Pee Wee Football

Sometimes I sit outside my apartment and listen to the football practices going on right beside my place. At first I thought it must be for high school football, but after going up and watching, I was shocked to see little kids out there.

Why was I shocked you might be asking? Well from the way the coach screamed at them, I assumed they must be somewhat older. Here is a sample of some of the things I heard him yelling:

"FOCUS! You need to focus, what is wrong with you today?"
"They (the team they are playing next) have a great offense, we must stop them at the line, if we do not stop them, we will lose and drop to second place."
"Jason (the QB I am assuming), if you leave that pocket one more time, I swear to God you will run laps until you puke!"

It was also funny to listen to him rattle off different plays like they were going to be playing in the National Title game against Florida or some shit. Seriously, little kids do not really need to have a playbook the size of most NFL books, keep it simple for them, give them the basics.

It reminds me of those horrible fathers I used to see at youth wrestling tournaments, making their kids lose weight and then screaming at them when they do something wrong out on the mat.

I am okay with parents getting their kids into sports and encouraging them to do well, but they need to try not to live their lives through their kids. The coach up there screaming at those kids probably never started a game of football in his life, he watches on TV and thinks he is the next Bill Cowher (who is from Crafton by the way).

Oh well, some people are just stupid.

Life Episode 101

I imagine a pitch meeting at NBC going something like this:
Exec: We need a show with a character similar to Dr. House, any ideas?
Underling1: Oooh, how about a cop show, with a know it all detective?
Exec: Great, but what is his problem?
Underling2: He could be a reformed drug addict!
Exec: Eh, that's a bit too like House, next idea.
Underling1: What if he went to jail for awhile for a crime he did not commit?
Exec: Okay, I like where this is going.
Underling2: And how about we toss in one of those everything is connected, so that all the cases he is solving somehow lead back to one giant case, and that would be his own case. Everyone seems to like that crap nowadays, like Lost and Heroes.
Exec: Yes, this sounds perfect.
Underling2: And we could throw in a partner who had a drug addiction!
Exec: Okay, fine, you can have a drug addict.

Yeah, I am sure that is how the discussion for the show Life went down, but you know what? It was still a pretty damn good first episode.

I hope they keep doing the documentary style interviews with people throughout the series. They definitely help break away from all the other cop dramas out there. Also, the lead character, Charlie Crews (played by Damian Lewis) is hilarious with his whole new-age, touchy feely approach and his addiction to good fruit. The fact that the guy has been locked up for twelve years and missed out on many of the technological advancements gives us some funny moments, such as watching him get excited because his car has BlueTooth and his partner can talk to him.

Speaking of his partner, mmmm, she can frisk me anytime. Detective Dani Reese, played by Sarah Shahi, has a past with drug abuse, but seems to be clean for the moment.

The show entertained me, and that is all that I can ask for. It seems this and Journeyman may be the two best new shows on TV, although I have yet to watch Reaper.

Smallville Season Seven

If any of you are watching the season premiere of Smallville, let me ask you one question: Was that not absolutely awesome watching Clark boil away an entire raging river with his heat vision???

Also, the chick that will play Kara (Laura Vandervoort), is smokin' hot.

Fantasy Football Week 3

I hope you did not think I was done writing about fantasy sports. Anyways, this week I won 71-55. The Chargers defense got me a really nice -2 points. Oh wait, -2 is bad right. Damn it.

I started Delhomme, which worked out in my favor. Other than that, my guys did okay. I am trying to get rid of my kicker and pick up anyone else, but it seems everyone in the league is doing the same thing.

Does anyone have any advice on trades I should try and make?

Journeyman Episode One

I do not know if I will write reviews for this show, but it is on after Heroes and I will probably watch it each week. The first episode was pretty cool. I enjoyed Kevin McKidd in Rome.

Dan Vasser is a writer with a wife and a kid. One day he travels back in time and saves a guy's life. While back in time he sees his ex-girlfriend, who is dead in the present.

Everyone around him thinks that Dan is going crazy or on drugs, since he has a bit of a dark history, with gambling I think. He keeps popping back in time and it always centers around Neal Gaines, the guy he saved.

In the present, he learns that Neal Gaines' wife and kid died in 1997 and that is the last period he goes back to. He stops Neal from murdering them, and when he returns to the present,he finds out that Neal's son, Jason, became a doctor and saved a bunch of kids in a bus accident.

His wife does not believe him. He takes her anniversary present back in time and hides it at their house, under the patio that will someday be there. When she does not believe him, he tears the patio up and pulls out her wedding ring, which he had taken to get another stone added. It is buried with a newspaper dated from 1997. She believes him and all is happy. This was cool, because I would have never thought to do that. Maybe I was tired, but I would have buried my phone or something. Not only did he prove his point, but he was romantic about it. Goddamn showoff. Now girls will want guys to go back in time to hide their presents.

