tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32854043859060604752011-07-28T17:40:48.126-07:00You may notice changes. Not done on purpose.<a></a>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04902104634518014074noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285404385906060475.post-39750360242847080492010-01-29T13:55:00.000-08:002010-01-29T15:05:14.055-08:00

If you can't believe Kurt Warner is what woke me from my blogging hibernation you're in the same boat as me.But I had to write about him. Mainly, because I still hear people wonder if he's a hall of famer. If you ask me, it's a no brainer. Two league MVPs, one Super Bowl MVP, three Super Bowl appearances. The most prolific passer in Super Bowl history (#1, #2, and #3 on the "most passing yards in

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I'm starting a rumor.Barry Bonds was offered the newly-available baseball coach position at Arizona State. He first wants time as an assistant, so they made him hitting coach.

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I respect The Clash too much to not buy all of their albums.Public service announcement.

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It’s funny that it took me writing a blog about the 49ers to realize that the Giants season is painfully over (baseball Giants, if your mind is fully in NFL mode). They had a good year but have fallen short of making the pla…okay, that’s enough. This is about the 49ers.This isn’t a blog about my predictions for the 49ers season, because that would be lame. Hopefully everyone has been able to see

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Have you seen this show, Into The Pride? Unbelievable. So good in fact, we invented a drinking game.1) Every time Brutus, the dominant male lion, charges the lion tamer dude everybody drinks.2) Every time the lion tamer says Cleo, the first person to stand up gives out a drink.3) Every time he says Shizzle, the last person to say Minizzle drinks.4) Every time he expounds a personal internal

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Only 56 games to play -- two-thirds of the season is already over -- and the Giants are still in the thick of things. Here are updates to my predictions, because I know you care oh so much.A lot has happened since the last time I wrote an update. For one, the Giants made a couple of trades that destroyed one of my more anticipated predictions. While they did trade away Alderson at the deadline,

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When I started this blog I told myself I would never use it to post short randomness about what I did during the day, because, honestly, nobody gives a shit. But, I just watched the movie The Hurt Locker and was moved to write a post about it.Long story short, The Hurt Locker follows a military EOS (Explosive Ordinance Squad) team around the streets of Iraq as they detonate and disarm bombs. And

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The past few months have been rough on me. Going to the beach, reading, relaxing, it’s all been a real bane on my life. Not having a job really, really sucks. But all of that just made it even more exciting to find out last Friday that I was nominated for placement in the Peace Corps.Yes, after five months of waiting, I’m back on the path towards joining the Peace Corps. I’m not officially a

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People are starting to talk about them. That can mean only one thing. They're destined for an epic fail, and soon. As before, all stats are extrapolated for the entire season.Randy Winn (predicted .300): .268Aaron Rowand (predicted better than .271, 13 HR, 70 RBI): .297, 18 HR, 72 RBIFred Lewis (predicted .290, 20 HR, 20 SB): .253, 10 HR, 12 SBEmmanuel Burriss (predicted .260): .238Pablo Sandoval

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I don’t know if you’re like me, but if you are, you love to debate. Debating is one of the greatest ways to: A) waste hours spouting nonsense, B) yell as loudly as possible at someone and not have them walk away in disgust, and C) get so pissed off at some idiot that you never talk to them again (until the next morning, of course, when you’re back being best friends).I can understand why there

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Now’s as good a time as any to figure it all out again. It’s been awhile since I last wrote about myself here, so I’m going to jot down some notes on what has happened over the past few months.After some deliberation, in early March I decided to join the Peace Corps. I researched the organization exhaustively, read hundreds of volunteers’ blogs, and spoke on the phone with past volunteers to

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I have to say it up front: I love TNT’s “Inside The NBA” team. Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley are the best at what they do, hands down. And Kenny Smith is lucky enough to have been there from the beginning to go along for the ride. But on Wednesday night, May 6, they really missed the story on the Boston-Orlando game.After showing Coach Van Gundy give his team a pair of “pep talks”, the best

