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Dinner With Cris Carter & Terrelle Pryor

Okay, I didn’t actually have dinner with Cris Carter and Terelle Pryor, kind of, but not really. I went to Eddie George’s restaurant here in Columbus called Eddie George’s Grille 27. It’s a pretty nice place to eat, I usually go once a month. The place has a great atmosphere and tons of flat-screen tvs to watch any sporting event. I went the night before the spring game and I know the bartenders since I worked there for a short while (it ended horribly, but they have love for America’s White Boy.) They told me that Cris Carter and Terrelle Pryor were both there. I turned around and there they were. I guess I don’t see too many famous people. I was in awe of Cris Carter, ’cause the man is a soon-to-be Hall of Famer and I liked his work on HBO. We’ll see if he brings the same banter and knowledge to ESPN.

I’m not saying Pryor is famous, but he very well could be in a few years. Pryor has been compared to Vince Young and Michael Vick, since he loves to scramble. Anyways, I think I’m going to keep this story shorter the next time I tell people, maybe people will actually think your boy dined with Carter and Pryor.

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Troy Tulowitzki’s Is On The Shelf

Troy Tulowitzki has a torn tendon in his quad, which seems to be this year’s injury of choice, right A-Rod? Tulowitzki wasn’t producing this year, but has shown flashes of his great play from last season. He was runner-up in the Rookie Of The Year voting and help lead the Rockies into the post-season. He plays bigger than he is, his 24 home-runs in 2007 wasn’t expected, but greatly appreciated. If Ryan Braun didn’t have such a great season last year, people would still be talking about Tulowitzki’s amazing rookie season.

The Rockies aren’t having a good season so far, but they have played a lot against the Diamondbacks and Padres, which could sway their record a little. Also, it seems like every other game Colorado plays goes into extra innings.Colorado expects to get Tulowitzki back after the All-Star break, which could be wishful thinking since quad injuries tend to linger. The Rockies will have Clint Barmes fill in for him at shortstop while he is out. You may remember Barmes by his infamous injury two seasons ago. He tripped while carrying deer meat, he missed the remainder of the season. Watch out for Bambi, Clint!

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Song Of The Day – Dropkick Murphys (I’m Shipping Up To Boston)

I have always been a fan of celtic punk, but when I heard “I’m Shipping Up To Boston,” I gained respect for the Dropkick Murphys. I still like Flogging Molly more, but that’s because I’ve seen them play live more times. I did see the Dropkick Murphys once and it was an experience. It was at the Warped Tour a few years ago and they had a ton of celtic dancers on stage with them and it was one big party. I would like to see an actual show of theirs, since they only played 30 minutes at Warped Tour.

If you’re a fan of Flogging Molly, you will love the Dropkick Murphys. (Chances are if you like one, you’ve heard of the other.)

Here is the video for “I’m Shipping Up To Boston. If you watched the movie “The Departed,” this song was played prominently in the movie.

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Is Robinson Cano Alive?

Robinson Cano is named after the great Jackie Robinson, but currently Cano is batting like Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Cano is currently batting .151 and I haven’t seen any silver-lining at all. He hasn’t even had a good game this season yet, the best game was a pinch-hit homer to win a game. He was benched that game due to his slump. As you all know, I like to talk about my fantasy league team (1st place!). Anyways, Cano was a high draft pick by many and by me. He is a career .300 hitter and has pretty average power with around 20 home runs a season.

I know Cano is a slow-starter, but I really hate that excuse. If a player is known as a slow-starter, why isn’t he playing every spring training game to get his 4-5 at-bats in? Most of the slow-starters don’t like to play in colder weather, I can somewhat understand that, the ball acts differently in cold than it does in warm weather. Cano needs to carry this team now that A-Rod and Posada are out for awhile. If Cano or Melky Cabrera can’t lead this team, the Yankees are going to bury themselves too deep to catch up. I think Cano can get out of this funk, but I don’t see him making the All-Star team this season. He has a lot of work to do if he wants to be mentioned in the same sentence as Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.

