Blah blah blah,
I had quiet an exciting morning, After eating my breakfast and talking in our shop about last nights games I take a look at our workload and we got three orders, a quick folder build and a server not working
OH CRAP.. I had plans to leave by noon and I was really getting kinda mad.
BUT, God was (as always is) beyond good to me. I was able to quickly knock out all three of the orders. Figured out that the issue with the server was a DNS Routing issue and resolve it and I just have this folder to build…
I need to knock it out before I leave but it’s 11:45 and I still got a few minutes. Just jamming out to a few toons and taking a look at today’s games.
I am really spoiled I swear.
-----------------------------Mariners
They get away with a two – nothing win last night. Great pitching from Jarrod Washburn I hear his Change-up looked fantastic. So I’m eager to see how he is in his next start. The 2-2 M’s take on the 2-1 Athletics tonight. RRS goes against the A’s youngster Anderson! Game time is 9 for me.. but it’s firday so I may stay up and watch the game.
I plan on going to the minor league game tonight with AJ Diamond Jaxx (M’s AA) vs. Montgomery Biscuits (Ray’s AA)
I guess Josh Fields pitched yesterday… walked four Struck out two.. I don’t know how many innings he pitched.
--------------------------Misc
Softball
Our girls lost both of our double header games yesterday. I have a lot of thoughts on this so it may just be a whole other blog attempt. We’ll see I need to word things exact because I don’t want to hurt anyone feelings.
Church
Nothing going this weekend. I think with easter everyone is just laying low
Weekend Plans
Go to Biscuits game tonight, Brunch w/ the wife tomorrow and Lunch at Josh/Sherri’s after church Sunday…
We may try to hit up fast and furious this weekend. It looks like it’s going to rain tonight so I don’t know if the game is going to work out … :P
Until later --
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
I AM So exausted ... it's like penguins with rain coats.
Yeah ... PENGUINS WITH RAIN COATS..
Mariners leave minnesota 2-2. Alittle sad but still excited with how Brandon Morrow finished the game and how AMAZING Jarrod Washburn pitched.
***HOOHOO's i gotta have me some HOOHOO's***
anyways ... i just thought i'd throw a quick blog together before i go to bed... and off i go .. holy cow it's already 10:30...
Mariners leave minnesota 2-2. Alittle sad but still excited with how Brandon Morrow finished the game and how AMAZING Jarrod Washburn pitched.
***HOOHOO's i gotta have me some HOOHOO's***
anyways ... i just thought i'd throw a quick blog together before i go to bed... and off i go .. holy cow it's already 10:30...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The Trip and goals for my life
Soo... i have been taking time to think about what i want to do in my life. Yeah sure, there are alot of spiritual goals and professional goals which i want to obtain. I one day want to have kids of my own, but really there are somethings i want to experience and do.
-- I wanted to go to Afgahnastan and i'm really excited about the upcoming oppertunity.
-- I want to be rebuild a 1964 Ford Mustang.
-- I want to Visit 10 different *stadiums
--- Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Mi
--- Wrigley Field, Chicago, Il
--- Yankee Stadium, New York, NY
--- Fenway Park, Boston, MA
--- The BOB, Pheonix, Az
--- Jacobs Field, Cleveland, Oh
--- The Ballpark in Arlington, Tx
--- Camden Yards, Baltimore, M
--- Dodger Stadium, LA, Ca
--- Coors field, Denver, Co
*already been to seattle Safeco...
-- I really want go and spend a week going threw different historical landmarks of our country in the North east (Boston, New York, ect..)
-- I want to take my wife on a real honeymoon
--I want to go on a Missions trip and give God more than just a few hours of time out of my life
--I want to be able to be an honorable man and serve as a spiritual deacon with my church
--I want to take my children across on a ferry and explain to them why that means so much to me
--I want to read more books, and not just stupid books but books of spiritual and intelectual significance....
-- I want to take more time in my daily life to read my bible and pray with my God to grow and have a heart like great men before me.
Some of these things are physical things of this world which will pass away and i understand that and some of these are great things that i may never truly achive but continue to strive for daily. But whats life without having something your trying to get too.
Maybe thats wrong, maybe it's not... Just somethings i've had for quiet awhile in my head. Poor AJ she's heard me mention almost all of these things four or five times before.
-- I wanted to go to Afgahnastan and i'm really excited about the upcoming oppertunity.
-- I want to be rebuild a 1964 Ford Mustang.
-- I want to Visit 10 different *stadiums
--- Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Mi
--- Wrigley Field, Chicago, Il
--- Yankee Stadium, New York, NY
--- Fenway Park, Boston, MA
--- The BOB, Pheonix, Az
--- Jacobs Field, Cleveland, Oh
--- The Ballpark in Arlington, Tx
--- Camden Yards, Baltimore, M
--- Dodger Stadium, LA, Ca
--- Coors field, Denver, Co
*already been to seattle Safeco...
-- I really want go and spend a week going threw different historical landmarks of our country in the North east (Boston, New York, ect..)
-- I want to take my wife on a real honeymoon
--I want to go on a Missions trip and give God more than just a few hours of time out of my life
--I want to be able to be an honorable man and serve as a spiritual deacon with my church
--I want to take my children across on a ferry and explain to them why that means so much to me
--I want to read more books, and not just stupid books but books of spiritual and intelectual significance....
-- I want to take more time in my daily life to read my bible and pray with my God to grow and have a heart like great men before me.
Some of these things are physical things of this world which will pass away and i understand that and some of these are great things that i may never truly achive but continue to strive for daily. But whats life without having something your trying to get too.
Maybe thats wrong, maybe it's not... Just somethings i've had for quiet awhile in my head. Poor AJ she's heard me mention almost all of these things four or five times before.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Mariners game 2... and my game long monolog
So ... i'm watching the game tonight... nothing big going on... so i guess i'll do my own little bit on the game.
(i came in just in time to catch Aidrian's at bat)
Top of the 1st Beltre sac fly ... very nicely struck Ms up 1-0
------ Bottom 1 Gutz and Endy had a great chase down on that catch...they also did a great job of avoiding running into eachother
------- Top of 2 - Kenji ground out into a double play :(
------- Bottom of 2 - HOLY CRAP Bedard is on tonight. That curve is so tight he is just working for him. He is already in mid-season form
------- Top of 3 - speaking of mid-season form....Yuni swings at the second pitch high in the zone.. GG..
- End Chavez just for the record has like rockets strapped to his feet.. MAN IS HE FREAKING QUICK!!! he just got his second steal of the game and it was no contest.
- Gutz worked an amazing 12 pitch at bat but grounded out to the short stop.. oh well... Endy stays at second
- Beltre bloops a single in to left and he has his second RBI of the game... w000t 2-0 Mariners!
