Three Day Weekend Re-Round

After considering this excellent post by WFS about his 3 day weekend I decided to embark on my own little adventure. Armed with with a crew of good freinds from Bellingham, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, and parts unkown I took in a 30th Birthday party for Matt White, The UW Football, The Seahawks football game and managed to survive a great deal of Das Boot flavored debauchery. At some point I even became freindly with a very cute Seattlite woman. During all this madness there were plenty of things to Cheers. For this post I will Cheers Inappropriateness based on the following conversation between “Agent J” and Smoking Hot Waitress just before the UW game :

Agent J muttering under his breath just loud enough for the people at the table to hear: Are you an official? Because your officially giving me a boner.

Smoking Hot Waitress: What? Did you say you want something?

Agent J looking at his wedding ring: Yeah, how about poligamy?

Smoking Hot Waitress: Poligamy?

Agent J: I’ll just have a Bloody Mary.

To Inapropriate behaviour.

LT Throws for One, Runs for One

During the Chargers game today one of the announcers commented that if he hard one more San Diegan complain about the heat he would hit them. Well, I don’t think he said he would hit ‘em, but I can’t remember exactly what he said. You get the idea.

Anyway, the weather’s nice here, so drink to the nice weather I enjoy. And to the Chargers.

A Day At the Races

I’m spending a day at the track. Here’s to Sip One For Mom in the eighth.

Stop! That’s my purse!

Former NY Giants reciever Mark Ingram has been charged with breaking into a garage near Flint Michigan and stealing a purse. If convicted Ingram could face 10 years in prison (apparently stealing a purse is misdemeanor larceny, but breaking and entering is very much a felony), and will have sucessfully added to his rap sheet which includes an arrest for stealing a credit card (and a golf club, nice) from a Flint area golf course, as well as having been sentanced in Miami for being caught with $3,290 in counterfeit cash. Tip of the hat to the New York Times for keeping us up to speed on the dirty deeds of NFL retirees as well as the current players. Cheers to taking whatever you can get your hands on.

Buy Your Season Tickets Now

So Micheal Vick is headed off to the slammer and his NFL career is probably over. Which means its time to start the countdown to debut of the most exciting football player in the world in the Arena Football League. Go Shockwave!!

Here’s to you, Arena Football League.

If I Ruled the (Basketball) World

Sabernomics asked the blog-o-sphere how they would change the NBA. I put a comment in voting for 4 on 4 to open up room for team offense and calling the game to discriminate against one on one play. I’m not sure if 4 on 4 would have the desired effect since you’re losing a help defender.

I think widening the key would be helpful as well, and possibly an area under the hoop that offensive players can’t go in with the ball, but can receive the ball in if they’re already there (does that make sense? maybe too complicated). Limiting the allowed number of dribbles inside the three point line (three?) would also help in my goal of discouraging one on one play.

To improve competitive balance, I also propose imposing a height limit. Go to Barnes & Noble and buy the Wages of Wins if you don’t understand this one. I think 6′8″ or so should work well.

In honor of my dream of team oriented NBA hoops with constant motion and cuts to the basket, I propose a toast to Pete Carril and his Princeton offense.

He Won’t Get Hurt With All That Crap He Wears

So Barry hit the big one. Once he decided he was to good to even try and break the record in San Diego, I had hoped he would be beaned mercilessly, forcing him to retire without ever breaking the record. I propose a toast to the next pitcher, whoever he is, to hit Barry Bonds.

Sports City

I need to preface this post by saying that even though I no longer live in Seattle I am still a Sonics, Mariners, Seahawks fan above all.  With that said it is an interesting experience living in a sports town like Boston.  I have gotten so used to trade deadlines coming and going without my teams making any sort of move to improve themselves, or even worse panicking and making boneheaded moves that offer no immediate help and in the long run hurt the team.  In less than 24hours the celtics picked up Kevin Garnett taking them from joke to powerhouse team in the east, and the Red Sox improved the best bullpen in baseball by adding Eric Gagne to push for the world series.  Heres to you Boston, it is rare I can enjoy living in a city where genral managers make quality moves (or in the case of Danny Ainge  luck out that the GM you were trading with is still a celtic at  heart)

Everyone Loves a Good Trick Play

Hat tip to the chrisintransit blog. Here’s to trick plays.