How does this keep happening?

I'm not complaining, but how do the Packers keep winning? They completely lucked out again last night and won. Cutler fumbled on the 1 yard line to prevent an early touchdown. And what was that last play Denver ran before the end of the game and barely getting a field goal, it looked like a play Mike McCarthey drew up. Then they needed a miracle throw from the noodle-armed retiree to win it. EdGrimley may have to give him a new nickname here pretty soon. They have yet to look really "good" in a game they won, and most games the other team has had more total yards than them. It seems that every week the other team makes some bone-headed plays and gives the Packers the victory.

If they had actually put any effort into gettting a running back this off season they could reasonably make a run at the big game this year. But with this running game they can not go any where. Once the weather turns bad and they can't pass they are going to lose a lot more games. Once teams figure out they can't run and put in 6 defensive backs, they won't be able to pass.

At the beginning of the season I predicted they would be 6-10, it now looks like I was wrong. I now think they will make the playoffs, not sure if they win the division (Detroit looks good too, and can run and pass). I predict they will be 10-6, but will lose their first playoff game. With no running game they could lose to the worst team in the league at any point

Random Rantings (Sports Edition)

• The NBA season starts on Wednesday. Who would have known. I know I wouldn't have known except that crime has risen in America recently, must be the NBA season.
• The NBA is going to allow their referees gamble in casinos during the off season. Brilliant. Can they also slap around hookers and start baby fights? Sign-me up.
• The World Series was completely lame.
• They had Boyz 2 Men and a dude from Earth, WInd and Fire sing the national anthem. Couldn't find Tony, Toni, Tone, or Milli Vanilli? How about either an artist from one of those cities or someone who has made music in the last 10 years.
• Now we have 6 long months of no sport really worth paying attention to.
• The NFl had a game in London over the weekend, why? I watched the first 2 minutes on Fox and they broadcasters actually said the excitement level was bigger than the Super Bowl. Please, it was the Giants and the Dolphins. The Dolphins might be the worst team in the last 6 years. And they Giants are all ass-holes.
• How are the Rams 0-7? According to pres-season polls they have a top 3 running back, top 5 wide receiver, and top 10 quarterback. You would think that would correlate to one victory. The Packers have no running back, one top 10 wide receiver, and a 37 year-old quarterback and they are 5-1.
• If I see one more report on Sports Center about how the fires in California are inconveniencing athletes and how these teams had to practice elsewhere, I am going to go down the their studios and punch Stuart Scott in the face. Who cares. These fires have killed 13, and dissplaced thousands of people with no fire insurance or place to go.

Too beautiful for this world....

The new TV season is barely a month old, and there are already casualties. I read that ABC is giving Cavemen 2 more weeks and it will probably be axed. Who would have guessed that that was a terrible idea for a TV show? But the first official victim is Viva Laughlin on CBS. I never watched the show, actually never even heard of it. I guess it is a musical crime drama set in Las Vegas. Yes you heard me right, a musical crime drama set in Las Vegas. The actors danced and sang modern pop hits while solving crimes and committing crimes in Sin City. The funniest things is that I just read that Hugh Jackman had joined the cast after the first 2 episodes to help its ratings. Why is Hugh Jackman doing a terrible musical crime drama on CBS? He was Wolverine. (Actually read they are currently filming the Wolverine Prequel to X-Men)

Fight!

Apparently Kid Rock got into a fight at a Waffle House over the weekend. How sad is this? A Waffle House? I mean who hasn't gone to a strip club and bitch slapped a stripper? We all have. But who goes to a Waffle House and starts a fight with 5 members of your "posse" against one dude? And then this a@*-hole calls himself "rock and roll." Lame. If I were Kid Rock I wouldn't even admit that I was ever at a Waffle House, let alone starting fights there.

Now here's Rock and Roll:

Bye Bye Birdie....

MLB.com is reporting that the Detroit Tigers are interested in picking up Geoff Jenkins option for 2008. So it may be the last we have seen of him in a Brewer's uniform. Also, why would the Tigers want him, and at that amount.

In answer to your questions....

After mentioning seeing a movie with my ex-wife, many of my avid readers have been e-mailing in and asking what every happened all those years ago to get us to get a divorce? Many have said they have heard of rumors of "fundamental flaws." This couldn't be further from the truth. We both loved each other very much and got along very well. In fact it was love that truly tore us apart.



We both had love for other respective things in our life. My love for a good baby fight on the weekend, and her love for COCK. A love that could never be satisfied.

Thank you all for your concern into our relationship, and I hope that answers your questions.

Thought I'd never say it.......

Ben Affleck is a good director and Casey Affleck is a hell of a actor. I went and saw Gone Baby Gone with the ex-wife last night. Yes we're talking again, but we did sit on opposite sides of the theater. The movie was very good, very similar style to Mystic River.