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Idolizing – Chuck Klosterman

I’m starting a special post section called “Idolizing,” because there are a few people in this world that I would like to meet. The Idolizing people will be people who’s career came out of nowhere or someone that is so innovative that they blazed a path. The first person I have to talk about is Chuck Klosterman.

Klosterman has written for SPIN, Esquire, ESPN Page 2, and various other magazines/newspapers, plus he has written four books that are very good. His fifth book will be his first novel of the bunch, “Downtown Owl: A Novel.” I just happened to buy an advanced copy on eBay a few minutes ago. I am excited to read this book. He had a small short story at the end of “Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade Of Curious People And Dangerous Ideas.” The short story was very warped, but also had many of the elements of his pop-culture knowledge twisted in. I’m sure “Downtown Owl” will do very well and won’t disappoint his fans. Continue reading →

Song Of The Day – Seether (Rise Above This)

I wasn’t much of a fan of Seether until I saw them do some acoustic versions of a few songs on some DirecTV music channel. The lead singer’s voice is made to be seen live. A few bands in their genre actually have this ability. I would put them in the same boat as Staind, Sevendust, and Breaking Benjamin by having the ability to sound great when you strip down their music into an intimate setting. I would like to see them go on a acoustic tour.

Their new song “Rise Above This,” is surprisingly good. I say “surprisingly good” because I seem to like everything they put out and I’m surprised by that. I don’t anxiously await the next Seether track to his the radio, I just happen to run into it randomly. I think their last two albums are great and gets the White Boy’s approval.

Shaun Morgan, Seether’s lead singer, has battled addiction and has been in rehab many times. He dated Evanescence’s Amy Lee for quite some time, but after their break-up she wrote “Call Me When You’re Sober” and “Lithium” about Morgan. I was always intrigued by the Morgan/Lee relationship. The guy isn’t a looker, but when you’re talented you get some ladies.

Here is the video for “Rise Above This”

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Song Of The Day – Death Cab For Cutie (I Will Possess Your Heart)

Anyone with thick-rimmed glasses and western print button-up shirts are anxious for the new Death Cab For Cutie album to drop on May 13th, 2008. “I Will Possess Your Heart” is the first single of Death Cab’s new album, “Narrow Stairs.” It is pretty typical Death Cab, with a slow start and haunting melody. Ben Gibbard has been the man of the last half decade in the indie-music scene. Not only has Death Cab been a monster, but his side project The Postal Service did very well. The Postal Service’s sophomore album is still in the works, but many are eagerly waiting that album as they are for “Narrow Stairs.”

I haven’t heard anything off the new album yet, except for this track. I am guessing that the album will be leaked very soon. All the material on the internet isn’t the real album. I know the pirates of the internet are foaming at the mouth awaiting this album.

Here is the video for “I Will Possess Your Heart.”

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Larry Brown Doesn’t Know What "Long Term" Means

Larry Brown just took the job as the coach of the Charlotte Bobcats. This will be his 9th NBA team he has coached, not counting NCAA or ABA teams. He last coached the New York Knicks, which was a complete disaster. It proved that a team full of 2-guards can’t compete in the NBA. Charlotte isn’t a bad job to take, even if the team has never made the playoffs. He will only end up staying there a few years, so he will expect a quick turnaround.

Charlotte had its best overall season this year, but it wasn’t good for Michael Jordan, who runs the team. The team has Adam Morrison (who was hurt the entire year), Emeka Okafor, and Gerald Wallace as their cornerstones to build around. The team will get a pretty good lottery pick in this year’s draft, but could be better off by trading it for some veteran help. Brown has a track record of not being “rookie-friendly,” and he will be hard-pressed to try and find some vets via free agency. The team is full of Wooden Award winners, but they haven’t played at a high-level together. The addition of Jason Richardson last summer helped the team on the offensive end, but with Adam Morrison being on the shelf all year, they should be a pretty explosive duo next season.

