It’s A Pretty Long Season

You got that right. Phils fans, including myself, were quoted earlier in the year saying, “It’s going to be a long season.” It is, man. We suck. The worst part about baseball is when you do suck, you suck for a long, long time. The season is long. The games are every day. The sucking is continual. Let’s find some light at the end of this tunnel, shall we? I attended yesterday’s game against the Diamondbacks and finally, after 5 home games, was able to catch a victory. A walk-off victory. Ryan Howard was so due to get a…

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Fast Food Protests, Lame Olympics

I didn’t even realize any of this Chick-fil-A nonsense was going on until I got a text from the Wolfman telling me a Facebook joke about the whole situation. And that makes me happy, because this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. 1.) Well, actually, it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of until I read that Roger Goodell said that he thinks football should be an Olympic sport. Let that sink in for a moment. WHO WOULD WE PLAY? America gets Gold, Silver AND Bronze? However, I would love to see the Botswana squad…

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Phelps, The French, & Snoop Lion

Congratulations Michael Phelps Well played sir. Nineteen medals is a pretty impressive feat. It is interesting how the coverage started negative yesterday mid-afternoon, when Phelps won silver in the 200 butterfly, to downright glowing after the 4 x 200 free relay. It is a fine line these days. Sure, Phelps isn’t duplicating Beijing, but a gold and two silvers is not bad for a guy who doesn’t even like swimming. The French are Coming Everyone was pretty steamed at the U.S. Men’s swimming team for losing to the French in the 4 X 100 free relay, and equally upset about…

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Welcome Back!

Man, you leave for a week and oh how the sports world has changed!  Just kidding, everything is pretty much the same. So let’s get into it, shall we? 1.) The Phillies re-signed Cole Hamels while I was away, which I would be ok with if they didn’t already have 100,000,000,000 dollars tied up in their other two pitchers (one of whom has exactly one win all season).  So all I will say is if they don’t trade Cliff Lee today, than signing Hamels was a stupid move. Amaro should’ve learned that it doesn’t pay to overspend on pitching…

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Painting & Pinot, Olympic Preview

I went to a free painting class last week with my fiancé, La Louve, at a place called Painting and Pinot – and not surprisingly I was one of only two dudes in the entire 30 person class. There are of course a few benefits to being a guy at one of these events, the first being that all of the women are deathly afraid to be the first to dig into the sweet treats, and the second being that you can pretty much just throw paint at the canvass and everyone will still say it’s great. Of course,…

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The Dark Knight Rises

1.) I can’t remember being this conflicted about whether or not to see a movie. The Dark Knight Rises is going to be awesome. We all know this. Christopher Nolan is not capable of making a bad movie, I don’t think. The problem, however, is that this sucker is 2 hours and 45 minutes long. Holy goodness that is a long time to sit in a theatre. Factoring in the previews will likely add another 15-20 minutes, so your looking at a 3 hour sitting. Too long I say. Also, Bane has been getting great reviews, but in all…

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Tim Kurkjian has Never Heard a Dr. Evil Impression

So last night, after a nice weekend at the beach, I get home and turn on some ESPN to get caught up on what happened in the world of sports when I was away. Much to my delight/chagrin, ESPN was running a clip of Tim Kurkjian where he interviewed Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster and asked him to do some impressions and man oh man was it high comedy.  Just kidding. It was actually incredibly confusing/perplexing. The reason? Dempster busted out impressions of Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard and Harry Caray. Now, I get the Harry Caray one, since he plays…

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