Cassey Affleck is in every shot of the movie, and does some narration in parts of the movie. Who would have thought the dorky brother of Ben Affleck, last seen in the Ocean Eleven movies as an idiot, had quite the emotional range. There are scenes with action, with comedy, and were intense drama; and he pulls them all off. The movie is not light, it is about child abduction and the lifestyle of the lower class, especially in south Boston, and what that lifestyle pushes people to doing. It is however very good, best movie I have seen this year. It hurts me to say it but Casey Affleck should be nominated for an Oscar. That's especially sad because the only reason he was ever in any movie is because he is Ben Affleck's brother and he got drunk a few times with Matt Damon.

Ben Affleck also does a good job directing the movie, and writing the screen play. There are a few very emotionally intense scenes that he handles beautifully with the camera angles and also directing tricks. I never read the book (I can't read) but it feels as if he does a good job turning it into a movie. It keeps you interested throughout, even after a few parts in which you think the movie is winding down, and you've figured it out, it keeps you interested and emotionally invested.

Random Rantings

• USA Today featured an article today talking about "2007 Most Caring Athletes" and picked Steve Nash and Dwayne Wade. First Nash is Canadian so I don't care how caring he is, he comes from a hippy culture. Wade just left his wife and 2 kids like 3 months ago. How caring is that? Oh yeah honey good luck raising our 2 kids I;m leaving you and are going to start banging every chick I meet on the road.
• Fox is premiering a new show this week called "The nExt Great America Band" in which competitors audition and compete in the same manner as on American on American IDol, but as bands instead of individuals.
• Oh yeah. Johnny Rzeznik is a judge on that show, he is the last person on earth who can judge what makes a good band.
• The shortstop on the Indians spells his name Jhonny Peralta, only an idiot doesn't know how to spell a name as simple as John or Johnny.
• I really hope they find out someday that those Bluetooth headsets cause severe, irreversible brain cancer. Those people look absolutely ridiculous wearing them.
• Jimmy Eat World is still making emo music. Those people really must not have been loved by their parents.
• There is a Jackass video game. What do you do just smash each other in the nuts and shove shit up your ass. Sounds like Snow.man's New Year Eve Party last year.
• The state of WI might have the worst professional sports coaches in the country. Obviously Ned Yost. McCarthy of the Packers is terrible. When there was 4 mins left, the Packers had the lead and the ball on a 3rd and 2; why not run it and use the clock and maybe get a first down? No, McCarthy does a 60 pass with the New TD King and it is picked off giving the Redskins another chance that they somehow blew. I have no idea who coaches the Bucks, but I am sure he is terrible.
• Why didn't the Packers trade up to draft Adrian Peterson? (they had offers) The guy gets over 200 yards today, and all our "running backs" combined have never been over 100 in any game.
• Boston University's football field is called Nickerson Field.
• On the plus side I guess Al Gore solved World Peace
  

They stole my idea....

As many of you know I have been writing a screen play for years. It is loosely based on the life of EdGrimley and his struggles with manhood. It features a young man who is too insecure to talk to girls so he lives in a make believe world of online love with invisible women. He even goes as far as building a woman for himself out of recycled beer cans and pillow cushion stuffings from his old couch. But then yesterday I turn on the Internets and see a preview for a new movie coming out in a week with the same premise. A young man is so turned off to the world that he purchases a life like doll online and pretends to everybody that she is his girlfriend. Watch this trailer to believe it.




I don't know if this movie is a comedy or the most bizarre and F%@*ed-up drama ever. What I do know is that it is a ripoff of my idea and Mannequin.

There is also a movie coming out called "The Eye" in which Jessica Alba plays a blind hot chick. Too bad that weren't true, I might actually have a chance with her. She wouldn't know how hideous I am and how hot she is.

True Colors

Sitting around and watching the Packers-Bear's game yesterday one thought came to mind, "This is the team we thought they were." The Packers are not a 5-0 team, they shouldn't have been a 4-0 team. They really aren't that good. Yesterday's game showed their true colors and showed why they will lose 4 of the next 5 and miss the playoffs in Favre's last year:

• Terrible offense (they had like 75 yards in the 2nd half)
• No running game (no one has over 100 yards in a game yet)
• Turnovers (they had4, and will continue to make more)
• Favre's interceptions (the interception king is back)
• McCarthey is a joke (those plays he challenged were ridiculous, why go right back to Jones on the next play after he just fumbled)
• Nick Barnett is a cocky- a@*hole (those two unnecessary roughness penalties gave Bears points)

Yes the Packers could have won, and are still 4-1 and in first, but as I watched the game I got a feeling that this was what the rest of the season is going to feel like. After Jones' first fumble in the red zone, I knew the Packers would lose. 3 tunrovers and only 125 yeards of offense later, it was reality.

Too bad too sad...

The Cubs were just eliminated from the playoffs tonight by the Arizona Diamondbacks. All that work and all that money spent, and three games later, back to your miserable lives. 3 games and they didn't even look good in any of the games, pretty pathetic.