-------- Bottom of 3 -K ; Ground out (G/O); Fly Out (F/O)
--------- Top of 4 - Couple of quick outs Lopez/Johjima - Balentine just singled
Yuni singles and takes THEN takes second on a throw to third trying to get Balentine going from first to third. WHAT a heads-up play
Endy singles to center .. two runs in 4-0 M's ... OoooOO YEAH
---------Bottom of 4 -- Great defensive play for yuni backing up --
Chavez saves a run by tracking down a ball down the line and keeping a run from scoring during the double by Joe Crede
----AT THIS POINT Hayden called me, i missed the 5th inning and we talked for about 30 minutes about a bunch of various MLB things... the twins scored one run and then ... all i know is that bedard got tottally taken for a ride on that fast ball up in the zone. IT WAS A STRIKE .. thank you chuck meriweath. Next pitch was knocked into center field for a two run single. and then end of the inning we are still up 3-4 at the end of the inning but BLAH
TOP of 6th
nothing big so far but yuni has his second hit of the game.... so far he's having a nice quiet game... Just the way i like him.
Bentacourt stole second .. GOOD jump.. thats three now for the Mariners
Endy strikes out ... oh well..
-----
Here comes corky from the bullpen ...
-----
Bottom of 6
Just fyi they make the important comment bedard had 8 k's threw the game... very nice job.
Corky is like 1-2-3 presto ...
Lets see if we can get some of these runs back!
----
Top of 7 ---- 1-2-3 -- wow now this game is starting to take off
---
Bottom of 7 --- Corcoran seems to have problems with Morales ... OOoooOOO he got a good hit to the left field. but it was fould
STRIKE 3 nice pitch .. one out.
(FYI, i tottally love BIG BANG THEORY! .. it's funny)
Corcoran has thrown a ton of pitches so far ... i wonder how many he's at...
YUNI WITH A DAZZELING CATCH! watch espn tonight because that will be on web gems FOR sure.
then 1-2 and 3 pitches for a strike out .. w00t
he pitched to 6 batters and got 6 batters out ... very nicely done
----Top of 8
wow ... um.. branyan grounds out .. and Lopez strikes out and a horrible pitch.. he's looked lazy.
Kenji has hit a couple of balls pretty good but the same with the first one he flies out .. inning over.
---Bottom of 8
Here comes David Aardsma .. making his mariners debut
second pitch and he gets a fly out
he gets a strike out a strike out on a check swing
and a fly out to balentine ... 1.2.3.. inning ...
---Top of 9
(i may miss some things .. AJ just started 24 episode from last night.. i havn't seen it yet)
Luis Ayala comes... Just for the record any time i hear the name Ayala i can't help but think about Bobby.
LOL!
Base hit by Wladimer Balentine gets on base.
yuni is at 0-2 .. he keeps fouling pitches off he kind of reminds me of Mark McLemore.
he goes down on strikes ... out 1 ... balentine still at first.
Endy lays down a bunt .. kind of in self defense... he got a bad jump but Balentine gets to second base.
BASE HIT GUTZ!! balentine scores 5-3 m's
another 2 out base hit that scores a run... SUPER job!
(uh oh jack is showing signs of really being sick .... 24 break lol)
Jr. Flys out ends the inning
-------
HERE COMES BRANDON!!! 2009 DEBUT !!! Mr. BULLPEN .. he better be worth the move..
-------
STRIKE OUT!!!
crap thats gotta be like 10 or even 11 strikes out for mariner pitchers today.
And Delmon Young flies out to Gutz
...
Brandon has a grizzly fast ball... *shudder*
,,,brandon issues a walk...
and he dosn't seem interested in pitching to Kubel... and he walked him
he just seems really uncomfertable throwing to left handed hitters.
AND THERE IS ANOTHER WALK ... bases loaded two down .. and omgosh .. are you kidding me... they are bringing in Miguel Batista .. this can't be smart ...
OMGOSH!!! BOUNCING BALL and NO PLAY!!! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!?!?! WHAT?!
single up the middle GAME OVER .. we just freakin blew a two run lead.. oh crap..
what crappy way to end a great game ...
oh my heart was my chest and i knew it was going to happen... there ya go.. Game 2 and here are the mariners the rest of the country knew was there ...
and back to 24 .. where this guy just got thrown over a balcony... he is tottally dead... uh oh .. he you know what he reminds me of ... THE MARINERS! ...
i can't do this anymore tonight .. peace out.
(i came in just in time to catch Aidrian's at bat)
Top of the 1st Beltre sac fly ... very nicely struck Ms up 1-0
------ Bottom 1 Gutz and Endy had a great chase down on that catch...they also did a great job of avoiding running into eachother
------- Top of 2 - Kenji ground out into a double play :(
------- Bottom of 2 - HOLY CRAP Bedard is on tonight. That curve is so tight he is just working for him. He is already in mid-season form
------- Top of 3 - speaking of mid-season form....Yuni swings at the second pitch high in the zone.. GG..
- End Chavez just for the record has like rockets strapped to his feet.. MAN IS HE FREAKING QUICK!!! he just got his second steal of the game and it was no contest.
- Gutz worked an amazing 12 pitch at bat but grounded out to the short stop.. oh well... Endy stays at second
- Beltre bloops a single in to left and he has his second RBI of the game... w000t 2-0 Mariners!
-------- Bottom of 3 -K ; Ground out (G/O); Fly Out (F/O)
--------- Top of 4 - Couple of quick outs Lopez/Johjima - Balentine just singled
Yuni singles and takes THEN takes second on a throw to third trying to get Balentine going from first to third. WHAT a heads-up play
Endy singles to center .. two runs in 4-0 M's ... OoooOO YEAH
---------Bottom of 4 -- Great defensive play for yuni backing up --
Chavez saves a run by tracking down a ball down the line and keeping a run from scoring during the double by Joe Crede
----AT THIS POINT Hayden called me, i missed the 5th inning and we talked for about 30 minutes about a bunch of various MLB things... the twins scored one run and then ... all i know is that bedard got tottally taken for a ride on that fast ball up in the zone. IT WAS A STRIKE .. thank you chuck meriweath. Next pitch was knocked into center field for a two run single. and then end of the inning we are still up 3-4 at the end of the inning but BLAH
TOP of 6th
nothing big so far but yuni has his second hit of the game.... so far he's having a nice quiet game... Just the way i like him.
Bentacourt stole second .. GOOD jump.. thats three now for the Mariners
Endy strikes out ... oh well..
-----
Here comes corky from the bullpen ...
-----
Bottom of 6
Just fyi they make the important comment bedard had 8 k's threw the game... very nice job.
Corky is like 1-2-3 presto ...
Lets see if we can get some of these runs back!
----
Top of 7 ---- 1-2-3 -- wow now this game is starting to take off
---
Bottom of 7 --- Corcoran seems to have problems with Morales ... OOoooOOO he got a good hit to the left field. but it was fould
STRIKE 3 nice pitch .. one out.
(FYI, i tottally love BIG BANG THEORY! .. it's funny)
Corcoran has thrown a ton of pitches so far ... i wonder how many he's at...
YUNI WITH A DAZZELING CATCH! watch espn tonight because that will be on web gems FOR sure.
then 1-2 and 3 pitches for a strike out .. w00t
he pitched to 6 batters and got 6 batters out ... very nicely done
----Top of 8
wow ... um.. branyan grounds out .. and Lopez strikes out and a horrible pitch.. he's looked lazy.
Kenji has hit a couple of balls pretty good but the same with the first one he flies out .. inning over.
---Bottom of 8
Here comes David Aardsma .. making his mariners debut
second pitch and he gets a fly out
he gets a strike out a strike out on a check swing
and a fly out to balentine ... 1.2.3.. inning ...
