...wner
Homeowner. That's what I meant to say. Stop being immature.
So yes, at 2:00 today Hot Mary and I will commence signing paperwork that will ensure that we will be in debt for the next couple decades. We may not have money to eat or throw at strippers but we will have a roof over our heads that we can call our own. Looks like someone needs to get himself a lawnmower and a couple illegal immigrants.
By the way, my interneting has been reduced lately as I try to make myself a much more efficient employee. That leaves little time for blogging and other useless garbage like that so I'll do a quick roundup on some of the other events going.
-I am quickly making myself become "Scotch guy". Not quite sure when this happened but there are a few liquors out there that I've never tried and scotch is the first one that I've delved in to. When I was in college my liquor intake was limited to vodka, whiskey, whatever it is they dump in a long island iced tea, and a couple stints with tequila. So i really wanted to give scotch and brandy a try. Scotch is good, i like it. The buzz it gives you comes with a lot of fuzzy warmth. Now my intake for the most part has been limited to super cheap brands like Old Smuggler, but good buddy Matt recently bought me some good stuff for my birthday and I can't wait to give it a try. The first step in my efforts to become just like Ron Burgundy is now complete. I must now go about acquiring many leather bound books.
-Next up, the NFL draft was last night, and I was pleased with what the Skins did with their #1 pick by selecting Oklahoma Offensive Tackle, Trent Williams. The only thing that would have been better would have been if they somehow managed to trade down and get some more picks as well as trading both Albert Haynesworth and Jason Campbell for picks. I definitely had my concerns that the Redskins would pull some crazy shenanigans and draft Tebow or something but this is good. The team that takes the field this year will definitely be different that what I am used to seeing. That has to be a good thing, right?
By the way, the draft coverage today has been awful. You'd think that Tim Tebow was the only selection last night. There is literally no talk of anything else. Tim Tebow Tim Tebow Tim Tebow... and what it means for Brady Quinn. Awesome. I'm not at all tired of hearing about Tebow. Keep it coming. Asses. All of you.
What else...
-My fantasy team is playing like garbage. No thanks to awful performances from my closers. Every time that my starting pitchers manage to put together a somewhat respectable job one of the closers comes along and allows 3 runs in an inning, thus ruining my ratios, taking a loss, and not giving me a save. Dan Haren and Josh Beckett are doing the exact opposite of what you expect from an ace. Granted, we're not even 3 weeks in to the season but it still sucks. Meh.
-So have you heard of this new sandwich from KFC called the Double Down? It's two pieces of fried chicken as the bread with cheese and bacon in the middle. I have to admit that I did go and try it and let me just say this: all hype. What could be better right? I love chicken. I love bacon. I love cheese. Sounds like a slam dunk. Wrong. It was ok, but it cost something like 6 bucks and all I could taste was sodium. KFC also had some secret sauce on that thing that was kind of nasty. I don't know what I expected but I figured I should try it as soon as it came out because otherwise I'd be wondering about it all the time. Now I got it out of the way and I can live happily ever after.
-Lost is an awesome show and I'll miss it when it's gone.
That's all for now I think. My heart isn't really in to the blogging this morning since all I can think of is what needs to be done with the house. So have a good weekend people. And lets get this shit done Red Wings!
Friday, April 23, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Nukular stupidity
Oy! I can't take it! Short and sweet. Obama recently signed a treaty with Russian president Sergei Fedorov that will get the ball rolling on ending the presence of nuclear weapons. Now commence over-reaction from conservative pundits.
Hannity, Buchanan, Scarborough, Palin, Bachmann, Savage, Gingrich.... it's almost like they all received the same marching orders to go apeshit and announce that Obama has neutered the country. The way they are spinning it is that he has ordered the destruction of all nuclear arms. That is what they are telling everybody. These fucks are shamelessly running around like chickens with their heads cut off declaring that we are now defenseless. Oh where is Ronald Reagan to save us all!