The big twist in the show is that his old girlfriend, the one who died, is actually still alive, and is doing the same thing he is, bouncing around in time. Something tells me that his current wife is not going to like that one bit.

If you watched it, let me know what you thought. Oh yeah, the dead ex-girlfriend's name in real life is Moon Bloodgood. That has to be the coolest name ever. Photo brought to you courtesy of Maxim. I do not want to get sued or anything.

Heroes: "Four Months Later..."

The season premiere. Did you all get chills as the hour approached for the show start? Did your heart feel like it was going to explode when you heard Mohinder begin talking? Unfortunately, I had to watch mine through TiVo at 2 a.m., but I still got that feeling as I fast forwarded through the end of Chuck and a few commercials.

The bad thing about a season premiere or the sequel to a movie is that they can never really live up to your expectations or anticipation. Not saying that the show was a let down, but I just wanted so many answers, I wanted so much to happen. I wanted it to be twelve hours longs...Oh well. It was a great episode, and an awesome beginning to a new season. Anyways, lets get onto the recap of the show.

Mohinder
The show starts with Mohinder giving a speech about people with abilities. He says they are the key to our own evolution and that there is a plague out there that could wipe them all out.

As the speech ends, a man approaches him for an autograph and says how Mohinder's father and sister would be proud of him. Mohinder grabs the guy and slams him into the wall. He tells him he knows he works for the Company and that he is no longer afraid, nor will he run away.

The guy, played by Stephen Tobolowsky (Ned from Groundhog Day), tells Mohinder that no one takes his work seriously, but that the Company wants to fund his research, they want him to come up with a cure.

Later, Mohinder calls Noah Bennett (should I call him Noah, or should we still use Mr.B, or should I finally give in and just refer to him as HRG?) and tells him that the Company took the bait and that he is in. Mr.B says good work, and to be careful and that now they will be able to take down the Company.

That was a surprise I did not really see coming. I thought the guy had Mohinder convinced when he said that sometimes they have to put down certain people, just like Mohinder tried to do with Sylar.

Matt Parkman & Molly Walker
Matt is on a raid for NYPD and he goes into a hostage situation where he does not know which person is the bad guy. He uses his telepathy and takes down the real bad guy. It turns out the whole thing was a test for the department. The chief gives Matt a real badge and tells him he passed with flying colors, but wonders why he is so anxious to get back into action after having four bullets in his chest. Matt tells him that he has always wanted to be a cop and that those bullets were not going to stop him.

Now, I will be honest, I had completely forgotten what Molly Walker looked like. So when Matt goes to the school and gives her a hug. I thought it was his child, and I go annoyed. I was like "it's only been four months, the kid could not age that quickly! Unless that is the kids power..." Then I realized I am dumb and that it was Molly.

Molly's teacher (who I wish was my teacher) tells Matt that Molly is drawing weird pictures. Dark pictures of eyes, with the helix symbol. When they get home, we learn they live with Mohinder in his very luxurious apartment, Matt asks her about the pictures and she refuses to talk about them.

Matt can hear her nightmares while she sleeps and he hears a man's voice saying that he can see Molly. She wakes up and Matt tells her that he will protect her. On a side note, Greg, I think we can assume the evil person is a guy now.

The Bennett Family
Or I should I call them the Butler's now? That is their new name in their new home. Noah tells Claire how sorry he is for everything and that she has to be ordinary at school. She cannot stand out, or the Company will find them. And she cannot try out for the cheerleading squad.

He gives her the keys to the Nissan Rogue, which is a pretty sweet car, and says that it was going to be a birthday present. As she walks into school, she almost gets hit by a car, which makes Noah feel great about sending her out into the world.

The kid who almost hits her is named West. He sits by her in science class and asks her if she is a robot or an alien. Does she do what everyone expects (robots) or does she do what she wants (aliens). He decides she is a robot because she knows the answer to a question, but does not raise her hand.

Later in gym class, the cheerleaders are making fun of a girl, and Claire steps in and says she can do the stupid move they want Martha to do. As she climbs up the ladder she realizes this is what her dad does not want her to do, and she says she cannot do it.

That night at home, she calls Nathan (I will get to him in a minute)and says she misses Peter and she needs someone to talk to because she hates just being normal. He hangs up on her, but we see West watching through her window, and guess what? The kid can fly!

Mr.Bennett works at Copy Kingdom. His boss is a complete dick. He yells at Noah all the time and acts like copying is a very tough business. He wants Noah back from break and starts yelling at him. Noah grabs him by the finger and slams him down onto a table and tells him to back off. So much for staying under people's radar Noah.

Nathan
Nathan is a drunk. He has a huge beard (he looks like Jack did in the final episode of Lost). His wife left him, and his mother is there to yell at him. He tells her that she is evil and that it is her fault that Peter is gone.