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All numbers extrapolated for the full season.Randy Winn (predicted .300): .217 (Ouch.)Aaron Rowand (predicted better than .271, 13 HR, 70 RBI): .239, 15 HR, 69 RBI (Wow he's fallen off over the past few weeks)Fred Lewis (predicted .290, 20 HR, 20 SB): .311, 0 HR, 7 SBEmmanuel Burris (predicted .260): .216Pablo Sandoval (predicted batting title): .314Tim Lincecum (predicted 17 wins, lead the

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A lot of you won’t care about this post -- of course “a lot” is a relative term considering how many people actually read this. Regardless, you either won’t care or will be completely against it. But I don’t care about that.I recently read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle -- using the word “in” there makes me sound much cooler, like I actually subscribe to a newspaper or something; in

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I was reading an article today written by Michael Wilbon -- you know, that guy that’s not that guy from Monday Night Football on that show on ESPN. He had an interesting take on the NBA postseason, and gave his predictions for the matchups, from the first round through the NBA finals. It’s a pretty good article. He’s a good writer, and he has a clear set of ideas that he outlines -- and sticks to

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Based on the early season returns, here are how my predictions are looking so far -- everything is extrapolated for the rest of the season:Randy Winn (predicted .300): .263Aaron Rowand (predicted better than .271, 13 HR, 70 RBI): .321, 40 HR, 141 RBI (MVP Baby!) Fred Lewis (predicted .290, 20 HR, 20 SB): .379, 0 HR, 0 SBEmmanuel Burris (predicted .260): .192Pablo Sandoval (predicted batting title

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I love baseball. There, I said it. See, over the past three years a rift has been growing between me and the game, growing to the point that I have publicly announced that it’s no longer my favorite sport, hinting that it may not even be in my top three. I would cite a far-too-long season, a lack of excitement, a sickeningly unbalanced media, and the blackballing of the best baseball player of

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I can't decide what was more infuriating about last night's World Baseball Classic match between the United States and Japan, the terrible announcing or the pathetic managing by Davey Johnson for the US team. In actuality, though, they go hand in hand.From start to finish, announcers Joe "Just Call Me Buck" Morgan and Jon Miller debated the issues facing the World Baseball Classic, attempting to

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Cutting your fingernails: 2Cutting your fingernails after four cups of coffee: 8

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It really is sad what's happening to Major League Baseball. Since 2003, each season has begun not with pitchers and catchers reporting, but with a new bombshell report about steroids clouding the game. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, Andy Pettitte, Miguel Tejada, and Jason Giambi were some of the biggest players to have their reputations destroyed. Alex Rodriguez might be

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If you're reading this blog then you already know. I'm leaving San Diego, leaving all my friends and family, leaving the beach, leaving the perfect weather. But, there's a good chance you don't know why I'm leaving, either because you didn't ask or I didn't tell you. I'm not trying to place any blame, but you should have asked if you wanted to know. And you have nobody to blame but yourself for

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The Lakers' play-by-play guy, Joel Meyers, brought up a good point tonight, a point I've been thinking about for some time: "What a nickname. At least a team name. Not a bad city, but you gotta work on those names."The Oklahoma City Thunder. Really, that's the best name you could come up with? Thunder?It would't be a shock to see a WNBA team named Thunder. Or maybe even a hockey team. But an NBA

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Another year, another injury—was it just another accident, or will this be a common theme to the Andrew Bynum era in Los Angeles? In the 2007/08 season, coming off a lackluster year and the distraction of Kobe building his resume to become the NBA’s next terrible GM, Bynum played an incredible 35 games, nearly doubling his point and rebound totals from the previous season and becoming the

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So Beckham wants out of MLS and back into European soccer. What a shock. I say let him leave.Yeah, Beckham has raised the profile of Major League Soccer to all-time-high levels. Beckham coming into the league boost jersey sales by 780% over the previous year; last season Galaxy away games drew almost twice as many fans as the average MLS game. At home, adding Beckham increased attendance by

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Okay, so I'm starting a blog. I've never understood the draw to writing blogs. Why would people care enough to read them? Why would people care enough to write them? I still don't have those answers, but I do know that I need to keep writing to hone my skills. And I love to write, so why not do it here?From what I understand, most blogs have a theme. Not this one. I will write about anything I

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Yes, this is the first post.

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