Now to the truth. Short and simple. We are reducing our nuclear arms to a level of over a thousand. We are still able to use nuclear force against countries not signing on to this treaty. We can only use nuclear weapons against countries that have nuclear weapons. That pretty much sums up everything.
Jon Stewart does what he does here, pointing out the fact that these people are misleading:
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The best part of that clip would perhaps be Reagan declaring that he would like the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons. I can not get over how the same schmucks that repeat how we need to return to Reagan conservatism would be the first to declare Reagan a RINO if he were president today. It's hilarious.
On the way home from the awesomeness on Tipp Hill last night I found Mike Savage on the radio and listened in since all three of the sports stations were talking golf. ZOMG!! Tiger Woods is playing golf again! Anyway, I kind of like Savage. He seems sincere in his beliefs. Hannity I find to be the most sleazy scumbag to walk the earth, O'Reilly seems mostly senile and tries to pretend too much at being reasonable, Beck is a manipulative scare-mongerer, and Rush is a fuck; but Savage seems to be tolerable. That might seem odd as he is easily the most insane of the flock of pundits but at least when he speaks I believe him. Last night, however, he was just being stupid.
He was discussing this treaty and concluded that Obama signed it because he thinks that Obama wants us to get bombed by other countries. Seriously. He then played a clip from the speech where Obama says that he wants to make progress towards a nuclear free world. Savage then stopped the tape and went on for 5 minutes that when Obama said "progress" he was sending a secret message that would signal to all the communist progressives that he was working towards the goal of leaving us defenseless. It was kind of crazy. Almost like in movies where they used to flash some food on one section of film and all of a sudden you're all like "damn, i want some fucking junior mints". Like I said, Savage is a bit nuts.
I should be used to it at this point but it becomes more evident every day that conservatives are waging a massive misinformation war on Obama that does nothing but manipulate and mislead their viewers. It's disgusting that issues important to our lives would be turned in to a game for these ass hats but I really don't know what else I would expect.
I applaud Obama in his efforts to end the role of nuclear weapons. Reagan would applaud Obama in his efforts as well. In fact, we all should applaud him. He is not leaving us defenseless. We still have multiple nukes left for each country if need be. It's another step in a long journey since the Cold War and the opponents of this action are either ignorant or self-serving. Either one is a fucking shame.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Stand up and be counted... or not
Lately there's been too much stupid going on in politics in the wake of the health care debate for me to sort it out. Combine that with a rise of many exciting sports happenings and all the political noise quietly takes a back seat. Lately though I've been hearing some really really idiotic bickering about the friggin census. The census? That's right. The census.
Only in today's political retard-ery can you find seemingly normal Americans arguing about the census. I'm not quite sure how the whole debate began but it seems to me that someone on the right started spreading the idea that the census was a tool of the Obama administration used to keep track of everybody in an evil Big Brother sort of way. Michelle Bachmann and others like herself have also been pushing the idea that participating in the census would somehow allow the Obama administration to round everyone up and stick them in internment camps like we did with Japanese-Americans during World War II. Michelle Bachman is also a crazy person.
What is it that could drive seemingly normal people to become this paranoid? The current mindset of the most vocal opposition of Obama seems to take every single piece of propaganda and treat it like gods-honest gospel. We are less than halfway through one term of Obama's presidency and I have heard just about every accusation that you could make of a man. There is no interest in anyone educating themselves. It's simply a daily process of people listening/ reading/ watching hour after hour of political punditry and then repeating it ad nauseum to anyone who will listen. It's an all too frequent event where I hear conservative individuals all use the same phrases and talking points almost the exact same day.
These people were the same that caused an uproar that Obama was going to indoctrinate our children when he addressed schools last year. It's a shame they have no idea they are allowing themselves to be indoctrinated for hours every single day.