---Top of 9
(i may miss some things .. AJ just started 24 episode from last night.. i havn't seen it yet)
Luis Ayala comes... Just for the record any time i hear the name Ayala i can't help but think about Bobby.
LOL!
Base hit by Wladimer Balentine gets on base.
yuni is at 0-2 .. he keeps fouling pitches off he kind of reminds me of Mark McLemore.
he goes down on strikes ... out 1 ... balentine still at first.
Endy lays down a bunt .. kind of in self defense... he got a bad jump but Balentine gets to second base.
BASE HIT GUTZ!! balentine scores 5-3 m's
another 2 out base hit that scores a run... SUPER job!
(uh oh jack is showing signs of really being sick .... 24 break lol)
Jr. Flys out ends the inning
-------
HERE COMES BRANDON!!! 2009 DEBUT !!! Mr. BULLPEN .. he better be worth the move..
-------
STRIKE OUT!!!
crap thats gotta be like 10 or even 11 strikes out for mariner pitchers today.
And Delmon Young flies out to Gutz
...
Brandon has a grizzly fast ball... *shudder*
,,,brandon issues a walk...
and he dosn't seem interested in pitching to Kubel... and he walked him
he just seems really uncomfertable throwing to left handed hitters.
AND THERE IS ANOTHER WALK ... bases loaded two down .. and omgosh .. are you kidding me... they are bringing in Miguel Batista .. this can't be smart ...
OMGOSH!!! BOUNCING BALL and NO PLAY!!! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!?!?! WHAT?!
single up the middle GAME OVER .. we just freakin blew a two run lead.. oh crap..
what crappy way to end a great game ...
oh my heart was my chest and i knew it was going to happen... there ya go.. Game 2 and here are the mariners the rest of the country knew was there ...
and back to 24 .. where this guy just got thrown over a balcony... he is tottally dead... uh oh .. he you know what he reminds me of ... THE MARINERS! ...
i can't do this anymore tonight .. peace out.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Mariners get their first..and angela is finally going to crack
Okay ... so a small little blog tonight .. it's late and mondays are increadably busy day.
But, with Griffey hitting his first homer of the year and felix pitching like an amazing stud equals out to win number one.
Mariners 4-1 over the Twins .. box
-------------FANTASY BASEBALL week 1 day 1
Matts 58 vs. me 93.5
-------------2009 MLB Draft
I just am curious right now as to how possible it is right now for the Nationals to use their number one pick on someone other than Stephen Strasburg, there is such a drop off of overall talent but with Strasburg asking for a 50 mil down payment i just don't know if they are willing to spend that type of cash on a player. This is an important issue because if they choose to draft someone else. the Mariners have the #2 draft pick, which in turn gives us a chance to draft him.
Pitchers out of HS/College are far from sure things, however the guy has been scouted and told he's possibly major league ready. a 97-102 mph fast ball with a solid curve.
The Nationals have decalred they are done talking about the subject until after the draft in May.
Here's hoping they continue the trend of screwing over their fans and choosing to go a "different route"
--------------------------HEROES/CHUCK
Tonight was awesome ... Great story lines .. a couple of twists i didn't see coming...
I love that angela is finally trying to restore the family. i hope it keeps.
with next volume tenatively named "Redemption" it already is showing some potential for certain characters. Noah and Saundra, Peter and Nathan, Janice and Matt, really looking forward to where they go from where they are.
I love the Scott Bakula... Chuck's twist with him being "Orion" was GREAT! tottally didn't see it coming and that's something i'm really good with is seeing huge plot twists.... NORMALLY..
--------------------------------END GAME
time to go to bed ...
But, with Griffey hitting his first homer of the year and felix pitching like an amazing stud equals out to win number one.
Mariners 4-1 over the Twins .. box
-------------FANTASY BASEBALL week 1 day 1
Matts 58 vs. me 93.5
-------------2009 MLB Draft
I just am curious right now as to how possible it is right now for the Nationals to use their number one pick on someone other than Stephen Strasburg, there is such a drop off of overall talent but with Strasburg asking for a 50 mil down payment i just don't know if they are willing to spend that type of cash on a player. This is an important issue because if they choose to draft someone else. the Mariners have the #2 draft pick, which in turn gives us a chance to draft him.
Pitchers out of HS/College are far from sure things, however the guy has been scouted and told he's possibly major league ready. a 97-102 mph fast ball with a solid curve.
The Nationals have decalred they are done talking about the subject until after the draft in May.
Here's hoping they continue the trend of screwing over their fans and choosing to go a "different route"
--------------------------HEROES/CHUCK
Tonight was awesome ... Great story lines .. a couple of twists i didn't see coming...
I love that angela is finally trying to restore the family. i hope it keeps.
with next volume tenatively named "Redemption" it already is showing some potential for certain characters. Noah and Saundra, Peter and Nathan, Janice and Matt, really looking forward to where they go from where they are.
I love the Scott Bakula... Chuck's twist with him being "Orion" was GREAT! tottally didn't see it coming and that's something i'm really good with is seeing huge plot twists.... NORMALLY..
--------------------------------END GAME
time to go to bed ...
Sunday, April 5, 2009
vs. the versus
So.... lets first get this straightened out..
I have a few things to post on today and i need to start with something. Alot of people have been asking about it so lets go ahead and do some 'splainin as ricky would say.
Lets do some review
Harrison Crow vs. began as way of portraying things i'm battling in my current life. Not just putting something up there like "Oh no, it's raining" more of Harrison Crow vs. the rainy day. it just put a different spin on it. instead of saying "i'm watching 24" i could say silly things like harrison crow vs. Larry Moss. Which for you 24 fans would know who the heck he is. and those who really wanted to know probley did a good search on larry moss and was like oh he's watching 24. either that or found something completely unrelated LOL.
the Vs. thing is just unique way to describe whats going on. I did notice after the fact thats how they name the different episodes of the tv show "Chuck" which i do watch but just never noticed until after i started. it really started with Kasandra and I joking about this guy(or girl we arn't sure) Dr Watts. Outside of the grocery store they had painted on the back of their car call me Dr. Watts. So we made lots of jokes over the course of the week about Dr. Watts. These jokes sparked the vs. series.
Anyways. thats the explanation so there you go. Moving on,
-----------------------MLB
TODAY IS THE FIRST GAME OF THE BASEBALL SEASON!!! W000TTT!!!! i'm really excited. Derek lowe of the braves is pitching against Brett Myers and the phillies tonight at 830 est ....
------------------------FANTASY BASEBALL
This the segment in which i go over my current situation with my office in fantasy baseball...
AS OF TODAY-- i have the highest rated team. Of course we all know how things are subject to change and i must admit that i'm not completely prepared for my team to go unchanged for the rest of the season.
