Gettin’ ready for a lot of fantasy + people watching

01/04/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Baseball to start, Pittsburgh to end this…maybe those two things will interact soon. I hope so.

LOVE
I love fantasy baseball season. It is hands down the hardest of all fantasy sports. It is a long season and only the strong survive.
People who know me personally, probably feel I know way more about baseball than any person should.
That may be true, but while I have a vast knowledge of the game, there is one prize I have never obtained — a fantasy baseball championship trophy.
I think one reason this may be true is this. For the first 10 years I did fantasy baseball, it was rotisserie style where one month in your place in the standings was decided.
No ifs, ands or buts about it. Anyone out there who has played that style scoring knows that sucks.
Three years ago, I got into head-to-head scoring. That is a nice change, but I still could not bust out a championship.
Discouraging as it was/is, I continue to fight on. I am three leagues this season — sadly none paid leagues.
Still, I take this stuff seriously the whole season. Even if I am in last place with one month to go, I work with my line-up. That sounds like a waste of time and it is, but what else do I have going on in my life. I work, I watch reality TV and I read about 1,000 articles online a week.
I am in three autodrafts as well. That can be good and bad.
Good — I did not have to sit in front of a computer for four hours dissecting the 200 and 201st best player in the MLB.
Bad — I did not have to sit in front of a computer for four hours dissecting the 200 and 201st best player in the MLB.
Either way I am looking forward to what is out there. The baseball season stretches longer than any other season and to have a vested interest in a lot of teams because of fantasy is a ton of fun. Nothing like looking over Washington National statistics in August.

HATE
I hate when people drop out of fantasy leagues of any time or make a commitment to a league and do not do their part — money, sticking with the league or watching trade stuff. People generally have pretty boring lives. I know this because I know people.
Everyone likes to say they are doing this and that, but that is a bunch of hooey.
Read two or three articles on fantasy stuff, listen to a 25 minute podcast and you are ready to go. I work a crazy shift and I find time.
Stick with a league, find 45 to 90 minutes a week and man up. Cripes.

COMPLETE SIDENOTE
Last weekend, I stepped out of my college basketball cocoon for about two hours to see what the world had done with it self since I last saw it.
So here is a bit of roundup of what I saw from watching many different people.
My first endeavor was to the car was.
I am vain. I admit and I move on.
As I was waiting in the line to get my car washed, I looked back in the rearview mirror and noticed a many who had to be about 50 — I am guessing because of his salt and pepper hair and style of car.
He was looking at himself in his vanity mirror like a madman.
I got a chuckle from this and thought to myself, ‘that is you in 30 years.’
MY next stop was to Rite Aid.
Teenagers were outside on their bicycles just hanging out. Is that was the kids do now?
I certainly hope that was just a pit stop from knocking down mail boxes and causing havoc.
Please tell me that was a diversion from shenanigans. Please.
In Rite Aid, an elderly woman was shopping with her daughter. My guess the daughter was 50. The elderly woman was shopping for something not only I had never heard of, but her daughter had not either.
It was a probably a product the old lady got 30 years ago and was taken off the market because it caused cancer. Nonetheless, she was adamant the hair product existed. I wish I could remember what she said.
My next stop was Wal Mart. One-hundred percent of the time in Wal Mart you will see something that makes you question society. I love Wal Mart, but it took less than five seconds for me to get pissed.
A father and son are standing at the entrance swing around a fishing pole like they were in their back yard.
Hello crazy dad, there are people around. I had to limbo myself underneath the pole and juke to avoid a person not watching where she was walking. Good opening to the shopping experience I thought. Despite some guy continuing walking in front of me as I was shopping for car products, it was a quick trip in and out.
My last stop was the Shenango Valley Mall.
I went to the book store first. I like book stores for multiple reasons.
1.) Books.
2.) Big-ass photography books.
3.) Hopes of seeing some smart, smoking hottie (In Hermitage this is less likely to happen than anywhere in the country — I am convinced of this).
4.) People who do not read, but go in book stores because someone they know wants a book.
That last group is the most hilarious.
I saw three of four of those things/people at the store. I will let you guess which one I did not see.

