Thoughts of the Day

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1) Did you see it? Barry Bonds has officially lost it. Wearing a dress and impersonating Paula Abdul. Wow, I never thought that I'd get to watch a major sports star have a complete mental breakdown while chasing the most important record in sports history. Something tells me Hank Aaron wasn't dressing as a women in 1974. I could be wrong. The fact that Bonds is staring in a reality show during this time, I mean who could have planned this timing. This is perfect. Going insane + greatest record in sports history + reality TV = success. Unless you don't want the greatest record in sports history tarnished. This series could make that Britney Spears-Kevin whatever his name is show look, well still awful, but not as awful and pitiful as this.

2) I went to buy the new MLB 2006 : The Show: video game today because I saw Amazon.com that it was being released today. However it's not going to be released for computers. Just on Play Station2 and X-Box. So what does that mean? It means that there is a company BAM (Baseball Advanced Media) that is trying to ruin everyone's life. BAM is an extension of Major League Baseball and they are the people responsible for screwing up both MLB video games and fantasy baseball. Last time I checked more people in the world have computers then Play Station2 or X-Box. So why does BAM and MLB want to cut off their computer using fans. Probably because the Play Station2 and X-Box people agreed to some sort of deal for Play Station2 and X-Box sales. You can't get that from computers because too many different companies can make them. EA Sports had been making the excellent MVP series for the past five or six years, but once BAM took power BAM appointed one company to make all of Baseball's MLB games. So EA is out. They have to base their game on college now. You can have the Texas Longhorns playing the USC Trojans in a game but you can't play the Yankees vs. the Red Sox. So if you want to play a video game with real mlb players.....guess what? You have to buy a Play Station2 or X-Box. Thanks BAM.

3) I'll just wait until fantasy baseball season starts. Might not be that easy because BAM is screwing you there as well. Any stats produced by major league players cannot be used in fantasy games unless the company hosting your fantasy league gets a contract with BAM. Those contracts, by the way, cost a great deal of money. So instead of paying $30-70 dollars to be in a league or even the insane idea of playing in a free league you're going to have to offset the costs being put upon the fantasy game hosts. I guess these people don't release that fantasy baseball players are among their sports biggest fans. These are the guys who get the MLB extra inning package, the Serious radio package and buy all these fantasy baseball magazines. Which last time I checked only gave you MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPORT OF BASEBALL. YOU STUPID MORONS! This should be exactly what these people wanted to promote. Instead they're more interested in screwing over you the fan. Screw them!

4) Saw on Amazon.com that the great, great new Baseball Prospectus Book was to be released today. Guess what my Borders didn't have? The great, great new Baseball Prospectus Book. I was on a job interview earlier in the afternoon and I was filling out the paper work and couldn't remember the date. I was at the counter at Borders asking where the great, great new Baseball Prospectus Book was and the guy at the counter asked me if I knew when the book was supposed to come out. In a second, without thinking about it, I said "February 28th, 2006 the day that the great, great new Baseball Prospectus Book is supposed to come out". I blame BAM. I have a weird sense of priorities in case you can't tell. So far I had an awful day. What saved it you ask? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000DZ854A/qid=1141185439/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-3634708-6282551?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130

5) Yes the third season of Newsradio was released on DVD today. What a great, great show this was. It's a lot like Scrubs, which was on earlier tonight, in how the network really screwed the show up. Moving it from night to night, time slot to time slot screwed both of these shows up so they both had trouble setting up an audience. But anyway the top five great things about season Three of Newradio:
1) Maura Tierny is just plain hot. She plays smart together women and who aren't typical sitcom girlfriends and it just works. Did I mention she's hot. Even on ER now.
2) The great, awesome and unbelievable comediac genius of Phil Hartmen.
3) Dave Foley, formerly of Kids in the Hall, is just funny, in everything he does.
4) Stephen Root. Mr. James wow. He was an awesome character rivaled only Root's roles as Milton Waddams in Office Space and Gordon in Dodgeball.
5) Did I mention that I thought Maura Tierny is hot?