Here is my current line-up
C -Soto, Geovany C CHC
1b - Berkman, Lance 1B HOU
2b - Cano, Robinson 2B NYY
3b - Wright, David 3B NYM
SS - Tulowitzki, Troy SS COL
OF
Braun, Ryan J. LF MIL
Bruce, Jay RF CIN
Wells, Vernon CF TOR
DH - Longoria, Evan 3B TB
Pitching Rotation
Cahill, Trevor SP OAK
Hernandez, Felix SP SEA
Liriano, Francisco SP MIN
Myers, Brett SP PHI
Nolasco, Ricky SP FLA
Relief pitchers--
Qualls, Chad RP ARI
Rodriguez, Francisco J. RP NYM
Reserves---
Helton, Todd 1B COL
Guzman, Cristian SS WAS
Jones, Adam CF BAL
Mora, Melvin 3B BAL
Greinke, Zack SP KC
Basically the game works like this, you take on one team the week. you tottal up all the stats of you players different things equating for different point totals and the team with the most points wins.
You must have 5 starting pitchers -- you must have 2 Relief pitchers -- then you must have one player that qualifies for the position you have him slotted. to qualify they need to have played at least 5 games a year in that position. of the course of the year players can switch positions. now you can have one person who acts as a "desginated hitter" or Utility player that is cleared to play any position.
this week i play my boss Matt Miller. right now i am the favorite to win but you never now how the season will go. it's important that i get a good jump on things because with me going to deploy i'm going to miss a week here and there and you never know whats going to happen during that time. Anyways... this is going to be my summer i keep up with Fantasy Baseball.
-------------------------Goonies never say die
So i watched the goonies while writting this post and i just lost everything that i had thought i was going to say. ... soo anyways... i guess this is it.. i'll post more later
I have a few things to post on today and i need to start with something. Alot of people have been asking about it so lets go ahead and do some 'splainin as ricky would say.
Lets do some review
Harrison Crow vs. began as way of portraying things i'm battling in my current life. Not just putting something up there like "Oh no, it's raining" more of Harrison Crow vs. the rainy day. it just put a different spin on it. instead of saying "i'm watching 24" i could say silly things like harrison crow vs. Larry Moss. Which for you 24 fans would know who the heck he is. and those who really wanted to know probley did a good search on larry moss and was like oh he's watching 24. either that or found something completely unrelated LOL.
the Vs. thing is just unique way to describe whats going on. I did notice after the fact thats how they name the different episodes of the tv show "Chuck" which i do watch but just never noticed until after i started. it really started with Kasandra and I joking about this guy(or girl we arn't sure) Dr Watts. Outside of the grocery store they had painted on the back of their car call me Dr. Watts. So we made lots of jokes over the course of the week about Dr. Watts. These jokes sparked the vs. series.
Anyways. thats the explanation so there you go. Moving on,
-----------------------MLB
TODAY IS THE FIRST GAME OF THE BASEBALL SEASON!!! W000TTT!!!! i'm really excited. Derek lowe of the braves is pitching against Brett Myers and the phillies tonight at 830 est ....
------------------------FANTASY BASEBALL
This the segment in which i go over my current situation with my office in fantasy baseball...
AS OF TODAY-- i have the highest rated team. Of course we all know how things are subject to change and i must admit that i'm not completely prepared for my team to go unchanged for the rest of the season.
Here is my current line-up
C -Soto, Geovany C CHC
1b - Berkman, Lance 1B HOU
2b - Cano, Robinson 2B NYY
3b - Wright, David 3B NYM
SS - Tulowitzki, Troy SS COL
OF
Braun, Ryan J. LF MIL
Bruce, Jay RF CIN
Wells, Vernon CF TOR
DH - Longoria, Evan 3B TB
Pitching Rotation
Cahill, Trevor SP OAK
Hernandez, Felix SP SEA
Liriano, Francisco SP MIN
Myers, Brett SP PHI
Nolasco, Ricky SP FLA
Relief pitchers--
Qualls, Chad RP ARI
Rodriguez, Francisco J. RP NYM
Reserves---
Helton, Todd 1B COL
Guzman, Cristian SS WAS
Jones, Adam CF BAL
Mora, Melvin 3B BAL
Greinke, Zack SP KC
Basically the game works like this, you take on one team the week. you tottal up all the stats of you players different things equating for different point totals and the team with the most points wins.
You must have 5 starting pitchers -- you must have 2 Relief pitchers -- then you must have one player that qualifies for the position you have him slotted. to qualify they need to have played at least 5 games a year in that position. of the course of the year players can switch positions. now you can have one person who acts as a "desginated hitter" or Utility player that is cleared to play any position.
this week i play my boss Matt Miller. right now i am the favorite to win but you never now how the season will go. it's important that i get a good jump on things because with me going to deploy i'm going to miss a week here and there and you never know whats going to happen during that time. Anyways... this is going to be my summer i keep up with Fantasy Baseball.
-------------------------Goonies never say die
So i watched the goonies while writting this post and i just lost everything that i had thought i was going to say. ... soo anyways... i guess this is it.. i'll post more later
Saturday, April 4, 2009
No one can destroy you like you can.
Okay, i had this post in my mind after talking with Hayden (my little brother) it started talking about our teams ( Texas and Seattle, i know talk about sibling rivalry right?) we went to talking about some of our players who just we're sad that won't see much of the play offs. This eventually lead to the amazing Pittsburgh pirates whom we both have a vested intrest in because our parents are from the pitt area. In fact i grew up being and still am a HUGE Steeler fan. the pirates have become the worst run organization in sports. clippers got nothing on these guys.
Here are the facts! Since 1992 the Pittsburgh pirates have not finished .500 or better. in 17 years they have been unable to win. Yes they did finish 2nd in the divison in 1997 and 3rd in 99. But they also were 2 and 3 games under .500 in those runs. Thats not close to any title.
Now, i understand that they have been running on a tight budget and that makes it extremely tough to compete. But come on, at what point do you say, if other teams can win without spending money why can't we?
But since the organization loss Barry Bonds after the '92 season. The team has walked to the perverbial corner and started pouting. They have refused to come out of that corner ever since. Despite having some great players on their teams during this time the best record they have scraped together is 79-83...
let's see ... over the past 17 years who have they had??
In the mid 90s they had the likes of Jay Bell, Jon Liber, Al Martin (when healthy), Denny Neagel, Kevin Young,Danny Darwin, Dan Mecili, Tony Womack, Tim Wakefield, Carlos Garcia, Jeff King, and of course Jason Kendell.
While these players were never really players that ever excelled in any capacity(except Jay Bell we all know he should have been a HOF'r lol) However, these players after traded or let go made some type of contributions to other teams and i know you can't build a winning team around players like Jay Bell but with All-Stars like Jason Kendell and then in 2000 they got some young pitching studs such as Kris Benson, Jason Schmidt, Mike Williams, Steve Sparks, Chris Peters.
in 2000 they could have had a rotation of Denny Neagel, Tim Wakefield, Jason Schmidt, Kris Benson and Chris Peters.
REALLY in 2000 that wasn't that bad. That means they would have had to given 4.7 mil to Denny Neagel for an ACE... yeah he wasn't great but in 2000 he went 15-9 ERA 4.52 and a WHIP of 1.39. um... i think thats acceptable. NOT GREAT! BUT something to work with. Tim Wakefield made between 450k and 4 mil between 95 and 2000 in which he compiled 71 wins and averaged a 1.41 WHIP during that time and finished 3rd in CY YOUNG voting in 95. TELL ME, that they couldn't have used him during that time.
