True Blood: Escape From Dragon House

In all honesty, I am not sure if anything spectacular even happened. The show is entertaining, but this episode felt a bit empty. The highlight came when Sookie and Bill go to Fangtasia to try and find the real killer in hopes of clearing Jason's name.

There Sookie meets Eric, a very old Viking vampire. He says that he tasted the one girl before, but does not know anything else. Also, Sookie saves the day by hearing someone think about how the police need to raid the place.

Jason took the V-Juice, the entire bottle, and it gives him a massive erection. Yep, most of the episode focused on that.

Anyways, I hope next week's episode is a little better...

Fantasy Baseball Final Results

I know that everyone has been dying to know how the season ended. Or not. Well let me just say that it was a hard fought battle, and by that I mean I kicked Gideon's ass. Yeah, I took third place, not too shabby for a team that started at the bottom and rose from the ashes...or something like that.

The bigger story has to be the final's match up between Singer and Kern. Over the course of two weeks these two traded stats and switched pitchers. It seems that the top four placers used Singers method for the finals, and I wonder if that hurt him. With all of us doing it, that left the talent well a bit dry...I am sure Singer can attest to that...

Singer won and became our champion. All hail Singer's Sluggers! And before anyone starts saying that the season was tainted because of his method, let me show you some stats from this little contest.

R HR RBI SB AVG W SV K ERA WHIP
Kern 68 18 68 5 .294 12 14 202 4.55 1.45
Singer 67 16 52 10 .304 15 16 187 4.27 1.41
Me 64 13 59 7 .258 14 2 145 3.33 1.11
Gideon 45 11 50 1 .253 17 6 213 3.70 1.29

As you can see, all four of us, using the same tactics, put up very similar numbers. Did Singer do a better job of grabbing guys off the waiver wire than Ryan? Probably not, Ryan still had more strikeouts and they had very similar WHIPs and ERAs. Where did Singer win? SB's and SVs, just like he has all year, and that has nothing to do with his style of play. Let me show you the final year results.

Record wise each week, Singer was 16-5-4 in the SB category. The SV department he was even better: 20-5-0. I know many of you want to say that his method was wrong or whatever, but when you look at the final numbers, his method only helped him a little bit. His team was good because of his superior closing and his ownership of stolen bases.

Granted, he did have the most wins (119), but that was only 10 more than Gideon and Kern, and only 12 more than myself. As I have said numerous times, he gains Ks and Ws, but at the end of the year, he actually did not lead in Ks. Guess who did? Kern and I both had over 1500 Ks. Same with ERA and WHIP, Ryan led one, I led the other, but we were in the top two. Singers team had the worst ERA/WHIP in the league. The odd thing is though, he had a winning record with those two categories, which tells me that people did not try to exploit that glaring weakness in his team when they played him.

Anyways, I am excited for next season. I hope Singer joins our league, and I definitely hope that no one tries to make rules against his method. I would rather beat him straight up. Also, for next season lets make sure we go back to two utility players....

Heroes: "One of Us, One of Them"

This episode was not all that great. It had some cool moments, but overall it kind of let me down. It started off with so much potential, then just fell apart. For example, the best overall story was Sylar and Mr.B teaming up.

I saw two scenarios coming about: 1) They make a great team and we see over the course of the season the two becoming friends...2) Sylar helps the rest of the villains escapes and leads them against the company. With Peter and Mr.B partnering together (along with Elle) in order to stop them.

Instead, Sylar takes Jesse's powers, then lets Mr.B take him back to Level 5. Does Sylar want to change? Does he want to get to know Angela? Does he think his best bet is to just wait there and allow his newfound mom to keep feeding?

We also got to see Future Peter pull Jesse and Peter apart, then FP took Peter into the future to show him why he did what he had to do. Maybe Future Peter will teach Peter how to be a super badass.

Hiro and Ando's storyline comes off as a bit campy. So much more could be done with them battling against Daphne, instead of just wacky hijink. Plus, it is a bit of a stretch to see how these situations will cause Ando to turn to the darkside.

Speaking of Daphne, she's hot, in a cute & spunky kind of way.

Parkman gets to see the future, which is funny because what kind of crappy power does the African have? He can see the future, but it is only one guys? And now Parkman takes some drugs and is going to paint the future as well...I am pretty sure that is how Grant Morrison writes comic books...do not believe me? Read Invisibles...

