Senior Night

Just finished up watching WVU beat Pitt and five seniors making their last appearance in the Colisium.

Kevin Pittsnogle, Patrick Beilein, Joe Herber, J.D. Collins, and transfer Mike Gansey all have represented WVU well. I really have to admit that when the Pittsnogle, Beilein, Herber and Collins first made their starts as freshmen I was sure none of them would be starting today as seniors. I really felt that Coach Beilein would recruit more talented players and most, if not all of these players would be role players (at best).

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Knowing what I know now, I can see the method to John Beilein’s madness. He rooted out the bad seeds and players not willing to play within his system, a la Drew Schifino, and NY player of the year Tyler Relph and kept the basketball smart players that could pick up on his style of offense.

I sometimes wish now I could do over my career and coach basketball. It seems like such a simple game now that I have watched WVU over the past 4 seasons under Beilein. If ever there was a style of offensive basketball that is as much fun to play as it is difficult to learn, it is this style. It takes teamwork and commitment from everyone on the floor. You have to anticipate the moves that your teammates make as they make their cuts to and away from the basket, you must shoot the ball effectively, and take care of each possession.

It has been so much fun watching this team compete over the past 4 seasons, and it will be hard to watch next year when we take a slight step back as new Mountaineers step in, but hopefully we will be watching this team play about 10 more games, then it would be much easier to let them go.

Ny Nude Son

I usually, come home for lunch between 12:30 and 1:30 so I get to see Owen for about 30 minutes before he takes his nap. Today Renea put Owen down about 1:00 and of course he didn’t fall asleep for awhile, but Renea and I were listening to him over the monitor.

It was a bright day today with a few clouds outside, and Owen’s room is fairly bright when the sun is out. Well Owen was up in his room just talking to himself and all of a sudden a cloud passes in front of the sun causing it to be less bright then it was before that. Over the monitor, we hear Owen call out, “Hey! Who turned the lights out?” Renea and I both lose it laughing cause we know exactly what he is talking about.

I go back to work and I get a call about 2:00 and it’s Renea and she relays this story to me.

She continues to listen to the monitor for Owen to go to sleep. She hears some grunting over the monitor. Now I have to tell you that over the past few weeks Owen has been taking his clothes off and we even caught him asleep in his bed one night with a PJ top on, socks and no bottoms and no diaper. So anyway, she listens some more then hears Owen say, “Much better. Ahhhhhhh. Naked Baby.”

Renea heads up the stairs, and with his shirt, pants, and diaper off, is our “Naked Baby” ready and comfortable for his nap.

Sleeping Chunks

Ever cried so much you threw up? I didn’t think so, but I just witnessed it tonight, not me personally, but from Owen.

You see, we have been trying to put Owen to bed without having to stay in the room with him until he falls asleep. So the last two nights have been difficult, but not as bad as tonight.

We put Owen to bed, started to walk out and then “Nice and Gentle Owen” turned into the “Nancy Kerrigan hit in the knee Owen” he was screaming “NOOOOO, WHYYYYY, WHYYYY ME!” Ok he didn’t say “WHY ME,” but he definitely threw a fit. Bouncing up and down crying, losing his breath then gagging then puking.

Great! Just what I wanted to do at 9:15 at night. Change his bed. Awesome!

So now Owen is laying in his bed, still crying, and I am hoping and praying I don’t have to change sheets again.

This is a stage I can't wait until we get past.

Mountain Low

For those of you who aren't basketball fans click away to another blog. HA HA, who am I kidding you all are basketball fans, cause the only people reading this blog are family members . . . So anyway I can't criticize WVU's basketball team too much, but tonight I wanted to pick the TV up and throw it across the room. So here is a rant on WVU vs. Syracuse:

Why did we stand and look at the Syracuse players in their zone like we had never seen one of these before? I swear I read J.D. Collins' lips and he said, "What the hell do we do?"

