This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer was a vigilante and he stopped a guy from burning leaves because he supposedly didn’t have a permit and he tried to stop some kids from drinking beer because they didn’t have a permit. The guy burning leaves did actually have a permit….of course.
Archive for May, 2009
Jerry writing a stupid blog…without a permit!
Saturday, May 30th, 2009Ask a stupid question
Friday, May 29th, 2009And I’ll probably get a stupid answer.
So there’s this article about former President Bush 43 and most of it’s just him talking about his time in the White House and his marriage and all that sort of stuff. Anyways, I got to the last paragraph where it says:
Bush will take the stage Friday night with former President Clinton in Toronto, Ontario, for what’s being termed a “conversation.”
What? They have to leave the country in order to have a conversation?
Nothing changes, except the names….
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Matt Wieiters makes his Major League debut on Friday. Still waiting on Danny Moskos to make it…still waiting for him to get out of AA Altoona and to AAA Indy. Still waiting on him to strikeout more than he walks. I can’t believe anyone thought he was close to being Major League ready when they drafted him over Wieters. Right after the draft, he was pitching in the college world series where his velocity was down. In fact, the report on him from WTM was:
He threw in the low- to mid-90s with a lot of life as a closer, but only 89-92 when starting, and by the end of the season he was down in the high 80s.
Ouch. Thanks a lot Littlefield. Of course a few guys thought his velocity was up and said that he was “He was a perfect pick for the Bucs” and that “You don’t put together a small market farm drafting bats in the top round.” Yeah! I mean, the Brewers suck because they wasted all those picks on Weeks, Fielder and Braun. They suck what good are they doing the Brewers? Hmmm, who to trust? The smart guy who did his research or the guy who makes no sense at all?
So glad we passed up the power hitting catcher that the Pirates need right now in order to draft the next Bobby Bradley. Good job. At least last year’s draft made some sort of sense as opposed to 2007′s…
I pity da foo!
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Last night’s Pirates-Cubs game was very odd. Lots of back and forth. Freddy Sanchez probably had the best game by a Pirates I can remember. He went 6 for 6 with a home run. Nate the Great had a home run and Sean Burnett got his first save ever. Sadly, Matt Capps, who looked like he was back to his old self took a line shot off his elbow with the second batter he faced in the 9th, which is why Burnett got his first career save.
But the real highlight from last night’s game was this:
Oh yeah, Mr. T! That was the best singing of Take Me out to the Ballgame, ever! And the zubaz were just awesome, I didn’t even know they made those anymore. After singing, he went to the WGN booth and had a nice chat with the announcers and talk about the greatest interview ever. I think that was the most enjoyable game ever. Mr. T sings and the Pirates win….
Say what?
Monday, May 25th, 2009Yet another industry is seeking a bailout. Well, not an entire industry, just the part of an industry owned by minorities. Something about that is disturbing. So minority broadcasters need some money to stay in business. If you’re a white male broadcaster, have fun getting a new job! Ok, some bullshit from this article:
Clyburn and other senior members, including House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), argue that minority-owned broadcasters are sound businesses, but that the recession could undermine the government’s efforts to diversify the airwaves.
They’re kidding, right? If they were sound businesses, they wouldn’t need a fucking bailout. Secondly, why does the government need to further diversify the airwaves? Don’t we have a lot of diversity in TV and radio already? Look at TV, if the president was on in 1975, he was on every channel. Today, if he’s on TV, just change the channel. If you like christian religious nonsense stuff, there’s channels for that. If you like sports, channels for that. If you like Sci-Fi, channel for that. If you like science and technology, channels for that. How much more diversity does TV need? And radio, there’s all kinds of music and talk and sports on radio today. There’s even more if you pass up the FCC controlled stuff and get a satellite radio. Nonsense.
“They are looking for continued access to capital to continue their otherwise fundamentally sound operations,” the members write.