NOW please don't miss understand this. I'm not saying if they would have kept Carlos Garcia or Jeff King the pirates would have been better off. In fact i think they should have shipped King off while he had some type of value instead of hoping he would turn into a repalcment Bobby Bonila and build up a good team.
During this time the pirates have drafted 19 players since '92 and while i understand that not nearly all the players your going to draft are going to turn into studs and lead your franchise into the a new era. BUT, the pirates have had 9 TOP 10 picks in 17 years. Wanna know how many turned into studs??? do you count Kris Benson? if you don't like me .. then you get ZERO!!!
****NOTE: this is only in the first round.
in 94' they missed out on Nomar, Jason Veritek, and Paul Konerko
'95 they missed out on Matt Morris and Roy Hallday (wow i didn't realize how long he's been around)
'96 was a huge down year for the draft but here goes a few names, Eric Chavez, Gil Meche and Jason Marquis. Would you draft any of them over Kris Benson? i don't know it's kind of a coin toss i'll tottally give them a bye on this one.
'97 Jon Garland, Lance Berkman, and Jack Cust.
'98 Brad Lidge, CC Sabathia, Matt Thorton, and Mark Prior.
'99 (hold on this one hurts) Barry Zito, Ben Sheets, Brett Myers, Jason Jennings, Alex Rios, and Brian Roberts.
'00 Aaron Heilman and Kelly Johnson
'01 Casey Kotchman, Aaron Heilman (again), Bobby Crosby, and David Wright
'02 (hold on again, this one hurts worse) BJ Upton, Zack Grienke, Prince Fielder, Jeff Francis, Joe Saunders, Kahlil Greene, Scott Kazmir, Nick Swisher, Cole Hamels, Denard Span, Jeff Francoeur, Matt Cain, Mark Teahen
'03 John Danks, Ian Stewert, Conor Jackson, Chad Cordero, Brandon Wood, Chad Billingsley, Carlos Quentin, Adam Jones and Jarrod Saltalamacchia
***(at this point you can probley say some of these guys can still turn out to be busts and others can still have potential)***
'04 Jered Weaver, Billy Butler, Stephan Drew, Josh Fields, Phillip Hughes, Houston Street
'05 Jay Bruce, Jacob Ellsbury, Matt Garza
'06 Brandon Morrow, Tim Lincecum, Ian Kennedy, Joba Chamberlin
'07 Matt Wieters and Phillippe Aumont
Just pathetic, i can't believe they could miss this many people. Now there are still alot of players that cannot be accounted for and maybe the pirates picks can still turn out. but for now we'll just assume that they are completely failure picks.
I just don't understand as an organization you can produce 17 years of flops and not refill your farm system during that time. Yes over the last few years they had Jason Bay, Xavier Nady, Jack Wilson, Ryan Doumit, Alexis Rameriz, Andy LaRoche, Matt Capps, Nate McClouth, Ian Snell. These guys are all ligitmate All-Stars but they have all been broken, un-encouraged or traded away for lesser prospects or players and then signed half way hacks as replacement players.
I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS... it's like Bill Bavasi was running TWO organizations at one time. Only he seemingly has run them for 17 years. I can't imagine they will be in any hunt for a Wild Card or Divison Title ANY TIME in the near future.....
this has gone on too long but .. ugh... be prepared for more later
Here are the facts! Since 1992 the Pittsburgh pirates have not finished .500 or better. in 17 years they have been unable to win. Yes they did finish 2nd in the divison in 1997 and 3rd in 99. But they also were 2 and 3 games under .500 in those runs. Thats not close to any title.
Now, i understand that they have been running on a tight budget and that makes it extremely tough to compete. But come on, at what point do you say, if other teams can win without spending money why can't we?
But since the organization loss Barry Bonds after the '92 season. The team has walked to the perverbial corner and started pouting. They have refused to come out of that corner ever since. Despite having some great players on their teams during this time the best record they have scraped together is 79-83...
let's see ... over the past 17 years who have they had??
In the mid 90s they had the likes of Jay Bell, Jon Liber, Al Martin (when healthy), Denny Neagel, Kevin Young,Danny Darwin, Dan Mecili, Tony Womack, Tim Wakefield, Carlos Garcia, Jeff King, and of course Jason Kendell.
While these players were never really players that ever excelled in any capacity(except Jay Bell we all know he should have been a HOF'r lol) However, these players after traded or let go made some type of contributions to other teams and i know you can't build a winning team around players like Jay Bell but with All-Stars like Jason Kendell and then in 2000 they got some young pitching studs such as Kris Benson, Jason Schmidt, Mike Williams, Steve Sparks, Chris Peters.
in 2000 they could have had a rotation of Denny Neagel, Tim Wakefield, Jason Schmidt, Kris Benson and Chris Peters.
REALLY in 2000 that wasn't that bad. That means they would have had to given 4.7 mil to Denny Neagel for an ACE... yeah he wasn't great but in 2000 he went 15-9 ERA 4.52 and a WHIP of 1.39. um... i think thats acceptable. NOT GREAT! BUT something to work with. Tim Wakefield made between 450k and 4 mil between 95 and 2000 in which he compiled 71 wins and averaged a 1.41 WHIP during that time and finished 3rd in CY YOUNG voting in 95. TELL ME, that they couldn't have used him during that time.
NOW please don't miss understand this. I'm not saying if they would have kept Carlos Garcia or Jeff King the pirates would have been better off. In fact i think they should have shipped King off while he had some type of value instead of hoping he would turn into a repalcment Bobby Bonila and build up a good team.
During this time the pirates have drafted 19 players since '92 and while i understand that not nearly all the players your going to draft are going to turn into studs and lead your franchise into the a new era. BUT, the pirates have had 9 TOP 10 picks in 17 years. Wanna know how many turned into studs??? do you count Kris Benson? if you don't like me .. then you get ZERO!!!
****NOTE: this is only in the first round.
in 94' they missed out on Nomar, Jason Veritek, and Paul Konerko
'95 they missed out on Matt Morris and Roy Hallday (wow i didn't realize how long he's been around)
'96 was a huge down year for the draft but here goes a few names, Eric Chavez, Gil Meche and Jason Marquis. Would you draft any of them over Kris Benson? i don't know it's kind of a coin toss i'll tottally give them a bye on this one.
'97 Jon Garland, Lance Berkman, and Jack Cust.
'98 Brad Lidge, CC Sabathia, Matt Thorton, and Mark Prior.
'99 (hold on this one hurts) Barry Zito, Ben Sheets, Brett Myers, Jason Jennings, Alex Rios, and Brian Roberts.
'00 Aaron Heilman and Kelly Johnson
'01 Casey Kotchman, Aaron Heilman (again), Bobby Crosby, and David Wright
'02 (hold on again, this one hurts worse) BJ Upton, Zack Grienke, Prince Fielder, Jeff Francis, Joe Saunders, Kahlil Greene, Scott Kazmir, Nick Swisher, Cole Hamels, Denard Span, Jeff Francoeur, Matt Cain, Mark Teahen
'03 John Danks, Ian Stewert, Conor Jackson, Chad Cordero, Brandon Wood, Chad Billingsley, Carlos Quentin, Adam Jones and Jarrod Saltalamacchia
***(at this point you can probley say some of these guys can still turn out to be busts and others can still have potential)***
'04 Jered Weaver, Billy Butler, Stephan Drew, Josh Fields, Phillip Hughes, Houston Street
'05 Jay Bruce, Jacob Ellsbury, Matt Garza
'06 Brandon Morrow, Tim Lincecum, Ian Kennedy, Joba Chamberlin
'07 Matt Wieters and Phillippe Aumont
Just pathetic, i can't believe they could miss this many people. Now there are still alot of players that cannot be accounted for and maybe the pirates picks can still turn out. but for now we'll just assume that they are completely failure picks.
