Opening Night

I've been a Phillies fan all my life, contrary to many of the Rays fans who suddenly appeared all over campus this year when they suddenly were a contender this fall, who after they lost all but became extinct. Opening night was last night and Brett "The Redneck Rocket" Myers, who promptly gave up three home runs to Brian McCann, Jeff Francouer (who had a new open stance), and some new guy who we had to walk, intentionally, on his third plate appearance later in the night. Brett Myers ERA is at 6.00, he has played one game. I can tell it's gonna be a summer where I have to drink heavily during his starts. I hope his ERA goes down for the sake of the potential repeat, and his wife. Tomorrow night grampy moyer starts, I actually have lightened my stance on the oldest active player in the majors, He's not a bad pitcher in any sense, It's just, I think he's gonna wanna start collecting his social security soon and I don't want anything to interfere with that. Do I think the WFC will repeat? why not? for the past two years we've had slow starts to the season, nothing surprising there, then we seem to gain momentum up to the all star break, then the mets collapse in september and we win the division. Sure, the mets and braves have made some moves to make them more competitive, but to claim that anyone but the defending world champs are not the team to beat cheapens the world series win, the mets added a closer who pitched in the AL last year, he didn;t face the bats that exist in the NL East, and I'm not talking just on the phillies, K-Rod was in the AL West, not exactly the most overpowering bats in baseball. The Marlins need to find a way to keep Hanley Ramierez happy otherwise at some point in the season he's gonna want out and find a way to get just what he wants someplace else. The Braves seem to know what they're doing, I have a lot of respect for them, Bobby cox is a good manager. They say lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. I wonder what would happen if it struck three times.

the neckbeard strikes back

Well, im back from West Palm, the obligatory family visit has concluded rather uneventfully, I saw my new "nephew" I put quotation marks around nephew cause he's not really my nephew. he's my cousin once removed to be more accurate, but because my older cousin and I grew up together, I consider him my nephew. His father and I drank Michelob Celebration vanilla beer, it tasted to me like tree bark but contained 10% alcohol, so I can't conplain, we also split a 6-pack of Budwiser american ale, not bad, but not great. it's also filled with lies seeing as how budwiser isn't exactly an american product anymore. and I dont want my beer lying to me, which is why I don't drink Sam Adams anymore, that man has been dead for over two hundred years, no way he's still brewing ale. suck my dick, boston.

Speaking of people who can suck my dick, everyone in florida who suddenly became Rays fans in the past month and has already subsuquently forgotten they exist over the course of four days. And double fuck you to the twelve people who chuckle to themselves and say "guess you saw the world series and you're a phillies fan now" or something to that extent. listen fucktasters, just because it's common place in this state to like a team for the two weeks they show promise at winning a title and then forgetting all about them, doesnt mean im one of your idiotic mouthbreathing friends or relatives who only pays attention to sports cause that team may win. I'm 20, the last time the phillies won a World Series was 1980, a whole eight years before I was alive, so please, forgive me if im excited that my hometown team trounced a team you pretend you liked inorder to feel better about yourself.

Fuck I hate you.

-Bnew
I've been waiting for this moment all my life, but it's not quite right

33% coffee 25% yuengling lager 17% pepperoni pizza 9% piss 7% IBprofuen 5% hot dogs 3% vinegar 1% optimisim

Well, operation sell out to MTV isnt going too well, I guess when you're one of about half a million random people trying to get a slot on a TV show that throws "six complete strangers in a house where they stop being polite and start getting real." stop that shit for a second. Politeness goes out the window when you life with five other people? I live with three other people so I guess I'm lucky. But that tagline never sat well with me. I know what the produces of the show are doing, they're making TV worth watching, if I were on that show you wouldn't wanna watch me type in my blog and play halo 3 all day and then fall asleep on the couch while watching major league 2. That's about as realistic it gets for me. No, they want to see drama and hookups, americans have always been vouyeristic to an extent, I dont wanna see the tape of Jessica Alba giving birth, but I would wanna see a tape of her at a beach and her boob pops out.

I never thought of this but selling stuff is all about who can pull off the biggest lie without lying, Last night I did the late night sales for pizza (translation: I have no life to speak of and when presented with the option of making some money at the cost of my sleep and own plans with friends I may have already made) so yes, my social live is thriving thank you very much!

I'm loving october, phills in the world series, Halloween, beer (even though that's a year round thing), and it getting cooler outside makes for a awesome time all around.

-Bnew
Your brain is magic city, your nose is atlanta

Riding high on the wave of euphoria

Funny, that. The Phillies are a mere one game away from the world series, all my life being a fan of Philadelphia area sports teams has been a crutch that gets kicked from under me, This decade though has shown promise to seemingly every team in the area, with the Eagles being the most successful team this decade, seemingly winning everything but a superbowl, The Flyers going from the worst team in the NHL to going all the way to the eastern confrence finals last season, the Soul winning the arena bowl, and now the Fightin Phils one cole hamels start away from a world series, our first since 1993. This city is so ready for one of our major sports teams to win a title, I dont know what will happen if we actually do.

