Save Me Jeebus.......

I was trying to relax last night when I saw a commercial for Hummers (the car) and a group called HOPE (Hummer Owners Prepared for Emergencies). So when an emergency comes they yuppy uber-rich suburbanites come into these areas and help out? Yeah, I bet. Those a*@-holes are only good for taking up four parking spots, getting 7 miles per gallon and helping get Al Gore angry by destroying the environment. I don't recall seeing any Hummer drivers in New Orleans, out in California fighting the fires, or in Minnesota when the bridge collapsed. This is jsut a despearate attempt to try to convince the rest of America that they are not yuppy, East-Coast, liberal, Blame America First, a@*-holes.

Angry Thoughts....

I was going to wait until halftime of the game to post my first half thoughts, but in fear that the game is going to get ugly here I am posting with 10 mins left in 2nd quarter.

• The forward progress rule is lame. If I guy goes backwards with the ball and is tackled, he should be spotted there. Harris stole that ball from Owens, I don't care about that forward progress.
• Ryan Grant can straight run the ball. We should use him more.
• That was a nice ballsy call to try that on-sides kick, and it should have worked.
• Romo has so much time in the pocket he could write a love letter to whatever supermodel he is dating.
• That Bush guy is no Woodson.
• The Packers have not completed a pass more than 15+ yards, yet they have attempted 9 times. (Try dink and dunk passes).
• edGrimley's father is halfway right with 4 interceptions, Favre already has 2.
  
• I hope this loss doesn't affect the Packers down the road. They can still finish 14-2 or 13-3 and have a by.

Update: Aaron Rodgers is in the game. Rodgers who??


Post Game Thoughts (Update)

• The Packers actually made it into a game.
• Agreeing with edGrimley, the NFL Network is terrible with games. The announcers are terrible, the sound was too quick, the camera angles sucked, terrible.
• In a game of that magnitude how could the Packers and the refs let it be decided by penalties. The Cowboys had 70 yards, the Packers had 180 penalty yards. (On fewer penalties).
• When 2 refs disagree on a call, it should automatically turn to Instant Replay. Two refs disagreed on the two biggest plays, both affecting the outcome of the game. Al Harris stripping TO of thew ball on the first drive and Trevon Williams' phantom pass interference on Dallas' last drive.
• That was a terrible decision by McCarthy to kick that field goal at the end on 4th and inches. There are many reasons why that is.
• The future looks ok with Rodgers actually. He seemed calm, confident, and under control. Our biggest strength in our receivers, we must keep them at any cost.
• McCarthy may actually be a very good halftime motivator. The Packers seem to do better in the 2nd Half.
• The saying of the day was by Bryant Gumbel at the very end of the game when Trevon Williams was returning the kickoff after Dallas' last field goal and was leveled at the 18. "Trevon Williams just got baptized at the 18."

Fun with Commercials...

Rival Blogger, edGrimley, has his weekly Fun With the Internets piece, so we here are introducing a new piece, Fun with Commercials. We will feature weekly commercials that either make us laugh or really, really angry because they are so stupid. (probably mostly the latter) Since we are restricted by what is on You Tube we may be limited.

Without further adieu......

Who were the ad wizards who came up with this one...

So I'm just lying around watching some good old fashioned American Football. Now that my wife can no longer stop me from watching it, it is one of the few happiness's I have left. I saw a new commercial for Subway that was just ridiculous and made no sense. Subway has never had very good commercials, in fact their best commercial was probably the fake commercial in Happy Gilmore.

This new commercial has Golden Boy Brady Quinn on top of this float in a football stadium parking lot throwing subs at people tailgating. Everyone is really excited and hollering at Brady Quinn and eating the subs. Then a voice over comes on saying that Brady Quinn will be at football games all over the country every Sunday throwing you a Subway Sub. Brady Quinn then look at the camera and says, "Every Sunday? I'm kind of busy." Then jumps off the float, puts his helmet on and runs into the stadium.

This commercial is stupid on a few fronts. First, why did they select Brady Quinn? Was Aaron Rodger and Alex Smith busy? Second, who would eat a cold sub over a hot burger or brat off the grill? Thirdly, why does Brady Quinn say he is busy every Sunday? He's the third quarterback on Cleveland. The odds of him ever taking a snap for the Browns is about 2%.

Subway needs to stop allowing Jared write their commercial for them, they're terrible.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing everyone a good holiday breaking all those restraining orders and watching your ex-wife eat Thanksgiving dinner with her new family. She'll come back to you some day.

Here's some good advice I found on the Internet.

So long Pudge....

I was never a huge fan but the Brewers traded Pudge Estrada to the Mets for Guillermo Mota. Estrada was useless as a catcher, he threw out 3 steal attempts all year, and all three of those runners fell while trying to steal. He also was worse than Jenkins at times at the plate. The only positive thing he did all year was having the balls to challenge Yost and yell and almost punch him in the dugout.

