these made me laugh

maybe its my jingle brain but i think their song parodies are the best thing that family guy does. with the nice little segue into danza of course

bring him back. where is he now?

comical shootout

unless you're a fan of slovan liberec or dinamo bucharest, which i doubt any of the readers of this blog are, then you would have quite enjoyed the penalty shootout last night for the europa league playoff spot.

after the first leg had to be abandoned in bucharest after dinamo fans started to invade the pitch with 5 mins left, (well not even the pitch just the track around the pitch) slovan took a 3-0 lead back home to the czech republic thinking progression had to be in the bag.

But incredibly, Dinamo bagged three goals to send it into extra time, and then to penalties, where the hilarity ensued. This picks up after the first four rounds, but the Dinamo keeper has guessed correctly every single time up to this point, and still hasn't made a save. His plight is just hilarious to me, I dont know why, maybe its the head to head pep talk he keeps on getting from a teammate only to have the exact same thing happen again.

I was thinking, the only way this is going to end is if someone hits him with a ball, and thats exactly what happened as little jidlicko stepped up to the spot, already with his shirt in his mouth, (classic sign of choking) before he even took the kick!

Its also worth pointing out how both coaches waited to have their african players kick until the 8th or 9th rounds, trying to keep them as far out of the spotlight an potential scapegoat's role as possible.

why not?

never heard that nickname though


i'll punch every baseball bat right in the face

nfl is dead to me

not that it was ever that alive, but yeah i'm still plenty bitter after the worst superbowl of all time. anyway, lets see what chevy thinks of our chances this year.

well i have kissed a man

white?


your paaaaaaid


...and one hell of a model american

radiohead

so i saw radiohead last night. they mostly lived up to my expectations, it certainly could have been a little better, and i'll attribute most of that to the venue, but all in all it was still pretty special.

Going in, I didn't really know what to expect from the stage/crowd/atmosphere. I'd say about half of the crowd was just in town for the concert and the other half was just czechs with money or a little curiousity to see what all the buzz was about but weren't really familiar with too much radiohead. most of the tickets go to all the big companies and they were having problems getting rid of them all, so there were more than a few suits in the crowd. (i'd say your typical czech likes hard rock mostly anyway, think depeche mode but with a modern twist, so needless to say radiohead isn't exactly up their alley.)

but despite the atmospheric shortcomings, Radiohead failed to dissapoint. The show was typically atypical with little Thommy Yorke (who is really quite small in stature) really exerting some serious energy prancing around the stage all the while not forgetting to add that eccentric touch by putting a lemon on the keyboard during "everything in its right place" for the lyric "yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon." or the set seemingly ending with the band already having left the stage but the music still going of "how to dissapear completely." those were just a few.

in terms of highlights, the encore was probably my favorite half hour of the whole set. Pyramid song, National Anthem, 2+2, etc. Other memorable ones for me were 15 step, There There, Lucky, and predictably Idioteque with Thom really getting into it. I kept hoping for a couple things that I was sure weren't going to come and they didn't but what are you gonna do? They obviously played more of In Rainbows than I would have liked, (i think maybe 8/10 songs) but they were nice enough to play at least one maybe two songs from most every cd so that was cool. They even threw a couple of new songs in there, but I couldn't really tell if I liked them or not.

fastest man ever

where's your shoes?

so will this knucklehead run through the line tonight in the 200m like he did in Beijing and set consecutive world records, consecutively, on the worlds biggest stage?

i wouldn't bet against him.

here's some interesting lunchtime reading for all you small market fans

man united look really shaky by the way. nice to see.

and this is probably harder than it looks, but the guy in the background isn't too impressed.

bye bye huffy

i say good riddance. i hope that mora is next and that luke scott can play 1b.

and i know better than to gloat, especially after the first weekend, so i'll let others do it for me

"Because when Arsenal win, it is not just a triumph of a team. It is a victory of an ethos, of financial husbandry and a perfection in passing, three points and six goals for Wenger's idealism. There are days when they render talk of trophies irrelevant, occasions when the quality of their football suffices. This was one of them." well said sir.

whats with the initials

I'll bet it doesnt say Y.E. on his birth certificate. Not that he gives a shit, but its pretty bad that we'll just go ahead and give everyone Ji Hoon or Yin Yang an Ellis Islandesque americanization. Its not really a big deal, and yeah Y.E. is easier for us linguistically challenged to say, but the worst part is that i bet 99% of the people watching the PGA didnt even think twice about the guys name, and how it wasn't just two letters, he's not an outlaw or a cartoon character.

