When it's over...

With the Brew Crew winning and the Cubbies win, it's offically over for the Brewer's. It was a hell of a run but I guess a complete idiot of a manager can't manage a good team to a winning season. If the Brewer's lose these last two games against the Padres which is very likely because the Padres are fighting for their playoff lives, the Brewers will finish at exactly .500, which is exactly where they finished 2 years ago without Fielder, Braun, or Hart. After two years with better players, old Yosty-boy is no better than he was two years ago without the talent. Come on, thats sad. 99% of the league with kill to have Fielder or Braun or Gallardo, and we have all of them. Most teams would also love to have Hart, Villeneuva, Hardy, and even Weeks. How are we crawling to .500. Lets just hope that not only is this the end of the season, but hopefully the end of Yost era, and beginning of the Chorizo era.

Untouchable

I am a fan of saying that no one is untouchable, everyone is replaceable, especially in the world of sports. Even at his heyday the Bulls said Jordan wasn't untouchable, if they got the right offer or he asked for too much money they would trade him. Shaq, Kevin Garnett, Terrell Owens, and others have all been traded.

The theory going on in my head is that if the Brewers fail to make the playoffs after having such a lead and having the best record in baseball, surely Yost would be fired but after yesterday's game the owner Mark Attanasio said that “Ned is fine,” indicating that his job was not in jeopardy. WTF? He has no idea what he is doing, leaves pitchers in too long, takes out his bets hitter for his worst hitter, and his players hate him and aren't afraid to tell him that. No one listens to this clown, for crying out loud he scratches a mosquito and someone steals third. Even if the Brewers won the world series, he should be fired. Look at Marty Shottenheimer of the Chargers; last year they were 14-2 and he still got canned. Yost needs to be out of there as fast as my ex-wife left me after she popped out her second kid.

Attention Guys

You are all invited to my party mansion. All cool dudes are welcome. Nothing Sexual. Good fun times to be had. Dudes in shape. Observation humor preferred. Nothing Sexual.

You're going to have shit shoved up your ass so hard tonight buddy.

Bizarro World

I feel like I am in some crazy parallel universe or bizarro world. How the hell did the Packers beat the Chargers? I know that the Chargers are not as good as they were last year, but surely they are better than the Packers. The same Packers with a 36 year old quarterback, no running back, and a joke of a General Manager who signed 0 free agents. I know that a lot of the game came down to dumb luck but still. Why was it even close enough were luck was the difference? I'm not complaining, I'm still a fan but this is getting absurd. Is it possible that the Packers can finish with a better record than the Brewers?

Yosted

The game isn't even over yet but I'm calling this game is all on Yost's head. AFter Corey Hart hits a home run to give the Crew the lead. The Brewers then get a man on third with 1 out, cool we can expand our lead. What does Yost do? He pinch hits Counsell and has him bunt. What? A pop up gives you another run. Even after Counsell gets 2 strikes against him, he stays bunting and bunts out. Then he keeps Counsell in the game and takes out Braun, our best hitter. In the bottom 11 with Braves having 2 runners on, they just showed Yost shaking his head. He realizes he has only 8 more games to coach the Brewers then unemployment here we come.


They just lost. YOSTED!!

Time of death....

Not to jump off bandwagons but I believe that the fat lady has sung for our beloved Milwaukee Brewers.





They are now 1 1/5 games back and have to play 3 more at the Braves, 3 with Cardinals, and 3 with Padres. All without Sheets and Yost as their manager. The Cubs play the lowly Pirates now.

It was a hell of a run though. I think the experience of a pennant race with do a lot of good for the team though. They should have wone their division with the lead that they had though.

Post-season ranting is only 12 days away....

God help us.....

I was sitting in front of my TV today trying to unwind after a day at work and the CBS evening news was on. I usually don't watch the national news but I was half asleep and didn't feel like turning. AT the end of the program there was a startling report.

Out west black bears are making there ways into urban ares. Often times going into people's garages, trees, and even homes. The piece showed a bear opening a door of a home. The piece explained that due to drought there is less food in the wild for the bears to eat so they are heading into cities to find berries and food. They are covering the real story, these bears are coming to kill us. We have long known that bears are godless-killing machines. I think their time has finally come.

They showed this gentleman who catches these bears int he cities. Instead of killing them, he takes them out to the wild and lets them out of the cage and fires at them, purposely missing. He says that he is teaching the bear that humans are not afraid and stay away. Actually you are teaching the bear that humans are a terrible and he should bring his friends and come back and attack.

You were warned. Bears are starting to organize and are going to attack.