I just wonder if this is the best trade for the team. This guy Moto is pretty shady. He was suspended for steroids last year and when he returned he was booed by his fans (I know its New York and they boo everyone). I fear we are filling our bullpen with more and more pitchers like Turnblow and Wise, pitchers who were good a couple years ago and we keep hoping will return to form.

Now the Brewers are hoping to sign old-bones Jason Kendall. I know he used to be a BRewer killer on the Pirates, but I don't think he is an improvement at catcher. He threw out the second fewest runners last year after Estrada, and he didn't bat much better either. With Hart batting #5 hopefully I guess their plan is to hide the catcher's bat at #8.

If they can resign Cordero and sign a good batting left fielder I'll by into all this, otherwise its a little suspect.

Enough Said

This story speaks for itself.....


I'm just saying that the Feds may want to question me, I know a couple of guys.

Don't pass out at my house son....

Can I get a recount?

Yesterday they announced Bob Melvin of the Arizona Diamondbacks won NL Manager of the Year. What? No Ned Yost? Someone must have miscounted the votes, that or there was a problem of hanging chad. How could he not win after what he did with that team. He has the 2 best young players in the league but he had the courage to rest them once a week and take them out of close games. He had the knowldge to know to keep his starting pitchers in too long and put in bullpen pitchers that couldn't hit the blind side of a barn.

On a related note I think an inanimate carbon rod won AL Manager of the Year seeing that anyone could manage in the NL, maybe even Yost.

Can't we all get along?

I bet you were thinking this post was going to be about world peace or something. Sorry to disappoint all these hippies out there. But....

Ever since that judge decided I was unfit to even see my daughters (he still thinks they deserve my money though) I have been spending more time distracting my brain with mindless television. Well no more. It looks as if this writer's strike is in it for the long hall. Most shows have 3-5 episodes left already filmed and they will have to go into reruns, or god-forbid start airing more reality TV.

Colbert Report, Daily Show, The Tonight Show, and The Late Show have not had a new episode since the strike. Can't these hosts write their own jokes and interview questions? I guess not.

This week is going to be the last episode of The Office because Steve Carrell (not in the writer's guild) refuses to cross the picket line to film new episodes. I was watching Heroes last night and they actually said that the season finale was in 3 weeks. What? Its only November, and its the season finale? Nice 8 episode season guys. O also read that the new season of 24 was on hold indefinitely and probably will not air now until January 2009 (will Earth even exist then?). Now they may also cancel Lost until 2009 as well. Whats going on people? Can't you found a bunch of monkeys to sit down and write these scripts? Couldn't some of the Network Big-Wigs (i.e. Millionaires) to dip slightly into their pockets and actually pay these writers, the ones making all this money for them. As funny as these shows are, the actors are only as funny as the writers.

If I were an actor or Network producer I would be embarrassed that my whole company is crumbling because our lowest employees who sit in a dark room in the basement smoking pot and drinking coffee are on strike, and we can't run our business any more without them. Its almost as if Snow.man went on strike from getting coffee for Jake and the whole company came to a halt and they couldn't find any one else to get coffee.

God forbid.....

God forbid that Fox play an actual game that has meaning. After watching the Packers woop up on the Vikings (man does the Vikings "offense" suck) Fox decides to air the Bears vs. Raiders game. Why not play the Cowboys and Giants, a game with actual meaning, instead of a game with a 2-6 and a 3-5 team. Lame!

Funny stuff

Will Ferrell might be the most naturally funny person alive, it doesn't matter what the script is, he will make it funny. Every movie that he just has a cameo in, he makes it the funniest scene. And movies that he stars in would be stupid, but he carries them and they are hilarious. He also has a video site called funnyordie.com which I guess allows people to post funny video clips, not people crying into the camera about how emo they are. Here are some highlight.








This one reminds me of EdGrimely's boss.



This one reminds me of Snow.man and his roommate out eating ice cream. (John Mayer has a sense of humor??)

Hidden Gem

Those of you lucky enough to be invited to my first wedding may remember my vows to my wife. (You probably don't because we were all so drunk). My vows included a line about how she was a hidden gem that had gone unnoticed until I found her and how lucky I was to have found her. 48 hours later when we were filing for a divorce for fundamental flaws, and her "extra-cuuriculars," it turns out she was not a hidden gem. HOwever the movie, The Wendell Baker Story, may be just that. It was written by Luke Wilson and star Owen Wilson and Eddie Griifin, even a small cameo by WIll Ferrell. The movie has a very similar feel to a Wes Anderson, and even features a few of the lesser known actors from those movies. It probably has a little more to say, and has a little more "heart" than a Wes Anderson movie, but it is similar in the type of comedy and is a "coming of age" movie in which the character grows as a person. It shows that Owen and Luke Wilson are hilarious and great actors, they just have to write their own movies, all the other movies they are in suck. (Vacancy, My Super-Ex Girlfriend, Hoot, Shanghai Knights, Night at the Museum to name a few.

