I am already tired...

...of hearing this stuff. It has been less than eight hours and I know I will hear this for 15 years. Big Mac didn't get the nod to go to Cooperstown. SHOCKING! He'll get in. Mark it (what a delicious pun). I don't understand this stigma of steroids in baseball. Shawn Merriman did them. Julius Peppers did them. Hell, Todd sauerkraut, a PUNTER, did them. And yet we hold them up to a different standard then Big Mac, Sosa, and Bonds. [NOTE: Dislike Bonds causes he is a dick, not because he does steroids.] Can someone please answer me on this? It makes no sense. Baseball did not outlaw steroids. So, these guys were doing nothing wrong. It is the same as the spitball or Ty Cobb stomping a handicapped fan. Well, maybe no that. Why is there a double standard? Oh, just so know one forgets, NBA players cannot test positive for cocaine or steroids, but can still smoke trees. That makes sense, too.

Hardcore Fantasy

So,, I am playing the top seed in fantasy this week in the playoffs. Well yesterday, Frank Gore went nuts and I still have either McGahee or Cadillac for the weekend. My question is this, "With the both of the Bears starting DT's out should I start Cadillac over Willis? Jeff, your answer will be ignored.

Was Nixon really all that bad? Pt. 2

So he secretly bombed Cambodia. That seems to be miniscule compared to what Cambodians do to other Cambodians. I am pretty sick, but even this is just wrong. How much do you think tickets were? I bet they were cheaper than going to the movies in America and you could still buy popcorn. On that note, was the Khmer Rouge even this bad?

CAKEWALK!

ACC rolled the Not so Big Ten...again. Even in the games the ACC lost, the Big Ten got embarrassed.

Chuck Amato No!

So, all the boo birds and typical North Carolina fickle fans got their way last night. Chuck Amato is fired. I have mixed feelings about the whole sitch. On one hand we potentially have an amazing team next season. We were young this season and no one really stepped up as a playmaker. I have a sneaking feeling that whoever NC State gets is going to go 7-4 next year and everyone will start to suck the stuff in their underpants zone. Saying things like, "See, Amato couldn't do it." I am 70% certain he could've done it. Then, the aforementioned fictional coach will go 6-5 and 5-6 and the whole damn thing will start over again.
Then again, this season was an all out embarrassment. The final loss to ECU was painful to sit through. We finished below UNC (they get the tie-break) and everyone knows that team was horrible. I actually got in a argument with some Anti-Amato douche at the end of the ECU game. My main argument is, "Who you gonna get?"

Monday Nitro Football

I wonder if ESPN will take a queue from NBC and do what people have been telling them to do and don't set the MNF schedule in stone at the end of the last season. Tonight is an awesome example of two reams not living up to anyone's expectations. 3rd and 4th in the NFC South does not a MNF game make. I love my Buccaneers, but the whole of the US of A does not have such a die hard love for the sole NFC Super Bowl Champions of the millennium. Have you seen what closes out the MNF season? Jets v. Miami! Wow, that will keep me from watching "Scrooged" or "KISS Saves Christmas"...NOT!

3000 in his post today brought up drafting as a head coach. As much as Gruden hates to develop young players (see the 2002 Oakland Raiders), he has put together some great draft classes in the past three years. We'll be 9-7 next year, and in the NFC South, that could win the division. Drew Brees is going to lose his arm. You read it here 1st, people.

Wii.T.F.!

So I am at the mall today. Typical Monday, just leafing through the new cargo shorts at Ambercrombie and Fitch. (BTW Why do they have to play that music so damn loud?) Then, I find myself at any of the 3 video game stores at the mall. I see a box for the new Nintendo Wii. Brand new it is $249. So, my Scottish heritage likes that. It doesn't have any really crazy bells and whistles, no DVD or Bluevein or whatever 3000 keeps rambling on about. What it does have is probably easily the most asinine controller design in the world. It's called the nunchuck and I am willing to bet dollars to donuts, if I buy this thing (which I won't) that it will wind up being smashed into a million pieces on my wall. PLEASE NERDS! Tell me what is up with this thing. I need to know.

1985

There has been a lot of talk about this season's Bears compared to the 1985 Monsters of the Midway. No one wants to admit that this season Bears might be better than the 1985 Chicago Bears. I'll admit that this season's Bears looks real good, but it is week 5. Let's not jump the gun just yet. 1985 was the first year I actually could consciously know that I started watching football. I was living in Indiana and because the Colts sucked and really had only been in Indianapolis for a short time I naturally was more drawn to the Bears. Chicago was my birth city and it was only 2 hours away from where I was. This is how little kids choose teams to root for. I made the big switch the day Tecmo Super Bowl came out and I got 6 sack with Eugene Marve. I have never looked back. What always stuck out was that sweater Ditka wore on the sidelines during that season. It was dressy, yet it screamed, "Oh we gonna make this happen!" at the same time. Well, last night I got my close-out special edition Eastbay catalog and bought this lil' beauty of less than $10. I am gonna look so classy at the Upper Deck this Sunday. I can't wait.

33!

Look who is number 33! Look out Wake!

T.O. is O.K.