I just don't understand as an organization you can produce 17 years of flops and not refill your farm system during that time. Yes over the last few years they had Jason Bay, Xavier Nady, Jack Wilson, Ryan Doumit, Alexis Rameriz, Andy LaRoche, Matt Capps, Nate McClouth, Ian Snell. These guys are all ligitmate All-Stars but they have all been broken, un-encouraged or traded away for lesser prospects or players and then signed half way hacks as replacement players.
I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS... it's like Bill Bavasi was running TWO organizations at one time. Only he seemingly has run them for 17 years. I can't imagine they will be in any hunt for a Wild Card or Divison Title ANY TIME in the near future.....
this has gone on too long but .. ugh... be prepared for more later
Friday, April 3, 2009
Things your uncle may have taught you... and more
So i spent alittle bit of time teaching my niece how to say and pronounce words. we started with saying the F-word....
...
...
...
FRIENDSHIP!
FUN!
FUNKY!
FRUGAL
FAIL
FLOP
FLIPPER
FROWN
FUSSY ... her additude to her aunty .. LOL!
...
yeah.. those are the important ones we stressed...
LOL! We had fun...played alittle of hid and go seek. It's funny to see how much she grown and understand things. Right now affectionaitly calls me UNCA ... or just yells rawr.. it's usually directed at me...lol
we did get her saying "Dude" or her own version of it... she likes dancing to the limur part of Madagascar.. it's awesome..
--------------------SOFTBALL
We had our second game of the year, first in a month because of rain outs. we ended up winning 21-9 in 5 innings due to us placing a mercy rule on them ... kind of a football score, but thats alright. There was 16 of 30 total points scored in the first inning. Which is kind of sad, but it's largely due to the fact that the Umpire had a VERY small strike zone. he didn't really start to open it up until the second inning and the game started picking up quickly after that. We had some great hits and our girls also took huge advantage of their lazy play.
Merideth and Bethany pitched today and i was really pleased with both of their outtings.
Merideth only went one inning and even with her giving up 8 runs, i think that the umpire really frustrated her. She does a GREAT job at hitting the corners and the blue just wasn't giving it to her, which in turn lead to frustration. She has alot of problems with her release points. She holds on to the ball way too long thus making the ball travel out of the strike zone and end up either too high or throwing it too low. She needs to work more on snapping the ball when she is coming down with the ball. she would have much more acurecy and she wouldn't get flustered as much.
Bethany had a huge advantage because the umpire open up his strike zone and made the girls swing more often. She also threw more pitches over the heart of the plate, and let our defense really get to work. She got alot of swinging strikes and that may have been due to the fact they weren't used to her (slower) speed. If bethany can pick up her speed i deffinitly see her becoming our number 1 pitcher next year.
As far as defense goes there was a couple of bad plays in the first two innings but really after we shook the rust off we got to work. Savannah got a couple of ground outs and Taylor got one too. I was very impressed with Laura playing first base and the way she stayed with the bag and stretched to grab the throws that weren't as accurate. I was very excited to see Sarah catch the fly ball in left field. GREAT SNAB! it may just be a routine play but it's the routine plays that really make the difference in a game. Merideth threw out i think 2 maybe 3 runners trying to steal. THAT is awesome and it gives further emphasis that she should stay behind the plate and allow others to pitch. I told Bro Steve (Our pastor and the head coach of the team) the way she handles the pitches really made a difference with the umpire and the way he called pitches. I love Laura and her additude but the way Merideth caught the ball and "framed" the pitch put emphasis on the location and i think changed the opnion on a few balls that the batters kept "diving" out of the way.
All the girls showed great potential. The other team's pitcher threw not really hard but pretty good and i was happy to see some of the girls catch up to those pitches such as Lydia, Sarah, Young-Joo, they all need to work on their hitting. however, i was really impressed that they got pieces of the pitches. Molly got a GREAT bunt down with two strikes. which just tottally threw me off.
we have another game on monday. i should really grab a note book to take notes on and work with our team.
Being the out field coach i really need to start working harder on A) juding fly balls and B) staying involved in every play. While i've tried to work on them about this already i need to start go about this in a new way. because obviously there are some things we need to work on.
--------------------------Mariners
of course everyone knows about Ichiro and the bleeding ulcur .. that stinks ... i'm not of the sinking boat majority that's going on right now. although i'm not really keen on Griffey playing RF.. but we'll see whats going on.
IM WATCHING THE GAME TONIGHT! YEAH!
IM WATCHING JARROD WASHBURN ... bummer... LOL!
BUT! Spring training is over .. so that means Monday is the start of the season. i'm so looking forward to it. it's going to be a really interesting season and the way i'm going to follow it will be a new experience.
DOUBLE BY BELTRE .. that was a rocket
3-5 rockies over the mariners right now ...
-----------------FANTASY BASEBALL
with the start of the season brings the start of fantasy baseball season. expect me to go over this on sundays rather in depth.
------------------SCHEDULE
SUNDAY -- Fantasy Baseball blog
MONDAY -- nothing as of yet
TUESDAY -- nothing as of yet
WEDNESDAY -- Kids say the darnedest things... (inspired by Anna Dickson)
THURSDAY -- nothing as of yet
FRIDAY -- Movie DAY!
SATURDAY -- nothing as of yet
DAILY -- Daily i'll go over softball, the mariners, some randomness.. and i think AJ has some thoughts on Derek Jeter she wishes to share along with some funny quotes.
i'm going to be trying to come up with something daily to write. hopefully it will keep you all in touch with me while i'm gone. i'll still be writting while i'm gone i'll just send them to AJ and have her make the updates for me.
-------------Movie DAY!
There are two big movies coming out this week and maybe i'm over stating big..
But first of all there is Adventureland .. which is an independent style comedy.. almost looks like a black-comedy or rather dark comedy .. whichever you perfer.. it's being headlined by Ryan Reyenolds, Jesse Eisnberg and then of course the ever popular Kirsten Stewart from the twilight series. (will her name ever be synomous with anything else??) btw i used to lump Ms.Stewart in with the likes of Jena Malone (whom i think needs to change the movies she chooses to do..she's kind of a flusey) but i've started to change the opnion as she seems less and less like the typical movie star and just someone that enjoys acting in movies. i guess we'll see. Enough of her .. i really like Eisnberg and i love Ryan Reyenolds.. i have a man crush on Mr.Reyenolds... He is officially too cool for school. I probley won't see this movie because it looks very crude but hey if you like indie style-comedies and have low morales.... you probley don't read this blog.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/
then the BIG one the fourth and latest of the "Fast and the Furious" enstallments reuniting the orignal cast of the first one. Which is really the only way they could do another one. it's great to see Vin Diesel back in the big car/big action movies. I would really like to see this in the theater. In fact we have no plans so i just may surprise AJ and take her tommorrow. Good idea Harrison
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/
and then the limited release of "Gigantic" staring Zooey Deschanel and Jon Goodman. I can't believe Jon Goodman is still alive i keep waiting for that guy to have a heartattack, a man of his size can't be healthy ... this movie is an indy and i don't know much about this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176251/
-------------END
I know this was really big post .. sorry for those who actually read it... have a fun Saturday
...