My overall analysis of the day was this. People are so interesting to watch. I think this is why I miss living in the city so much. In a city, you can legitimately sit somewhere for hours and just watch people interact.
I remember sitting in Market Square with Matt Adams and Carrie Potter. We would just sit and mock people the entire time. Sometimes we would make up the conversations we wish people were having with someone else. If Matt and Carrie read this I am sure they will remember the class of students where the one kid obviously liked this girls. That was a lot of fun.
I miss city life. I hope to get back sooner rather than later.
Nothing like taking two hours of my day to go out into Hermitage to bring back those fond memories of a time not so long ago in Pittsburgh.

really quick

20/03/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Looks like I lost my bracket money.

But here is the bright side. I always thought of Bill Self as a “horrible in-game coach.” Boy did that hold up against Northern Iowa. He never went press until it was panic time. When he did utilize it, it worked. Big surprise. Took too long to try it and it cost him and the Jayhawks the game.

I gave him a break after he won the National Championship. Break no more. He sucks as an in-game coach and I get to say this for eternity now. Best team lost in the second game and it was his fault (well collins sucked too). So anyways, that is over with and os it my bracket.

To end this, I may try CoverItLive tomorrow during the day. If you would like to live chat, I will put the link up on twitter.com/gtphilson and on facebook.

Should be fun, even if you do not want to talk sports, send comments my way and we will go from there. Remember, I LOVE pop culture. Never know how people will get on there, but tell ur friend. Should start around Nooner-12:30. I will go as long as people on sending questions.

Thanks

Gaga over Tourney time and Tiger’s return

17/03/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | 1 comment

I’m going to start off with the quickest part of this…the basketball. So, if you have no interest in that just move on down to the next part. I will not be offended.

Love

This is tourney time and that means it is the best part of the year for me. I become a recluse of sorts as I sit in my recliner with game on the big TV, a game on a little TV and two other games on the computer. Last year when I did this it led to a headache of epic proportions. It was well worth it.

The best part about the tourney, is the lack of time between Sunday’s unveiling to the actually games. This allows me to grab the information I need and stay away from a lot of talk from people who know less about the game than myself.

I do not think I am an expert (despite my many wins in a couple different poll groups over the years) but I do know I sat at home nearly every Saturday and watched roughly eight hours of basketball all day. In the end, it probably will not help me on my polls this year. I made mostly chalk picks this year because it just seems like that is the best option. I really liked Kansas and Kentucky all year. I believe that to be true right now.

KU is experience and I LOVE Aldrich inside. Should win it all and if they do not I will be greatly disappointed. I used to not like Bill Self, but have grown to enjoy how enthusiastic he is. He was on Mike and Mike the other day. His team got a tough break in the bracket. He did not complain. He basically said, if they are really as good as everyone thinks, they should be able to beat anyone. Fantastic attitude.

UK is young but has freakish talent. John Wall can disrupt any defense and be disruptive against any defense. Other than UNC, I easily watched UK more than any other team. They make mistakes and Calipari may be able to recruit well but I doubt he could coach someone out of a paper bag. With that said, guards and overall talent wins in the NCAA tourney. They should meet KU in the final.

I like KU to win it in.

HATE

The only thing I hate about the tourney. The fact I work Thursday is ridiculous. I did last year and was annoyed the entire time. Thankfully, a co-worker will fill in for me Friday.

LADY GAGA

LOVE

I love basically everything about Lady Gaga. Usually, I dislike pop music because of its inarticulate style and the fact that 13-year-olds can make something a No. 1 song. I actually did not buy into Gaga until she made her appearance on Saturday Night Live. She blew me away.

1. She can actually sing extremely well. Like mind-blowingly well. Hits every note and has great range.

2. Her songs are catchy because they are good. I bought the Fame Monster, because of my music rule. If I find myself listening to more than three songs off of a single album, I have to buy because I fell like that artist deserves my money. “Just Dance” was probably the best song of last year. It is the epitome of a great dance tune. Funky beats, a change in the beats 3/4 of the way through and fact that everybody I know moves to the song no matter where they are at. Every one likes that song…they just may not admit.

Ok I got that out-of-the-way. The actually theme of this Love part of Gaga is this. I LOVE that she seems to be have made herself “scandal proof” I say that in a positive way. She looked at what other artists similar to her in the past did and worked with it to cover her tracks.

Rumors of her being an hermaphrodite. She laughs it off with “wink-winks” in videos about that and with her cover for the British Q magazine. She is also topless on the shoot. So, there she is saying “you want to think I am man, here is a prosthetic in my pants, but her are my boobs.” Thank you Gaga for being awesome. She seems like she is very emotional about the way she presents herself, but if she just went out in public with no makeup and no crazy outfit, there is no way she would be recognized. That is brilliant. She has the ability to be a “normal” person. Once again, great planning by her and her PR person.

