They are all basicaly the same movie, quirky characters, bizarre setting/back story, off-beat pacing, little to no plot, mundane conversations, great music & visuals. I like that every 2 years or so I get to pretty much re-watch the same quirky movie that mostly amuses me.   

It's like in little league when the douchebag coach stacks his team w/ all the best players and wins everygame 22-0 so he and his insecure fucktard son can collect trophies while the rest of the kids in the league get a quick lesson in sportsmanship. What kind of front-running chode would rather gravytrain championships then build his own legacy?...oh yeah...the kind who grows up in Akron rooting for the Cowboys and Yankees. I kind of hate sports today and I don't even like the NBA. It's just bad.  

I still say Lebron stays. Cavs had the best record in the league last year, been in or close to the championship 3 yrs in a row. The Knicks have sucked for years. No way he wants to start another rebuilding process. He wants to start collecting rings. Miami is the only other option, but it would dimish his legacy if he gravy-tained Wade & Bosh. That in turn limits his brand. Staying in Cleveland for 3 more years probably makes the most sense (winning, which = $/legacy) if Gilbert can trade for a running mate.  

Read a quote in Buffalo News about LeBron, "If he leaves you Cleveland, we know how you feel. We're here if you need to talk. - Buffalo."  

I didn't want to be all "smarty-pants" on you guys, so I let you guys try for a few days.   

should read, "lived Large"  

Cathryn, just wait till "tall white lady" month. Maybe that's when they give it to a latino guy to plan it.  

Have a great weekend everyone. I'm outtie!  

2. As a Facebook holdout, I feel vindicated by the articles about people wanting to opt out. I await your Twitter report. I think I would only consider it if I was in the media. Otherwise I see no value.

3. Avatar in 3D was pretty cool.

4. I agree w/ you about home 3D. But who knows, it might be awesome. I'll probably be a late adopter as usual.

5. Old Navy decided cargo pants are hip again...look who's ahead of the fashion curve - this guy! Of course in 2 years I'll be behind it again.

6. I don't remember you talking about this. What are they? I'm actualy surprised there were only 2. I forgot the plot already. but I liked the movie regardless. It was fun to look at.  

Have fun Paulings, first family vacation!  

Bummer, that guy was funny on Rome.  

Well played Colonel...well played.  

I feel less sorry for the Pens, you did just win. But considering the other 3 teams that were left I was pulling for them, so again that probably doomed them.

Baseball season?  

Also, those pesky Habs won't give in to the Pens huh?  

sorry for the Pittsburgh smack Bub & Derek. But Pouncey's woman looks like the chick in the Steelers shirt we saw at the Lighthouse in OBX. And I swear they were in a mobile home.   

Yes, Iron Mike sucks balls.

Gruden dive give Tebow some shit. He told him he liked his goal line running and compared him to Mike Alstott saying that he'll be a great FB. he also kept saying things like, "So you'll probably get drafted. what, like 5th - 6th rd?"  

Anyone watch the Gruden QB Camp on ESPN last thurs? I just watched it last night after the shitty Sabres game. It was realy good. I would watch Gruden break down film and make fun of college kids every week if it was on.  

Leanne and I explain to Andy who it was and how he's a good kid, but due to getting a DWI when he was a teenager he doesn't drive. So the fact that he found himslef in our neck of the woods and thought about calling us and offering to buy his cousins a beer was pretty thoughtful. He's a really considerate guy, just makes   bad decisions.

Abby wins w/ a score of +1 for getting "Studio 54" correct!  

A double disc concept album featuring (musical artist) collaborating w/ (musical artist) featuring, among others, vocalists like (3 female vocalists). The 22 songs track the life and times of (historical figure) and, according to the composers, play like the soundtrack from a night of (genre of music) at (place).  

I have an electric edger. I only do it once a month or so, but man does it look sharp! And I only scrape the bottom of my mower when it gets really built up. It's a cheap mower and I don't have a big yard, so I consider it almost disposable. If I get 5 yrs out of it w/o much if any maintenance, it's worth the $130. Also I use an electric weed whacker/trimmer which sucks cuz of the cord but my lawn is too small to justify a gas one. And I always sweep the drive and all sidealks and my nieghbor's drive. That might be because how close everything is, but I feel it's the nieghborly thing to do.

Most importantly, be sure to drink beer while doing ANY of this work. Otherwise it feels like a chore instead of what it realy is...drinking beer outside on manicured lawns.  

Dickey, you want me to send your crawl shirts? I need your address.

Berg, seeing as you always pile on Derek for thuggity bengals...  Gangsta Browns

I am excited for baseball. I can't wait to see the Sox staff dominate the AL this season. Beckett-Lester-Lackey-Buckholz-Wakefield-and oh yeah a healthy Dice-K!  

How are you doing Cristen? How's Baby Thews v.2.0?  

also, they're generic grocery brand is high qaulity, often better than name-brand. So shopping there is economical. They also have a huge organic section and other specialties (different aisle for different countries in 'foods of the world' section) and a HUGE beer aisle w/ all kinds of imports and micro-brews. It's just a mega grocery store.   

