Friday Musings..
Well, I wake up and check the online newspapers — usually the Boston Globe and the Baltimore Sun.
The Globe mentions that Tejada might be traded, so I drop everything and head over to the Sun, where I truly think they are just pulling names out of their ass for a trade. None of the trades sounds appealing to me, so either 1)Tejada is saying “trade me” still although publicly he’s saying he didn’t want to be traded or 2) The O’s Front office is so pissed, they are going to send him away.
The funny thing is that no one wants to play for the Orioles at the moment apparently. What I don’t understand is that steriod crises aside, the team isn’t bad. Losing BJ Ryan isn’t a big deal to me, because he made me stress out. You have Roberts, Mora, Tejada and the new catcher. You have Lopez at 1B. You have the old timer in LF with Conine. Matos has some good defense (as in, shitty hitter, but much better than Damon in CF). RF you can platoon. Bedard, Cabrera are 2 good pitchers with potential. You’ve dumped the drunkard (Ponson). Speaking of Ponson, how the hell can he win his grievance? I mean seriously, you’re jailed for assault, you get arrested for DUI then too? But he should be held to his contract? Come on! I hope he does well with St.L. But he screwed Orioles fans over enough. Oh yeah, you also dumped the druggies. lol.
So if we only had an owner that gave a crap, we’d be very well off. I will say that Mike Flanagan gives me more confidence than say, the two “co-GM’s” in Boston. If Johnny Damon had to deal with that, no wonder why he left.
In other news, ESPN has a photo of Johnny getting a haircut/shave with his wife looking on. Often I call Michelle Damon by her other name, Yoko. Honestly, I think Boston is better off. No more stupid NESN shows with Yoko. Maybe they can focus on baseball. I don’t think this is a great coup for the Yankees either, but I’ve already talked about that.
Anyone leave their Xbox 360 on and download the 500MB demo for Kameo? It’s cool you can download demos, but 500MB? I bought my first package of Marketplace points last night, I wanted to buy Geometry Wars.
I also played some more King Kong. I’m strangely enjoying this game. And now my gamer rep is 200 points. Yay. I think everyone’s right about this rep thing. Great idea implemented shittily. I mean really, in EA games you may get like 10 rep points, but in Kong they seem to come fast and furious. Maybe they’ll be a whole market for ’shitty inexpensive games that are horrid but increase your gamer rep’.
Alright, that’s enough for now..
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:36 pm
ESPN radio and the Chicago Tribune (www.chicagosports.com) is reporting the Chicago Cubs have offered Mark Prior and Corey Patterson for Tejada and Berdard.
I’m a Cubs fan and I’ll shoot our GM if he trades Prior for anyone.
December 23rd, 2005 at 9:37 pm
I love the achievement system, but there is no oversight for how to implement the points. Microsoft games (Perfect Dark and Project Gotham) take some amazing efforts to get some of the point achievements, while Madden kicks you points just for scoring a single touchdown, in any game, on any difficulty.
Balance that out with the Live Arcade games that only give you 200 points, but require a massive amount of skill to accomplish some of them. Geometry Wars is the ultimate example of that. 1,000,000 points seems like something I’ll never be able to obtain, and yet it’s only going to be 10 or 20 points.
Crazy.