In baseball news, it looks like spending 450 million gazillion dollars does help, and it will get you to the post season after all. SO NOW YOU KNOW!

And I'm not the biggest Simmons fan, he can be a little too ______, help me out, nerdy at times? but everyone should read this article, and kudos for ESPN pushing US Soccer relativley hard lately

gof without the l

as i was flipping back and forth between the o's 13th inning meltdown (where they gave up all of 9 runs to push my streak to 8) and the pga, i caught this gem from jim nantz.

"Y.E. Yang, he's got that great concentration and confidence in his abilities, a lot like K.J. Choi."

nice

this guy?

he looks like he should be on a boat somewhere

i'm not a tigers fan or anything, (thank god) because I might have thrown something off my balcony last night if I'd had to stand for that little shit show by jerry crawford and company. To eject a pitcher with a three run lead for hitting probably the most deserving of all players in baseball of a plunk is just inexcuseable. Baseball umpires usually aren't in the media and they rarely get called out for their mistakes, but I dont know how much more you can change a game than those fuckers did at fenway last night. So come on media jump on those assholes like you love to with NFL/NBA. last night was shameless, that oarsmen should get 10 games.

but when it comes to charging the mound...it doesn't get much better than this former oriole. I like when he comes back for more.

for you nba fans

MAJERLE! (sound that name out)


I haven't seen a bailout like this since the...


the title says it all

seasons greetings

Where the hell did the summer go? Its early August and fall feels like its just around the corner. School starts in 2 weeks! With the new season set to kick off in just a weeks time, theres a couple of things I want to get off my chest.

I spent a decent amount of time in Portugal, Spain, and most recently Germany this summer, all three lovely countries. Although I wasn't there long, it wasn't hard to gauge the interest in the upcoming season in each's respective leagues through the media coverage. I'd say it went something like: interested (portugal), extremely interested (spain), to borderline obsessive (germany).

Its no secret which club all eyes are on as we approach the 2009/10 campaign. The events that have transpired this offseason have undoubtedly thrust Real Madrid willingly back into their favorite position as the center of everyone's attention, and every club has been affected by their off-field antics. If you don't support Madrid, your sure to have some qualms with them and the Manchester Cities of the world. But what about their fans? Real's fans predictably don't have any problems with the way their club went about their business this summer, by simply buying up the best collection of footballers they could get their hands on. Hell, they were given more cash than AIG (almost) to do what they pleased. But is that really the best way to fix a problem? I say no, and the most ironic thing about Real's offseason is that their weaknesses still weren't really addressed (now finally with Alonso, but still...) They haven't really evaluated themselves because god forbid they look in the mirror and acknowledge their flaws, but instead they've just created a media circus, and fired everybody up about the new generation of galacticos.

Incidentally, on my travels there was no country that wanted to talk more about the financial crisis and how unaffordable life in the city is than in Spain and Madrid. Well, didn't your government just give Real a blank check of your money,taxpayer, sir? How can they not put two and two together? Mindboggling.

My point is Spainards are quick to jump on any train without looking where its going. They just want the results without putting in the gruntwork. You've gotta take the good with the bad, thats what makes the success so sweet (at least thats what us oriole fans have to believe). Bayern could have sold Ribery, and they probably will next summer. But it was nice to see somebody not give in to the big bully and handover their lunchmoney. I'm not saying Germans are better fans/people than spaniards, but they can't be as fickle.

BTW, what an active summer. Huge names and talents on the move that didn't get that much recent hype, Eto'o, Ibrahimovic, Aqualani, and more to come on their way out of Madrid for sure.

dear arsene

can you please sign another mediocre centre half for 5 million pounds or somewhere in that vicinity. or would you rather go out of the champions league quarters again because Djourou is playing right back or something because three people are injured?
Oh, you would? Ok, then please don't sign anyone else. I'm sure our squad is deep enough to hang with the big boys this time around...