So, it is official. As of 4:24 pm yesterday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the clock. The worst part about the 24-21 loss to the Saints yesterday was that the offense for the Bucs looked really good. Gradkowski looked really good. He didn't screw up and Williams rushed for over 100 for the first time all year. Gradkowski is the QB that Gruden really wanted to run with the start the year anyway, so Simms might have to a clipboard to help him cover up that scar where his spleen used to be and the big bruise over his giant ego.
The defense looked old. Real old. I had not seen that many missed tackles and miscues for that defense since the 14 point Colts comeback in 2003. Oh and what cost us the game? A punt return by Reggie Bush for his 1st NFL TD. I mean, he didn't even have to make a move. How many game are we going to have to lose because we have awful special teams before someone finally fires Richard Bisaccia. He has no idea what he is doing or even worse how he is doing it.
With that game over I turned to the game of the week, Eagle v. Cowboys. It actually was a good game. Eagles defense looked scary. Their offense, however, was less than outstanding. What pissed me off (this is what you were all waiting for) was the way the annoucers kept try to put blame on T. O. for the woeful Cowboys offense. Um, no. One, I would never be coming to the defense of T.O. ever again, but no! The Cowboys have an old fart at QB. Just like they did last year. And the year before that. Oh, and the year before that. They haven't infused any youth at the QB position since they dropped a coked-up Quincy Carter quite some time ago. Drew Bledsoe, like a certain other someone in a certain town that rhymes with Green Gay, is done. He threw some balls that would make Chris Simms say, "Wow, that was a really poorly thrown ball." On what seemed like his 9th INT of the game, T.O. game off the line at 3/4 speed go past Lito Shepard and went to full speed. He was open by about 5 yards. Bledsoe threw it 5 yards short of T.O. It was horrible. Aikman starts in on T.O. for not coming of the line at full speed. Huh? He got open in a sea of 3 DB's, who cares how fast he came off the line? Just get the ball to him and that was a TD. Leave T.O. alone and start picking on Bledsoe. Wow, did I just say that?

London Blog

I know I have been bad on the blogging tip. I need to sit down and get my proverbial sheet together. So, until I can start posting my old school witt, here is an awesome story by my man, C. Monks.

Tommy Lawless...

...once said, "A fetish ain't a fetish if you do it everyday." These are words to live by, but Cousin Larry, this is ridiculous.

Tommy Lawless...

...once said, "A fetish ain't a fetish if you do it everyday." I am sure those are words to live by, but, Cousin Larry, this is ridiculous.

Bung?

I am not sure what a 'bung probe' is, but it is going to rock more that soccer.

Rights and Wrongs

I think it it might be time for us, as a nation, to look ourselves. We have gotten too loose with our rights. I mean, think about it. Sure we have the right to free speech. But is it right to yell "FIRE!" at a crowded book burning?

Summer Days

Jesus, Mary and The Spook! Has it really been over two weeks since last I posted? I apologize I have been really busy, and by busy I mean lazy. Today marks the start of school and the non-equinoxal end of summer. I have to say this has been a pretty awesome summer. I deserve it. I do! Over the past five summers I have been shit on. In fact, one of these summer I believe I was literally shat on. (Damned two-storied outhouse!) This one was really fantastic. Let me list, because I am lazy, the ways this summer rocked:

1. Made a bunch of new and really great friends. I haven't done that since I moved to Chapel Hill in 1988 and rolled with my neighborhood crew, "The BMX Boys". I am sure if we ever hang outside the 'sphere you all will like them.
2. Found old friends. Thanks myspace.
3. I never went broke all summer long. I know money doesn't equal happiness, but it sure as shit helps.
4. Passed two summer session classes leaving me with only three classes until GRADUATION! WHAT! I am shaking at the thought of it. All my classes I was in today, I just kept thinking, "This is the last sylabus I will have to look at." Oh, and the party will be off the meat rack.
5. Visited places I have never even thought I'd go to. Chicago (the return of an old standard), Milwaukee (There is a whole other post on that one coming) Dover, NH, and Kennebunkport. All were pretty cool in there own way.
6. I won the Best Radio DJ in the Triangle by the readers of Independent Weekly. I have never been more excited in my life. I still can't believe it.

I am sure if the Yankees don't make the World Series again this year, this will be the best summer in recent memory.

How's your Tuesday, Matt?

Better now? Good.

Tipping, China

So after my kickball game the other night, "Free Action" went out for a drink. "Free Action" is my kickball team. We went to Sammy's in Mission Valley and got a couple of drinks. There were Bud Light girls giving out freebies so I got two from them, and I got two beers from our waitress. Then, it is bill time. I get mine, and it is $5.00. I usually pay in cash, but everyone else was going credit card crazy! I give the girl a $10 and expect 5 one-dollar bills when she gets back. What happens next is I get 3 one-dollar bills. Gigga what? She took it upon herself to take a tip out of my change.

I am an excellent tipper...now. If the service was good (it wasn't), then I tip well. If the waitress is dressed skanky (she was), the I tip well. She was looking at getting $4 on a $5 tab, intead she took what she wanted and got no more from Rochester. She played herself. I think the rest of the table would not have been so lenient on tipping. Why did she assume she had to take her cut before I could do so? I mean, your belly ring and pubic bone are popping out in front of my face, you switch the WSOP (the worst thing on TV) off to a baseball game, and I kept saying thank you and making eye contact with you when you came over to our table. Where, I ask, where does she get off doing that?

My Ratings System

At WKNC, we have no real way of knowing how many people are listening. What we do have is a web listeners counter. Last week, I hit my all time high of 118. Not so much this week, but still kind of cool to look at my peaks and valleys.

Annie & Truck!

I am pretty sure, this link means you owe me a beer!