You know the people. We have a local radio guy who comes on after Rush and Beck who actually has a level head. He will say something on the show about how the propaganda du jour is ridiculous and all of a sudden a flood of phone calls come in from all the sheep. They'll say "It's true that blah blah blah". He'll respond, "Ok, why?" and these people have literally no answer other than, "Well Rush said...", or, "Don't you think Obama wants this country to fall apart", and absolutely nothing to back it up. When pushed further they start sputtering nonsense and start calling the host a liberal and it just descends from there. That's right, because if you have no idea what you are talking about then the host must be a liberal.
These ideas are easily picked up through rote learning but it does absolutely nothing for your critical thinking.
As opposed to several other essays in stupidity, I actually want these people to continue believing this horseshit about the census. When Eric Erickson from Redstate and CNN says he is going to shoot a census worker, just let him talk like that. The best thing about this is that the more these people refuse to complete the census it simply means that their district will be counted less in upcoming elections. That's the beauty in this whole hot mess of dumb. These people are allowing their own nonsense to render them irrelevant. It'll be awfully hard for them to "take their country back" if this keeps up, don't you think?
Only in today's political retard-ery can you find seemingly normal Americans arguing about the census. I'm not quite sure how the whole debate began but it seems to me that someone on the right started spreading the idea that the census was a tool of the Obama administration used to keep track of everybody in an evil Big Brother sort of way. Michelle Bachmann and others like herself have also been pushing the idea that participating in the census would somehow allow the Obama administration to round everyone up and stick them in internment camps like we did with Japanese-Americans during World War II. Michelle Bachman is also a crazy person.
What is it that could drive seemingly normal people to become this paranoid? The current mindset of the most vocal opposition of Obama seems to take every single piece of propaganda and treat it like gods-honest gospel. We are less than halfway through one term of Obama's presidency and I have heard just about every accusation that you could make of a man. There is no interest in anyone educating themselves. It's simply a daily process of people listening/ reading/ watching hour after hour of political punditry and then repeating it ad nauseum to anyone who will listen. It's an all too frequent event where I hear conservative individuals all use the same phrases and talking points almost the exact same day.
These people were the same that caused an uproar that Obama was going to indoctrinate our children when he addressed schools last year. It's a shame they have no idea they are allowing themselves to be indoctrinated for hours every single day.
You know the people. We have a local radio guy who comes on after Rush and Beck who actually has a level head. He will say something on the show about how the propaganda du jour is ridiculous and all of a sudden a flood of phone calls come in from all the sheep. They'll say "It's true that blah blah blah". He'll respond, "Ok, why?" and these people have literally no answer other than, "Well Rush said...", or, "Don't you think Obama wants this country to fall apart", and absolutely nothing to back it up. When pushed further they start sputtering nonsense and start calling the host a liberal and it just descends from there. That's right, because if you have no idea what you are talking about then the host must be a liberal.
These ideas are easily picked up through rote learning but it does absolutely nothing for your critical thinking.
As opposed to several other essays in stupidity, I actually want these people to continue believing this horseshit about the census. When Eric Erickson from Redstate and CNN says he is going to shoot a census worker, just let him talk like that. The best thing about this is that the more these people refuse to complete the census it simply means that their district will be counted less in upcoming elections. That's the beauty in this whole hot mess of dumb. These people are allowing their own nonsense to render them irrelevant. It'll be awfully hard for them to "take their country back" if this keeps up, don't you think?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Overreactions for Opening Day
My team is off to a mediocre start. I was sitting on a fine batting average last night but I woke up to find out that Denard Span and Bobby Abreu combined to go 0/9 with 3 Ks. That was less than impressive. Panic mode!
Anyway, at catcher I may have a situation. I already knew that Napoli would lose playing time to Jeff Mathis but I didn't think Mathis would get the first start. On top of that the guy went yard. Luckily, I may have unearthed a gem as I am drawing on the strategy that got me Sandoval as a catcher last year by playing Pittsburgh first baseman Jeff Clement. I guess Yahoo is basing is position eligibility on two years ago (last time he played in the majors) when he was a back up catcher in Seattle. I'm not saying that Clement is Sandoval by any means but getting a full time position player to play in your catcher slot is a definite advantage. However, Clement's success in the minors hasn't quite stuck in the majors so far. There's a reason why I was able to pick him up since I realized I wouldn't have to waste a draft pick on him: No one else wanted him. We'll see how this experiment goes.