So they’re looking to borrow more money, which they apparently were doing anyways. So that’s what the government call a sound business. Ok then. Ya know that most of these government idiots have never run a business before, the only thing they’ve done is run political campaigns and all those do is throw money down a rat hole. They don’t produce anything nor do they provide any real service. So I can see why they would call businesses that are in need of government bailouts as “sound businesses”, what would they really know about it?
Back in 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst was happening, I didn’t hear any calls for the government to bailout all those failing internet businesses. For a while now, I’ve thought that it’s probably because none of them had any lobbyist in Washington DC ready to apply for government funds and there were no unions in these dot-coms. So while the Auto Industry (unions) and the banks and financial sectors (lobbyist) have brought in huge dollars to save failing companies, the dot-coms did the right thing and cut their losses and went out of business. Painful, yes, but it made investors smarter about what kind of internet businesses to back and which to avoid.
Just wondering how much better off we’d be if the government would just let the loser businesses go under. Now we’re just gonna throw money down a perpetual rat hole for every company that comes calling and there’d be some reason or another that they need to be bailed out. And then all those people in Washington will be telling us how much better off we’d be if we bail them out than if we don’t. It’ll just continue until the day everyone realizes that the United States can’t tax and print itself in to prosperity.
iPhone, uPhone, we all Phone for iPhone.
Sunday, May 24th, 2009So June is coming up soon and stuff. I need to get my favorite sister a birthday present. I forgot to budget it in to May so since her birthday is on May 31st, I could just buy it on June 1st and send it her way to St. Louis and just say I bought it on the 31st. Yeah. That’ll work out really cool.
In other news, farmer tan is progressing nicely. The back of my neck turned red (I might be a redneck) and my arms are redder than they were before. This is all probably the result of me driving an old fashion tractor without a cab (I know, crazy fucking times back then) and pushing the little lawn mower around and getting the grass that can’t be reached by riding mower. Summer is finally here, I mean the windows in my room are open and I can sit here shirtless and not freeze to death, unlike when it was -15 F out and stuff.
Ok, so I was thinking I should get an iPhone for a while now. But then I realized several things. 1. I like US Cellular. A lot. They’re awesome. 2. They don’t have iPhones. 3. Tits are cool. 4. There are perfectly good phones sold by US Cellular. 5. iPod Touch someday, just as good, but not a phone and thus no monthly bill. 6. I don’t wanna change providers and have to actually pay for my phone bill. Keep having Jesse pay for it.
So I was looking through the phones offered by US Cellular and the one I’m thinking of getting is the Samsung Delve which has touch screen, web browser and qwerty keyboard. Pretty much everything I want without the price of an iPhone nor the having to switch to AT&T. Also someone told me to look at Samsung Banter which has no touch screen, nor web browser. I’m only gonna look because I told her I would. But I’m probably gonna go with a Delve.
Hahahaha.
Friday, May 22nd, 2009As though there hasn’t been enough publicity about the Steelers visit to the with James Harrison not wanting to do an overblown photo op and the media getting their panties in a bunch about it.
Anyways, the Obama-Steeler meeting took place today, but not before Obama made a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds cry and kicked them out of the White House. The problem with them? They showed up 10 minutes late. Perfect quote about the situation:
“Here we have President Obama and his administration saying here we are for the common, middle class people, and here he is not letting 150 5- and 6-year-olds into the White House because he’s throwing a lunch for a bunch of grown millionaires,”
Yep, all presidents are like that.
Some observations and questions:
Wednesday, May 20th, 20091. Return of the King. I turned the end of the movie on while waiting for my laundry to get done this afternoon so I could hang it up outside. Holy crap, I never realized how long the scene at the Grey Havens was, it was longer than a Minnesota Goodbye.
2. It’s May in Iowa. Meaning that if it’s warm out the wind will be hitting at about 50 MPH, making the nice weather somewhat useless and when it finally calms down, it’ll be because the temperature just dropped to 65 degrees for the day time high.
3. I wonder if it’s ever a good idea to call an ex-girlfriend and see if she’s available. I wonder if it’s an especially bad idea if she’s the one who did the dumping. I would think after 3 and a half years, she might have had time to think it through and realize she made a dumb decision.