Let me say that Claire's desire for revenge against Sylar could end up being very cool. She steals her dad's files and decides to go out on her own to bring down the villains. Somewhere along the way she needs to learn how to actually fight though. Who will teach her? Elle! Think about it, she is unemployed, pissed off, ready to prove she can do the job. Somehow they will find each other and prove that you do not need One of Us, One of Them to succeed.

Another very interesting storyline, and I cannot believe I am about to say this, was Tracy meeting Micah. We see that Niki really is dead, and yet Tracy looks exactly like her. The first thing I thought was, oh Tracy is her twin sister. Micah confirms that by saying they were born in the same hospital on the same day. Tracy goes to search for Dr. Zimmerman, and he says that he created them. How many of these chicks are out there? Why have I not run into one of them? And by run into, I mean sleep with...

Let me know what you guys thought, was a way off base on this one?

Brisingr Review

About fifteen minutes ago I finished reading the third book in The Inheritance Cycle, Brisingr. I had mixed emotions going into the book, especially with the long layover between books. When I heard that Paolini was going to extend it to four books instead of three, I became excited. Made me think that maybe he read tons of the reviews saying it was a copy of Star Wars/LOTR and decided to change some things. Which if that was the case, well then I am glad Eragon and Roran did not end up meeting a new race who were small, cute and fuzzy...

Overall I enjoyed the book, could not put it down at times. My favorite character remains the great Roran Stronghammer. Even though he did not feature as heavily in this one, each chapter he was in was exciting to read.

From here on out I am going to break down some of the things I liked and disliked, so beware of spoilers.

Eragon
He dropped some of his whining from the last two books, unfortunately every situation he finds himself in becomes a morality or philosophical issue. For example, he gave up eating meat in the last book, but then when he finds himself weak and in need of food, he decides that he can eat meat if it means saving his life. Then later, he has no problem eating meat if is in the company of other meat eaters. I have to wonder if this comes from a change in the author's diet? If I am not mistaken, CP was a vegetarian, I wonder if he wrestles with the issue and if he sometimes decides that a double cheeseburger from McDonalds is okay...

Also, the constant hesitation to kill gets a little much. We get it, he does not like to kill, but he knows at times he must. We do not need to have the same inner turmoil before and after every battle. I completely understand that he does not want to become bloodthirsty killer like Galbatorix or Morzan.

He has become much more badass, and his second battle with his brother went much better than last time. Also, and I have read on message boards that people did not like how long his whole judgement of Sloan took, but that was something I really enjoyed. I believe he did the right thing in that situation (also, that was the perfect situation to explore the idea of him not wanting to enjoy killing, not the 23 other times...)

Something I wonder, even though he still mentions his feelings for Arya, anyone notice that he is resigning himself to the fact that maybe she will not come around? Most likely in the end she will and they will live happily ever after, but I wonder if he ends up alone after the next book...

The Big Reveal
At the end of the second book we learn from Murtagh that he and Eragon are brothers, Morzan is Eragon's father. To me that ended up feeling like the end of Empire Strikes Back. Did CP decide that it would be better to make Selena (Eragon's mom) a slut and have Brom as the father or was that his plan all along?

Anyways, I liked that Brom was the father, mostly because when I read the first book, that was my initial suspicion. Not trying to brag or anything, but there always seemed to be more that Brom was hiding. Actually during the second book I had another theory, that Queen Islanzadi and Brom were lovers, mainly because of the way she demanded to know where Eragon got the ring, and seemed okay by the fact that Brom had given it to him...

Roran
Like I said, he rocks. I like that Nasuada worries that he could become more powerful than her because of his natural ability to lead. Will he become the ruler of Carvahall when the war is over? Or maybe the king of the land? Probably not, I cannot see CP replacing Galbatorix with another monarch, just does not seem to be his style. Maybe a council consisting of King Orrin (Surda), Nasuada (central Alagaësia), Arya (Elves), Gharzvog (Kull Leader, whatever lands they receive and however you spell his name), King Orik (Dwarves), Roran (Carvahall) and last our good buddy Eragon acting as teacher to a new age of dragon riders...

Big Questions
-The big debate seems to be did Eragon encounter a god during the dwarves coronation? Before the book came out CP said that Eragon would meet a god. Most people seem to think the dwarf god would be the reference. I am not so sure though.