Her latest video “Telephone” pays homage to a ton of pop culture hits. Not going to name them. The video is there and f you enjoy PC as much I do, you will get them. Her personality is so strong, Beyoncé is in on the act. That is the power she has.

It is impossible to be surprised by her in a negative way ‚ unless of course that is how you want to react to her no matter what. But that will be discussed next. If she was in in a sex tape, I would say “just now?” To be “scandal proof” is to be free from everything. She leaves it all out there…wears her emotion on her sleeve and whatever other cliché I left out.

Good for you Gaga.

She is coming to PITTSBURGH in September. I will be there.

HATE

I HATE all the haters of Lady Gaga. As I was perusing the different tour links, people are chatting about how much they hate her and her music. First, these people — if serious — are losers of the worst kind. If you are that upset about a celebrity, that you feel the need to go onto the tickets link just to rip on her, you are a pathetic purpose. Get out of the attic, go outside and play catch with someone. I hear the sunlight is good for you. Second, I am pretty sure these people actually like her and just do not want to admit. Third, you are playing right into her game. Hating on her only makes her stronger. There are people who only look at everything in a negative manner. Yet, they never understand unleashing unpleasant comments towards strong people only builds their fire.

Quit hating and do something with you life. That is a funny statement for someone who writes about LOVE/HATE stuff. But, I think you get my point. Except for you Rick Reilly. You sold out and make me sad. I respected you. Now, I do not know what to think…ugh.

TIGER WOODS

LOVE

I love that Tiger will be playing in The Masters. It is his tournament. I know he will come back and put up an excellent effort. What he did in his personal life is disgusting. Woods is a pathetic husband and father. He is a fantastic golfer and the only reason people who never have hit a little white ball in their life will watch Sunday if he is in the hunt. I will root for him to win mostly because it is fun to watch someone at the very best of the ability he/she possesses. Of he is on — and I think he will be — it will be a treat that any sports fan will enjoy. I hope he wins. I hope he destroys the field and I hope his world on the course is very similar to what it was.

HATE

I still hate the speech he made. I wrote about it before and it was terrible. But what I am focusing my HATE portion here is towards anyone wishing for him to fail.

What is the purpose of that?

If he wins, it is better for people who want him to lose. If he is good, he is even easier to dislike if you started to dislike him after Thanksgiving.

If he sucks. What is there to root against. No one roots against losers. So, if you actually dislike him, you want him to win a tourney here and there so the hatred you have has merit.

He will never make $10 million annually on endorsements. No one will ever think he is family man and none of his mistresses were higher than a 7 out of 10.

Respectability on the course will be back. Respectability off is forever tainted — as it should be.

Plus, if you are rooting against him on the course, I am confident you are not really a golf/sports fan.

Thanks for reading. Please post comments of you have any.

Enjoy basketball, music, people and life.

Later

My take on Tiger

19/02/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

So, that was a nice waste of 13 minutes…

Like everyone else, I watched the Tiger Woods prepared statement in its entirety and have gotten through listening to a few people comment on what he said. The only person with a similar response to my thought was of course Bill Simmons…

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100219\

I do not want to sound just like Simmons, so I will go a different route and focus more on how the people who seem to think Tiger actually said something relevant are crazy people.

Rick Reilly — I know that he has been sucking at the teet of Tiger Woods forever, but I thought he would sift out this crap. However, I forgot Reilly lost his artistic ability of being a decent writer and story teller years ago and would never go against someone who has given him access despite being a “journalist.” I used to like Reilly a lot. Seriously, was one of the reasons I got into journalism in the first place. But to hear him today was disturbing. He really thought Tiger — who once again read his statement the entire time and seemed so controlled at all times — was contrite.

I will not bash Colin Cowherd because he seemed more in-between than Reilly. But, I will say I was somewhat surprised he was not harsher about Tiger. I think you can only be one way or other on this. Cowherd did not say he totally believed Tiger or thought he was lying through his teeth, but Cowherd really did not say anything.

Past those two, there were various posts I had read that agreed with what I said. They were not necessarily famous people, so I am guessing no one will care. I think us smaller guys will say what we sincerely feel about Tiger. He was a machine on stage, worked everything to his own specifications — the setting, the people and possibly the broken camera feed — and he could not even shed a tear speaking about his wife and kids.