My temporary fill-in until Berkman returns from the DL may end up staying on the team. I grabbed Konerko and he immediately responded with a home run and two walks. Not too shabby. He most likely won't touch 30 homers ever again but he isn't a bad temp at all. As a matter of fact, he's currently on pace for about 160 dingers. I'm going to ride that out and see what happens.
My second base job temporarily belongs to Scott Sizemore who went hitless last night but did pick up a walk and a run. He is getting some early predictions for AL ROTY but I'm most likely going to cut him as soon as Gorden Beckham gets 2B eligibility which should happen by the end of the week. Beckham had a decent debut as the White Sox second baseman by picking up a couple hits.
The Yankee combo of third and short did ok in the shootout against Boston. A-Rod didn't do to much but Jeter did get me a steal.
My outfield... ugh. Hitless. All three of them. Ellsbury, Abreu, and Span. That's two lead off guys and a guy who bats second. 0/14. I should cut them all.
Pitching was... ugly. Beckett got beat up by the Yanks Sunday night but he also signed a flashy new contract. Haren put in a solid performance yesterday, but my numbers for the day were awful thanks to three of my five closers getting roughed up. Jason Frasor responded to getting named as the Toronto closer by getting absolutely destroyed and Franklin allowed a couple runs himself in a non-save situation.
What does all this mean? Well, it's opening day... so... nothing. The fantasy gurus are all invoking the name of Tuffy Rhodes as a means of reminding fantasy players not to get all worked up over opening day statistics. Rhodes is a a guy who, back in 1994, hit 3 homers off of Dwight Gooden on opening day. He then proceeded to hit 5 more for his career.
Good lesson to learn. However I am still trying to trade away my pitching staff so it apparently hasn't sunk in to my think skull yet. If you aren't overreacting then you aren't trying. That's my motto.
Anyway, at catcher I may have a situation. I already knew that Napoli would lose playing time to Jeff Mathis but I didn't think Mathis would get the first start. On top of that the guy went yard. Luckily, I may have unearthed a gem as I am drawing on the strategy that got me Sandoval as a catcher last year by playing Pittsburgh first baseman Jeff Clement. I guess Yahoo is basing is position eligibility on two years ago (last time he played in the majors) when he was a back up catcher in Seattle. I'm not saying that Clement is Sandoval by any means but getting a full time position player to play in your catcher slot is a definite advantage. However, Clement's success in the minors hasn't quite stuck in the majors so far. There's a reason why I was able to pick him up since I realized I wouldn't have to waste a draft pick on him: No one else wanted him. We'll see how this experiment goes.
My temporary fill-in until Berkman returns from the DL may end up staying on the team. I grabbed Konerko and he immediately responded with a home run and two walks. Not too shabby. He most likely won't touch 30 homers ever again but he isn't a bad temp at all. As a matter of fact, he's currently on pace for about 160 dingers. I'm going to ride that out and see what happens.
My second base job temporarily belongs to Scott Sizemore who went hitless last night but did pick up a walk and a run. He is getting some early predictions for AL ROTY but I'm most likely going to cut him as soon as Gorden Beckham gets 2B eligibility which should happen by the end of the week. Beckham had a decent debut as the White Sox second baseman by picking up a couple hits.
The Yankee combo of third and short did ok in the shootout against Boston. A-Rod didn't do to much but Jeter did get me a steal.
My outfield... ugh. Hitless. All three of them. Ellsbury, Abreu, and Span. That's two lead off guys and a guy who bats second. 0/14. I should cut them all.