"Wes" is the nickname of Wesley In Latin it means "Large Penis" If you ever find one take them home and fuck them.   

If you think The Chan sounds like a redneck inbred hillbilly, you should hear our new GM, Buddy Nix. He's 100% worse. I agree w/ you on the southern drawl sounding terrible, but I kinda like it in football people. football may be the only profession where that accent makes you sound like you know what you're talking about.  

"Your move Al Davis."  

I don't like Drive By Truckers as much as Toner but that is a great album. i would listen to an argument for Pelican too. I gotta come up a few nominations.

Uncle Dougums hooked me up w/ this goodie...  stream new Spoon on NPR

Is this "favorites" or "most important"?  

1st sem - greenhouse, cluster house x1, cluster x4

2nd sem - kent art museum, medina project, kent fire station

other than 2nd & 4th year (corporate & OE) every section usually had different projects.  

funfact about that Kent project: Katie Wasem made Dave Shields cry when he joked that they should be starting to build his project soon and she asked how they could build it when he never finished any drawings.  

01.11.10  

Erie would probably be pretty cheap. do they have a bar district?  

12. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

11. Peral Jam - Backspacer

10. People Under the Stairs - Carried Away

9. The Features - Some Kind of Salvation

8. Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars

7. Muse - The Resistance

6. The Tragically Hip - We Are the Same

5. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years

4. Brother Ali - Us

3. Akron / Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free

2. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

1. Miike Snow   

12. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

11. Peral Jam - Backspacer

10. People Under the Stairs - Carried Away

9. The Features - Some Kind of Salvation

8. Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars

7. Muse - The Resistance

6. The Tragically Hip - We Are the Same

5. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years

4. Brother Ali - Us

3. Akron / Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free

2. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

1. Miike Snow  

#2 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum  

Miike Snow

Sweedish producers

worked with stars, now on their onw

infectious pop

  Black & Blue (I double-dog dare you to NOT like this song)

pompous swagger rock

trying so hard to be cool

want to hate, but can't

  Where Did All the Love Go?

three guys, so much sound

experimental folk rock

amazing live sets

  River (live)

Holy footballs Big Ben! and what a fucking catch by Wallace!

Holy footballs Jerome Harrison! (who?) Glad the guy I played in fantasy football play-offs had Wallace and Harrison on the bench!

The Bills suck and I'm tired of losing to the stupid sexy Tom Bradys. Even the crappy Browns beat the Steelers this year, when do the Bills luck into a win over NE? BTW, in the Bills game they put Trentative edwards in for a "spark" in the 3rd qtr. He went, sack, completion for -1 yrd, sack, carried off the field on a golf cart. Ladies & gentlemen, your 2009 Buffalo Bills.  

12. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

11. Peral Jam - Backspacer

10. People Under the Stairs - Carried Away

9. The Features - Some Kind of Salvation

8. Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars

7. Muse - The Resistance

6. The Tragically Hip - We Are the Same

5. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years

4. Brother Ali - Us

OMG what will crack the top 3?!?!? tune in next week kittens...  

albino mc

spits rhymes with his conscious

bad mother fucker

  Us

hailing from Cardiff

electro experiments

psychedelic rock

  Moped Eyes

more then twenty years

billowing rock from the north

a bit alt-country

  Love Is a First (again, no proper video)

so huge in Europe

experimental prog-rock

total decadence

  Uprising

not Blackalicious

another solo album

thinking man's hip-hop

  Dreamin' (sorry no proper video)

Brian MegaMoorman had a 73 yrd punt yesterday...into the wind! and assuming Larry fitzgerald doesn't have a 4 td night, I will eliminate Greenberg from the playoffs in fantasy football. That's pretty sweet if you're me.  

with high falsetto

first album on Kings' label

southern indie rock

  Lions

seven albums deep

old-school hip-hop going strong

upbeat, goofy fun

  Trippin' at the Disco

last grunge band standing

more mature, kinda catchy,

accessible sound

  Just Breathe (live)

synth-rock euro-pop

sold first hit to cadillac

played with Daft Punk, Air

  1901

_{too much} info!  

Homme, Grohl, John Paul Jones

as rock n' roll supergroup

but still sound like Queens

  New Fang (live)

This year, and starting today, I'm going to provide one review a work day until Dec.23 (right before many people's break starts). I feel this will add some fabricated drama to the countdown. And really, what do we need more of around the holidays than fabricated drama? By starting early this year I am eliminating all new releases for the remainder of the month. I checked the interwebs and apparently something called "Lady Gaga" has a new album coming out soon. I suppose I'll just have to risk that I won't appreciate it very much.

Another big change is that it won't be a "top ten" per se in that it will have 13 entries, which if you don't know is three more than ten. (don't worry, there won't be any more math). Oh, and every album review will be in haiku. I'll post #13 after lunch.  

Football sucks the life out of me. I'm allready tired of Bills coaching talk.

I can't wait for leftover Thanksgiving sandos, anyone else?

Anyone interested in a ski trip to Vermont late Feb/early March? We going to look into planning one. Let me know if it sounds like fun to you.  

