Shaq won four titles, probably did not live up to his potential, played for way too many teams for a true superstar, but he is brilliant. I don’t think there ever has been an athlete that set himself up for things to do in retirement as much as Shaq. Shaq vs. is the most brilliant idea ever. He takes on other athletes in their sport. He is keeping himself in the public eye constantly for the transition into broadcasting.
goodbye Red Sox
No one can ever take away the feeling of having a lifetime of losing lifted like it was in 2004, but I am now on a red sox moratorium. It will be a long time before I care or spend money on anything related to baseball for a long time. I would rather have not won the world series. I just put all my Red Sox stuff in a box, they are dead to me.
after the final rose
So our basketball game did not go late enough again and I was once again subjected to the final bachelorette episode. It was actually repeated the next night and then the after the final rose show is on dvr on wed. Problems with this show. The bachelorette is ugly 70% of the time pretty 10% of the time and I don’t know 20% of the time.
Also, I think the best result of this show is to come in 2nd. Because, you are instantly a single celebrity who women have a reason to feel sorry for you. Also, if you want to you get your own show where you get to have sex with 15 different women, you can have it.
If you get married off this show, what do you tell your kids when the watch you making out with another guy on TV the day before you got engaged to his/her father???
what to make of it
I had to take Courtney’s car today, so before we go to be last night she say.
“Don’t throw out the Kotex box, it’s in the middle storage unit in my car, it has my necklace in it.”
I said, when is the last time I looked in the middle storage unit in your car and why would I throw it out.
She says, just don’t!
The All Star game
So the AL won again and I watch 3 batters which is a high for me in the past 15 years. Too many players, on too late, boring for the most part. I actually tuned in to see if Obama hit the dirt or not with his pitch. Every time I see him I am so excited that he is my president.
So on Shim & My podcast yesterday-(or phone conversation), we decided the best way to hold the all star game and make it interesting is have the players voted on and have the two catchers choose teams-Joe Mauer vs. Yadir Molina. Then the questions becomes who gets picked last? Does Tim Wakefield get picked at all? Does Mauer pick his Twins teammates or Albert Pujols. Do the captains have league loyalty or will they pick the most guys on steroids. Do we send 33 a league and have them pick 25 and then send 14 players home. Much more interesting than how it is done now.
White Shirts
Teddy: I can’t wear white shirts, I always get food on them and destroy them after one wearing
Courtney: Don’t be ridiculous
Teddy: I know me, trust me
Courtney: I’ll buy it for you.
six months pass till I have the confidence to wear the new white shirt. First wearing fine. Second wearing-I have to bring my anniversary flowers to the trash and get orange flower goo on the shirt.
Teddy: The wash did not get that flower goo out, can you bleach the shirt.
Courtney: Throw that thing out.
Notices she did not say-you were right. At least it wasn’t food
These things come in 3s
so is it
bizarre death pact on the tonight show couch Ed McMahon, Farrah and Michael
or
June 25th Michael Jackson, Farrah and Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minillo’s relationship
or
How does Karl Malden play into this?
Weather
My problem with weather is that I prepare for however it is in the morning and never look at the weather. If there is a sunny morning with rain predicted, I never have an umbrella with me. If there is a cold morning I am always overdressed if it warms up in the afternoon. If is a warm morning with snow in the afternoon, I get wet and cold. But I do always have 2-3 pairs of dry socks with me.
George Lucas should have watched cartoons
So I just watched Speed Racer. I did not believe Bob when he told me it was good. Although I loathed the first 10 minutes. The movie was so much better than The Phantom Menace. All the action scenes in Speed Racer may be a bit too stylized for my tastes, however the race scenes contained action that is easy to follow when watching it the first time. Contrast that with the pod racing scene from Phantom Menace, which after I watched it more than 10 times, I still don’t follow and have no idea what the action is or is supposed to be.
Speed racer really is true to the cartoon in look and feel of all characters, which makes it very exciting. The story is more interesting and complex than Phantom Menace and instead of stupid love scenes it has cootie patrol led by Spritle and Chim Chim. There are many twists and turns that are consistent with the cartoon, yet surprising and not too far fetched.-ie believable. There are some glaring inconsistencies like John Goodman be portrayed as being much smaller than he is in real life and mom racer having a child every 10 years, but that is made up for by being an easy to follow movie with a good plot.
What’s wrong with sports radio–donuts
So the day after game one of the NBA finals and a day that the Red Sox move into first place tie with the yankees, both the local and national sports talk stations are talking about…..National Donut Day.
Mike and Mike about how Mike can broadcast with 2 donuts in his mouth and the local station about squished pink donuts with sprinkles.
Ridiculous.
