Thursday, November 30, 2006

Grandpa's pissed

My hip is creaky today.



Albert Pujols is feeling pretty cranky today. In a story from the Associated Press:
The St. Louis Cardinals' slugger is upset he lost out to Philadelphia's Ryan Howard for the National League MVP award, saying Wednesday the honor should go to someone on a playoff team.

"I see it this way: Someone who doesn't take his team to the playoffs doesn't deserve to win the MVP," Pujols said in Spanish at a news conference organized by the Dominican Republic's sports ministry.

While he should have won the award, he would have been much better served pointing to his statistical advantages over Howard, not the miscast "the MVP should come from a playoff team" argument. Because, after all, the Phillies won more games than the Cardinals this year.

And it's also unfortunate that a guy who just won a World Series is spending his offseason moaning about individual awards. Tough life, I guess.

Posted by Eli @ 2:13 PM :: (0) comments

This really happened, right?

Bill Walton Spends Entire Lakers Broadcast Gushing About His Son

The Onion

Bill Walton Spends Entire Lakers Broadcast Gushing About His Son

LOS ANGELES—Bill Walton, the former NBA Most Valuable Player and popular current NBA broadcaster, spent the entire running time of Tuesday night's Milwaukee Bucks–Los Angeles Lakers game lavishing praise and affection on his son Luke,...



For Welty, of course.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

I'm back.

I've forgotten how to write. With dead media ventures strewn throughout my past (R.I.P. Flotsam), I look back and remember a time when I possessed the passion, the fire and the drive (Apparently, I was the Lou Piniella of Bloggers. This must make me antiquated and silly, yet loved by many ill-informed fans) to give my thoughts to the masses, and then complain when no one commented.

So, after lovingly creating these ... creations, I would slowly let them fade away and listen to JR Radcliffe yell at me. Then I'd send him brownies in the mail, they'd be slightly stale, and he'd love me again anyway.

Well, I feel like writing again. I'll probably treat this more as a public journal, and I'll just throw up things that I'm interested in or thinking about. They might be 2,000 words, they might be 20 words. They could be about sports, TV, movies, music, politics (ehh), my life (double ehh) or whatever strikes my fancy.

I don't have any noble goals for this.

Mostly I'll just write about The Office, I think.

Cheers.

Posted by Eli @ 8:56 PM :: (3) comments

Listening

∴ Josh Ritter
∴ Flight of the Conchords
∴ Bloc Party
∴ Radiohead
∴ Nickel Creek

Reading

∴ Fire Joe Morgan

Viewing

∴ The Cubs