Hot Stove Fun
Well, Red Sox fans can add Johnny Damon to the list of traitors. I think we all know that at the end of the day, no matter what, it’s always about the money, isn’t it? The bright side is that the Red Sox will get a Yankee draft pick because they offered arbitration. Not much of a plus, but there you go.
In other AL East actions — The O’s announced the signing of Jeff Conine. Way to get those 39 year olds. Jeff has always played well and does fit in the O’s mold, kinda like BJ Surhoff. However the O’s said goodbye to Surhoff and wished him well..and then sign Conine? Whatever.
The more I think about it, the more I think the O’s and Red Sox will be battling it out this year…for 3rd place. Ugh. What’s scary is that there are so many O’s with arbitration, including Brian Roberts. They offered arbitration to everyone, so that’s good.
In other news, how about that politics. Some people have asked my thoughts, and I thought it’s the holiday, so I’ll be nice. However that being said, I cannot and will not understand how this could happen. This is a blatant violation of the law. Seroiusly this guy could say, hey, I saw 200 people congregating so I ordered the Army to kill them, because Congress said I had all powers to beat terrorism. Yes, it’s a gross exaggeration, but kee-ripes, if you have a court that rubber stamps any wiretap to begin with, why wasn’t it used? I just completely do not understand this AT ALL. If someone can link or point to something as to why this could/should be done, please, let me know, because it doesn’t make sense to me….
Back to gaming, I didn’t have a chance to do any X360 gaming yesterday. I did submit reviews for Madden on the X360 to GameShark, so that should be on soon. It was another hard one to grade. Looks great, plays great, but is so crippled compared to other versions, it’s tough to give it a good rating. You might say I’m punitive, but don’t get me wrong: I really wanted to like this game…it has something going for it, and I don’t say that lightly. Fix the no huddle, the replay challenges, add the modes that were in the PS2 version and we might have something here….
December 21st, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Dan,
The thing to me that was so breathtaking about Bush admitting that he was doing something that is against the law, was the fact that he was angry at the people that wrote the story about it. They even tried to bring in the newspaper editors and attempt to stop them running the story. Never mind the fact that the editors had held the story since before last years elections and waited a whole year before finally bringing it to the attention of the public.
Am I the only one that thinks that the way that his press conferences are going that the next one will begin with him looking at the camera and then state, “Kneel before Zod!”
Now we hear that these wiretaps captured domestic calls as well. The arrogance of this administration is mindblowing and it seems as though people are finally starting to wake up to it. Hopefully the bi-partisan hearings that are being called for will actually amount to something.
December 21st, 2005 at 8:30 pm
“Kneel before Zod!”
That’s classic.