-Who or what is Angela, and for that matter Tenga? I wonder if Tenga is the god Eragon met, what if when the Gray Folk invented the ancient language they accidently trapped a god? What is the question that Tenga seeks the answer to...

Honestly, I have no idea what to think about Tenga, reminds me of Tom Bombadil from LOTR. Some very bizarre being who probably has some major power, or in this case, maybe the answer to the question that Eragon needs to ask...

-Does anyone understand what CP means at the end of the book when he says that "the Doctor can travel everywhere, even alternate realities." I get that it is some Dr. Who reference, but is there something about a lonely god that I am missing?

-And the million dollar question, who will ride the green dragon??? My bet is Merry and Pippin after they get a flagon of ale...

Girlfriend of the Week

This weeks girlfriend is Sophie Howard, who has the most amazing breasts ever. Don't believe me? Well then screw you. I think they are basically perfect.

I could not decide on which picture to use, so I went with both.

Fantasy Football Week 3

Well after I talked smack and started to think I had a good team, the FF Gods smote me. I got absolutely decimated 138-40 by Offord's team. I cannot even think of anything positive to say.

I did trade Brandon Jacobs to Kern for Donovan McNabb, which really sucks because I know that he will get hurt and I will be screwed. Plus, I have an Eagle on my team...I made a few roster moves this week, nothing major though.

Most of my players are on a bye week, I will probably lose again.

Heroes: "The Second Coming" and "The Butterfly Effect"

Oh god, the moment we have waited all year for or at least since the last episode aired. The two hour premiere kicked off tonight and absolutely kicked ass. Instead of doing a complete recap like I usually do, this time I will just discuss the main characters.

Nathan
At the end of last season we watched Nathan get shot just before he announced to the world his powers. We learn early on that the shooter was Peter from four years in the future. He came back to stop his brother because in the future people with powers are captured, tortured, studied, and forced to do things against their will.

As Nathan is about to die, he somehow miraculously heals, and it turns out to be because of Linderman. Nathan believes that he was saved by god, which causes the governor of NY to decide to appoint him to the US Senate.

Peter
So, future Peter keeps messing with things and it just causes the future to keep changing. He realizes the mistakes he has made, especially when trapped current Peter into a prisoner's cell and made him look like a guy named Jesse (who has some sonic scream power), now current Peter is on the run with some real bad people and hopefully being tracked by future Peter.

Parkman
Future Peter sends Parkman to Africa. After walking around for awhile and almost dying, Matt thinks a turtle talks to him, but it turns out to be a guy, who can see the future. My prediction that Parkman might be the one to become a villain, may be off base, but we shall see.

Claire
Our favorite cheerleader receives a visit from Sylar. He attacks her and opens her brain up. She asks if he will eat the part of her brain that gives her power, and he says that is disgusting. He somehow absorbs her power, and heals his knife wound. He then reattaches her scalp and tells her that she is special, unlike all the others because he cannot kill her, no one can.

Later she begs Mr.B to take her with him when he goes after the criminals because she wants to help and does not like being the victim. He says no, but says he brought someone who could watch over her, Claire's real mom.

Hiro
Hiro is now in charge of his father's company, but is bored out of his mind. He wants an adventure. He receives a DVD from his father, which talks about not opening a safe, that he must safeguard what is inside. Naturally he opens the safe, and there is a second video, his father scolds him, but then says that Hiro must not let his half of the formula fall into the wrong hands.

At that moment, a speedster named Daphne steals the formula, but Hiro freezes time. Hiro confronts her, but she can counteract his power and asks him some interesting questions, such as if he freezes time in Tokyo, but then chases her, would time still be frozen in Tokyo?

Hiro also goes into the future to see what the danger of the formula is and sees himself killed by Ando, who now has his own awesome power.

Sylar
Okay, the guy we have wanted to come back all year. Sylar goes to the facility and first kills Bob. Elle gets Mr.B out of his cell, who shoots Sylar, but watches him heal. Sylar goads him by saying that he paid Claire a little visit.

He is about to kill Elle, but she unleashes her power at full force. It frees the prisoners (including the misplaced Peter) and takes down Sylar, who is now being held there by Angela. She takes over Bob's job and immediately fires Elle. She then tells Sylar that she is his mother. If she is telling the truth, that means Peter and Sylar (and Nathan as well) are all brothers. Talk about a weird family.