Pitching was... ugly. Beckett got beat up by the Yanks Sunday night but he also signed a flashy new contract. Haren put in a solid performance yesterday, but my numbers for the day were awful thanks to three of my five closers getting roughed up. Jason Frasor responded to getting named as the Toronto closer by getting absolutely destroyed and Franklin allowed a couple runs himself in a non-save situation.
What does all this mean? Well, it's opening day... so... nothing. The fantasy gurus are all invoking the name of Tuffy Rhodes as a means of reminding fantasy players not to get all worked up over opening day statistics. Rhodes is a a guy who, back in 1994, hit 3 homers off of Dwight Gooden on opening day. He then proceeded to hit 5 more for his career.
Good lesson to learn. However I am still trying to trade away my pitching staff so it apparently hasn't sunk in to my think skull yet. If you aren't overreacting then you aren't trying. That's my motto.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Nothing says Opening Day like a good political controversy
It's that time of year again. Today the rest of the MLB (this being the "payroll under 100 million bracket) kicks off and that means Obama will be throwing out the first pitch at the Nats-Mets game. If you recall, this is what happened last year.
If I have to sit through another day where the first pitch of the season is politicized I'm going to choke someone. It's already a given that the amount of "boo"'s will be analyzed but I'd rather not hear about if there is a camera man conspiracy to hide the results of a bad throw.
So, for the sake of everybody, Mr Obama, please throw a damn strike.
Update: Judging from what I'm seeing on the Twitter it looks like Obama may have repeated last year's performance and threw the baseball like a limp-wristed girl. Oddly enough he is now in consideration for the 5th man in the rotation for the Nationals. Heyyy ohhhhh!
If I have to sit through another day where the first pitch of the season is politicized I'm going to choke someone. It's already a given that the amount of "boo"'s will be analyzed but I'd rather not hear about if there is a camera man conspiracy to hide the results of a bad throw.
So, for the sake of everybody, Mr Obama, please throw a damn strike.
Update: Judging from what I'm seeing on the Twitter it looks like Obama may have repeated last year's performance and threw the baseball like a limp-wristed girl. Oddly enough he is now in consideration for the 5th man in the rotation for the Nationals. Heyyy ohhhhh!
Easter surprise in DC
This weekend was certainly an interesting one. A wave of record breaking temperatures (so, for those keeping score, on Friday and Saturday global warming was true) led the city of Syracuse to launch in to full-on celebration mode. This involved a lot of people leaving work early on Friday and, most importantly, going outside to drink rather than inside. There's a big difference there. The Hot Mary had a couple of out-of-town ladyfriends come to visit and so a visit to the local over-hyped watering hole was in order. The following day, while still recovering from the previous evening's menu of PBR and jagerbombs, good buddy Matt had some people over for some grillin' , drinkin', and horseshoin'. Good times were had by all! Things started to slow down until Matt suggested beer pong. I don't think I won. At all. Whatever.
On to Easter. The Hot Mary and I decided to try and cram in the double Easter family dinner combo and managed to pull it off well enough. There's not too many things quite as difficult as finding the inner resolve to restrain yourself when mashed potatoes are in abundance. Even more difficult is having to do so twice. But it was good seeing various family members and eating food. All i knew is that I had to be back in time for the opening day match up of Yanks vs Sawx.
The game was meh. Even when the Yankees were winning. What I hate the most about these two teams meeting up is the length of the game. I remember at one point that it was only the 6th friggin inning and it was about 11:00. That's right, three hours to play two-thirds of a game. That's insane.
Anywho, here we have opening day featuring my favorite team locked in a prime time match up in perhaps the greatest sports rivalry ever and we also have the day that Jesus came back to life after dying for our sins and all of it was overshadowed by the prima donas of the entire sports world: the Washington Redskins.
It first came up as I was perusing Facebook and I saw a post by someone saying that Donovan McNabb had been traded. I knew this was coming. On saturday I was asking some Eagles fans what they thought of the rumors that their team was shopping the face of the franchise after years of being under appreciated despite the fact that he has had turds lining up at wide receiver year after year. I had no idea that the 'Skins were in the running.