...
...
FRIENDSHIP!
FUN!
FUNKY!
FRUGAL
FAIL
FLOP
FLIPPER
FROWN
FUSSY ... her additude to her aunty .. LOL!
...
yeah.. those are the important ones we stressed...
LOL! We had fun...played alittle of hid and go seek. It's funny to see how much she grown and understand things. Right now affectionaitly calls me UNCA ... or just yells rawr.. it's usually directed at me...lol
we did get her saying "Dude" or her own version of it... she likes dancing to the limur part of Madagascar.. it's awesome..
--------------------SOFTBALL
We had our second game of the year, first in a month because of rain outs. we ended up winning 21-9 in 5 innings due to us placing a mercy rule on them ... kind of a football score, but thats alright. There was 16 of 30 total points scored in the first inning. Which is kind of sad, but it's largely due to the fact that the Umpire had a VERY small strike zone. he didn't really start to open it up until the second inning and the game started picking up quickly after that. We had some great hits and our girls also took huge advantage of their lazy play.
Merideth and Bethany pitched today and i was really pleased with both of their outtings.
Merideth only went one inning and even with her giving up 8 runs, i think that the umpire really frustrated her. She does a GREAT job at hitting the corners and the blue just wasn't giving it to her, which in turn lead to frustration. She has alot of problems with her release points. She holds on to the ball way too long thus making the ball travel out of the strike zone and end up either too high or throwing it too low. She needs to work more on snapping the ball when she is coming down with the ball. she would have much more acurecy and she wouldn't get flustered as much.
Bethany had a huge advantage because the umpire open up his strike zone and made the girls swing more often. She also threw more pitches over the heart of the plate, and let our defense really get to work. She got alot of swinging strikes and that may have been due to the fact they weren't used to her (slower) speed. If bethany can pick up her speed i deffinitly see her becoming our number 1 pitcher next year.
As far as defense goes there was a couple of bad plays in the first two innings but really after we shook the rust off we got to work. Savannah got a couple of ground outs and Taylor got one too. I was very impressed with Laura playing first base and the way she stayed with the bag and stretched to grab the throws that weren't as accurate. I was very excited to see Sarah catch the fly ball in left field. GREAT SNAB! it may just be a routine play but it's the routine plays that really make the difference in a game. Merideth threw out i think 2 maybe 3 runners trying to steal. THAT is awesome and it gives further emphasis that she should stay behind the plate and allow others to pitch. I told Bro Steve (Our pastor and the head coach of the team) the way she handles the pitches really made a difference with the umpire and the way he called pitches. I love Laura and her additude but the way Merideth caught the ball and "framed" the pitch put emphasis on the location and i think changed the opnion on a few balls that the batters kept "diving" out of the way.
All the girls showed great potential. The other team's pitcher threw not really hard but pretty good and i was happy to see some of the girls catch up to those pitches such as Lydia, Sarah, Young-Joo, they all need to work on their hitting. however, i was really impressed that they got pieces of the pitches. Molly got a GREAT bunt down with two strikes. which just tottally threw me off.
we have another game on monday. i should really grab a note book to take notes on and work with our team.
Being the out field coach i really need to start working harder on A) juding fly balls and B) staying involved in every play. While i've tried to work on them about this already i need to start go about this in a new way. because obviously there are some things we need to work on.
--------------------------Mariners
of course everyone knows about Ichiro and the bleeding ulcur .. that stinks ... i'm not of the sinking boat majority that's going on right now. although i'm not really keen on Griffey playing RF.. but we'll see whats going on.
IM WATCHING THE GAME TONIGHT! YEAH!
IM WATCHING JARROD WASHBURN ... bummer... LOL!
BUT! Spring training is over .. so that means Monday is the start of the season. i'm so looking forward to it. it's going to be a really interesting season and the way i'm going to follow it will be a new experience.
DOUBLE BY BELTRE .. that was a rocket
3-5 rockies over the mariners right now ...
-----------------FANTASY BASEBALL
with the start of the season brings the start of fantasy baseball season. expect me to go over this on sundays rather in depth.
------------------SCHEDULE
SUNDAY -- Fantasy Baseball blog
MONDAY -- nothing as of yet
TUESDAY -- nothing as of yet
WEDNESDAY -- Kids say the darnedest things... (inspired by Anna Dickson)
THURSDAY -- nothing as of yet
FRIDAY -- Movie DAY!
SATURDAY -- nothing as of yet
DAILY -- Daily i'll go over softball, the mariners, some randomness.. and i think AJ has some thoughts on Derek Jeter she wishes to share along with some funny quotes.
i'm going to be trying to come up with something daily to write. hopefully it will keep you all in touch with me while i'm gone. i'll still be writting while i'm gone i'll just send them to AJ and have her make the updates for me.
-------------Movie DAY!
There are two big movies coming out this week and maybe i'm over stating big..
But first of all there is Adventureland .. which is an independent style comedy.. almost looks like a black-comedy or rather dark comedy .. whichever you perfer.. it's being headlined by Ryan Reyenolds, Jesse Eisnberg and then of course the ever popular Kirsten Stewart from the twilight series. (will her name ever be synomous with anything else??) btw i used to lump Ms.Stewart in with the likes of Jena Malone (whom i think needs to change the movies she chooses to do..she's kind of a flusey) but i've started to change the opnion as she seems less and less like the typical movie star and just someone that enjoys acting in movies. i guess we'll see. Enough of her .. i really like Eisnberg and i love Ryan Reyenolds.. i have a man crush on Mr.Reyenolds... He is officially too cool for school. I probley won't see this movie because it looks very crude but hey if you like indie style-comedies and have low morales.... you probley don't read this blog.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/
then the BIG one the fourth and latest of the "Fast and the Furious" enstallments reuniting the orignal cast of the first one. Which is really the only way they could do another one. it's great to see Vin Diesel back in the big car/big action movies. I would really like to see this in the theater. In fact we have no plans so i just may surprise AJ and take her tommorrow. Good idea Harrison
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/
and then the limited release of "Gigantic" staring Zooey Deschanel and Jon Goodman. I can't believe Jon Goodman is still alive i keep waiting for that guy to have a heartattack, a man of his size can't be healthy ... this movie is an indy and i don't know much about this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176251/
-------------END
I know this was really big post .. sorry for those who actually read it... have a fun Saturday
Thursday, April 2, 2009
THE VERBAL SHOT GUN!!!!
So get this … I’m totally putting a patent down on the greatest burn line ever… the verbal shot gun.