My parents always taught me "don't bring a gun to a bear fight."

Happy Retirement Dog

Its official, Kanye West out sold 50 Cent. According to previous threats, if Kanye West outsold him, he was going to retire.I guess that's one less rapper in the game. Too bad, so sad.

The interesting part of the article is that 50 Cent doesn't say whether he really will retire, even though the people have spoken. He also goes on to say “I am very excited to have participated in one of the biggest album release weeks in the last two years." But he wasn't the reason it was such a big week, it was because so many people bought Kanye West's CD. That's like me claiming success for my indi-film about Baby FIghts contributing to the success of Spider-Man at the box office. I mean they both came out on the same week. Spider-Man raked in $60 million, my movie raked in $9.50.

Why?

Ryan Seacrest is hosting the Emmy's tonight. Why? They just showed Stephen Colbert in the audience, now that would have been a good choice.

Where am I.......

I'm not sure what's happening but I'm pretty sure that I still live in Wisconsin. Some how the Brewers have won 2 in a row and actually looked good in both (knock on wood). Not even Ned Yost could ruin it. Also today I'm pretty sure that the Packers won, I'm not positive because I am pretty hung over. I might be wrong but the Packers are a terrible team with no offense, an idiot coach, and literally no running game. Despite all this somehow they are 2-0. I stand by my prediction that they will finish 6-10, but now it's getting close. I don't know what's going on but Wisconsin sports team are not supposed to be good at all. I know that the Brewers are still in 2nd and its early in the football season, but still this just doesn't feel right.

Now this is marketing...

I was sitting half awake on my couch trying to shake off Saturday night and saw this commercial for Halo 3. I think this is bad ass.




They don't even show a second of the actual game, they don't have to. You know it is gonna be sweet. If they ever make a Halo movie, which they probably will because every video game eventually does, I hope it is like this commercial and not just this CGI crap with a bunch of explosions and Vin Diesel in it.

Douche bag Time

I was sitting at a not-so local tavern last night trying to silence the voices in my head with alcohol. I walked to the bathroom and notices something that is the beginning of the end as far as modern society is concerned. They had an electronic arcade version of "Bags." Are you kidding me? Bags? That shitty game that idiots play before baseball games in which you throw bean bags and small holes cut in wood. I thought this was a local game here in Milwaukee, buy I guess there are douche bags every where. Do we really need an electronic version of soemthing we can play in our backyard whenever want?

This has got to stop. Next they'll be electronic bar dice game. Hey lets go to the bar and play bar dice, but not in person, but on the arcade machine. Lets create an arcade drinking game, an arcade dog-fighing game, even better a baby-fighting game.

The worst thing was that I was at the bar for 45 minutes and the same three douche bags were playing the game the whole time and they were having a great time.

A bunch of savages...

I just went to Pick 'n Save grocery store to pick up the essentials (toilet paper and a bottle of whiskey) and was appalled at the state of the parking lot. I counted 12 carts that were not put into the cart rack. Come on, how difficult can that be people? There were 4 spots that I had to drive past and was not able to park in because there was a cart in it. I even found 4 carts literally right next to the cart rack, it would have taken a matter of seconds to put it away. Lets all clean up after our selves, we're not hippies.

Angry e-mail time

Those TV buffs out there in the Blog-o-sphere may ahve notice that TBS has changed their evening lineup. They used to play Seinfeld from 5-6, but now air Seinfeld from 4-5. You used to get home from work (those of us who work) and put your feet up and watch 1 hour of the funniest television program ever aired. But now, 4 o'clock? Who's at home at 4 o'clock? TBS is also now airing 3 episodes of Everyone Love's Raymond from 5:30-7 PM. Everybody Loves Raymond? That is by far the most over-rated show ever aired. Even people who watched it will tell you that it is terrible. Why 3 episodes a day? Now I have nothing to watch when I get home from 5-6. I guess I'm just going to have to go on a crime spree everyday from 5-6. Don't blame me, blame TBS. They moved Seinfeld to a terrible time slot. Where I am going to get my daily dose of dry humor?




Everyone please e-mail TBS at tbsinfo@turner.com and demand them to change Seinfeld back to 5-6. Otherwise they are going to have a lot of guilt on there hands with rising crime rates.

A sports anomaly

All you Wisocnsin sports fans out there, please do not get too ahead of yourself. Yes the Brewers are once again in First Place, yes the Packers won, and yes the Badgers won, but there is much more to the story.