Mohinder
Suresh helps good ol' Maya by isolating where the power comes from (the adrenal gland) and discovers that he could give everyone powers. He then injects himself, and gets some cool powers. Also the side effect happens to be he becomes a deusche, but that allows him to sleep with Maya, which is cool. He discovers that his body has an adverse side effect that his skin is doing some weird things.

Conclusion
I know I forgot a few things, but so much happened, it was hard to keep track of it all. I may have to watch it online again this week. Did anyone see the preview where they show Mr.B and Sylar being partnered together? That is pretty insane.

What could cause Ando to turn on Hiro? I believe once they discover what the formula does, Ando will want powers and Hiro will be against it. The formula must be the answer to how to gain powers or something.

Anyways, let me know what you thought, and what your theories for the new chapter.

True Blood: Mine

Remember how in the last episode, I said I wanted to see more of Dawn? Well we definitely got to see more of her, especially her naked and then her dead. I am pretty upset. So is Jason, since I am guessing he will be once again the prime suspect.

She left him tied up and when she got home, Jason attacks her (pretending to be a vampire), then they have sex. He starts seeing the bald vampire's face on hers and loses his erection. Dawn makes fun of him and threatens him with a gun when she will not leave. He leaves and the neighbor hears the commotion and sees him leaving.

Bill's vampire friends try to glamour her, but it does not work. They go back to their little party when Bill says that Sookie belongs to her. Apparently these vampires do not agree with coming out, they still enjoy feeding on humans. Bill threatens to go over their heads to much older vampires if they ever come back and mess with Sookie.

Sookie is natually freaked out about everything and wants to stop seeing Bill. She later has a dream about having sex with him and wakes up masturbating.

On to the big theory about Sam. Tara and Sam get drunk together and while Sam is sleeping Tara notices that he barks in his sleep. The next day he is sitting on the porch, when our mysterious dog comes up to him, Sam calls him brother...

Girlfriend of the Week

This weeks GOTW comes from the comic book realm. Power Girl takes this weeks honor, and for pretty obvious reasons...huge boobs.

You want to be saved by Superman or Batman? Or do you want to be saved by this super hottie? Yeah, that's what I thought.

True Blood: The First Taste

The second episode picked right up where the first one left off. The hillbillies are kicking the crap out of our girl Sookie. Bill comes to her rescue and saves her life by giving her some of his blood. She later tells him that she is telepathic.

They have their little date at the house, and he talks about how he fought in the Civil War, and that his family was from the area, which is why he moved back. The entire interaction between Bill and the grandmother was very cool. He looks like he is thirty, but is actually 173, he does things in an old fashioned way, which she can relate to. But, she is somewhat frightened of him.

We also saw a nice flashback of Sookie's past, and how having her power has sometimes made her life very difficult. The advantage to her power is that Bill cannot use his "glamour" power over her (basically hypnotism).

The show ends with Sookie going to Bill's house, but meeting some of his vampire friends, who do not seem to be very friendly. One of them is the vampire from the sex video in episode one.

Speaking of the sex video, Jason watches the video with the police, and we see that during sex he strangled her. As he puts his pants on and runs out the door, the girl breathes and starts laughing about how dumb Jason is. He realizes he did not kill her, but the police still think he did it. They could not find the other sex tape, and they believe he left it there to prove that he did not do it. Jason points out that he is not that smart and they let him go.

Anyways, Jason goes back to banging Dawn , who is smokin' hot. She ties him to the bed and then heads off to work. Jason noticed before that she had vampire bite marks...

Also, Michelle had an interesting theory about Sam, and after this episode I am inclined to agree with her. The dog that comes around Sookie is Sam, he is some kind of werewolf or shape-shifter. Remember, he said he would come help her with the Rattrays attacking Bill. Plus the dog tries to help her when she is attacked, and she sees later that Sam is still awake.

I look forward to the next episode, if only to see more of Dawn.

Fantasy Sports Results Part Deux

Baseball
As I mentioned last week, I was taking on Singer (who won the regular season)this week. I used his style a little bit and did a good job of picking up pitchers each day. Granted, I did not drop any of my big starters (obviously, every other player would have jumped on that move), but instead dropped a few of my lesser starters, plus my middle relievers.

