Blabber

I'm not gonna have this long, drawn out response about everything going on. So here are a couple points I'm gonna address quickly.

• The Real World-Sydney:

Um, does anyone else notice how awesomely unstable this season of Real Worlders are? This is good television. The mother of all reality TV is showing who's still boss. Shauvon, aka, the big boobed chick who made out with Isaac, left for her controlling boyfriend. The new ditzy replacement brunette, Ashli, was basically thrown in there to make Dunbar (yes, that's his name) cheat on his gf back home-because he can't control his penis, of course. Trisha, who is up there on- if she doesn't top-the list of evil bitches was sent home packing after pushing the "Muslim" Parisa (and that's after all the pretty harsh verbal abuse Trisha has been dishing at her all season). And yes, there's a guy an Appalachian man (I think) named Cohutta who likes the hoochie Kelly Anne. I just...I can go on, but shame on you for not watching. This season is so good!

• The New England Patriots

Ok, that game against the Baltimore Ravens? It made me sick. I will not give the Patriots credit for that game. They got lucky! Yeah, I said it! The way they won is lucky. As soon time ran out, I stood up, pointed at the television which was showing Tom Brady and announced, "Fuck your mother!". I don't care if people call me haters. I proudly hate on the Patriots and Brady and Belichik. God, please let the Steelers beat them this week. And if you have a bigger and better plan...please let it be the Patriots losing in the first round in some monumental way. I say this realizing that the Pats losing in the first round would be a monumental upset. So, that'll work.

• Scott Rolen vs. Tony La Russa

How are we going to play with our star 3rd baseman and manager at such public odds. Rolen is trying to get traded as we speak. La Russa's throwing verbal jabs at him in public. It's getting pretty ugly. I can live with a trade as long as we get something really good in return. I don't know what's going to happen to the market's interest in Rolen now that the huge trade involving another 3rd baseman has gone through. I guess we'll see, won't we. It doesn't look like the Cards have a lot of moves to make, but it's still a long way til Spring. Speaking of huge trades though...

• The Tigers-Marlins Blockbuster:

The Tigers got Dontrelle Willis AND Miguel Cabrera! WOW! I said this yesterday to my brother, if the Tigers don't win the World Series next year, then their season is a bust. No team with that line up and that starting pitching should lose. That is, of course, unless the Red Sox get Johan Santana, then I still consider them favorites. Well, I guess they're still considered favorites even if they don't get Santana. DAMN YOU RED SOX :) My brother pointed out that SportsCenter went through the list of all-stars the Marlins have gotten rid of since 1997. Just thinking of a few off the top of my head, the aforementioned Willis and Cabrera, and also Derrek Lee, Edgar Renteria and Josh Beckett, makes me want to actually get that list of players the Marlins have traded away. I guess that'll be next time. By the way, if you were a Marlins fan...well, would you still be a Marlins fan? Even if it's pretty much been guaranteed that you're getting young studs in return for your trades and you win the WS every, oh, 6 years? I mean, would you have that sort of patience for ownership?

I guess I had a drawn out response after all. My bad.

Chocolate Cupcakes Can't Fill This Void

I need Cardinals baseball.

December 8th. That's the day the Pujols plans and fancy seat tickets begin to go on sale. Count me among the throng of faithful fools who will be attempting to break through impossibly busy phone lines and internet traffic, hoping to snag a fancy ticket to Opening Day. I want to go to Opening Day. I need to go to Opening Day. I've never been to Opening Day. Last year, I went downtown before the game, just to be around people going to Opening Day. There, I've said it. If I find out any one of you are going to Opening Day and don't have an extra ticket for me, I will steal your kidneys. And maybe your uterus-just for good measure. Let's see how good you feel going to Opening Day without your kidneys! Or Uterus. I don't care if you're a man! I will TAKE YOUR UTERUS!!!

Ok, now that's out of my system, I'll let you know how that goes...

Mizzou lost, I accepted that. It wasn't exactly a close game all the way through. Plus, I was playing card games and smoking hookah aka argeela aka sheesha at a friend's, so I wasn't as 100% focused as I was the week before. Which resulted in a not-so-shitty night on what could've been an uber shitty night. I've come to wake up today and find out not only is Mizzou not playing in a Bowl game...teams like Kansas, who Mizzou beat the week before, are. See? This is why I don't let my heart get completely invested in college sports. That's Bowlshit. Ha! You see how I made a play on words? Instead of bull...well...nevermind...

The Rams won today, but I was blacked out-couldn't watch. No, I didn't have that great a night. Fox blacked out the game to the STL because apparently all the rich bastards who could afford to buy tickets every week before are suddenly MIA. This is a new thing I've come to get used to this season. I hope for road games so I can actually enjoy watching a Rams football game. Even if they lose like they did to Seattle last week. Well, maybe not so much. But they beat the Falcons today in a battle of the sucky teams. Maybe the Rams org. should've dubbed this game, "The battle for least suckiest between the most suckiest in the land" and more people would've shown up. Not anyone from Miami, but you never know. Ok, that joke sucked. But I promise my jokes will get better once a St. Louis sports team starts winning. Ok?

NEWS FLASH:The Cards signed SS Cesar Izturas. That means bye-bye Eckstein. The era of the little man is over. No more super hustle to first. No more "pesky man" discussions every single goddamn time he was on ESPN or FOX or in the Post Season or on SportsCenter or Baseball Tonight or what ever. Oh well. Bye. Didn't wanna commit to 4 years with ya. Everything's just so messed up. I wish Renteria was still with us. Yeah, I'm that bitter old person who reminisces about sitting by the radio listening to good quality family shows with the folks while claiming I walked in the snow for 4 hours to get to school and loved every second of it. Yeah, I'm that guy.

Oh, and Winter meetings are up soon. The Cards need pitching. What's new?

Chocolate Cupcakes also can't fill the void that has popped up since new episodes of The Office haven't aired on Thursday nights. What's the point of television now? The only thing that would cheer me up right now is a Patriots loss...especially in the post-season. Badia salivates and blacks out-Fox style.