• The Brewers are still being coached by Ned Yost and we still ahve Ray King in the bullpen and Counsell as our first guy off the bench. I am hoping they pull this off and make the playoffs, but they probably do not deserve to. I also fear that they totally embarass themselves in the playoffs in front of a national audience.
• The Packers won the first game of the year for the first time in 4 year, but they are still very bad. They scored 10 of their 16 points off of special teams, and scored another 3 off of interception. Their offense is terrible. Its all rookies except Driver, who usually has 2 players covering him, and gets leveled every time the ball comes his way. This team will not be so lucky every week, and will play better teams than the Eagles and they are going to have a long season.
• The Badgers barely beat a terrible team. They're #5 in the country and should be blowing out these terrible non-Big Ten teams. They're going to have a hard time in the Big Ten playing teams like Penn State and Ohio State.
• This is Wisconsin, where no sports team ever does anything good to get excited about. This weekend was just the exception, not the rule, don't get used to it.
  

An excuse I have never heard before

Now "Coach" Yost has sunk to new lows to make excuses for the fact that he has no idea on how to manage a team. After last night's loss (specifically having Gross steal 3rd base with Fielder coming to bat) Yost is blaming a mosquito. Come on, this is sad even for Yost. Why is the "steal third" signal a scratch on the neck?

Did the mosquito tell him to keep Bush in after giving up 6 in the 1st inning? Did the mosquito tell him to not bring up Gwynn? But in Ray King? Trade for Linebrink and King? Sign Counsell and Grafinno but not Cirillo? Put Aquino in with bases loaded on his first night on the team? Allow Turnblow to walk the bases loaded?

I dare Yost to come out after a game and say "My bad. I really did a poor job managing out there today." Then I might actually believe him. The beautiful thing is that if Chorizo was coaching the team, this would not have happened. Chorizo's don't get mosquito bites.

Test time children....

Today we are having a pop quiz here in the blog-o-sphere:
Which of these two players more than likely used steroids in 2004: (make your decision only on statistics and pictures, no names will be used to protect the innocent)

A) 2004 stats: In 2004, "Mr. B" had perhaps his best season. He hit .362 en route to his second National League batting title, and broke his own record by walking 232 times. He slugged .812, which was fourth-highest of all time, and broke his on-base percentage record with a .609 average. "Mr. B" passed Mays on the career home run list, hitting his 700th near the end of the season. "Mr. B" hit 45 home runs in 373 at-bats, and struck out just 41 times, putting himself in elite company, as few major leaguers have ever had more home runs than strikeouts in a season. "Mr. B" would win his fourth consecutive MVP award and his seventh overall. His seven MVP awards are four more than any other player in history. On July 4, 2004 he tied and passed Rickey
Henderson's career bases on balls record with his 2190th and 2191st career walks.


(Picture on left is from the early 90s picture on right is from 2000-2004)

Player B: "Mr A" returned to the majors in September 2004, posting a 5.40 ERA in five relief appearances. "Mr A" announced that he was switching to the outfield, after an unsuccessful practice outing in which his wildness reappeared, as he threw only three strikes out of 20 pitches. He slugged .514 in single A, and .515 in double A, with 5 outfield assists in 55 games.





How dare Player B use steroids and destroy baseball's image like that. I wish more children would look up to Player A and baseball should embrace him and have him as their new image of a steroids free era.



*Statistics and career summaries courtesy of Wikipedia

And the Brewer's new manager is.....

The Brewers proved last night that if they score 12 runs that they can still win even if Yost makes some ridiculous decisions. (Thank god we traded for Ray King)

You're welcome a@*-hole

Some of my readers were noticing that I haven't been as angry or grippy recently. Fear not; I am back to working 40+ hours a week with high school students, my anger couldn't be higher.

While driving home from work I usually just take city streets and take my time. Its nice to just sit in my car and listen to my music and calmly drive home after a long day at work. Whenever someone needs to change lanes or turn I usually stop and let them in because I am in no hurry at all. I have noticed this week that no one ever raises their hand to thank the driver who let them in anymore.

I was driving home today and someone was trying to turn left onto a busy 2 way each direction street. I stopped to let him in and he then stopped in front of me for awhile until the next lane stopped for him and he was eventually able to turn. This driver did not raise his hand to thank either of us. (His window was even open, he could have verbally said thank you if he had wished.) People, it doesn't get any easier than this. Raise your hand to thank another driver for making your day easier and saving you time.

Too sad for cake

This week's Too Sad for Cake was another close race....

Coming in second was Jerry Lewis




How many more celebrities need to use derogatory comments in public before they learn their lesson. I have thick skin, but come one. What you say in the privacy of your own home is your own thing, more power too you. But when you are having a Tele-thon on national TV, I think you should watch what you are saying.