The ability to kill all and any conversations. You know those people the ones that come into the conversation having no real interests or in it but want attention and interject a line of dialog that absolutely turns everyone around into a drooling zombie. YES, they no longer have control of their mind or muscle reflects. All of a sudden you are dead to the world and you are thinking ARE YOU SERIOUS!?! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!?! You sir, need to shut the pie hole and turn around and leave, Gravitate towards a white dwarf and leave us alone. But no .. any type of sarcasm or reflection at this point on what had just happen is over. All you can do is go back to work, leave or fall lifelessly to the floor. It’s what happens when you are hit with a verbal shot gun. It just sprays everyone in the convo and you all are dead. All I can say is beware of such an individual because they could be anywhere. Should it happen or about to happen all you can do is shoot back with PUT THE VERBAL SHOT GUN DOWN!
Zombies are bad and we need less in the world. That’s a fact and if you don’t believe me go to wal-mart……..
The ability to kill all and any conversations. You know those people the ones that come into the conversation having no real interests or in it but want attention and interject a line of dialog that absolutely turns everyone around into a drooling zombie. YES, they no longer have control of their mind or muscle reflects. All of a sudden you are dead to the world and you are thinking ARE YOU SERIOUS!?! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!?! You sir, need to shut the pie hole and turn around and leave, Gravitate towards a white dwarf and leave us alone. But no .. any type of sarcasm or reflection at this point on what had just happen is over. All you can do is go back to work, leave or fall lifelessly to the floor. It’s what happens when you are hit with a verbal shot gun. It just sprays everyone in the convo and you all are dead. All I can say is beware of such an individual because they could be anywhere. Should it happen or about to happen all you can do is shoot back with PUT THE VERBAL SHOT GUN DOWN!
Zombies are bad and we need less in the world. That’s a fact and if you don’t believe me go to wal-mart……..
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Peter and I, we know whats up
Well it’s another day another dollar. THE AMERICAN DREAM! --- yeah I’m not really going on about the American dream… and … where it exactly is these days…
No, I’m on lunch break and I’m writing my latest blog post simple because I’m putting off dealing with this SMTP server error. I think it has something to do with the Exchange mail servers but since I’m just a peon anymore I don’t have access to look at the server which strangely enough makes me relate to how peter petreli went from being able to wield and pull powers to being powerless. Ugh! I have an inclination that since I’ll be with the army with this upcoming deployment I’m going to be a CSA. Which is yet again an awesome example that I’m the IT version of Peter. Having my powers re-instated however only being able to do it at a much lower level. YATA!
No, I’m on lunch break and I’m writing my latest blog post simple because I’m putting off dealing with this SMTP server error. I think it has something to do with the Exchange mail servers but since I’m just a peon anymore I don’t have access to look at the server which strangely enough makes me relate to how peter petreli went from being able to wield and pull powers to being powerless. Ugh! I have an inclination that since I’ll be with the army with this upcoming deployment I’m going to be a CSA. Which is yet again an awesome example that I’m the IT version of Peter. Having my powers re-instated however only being able to do it at a much lower level. YATA!
(SIDENOTE: it turns out not a permission error with the server and after the section with the mariners i finished it at home, so no, i didn't write a 2 hour blog on my lunch hour.)
Well I had a couple people point out a few things in last night blog that I wanted to specify so no one got confused. Unlike a lot of the people I read who write specifically to sports readers. I write to my friends and people who are just randomly passing through.
I wrote about the Mariners upcoming rotation and I have some numbers and then place either an ‘L’ or an ‘R’ next to their name. First the number specifies which order they pitch. In Major League Baseball (MLB) you have a rotation of 5 different pitchers. 1 is our number one pitcher, his job is to be the best pitcher on the staff and the start pitcher and he should give us the most quality starts (6 complete innings of work with no more than 3 earned runs given up during that time by definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_start ) Your number 2 guy is going be your second best pitcher but this can change depending on if your 2 and 3 guys are close together as you may want to have a Right handed pitcher start then go with a Left hander the next game followed by a number 3 guy that is right handed. There is some stratagey on how you want to set up your rotation after your best pitcher. There is some school of thought that you don’t want to start 2 left handed pitchers in session. As it could nullify their effectiveness.
Here are a few sites and information should you care to find out more information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starting_pitcher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed_specialist
I also made a statement that looking back I’d like to correct. I said that I don’t believe that Jarrod Washburn or Erik Bedard will be around come august. Which is a complete possibility, However it was pointed out by Dave Cameron over at USS Mariners that it is in fact cheaper and more productive based on past trading dealine deals to wait for the season to end and prior to leaving for Free Agency you have an opportunity to offer what is called Arbitration
http://baseball.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_baseball_arbitration_works
http://baseball.suite101.com/article.cfm/baseball_free_agency_rules
Basically if they don’t accept the arbitration pay they can become a free-agent and in exchange we get draft picks from the team that picks him up. Those draft pick have proven to yield higher potential percentage wise then the level of prospects exchange. Not to say there hasn’t been a few guys that haven’t become studs afterwards just it’s been few and far between.
now i don't know if it's better to trade him (bedard) or not but that is the claim. i don't honestly think they will find takers for Jarrod Washburn. But hey you never know. Obama did get elected.
I hope this helps clear things up….
----------------------------BRACKET
My NCAA basketball bracket is currently looking like 80% the rest of America. Swiss freakin cheese. But I could end up as high as second if UNC breaks out some moves and Ty Lawson continues to drop tears on to Villa and whoever comes from west, either UCON or MSU. FYI, I will be rooting for UNC to finish what they started.
-----------------------------NBA
NBA, it’s that time of year that the play offs are approaching. To were the intensity seeps out of your TV as you see everyone standing in the building. You sit on the edge of you seat, waiting to see how the play turns out. Are they going to try and swing it around for an open shot or are they going to give it to the man and have someone cut to the bucket? Yeah well, unless you had your heart ripped out 9 months ago and stopped caring about the NBA in general. I think it’s great that there is a 3-canidate MVP run right now. But seriously, I am an NBA orphan. Where can I go? Why should I care about a sport that didn’t care about it’s fans? It’s so far from being balanced it’s ridiculous. I just want my Sonics back. I want to see Kevin Durant dunk and become excited that this could be the start of a new western dynasty but, no. They ripped them from us. *sigh*
----------------------------Vacation
I’m trying to decide exactly what I’m going to do for my vacation prior to deployment. I want to go visit my Grandpa and Grandma in Arkansas prior to leaving. It’s not really what I’m going to do, but how and when. Half of May will be dedicated towards Training and I assume that June will be that way too. I guess after all the training in May, I could make a break for it and squeeze it in.
I am really looking forward to Feburary next year. I’ll be coming home to visit everyone after my long trip and then in Late March I’m going to ol’ UGs (UG = Uncle Greg) house for a week or so of spring training. Too bad I won’t be here for the August Tampa Bay game vs. Griffey and the Mariners. I was looking forward to seeing him one last time before he retires.
-------------------------Softball
We got an upcoming game Friday. I’m really looking forward too it. It’ll be just our second game but that doesn’t mean our girls aren’t ready. A lot of really great strong hits Monday in practice. Yesterday got rained out with the storm that just passed through.
-------------------------Weather
I need a good day of sun shine to dry our the grass so I can mow it. it’s been just a week and a half and it’s already too long
------------------------Upcoming movies
Any good movies out???
------------------------Random
I need to go mow the lawn.... Crap... :(
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