Odds and Ends from a Slacking Blogger
Seriously, you'd think a blog with three authors would be able to punch out more than 10 posts in a month. We're gonna have to kick it into overdrive if we want to hit double digits this month. Of course when I say "we" I really mean me. I've gotta throw this blog on my back like Ludacris did with the Def Jam label. Shit, am I going to have to grow a monster 'fro now too? Well I've got a few things to throw at this blog today, and despite being only 30 days from Christmas this post is going to be heavy on my baseball thoughts.
Justin Morneau is your American League MVP. Coming up to the vote a lot of sports folk were saying that this would be the year that Derek Jeter would take down the trophy. I can't even find the right adjective to describe how happy I am that he lost. I don't even have any problems with Jeter, he's probably the only Yankee that I don't hate. But there is no way he was more valuable to the Yanks then Morneau was to the Twins. Not even close.
Morneau winning the MLB MVP award also gave Canada the Most Valuable Player trifecta, joining the NHL's Joe Thornton and the NBA's Steve Nash. Now if we could just get a Canadian into the NFL. Well one that wasn't a gigantic choke artist/douchebag at least. A Canadian winning the Hart Trophy isn't much of a shock considering that the NHL is probably about 50% Canadian content. But I'd be willing to bet that there are less than 30 Canadians starting for their respective teams in the NBA and MLB combined. Hell, 30 is too hard, I'll say 15. Someone prove me wrong. Please.
The free agent signing this baseball offseason are fucking rediculous. I don't even want to talk about it.
OJ Simpson's book If I Did It and his television interview have been scrapped due to the public outcry and FOX suddenly having some kind of morals. I was in elementary school when this trial was going on, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that to this day I could still talk somewhat intelligently about the trial's detatils. I can't be the only one right? That shit was all over the media, Judge Ito, Mark Furrman, the leather gloves, the air conditioning unit he ran into (allegedly) and the Ford Bronco. My point is, what could have been in this book that hasn't allready been assumed and reported on? I would've been more interested in reading a book called 'If I Did It' and OJ talking about some other crime that he has never been related to. Like 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: If I Did It', I don't care about how you would have commited a crime that you're already suspected of commiting, I wanna know how you'd plan to get away with different crimes. Or maybe how some other celebrities would get away with the crime that OJ (allegedly) commited. Wouldn't you rather read about how Kelly 'Jack the' Ripa would have done it?
I've heard a couple reports that Vince Carter is considering a return to the Raptors after this season. I hate the guy, but I think it would be a great move for the team. I also think that the fans would for the most part be supportive. That is of course until the first time he gets hurt, or it appears that he wasn't giving 100% in a game. Then it'll all come flooding back and it'll get ugly. I still think if the reports are true that it's worth the risk. A team with CB4, Air Canada and The Little Engine (That's T.J. Ford's nickname apparently) would be pretty solid in a weak Eastern Conference.
Oh and how about that Michael Richards? He's racist, he's not racist, whatever-thefuck-ever. I think most people are missing the main point here. He's a brutal standup comic. He lost his fucking mind over a couple of hecklers...at a comedy club. Thats half of what standup comedy is about. I think he should've gone with the standard self check-in to a rehab centre and blamed it on some banned substance instead of that awkward forced 'apology' on Letterman.
Rap Lyric o' the Day: "I'm just a victim of society, it's Chris The Menace. Got more shit out on the streets then evicted tennants."
Did you get your PS3 or Wii yet? Did you get shot trying to get one? Who needs first person shooters anyway right? If it's not the rap music it's the video games making all these kids coo-coo in the coconuts. But did you see any of the news footage of the scraps over the game consoles? There are some middleaged homies dropping 'bows on each other at the enterance to Best Buy. And how much must it suck to be working in the electronics department of your local stores right now? If you're not dodging bullits when you open the doors you're baracading yourself in the office til the army comes in to save you when the angered mob realizes that you don't have enough systems to support them all.
On that note I'm gonna make like a fetus and get up outta this mutha.
