fantasy baseballs

I don't follow baseball that closely and I'm told by yahoo that a few guys I picked are starting their years in the minors, but I'm keeping them on my roster. It's a yahoo winner league as I won my public one last year, almost entirely because of Ryan Braun Erik Bedard and like two good weeks of Yovani Gollardo or however it's spelled, none of whom I drafted.
nevertheless, my team:
C - Chris Snyder, Jarrod Saltysihaetinbinlkanf (minerz)
1B - Justin Morneau (people weren't picking him where yahoo told them to be picking him and he's Canadian so I did it, is he gonna suck this year or something?), Billy Butler
2B - Chase Utley
SS - Troy Tulowitzki, David Eckstein (ok ok blue jays blue jays lets lets play play ball ball)
3B - Mike Lowell, Evan Longoria (minors again, his name is almost Eva Longoria)
OF - Corey Hart (lol), Aaron Rowand (yahoo dorks say he'll suck this year right?), Justin Upton, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jerry Owens

P - Jake Peavy, Tim Lincecum, Rich Hill, Shaun Marcum, Homer Bailey (minrz)
RP - Francisco Rodriguez, Todd Jones

what say you?

p.a. vs asshole

i was able to send waffles invites to pimf and polly

but as of now i have one left and p.a and lilasshole both want one

obviously, you must fight to the death.

spring cleaning

i washed my hat today to get ready for the new season. i didn't wash it at all since beginning of spring training last year. i don't really care for superstitions but i think it's a little neat to keep a couple small ones to yourself. this is the water from washing it. that squiggly line under the brim used to be daisuke's signature but sweat wore it off. after taking these pics it dawned on me i shoulda had "before" pics. the salt stains went all the way around and up and down. pretty nasty. go sox. and i don't want to hear about any preseason win yankee boy. good luck to all teams.

she and him

i really like this album a lot and suggest for all of you to give it a listen. it's simple, sweet, and makes me want to kiss my girlfriend. i hope they enjoy working together and evolve into a volume two.

SXSW 2008

Ok, I know you all probably hate these posts every year, but SXSW Music started today and since I never write about anything anyway, here's at least something. Today I ditched out of work at around 1:30pm and headed downtown with no plan whatsoever. I've been incredibly busy lately and I didn't have time to really plan out a schedule this year. I headed to Emo's lounge first and caught a good, but really poorly attended, set by locals Zykos (www.myspace.com/zykos) then I hopped down the street to the Mohawk for a set by a band called We Barbarians who are from Long Beach. They were pretty cool. Three piece with a kick ass bass player, sort of typical delay heavy yet really simplified indie rock shit that you hear nowadays but they had some energy and held my attention, so I'll check them out in the future. From there it was over to the Emos Annex tent for Frightened Rabbit (really great), some Canadian band that I can't recall (not at all impressive) Jason Collett ( not loud enough but good all the same), and a bunch of free lone star. Then we waited in line for 20 mins or so to see the Shout Out L0uds at Mohawk (again) and more free booze. I'm home now, but tonight I plan on going to see a buddy of mines band at a coffee house and then hit some parties. I'll probably update this as often as possible if anyone cares. Whats the best way to get off of work on a Thursday. I'm about to write my boss an email telling him I have an interview with Lou Reed or something if I can't think of anything better.

deuce i desperately seek your help

we just adopted a lil chihuahua. we have thought of a few names but can't agree. what should i name this dog?

here are a few we have thought of: poop de loop, gravy, levi, pablo, estaban, professor boddingtons, mr brownstone, paul newman, horse, chocolate (pronounced choco latte)

fun with africans

so i mentioned a lil bit before on a post that i've been emailing these africans about some sort of bullshit scam. i've been having a pretty good time with it. i'd like to post it all, however, there are so many emails going back and forth it's just so much text. but i myself find it hilarious. i heard that one guy on npr fucking with them and laughed my ass off. so i finally got my opportunity when "mother jane" contacted me as being sick but her husband died in katrina leaving her with millions but she's dying and wants a good soul to have the money to open a "motherless children rescue" it goes on and on. she got me in touch with this guy, barrister frank smith. i call him barista smith. i pretty much write the most retarded thing i can think of without going completely out of control and wait for their reply. i can send more to your emails if you want, it's really too much to post here i think.... here's a clip from last week's episode:

