A Question

So let me ask a question: If no one in the NFL actually wants to abide by the bylaws drafted during the collective barganing process...why in the fuck do they even have a Union? I'm getting real tired of this "Holding out over the Franchise Tag" bshit.

Hey assholes, if you guys didn't get played to play a fucking game, you'd be flipping burgers. Let's be honest, 90% of y'all didn't get better than 600 on your SAT's. And the only reason you got to college was because you played ball... Just take the fucking 7 million and shut the fuck up. It's 7 million dollars. 7 million dollars to excersize for 20 hours a week and play a game for two.

7 million dollars....

Shut the fuck up

Its been a while...(Yes I am Bald and Fat but I'm not singing shitty pop hard rock)

Video Games: Well let me see, considering I don't buy any new games(that doesn't mean i don't buy games, just used 5 dollar ones because I still have only a PS2): I would like to let you all know that I just won my 3rd major in TW Golf 04 with a 44 under(St. Andrews)

Sports:

Basketball: My buddy is a huge bulls fan/the biggest basketball fan I've ever met, so i am midly excited about the bulls on the verge of sweeping the heat. Of course by the heat, they mean all of the ben gay that is wafting off of their bodies whose collective age minus DWade is 2,341. Somehow the Nets are in the playoffs? Yeah, I think its time to restructure the Conferences. The East is BSHIT



Hockey: Flyers aren't playing so I don't really care. And since no one is allowed to hit in the regular season anymore ZZZZZZZZZZ!!!! Yeah I know, It takes alot of skill and athleticism to play hockey but i like it as much for the violence as i do for the finesse. What can I say, I'm a flyers fan? I had to watch the playoffs last year with a bunch of sabres fans(long story). Worst experince of my life.

Football: Wow, the draft's coming up. I'm real stoked for the season to start so i can either get excited about the eagles and then have McNabb take too hard of a shit and be out of the season by traning camp , or to watch the bears hold another team to 7 points and still lose because Rex Grossman will be 2 for 41 passing with 21 yards. Once the season starts I'm sure it will be awesome but i don't care until late august at the earliest.

Baseball: Can't watch the Phils actually play so the best i get is live boxscore. Has to be the worst way to follow baseball in the world-slugs fuck faster. I miss having cable.

Soccer: Its a good thing we have a growing Latino Population in the US, otherwise no one would watch that shit.

Professional Wrestling: This woman i work with loves the WWE. She goes to wrestle mania and everything. She's a 40 y/o AA woman who is a very nice lady except she smells like rotten pussy 4-5 days a week. So every time i think of Professional Wrestling, i can smell that, and I start to vomit in my mouth a little.

LOOK WHO'S BRANCHING OUT

It's the "other sports" post! Let's get this party started.

HOCKEY -- Well I know the Rangers are still in it, because I always see Rangers-jersey wearing clowns in the MSG vicinity. Are the Devils still alive and kicking? I typically only root for the non-Ottawa Canadian teams in the playoffs, so go Flames, Oilers, Canucks, Canadiens, and anyone else I might have forgotten. I miss the Jets. Anyway the Flyers were the worst team in the whole darn NHL so I have really nothing to contribute here.

B-BALL -- Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Would be nice to see Golden State upset the Mavs, just because. I'm also pulling for the Nugs due to the A.I. factor. Beyond that, no interest. I usually pull for the Nets too, and I'll continue to do so, as long as Bruce Ratner stays the fuck out of my hood.

FOOTBALL -- The draft is on this weekend! Totally awesome! Yeah, I don't care about the draft. The Eagles pick is really late -- mid-20's or something right? I don't know who they'll select because I don't follow college football, I mean I know they're targeting secondary help, as they should, but basically I find the whole NFL draft obsession so maddeningly boring I don't even feel like finishing this paragr

WII SPORTS -- Vegas is listing me as doubtful (Wii elbow).

BOXING -- De La Hoya fight should be alright. Almost certainly won't watch it (not even sure when it is, in all honesty).

PRO WRESTLING -- I had a weird dream last night: I was in Jurassic Park, and the water in the glass was doing the ripple thing, and I could hear the dino stampede coming -- but instead of raptors it was a huge gaggle of Luna Vachons!

PHILLIES BASEBALL -- Only game in town, homie. Won their 5th in a row tonight, by the way. They are hitting with runners on base (bound to happen; no team bats .100 with RISP for an entire season), the bullpen has been fine, and Utley is finally waking up; meanwhile Rollins, Burrell and Rowand (!!!) continue to be awesome in '07. My first regular-season Phils game is this Sunday (Moyer v. Dontrelle) and I couldn't be more excited. GO PHILS!

First post in 2 weeks

Well, haven't been on here for a while, tired of all the Phillies posts on a "sports blog"..... which is sad seeing as how I started this blog and should control the content. Controlling the content would be controlling my friends thoughts though, and that's just not cool, and I've quickly learned the only sport my friends care about is Phillies baseball this time of year. Nobody else posting stuff other than Phillies makes me not post anything other than Phillies cause lets face it, the other posters are the only people who check this shit. Why I'd start this blog at this time of year and expect them to write about anything other than only Phillies is just playin' ol' stupid on my part.