2. "Them Crooked Vultres" - Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Fucking Jones!?!?!? OMG Yes! Yes Please! sounds great so far, like a good QOTSA album.   

1. I can never get all the way through it w/o losing interest. It's waaay too long.

2. It may really be about my love for geography as much as the music. I'm pretty sure any album entirely about any state get's an awesome multiplier of at least 2 in my view.  

"I think that when looking for a house or apartment that one should be allowed to use the bathroom facilities before making a final decision. I want to be able to take a "hungover after too much malt liquor and tacos" kind of shit in there followed by a 30 minute scalding hot shower to wash off the shame from the night before. If it can handle this test, I would sign a lease right then and there. Any thoughts?"

Can't you do this? I make it a point of using the bathroom of any facility I enter. I grade them for water level and overall flushability. I'd give them Michelin stars if I were allowed. I'd drop everything to become a bathroom reviewer for a major publication. There should also be a Zagat Guide to America's best bathrooms. One time, I took a shit in a model home where we were filming a commercial. It was such a joy, the BJU should study it.

Berg, I would totaly buy your guide to public shitters. No that your Structrues test is over, you need to get to work on this.  

I'm not arguing for the payroll discrepancy, I hate it. but it's not that big market teams buy championships and other don't, almost all teams do. They just get to do it more often.

And if Berg's arbitrary "all-stars before they were on your team" definition, then I don't ever want to hear about the Sox buying anything. 2004 they had 1 - ManRam (2 if you count the entire pitching staff - Schill).  

Berg, almost every win for the last 4 yrs has looked like that. They almost never win, the other team just sometimes loses.   

Selfishly I'm happy to see Ferrell turned down the Indians job. He's a great pitching coach. He has a clause in his contract that specifically says he can't take any other job until 2011. Epstein was gonna let him out of it if he wanted though. I think he's waiting to take over for Francona.  

Jauron has lost to the Browns twice in 11 months. Browns wins in that span: 0, and they blew up their front office and coaching staff, traded their 2 best players and the 3rd overall pick.

ps, the Bills called a timeout on a punt return yesterday.   

wedding > birthday

and that your brother/sis-in-law are the ones being selfish. First birthday's are 0% about the child and 100% about the parents. For your brother to schedule it in conflict w/ the Browns game, something your entire family does together for what? 20-30 years now, is dickish. He's throwing down a gauntlet and making everyone decide if his son is more important to them than the game. Obviously your nephew is more important to you, but you shouldn't have to participate in an exercise like this to prove it to him. But when it isn't about your nephew, and in fact is about him and his wife having "hand" over your family, you feel like telling to "eff off". That's what this is about. They may be doing it subconcsiously, but it's about who has 'hand' in your family. And that's why you are pissed.

That being said, you'll probably have to leave the game early to keep the peace. Personally, I would arrive late to the party and make sure to schedule my kid's party at halftime of next season's home-opener, w/ no TV at the party. That'll show em!  

I guess McKelvin's nieghbor mowed the lawn and got rid of it for him while he was at practice yesterday and now McKelvin is being bombarded w/ offers to donate to the charity of his choice in an effort to show that the fans care and have class.  

McKelvin said he wasn't 100% he was in the end zone when he caught it, and to his point he did catch it very near the goal line and moved back w/ the momentum of the ball. so he figured, if not 100% don't risk it. He led the NFL in return yards last yr so it's not like it's reckless to try to win the game there w/ a decent return. He had 2 arms on the ball, he just 100% needed to go down when wrapped up. There was NO reason to fight for that extra yard in that spot w/ your hands team on the field and no blockers. He's young, he'll learn.   

3) Seeking adult drunk clown for 30th birthday party No joke, i saw this clown in bucktown last year a$$ed faced with about 15 people with him pub crawling, effin hilarious, i have pictures to prove it   

1. Went out for dinner w/ Hoffman & Brooke. ended up playing cards & drinking martinis at our place after. I knew we drank too many when i woke up sat. to find the brand new bottle of olives was gone. Seriously, when 2 people drink enough martinis to finish off a whole jar of olives its time to re-evaluate a few things.

2. Got a new car stereo in my truck. Apparently telling tthe mouth breathers at the steroe place to make sure that they double check all the speakers to make sure they can handle the new stereo so that I wouldn't have to come back was meaningless. I had to go back 2 days later. Fucking morons.

3. Painted some house. I hate house.

4. Witnessed Harold step on his dog, face plant into a cocunut cream cake, then flip over the rail on his deck and crush 3 hostas w/ his landing. Lesson: we're too old for beer bongs.

5. Used the word "merkin" in my fantasy football team name. Regardless of actual results, I'm pretty sure I win the season.

6. Took my stinky pug on 2 walks yesterday. Made him the happiest/laziest dog in the universe.   

I think he's talking about you Biggie.  

Oh, and the best part... everyone's bitching about how BAD he is. That's right, only in Buffalo can you have a perfect quarter against the Bears defense and the media thinks the season is already over. Holy crap. I was excited about football season. I might already be sick of it. The rest of country would look at that and think it was a good showing. Here, its proof he doesn't take enough chances and that won't be good enough agains the Pats.  