We NEVER penetrated the zone to score, we always looked to pass first, "Hello? Anyone on this team want to take a shot that is NOT behind the three-point line?"

Our interior defense stinks. It stinks. If they caught the ball in the paint they scored. Either an aggressive take to the hoop, or a dunk, but they scored every damn time, and we still refuse to play in front on the post. Sidenote: I can't understand, for the life of me, why we don't front in the post. It puts pressure on the passer to make an excellent lob over not only the defensive man in the post, but over his own man, and with the proper backside help that pass should only result in a positive play maybe once a game.

I am not sure how John Beilein kept his cool and not throw a fit on the sidelines. If that was my team standing around on the offensive end of the floor I would have ripped someone's head off.

Why wasn't Darris Nichols in the game late? J.D. Collins looked so scared I thought he was going to pee his shorts. He didn't want to take the ball to the hoop, he didn't want to shoot it, and he had no idea what they were trying to do when they had the ball for the last shot. Sidenote: For all the praise he receives from the WVU broadcast team, J.D. is a liability late in any ball game, he can'tdrive to the hoop, he can't make an outside jumps shot even if you left him wide open (see UConn game) and apparently he loses all command of the offense late in a game.

I am not a "sky is falling" type of guy, and if I am frustrated by the play tonight then I know the team is, but everyone knew this was going to be a tough stretch and the Big East is a very tought conference, but I don't like the play I am seeing from this team. Hopefully come Big East tourney time they will be ready, because they aren't going to sneak up on anyone this tourney time.

Ramblings

Just a few thoughts on this Thursday:

The Arizona Cardinals added to their long line of great personnel moves by signing 34 year old Kurt Warner to a three-year contract on Tuesday. Nice move Cardinals, Deion Sanders is a free agent now, would you like to add him as your new starting cornerback?

I love these coaches that resign/take a leave of absence/quit their jobs in the middle of the season. Nice message to send to your players that look up to you. . . “When it gets tough kids, quit.” Take a lesson from my parents who said I could quit after a season was over and not return the next year, but never quit in the middle of the season. One of the best lessons I was ever taught.

A former Escambia County (PENSACOLA, Fla.) middle school gym teacher allegedly let children pay a $1 a day bribe to skip gym class turned himself in Thursday. Now that guy is an entrepreneur. I wouldn’t pay a $1 to skip gym class (cause that is about all I was good at) but I easily would have put down a 5 spot to get out of Trig.

“It is what it is.” I have heard this quote 1,000 times the past few weeks. Yes we all know ‘it is what it is’ when is it ever ‘it is what it isn’t?’ One of my new pet peeves, like nails on a chalkboard.

Michael Bay is gearing up to remake "Friday the 13th" for New Line Cinema. Um, yea, excuse me, but haven’t the last 200 Friday the 13th movies been remakes of the first? People having a good time, Jason killing people, someone thinks they kill Jason, movie over. About sums it up huh?

Baby Jessica and Me

Yesterday I decided that it was warm enough to wash my car and that I would take it through the "touchless" car wash. So I headed back to the office early after my lunch break and I went to this place on what is considered the west side of Marietta, put in my $6 and pulled into the car wash stall.

Now the touchless carwash stall is basically a garage. It has a door when you pull into the stall and a door where you pull out. As your car is being washed both doors are shut, and I the reason for that, I am guessing, so that it keeps all of the water in the stall.

So I sit there as my car is being washed and then the process it complete and the garage door in front of me is supposed to open, I pull out and have a nice clean car. Nice in theory.

Once the car is washed I sit there waiting for the door to open. Waiting. Waiting. The door doesn’t open. I look behind me and the garage door behind me is closed, and it is one of those transparent doors and I can see someone waiting behind me.

So I think, maybe I need to pull forward to activate the door. So I pull forward. Door doesn’t open. Then I think I need to back up then pull forward again. Well I do that, not knowing that the person behind me put their money in for their wash well my car then activates the car wash again. By this time the woman in line behind me drives away.