I would prefer if he never did any of this at all and just came back, play golf and let people wonder.

Now I am left wondering what happened to people trying to dig deeper.

Thanks Bill Simmons for sticking your neck out there and going against the norm. At least I know you still care.

how soon we forget…

13/02/2010 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

14-4 playoff record

3 super bowl wins, 4 appearances and a stupid helmet catch away from 4 super bowl wins…also never had a go-to-go-guy in the 3 wins.

28 TDs 14 INTs in 2009 coming off a serious knee injury in 2008.

Of course I am talking about Tom Brady.

Normally, I am not a ranking guy. None of it really means anything, but with all the talk I had to hear the last two weeks before the Super Bowl about Peyton Manning being considered the greatest ever if he won his second championship, I got a little fire up that everyone forgot about Tom Brady.

Mind you, I said second championship for Manning. Not third — which would have tied — but tw0. It also would have moved his playoff record to 10-8 all time.

But thanks to Drew Brees and Sean Payton, we can now go back to the understanding it is Tom Brady No. 1 QB of this generation. Sure, Manning has all those stats. That is great. So does Brett Favre and nobody thinks he is a top 5 QB all time.

Brady gets injured beginning of 2008 and everyone forgets how great he is. He came into this year with a lot people think the Patriots were Super Bowl favorites — despite the year-after-injury aspect.

So when the defense of the Patriots sucks all season and his offensive line plays average at best all season, it seems completely understandable that he would lose a game to team with a pounding defense — Baltimore Ravens.

I will not make excuses for this past year than that for Brady.

I think 2010 will be the resurgence of Brady and I will be very disappointed if we do not see a great run by him in the playoffs this season.

I had this written tuesday…left my comp and forgot to publish hahah

quick pick for some game tonight

07/02/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

Semi-short post because of a few reasons:
Had an extremely long week of work mixed with some ridiculousness that was unnecessary and disruptive to my nature of living to the comfortability and calmness I prefer in my life…

and I do not feel 100 %…probably stress-related crap…either way I will be fine and watching sports all day won’t hurt me.

But before I got my pick for this game tonight, here are a few thoughts.

I always look forward to commercials — no matter how stupid they are, they always keep me locked in even if the game is a blowout.

The Who will ultimately force me to change the channel for 20 minutes. This is 2010 and I have no interest in listening to music that was old when I was born.

Finally, I hate all pregame stuff. I will not watch any of it until 5 minutes before the game. I have a couple books to read, a few basketball games are on and I could always take a bit of nap — all better than the stupid stories before the game.

So here is the pick and some reasons for the degenerate gamblers.

Colts 35, Saints 31

So I am taking the Saints to cover (+5) and the over (55 1/2).  I am also taking the over for the halftime score (28 1/2). Some other props I am about.

The under on the National Anthem.

Peyton Manning will throw a TD pass in the 2nd quarter.

Under for Dave Thomas catches (2 1/2).

Kardashian bet — Lamar Odom will have more points than Reggie Bush.

I know way too many prop bets for someone who has never made a professional bet.

I know I am on the boat that everyone is for, but I have no reason to go against Peyton Manning. Bill Simmons had an email this week about a new “Peyton Manning Face” and he just looks so locked in.

I think I am rooting for the Saints to win this game, but no matter who wins, I won’t lose any sleep over.

One unrelated thought…UNC plays Maryland today…this game will determine if my next post is about wanting baseball to hurry up and get here or if I still have any confidence in this Tar Heel team that has no focused player on the court.

Thanks

quick picks

24/01/2010 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

everyone is getting ready to watch football, but here are my picks with lines

COLTS (-7.5) over Jets

Hard to go against Peyton Manning. I think game will be close til last 5 minutes. Jets will need a drive to win or tie game, Indy’s quick defense will force TO. Manning scores go away TD.

Colts 21- 13

SAINTS (-3.5) over Viking

This probably because I dont want to hear about Brett Favre for two weeks nonstop. It will be unavoidable. I rather would hear about Katrina stuff than Favre. I would like to think the football gods do too.

Also, Drew Brees = awesome. I expect a great day for him

Saints 27-20

Enjoy football everybody.