How would I ahve explained that to Mante? I couldn't put his little Bills jersey on him and sat down w/ a beer to watch the Bills and looked him in his googly pug eyes. Just no way to reconcile that.  

My wife made it home safely this week so that means I have someone to go on fish fry adventures with tonight. I'm very excited for this. I love finding dirty old-man bars to get good fish frys. I've got 3 on my list, so we have options depending on how adventurous we feel.

Dickey gave me a disc w/ a bunch of new music on it awhile back. I purposfully rationed myself (there's too much to consume at once) and I'm really enjoying this week's new albums - Eagles of Death Metal & The Airborne Toxic Event.

We're heading up to Toronto tomorrow to visit friends, which means lunch at Harvey's. mmm...poutine!

How boring is that? That's how unexciting my life is now that I don't get to rock out w/ you guys every weekend at a wedding.   

Bronson Arroyo, a former Boston Red Sox teammate of Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, said he would not be surprised to find his name on a list of 104 ballplayers who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, after he had heard a then-legal supplement he was using was tainted with steroids, the Boston Herald reported...Arroyo, who pitched for the Red Sox from 2003 to 2005, said he took androstenedione, which was banned in 2004, as well as amphetamines, which were banned in 2006, according to the Herald report. He said he gave up taking andro, a steroid precursor, when a rumor spread through baseball that due to lax production standards, some of it was laced with steroids. Mandatory testing for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball began in 2004. "Before 2004, none of us paid any attention to anything we took," he said, according to the Herald. "Now they don't want us to take anything unless it's approved. But back then, who knows what was in stuff? The FDA wasn't regulating stuff, not unless it was killing people or people were dying from it."   

My point is that as upset as I am, I can't handle the "Sox title tainted" nonsense. Testing started in 2004, so according to MLB, they were all clean in 04 (even though everyone was still on HGH and greenies and god know what). So how does that make 04 any less relevant? and how the fuck does it mean anything for 2007? I heard an Indain fan call in to local sports talk and say that the Tribe now deserved to be recognized as the 07 AL champs...really? Cuz a positive in 03, which could have been anything from horse steriods to cough medicine, negates something 4 yrs later after testing was implemented. And I'm sure no one on that tribe team ever did anything (cough*Hafner*cough). And didn't Betencourt get caught THAT season for steriods?

Whatever, everyone was/is on something. And Sandy Kofax pitched on a higher mound, and Babe Ruth only played against white players. It is what it is. Let's stop pretending to be shocked when every name gets leaked. And unless every team they played was clean (no way) and a positive can be found for those seasons (there's none) niether 04 or 07 was tainted.  

re: Rustbelt - how is Detroit not in the rustbelt? pretty much all of Mich, down through northern Indiana across Ohio, PA, and into NJ, picking up upstate NY & northern WV along the way. Baltimore, not so much but it probably fit for the show.

re: Vick to the Bills - I would seriously flip out. I am still miserable about TO. speaking of which, did you hear he tied his show this morning? It's all over ESPN, SI, Fox sports.   

"The Las Vegas franchise in the fledgling United Football League doesn't have a nickname, nor has it sold a ticket. But it appears to have a starting quarterback. Ex-Buffalo Bills quarterback J.P. Losman reportedly will call signals at Sam Boyd Stadium for coach Jim Fassel when the UFL debuts in October. Losman was assigned to Las Vegas on Thursday during the league's player allocation meeting and draft in Florida."

We have this guy's jersey. Seriously, how pathetic is that? I will say, I can't beleive no NFL team would give him a shot at a back-up job. He's not any good, but look at some of the clowns playing QB. He's in his mid 20's, has starting experience, has a strong arm, played on teams w/ constant coaching changes and little talent around him. No GM would look at that and think he could compete for a 2nd or 3rd string job?   

VY is a douche. Media here is too focused on TO's twitter account updates to pay any attention to the rest of the world. God I hate my football team.  

I'm busy wondering if that plane that mysteriously disappeared out of Brazil is an Oceanic flight. I mean come on, it just vanished into thin air? no KNOWN islands in the area...just sayin.

aslo, been busy planning the Voit family floatila for Andy's   competition

Will the Pens look better after Malkin whooped some ass at the end of the game? They looked good, just stymied by Osgood. There was an article in our sports page yesterday about how in 2005 when Osgood was a backup and lost to the Pens, he decided that Fluery's butterfly style would prolong his career. So he spent the next offseason learning how to play like Fuery, and now he's beating him for cups. That extra sucks.  

also, forgot a highlight from the weekend...got up early saturday to score KOL tix = BONER!  

sitting through 3+ hrs of law school graduation = teetering dangerously close to violent killing spree

dinner + lots of cocktails w/ family & friends = good for the soul (bad for the brain/liver)

movie date w/ the wife = very relaxing (was worried the handicapped kid would ruin it w/ all of his incoherent yelling, but he thankfuly did it at only the most appropriate times)

3'-0" panchetta wrapped pork loin cookout (hot pork-on-pork action) = amazingly delicious & helped fuel a corona/lime genocide. Those poor bastards didn't know what hit them.