My car is being washed for a second time, and I realize that I might be stuck here forever. Thoughts go through my head like, “I am going to have to call Renea, she is going to have to call the people who operate the car wash, they are going to have to break down the door to get me out. Baby Jessica gets caught in a well and I get caught in an automatic touchless car wash.”

Then I think/hope that the washing will have to stop and there must be a way to open the doors from the inside. When the second car wash is over I get out of my car, step around the nozzles with water still coming out and see on the wall in front of me a button that says “Emergency Door Open.”

Aahh! I am saved. I hit the button. Nothing.

Stupid emergency door open. Then I look behind me and see buttons on the wall for the back door. I also see that the woman that I thought had abandoned me, to leave me to die in this automatic car wash, had returned. I go hit the buttons on the back doors and the back door opened.

WHEW! I thought I was a goner there for a second. The woman next in line tells me that she talked to the people at the adjacent gas station (that I suppose run the car wash) and they said that I should have left my car still and the doors would open.

Uh huh. Right, like I didn’t try that. Whatever lady, you left me here to die.

She tells me that she will move and I can back out and tell “them” (whoever “them” is) what happened.

I am not telling “them” what happened, who cares about “them.” I have just suffered a traumatic experience. Screw “them.”

So I head back to my car to pull out, and then the front door opens. Yea I guess after a five minute waiting period the door finally does open. NICE.

I relay this story to Renea, and how I almost had to call her to get me removed from the car wash and she can’t stop laughing. Plus when I come home from work she is singing “Working at the Car Wash.”

Don’t you just love sympathy?

I bet Baby Jessica never had to deal with that kind of ridicule.

Keeping Up with the Zundells

This past weekend I visited my brother Adam and sister in-law Kelly. Adam invites me (or I invite myself) over each year for the Duke/Maryland basketball game. Luckily I looked ahead at the WVU schedule and realized that I could do the Duke/MD game on Saturday and pull the WVU/Georgetown game on Sunday as well.

Kelly and Adam were very good hosts and were nice to let me stay at their house for what amounted to 3 nights and almost 4 days. We were involved in a Winter Wonderland that was as much of a Winter Wonderland as predicted.

Duke vs. Maryland was a good game, better and closer than I though it would be. I am always impressed by the support and the facilities at Maryland. If the Comcast Center isn't the top basketball facility in the country then I want to see the place that is. It is top notch, and reminds me of a professional arena. J.J. Redick displayed why he is a candidate for the Player of the Year, although watch him play defense a few series and I contend that he could be the worst defensive player to win that award. He is out of postion about half the time. The other observation I made was that Maryland ran the flex offense. Now the flex offense is the greatest pattern offense in all of time. Everyone has run flex at one time or another in their life so you would think that Duke of all people would be able to defend the flex, but nope, Maryland got a few good looks and a few points from this offense. Crazy.

Due to snow complications we couldn't meet up with my other brother Trent and his wife Rachael. So Adam, Kelly and I ate at ribs place where the ribs were excellent and Yueling was on tap . . . it was definately a watch.

Sunday we woke to no power due to the Winter Wonderland, but no problem, after figuring out how to light the stove, Adam was cooking pancakes to keep us warm.

Sunday night brought the WVU/Georgetown game and I was lucky enough to be able to go with Trent's friend Dan and sit in a box with Dan, Trent, Rachael and my buddy Dave, after Adam had worked the phones to get us tickets to the game. It was a team effort by Trent and Adam to get me into the game after I kinda came up with the idea and really pushed it onto everyone else. A WVU win spelled a good time for all.

Headed back earlier today, had to stop at the Nike outlet in Hagerstown. It is a manditory stop. Overall had a very good weekend and if it hadn't been for my hosts Adam and Kelly, and my ticket broker Trent, it would have just been me stuck in a Winter Wonderland.