So I hopped on over to ESPN to read that McNabb had been traded to the Redskins.
I still am not quite sure what to think. On the bright side, for a player with the resume that McNabb has, it seems like they got him relatively cheap. On the other hand, it seems like more bad decisions made by the Redskins. I have no idea if this was a Snyder move or Shanahan. It's a shame that Jason Campbell will most likely be spending his Sundays holding a clipboard, but he was given every opportunity to impress the coaching staff.
The Shanahan era is already shaping up to be quite different from anything we've had in the past few years. The biggest change has just occurred with the acquisition of McNabb. They also now have an odd three-headed monster at running back with Portis, Larry Johnson, and Willie Parker. Then there's this business about converting to the 3-4 defense. I'm not quite sure what the new season will bring but it will definitely be different. Sometimes change is good, sometimes it's very very bad.
My stance still remains, however. If the Redskins do not select an offensive lineman in the first round of the upcoming draft, I will boycott them this year. I've said it repeatedly: it does not matter who their quarterback is if he doesn't have blocking. Perhaps this move was in an effort to ensure that they could draft a lineman. That I can get on board. However, despite the fact that there is a new coach in town, it is still Snyders team. I'll need to see proof that it isn't before I believe it.
As for Kolb, the new starting quarterback in Philly, I give him 3 weeks before Philly fans start chucking batteries at him.
On to Easter. The Hot Mary and I decided to try and cram in the double Easter family dinner combo and managed to pull it off well enough. There's not too many things quite as difficult as finding the inner resolve to restrain yourself when mashed potatoes are in abundance. Even more difficult is having to do so twice. But it was good seeing various family members and eating food. All i knew is that I had to be back in time for the opening day match up of Yanks vs Sawx.
The game was meh. Even when the Yankees were winning. What I hate the most about these two teams meeting up is the length of the game. I remember at one point that it was only the 6th friggin inning and it was about 11:00. That's right, three hours to play two-thirds of a game. That's insane.
Anywho, here we have opening day featuring my favorite team locked in a prime time match up in perhaps the greatest sports rivalry ever and we also have the day that Jesus came back to life after dying for our sins and all of it was overshadowed by the prima donas of the entire sports world: the Washington Redskins.
It first came up as I was perusing Facebook and I saw a post by someone saying that Donovan McNabb had been traded. I knew this was coming. On saturday I was asking some Eagles fans what they thought of the rumors that their team was shopping the face of the franchise after years of being under appreciated despite the fact that he has had turds lining up at wide receiver year after year. I had no idea that the 'Skins were in the running.
So I hopped on over to ESPN to read that McNabb had been traded to the Redskins.
I still am not quite sure what to think. On the bright side, for a player with the resume that McNabb has, it seems like they got him relatively cheap. On the other hand, it seems like more bad decisions made by the Redskins. I have no idea if this was a Snyder move or Shanahan. It's a shame that Jason Campbell will most likely be spending his Sundays holding a clipboard, but he was given every opportunity to impress the coaching staff.
The Shanahan era is already shaping up to be quite different from anything we've had in the past few years. The biggest change has just occurred with the acquisition of McNabb. They also now have an odd three-headed monster at running back with Portis, Larry Johnson, and Willie Parker. Then there's this business about converting to the 3-4 defense. I'm not quite sure what the new season will bring but it will definitely be different. Sometimes change is good, sometimes it's very very bad.
My stance still remains, however. If the Redskins do not select an offensive lineman in the first round of the upcoming draft, I will boycott them this year. I've said it repeatedly: it does not matter who their quarterback is if he doesn't have blocking. Perhaps this move was in an effort to ensure that they could draft a lineman. That I can get on board. However, despite the fact that there is a new coach in town, it is still Snyders team. I'll need to see proof that it isn't before I believe it.
As for Kolb, the new starting quarterback in Philly, I give him 3 weeks before Philly fans start chucking batteries at him.
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