It all goes back to my original theory; God hates the Cubs.

Al Gore is an A*@hole

Alright it is October 6 in Wisconsin and it is 85 degrees outside, and is supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. What gives man? Have we ever heard of the season of Fall? Its gonna go from summer to winter overnight. Sunday its gonna be almost 90, and I bet on Monday its snowing. I blame Al Gore, why not? I also blame EdGrimley and his Al Gore pandering blog niceweatherinmilwaukee.blogspot.com.

Also, did you see that Indians and Yankees game last night. What was with all those bugs? I know Cleveland is the armpit of America, but that was ridiculous.

Great Career Move

Every so often its great to watch someone make a ridiculous career move and leave a TV show that is successful for a shot a stardom (think Shelley Long on Cheers or David Caruso on NYPD Blue). I couldn't sleep the other night (being covered in blood will do that) so I turned on the late night idiot box to see what state late night talk shows were in. I had forgotten that Craig Kilbourn used to host the Late Late Show before this Mr. Wick guy from the Drew Carey SHow. I remembered reading that Kilbourn left to focus on his movie career. Lets look at his movie career since 2002: The Shaggy Dog (led by Tim Allen), The Benchwarmers (A Rob Schneider vehicle) and now Full of It (which is led by some kid who was on the second season of Punk'd).

Craig Kilbourn has officially derailed. Remember when he used to do the Daily SHow and it was hilarious back then. Remember 5 Questions? Remember when he was on SPorts Center and was funny. Now he is playing second fiddle to some jackass from Punk'd.

Season Review

I promise I once again will start ranting about something else beside the Brewers but for now you'll have to deal with it. With the season over and the Brewers finishing 2 above .500 even though they were once 14 above I have some thoughts.

Things to change:

• FIre Yost (duh)
• Sign Braun and Fielder long term before they become ungodly good (Braun the next Boggs??)
• Stick with a set lineup with maybe 2 changes a week for rest
• Fielder, Braun, Hardy, Hart should play 162 games
  
• Trade either Vargas, Bush, Cappy; put one in bullpen; and start one
• Resign Cordero
• Get rid of Turnblow, Wise, King, McCullen, Spurling
• Do not resign Counsell, Graffanino, Mench, Gross
• I say resign Jenkins for minimum for feteran leadership and pinch hitting and defense, but never, ever start

Lineup should be

• Weeks (2B)
• Hart (RF)
• Braun (3B)
• Fielder (1B)
• Hired Outfield Help*(LF)
• Hall (CF)
• Hardy (SS)
• Estrada (C)
• Sheets/Gallardo/ Villeneuva/ Suppan/ Vargas

Bench (in order): Gwynn, Jenkins, Dillon, Rottino, Miller, Rivera, Nix
Bullpen (no order): Bush, Shouse, Cordero,Parra, Linebrink??, the rest filled somehow

*Brewers need to acquire a hired help left fielder, suggestions:

• Mets are going to dismantle that team
• Get Dunn or Griffey from reds
• Astros may dismantle as well
• Trade for Franceuor or Andrew Jones from Atlanta (ship Weeks/ Sheets/ Hall/ Cappy)
• Put up money and sign Jermaine Dye

Just ideas. Knowing the BRewers they will do nothing and improve my 2 games again over the next 2 years and in 2009 be 4 games above .500

Fan Appreciation Day

Sunday was fan apprecxiation day at Miller Park for the BRewers. How do they thank the fans? Not do they give Yost another vote of confidence saying eh will be backm they don't play Fielder (the best player), Hall (a fan favorite), and they allow Jenkins a standing ovation. I know Hall has been struggling, but put Gross in?? Its a meaningless game, let the fans see who they want to see on the last game. I read in the paper that Fielder had a slightly sprained ankle from the night before, thats why he sat out. I'm not buying it though. He finished the game on Saturday, how hurt could he be. At least let him pinch hit at some point so we can see him swing the bat again. The only player Yost took out so that the fans could cheer him was Jenkins. Now I understand the mentality behind this; he probably won't be back, he has been on the team for ever, was the face of Brewer's baseball for years, and all in all in a stand-up guy (he's never in trouble and does stuff in the community. But why not take Braun out in the 9th so he can get an ovation. He has been one of the best rookies in MLB in years, one of the most prolific Brewers in years. I mean Yost takes him out in 1 run games that matter, but not in a 7 run game that is meaningless. Why not put Fielder in the 9th and immediately take him out so we can cheer him. He has put together one of the best Brewer season in years?

Not only is Yost a terrible coach, but he also doesn't know how to run a fan appreciation night in a meaningless game. About 4 years ago on the last day the Yankees had Clemens and Petite coach the team and have fun with it. The Yankees had already wrapped up the division, now they just wanted the fans and players to have some fun. The Brewers on the other hand use players like Nix, King, Rittino, Dillon, and some jack-ass outfielder I have never hear of. LAME