(note to self, must make clearer to friends that will be posting that "This is not supposed to be a Phillies blog" in a way that is clearer than telling them "This is DEFINITELY NOT supposed to be just a Phillies blog" if I will be starting a blog with them)

Put one in the win column for the Phightin Phils

Jamie Moyer was just what the phillies needed yesterday after that horrendous game on wednesday. He threw a 2 hitter through the 8th, and they gave him a change to pitch a cg. It was unfortunate that he ran out of gas and was unable to complete that game. Tom Gordon came in with a runner on second and tried his damnedest to fuck that game up. the only good pitch he threw the entire time was the last one. it was a nice curveball which jammed the batter. It was a nice pitch and all, but the only reason it worked, was that he was only throwing fastballs before that to everyone. Up until i saw him pitch yesterday i was a fan of flash, but now i think he is done. I seriously think he has to get a career ending injury or get a bionic arm.

I like the move of brett myers to the bullpen. He is for sure one of their better starters, but i think they can afford to make him a closer. He does pitch strikes, has good control and has strike out stuff. Mitch Williams even said Myers reminded him of himself. I think more like a Mitch with command of his pitches. I only hope that the Phils don't jerk him around back and forth between starting and relieving. Brett seems like the kind of guy that would take to a setup/closing role well. As far as I can tell, he seems like an aggressive player that wants to be out there every day, he did a good job in wednesday nights games. But that is not enough to sell that move. I need to see him pitch a couple more times.

I do not like the fact that Howard was injured on wednesday and stayed in the game. Charlie Manuel ran out of guys on the bench. He sucks, his management skill are terrible. He should go back to the american league or be a hitting coach somewhere else. I really wouldn't mind it if Girardi got that job. But that will not happen. He got fired from florida because he talked back to the ownership and I doubt the owners of the Phils want someone like that here. I think he would be a good fit though, he would whip this team into shape. Uncle Charlie won't be fired until july at the earliest and that's only if the phils have the same winning percentage they have now. I'm not throwing the towel in on this season yet, but the phillies certainly are not helping me out any.

P.S. I kinda miss Scott Graham, Gary Mathews Sr. is terrible. He makes Larry Anderson tolerable and has ousted Mike Quick as my least favorite Philadelphia broadcaster.

UNCLE CHOLLY

Y'know, I've defended Uncle Cholly for the past two seasons, basically on the premise that baseball managers don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. But I'm not so sure I can continue defending him after the completely, utterly ridiculous shift of Brett Myers to the bullpen. And after this quote --

"We think Myers will, over the course of the year, get in 65-70 games, probably. As a starter, it would be 35." --

Well, come on. That is idiotic. CHOLLY!!

Dice-K & NHL playoffs

So the Phillies are 0-9 with the bases loaded on the season, and they have them loaded again as I'm writing this post, so no Phillies post except for this update. Wes Helms trying to break the streak.

Dice-K is pitching on channel 35, and the NHL playoffs are on channel 37, so my TV viewing is very easy for the next few hours. We'll start with Dice-K.

He's fucking awesome. (Wes Helms 3-0 with the bases loaded) Dice-K is painting the corners with his filthy breaking balls, and then throwing 94 gas on the corner. (Helms walked, still loaded, still 0-9, now it's time for Rowand to break the streak) I now see what the big fuss is, every pitch he throws is right around the strike zone, and with the crazy breaks and varying breaks, he's getting calls. How can you, as an umpire, be ready for all his different pitches and be able to accurately call a game? I'm not saying his strikes aren't all strikes, but damn they're all close, so he gets more calls than a 14 year old with a MySpace account. (Rowand, 3-2 count) As a batter, how do you protect against all the breaking balls (Rowand walked, still 0-9) and then be ready for the 95 mph heater? Fucking ridic, I wish I could just watch the NHL playoffs, but I'm entranced by Dice-K and this is my first time watching him. (2-2 to Barajas) My Cy Young prediction is in, nobody's going to figure this guy out this year, maybe next year a'la Hideo Nomo, but I don't see it. (Barajas gets hit, still hitless on the year but got a run home by being fat and slow, pitching change for the Mets)

As for the NHL playoffs, as a hockey fan, I haven't watched any games this year. Why? Just not interested. The penalties are called way to tight, the players are diving like soccer players, and the quality of play that I've seen just hasn't kept my attention. That all changed with the drop of the puck in the Sens/Pens game. Hockey playoffs are the best part of the sports year, better than the NFL playoffs where 1 and done just doesn't build up the intensity of a 7 game series, better than baseball where 4 hour 9 inning games are not out of the question, and basketball is only a sport during the NCAA tournament, where 1 and done still doesn't equal a 7 game series. (Phillies now 0-10 with the bags full, Eaton the pitcher struck out, but they got 3 runs home so this one is excused a bit)

The playoffs in the NHL means more hitting, which has been lacking in the games I've caught parts of. I started watching hockey right after we got Lindros on the Flyers, when we had a line full of fighters/hitters (Dan Kordic, Daniel LaCroix, and Scott Daniels.... the Dan line), and our defensemen could barely skate (that's you Therien) but man could they drill guys. Now, the NHL has done away with hitting by over-calling penalties like a soccer match and making people scared to touch each other some games. The result has been players diving like Europeans, and since alot of them are, calling the game like a soccer game of course leads to more diving. It's in their blood apparently. This all changed in the first 3 minutes of the first game of the playoffs, with bodies flying all over the place and no illegit penalties called. Welcome back real hockey.

I'll go more in depth after a few more playoff games and a few more Dice-K appearances that I can watch, but as of now, 2 of my 3 things on TV that I don't want to miss are the hockey playoffs, and Dice-K pitching. It's gonna be a good month on Vs. (Heroes is the 3rd thing on TV, c'mon April 23... c'mon....)

And the m8r jinx is on again, since I've started writing, Dice-K has given up 2 more runs to make it 3 in the first 5 innings. Anybody else who picks Dice-K for the Cy, you've been warned.