Keep on Keepin' on

Sorry for another long stretch without any blog posts but sometimes i just don't care. However I'll try to keep the streak going a little longer this time but i can't make any guarantees. Now, a few momentous occasions occurred to me recently. First i celebrated my fifteenth birthday part last week. I had my party on Saturday and invited a few friends over. it was pretty cool. i played 2 on 3 with the worst player on my team to 50 and we lost 50-44 with me scoring a game-high 42. Did I mention that we were playing by 1s and 2s. Its alright though i think i made my point well enough. We also played a little 2 on 2 baseball, and naturally, i was the only one to hit a home run. Happy Birthday to me! For my birthday i got lots of money and an XBox 360 with 4 games: Guitar hero II, Call of Duty 3, NBA Live 07, and MLB 2K7.

I realized today that there are 10 days of school left. So that's nice. also brightening my day is that 4 of those 10 are half days. I still have to do all my final exams though so there's still some work to be done.

In other areas of interest my fantasy team keeps chugging along, comfortably in first place. I have a 7-0-1 record and im probably going to get my eighth win this week unless everyone dies on my team. However, i do have a problem. my team is too talented. I have 12 playes that would undoubtedly start on any other team, but only 10 starting positions. Let me show you:

C:Victor Martinez
1B:Ryan Howard
2B:Chase Utley
3B:Miguel Cabrera
SS:Jose Reyes
OF:Vlad Guerrero
OF:Grady Sizemore
OF:Alfonso Soriano
DH:David Ortiz
UT:David Wright
BE:Carlos Beltran
BE:Jimmy Rollins
BE:Robbie Cano
DL:Joe Mauer

as you can see ill be in even more trouble when Joe Mauer comes back. Now i have been considering a few options and I have come up with these:

1.Trade Howard and Ortiz for Pujols and Sheffield: This would give me the best player in fantasy and allow me to start Beltran. Basically trading Ortiz and Howard for Pujols and Beltran if you look at in terms of starting players.

2.use some of my big pieces to acquire Johan Santana: But after Sizemore, Bedard and Chris Young was denied i have pretty much lost hope.

3.Keep my players and stay with the most powerful bench every built and still probably win the league.

I'll keep y'all posted on what happens.

I've seen the new 'Pirates' twice already, once with some friends and once with my family. I think it was really good. I wont give up important plot points yet.

I thought that this was the best one so far. That is my humble opinion but it is what i believe. Jack is at his greatest and the return of Barbossa and an appearance by keith richards make it stand above the other two.

Ah the NBA playoffs where have you gone. I used to follow you religiously. However, now that The perennially bland pistons and Spurs are going extremely deep every year it has become more and more boring. The only thing that is keeping me from ignoring them entirely is LeBron james. Of course, i am not alone in this. however, I vow right here that i will not watch one second of the NBA Finals if it is anothe Spurs-Pistons Series. I love basketball but i just can't watch that.

More exciting (in a bad way) news coming from the NBA is Kobe Bryant's demand for a trade and subsequent retraction of that request a mere 3 hours later. I hope the lakers understand that kobe has never been this frustrated and needs for them to make some impact moves NOW. Starting with getting rid of the cupcake and getting back Jerry West. I also want Kidd. i wouldn't mind garnett either but i think Kevin McHale would rather have an 0-82 season than trade one of the best players in the NBA to the team he so completely hated during the 80s.

I thought that one of the strangest sequences i had ever seen happened in the 12th inning of a Giants- Mets game when Armando benitez balked Twice to allow Jose Reyes to score the tying run and the allow Carlos Delgado to hit the walkoff right after. FYI Benitez got traded to the Marlins today so he'll probably have a lot more meetings with the Mets this season.

I'll leave you with a bit of national pride...

another great commercial

Television Commercials

Most comercial on Tv are garbage, but some are worth watching. I have decided that the top three are Skittles, Mountain Dew and Bud Light. This, of course does not include any judging from super bowl weekend. So here is a small sampling of these commercials with updates over time to be added.

Im Baaack...

well I'm sorry for the long layoff between posts... but i just didn't care. But I'm coming back with a vengeance.I probably wont post everyday though.

WARNING:Fantasy baseball material contained below

So, my genius plan for my fantasy baseball team faied when the guy ahead of me took Santana. But, i think i compensated very well and drafted and traded my way to becoming the best team in my league. Take a look:

C:Joe Mauer
1B:Ryan Howard
2B:Chase Utley
3B:Miguel Cabrera
SS:Jimmy Rollins
OF:Vladimir Guerrero
OF:Grady Sizemore
OF:Alfonso Soriano
DH:David Ortiz
UTIL:Justin Morneau
BE:Matt Holliday
BE:Garrett Atkins
BE:Rafael Furcal
SP:Carlos Zambrano
SP:John Lackey
SP:Scott Kazmir
SP:Felix Hernandez
SP:Rich Harden
SP:Erik Bedard
SP:Chris Young
SP:Cole Hamels
SP:Jered Weaver
SP:Scott Olsen
SP:Tim Lincecum
SP:Chris Sampson
RP:Jonothan Papelbon
RP:Huston Street

Now, In case you're wondering how i managed to get such an incredibly talented team then ill just say this: i manage my team like Isiah Thomas on Speed. I do around two to three trades a week. Thats why only ten of my 26 players were originally on my team, and one of those (Chris Young) was just recently reacquired. I have my share of robberies along with my share of bad breaks but with the quantity of trades i make i end up improving my team a whole lot. I have slowed down considerably recently but im probably not done trading just yet. As my team is soon to be 5-0 facing off with my one true competitor in my H2H league next week its an exciting time to be the manager of Sandy's Squad.

