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Ugh, I hate all this waiting for opening day. In the mean time, the first televised Pirates Spring Training game is on Wednesday afternoon. Then there’s 30 Clubs in 30 Days. The Pirates-Cubs game from 1991 is going to be on TV again, which is always a lot of fun.
It’s fun to see all the videos from Spring Training. The Post-Gazette has some, MLB.com has some and Langosch has some as well. Really has gotten me in the mood for baseball, no matter how bad the Pirates end up being this year. Who knows, they might pull a 91 Braves out of their asses this year, although I wouldn’t bet on it…
Someone who posted on Twitter mentioned that it’s sad that Justin Bieber is still so high up on the Twitter trending list. I never even heard of Justin Bieber until that guy mentioned it on Twitter. The picture of him on Wikipedia makes him look like some pretty boy, ya know, like me when I was 16 years old. 
So anyways, I sort of skimmed through his wikipedia entry and there’s a section called “Early Life and Career Beginnings”. He’s fucking 16 years old. He’s still in his “early life”. If he was my age, I could see having an early life section, maybe.
Speaking of age, I just remembered that I turned 30 about a month ago. Ya know, I don’t even care anymore that I’m this age. Back a decade ago, it was fun getting to do more stuff as I got older. I turned 18 and I could smoke (if I actually wanted to). I turned 21 and I could drink (legally). I turned 25 and I could rent a car (still yet to do it). But now I turned 30 and all I could think was “That’s nice.” I don’t mind getting older, it’s a good thing. I mean, the older you are it means that you get to live longer. If you die at age 25, there’s all sorts of stuff you will miss even though people will remember you as a young skinny guy with a full head of hair or a young girl without stretch marks and sagging boobs.
I suppose what I’m saying is that age for me right now is just a number, it really doesn’t mean anything more. I suppose I might start caring again if I make it to 70 or 80…
Tiger Woods apologized in a press conference this morning. It reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Marge tells Bart he has to apologize in front of everyone and mean it. It’s hard to believe that this taking up the majority of the front page over at CNN.com. Personally, I think it would have been best if he just never said anything and just showed up and started golfing again. If asked about it, just say “I don’t talk about my personal life.”
With that being said I’d like to apologize in my own press conference some day. I think it’d be fun. I wanna get famous, get married, cheat on her and then leave the press hanging for about two or three months while I go through “therapy” (or as it’s called around here, beer) and then have a big apology press conference. Then when it’s over go back and say “Oh, one more thing. I never cheated and my wife and I aren’t really married. You’ve just been had!” Then take the ring off my hand and tell the “wife” she should take that back to Wal-Mart and see if you can get my $90 back. I wonder sometimes if I am a bad person.
Everything that’s old school in this video: 1. Willie Stargell. 2. Bobby Bonilla. 3. Three Rivers Stadium. 4. Lanny Frattare. 5. The first place Pirates. Everything still around in baseball: 1. The Pirates. 2. Vin Scully. But really, how can you get nostalgic for something that happened 11 years ago? Would there be any real sense of nostalgia for the current Yankees fans over their 1999 World Series win?
But still, so naive at that time. The Pirates were good and they had yet to experience three straight NLCS losses and 17 straight losing seasons.
On Friday I drove to St. Louis to hang out with Jennie and John for the weekend. We went out and had crab at a Crabshack place. It was good, but I wouldn’t have it more than once a year or so. We then watched The Hangover, which was funny, but not for everyone. The Mike Tyson cameo was the best part.
On Saturday night we went to the Blues game against the Blackhawks. The Blues got totally screwed by a stupid ref who couldn’t see the puck and that cost the Blues a goal. So instead of regulation ending with a tie, the Blackhawks went home with a 2-1 win. We also went to the Hardrock Cafe, which is tasty.