The week was very weird, for both of us. So many games postponed due to the hurricane, a bunch of double headers, which caused some guys to only play one of the games, or pitchers to get bumped around. At the beginning of the week I was down, but by the end of the week, it became very close. Going into Sunday, Singer was leading 5-4, and I thought for sure I would come out ahead. Unfortunately, as usual, my hitters decided to just phone it in on Sunday. Also, for some reason all weekend, the pitchers I had started would pitch great, and their team would win, but those guys all got No Decisions. I ended up losing 7-3.

I now take on Gideon for third place, I think we did this last year...anyways, this time I will actually try to win third place, instead of giving up. Congratulations to Singer, who has taken a ton of flack over his methodology all season.

Football
I am pretty sure I have this one. My team scored 120 points. That whole Darren McFadden and Adrian Peterson combo looked pretty good, oh as did Reggie Wayne and Calvin Johnson. I wanted to start Matt Schaub, but the game was canceled so I was stuck with Derek Anderson, which I knew was bad, he was playing against the Steelers (I was right also, he only scored 2 points). Anyways, unless TO and the Dallas defense can score 61 points tonight, I am the big winner. Also, I would like to say screw you Ryan, he picked Da Fitz to beat me...

College Football

I just finished watching Penn State destroy Syracuse. I have to admit, I was very skeptical about how they would do this season, but so far I am impressed. Yes, I realize they have played absolutely no one, but they have destroyed those nobodies. The offense looks very good, and I cannot wait to see what they can do against Ohio State.

Speaking of OSU, tonight they take on USC. At first, I wanted USC to destroy the Buckeyes, but then I talked to my brother. He made a very good point: the media keeps harping on how overrated the Big Ten is, it would be nice to see them get proven wrong. After listening to talk radio, watching a few different games, reading message boards and blogs, I do agree with him. I do not understand how the Big Ten is taking such a verbal thrashing this year, yet the PAC 10 is still getting all sorts of hype.

Also, I am so tired of hearing how huge a game is, that it is the game of the year or game of the decade. Last year it happened twice in the NFL (Cowboys vs. Patriots, then Patriots vs. Colts, before that it was Ohio State vs. Michigan, or USC vs. Texas...) It is the third week of the season, as we have seen before, even if you lose this game, you can still play in the national title game. How come USC is getting this much hype? They beat Virginia. Then they were off, yet still stayed ahead of Georgia, who dropped to number two for winning? What the hell??? I realize there will never be a playoff, but c'mon NCAA, at least make sense.

Girlfriend of the Week

This weeks GOTW is Mika Boorem. You might remember her from The Patriot, she was the oldest daughter in the film. Well she is all grown up now, and pretty hot if you ask me.

The Yummy Pancake

So, I decided on a group blog name. The Yummy Pancake, which so far has four of us: myself, revanstrife (or Keebler, however you know him), Offord, and Gideon. I hope to add a few more people: my brother, Ryan, and Jason from Batman Obviously...

Anyways, do not fear, I will not stop posting on here. I have yet to decide what things will be posted where. I have also decided that all the members there have full administrator rights, so they can add or change things. It makes us all equals I guess...

So check it out, Offord has started us out with a nice Pirates post.

Fringe: Episode 101

The other night I watched the season premiere of Fringe, the new show by J.J. Abrams. The basic premise of the show is X-Files meets Lost. FBI Agent Olivia Dunham investigates cases involving fringe science, things such as mind control, teleportation, and astral projections. All these cases seem to tie together, and everything must be linked behind the evil corporation, Massive Dynamics...

Yes, the idea is pretty unoriginal. That being said, the choice to use Charlie from the Mighty Ducks was a good one. Instead of being another FBI agent, he plays super genius college dropout, whose father did most of the research with this kind of science before he went crazy. He is Scully, but not as hot (unless you are a lady, then I guess he might be).

The first episode shows how these two get teamed up as they try to save Olivia's partner/lover. By the end of the episode they save the guy, but it turns out that he was part of the problem. We learn that Massive Dynamic is probably some evil/good company that helps the world, but also experiments with extremely crazy science.

As I said in my fall TV preview, this show seems like it would be much better if it were written by Warren Ellis. Who knows, it is not too late. Brian K. Vaughn came in to save Lost, if Warren is reading this, please come make Fringe into much more than just an X-Files ripoff.

Anyways, I will keep watching it because, well why not. Let me know your thoughts on the show.

Fantasy Sports Results

With two different fantasy leagues going, I will just throw the results up this way. I would normally say that no one reads these, but last weeks results post ended up being the most commented on post of all time (sadly it had nothing to do with what I wrote, but instead what Offord wrote).