They had the best of '06/'07 SNL show yesterday but i was dissapointed that they left out the Hugh Laurie show from 10/28/06 which in my opinion was the best of the season.

It had four or five skits that were up there with the best of them this season. Well, i hope i dont lose interest as quickly as last time...

Sandy, simply the best...

GRRRR!!!!!!!!

I had a really long and elaborate blog about Borat, Dwayne Wade, and 24... but the computer got stupid and shut down Explorer before i could save it so... I lost it. So instead of staying up to retype it all again... I'll just talk about these topics later and just post a game up and leave it at that.







686:09:37:41 till he leaves finally...

iTunes, USC-UNC and Chain E-Mails

iTunes is getting me angry, It doesn't have AC/DC, it doesn't have the Beatles, it doesn't have a lot of great classics. It doesn't even have what is probably 2Pac's best song, Changes. (see below). It also has a long history of putting the best songs from movie soundtracks as "album only" forcing anyone who wants to buy the song to buy the whole album. (examples: It's hard out there for a pimp [Hustle and Flow], and A Dream [Freedom writers]) The program is a great partner to the iPod. THese problems cause people to look for other alternatives to attaining the music. This causes Illegal Activities and losses of profits. I hope iTunes fixes this problem soon... If it doesn't fix these too than the peoples need to attain classics will force their hand. I, mself don't plan on doing anything, but I sm sure that these activities by the company has caused some activity on the wrong side of the law.

I just finished reading the book "Everything Bad is Good for You" by Steven Johnson. It is About how today's pop culture isn't going the tubes like so many people claim. It explains how it is getting more complicated and challinging to the Brain than the same culture from 10 or 20 years. It has whole sections on how Video Games, Movies, Television and the Internet have contributed into making todays pop culture more mentally challenging and sophisticated. He makes several valid points and backs them up with good evidence mixed together with great anecdotes and wisecracks. You should read this book.

The North Carolina Tar Heels swept the Duke Blue Devils today. That is always a great addition to a day. Since a very long time i have always loved following UNC Basketball. That in no way takes away from my Love of USC. When they play I hope Usc beats them up and down the court. But whenever they play teams like Duke I root for UNC. I picked UNC in 2005 and I want them to lose to USC in the Final Four this year. (I can dream right...)Anyways, if anything, UNC would be second in my list of favorite Colleges in the terms of Division 1 Sports. It is a distant second though. Anyways, They beat duke again. They did not come out unscathed, but that just adds to the lore of the Duke-UNC rivalry. I'm not sure what makes me like UNC so much. Maybe its the classy baby blue uniforms. Maybe its the rich history in its rivalry against Duke, In the moments that have passed through its gym and its position in the History of Basketball itself. Maybe its Dean Smith, Sam Perkins, James Worthy, Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Phil Ford and some guy by the name of Michael Jordan. IT probably is a combination of all of those.

When I heard that Free-Agent Ahman Green signed with the Houston Texans, I was shocked I was entirely sure that he would re-sign with the Pack. However, that is not what happened. I hope the Packers do the right thing and draft Marshawn Lynch if he is mercifully available when they come up to draft. It was him or Dwayne Jarrett even before this happened but if they don't draft him, or manage to pull off a miracle to get adrian Peterson i will be utterly surprised. Green put together a pretty productive season in '06 while most of the country was hypnotized by the artistry of LaDanian Tomlinson. He didn't come close to LT but, nevertheless, He had a good season. I hope we can get similar production from Lynch or whomever we manage to get.

We saw a great showdown today in the NBA. After my Lakers lost to the Suns. (Big Surprise!!!) There was a scoring duel between Ben Gordon of the Bulls and Michael Redd of the Bucks. Gordon had 48 points while Redd had 52. Gordon came out with the win, but it provided a great show. It sounded like a great game. Gordon had a career high, he is going to keep getting better. He is leading the bulls in scoring, from the BENCH! If he doesn't win the sixth man of the year award there is something wrong with the system. His jumpshot is a thing of beauty. This guy is definitely up there with Kobe as one of the best Fourth quarter closers in the game. Of course Michael Redd is a rising star too. He should have been in the all-star game this year but got robbed by the coaches. His team is one of the worst this year (This because of an Injury bug that has plauged it all season.) but he just keeps on scoring and competing every night, displaying one of the best shooting strokes in the NBA today.

One of the biggest curses upon this earth are chain e-mails They are annoying as hell and should be illegal. They waste Inbox space. Most are just people that have nothing else to do so they just make a chain e-mail to see how many people it gets to. Its just their way to spend time. A smaller group of them can be threatening to the health of your computer. I didn't have any strong feelings on the subject until my sister Sara started flooding my Inbox. It got on my nerves and since then I have been campaigning to make it a Felony to create and forward Chain E-mails. It hasn't worked but I'll keep trying.

Juan Pablo Montoya won his first race in American stock Car Racing...in Mexico. It was in NASCAR's Busch Series. He won by spinning his own teammate in the 72nd Lap. It was not exactly the Daytona 500, but his reckless and fun driving was a sign of future things to come for the colombian (yeah Baby!) driver. keep an eye on him... He's gonna be good.

"Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight. Why am I trying to see when there aint nothing in sight. Why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try. Why am I dying to live, If I'm just living to die." -Tupac-

687:10:20:15 till bush is out.