Well here I am, working away as hump day nears it's end, thinking about what I'll cook for dinner tonite. Maybe a quick stir-fry, but I need some oyster sauce, which means a trip to the Asian grocer and battle through Memphis traffic, but a man has to eat. I have been meaning to set up a blog for a while now and today seemed as good a time as any. At the moment, the inspiration/thoughts for the blog is that it will resemble one of my favorite sites,
http://www.sportsfrog.com,
with sporting news and my biased views. Add to that, my life, the diabolical state of politics in the U.S., news stories, and the weird and wonderful world we live in and I could spend my whole day blogging. It's funny really. I'm normally so long winded, which will be amply demonstrated in future posts, but as far as intro's go I think this will be it. It's more fun to get stuck into the good stuff, like how the Miami Dolphins can have one of the worst off-season in sports history and do things get any better? Wannstedt's gone, and although I can't say I didn't want him gone I would really love to ask him a simple question. Why now? What purpose did it serve to leave the team at this point? You're the captain of a sinking ship, do you jump or go down with the ship? We would have put him out of his misery at the end of the season and he could have moved on to greener pastures then, but after this what respect I had for Dave has diminished greatly. We were poised to get the #1 draft pick with our pitiful record. But now, now that Dave's gone you watch the scrap of hacks we still have left play their hearts out and win against Seattle, IN Seattle. Yes, you heard it first here. I've followed English Premier League soccer for many years and it's about a 80% chance that when a manager/coach gets fired or resigns the team (no matter how bad their record) miraculously finds their legs for that one game before returning to their dismal selves. If that happened then the Dolphins would have 2 wins with a game the week after against the equally dismal 49'ers. Add it up and the Dolphins could finish the season with 3-4 wins. Bad, yes. Bad enough to land the #1 pick? Questionable at this point. As if it hasn't been proven that this isn't the year of the Dolphin, a day after Wannstedt resigns we have more happy happy news. They dropped kickers Matt Bryant and Bill Grammatican'tkickanextradamnpoint and also dropped a starting DB (Defensive Back) Antuan Edwards, with no explanation. He's been starting for the first 8 weeks and all of a sudden we drop him??? Randy McMichael beats his wife and remains on the team so what must he have done to get dropped? Maybe it's a case of the Leonard Little syndrome as described by the comedian that does his skits from a pub in Boston on "Inside the NFL" on HBO. Leonard Little has murdered a mother while drink driving, then was caught drink driving again, and he's still playing NFL because he's a productive player. If it were a hack player the NFL and St Louis wouldn't think twice before having their foot meet his arse on the way out the door. Who knows?
The Leonard Little syndrome way of deciding which people should by abide by which morals reminds me of politics here in the U.S. I read this article that conveys much of how I feel, so here's the link as she puts it very nicely and eloquently without having to resort to language like "WTF was America thinking?" like I would. Maybe I'll delve into that rant another day, but here's the link, an article I definitely reccomend spending 5 minutes of your life reading.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1025-25.htm
Here's a couple more articles that I read about where this country's going as it beleives it is getting it's morals right.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-08-druggists-pill_x.htm
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4045
I'm looking forward to Firefox, the new browser that is supposed to rival the buggy Internet Explorer. I might try it out tonight and see how she goes.
Last night I played Halo2 as a friend who's a big fan got it on opening day (yesterday) and I played for about a half hour and watched for 2 hours. The graphics are unlike anything I've seen on a console game before and the storyline is pretty dang good too. Gameplay was amazing, especially in multi player. It made me want to get an X-Box. But then again, after not having a console type machine for about......oh...never, why start now. No, I don't care how much you want to. Well, once my financial problems get straightened out and the credit cards paid off, which will be around the time they come out with Halo3, maybe I'll get an X-Box then. Or should I get a PS2, or Gameboy. Maybe I'll just get another PC computer, god knows I spend enough time on them. Anyway, getting distracted here, if you get a chance to lounge around with a few beers and freinds and there's an X-Box handy I definitely highly reccomend getting Halo2. you could rent it, but why bother, you'll go out and buy it anyway.
Quick prediction:Jason Kidd and Alonzo Mourning should get traded to my Golden State Warriors after Kidd plays a couple of games. We have the expiring contracts and the youngsters to offer them and J-Kidd's from the Oakland area, makes sense. I seriously hope it happens, Mullin if you're reading this, the Warrior faithful need some cheer, deliver us a Kidd for X-mas.
Game of the night: Lakers at Grizzlies. My mate Mike caught the Lakers games here at the Pyramid last year. This year it's over to the FEF (FedExForum), but I see the Grizzlies coming out on top again. With the Lakers Shaq-less, and the Grizzle getting off to a rough start, watch for the Grizzlies to get pumped up for the big game and win it 97-92. Might be sold out tonight. Wish a couple of my stingy corporate bosses would find something else to do and hand me a couple of tix instead of walking past my desk gloating about going.
