Remodeling kitchens with granite counters!
April 16, 2012 Leave a comment
Well it looks like the NFL won’t have British rapper M.I.A. to be invite d to any future league endorsed events after delivering the Stone Cold Salute during Madonna’s halftime performance.
November 30, 2011 Leave a comment
For the first time since the 2010 Sugar Bowl, Thom Brennaman will be reunited with his love child, Tim Tebow. The event will take place this Sunday at 1 PM EST on many a Fox station near you. We have video proof of the 2008 meeting from the Florida-Oklahoma national championship game as linked here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xTX94VBtE
Insert sappy world’s smallest violin music here, and excuse me whilst I leave and regurgatate.
November 24, 2011 Leave a comment
One year ago today, Thanksgiving 2010, I was in the hospital known as Franfkord Hospital Torresdale Division (sorry Aria Health, I’m partial to the older name) and underwent a quadruple bypass heart operation, or as they call it, a “cabbage”.
This would mark the first time that I would spend this holiday without family. Getting there was the long story, as it were, as two weeks earlier, I thought I had a severe case of asthma, so my doctor sent me to Frankford Division to have X-rays done. However, what happened next would change my life – and luck – forever.
They found out that I has a weakened heart (only 15% working) and ultimately, led to the operation. The next day being Thanksgiving, I had to throw myself to the almighty puking monster four times; thankfully, I had my turkey dinner two days earlier. Much of it was medicine from the operation, so I passed on the turkey thank you.
Well, after that, much of the time was spent flat on my back, not allowed to even get out of bed and walk. The rest of the year, I was in the hospital recovering and being in rehab to walk again (almost a year later, it was finally discovered that I had vericose veins in my legs) and spent Christmas with my family a day early on December 24.
Also changed were the food I could eat. First, I can’t have anything with caffine in it – including what was my vice, chocolate – nor was I have to have encased meats such as hot dogs, sausage or anything that is a pork product, as well as prohibiting leafy veggies and cranberries. As far as the doctor making these decisions, he was a sadomasochist that did not even allow me to drink water, making me poop out in dry squares.
So that is why I am thankful to be here. Thanks for hearing me out. We will return to our regularly scheduled blog this weekend.
November 10, 2011 1 Comment
Child molestation is not a joke. Let’s get that out of the way.
What happened to Joseph Vincent Paterno by the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trutees was roughly the equivant of being pushed off Mount Everest. The 84-year-old head coach was all set to ride off in the sunset, holding the NCAA D-1 wins mark when a blindeside tackle in the form of making a telephone call to a member of said board informing him he was fired. Really? Really? Really. This is not Woody Hayes punching out Charlie Bowman in the 1978 Gator Bowl. thank you very much. This dates to almost a decade ago, when JoePa got a call from the father of a graduate assistant named Mike McCreary informing him of sexual harassment in a shower room by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Paterno called his AD Tom Curley and another higher up at the school, in this case, the school’s director of security, and neither did anything about that, but did ban Sandusky from using school grounds for his charity, The Second Mile.
Cut a fast forward to Saturday, November 5th. Sandusky and the school president were arrested on lying to a grand jury, and Curley was placed on administrative leave. The Nittany Lions were idle that week, preparing for their first game against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as members of the B1G Conference (that would be the “Big Ten”, and now used by internet boards writers such as myself based on the weirdest conference logos in history.) Three days later, JoePa’s weekly presser is cancelled and then the coach announces his retirement at the end of the year. And then came Wednesday, November 9th, 2011. A date that will soon live in imfaminy for Penn State fans.
The board fired the school president. That was expected. Then, they did the wrong thing. Instead of the on-administarive-leave-AD being reinstated and then told to walk the plank Paterno was shoved out in a unaminous vote. Yeah, blame the whistle blower, not the guy who did nothing. Rioting then ensued, a news van was turned over; hell, you’d just think the Phillies won the World Series again. The student body was mad, they have supported JoePa through thick and thin, and all of them were not on this earth in 1987 when Penn State beat Miami (FL) in the Fiesta Bowl when Vinnie Testiverde forgot to never look a Pete Giftopolus in the mouth. And now, the 11/12 game may become a protest by the seniors (as it is Senior Day), the supporters and even the alumni who donated billions of dollars for a Joe Paterno Library at State College. The Paterno firing may even mean that said alums will stop their financial support of the university.
The baord should have let Paterno use the retirement card and let him finish out the season instead of knee-jerking to their own interests, and allow him to become Head Football Coach emeritus after the season and the bowl game within. This decision will come back at some point and bite them in the arrears when alumni stop making those donations, seats at Beaver Stadium will be empty, and even students decide not to go to Penn State becuase the wrong guy was thrown under the bus.
October 8, 2011 1 Comment
Well, haters. You got your wish. You just drove FOX and TBS’ ratings to new all-time lows. Kennesaw Molehill Selig, Interim Commissioner of Major League Baseball for Life, is disrought as we speak. In Los Angeles and Atlanta, people will fly off the sides of buildings at Fox Sports headquarters and CNN Center.
The Red Sox choked (yes, I said it), the Yankees failed against the Tigers, and the Phillies, the last great big market hope, fell to the St. Louis Cardinals Flying Squirrels. Sure, Dallas-Fort Worth and Detroit are major markets in their own right, but nobody knows about these teams outside those markets, and small market teams in Milwaukee and St. Louis, in the shadows of Chicago, aren’t exactly big money makers.
In all this, the question of “Is 102 wins enough for a successful season?” for the Phillies, the answer is “No.” If George Steinbrenner were not running the Yankees from his grave via his crazy son Hank, he’d fire people in Philly. And for me, no more baseballl watching this year. I’ll watch college football, pro football (except the Eagles for obvious reasons), hockey, hell, I’ll even watch soccer in foreign tongues for the rest of the month.
I’ll make my points on the Phillies later in the week.
October 6, 2011 Leave a comment
It has been reported that St. Louis’ so-called “Rally Squirrel” has been reported to come to Philadelphia tomorrow (10/7) for an possible appearance for Game Five of the NLDS. The Phillies have hired an rodent expert to eliminate this menace.
This expert will give up hunting “wabbits” for the day to go squirrel hunting. Be vewwy vewwy quiet around him, though…
September 30, 2011 Leave a comment
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September 24, 2011 Leave a comment
Yup, the logo looks legit.
No signs of any of the officially licenced throwback/fauxback uniforms/sweaters/jerseys…yet…
The official announcement of the NHL Winter Classic between the Flyers and the Rangers, delayed by enough SNAFUs will be at 1:30 PM Monday (9/26) at Citizens Bank Park. The presser will be carried live on NHL Network and CSN Philly. Harry would have loved it.
September 23, 2011 Leave a comment
The Phillies are being used in TBS’ Postseason promotions, so much so that bus shelters in the City of Sibling-ly Love are being turned into virtual dugouts, complete with life-sized pics of Ryan Howard, Roy Halliday, etc. But the press release tells us where these bus stops can be found:
“In Philadelphia, fans waiting for the bus on Market Street between 10th and 14th Streets will have the opportunity to experience the excitement of MLB Postseason on TBS and interact immediately through available mobile technology (QR codes) in the dugouts. The QR codes embedded into the dugout display give fans the ability to receive special tune-in messages by scanning the bar code with their mobile devices.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is there no 14th Street? That’d be Broad Street from what I know.