What awesome stuff happened w/ you?  

No clue what exactly that meant, take him home or drop him off anywhere near the city? Did he want out of Dad's house? the wedding? No idea. best part, I recieved that text at midnight. Not 5am, not 3am, not even 1am...12 midnight. He was bleeding aabout the arm and wrist by 8pm, screaming at no one in particular by 9pm, arcguing w/ his fiance via text by 10pm, trying to buy the entire bar, including the band, shots on his credit card (which had to be confiscated) by 11pm, and passed out/texting nonsense by 12. He won the stag, hands down.  

Sabres fans HATE the Canes from the finals in 06, that was our year damn it! so I would assume everyone up here is rooting for Pitt now in the East. Also, Buffalo has pretty much adopted the Blackhawks because of Brian Campbell (former Sabre) and Patrick Kane (Irish kid from South Buffalo). So ideally, a Pitt/Chi finals.

I'm rooting for the Cavs because my friends like them. I won't watch a second of any game unless I happen to flip on it in the last 2 mins and its close. but even then I'd probably turn it off by 1:30 because it would've taken 20 min's real-time due to all the timeouts.  

I would seriously like to see Big Papi hit a HR sometime this season, but that's still cool.  

In reviewing the program req's..."Affordability – The home shall be affordable to build and maintain." What's the definition of "affordable". Kinda vague and ambiguous. Can you give a cost/ sq ft or a total budget target?

"Context – The design shall reflect the social and economic character of the communities in which the home will be built." but you state that, "The winning design should be region-specific but not site-specific." How can I design something that is generic enough to fit into suburban community "X" in Anytown, Ohio yet reflect social and economic character of a specific town? Seems like conflicting mandates.

"Energy Efficiency – The minimum performance level of the home shall meet the Architecture 2030 Challenges 2010 target of 52 on the HERS index." WTF is the HERS index? Maybe a link to some info on that would help. I'm not familar w/ that.

Overall I think it's rather clear, but I tried to be uber-critical & nitpicky. Cool contest.   

Star Trek, Terminator, GI Joe... I have HUGE boners to see these this summer but I know I'm going to be terribly dissapointed by them. There is no way GI Joe can live up to an entire childhood's worth of expectations. Star Trek looks like it might have enough cheese to keep it honest to the originals, which is good. I think 20 yrs of Terminator movies just has me waiting for the final piece of the story. Anyone else have a closet fanboy excitment about these?   

Seriously though, seems like everyone's team did well. If Andre Smith doesn't bust, Cinci looks like it had an incredible draft. Cleveland truing 5 picks into 10 and scoring the best interior lineman in the draft is really good. NE haveing 4 2nd rd picks is ridiculous. Pitt, with no glaring needs, get a good DT. The Bills finally drafted some fat guys for the O line. Not sure about Mybin though. Seems like a one-year wonder who isn't big enough to play end in a 4-3, but the Bills had their pick of the DEs and picked him so there must be something they liked.   

Here's a question, why would any team even want Cutler? He's been percieved as a whiney bitch before all of this. After this act I wouldn't want anything to do w/ him. Unless I had no options at QB, say Detroit. But If I was Cleveland I would stick w/ Quinn who's still has upside and has demonstrated so far that he's a team player, or at least not a total dickbag.  

Gholston is a joke. I wouldn't trade a 3rd rd. pick for him. I do really hope Cutler doesn't go to the jets though.   

Bub, we have Time Warner. It's ok, but really fucking expensive.  

that means that you have to except that the Bills not only suck, but are incompetent and have wholy failed at building a decent team (which is true). That makes me even more miserable. To try to cover a decade of failure by siging this chode doesn't make everything better, it magnifies the incompetance and illustrates how pathetic the franchise is. "Yeah Bills! We're on Sportscenter!"

It's like if the head cheerleader got knocked up, contracted vd, and got dumped by her boyfriend the day before the prom. The Bills are the only nerd who didn't have a date already and got asked by the cheerleader by default. Now he's bragging how he's going to prom w/ the hottest girl in school. What a fucking loser, he can't even see how pathetic everyone thinks he is.  

I now hate my football team and while I can't help but root for them, I am seriously considering boycotting going to games or giving them a cent of my money until he is off the team. I think the local media and fans (inlcuding my friends) justifying this move and getting all boner-fied about this is pathetic. I know what it means on the field, I understand the ramifications for the Evans and the offense, but holy shit is this terrible. When he went to Philly and they got all excited I thought it was pathetic and laughed when he lit their team on fire. When he signed w/ Dallas and Jerry Jones talked superbowl I laughed and was giddy when he ruined their team 3 years later. Now all the myopic Bills fans think that we're big-time now because we got an over-hyped, prima donna w/ declining skills that no one else in the league wanted. How sad.

Everyone is saying, "At leat the Bills are relevant again." Fuck that, I'd rather go 0-16 and be irrelevant then deal w/ this fucktard. You know it won't end well, and he won't take this team anywhere in one season, we have too many holes. And if he's here for any longer he'll create more long-term problems than he solves. I've seen this movie before and the ending sucks. To hear suposed knowledgable "football fans" get all excited about this is telling of how small-time and pathetic this team and it's fans really are.