Dear Barista Smith,

Hello my name is Roland Deschain. I was contacted by
Mother Jane recently. I have had her in my prayers
for the last few days. I pray God will find a way to
unwind the pain she has in her rectal areas due to the
grief brought on by the ways of the hospital stay. I
know what it is like to be bedridden in a hospital.
When I was a child I had a fever, my hands felt just
like two balloons. Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain you would not understand, this is not
how I am. I am a humble genetically enhanced man. I
am not sure what it is that I can do to help out.
Mother Jane said I should contact you and together we
could start a project dealing with the words and
wisdoms of our Father, the chosen one, of sector nine
in the ways of true retardation. It is quite amazing
actually that this has been happening to me since I
had just finished reading The Secret. Please give me
the information I need to start pleasing you in the
ways of old ways. My father is ill, like Mother
Jane, and I wish that God would send us all rainbows
covered with chocolate happiness. There is so much
evil in this world with the gays, blacks, and killer
bees, but I know God is here to save some of us from
the retched inbred cocker spaniels that plague us with
their golden locks and long eyelashes of deceitful
promises built together with wax and gingerbread. I
want to start a business here in the United States for
making pickle bread. It is a home recipe I got from
my grandmother. It is made with dill dough. It is
amazing to see the look on someone's face the first
time they have tasted the dill dough on their tongue.
It is a moment that refreshes my faith in God and his
glory of heaven and clouds and Jerry Garcia. Peace be
with you Barista Smith, I long to hear your voice and
touch your hands with mine in the holiest of holies.
God Bless....

Roland

Do you folks watch the Wire?

It's become clear to me that I won't be able to get on with parts of my life that have to do with real things until the Wire ends. Which is fine cuz there isn't much life there to occupy my non-Wire time but it's getting pretty manic gross, the obsession combined with 25cm of snow every week for basically the whole winter. I watched episode 5 of season 5 last night and then basically watched my torrent download of episode 6 until it was done, and then watched that and went to bed. And then at work I mostly look up reactions and discussions and youtubes of the best moments which has gotten me into the trouble of knowing all these things I wish I didn't know. I mean who'd have thunk there'd be videos on youtube of shit from a season that just ended like a few days ago. And it's all stuff from the 4 episodes I haven't seen yet, there's like nothing on youtube from the ones I have. It's different than season 4 for me though, those were so good I usually needed a day or two to digest what happened before watching the next episode. A lot of questionable shit is happening in season 5 and now that I know what's going to happen death-wise I feel like I won't be able to do anything until I get to the end. Today I was reading a stillepost thread on it and someone posted a fucking GIF of how this one arc ends, basically. I wanted to die, and I think I'll feel this way until I watch the last episode.
Anyways, season 5 so far aside, best show ever.*

* I've never watched a full season of the Sopranos.

Hello from Nine Inch Nails.

This was posted today on most of the big music torrent sites:

Hello from Nine Inch Nails.

We're very proud to present a new collection of instrumental music, Ghosts I-IV. Almost two hours of music recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I-IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.

Now that we're no longer constrained by a record label, we've decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.

We encourage you to share the music of Ghosts I with your friends, post it on your website, play it on your podcast, use it for video projects, etc. It's licensed for all non-commercial use under Creative Commons.

We've also made a 40 page PDF book to accompany the album. If you'd like to download it for free, visit http://ghosts.nin.com/main/pdf>http://ghosts.nin.com/main/pdf

Ghosts I is the first part of the 36 track collection Ghosts I-IV. Undoubtedly you'll be able to find the complete collection on the same torrent network you found this file, but if you're interested in the release, we encourage you to check it out at ghosts.nin.com, where the complete Ghosts I-IV is available directly from us in a variety of DRM-free digital formats, including FLAC lossless, for only $5. You can also order it on CD, or as a deluxe package with multitrack audio files, high definition audio on Blu-ray disc, and a large hard-bound book.

We genuinely appreciate your support, and hope you enjoy the new music. Thanks for listening.


http://ghosts.nin.com>http://ghosts.nin.com

Track listing:

01. 1 Ghosts I
02. 2 Ghosts I
03. 3 Ghosts I
04. 4 Ghosts I
05. 5 Ghosts I
06. 6 Ghosts I
07. 7 Ghosts I
08. 8 Ghosts I
09. 9 Ghosts I

It's only the first 9 tracks, but I think this is pretty neat. I guess we will be seeing more of this Radiohead kind of approach in the future.. or is it a Weezer approach? It's also awesome that they are licensing it under Creative Commons.....

They're selling physical packages up to $300 for the hardcore fans, and you can download the whole thing for 5 bucks:
http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options

i dunno

i worked a long shift last night.  lately i've been going out. but when you're thirty it really starts to hurt the next morning when you pretend you're still 23.  went and had a cornish pasty with a couple car bombs and a boddingtons.  back to my house to drink tequila, german chocolate cake shots and a bottle of japanese shoju while taking my friends' money in poker.  at 2:30 a.m. i thought it was would a grand ole time to go to some college girls' house and continue to drink.  i believe i participated in throwing a glass table into the pool which broke in the process leaving glass everywhere including the pool.  to wake up just now to realize i'm still buzzed which means i'll get the nastied hangover around 4 p.m. today.  i'm gonna go buy a new set of irons to golf with i think.