February 2008
13 posts
Baseball
My sister Janine is trying to get into baseball, so I’ve been sending her emails every day describing and explaining the greatness that is America’s National Pastime. Today I went over what single means.
A single is when a baseball player hits the ball and safely makes it to first base. i.e. Derek Jeter hits a single to right field! An RBI (run batted in) single is describes when a...
Rocketman
Today, Congress asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Roger Clemens commited perjury during his testimony a couple of weeks ago about The Mitchell Report and his use of steroids. When I heard this news, I immediately thought of Commissioner Gordon flicking on the switch to the Bat Signal, which would be seen by Alfred, who would alert Bruce Wayne, who would then don the Batsuit...
Newsmeat
I was planning on going to bed early, but I just spent the last hour at Newsmeat.com’s Hall of Fame, where it lists the political donations of various celebrities in the United States. It combines perhaps the worst of America (celebrities and politics), but that’s what makes it so good. I thought these ones were interesting:
Actors, Directors, Producers - mostly Democrat
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Oscars
The Academy Awards are on Sunday. It surprises people that I actually like the Academy Awards, but I like anything that involves winning and losing. I haven’t really paid attention to award season this year, mostly because I’ve been busy and also because I’ve only seen two of the movies nominated for Best Picture (No Country For Old Men and Juno), but if you think I won’t...
Like Hope, Only Not
The will.i.am music video inspired by Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” speech after the New Hampshire primary is sweeping the internet with over 5 million video views on youtube (counting all the uploaded versions of this inspirational video). It really is a great video, making Obama’s speech seem really significant, even though if you think about it, he’s just speaking...
Life Advice #2: How to be a good sport
You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat people when they lose, and perhaps more importantly, how they treat people when they win. After all, life is a series of victories and defeats. And how you respond from the highs and lows of this game we call life is ultimately how you will be judged. Judged by God. So as an example of being a good sport, let’s look some examples of...
The Day After
The thing that surprised me the most is how magnanimous Patriots fans were in defeat, which is amazing, because the entire New England area/Red Sox nation has become insufferable over the past year or so. This is exemplified best in Bill Simmons’ Super Bowl article, but I also found that with a couple of Patriots fans that I know through work. They seemed legitimately depressed that their...
It’s 12:32 right now and I can’t sleep. I can’t stop reading the same articles over and over and over, because even though I believed, I still can’t believe it. It’ll probably never be THIS GOOD. Ever again. How do you top beating the best team on earth, an undefeated juggernaut, in what will probably end up as the most watched Super Bowl of all time? How do you...
LONG LIVE THE UNDEFEATED 1972 MIAMI DOLPHINS
“You’re good kids. Stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”—Ernie Accorsi, 1/7/07
Today
LETS GO GIANTS.
I Day
The Last Time…
II Days
Some people are surprised or don’t believe me when I say that I remember the last time the Giants won the Super Bowl, but I do remember it even though I was only 7. I don’t remember a lot of the game, but I remember the Norwood kick and screaming my head off when he missed. I even remember the NFC Championship Game the week before against the Niners, I remember the Leonard Marshall...