SAINTS (-3.5)

Hard to root for

17/01/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I am sure glad I wrote about college basketball not matter during the regular season.

Watching UNC play recently as made me sick to my stomach. There is talent there — Ed Davis, Deon Thompson — but not one players makes me excited when he has the ball in his hands.

Yesterday against Georgia Tech the Heels fell down by more than 20 points for the second-straight game.

Pathetic.

This is Carolina basketball and it seems no one on the team has any passion. The defense is terrible and that is what sticks out to most to me. No one wants to move and open shots are everywhere. The only reason UNC came back was the terrible decision making by the GT guards. They took awful shots and let UNC come back.

I never had great expectations for this team, but I never thought they would play like they are playing. They will make the tourney and unless they start to care, I am expecting a round of 32 knockout to a team with far less talent but players that want actually play basketball.

I won’t direct anything on Roy Williams. He is the reason UNC has won 2 championships, but this lack of bleeding North Carolina blue needs to end.

Tyler Hansbrough is hard to come by and hope everyone appreciated him when he was there. Who cares what he does or does not do in the NBA. He is exactly what college basketball players are about. This current group is not. Makes me sick.

Guess I will just wait for the baseball season to start up. At least I know the Pirates will suck.

Anyone have USC tickets?

14/01/2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 1 comment

So, as I set here wondering how great USC football will be in the 2010 season, I realize it is time for another love/hate.
LOVE
I absolutely love the hiring of Lane Kiffin at USC. When I heard the name on The Herd, I was giddy like any fat person around any sort of food – these people are fat for a reason.
Kiffin is essentially a younger Pete Carroll with a smokin’ hot wife.
Seriously, she is ridiculous looking. She alone will be worth watching the games for.
Kiffin – even without Norm Chow at offensive coach – will creat another dynasty in SoCal. He has an extremely cocky attitude at all times. You need to be confident to coach the best program in the country.
He also brings his dad along for the ride on the Trojan Horse. Monte Kiffin is an NFL coach coaching college kids. The Trojans will run rampage over the country.
Also Kiffin was a good QB away from beating Alabama. Tennessee was not that good. Kiffin made them formidable and a challenge every week. Now he has Matt Barkley tossing the ball around to what will be another crop of talented receivers. This all works in Kiffin’s favor.
Let’s just hope USC is in the clear.

HATE

I hate how people think Kiffin leaving Tenn. to go to USC is a bad thing. “Look at what he did to the kids who are going there…blah…blah…blah”

SHUT UP!!!

I work at a small newspaper. If the New York Times come calling, I will leave immediately if they need me to.

Does that make me a bad person?

No, because that is what people do. They leave one job to move to another bigger, better job. That is how the world works. For everyone who thinks differently, you have n expectations for life. You suck as a person. Kiffin left because that was the only job he thought was better,

Tennessee is a Top 10 program for him and USC was THE PROGRAM for him.

Anyone with hope in this country will leave their lesser job for a better one. That is what Kiffin did. Hewent the route that everyone else would do. Yet, people — although mostly simple-minded — believe he is a horrible person.

Kiffin will be great at USC — no matter who is the offensive coach. USC will not miss a beat and the world of college football will be stable.

Having USC around and playing well is great for football. Every one either hates them or loves them and that will only intensify now.

I am on board for Kiffin. I do not care if you or are not. But, at least do not think he is a scumbag for something that you would do too.

Thanks

Yea and other stuff

19/12/2009 in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Yes I am back to this. I know I have been missed and I have missed all of you.

To start, I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. I will once Wednesday is over with.

Now I am going to a put a little warning…this will be long…not bill simmons and malcolm gladwell long, but still

So here we go.

With college football bowl season starting up today, I know we are going to hear a lot of ridiculous cliches and we will all have to adjust. Tyler McAfoose brought this one a few weeks ago and it is something we talked about in college.

HATE: I hate announcers to begin with it. Most of them barely know how to speak and ruin most games, especially in the NFL. But, that is not what this one is about. This about a particularly phrase we here almost every weekend.

“He is carrying the football like a loaf of break”

What the hell does that mean?

I carry break by the end (where the twist-tie is at). I am sure most of you do to. I actually asked some people about that and everyone said the same thing. You hold it like  that so you don’t crush the bread. Crushing the bread is big no-no in everyone’s household if you care about uniform sandwiches. I love uniformed sandwiches.