Monday Riff

I don't want to call this a rant, nor do I want to call it general observations, so to steal a little phrase from a radio personality I will call this the riff (and yes this is how I am spelling it):

It is obvious that the NFC is the weaker of the two divisions after watching this past weekend playoff games.

If I had a $100 extra dollars I would bet it all on the Carolina Panthers to cover the +4 they are getting against Seattle this weekend.

I have seen some games that have been poorly officiated, but the Steelers vs. Colts might have been the worst officiated game I have ever seen, and it wasn't the amount of bad calls, because there really weren't a lot of them, just the ones that were made were so horrible that they have no equal.

When WVU's basketball team is hitting shots like they did against Marquette, NO ONE, and that means #1 Duke, #2 Florida, and #9 Pitt, can beat them.

I noticed that Maryland's basketball team cracked the top 25, now I could care less about basketball rankings, as they count for nothing, but for a team that has lost to every ranked team they have played (except for BC), they are getting a lot of respect from both the AP writers and coaches.

The last five minutes of the Steelers game was the craziest five minutes I have ever witnessed. I hurt my hand when the ref came back with his instant replay decision, I about had a nervous break down when the Bus fumbled and then a heart attack when the Colts missed their field goal attempt.

The Washington Redskins are not a playoff caliber team.

For some reason I don't remember the same talk about how the Steelers blew it last year when they lost after going 15-1 in the regular season like they are talking all about the Colts now.

The Sleep Negotiator

My two-year old Owen is getting good at the manipulation game, especially as it pertains to going to sleep. He knows how to play his mother and for a certain amount of time he knew how to play me, then I realized the key to getting him to do what you want him to do, and it's the same advice for buying a new car . . . be willing to walk away.

Owen thinks he needs to stall with a series of ploys, first he won't lay down, then he won't let you cover him, then he wants to have a puppet show, all in order to keep you from turning off the light and leaving him to sleep. This kid has more stall tactics then Dean Smith's Carolina teams of the 80's.

But I learned, and have attempted to impart this wisdom on Renea, you have to be willing to walk away. I tell him to lay down, I will cover him, if he says "No Daddy." Then I tell him, "Good night, love you, see ya in the morning." I get half way down the stairs, and suddenly he turns into that car sales man that doesn't want to see his comission walk out the door, "Daddy! Cover Feet! Cover Feet!" which in two-year old speak means, "I'm laying down, I did what you want, now please cover me so I can sleep." I walk up the stairs, cover his feet, he isn't happy that he had to cave, so he calls for Mommy to lay with him, "Mommy too. Mommy too." I tell him Mommy is on the phone (which in our house is never a lie) and that he needs to go to sleep and be quiet. I say, "Love you Owen." As I walk down the stairs. I hear a, "Boo-Boo Daddy." (which is Owen for "I love you").

He isn't happy, some tears are shed, but he knows that he has lost, and that is hard at any age to handle.

Motivation

I have this file sitting on my desk. It has been sitting there since December 20th just mocking me. I have no idea what to do with this job. Where to start. My creative motivation to start this job is severly lacking. I have looked for possible photos to start the job, but none have the right feel or the right fit. So the job sits there, needing to be completed. Needing to be finished. I have done every meaningless, mindless job that has come in before this one so I don't have to sit there and stare at this job wondering what my next move will be, but alas I have finished all other jobs. It is the only one left, I must take it on. I must start somewhere. Surely there is something else I can do, something else to bide my time, but no the yellow folder sits there, looking like a job that should only take an hour, but has weighed on my mind for much much longer. I hate you little yellow folder.

More Movie Reviews

Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Not as good as I remember. Don’t watch
Donnie Darko – Don’t watch.
Fever Pitch – Watch.
Danny Deckchair – GOOD! Funny. Watch.
Batman Begins – Good. Watch!
Raising Helen – Funny but predictable.
Raging Bull – watch (although not as good as I expected)
Spanglish – Little too many characters to develop, good, watch.
Closer – Good, watch.
Along Came Polly – Funny in Spots – watch.