On Sunday we had the Super Bowl party. It was hard to care too much about the game since I honestly didn’t care much about who won. I’m glad the Saints won since they never won it all before and all that. But I would have been glad if the Colts and Peyton Manning had won it too. He’s a very cool guy. During the party a 3 or 4 year old boy got really interested in World of Warcraft. So he asked what you could be. So I put my guy away and went along and showed him the “Create a new character” page and I showed him what he could be. I teased him a little saying he looked like a Gnome. His older brother told me to make a Tauren hunter. So I did. And they thought it was really cool he had a gun. But he kept pushing me to be a zombie (The Forsaken in the game). So I made up an Undead Warrior for him, he couldn’t be a Warlock or anything like that because those guys are wearing dresses and he said they couldn’t have hair because that’s girly too. So I started doing quests with the bald warrior when he said he wanted a guy with two daggers. So I quit on that guy and made an Undead Rogue for him and did a few quests. At that point, my laptop ran out of power and the football game was hitting the middle of the fourth quarter and I wanted to see what happened so I told him that’s it for today and he got up and did other stuff ’till his grandma wanted to leave. After everyone left, Jennie and John put on Family Guy and I fell asleep during it.
This morning I woke up and started reading through teh blogz and I looked outside and noticed it was snowing out. I thought I better get going. So I quickly packed up and left at about 6:45. It’s amazing how much worse the roads were in Missouri compared to Iowa. Missouri, the roads were about 1/2 covered in snow. In Iowa, crossed the border and the roads were all clear. Also in Southern Iowa, I noticed a giant billboard that had a green background and in white had the name Jesus. That Jesus guy sure is narcissistic for putting his name up on a billboard like that. Got back to Dubuque around 1:00 and had everything unpacked and put away by 2:00.
Now back to my regularly scheduled programming.
I love this story about how Star Trek Online has 1 million players already. Then if you read the three comments submitted, they completely destroy the story. Why should I buy Star Trek Online? Blizzard had the brains to put the PC and Mac versions of World of Warcraft on the same disc. Apparently, Cryptic Studios decided to make a PC version and get it out there as fast as they could, ignoring an entire segment of the computer using world. I can’t imagine that STO will be as good as WoW. Mostly because it’s Star Trek and Star Trek at this point is really passé.
Leave it to the Vatican to complain about a religion in a fictitious movie that takes place on another planet. Actually, I heard that when the humans got to Pandora, they found some Roman Catholic Na’vi, but they cut that part of the movie out because of a bunch of liberal atheist movie execs.
Pissed off: I did my Federal and State Income Taxes. Would it be too much to ask that the Federal Government and the State of Iowa actually make these tax forms understandable to the average person? They keep using vague and ambiguous terms that could mean anything and nothing. State Governments have demanded that cell phone companies make less confusing statements. I ask the government to make a less confusing tax form. Or just dump income taxes across the board. Get rid of all of them. If we did that, we’d be able to fund the same government we had in 1999.
Excited: iPad. Technology is way cool. I mean, sure it’s just a giant iPod Touch with just more features and a bigger screen. But it’s very cool that something so powerful could be made so small and thin and light weight. Remember ten years ago when computer screens weighed a ton and would bend desks because they were so heavy and gigantic. Now my screen on my laptop might weigh 1/2 a pound. I dunno. Everything just keeps getting better and easier to use. Especially if you’re not using Windows. But I’m not buying one. I have a laptop and an iPod Touch and that’s plenty good for now.
Pissed off: State of the Union. Ya know, I’m too busy playing WoW to actually watch it. I heard they moved it to accommodate Lost. Hehehe. It reminds me of those ABC guys who thought it was horrible that Monday Night Football would preempt Bewitched back in the early 70’s. So yeah, if you want a reason to be pissed off at that whole thing, read Anthony Gregory’s take on it. He’s awesome.
UPDATE 11:50 PM: Also props to Judge Andrew Napolitano for pointing out why Samuel Alito was justified in mouthing “That’s not true.” during the State of the Union. At least he didn’t yell out “You Lie!” like an idiot.
Excited: Baseball Prospectus annual PECOTA projections came out today and they have the Pirates projected to win 70 games! Now that’s progress. Of course, PECOTA isn’t a guarantee of anything. I mean the same projections have no team getting above 90 wins outside the AL East and the Nationals winning 82 while the Marlins are in last place. Also last season, they gave the Cubs a 62% chance of making the playoffs while the Cards and Rockies had 18% and 14% respectively.
I just wonder if they win 70 or even 75, would people like Smizik and Chass see the Pirates making progress or would they still write their little bitch-fest columns on how the Pirates aren’t spending money.