Still an idiot....

Some of you may have been wondering what ever happened to Rosie O'Donnell (some of you may not care or were jsut glad she was gone). But it appears she is still a bumbling idiot. I guess she was offered a job on MSNBC to host a show simialr to Larry King. She then went on her blog (EdGrimley's favorite blog) and said she was working on a deal with them and the sides were far apart. MSNBC then decided to drop all talks because she was talking about their talks on her blog. Oh well. My respect for MSNBC just went up.

The saddest thing about this, and the reason for this rant is: (read this)
"poof/my career as a pundit is over/b4 it began."
That''s how O'Donnel types in her whole blog, she usally all kinds of shorthand and "text talk." What grown woman uses b4, U, R, DKN, BFF? Type the whole word you blabbering idiot. Better yet, stop typing or blogging at all. You are giving all us serious bloggers a bad name.

You can't make this up

From the files of You Couldn't Make this up comes another story Chinese made toys being pulled from shelves. Except this time it is not because of lead in the paint.

Now don't get any ideas EdGrimley or Snow.man but "Millions of Chinese-made children's toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found it contained a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested."

Now I don't really even see how this makes any sense but apparently Scientists say the beads contain a chemical that the human body metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB).

That's so rude, I how someone stabs him in the eye with a fork.

So I go to the local grocery store last night to get the usual (duct tape, rope, shovel) and there is only 1 line open at 9:15. This seems a little odd, but I really need what I am in line for so I wait. The line is about 8 deep, with some people having full carts worth. About 5 minutes later a checker opens another line. Now instead of the people in the front of the line going into the new line because they have been waiting the longest; the people at the end of the line run up and go into the new line. Come on people. This is just a dick move. There was an elderly lady in line with 3 items but these 2 meat heads ran in line in front of her.

I was going to play a clip from youtube of people being rude, but when I searched all I found was clips of these sad emo teens complaining about how rude people are to them and make them cry. That is however hilarious.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaary, Baaaaaaaaaaaary

I just read an article saying that Barry Bonds plans to boycott the Hall of Fame if they display his home run ball with an asterick. Sounds like a dare. I dare MLB to display it with the asterick, just so Barry will never show is cheating, womaining, gambling ass in the place. I don't want to take my kids there one day and see him there and have to say, "Hey kids there's the guy who cheated his way to beating Hank Aaron's home run record and then lost it again 6 six years later to A-Rod, who then lost it 7 years later it Prince Fielder. And he's a total ass-clown."

The guy has said he wont donate any of his stuff like jerseys or bats to the Hall because he "has to look out for his family and take care of them." Good riddance. I dream of the day when he is out of baseball and no one mentions his name ever again. (Including his wife).

Random Rantings (Part 1)

I will have updated Random Rantings after the weekend I am sure, but a few things couldn't wait.

• A-Rod wants $30 million a year for 12 years. WTF? That is unbelievable. He is a great player no doubt, but is he worth that. That is over half of the entire Brewer's payroll. Sadly some team will pay that.
• Daunte Cullpepper is being replaced by Josh McCown. Too Sad For Cake. Culpepper was on the cover of Madden Football 2002, now he is being replaced by Josh McClown.
• Dog the Bounty Hunter is an unbelievable racist. Now A&E has stopped airing his show.
• Apparently Lance Armstrong is dating or hooking up with Ashley Olsen. What? That image will give me nightmares. I'm not a huge fan of Sherryl Crow, but leave her for Ashley Olsen? This re-proves my theory that Lance Armstrong is a douche bag.
• Criss (he actually spells his name like that)Angel snapped at some contestant on his show, Phenomenon because the guy claimed to be a psychic. Angel asked him to tell him what was written on a card, the guy immediately called Angel "ideological bigot" (big word) and approached him and they almost fought. Who watches this shit. Who cares who is going to be the next magician, and why does Criss Angel personally attack people who come on his show. After the writers strike next week, we can look forward to much more reality TV like this.
  

Welcome Back....

The NBA season is back and in full swing. Now any time I want to watch overpaid man-giants hog the ball and try to do aerobics in the air instead of passing the ball and have the stupidest tatoos, I have something to watch.

After one day of NBA everything is back to normal: The Bucks are terrible (did anyone actually think they would be good), Kobe wants to be traded, Iverson has yet to go to practice, Ron Artest punched a fan, the league leader in assists had 4 assists.

The regular season ends April 16, then two months of postseason. The Finals aren't scheduled until June 20. Holy crap is that a long season. They only play 84 games, yet it is as long as baseball season. These overpaid man-giants can't play back to back days. Lame