I just realized how much I enjoy comic books again, this faux world where anything is possible makes things pretty interesting, Iron Man in my opinion is a better movie to enjoy than The Dark Knight, girls only enjoyed that movie for Heath Ledger being so dark and had he not died I doubt they would have even noticed it at all. Stand back and ask yourself exactly what went on in that movie. Christian Bale made batman into this whiny pussified version of Bruce Wayne that never occured in the comics, Robert Downey Jr. played Tony Stark flawlessly. Terrance Howard was even good in his protrayal of James Rhodes who eventually dawns a suit like Tony's and becomes War Machine, even though that doesnt occur in the movie it is illuded to. What im saying is Marvel knows how to have fun with their movie franchises, something DC is yet to catch onto, Comics are meant to be enjoied, not make you contemplate how you felt before you saw this movie and the ramifications it has on reallife, because when you do that you miss the key word in Comic books, the word that signifies these are not to be taken seriously and to let you sit back and enjoy what it is you're experiencing. Comic.

-Bnew

Cash rules everything around me

Coke Zero for the masses

"If you aint making a lot of mistakes, you aint making a lot of decisions"
-David Banner

Truer words were never spoken, The phillies got beat up and mugged out in LA, and I didn't even watch the whole thing anymore, I can't Grampy Moyer got five runs off of him in the 1st inning, way to be clutch in a contract year old man, now I know what it's like to endure a gang rape. Ive been a recluse this weekend, i think ive physically gone outside to get the mail, walk to albertsons, and grill my steak, and that's it, the other 45 hours of the weekend were spent in my living room drinking yuengling I took from work, or in my room sleeping. This week in the NFL was pretty awesome, Redkins and cowboys both lost to shitty teams, and my eagles narrowly avoided the same ate before J.T. O'sullivan made the campaign for the niners to draft Tim Tebow, but losing to the cardinals and rams is almost grounds to be redacted to the CFL.

Well, back to me talking about how I'm wasting my life these days, halo 3, now, while the game is over a year old now, I still find myself playing it, either grifball or matchmaking, but last night, myself and three of my friends undertook a grand venture in said game, the Vidmaster: annual achievement, Finish the campaign on Legendary Difficulty with the Iron Skull ( a game modfier that whenever a teammate dies the game reverts to the last checkpoint) with everyone in ghosts. sounds easy enough right? fuck no, this took us nearly four hours. this is my second vidmaster achievement, and I'm looking forward to november 7th so I can get my third one, and I'm gonna have to wait out untill the mythic map pack becomes avaliable to get the fourth and final one and get whatever reward Bungie has promised us.

-Bnew
I ain't here to break it, just see how far it will bend

I just...wow.....

Sometimes being from the greatest city in the USA backfires, like, right here, Hockey mom is dropping the puck tomorrow at the Bailout center (it's really the wachovia center, but the new mets stadium is gonna be called the citi center, so fuck that.) The Phillies won, again, Brad Lidge continues to raise my blood pressure during the ninth, but he remains perfect on the year with 48 saves. Chase utley was walked four times. four times. Brett Meyers, when he wasn't busy hitting his wife in the face, had three hits, for three RBIs and two runs. Moving to the Eagles Donovan is mad, and well, I would be too, he has called his own preformance latley embarrising, and with the 49ers coming into town, it's the perfect shit team to let out some fustration at having a 2-3 record with, Westbrook or not, Hell, Reggie brown is even out so that means we get DeSean and the guy who's banging a girl next door.

I've been drinking a lot of Yuengling latley, let me rephraise that, my beer intake is the same, but Yuengling seems to be the primary pallet quencher. If you know me, beer is somehting I take somewhat seriously, and to those of you who know me there is very little I take seriously. Beer is one of them, my tastes on it have been noted in the past and I'm not gonna lie, I enjoy trying new beers inorder to find my favorite one. It could be the philly bias I have, It could be because my work serves it and it is leaps and bounds better than corona, Bud Light, Miller Light and Coors Light, Could be because I can drink three of them, watch a Phils game and feel on top of the world, But Yuengling has become my new favorite for the moment.

-Bnew
yeah, we killed it, we killed it all night

I'm naming my son Chase Ryan Newton

After Chase Utley and Ryan Howard, the 2nd and 1st basemen for the Philadelphia phillies, who won game one of the NLCS tonight thanks to Utley's 2 Run homer and Pat "The Bat" Burrell's home run single in the sixth. Life is good for the moment.

Also, I sold 16 pizzas in front of the strip tonight, a place that has a deal with ANOTHER pizza place, I can sell a ketchup flavored popsickle to a lady wearing white gloves. Seriously, your experience with me may vary, but four beers in and a phillies win will turn me into the most perfect version of myself as I can get.

-BNew

mark my words, we're taking over the world