This week's "winner" however goes to Whoopi Goldberg. This was her first week on The View, maybe even her first day, and she goes to defend Michael Vick and say dog fighting is okay in the south. I understand that the south is years behind us yankees, but dog fighting; come on. "He's from the South, from the Deep South ... This is part of his cultural upbringing,"
"For a lot of people, dogs are sport," Goldberg said on the show. "Instead of just saying (Vick) is a beast and he's a monster, this is a kid who comes from a culture where this is not questioned."

A few things to note about her comments. First off Vick grew up in Newport News, VA; which is two miles south of Washingotn DC. I would hardley call that the "Deep South." There are a few other things that used to be excepted in the south that thankfully are no longer socially acceptable (slavery, voodoo, witch hunting, cannibalism too name a few).

I read an interesting blog about this whole Vick thing and the writer pointed out that he wonders if there is anything anyone will ever be able to do that everyone condemns. It seems that nowadays everything you do is defended by someone. Dog-fighting is part of his culture. Bathroom sex between two people is normal. Being pregnant and doing coke because you are misunderstood and your parents never loved you. If you drink, drive, and have coke on you; as long as no one is killed (even if you tried to run someone over) is ok. Come people. Stop defending idiots for their stupid actions.

What next, someone will start defending baby fighting?

It's only a dollar

On the way home today I stopped at Pick 'n Save, our local supermarket here in Milwaukee. I bought a few essentials (duck tape, rope, and a shovel) and went to check out. Pick 'n Save is currently running a promotion in which you can donate a dollar to Heart Disease and get a paper heart to put on the wall with your name. While in line the 3 people in front of me all checked out using their debit or credit card and each were asked if they would like to donate a dollar to heart disease. Each person said "No." Come on its a dollar. And you're using your debit card and its not like you are using cash and have to go back into your wallet and pull out another dollar. Our people that against donating money to a real charity? No wonder the rest of the world hates us. These are the people that I hope some day need the help of another human being, and then find out that no one cares about their well-being. Just like you didn't care about donating ONE DOLLAR to heart disease research. (Need I mention that heart disease is the number one cause of death among American males).

I was right...

Back in May I ranted about this terrible idea for a new reality show on CBS called Kid Nation. By now you may have seen commercials for this program on television. It turns out that yes it is a terrible idea for a show and maybe America has become smart enough to realize this. I read in the newspaper today that many advertisers are pulling out of the show even before it airs because they feel that CBS is exploiting kids for ratings. Oh wait that is exactly what I ranted about months ago. To counteract this CBS has sent the entire series to advertisers so they can watch the whole things and see that these kids are not being exploited for ratings. Many people think there is a chance that the show will no longer ever see the light of day and will not air. I am betting that you will find some advertisers stupid enough to want to but time on the show and the show will air, but let's hope that America does not watch it and these advertisers, and CBS lose money on this.

This is unbelievable... (in a bad way)

This isn't turning into a Ned Yost hating site, even though that would be very easy. But it needs to be said that Ned Yost, and Ned Yost alone, cost the Brewers the victory today. The Brewers did their part and were up 7-4 going into the 8th, and the Yosted.

First he put in Turnblow in the 8th, not a terrible decision. Turnblow usually pitches the 8th and for the most part does a good job. But today he gave up two walks and a single to load the bases. History shows that if Turnblow walks anyone (even one guy) or gets a guy into scoring position, he panics and blows up. So after the first walk and single Yost should have pulled him, but of course he was too busy reading "Idiots guide to managing" and failed to take him out. So after loading the bases Yost finally takes him out and puts in Shouse. Shouse has been the best pitcher out of the bullpen in the second half, was named Brewers pitcher of the month in AUgust, and has an ERA under 2. So this is actually a good decision. Shouse comes in and get a sac fly. So Brewers are still up by two and now there are two outs, no worries. But then the brilliant Yost puts in Aquino. Aquino was terrible earlier in the year when he was on the team and was just brought back up yesterday. Why put in a guy in a situation he is doomed to fail in? So Aquino has a wild pitch (runners on 2nd and 3rd), then gives up a triple (tie ballgame, runner on third), then has another wild pitch (Astros are leading). After the inning the whole stadium stood up and booed. In my heart I hoped they were booing Yost for throwing away the game. This guy has no right to be coaching a Little League Girl Teeball team, let alone a major league team in a playoff hunt. I can't even find the words to express this emotion I am feeling inside. Fire him now, let the Chorizo coach the rest of the year. Now I have to go take my anger out on the baby fights I am going to tonight.