Fantasy Baseball Week 23
The first week of the playoffs had me slightly scared. My team was not playing particularly well and I just had a very bad feeling. That feeling was utterly retarded. I destroyed Lumberjacks, 9-1. Some of the hitting stats were close, but I owned pitching. 7 Wins, 2 SVs, 78 Ks, 1.75 ERA, and a .97 WHIP...wow.

This week I take on Singer, and I am trying his strategy against him. Unfortunately, if I move on, there is a chance whoever I would play in the finals could scarf up one or two of my pitchers (such as Greinke or one of my RP's that I dropped)....

Fantasy Football Week 1
Screw you Ryan. He beat me, as he told me he would at the bar. His exact words "I never look to see who I play because I know I will win." What a deuschebag...Anyways, not much to say about it, my team did okay, it is a little too early to go dropping players I think. I picked up Royal from Denver, maybe he will be that breakout player.

True Blood: Strange Love

Tonight was the premiere of True Blood, the HBO series by Alan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under). The premise is that two years ago vampires admit their existence to the world. Down in Louisiana, a young waitress at a small town bar encounters her first vampire and hijinx ensue.

Anyways, on to the first episode.

Story
The opening episode sees Sookie saving the vampire Bill's life. Her brother is accused of killing a woman who he had some crazy sex with. The episode was pretty cool, some of the parts were kind of predictable, such as the hillbilly turning out to be the vampire at the beginning and not the store clerk all dressed in black.

Characters
-Sookie-definitely the most interesting character. She can read minds, yet cannot read Bill's. She throws a chain around a guy's neck and for some reason he can not get it off. Bill even questions her as to whether or not she is truly human.

-Bill-during their first meeting, he tries to come off cool and suave. Then his next visit to the bar, he asks if "he can call her." Which kind of gives away that he is from a different era. He also tells Sookie that he cares what the people of the town think of him while they stare at the two of them at the bar because he wants to make the town his new home and be part of the community.

-Jason-Sookie's hornball brother. He seems very anti-vampire and he knows about Sookie's ability. She tries to read his mind to see if he killed the girl, and he yells at her not to read his mind. When she first probes his mind, his thought was "how could I lose control like that..." Did he kill the girl, or does he mean lose control in the sense that he realized she probably video taped their sex and that the cops would find that and make him a suspect?

-Tara-Sookie's best friend. She is very funny, says whatever she wants to customers at the bar. Also very distrustful of vampires, which Sookie uses against her for being close-minded.

Comedy
Some very funny scenes during the show, especially the ones involving Sookie's grandmother. She asks Sookie if Bill would speak to a Civil War history group. Sookie points out that he would have troubles making it at noon. Also, Tara's interactions with people crack me up. Also, the very gay Lafayette was amusing with his somewhat disturbing comments. In fact, the scene with the fat guy at the bar was very funny. Sookie also loves to make little jokes about her lack of sex life, which makes me sad because I would definitely umm, do something dirty to her.

Mythology
When discussing any kind of vampire movie, show, or book, you need to look at the mythology surrounding it. So far, we see that they drink synthetic blood, that if they feed off a human that does not turn the victim into a vampire. Silver hurts them, which Sookie makes a joke about thinking that only works on werewolves, which obviously do not exist. From some of the previews, crosses do not work against them, nor does garlic. Sunlight does, but they do not apparently burst into flames, more like slow-burn.

Anyways, the premiere was cool, the ending very good with Sookie getting jumped and the crap kicked out of her. I cannot wait until next week to see what happens next.

On a sidenote, if anyone tuned in right after the episode, you probably read the worst review ever, which made me angry. I deleted it and then rewrote it. I hope this is much better.

Group Blog

I noticed in the comments section, there seems to be a decent amount of support for a group blog. I need the people who are interested in it to send me an email, preferably with some names for it. joshcroyle@gmail.com

Girlfriend of the Week

I have decided to start something new. Every Friday I will post a picture of a hot girl, and she will be the girlfriend of the week, which is a huge honor. Sometimes it will be a girl I know, sometimes a celebrity, hell maybe sometimes just a random girl walking down the street.

This week, the GOTW is: Kacie McClintic


She is and always will be someone very near and dear to my heart. Yes, I could have found a better picture, but c'mon, a good drunk picture is where it is at!