I have never been more disgusted w/ one of my sports teams before. Maybe I'm crazy, but Marshawn Lynch in a parked car w/ a gun and a doobie doesn't even come close this. It makes a mockery of everything the Bills publicly claim to be.  

Secondly, no. I don't want an overpriced, over the hill egomaniac. We have more pressing needs, G, OLB, TE, DE, CB, WR. Getting Lewis would mean shifting Poz to OLB, which in itself isn't too terrible, and would relagate him to eating blocks so Ray Ray could get his tackles, ala Bart Scott. No thanks.  

Andy, I was reading how facebook owns all the info you put on your page, forever. They have a crazy copyright over everything.   

I can't beleive the Pens fired their coach, is it really his fault? I assume the problem is losing a ton of depth and replacing it with Miro Satan, the most useless 30 goal scorer in the history of the sport. Sounds like a GM problem to me. And what's with that douchbaggiest of douchebag kickers Jeff Reed? Throwing a fit at a Sheetz station cuzz their was no peper towels in the restroom? Man that guy sucks.  

and Berg, that creepy bastard haunts my dreams.   

Cristen, how you doing? Are you wanting to pop? Nervous/excited/uncomfortable? Is Bro-Dog getting pumped to have a lil' sib?  

“Phew, yeah…what a day!”

“I’m exhausted. Could you get the light, Barack?”

“Yes I can! I will not only get the light, I will shine the light for all Americans and show them the way through the darkness! It is a light that arises from the hopes and dreams of the old and the young, the black and white and yellow and red and brown, the gay and the straight, the rich and the poor! It is a light on whose rays the promise of hope…and opportunity…and achievement…all soar to a distant, brighter future! But it will take all of us, working together in a spirit of shared sacrifice and commitment, to make that light a beacon of progress. And I say to you tonight: This is our moment! This is our bedtime! This…”

“Oh fer god’s sake never mind, I’ll do it myself…”

[Click!]   

Ruutu and the rest of the scum bags on that hockey team can rot in hell. Can't wait until Andrew Peters beats the teeth right out of his face next time they play.

Love how Texaria said that his wife didn't like the shopping on Newbury St in Boston, which helped contribute to deciding on playing for NYY. I'm kinda glad he signed there, now I can hate him/them more. It would have sucked to kick all-time good guy Mike Lowell to the curb to accomodate this pampered baby. Although his .300/30/90 would have been sweet.  

When I finally got to the Florence airport all I wanted to do was vomit and shit, but I couldn't take w/ me or leave my luggage, so i had to deal w/ it for 3 hrs while I waited for al lyou assholes. We finally got to our apartment, got 2 hrs of sleep before Brad lead us 45 min in the OPPOSITE direction of the Doumo. So a 45 min walk to get birthday drinks, that I had no interest in (did I mention the flu?) turned into a 2 hr+ walk. We got to Murphy's I had 2 beers before I begged Leanne to take me home so I could sleep. Everyone was so jet-lagged that they were falling alseep at the bar. worst birthday ever. the next night we all partied till dawn for Derek's birthday. But his birthday was probably worse because I beleive he passed out in a plant and woke up in Katie Wasem's bed.  

brown pretzels = greed?? I don't get it. I think it's because people like their pretzels to look brown and urine is better than a chemical. If the FDA approves animal urine, then why is it such an issue? Urine is sterile anyways.   

"Last chance to save at the Bills Store!"

"Bills to retain Jaroun"

"Looking forward to '09!"

followed by one from Ticket master..."Get your team's playoff tix today!" Fuck you very much!  

Re: AFC east...I am worried about the atmosphere at the game on sunday. It could be ugly. Everyone is down on the owner, the front office, and Jauron. However, the oppurtunity to beat NE for the first time in 5 yrs and keep them out of the playoffs would make everything different. Kinda stupid, butif Jauron could pull that off, I think fans would almost be ok w/ him coming back. I don't want NE to win first and foremost. They're still the team to beat. 2nd is the NY Brett Farves. How funny to see a team that REALLY went all-in this season and miss the playoffs. They would fire Mangini in a nano-second and Farve would retire and the whole franchise would be fucked for a few seasons. sounds good to me. I guess, even thought they are historically the bills biggest rival, the Phins would be my choice. They were 1-15, Pennington gets to stick it to NY, all the guys I really hated on that team are gone. So yeah, in my perfect world the Bills beat NE, the Phins beat NYBF and both miss the playoffs.  

5.San Diego Padres

4.Washington Nationals

3.Nashville Predators

2.Atlanta Thrashers

1.The NBA   

Re: Varitek - 2 yrs is great as long as it's cheap and they get another younger catcher to split/take over in year 2. Then offer him a coaching job.

Re: Browns - Didn't watch the game Berg, sorry I missed your call. They suck, so do the Bills, and so does Cinci. Whatever. Did I mention that I lost 2 FF Leagues because of the same fucking player? And it was a guy who didn't even play in the NFL last season! Fuck football.

