...AND another thing
Mood:  accident prone
Now Playing: Violent Femmes-Blister in the Sun
Like any normal guy I watch a rather unhealthy amount of sports on television. Which explains why I was watching ESPN at 3 am a few nights ago. I was watching ESPN outside the lines or something and this debate about Fred Mcgriff was the topic. For those of you that don't know who Fred is let me fill you in. He is the guy with the huge swing and equally huge follow-through. The guy that was on all of those great Atlanta Braves teams of the 90's. He is not the boisterous loudmouthed me-first athelete that america has grown accustomed to over the last 20 years. He is a reserved man. A great teammate. And he has hit 493 homeruns over a very succesful 19 year career. Back to the show. These "experts" were arguing over whether Fred should get into the Hall of Fame. This one writer flat out said no way. The other guy wasn't as sure. The first guy, whom I shall christen "the sports jerk" based his opinion on the fact that "anybody can hit 30 homeruns nowadays". WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS? Has this guy EVER tried to hit a 98mph fastball or a curveball that breaks 2 feet? I'm guessing not. No he prefers to be some high and mighty armchair quarterback and diminish one man's great atheletic accomplishments. Then he unleashes this nugget: 500 homeruns is no longer a great achievement or a benchmark to get into the hall of fame. The rage that this comment sparked inside of me is to great for words. I hate people like this. Granted, more people ARE hitting homeruns today. But answer me this: how many can hit 30-40 per year for the 12-15 years it would take to hit 500? Does anyone want to admit that we are blessed to witness an era with great sluggers? Bonds, Griffey(who I still think is a great player), McGwire, Sosa, Thomas, Thome, Bagwell, Pay-Rod(who should burn in hell) and McGriff and I'm sure that I missed a few. Sure he doesn't crush 50 or 60 in a year. But neither did Hank Aaron. The hardest thing to do in all of sports is to hit a round ball with a round bat squarely. And these guys do it consistently and with more power than most of us could ever fathom. Shame on anyone that questions the difficulty of hitting a homerun or hitting period. I can't believe that idiots like the sports jerk have the power to admit or deny a guy like Fred into the hall of fame. Let the fans vote, make me king and let me do it, do something just get Fred into the hall.

The Intro
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: Muse-Blackout
Well, I figured since Ashley and Caleb both have blogs, I might as well be a conformist and create one as well. I will be honest here and admit that this blog has no real purpose or direction except to post my rants and other incoherent thoughts. While I have no desire to emulate Dennis Miller I feel a rant coming on. This one will be about the upcoming election. No not the Miller vs. Budweiser president of beers race (personally I'd pick Kokanee but that would basicly be like voting for Bud) I'm talking about the big shindig that is the Election for President of the United States. On the "left" we have Mr. Wishywashy John Botox Kerry who has the charisma of a stapler...and that is a stretch. On the "right" we have the compassionate conservative himself, the fearless leader, George W. Bush. I swear he has to be the worst public speaker EVER (people shouldn't laugh when the president is trying to be serious in his speeches). Let's start with Kerry. Several months ago, the democrats had a golden opportunity. People were pissed off about everything related to Bush. They could have seemingly nominated a piece of driftwood and still got him into office. Enter John Kerry. The guy is the epitome of a stiff. That and he can't pick a side of the fence to stand on to save his life. I don't care what he did during vietnam. You can't nominate yourself for all of those medals (checked that) and he obviously did some good things or he wouldn't have got them. So that pretty much eliminates the total b.s. propaganda that is the swift boat vets. I think he was a cool person, I mean he did hang out with john lennon...although yoko ono really brings him back down another peg. He obviously is a smart man, I mean he did marry that ketchup lady. But he doesn't really hold a candle to Dean or Edwards. I think Sharpton could do better but thats just because he'd mess with the system. Way to go democratic party, you got John Kerry to battle for the throne. Nice, real nice. Now on to Dubya. I think he is just misunderstood. I mean all his life he has been given everything:money, ranches, baseball teams(rangers suck by the way), a yale education, oil companies, money, drugs, and eventually the presidency. If you were raised in that environment, wouldn't you act like a greedy little child while you were in office? Oh wait thats right, we all aren't billionaires. Can you blame the guy for finishing his dad's business? Or acting in Halliburton's best interests? Nah. I think saddam is a terrible human being, he killed millions of his own people and he was bad for the iraqi people, and we should have taken him out with the U.N.s help, not like the way W. did. Lying is what this man is best at. That and making really bad decisions and sticking by them. I mean if you have watched his news conferences, he and his cabinet lie and dodge questions in a uniform manner, even questions like what did you eat for lunch he lies about. Okay that last bit about lunch was a lie. And I refuse to be like michael moore and make up crap to make my movie more interesting but you could make up something about bush and chances are it would be true. That being said I hear Bush LOVES tha cock. Essentially it comes down to this:consistent changes of opinion vs. consistent lying. Personally I'm voting for the Libertarian candidate. Screw Ralph Nader he's a jerk. And no I don't know who the Libertarian candidate is. But to that I respond by asking do you know that the Libertarian party existed before I mentioned it? That is because the two parties have made it impossible for a third or fourth party to enter into the system. There needs to be more parties to make the system fair and balanced. What can I say, we all need to be like the fox news channel. Seriously though, screw Bush he had his chance. He messed up in SO many ways...just take a gander at our "thriving-job creating economy". He needs to go. Now that this rant is over, feel free to discuss amongst yourselves.