So, if I understand these announcers correctly, these players are hold the football by the twist-tie end. Very interesting. A football does not have a twist-tie end.

This a football, not a loaf of bread

There is the proof.

Now I understand that the people speaking too much about a sport to people watching really do not mean that, what they are trying to state, but doing a relatively poor job of, is saying a player is hold a football very gingerly. The player is holding the ball away from his body thus leaving it susceptible for a strip/fumble possibility. The wording is really terrible in every way.

No one hold a loaf of break away from the body for these reasons:

1. It is stupid.

2. No one wants his/her bread stripped from an angry shopper.

3. No one holds bread long enough for any of this to matter.

You are probably telling yourself  ”Greg, you are a problem solver and cocksman, what is a phrase we could use to describe the way a football is held when a players does not secure it.

“He held that football like a baby with a poopy diaper.”

1. Anytime you see a person holding a baby with a poopy diaper, he/she is always holding it away from them. Always.

2. It is still being held, but if someone was devilish enough, he/she could hit the baby without much effort to cause the always problematic “baby fumble.”

3. Hearing someone like Dan Dierdorf or Cris Collinsworth say “he held that football like a poopy diaper cracks me up.”

Problem solved in every conceivable way. I would you pass this along to your local and state government and make this happen.

This is bread, not a football

Yes

LOVE: I love that I spent 500 words on that…let us move forward to…

The Jersey Shore

This is all love…all the time.

Probably the most dynamic show of mine or any lifetime.

Every person on this show is exactly the same and different at the same time. They all spend way too much time tanning, working on their hair and keeping fresh.

They also have a tremendous amount of low self-esteem, despite the way they act.

Mike “The Situation” is probably the most likable person. He seems to have some understanding of the outside world and is not overdone with anything…other than his abs.

However, while having that great nickname is also concerned with how is perceived at all times. He did not get with Sammy “Sweetheart” and still hold quite the bitter grudge about it. This makes him insecure on how he acts, despite how he talks.

The other intriguing person is Nicole “Snooki” or “Snickers” hah. She was the princess and at home and felt that should have transcended to the Jersey Shore. It did not take off like she had hoped and wanted to leave almost immediately. She did not leave and has since become part of the group after feeling like an outcast. However, her closeness to her mother, while not a bad thing, may still be too much for someone at her point in life. That is insecurity about being a person on her own. Many people feel like that. I live with my mother, but I also lived in Pittsburgh. Sure, everyone wants to have their mom around on tough occasions and great ones, but the issue I see with Snookie was he departure scene. She really cried it up. I know she misses her mom, but she also needs to realize at some point, ,moving on with some tanned-up juicer will have to happen.  I hope it does for her. She is a ridiculous person, but people like her make the world go ’round.

Finally, I just want to discuss a little of where we are headed.

HATE: I hate where things are going in my career of choice. Journalism is great. Writing is the best release for me and many people I know, but there is this breaking point where, if you aren’t moving towards new media, you will get left in the dust without and Orbit gum I feel like most newspapers are doing the bare minimum to catch up. Most have Web sites (The Record-Argus, my employer does not); but the web only content is minimal at best. If you are moving toward the future, go full-ass. The RA’s decision not to have one is better than half-assing it. I would rather have my stuff on the web sure, but if we would just put some crap up that was the same as the actually paper, what is the point?

So my plea for papers, do it all or do nothing. One can not stand back and let the world deteriorate because good old fashion journalism is not getting out there. I would rather everyone buy a hard-copy of a newspaper and support the business, but if you do not, please read as many online ones that you can. I know some suck, but there is the possibility that with more traffic, sites will grow and jobs for me and others will increase.

I want to stick with journalism, but it will be hard if the jobs continue to decrease. I think we are headed to a world where a ton of talented young journalists will be out of journalism and never getting the opportunity to be read by the masses. Sucks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/new-york-times-layoffs-be_n_395036.html

Some other notes:

Michael was the correct choice for Top Chef in what was the hands-down best season so far.

Susie from the Real World/Road Rules Challege is indeed pure evil (thank you Wes). Bill Simmons and Jacoby recently brought up this point and I agree.  She is the most unattractive person who possesses all attractive traits. The reasoning in my mind is the evil. I would not trust her ever, with anything.

Finally, I want to thank people for reading. Whether you click from Twitter or Facebook, it is appreciated. Please tell people about me if you enjoy all of this.

Happy Holidays Everyone!