Re: Avery - That comment was the last straw. The Stars would have diciplined him and kept him, but the rest of the team told management that they didn't want him back. What they're not talking about is that no one on the team wanted him, and their Captains pleaded w/ the team to not sign him and he was causing problems in training camp. Co-GM Brett Hull (who still has his foot in that fucking crease) ignored everyone and insisted on giving him a 4 yr deal. So Dallas ownership took this opportunity to rid themselves of Avery and Hull. Avery is a dick and everyone hates him wherever he goes. the Rangers couldn't wait to get rid of him last season.  

also, the Mets signed K-Rod AND just traded for JJ Putz. (yes ladies, the dude's name is Putz) So they went from shit bullpen to 2 of the best closers in baseball at the back end. Not too bad.

One more baseball musing...I want the BoSox to sign Texeira...right? I mean he's hunky and mmawesomes and all, but I have a total man-cruch on sweaty Kevin Youklis, and Mike Lowell was WS MVP year before last. Where the fuck do they fit everyone? I don't get it.  

Berg, if you didn't want criticism of your vignette, why did you post it?  

"And there you go Mr.Senator. There'll be no 'straight talk' from you while you're in there. Now to see if I can fit Gov.Palin in that hutch."  

And regardless of policy or if you voted for him, pretty great commentary on our society that we just elected a black president. When the guy on CNN was holding back the tears right after they called it I really got, for the first time, the magnitude of what had happened. And pretty amazing that not only was the 'Bradley Effect' a myth, he actually won some battleground states by greater margins than the polls predicted. I thought PA and OH would be close and maybe go for McCain. They said last night that here in Erie Co. NY, 85-90% voter turnout. Amazing!   

Pats looked good, which they allways do at home on prime time. But I gotta think that Cutler smashing his finger on the first play helped. I don't think Denver is very good. their D is horrendous and if Cutler can't throw it all over the field, then they can't win.  

1. "5 yr. rule" def. noun \fīv 'yir 'rül\ After winning a championship your team has a 5 year grace period in which you cannot criticize or get too upset over their performance. Etymology: Bill Simmons "The Sports Guy"

Considering I am still technically under the 5 year umbrella from their first WS win in '04, not to mention their second last season, I supose I have to take the Sox losing in stride. The Rays are so good and a great story. It's kinda like the first time your little brother is big enough to defend himself from a beating. The Sox have spent 10 yrs giving the Rays noogies and wedgies, you have to tip your hat now that they finally hit puberty and spent a few weeks after school hitting the weights and can throw you off.

2. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the point of the warning track in basbeall is to have a change in texture (turf/grass to dirt) so that you know when you hit it that you have 10 ft left before you hit the wall. If so, why the fuck is the track in Tampa just dirt colored field turf? I get that the color change helps in your periphery vision, but the point is the change in texture right?

3. Yes Large, it is in fact hockey season. And the Sabres are looking very, very good. Look out, they should be tough in the east. Maybe not top 3, but a middle seed play-off team that could be very hard to beat if they can stay relatively healthy.

4. So, no power at the Bills game was wierd. No sccoreboard, no down and distance, no replay, no PA, no music, no headset communication, and no clocks. So no one knew who much time was on the play clock (including the players). all the coaches had to come down to the sideline and yell at each other and run plays in w/ player subs. It was crazy! like watching a Pop Warner game.

5. Best part of no power - 78,000 people siging the "Shout" song after a Bills FG w/ no prompting or music. Kick is good, low murmor and cheeers, then everyone signing.

6. Worst part - Pitch black men's room. Scariest experience of my life. trying to find the piss trough w/ only the faintest of blue glows from my cell phone while drunk men w/ their dicks out bump into each other and hope that they aren't pissing on everyone.

7. Berg, are the Bills top 11 yet?   

"and I didn't see the Oak/Buf game or the Oak/SD game...but just by looking at the scores and where the game was played makes me question that they looked tougher."

While that may qualify you to work for ESPN (idiots) it proves to me that your opinion is meaningless. Whatever, I prefer everyone forgets that the Bills exist.   

I kinda hate Damon for the same reason you hate Thome, on he even said specifically that he would never sign w/ the Yanks no matter what they offered, and he left for 1 mill more per yr. But, like Thome, I kinda feel bad because they are so stupid. I don't think either of them are smart enough to understand that what they say makes an impression on people.

Derek, Cedric Benson huh?   

....Donte Stallworth, LeCharles Bentley, Eric Stienbach, Jamal Lewis...  

And Ralph will never sell them, which is the problem. If he would agree to sell, there are local rich guys who would buy them tomorrow for a fair price. But when he dies the team goes to his estate, which has to legally sell to the highest bidder. The concern is that the highest bidder will be an out of towner. Or local rich guys can buy them, but may not be able to outbid out of town rich guys. the hope is that the NFL will o something to promote either selling to a Tom Galisano or Jeremy Jacobs for slightly less or insisting that the team stay when sold to a Ted Rogers who bids more.  

Sorry Derek, your team sucks.

How 'bout them Mets? Man, their fans must be suicidal. 2 yrs, 2 blown post-season runs. Ouch.

