost everytime, its the cheapest upset you can find.

I almost always have at least one 12th seed winning the first match.

I like Xavier to win at least one game because they make me think of Professor X.

I always pick Duke to get upset in or before the Elite 8, because fuck Duke thats why.

Gonzaga always makes the Elite 8...usually the Final 4, and I've probably got them winning too.

I hate Wake Forrest because thats where Tim Duncan played and I'll be damned if I have to pick them to win more than 1 round.

I like teams like Marquette and Villanova because their names are fun to say.

If a team has a cool name like Jayhawks or Wolfpack if I have no feeling about a game that can be the difference maker.

Also, teams with names likes Illini or Orange lose points because those names suck.

So if you want in on the 'maddness' the league ID is "74455" and the password is "5555". Then when you go into work or school on monday you can bitch about how busted your bracket is. Thats the beauty of the season. Almost forgot, you've gotta have all your picks made by noon on thursday, so get on it!

*I haven't looked at any of the brackets yet so who knows how my 'rules' will hold up this year

- posted by Mike @ 12:21 PM 2 comments

 
I could be a sportscaster
I watched a ton of TV today, or at least had the television on in the background most of the day. Not much memorable, but I found this little exchange from the Raptors/Pacers game to be rediculous enough that I'm going to become a professional sportscaster just to prove that it can't be that hard.

There is a stoppage in play and the camera shows some guy on stilts in a giant raptor costume bouncing around, obviously about to lose the pants on the costume so hes gotta hold them up while he bounces around. Then they cut back to Chuck Swirsky and Jack Armstrong talking about the Raptor defence, and they say something like "Just like that guy, this Raptors team needs to pull up their pants" then they throw it over to some other sideline reporter. She chimes in with "I just spoke with Sam Mitchell, and he had the same thing to say about the defence" *long pause* "well, not so much pulling up their pants, but he did say they need to talk more to each other and comunicate". Yeah, thats almost the same thing. I dunno, maybe you had to hear it to full appriciate it...it was no "boom goes the dynamite" but it was pretty awful.
- posted by Mike @ 11:15 PM 0 comments

 
Stupid Fucking People!

Y'know when someone does something that is just plain stupid, but instead of it ruining them it fucks with everyone in their group? Man I fucking hate those people! Fuck! Some dickweed almost ruined a project that a group of people have been working on for a month for no reason other then he is just a big stupid fuckhead. Fortunatly for the group I was there to save the day, so that makes me slightly less angry...but not much. I'm outta here, I just needed somewhere to vent, and everyone on my messenger list is either "away" or "busy". I gotta go kick a baby or punch a dog now or something. Motherfucks!
- posted by Mike @ 12:30 AM 0 comments

 
Pop Quiz Hotshot
First things first, today at 3pm was the NHL trade deadline. More trades were made today (25) than in any of the last 4 seasons. However the trades that were made, uh, kinda lacked in the star player department. Names like Bertuzzi, McCabe, Jokinen, Tkachuk and Belfour were being thrown around as potential movers, but all stayed with their clubs. The biggest moves that were made involved the Senators getting Tyler Arnason to play on their 2nd line. Sergi Samsonov heading to Edmonton to add some scoring to the Oiler lineup. Brendan Witt adding to the depth of the Predators defence crew. Keith Carney and Sandish Ozolinsh doing the same for Vancouver and the Rangers respectivly. The biggest trade is probably Mark Recchi waving his no-trade clause to join the Carolina Hurricanes. The only player the Red Wings added to their team today was Cory Cross, Leaf fans might remember him as the defenceman that used to make Aki Berg look good. So needless to say I'm super impressed...even though I said it anyway.

Okay close those books its test time! Every question refers to a specific rap lyric, its multiple choice, but be warned there are probably some tricks in there. Best of luck.