What Geeks

I just wanted to point out to my faithful fans that there is a very good discussion going on here and here. It is odd that the two very geeky sports conversations are sandwiched around a post with a hot girl, that no one makes a comment about...

Anyways, I will put these two posts over in my favorites section because of the fact that they have some very good debate, plus Offord almost became the first guest writer. If anyone ever wants me to post something, just email it to me.

Speaking of which, I would like to start a group blog. I have no idea what it would be about, but just something I am pondering. Anyone interested?

Football Predictions for 2008-2009

Well my last year picks turned out really craptastic. Let us see if I can match my stupidity, or if Gideon can predict the Super Bowl again...

AFC East
Patriots
Jets
Bills
Dolphins

AFC North
Browns
Steelers
Ravens
Bengals

AFC South
Colts
Jaguars
Texans
Titans

AFC West
Chargers
Broncos
Raiders
Chiefs

Wild Cards: Jaguars & Steelers

NFC East
Cowboys
Giants
Eagles
Redskins

NFC North
Vikings
Packers
Lions
Bears

NFC South
Panthers
Saints
Buccaneers
Falcons

NFC West
Cardinals
Seahawks
49ers
Rams

Wild Cards: Giants & Saints
AFC Championship: Chargers over Patriots
NFC Championship: Cowboys over Vikings
Superbowl: Chargers over Cowboys

I know all you Steeler fans are about to freak out on me, but hear me out. The Steelers have the toughest schedule this year, and they will lose some of those games. There is a chance they do not make the playoffs at all, or a chance they are tied with the Browns.

Anyways, as you can clearly see, I have no idea who will win, and 90% of these picks will be wrong. Give me yours, so we can look back and see who was at all close.

Labor Day

Personally I believe that every business should be closed down on Labor Day. No restaurants, gas stations, hospitals, anything where people work. If places want to be open, they must be staffed by volunteers. Yes I am bitter, I had to work all weekend and then today as well.

If it is not a day to honor the people who go out and work everyday, why not call it "Generic Day Off For 90% of the People"? That would be much better I think, catchy. Anyways, after a very fun weekend full of reading (reviews of those books coming soon) and working, I came home today to find a very great movie on HBO: 300. Yes I own the DVD, but still it is fun to catch it on TV.

As I watched the movie for the umpteenth (spell checker says this is a word? hmm that is odd...) time, I noticed how attractive the girl who plays the oracle is, so I decided to look her up. Her name is Kelly Craig, and I believe I am in love. I went to her Myspace page and discovered that she has a very quirky cuteness. She looks like she would be fun to get drunk with and talk about how awesome the movie was.


Her Myspace page has a few pictures and all the ones I have found on Google are mostly modeling pictures, which are usually very odd, but I like this one for some reason.

So, Miss Craig, if you are reading this and want to come to Pittsburgh and hang out, let me know. I will definitely be free that weekend...

Fantasy Baseball Weeks 21 & 22

Sorry that I have not updated my results. Mostly because week 21 sucked. I did not lose, nor did I win. Imler and I tied at five apiece. He beat me in pitching, except strikeouts. I would like to mention that his team only recorded 16 Ks, which makes it easy to win that one...

Anyways, the day that Cole Hamels pitched I forgot to start him. He picked up a win, and had a very low WHIP, which would have tied us in wins and probably gave me WHIP (he beat my .02.) I know this is a lot of maybes, and I am not making excuses. Part of the fantasy atmosphere is making sure you always start the right players. My mistake, so instead of winning the week 6-3-1, we tied.

This week I beat Miley Cyrus and Me 6-4. This one was too close for my liking. My team played okay, but nothing fantastic. The pitching was superb, but the hitting slacked off a bit at the beginning of the week and was in a hole that became very hard to dig out of.

Anyways, this week begins the playoff. The regular season saw me finish in forth place with a record of 101-104-15. Singer, Ryan, and Gideon were all above me, by a very large margin. They all had over 116 wins.

The playoffs are looking pretty grim. This week I play Lumberjacks, who beat me 3-5 early in the year, but I beat him 7-3 a few weeks ago. If I make it out of the first round, I then take on Singer, who pounded me 8-1 and 7-3. I have come to the conclusion that to beat him that week, I may need to adopt his strategy. If only to hopefully pick up the better pitchers and leave him with pond scum. I am already at a huge disadvantage not getting saves, I might as well try to rack up the wins.

Anyways, good luck to everyone in the playoffs!