Bears looked good last night, until I passed out. No Westbrook and desean Jackson being a dumb rookie helped.

Matt Bryant not only plays after he buried his 3 mo. old kid on sat, he addresses the media after the game. Had to be tough.

shhh...the Buffalo Awesomes are 4-0!

Reading Boston papers/blogs today, you would've thought they were the Mets. Boston fans are nuts, all super pissed because they "choked" away the div. My favorite quote...

"Shame on you, Boston Red Sox. Yeah, you're in the playoffs...but as the wild card. You're the defending World Series champions, for Yaz's sake, and you've conceded your division title to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of baseball--the Tampa Bay Rays! As both a Red Sox fan and a fan of Major League Baseball as a whole, I find this outcome unacceptable."

...ridiculous.   

Abby you are an amazing woman, I would have sufficated him by now. I've shared hotel rooms w/ you guys before but for some reason I didn't sleep as soundly this time. Maybe I wasn't drunk enough, which seems ridiculous, or don't sleep as heavily as I used to. What Bub does is truely amazing, it was almost worth the loss of sleep to experience it.  

2. is it Brady Quinn time?

3. Bub snores, a lot!

4. I very much enjoyed being rebellion w/ everyone this weekend.  

One more thing: John Madden and Al Michaels agreed that Romeo Crennel made the right move passing up a fourth-and-7 and kicking a field goal to cut it to four with five minutes to go. Put it this way … if someone did that during a "Madden" game, the other guy would pause the game and say, "What the hell are you doing? Did you just get stoned and I missed it?" For the 10th straight year, I demand an NFL team hire a pimply faced, 16-year-old video junkie as its "Comeback Coordinator" for moments like this one.  

1. does it come w/ that TV & entertainment center? That would make for a nice centerpiece of a media room.

2. Is the guy w/ blue tooth your realtor? Guys w/ blue tooth's in their ear should never be trusted. They have an inflated sense of importance.  

Anytime I want to make an argument that Browns fans are crazy, or that Berg doesn't know what he's talking about, I will invoke the memory of this comment. The only thing more ridiculous than suggesting that the Browns lost becuase they don't understand the rivalry is Crennel's game management.   

2. One more time, Jacksonville tarps off seats...a lot of them...pathetic.

3. When Derek asks via text "who are they?" when refering to the Bengals, and not "Who Dey?" you know the team is terrible and their fans hate them. Sorry D-rok.

4. Free advice for Norv Turner - When Ed Hocule tells you he blew the call and is sorry you tell him that everything is cool and hope he doesn't punch you face right off of your stupid head. The man is a beast and could probably take on your entire defensive line. Let it go while you're still breathing.

5. Speaking of which, it's not a stupid rule, and he got it right after aknowledging the mistake. The mistake is in blowing it dead. Even if you think it's an incompletion, let it play out and you can allways reverse the call after a review. I think the refs should error on the side of keeping the play alive. But it is pretty shitty.

6. Anyone think Shanahan went for 2 in an effort to apease the football gods and keep things fair?

7. Someone explain why on earth, down 10-3 w/ under 4 min's left you kick a FG? you still need a TD to win down 10-6. If you don't make 4th down, Pitt takes over on their 10 yrd line. Instead they take over on what...the 35? after the horrible pooch kick call. Terrible clock managment. Crennel is awfull. Abby is right. i would go for the TD on 4th down 100 out of 100 times. Isn't that what Braylon edwards is for?...other than dropping passes. Holy butterfingers!

8. Is it Brady Quinn time yet? i think Anderson is a bigger, less athletic version of JP Losman. can throw it through a wall, but can't hit a reciever in stride to save his life. On the few short throws he actually made, they weren't in position for the reciever to make a play. The wind probably had a lot to do w/ it though.

9. Pitt didn't look that good either. But a win is a win.   

1. Moorman throwing a TD pass...to a DE! 2. Roscoe Parrish having the most amazing punt return ever, Hester/Cribbs can suck a dick. 3. stupid sexy torn ACL!!!!!

least awesomest part -

Romeo Crennel going for a FG in the 4th, down by 21 pts. Seriously? how is this guy a coach? Tough way to open the season, but Crennel did nothing to help their chances, totally incompetent.   

Did anyone else catch how the ChiSox and Baltimore played the rest of a game that got delayed in April on mon? It was played in Balt. before the start of the regular sched. game (original was played in Chicago) so the home team was really the away team and vice versa. Also it was called at the start of extra innings, so they started w/ a 3-3 tie in th ebottom of the 10th. They had to figure out who was eligible (Jermaine Dye had pinch-hit in that game in April, so was out) and who was on the DL in April. They allowed new guys who weren't on the team to play though (call-ups and such). Best part was all stats count as April stats. So Griffey played a game in Cinci at the same time played a game in Chicago, in Baltimore. Had he hit a HR, his 600th career HR (hit this summer) would have been his 601st. Imagine being the guy who caught his homer and is trying to sell it! He didn't though so it's moot. I guess the pitcher who got the win was in the minors in April, so he gat a win before his first MLB debut. Wierd!  

ps - i started peeling last night.

vacation = success!