1. Does it matter that Wyclef just got a "fresh new bentley"?
a) Yes
b) No

2. What is the difference between you and Xzibit?
a) About 5 bank accounts
b) 3 Ounces
c) 2 Vehicles
d) All of the above

3. What does Ludacris have permission to do?
a) Roll on 20's
b) Smoke weed everyday
c) Put your mother in a headlock
d) Get crunked up

4. According to Black Rob, what are bank accounts like?
a) Whoa!
b) Ragu sauce
c) Phat dollar
d) Cheese factories

5. How many levels above you is Puff Daddy?
a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 1

6. What "must" Redman's first name be?
a) He ain't shit
b) He Hate Me
c) Reggie
d) Doc

Alright, pens down, pass your tests forward. I'll have you grades back in a day or two.
- posted by Mike @ 10:30 PM 5 comments

 
Comming Attractions
Sometime tomorrow you can look forward to a post with my thoughts on the NHL trade deadline and a quiz about rap lyrics. This post is only here so that I will actually remember to do it. Peace out.
- posted by Mike @ 10:27 PM 0 comments

 
Eva Longoria

I can't say I'm a big Eva Longoria fan, the only part of Desperate Housewives that I catch is usually the end credits right before Grey's Anatomy comes on. Before that she was on some soap operas that I don't watch, and if shes done anything else I either don't know about it or can't think of it right now. Plus shes going out with a San Antonio Spur...ugh. In fact I should hate her based on Tony Parker alone.

But shes quoted in GQ magazine as saying "Jessica Alba, Eva Mendes and Jessica Simpson are my crushes. I have intense love for those women". You can't be mad at someone that has taste that good can you? I think not.
- posted by Mike @ 2:16 PM 4 comments

 
Party Post!!
so this was my first real post on the site:
i'm really starting to hate working in the retail world. i'm helping some guy with looking for a deadbolt today. he's looking for the style that just fits onto the back of the door, so i show him the only type that we carry. he's trying to replace the one that is already there (which he did not bring) so he asks to cut open the package to take a look. so instead of argueing i cut it open and show him. he says great thats the one and then starts to take 2 new packages. i tell him he'll have to take the one that i opened FOR HIM. he reluctantly agrees, and puts one back and then informs me that no he can't take that one, because its for a customer and he needs to sealed ones, so he procedes to take to new ones and walks away. WTF! now i'm stuck with this stupid open package that no one will wanna buy.
i dunno why i wrote all that, i guess i'm just bored and people can be stupid.

well somethings never change, work still sucks. i don't really have anything to say at the moment, but i figured i'd better post or i'd get in trouble. i'll try to come up with something better for tomorrow.
- posted by steve @ 2:18 PM 1 comments

 
Shit, We Missed the Party...kinda
So yesterday this site turned 1 year old, and we totally missed it. We coulda had cake* and soda pop...damnit. We coulda worn those pointy party hats...shit. I feel like Will Ferrell in Old School when he forgets his own birthday...fuckbeans. Although if I wanted to cheat (which I do) we could have three parties in honour of our three members first 'real' post. So today we've actually got Steve's party to do. Tomorrow we can rock out for Tom. Then on the 20th I get my party. Holy shit I went 20 days before I made a post that was more than a couple lines. Man I was a shitty blogger back in the day eh? Not that I'm any good now, but I was like Matt Lawton back there (seriously read some of the shit I put on here, its painful), now I'm more like Rocco Baldelli. There is obvious potential, but its still a risky venture.

What, you don't like the Lawton and Baldelli references? Then you're clearly not ready for baseball season to start...and thats just unfortunate.

One of these days I'll do a proper one year review. It'll be fun (for me at least), I'll bring the pointy hats and some good music, because if there if one thing I have learned in the last year its that I listen to great fucking music. We can look back at the year that was, and maybe have some smores or something. First I'm gonna have to get some invitations made up.

*At least we've got some pie over there under Rachel Bilson, but we ran out of plates so you'll have to eat it off of Lee's face.
- posted by Mike @ 3:59 AM 3 comments