After his phone call with Claire, he looks at himself in the mirror and see himself as horribly disfigured. I really have no comments on that right now. Is that how he sees himself? Has he manifested another ability? To look ugly in a mirror?

Hiro
Alright, now we get to our favorite nerdy time-traveler, Hiro. It's 1671, and Hiro sees his idle, Takezo Kensei about to be shot with arrows. He teleports them away from danger and learns that guy is not Takezo. The real Takezo comes to Hiro, and is upset that Hiro ruined his plan. Turns out he is not a very honorable person, and that he fights dirty. Also, he does not look like the guy in the paintings, he is a white guy, who is British.

They go to a village that T.K. was supposed to save, but instead it's seen burning down. The woman, whose father made the sword, confronts T.K. and wants him to help the village because they paid him a lot of money. Hiro says that she is the swordmaker's daughter, who T.K. marries. She takes the sword and starts to leave.

If you remember from last season, I said that Takezo Kensei looked a bit like Hiro. Something tells me, he is going to do all those great deeds and people will think it was done by T.K.

Ando and Kaito
Hiro's dad, Kaito, waits for his son to return and Ando waits with him. Ando brings him a newspaper, and in it is a picture of Kaito with a red helix on it. Ando asks what it means, and Kaito responds that "I will be dead in twenty-four hours." He sends Ando out to get him a sword.

Later Angela Petrelli finds a similar picture and meets up with Kaito at the Deveaux Building roof. Kaito says that it is no joke, they will both die, of the original twelve, Charles Deveaux, Mr. Petrelli, and Mr. Linderman have all died and that maybe they should die as well.

As Ando returns with the sword, a man in a hoodie tackles Kaito off the roof, but when Ando looks over the edge, only Kaito's body is there. What was Kaito's power?

Maya and Alejandro Herrera
These two are making their way to America from Hondorus. They are wanted for murder, and it seems that Maya is somehow responsible. The men driving them to Mexico want her to sit up front, and Alejandro says no, they knock him out and take her anyways. He chases after them and when he catches up, everyone in the truck is dead, with blood coming out of their eyes. Maya is crying.

What are their powers? Obviously when they are together, people are safe, but when she is out of his range, then she kills people. They are searching for Mohinder, who they think can cure them, but they are both very religious and think God gave them these powers as a test.

The End
The show ends in Ireland. I will say the actors playing the three thugs, had the worst Irish accents. Although, maybe that's a good thing because at least we could understand them. Anyways, these thugs are looking for a cargo container which has some iPods in it. They open it up and there are no iPods, just a man chained to the side. At first I thought it was Sylar, which would have been pretty sweet. However, the man turns to look at them and it is none other than our buddy Peter! The guys come to start hitting him and he blasts one of them with a weird blue energy. He says he does not know where the cargo is, nor does he remember who he is. He is wearing a necklace of the helix, much like the Haitian.

My thoughts on the episode??? It was awesome. I cannot wait for next Monday. The above picture is Maya, played by Dania Ramirez, who is really hot.

Heroes Preview Season Two

It has come upon us. The new season of Heroes is finally here. We can stop sitting around and doing nothing, and you can stop coming here and reading about my fantasy sports teams.

I read in Wizard that Tim Kring does not like to think of these as new seasons, picking up where the last one left off. This will be a new chapter in the story, there will be new characters and new threats.

The first half of the season will get us caught up on what happened after Nathan and Peter disappeared. Some new folks will got tossed into the mix, and we will learn about Hiro's life in feudal Japan.

Instead of just giving you a review of what the article's I have read said, I will instead give you my predictions for the season.

Hiro will be trained by Takezo Kensei, the legendary warrior we learned about last season. Oh yeah, Kensei is a white guy. Something tells me he has some interesting power. Maybe he is a teleporter as well, but he got stuck in that era and just never left....

I also believe we will see the return of Peter and Nathan. I have no clue in what capacity. Nathan comes back a bit darker than before. Him saving the day was not as altruistic as it seemed. He will use that to his advantage.

Claire will still be hot. I can guarantee that one. Also, all the new chicks that will be on the show will be hot too. I have no problem with that.

Any ideas on what the bad man's powers will be? You know, when Molly Walker said there was someone worse than Sylar. I do not think he was the one to rescue Sylar though. We will not see those two teaming up.

Anyways, that's all I got for the moment. Watch on Monday and I will write up the review and we can have discussing everything like we did last year.

Fantasy Football Week 2

A weekend full of disappointment. When I checked my score on Sunday, I was winning most of the day. Even with the big -1 point from the Chargers defense. It was 86-80 going into Monday night. He had Westbrook, I had Cooley. I was a little bit worried, but then I checked the score during the game and saw that Cooley had 7 points, and Westbrook only had like 8 or something and that I was still in good shape.