4. I have to hit up the dentist tomorrow. I wonder what kind of damage there is this time. I just got a bad feeling about this.
5. I should shave soon. I haven’t done it since last Saturday when I went to the wedding.
6. Pirates have won 4 in a row. Watch them fuck it up tonight.
Lanny speaks.
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Wow, this is a great interview with Lanny Frattare and his decision to leave the announcer booth at the end of last season, his drinking problem and what he’s doing now. It’s interesting because he said he’s not going to attend any ceremonies the Pirates have for him, he’s not going to take any type of announcing job in baseball ever again and he probably won’t even watch a game this year.
Wow, watching the Pirates-Rockies game in Pittsburgh and the Rock’s pitcher was running behind home plate to back up the catcher right after a hit, the home plate umpire kicks the bat out of the way of the base path and it hits the pitcher in the foot and he has to leave the game. The Rocks have had a bad game since the 7th inning. They were up 4-1 and now they’re losing 11-4, they gave up 10 runs in the bottom of the 7th. Their bullpen sucks sometimes and their outfield defense cost them as well. Maybe it was the sun. Alfonso Soriano had that problem in an afternoon game last year in Pittsburgh.
Today is the 30 year anniversary of this pitching monstrosity. I love a game where the starting pitcher only manages to get one out and yet he also managed to hit a home run.
He was the best of owners, he was the worst of owners…
Friday, May 15th, 2009I found this series of articles about the best and worst owners in professional sports interesting. Although I have to admit some confusion about the omission of the Pirates owners, specifically the Nutting family.
Baseball, I mostly agree with their choices. The Red Sox owners are clearly the best right now and I can’t imagine them putting anyone else in that slot. Steinbrenners, not sure I agree with that and not for the reason they mentioned. I think that he and his sons are horrible micromanagers and they spend money in a way that’s not at all efficient or smart. Their new stadium is ugly and it took almost a month to figure out that nobody wants to pay over $1000 for seats that go for less than $500 at most stadiums. They excessively overpaid for a 1B and two pitchers who are probably just past their primes. And the Rays make one playoff appearance and suddenly their owner is #5? I don’t think so. If they Rays make the playoffs twice more in the next five years, he could certainly compete for the 5 spot, but until then, too early.
As for the five worst baseball owner, can’t say I disagree about Lerner, Loria, Angelos and Glass. Not so sure about Rangers owner Tom Hicks, sure he wasted a lot of money on A-Rod and others. But his front office has made a few good moves lately, including getting Saltalamacchia from Atlanta and Hamilton from Cincinnati.
As for the NFL, Steelers are #1 again. Pretty cool. Bob Kraft gets #2, which is hard to disagree with. He turned the Patriots from a joke in the early 90′s to one of the most popular and well run teams in the NFL. The Giants, Eagles and Ravens owners are all good picks, but there could be other choices there as well.
Couldn’t agree more about the Raiders. The game has passed Al Davis since playing in the Super Bowl in January 2003. They really need a front office shake up. Davis can still own the team, but let someone else run things in Oakland who knows what they’re doing. The same point could be made about the Cowboys, Jerry Jones is turning in to Al Davis and he also needs to trust other people to run the franchise. The Lions, Bengals and 49er’s belong on the bottom five list too. Especially the Niners since they used to be great when the decade began, but they’re terrible today. As for the Redskins, I don’t know, I suppose they made a good point. What about the Browns owners? I mean, they got a ton of money and a new stadium when they came back in 1999 and have done nothing since coming back. Sometimes, it makes me wonder why Cleveland even wanted them back.
The NHL has the Pens listed as the 3rd best NHL owners. I think they’re #1, but that’s my biased opinion. The Bulls didn’t make the top 5 nor the bottom 5 in the NBA, I think they could be better, but it could be worse so I’m not complaining to loudly there. It’s kinda funny that the Lakers are listed as the top while the other guys in Los Angeles, the Clippers are the worst.
