Bonsai!

Here's my movie review of "Letters from Iwo Jima"...Boring.

Couldn't stay awake both times I tried watching it.  If you want a dose of WWII action I will always recommend the Band of Brothers mini-series.

You Got It Dude!

If blogging was like parenting, I'd be the Britney Spears of bloggers.  However, I am making a comeback and maybe someday will become the Danny Tanner of bloggers.

NLDS Game #3

What can I say?  It was still a hell of a year.

It was a great experience to be at a Cubs playoff game, but unfortunately the result was anything but.  The lineup couldn't manufacture a run worth a damn, thus my Cubs were swept by the Diamondbacks in the NLDS.

After the game ended I sat there solemnly for 10 minutes, getting up only because I had to pee.  After I did my business I actually went back to my seat to continue to watch the rest of the crowd clear out of the ballpark.  After another 5-10 minutes I went down to the first row and loitered there with 30 or so of my fellow mourners.  We stood around soaking in the last of Wrigley Field we could in 2007.  It wasn't until the ushers told us "time to go home folks" that we finally cleared out, a good 30 minutes after the game was over.

On my way out the gate I told the gentlemen watching people out, "See you in April."  He replied with "I'll be here."

So ends another season.  I believe Rogers Hornsby said it best when he exclaimed, "People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

Sell My Soul For a Win

With the Diamondbacks taking the first 2 games of the series the Cubs are in a win now or go home situation.  They play today at 5:00 here at Wrigley after playing the first two in Arizona. Thinking of how this may be my only window of opportunity to see a Cubs playoff game, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a ticket from a ticket broker.  I'm in one of the cheapest sections, but that certainly doesn't mean it actually was cheap.  I'm not going to say how much it was, but let's just say I've bought cheaper airline tickets.

Go Cubs Go!

Highway to Hell

Naming this post was just too easy.  Thanks to Jessica for the pic.

Steve Goodman Said It All

Tonight is Game 1 of Cubs vs. Diamondbacks in the NLDS.  You can bet your ass I'll be glued to the TV with my fingers crossed hoping for black cats, billy goats, and Steve Bartmans to stay far far away.

The highly emotional, inconsistent, yet often dominating Carlos Zambrano starts tonight against the very talented Brandon Webb who, earlier this season, destroyed the Cubs lineup.  I'm looking for Soriano to continue his power streak, Derek Lee to drive in runs with some well-placed doubles and Ryan Theriot to leap out of the batter's box regardless of where he hits the ball.  In the 8th inning Carlos Marmol will then help hold the Diamdbacks with his 1.43 ERA and Dempster will then close the game.   Simple as that.

One of my new favorite Cubs Ryan Theriot had a comment on this year's playoffs.

"We can't control what happened the last 100 years, or maybe the past five years. To win here and move on to the next round and win there would put us right where we want to be. The 100 years before that, that's for the fans. We want to win for the city of Chicago. We want that for them. I'm not that old, but I know there are people out there who have been Cub fans for awhile, and they deserve a championship club. Hopefully we can give it to them.€" - Ryan Theriot

It Gets Worse and Worse

Today I learned 2 things about our nation's Senators.  One once wore an "Incredible Hulk" tie (Ted Stevens R-Alaska) and another was once a leader of the Ku Klux Klan (Robert Byrd D-WV).  God bless America?  No, probably not.

Oh, and no I'm not going to play off the fact I went on a 2 month blog coma.  I recognize this, and will hopefully reemerge from the ashes.

Pennant Fever

So when the blog template got messed up I lost a bit of motivation.  However, I'm going to try and be better with posting and hopefully fixing up the template.  Moving on now...

Tonight the Cubs beat the Phillies in the bottom of the ninth with a stolen home plate to win the game 5-4.  Nearly just as important the Mets beat the Brewers 8-5.  This puts the Cubs tied for the division with the Brewers, and gives millions of Cubs fans something we often never have in August.  Hope.

 After the game a lot of people, myself included stood inside the ballpark waiting for them to raise the "W" flag and change the pennants to put the Cubs at the top of the NL Central.  That's it on the left, except now the blue Cubs pennant sits at the peak.  Let's do it again tomorrow!

The Hell?

My blog template got all screwed up somehow.  Unfortunately its gonna have to look like this for a few days until I find the motivation to fix it.

Motivation has been pretty scarce for me lately for a lot of things.

Let's Go Crazy

There's this dude in my neighborhood whom I have now seen twice walking down the street, get this...backwards.  The first time I saw him he had a bicycle tire hanging from his left elbow and in his right hand was a smooth gray stone that had written on it the roman numeral 3.  I have no idea what his story is, but I'm incredible curious.  As a bonus to his crazy creditials, he looked suspiciously like Prince.