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.

Your Move Bitch

Well, this spring break was about one thing. The sprit of competition. USA (me) v. Canada (Hunter). and I'm glad to report that as of midnight tonight. The US has emerged victorious. what's that? you're unaware of the competition? well. as anyone with an Xbox Live Gold account will tell you, few things are taken more seriously than one's gamer score. My roommate hunter and I have been neck and neck in gamer score all year long and the gauntlet was thrown down this week to see who's gamer score would prove higher at the end of the week. mine was a gaunt 13980 and his was a sizable 13605 . And as of midnight mine is 14774 and his is 14749. USA! USA! USA! USA! Now, I played 50 Cent: Blood in the sand and out of it I gained 680gp. Hunter, Played Dead Space and Fable 2 (my game btw). add to the fact that he's got Avatar the last airbender (bending air? but...oh i dont even know-ed), fuzion frenzy 2, and King Kong. 3 games that will give you 3000 points for simply playing through the entire game, no searching for x amnount of y, no play entire game on hardest difficulty, no, these games are simply for padding one's score. how can you take your score seriously if you have those three games, I mean, if you wanna be technical one could subtract 300gp from 14749 and you'd have 11749 and he'd be no where close, but no, as his host to this great country I must teach him that adversity is faced and overcome, so, I counted his cheaply earned 3000gp AND STILL FUCKING WON.

I feel prouder to be an american at this moment than any other moment in my life.

Enlisting in the army? fuck and yes

Obama being elected...? slightly, yes.

watching paris hilton go to jail in '07? mm toughie. yes.

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

A Death In the Family, or why I shaved off my neckbeard

well, yes, I was a huge advocate of the facial hair made famous by bears QB Kyle Orton, but alas, outside forces have made it quite obvious that the neckbeard has to go. The process, or surgery if you will, took roughly 15 minuets, to shave my fucking face keep in mind. I'm gonna miss the old Paul Bunyan, that is until the next one grows back in two weeks.

Anyone else think the songs in Rock Band 2 are kind of lame? I mean, there are some good songs, but it's heavy on stuff I don't feel like playing over and over again in the same sitting, I liked Rock Band a lot more than Guitar Hero 3, but this is a case where they took something that wasnt broke and fucking obliterated it.

The guys over at Bungie thought it would be a good idea to release a teaser trailer for their "next game" which is really nothing more than an expansion for halo 3's campaign, but the icing on the cake is the teaser trailer is alluding to a game that wont even be out untill next fall. Next fall. awesome, can I get those new maps now so I can rig your new achievements please?

-Bnew
mornings over, the day is in full swing