Imagine my shock when I woke up and checked things out and saw that Westbrook had 15 total points, which caused me to lose 95-93. That dropped me to 1-1, and really annoyed me.

This week Brees gets bumped for Jake Delhomme.

Fantasy Baseball: The End

Ugh. That is all I can say. I lost to Offord. I was winning the entire week, but it was very close. The final day, my team played very poorly, and his team played well. He passed me in many categories and ended up moving into the finals.

I am playing against Gideon for third place, but I will be honest, my heart is not in it. I cannot stand to really check it. It sucks for me being in first place almost all year because anything less than that is a letdown, whereas if I went into the playoffs in 4th place, then 3rd would be something to shoot for.

Oh well, there is always next year. Good luck to Offord, I am rooting for ya!

TV Preview

Seriously, I need to get rolling on this. What will I be watching this fall? Obviously Heroes. I am so freaking excited about Volume Two. I will put up a preview for just that show.

Smallville, Lost, 24...nothing really changing there (yeah I know some of them do not come out in the fall, but whatever.) I really enjoyed watching Supernatural last year, and will probably watch that on Thursday's after Smallville.

The new shows I may check out are Journeyman, Life, Moonlight, Dirty Sexy Money (maybe), and who knows what else. I will also try to watch some Bones and House whenever I get the chance.

Also, Eureka was a really good show on SciFi channel. I suggest giving it a shot if you want something a bit fun and silly.

Anyways, let me know what you will be watching or what I should be watching.

Fantasy Football Week 1

Well after the first game I started to wonder how good my team would perform. Drew Brees got me a disappointing 1 point. However, his performance did not bring me down as I rolled on to a 68-60 victory over Forged Fury.

Adrian Peterson may get the start for me next week over Norwood, especially since Chester Taylor is out. I am trying to pick up Derrick Ward, who had a nice game against the Cowboys.

Let me know some of your suggestions.

Fantasy Baseball Week 22

Woo hoo! I won the regular season. I beat Singers Sluggers 6-5-1, and finished with an overall record of 142-93-29. BJ Upton was my big player of the week, 11 Hits, 2 HR, 7 RBIs, and 1 SB. Not too shabby for a guy I picked up as FA at the beginning of the season.

I wonder if Imler is kicking himself for taking Beltran over A-Rod during the draft...

This week I have a bye in the playoffs and after looking at the match-ups I have to say I am sort of rooting for certain people. I get the winner out of Offord and Kearney, and obviously would much rather play Kearney, since I owned him both times we played. Offord's team seems to give me troubles.

I also want Imler to beat Gideon, since Gideon spanked me both times we played, and I feel much more comfortable playing Imler or Ruskin in the finals (if I make it that far).

I was thinking that next year we should get rid of a pitching stat and switch it with something else. Complete games really is a waste of a stat. You cannot draft for it and it really does nothing except every once in awhile someone gets you one and you win that category for the week.

I was thinking we should add something like K/9, since that would also make it more useful to pick up middle relievers. I just think getting rid of complete games and adding something else could make the waiver moves more fun. Something to think about for next year.

Good luck to everyone and it was fun this year. It's also good to see that the people who paid attention were the ones who made the playoffs, and also that Kearney went from like last place to 4th. He gets my vote for Most Improved. I would say GM of the Year, but only if he wins the Title. As of now, I am the GM of the Year. Let's face it, I had the best draft and was in first place the majority of the year. Now watch me lose in the playoffs...

Fantasy Football Draft

So here is my team and the order in which I drafted them. Let me know what you guys think.

9. Joseph Addai, RB, Ind
14. Steve Smith, WR, Car
31. Drew Brees, QB, NO
36. Lee Evans, WR, Buf
53. Jerious Norwood, RB, Atl
58. Marques Colston, WR, NO
75. Chargers, DEF
80. Adrian Peterson, RB, Min
97. Chris Cooley, TE, Was
102. Bernard Berrian, WR, Chi
119. Mike Bell, RB, Den
124. JaMarcus Russell, QB, Oak
141. Olindo Mare, K, NO
146. Dwayne Jarrett, WR, Car
163. Jake Delhomme, QB, Car
168. Owen Daniels, TE, Hou

I can only hope and pray, haha.

We Are...

I am sitting here listening to the Penn State game on the radio. Why you ask? Because Comcast chooses not to show the game or pick up the BigTen Network. I do not know if the BigTen Network has the game on, but I would have a better shot than I have now.

I emailed Comcast and they never even responded to me. Today I heard a commercial on the radio from Comcast defending not having the BTN. They say that they will have plenty of Big Ten games on during the year, so we should not worry. That is all well and good, if I want to watch Michigan State and Alabama-Birmingham, but I do not want to watch that game. I want to watch Penn State.

Fuck you Comcast.