I’m going to make a bold prediction that the Charlotte Bobcats will make the playoffs next season. They were only a few games out of the 8th spot in the Eastern Conference this year and I look for a few veterans to sign this summer. Who knows, maybe they can swing a trade for Allen Iverson and maybe he’ll even practice.

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John Daly Needs Some Pasties

John Daly has had an up and down golf career. He’s been addicted to about every vice the Fayetteville city police recognizes. He may still be over-weight, smoke, and do whatever else he does, but the man can still drive farther than you and Tiger Woods combined. I just watched an interview that Daly conducted on his new golf course. This wasn’t a regular interview, he was shirtless and shoeless, probably more of a normal setting for him.

Daly has some girth around his mid-section, but looks like he’s still trying to squeeze into size 32 pants. I don’t understand people’s weird weight distribution. Looks like if Daly evened out a little from top to bottom, he may look just a little over-weight. I am amazed for a man of his girth, he is rather flat-chested, take a gander at quite possibly the best golf interview I have ever seen.

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Brad Penny Is The Man, Plus He Hit An Umpire In The Face

I was watching Sportscenter a few days ago and I witnessed something that scared me, but it made me laugh. Brad Penny threw a 96mph fastball and it hit the umpire square in the chin. The upmire, Kerwin Danley, is an old guy and I can only imagine how much that hurt, but the way it happened was such a lazy mess. Russell Martin, the catcher and Whiteboy’s starting catcher on his fantasy team, just threw up his mitt to catch the ball so slow and lazy that he just clearly missed it. Now I’ve seen Penny’s fastball, a couple seasons ago he smoked Ichiro, Jeter, and Big Papi, 1-2-3, in the first inning of an All-Star game with stuff that clocked around 100mph. Luckily the umpire appears to be doing okay, but c’mon Martin, you’re making my fantasy team look bad. Next year I should get a few roto points for knocking an umpire out.If you really want to blame Penny for this, you can’t. The man is dating Eliza Dushku. Really?! Take a look at Penny, he is seriously 50lbs. and a cut-off shirt away from looking like Larry The Cable Guy. I can’t hate the man, I don’t want to take a fastball to the melon.

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Roger, You Sly Dog!

The New York Daily News ran with a story today that Roger Clemens had a 10-year affair with country singer Mindy McCready. When I first heard this, I was like, “Way to go, Rocket!,” but then news came out that she was only 15 when they started their relationship. Ouch! That isn’t even legal in Indiana or Kentucky, son.

McCready used to be a smokin’ hot country singer with a promising career. I mean, she was even engaged to Dean Cain…back during his “Adventures Of Superman” days, not his “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” days.Look at her, she was beautiful…I say “was” because since her Dean Cain relationship went south, she has had run-ins with the law and her career tanked. I googled some images of her to use in this post and there are a few very disturbing looking mugshot photos of her that was taken not too long ago. You would think that Clemens would have hooked her up with some of that HGH, I hear it has age-defying characteristics, I mean his wife looks pretty bangin’.

Roger, I really think you should take more pictures like this, maybe the public will like you again. No one can turn down a good “thumbs up.”

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Song Of The Day – The Promise Ring (Stop Playing Guitar)

I picked this song of the day ’cause I have been reading a book by Andy Greenwald called “Nothing Feels Good.” The title of the book was taken from The Promise Ring album of the same name. The Promise Ring was one of those bands that kind of slipped through the cracks of the mid-late 90s emo movement. If you ask any pop punk/emo group that made it big around 2000 or after they will probably credit The Promise Ring as an influence.

“Stop Playing Guitar” was on the “Wood/Water” album that came out in 2002. At that same time, Jimmy Eat World was blowing up with “Bleed American” and The Promise Ring was officially under the radar once again. I think “Wood/Water” is an excellent album, even though the material is more sad than earlier albums, I think it is their best work.

In this post you have learned two things.
1. I read books
2. I cry a lot (hence the emo knowledge)

Here’s the video for “Stop Playing Guitar”

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