Guru too?

I was goofing around on the internet today, reading stories on ESPN.com and I came across Jason Whitlock’s (for lack of a better word) column.

Now I am not a big Whitlock fan, but something in the teaser on the page before caught my attention and made me click, and I did.

So I get to the piece of crap, uhm excuse me, column, and I skim. Looking for anything Steeler related, and of course there is nothing from this Kansas City apologist anywhere in his dumpster of words, eh hem . . . I mean column. So I scroll back to the top and I see ole J.W.’s photo with name, and his title, and that title, then and there, prompted me to open up my word app and write this.

“Jason Whitlock, NFL Guru”

Eh-hem. Excuse me? NFL Guru? You are kidding right? Guru? Dictionary please!

Guru (gu•ru) n
1. in Hinduism and Sikhism, a religious leader or teacher
2. a spiritual leader of or intellectual guide for a religious group or movement especially one being described as non-mainstream
3. somebody who is prominent and influential in a specific field and sets a trend or starts a movement
4. a teacher or counselor in spiritual or intellectual matters who is especially revered and followed by an individual

Ok, so I know that the NFL to a lot of people might be a religious sect. But come on!

Jason Whitlock a guru? The spiritual leader and intellectual guide of the NFL? Really? I mean I have seen guys pray at the end of a game, but I had no idea that they were being led by Jason Whitlock, NFL Guru.

Ok if you don’t buy that then is he prominent and influential in the NFL and has started a trend or movement? Did he start the gold teeth? How about the pre-game dances? What about the do rags under the helmets? No?

Then he must be a teacher or counselor in spiritual or intellectual matters right? Ever read his septic tank of words . . . eh hem I mean column? Nothing intellectual there.

A Google search reveals that Whitlock is not the only NFL Guru out there. Javier Rodriguez at The Observer, The Student Newspaper of Case Western Reserve University, is also an NFL Guru in training apparently, along with Peter King from Sports Illustrated, and whoa Chris Mortensen also of ESPN. They must have had 2 openings for Guru at the Worldwide Leader. Charlie Weis was a former NFL Guru. Mike Godsey from godspicks.com, which I am not sure if he is a guru or god, or both, and Sun-Times columnist Mike Preston.

Now I certainly don’t want to be around when all of these guru’s try to figure out who is the go-to-guru.

I just want to know where you can go to school for this? I mean is there a Guru U. out there where you can major in Guru-ing? Where I can be “Ryan Zundell, NFL Guru too,” if I wanted? Seems like a nice job if you can get it. Only one better might be Bracketologist.

“Oh-no!”

“Oh-no!”

To steal a quote from my son Owen.

If you have seen the commercials for the new Disney movie “Chicken Little” you will understand what it feels like to be a Steelers fan this morning. Ben Roethlisberger is hurt and to all Steelers fans the preverbal sky is falling.

All of Steeler nation is waiting by their computers this morning, Googling Roethlisberger to find the results of this morning’s MRI on the left knee of the second year QB.

To most Steeler fans this could be the season. This could be the end of the year that they were finally going to make the leap from being the NFL’s version of the Atlanta Braves to being XL Champions.

It’s pretty easy to figure out where this is going. If there is ligament damage Big Ben’s season is over, if there isn’t he will be back this season.

Now for the Steelers’ chances if he is out . . .

If it is a hyper extended knee, it’s a few weeks and I think that the Steelers can persevere through the next few games with Charlie Batch at QB. Jacksonville at home, Cincy on the road, and Baltimore at home. With those 3 games I think that they can go 2-1 and be 5-2 overall when Big Ben returns.

If it is a season ender, then I think over the long haul this team can make the playoffs, but as far as making it to the XL Super Bowl, then I think that the outlook is very cloudy. The Steelers have a good team, but losing Ben for the long haul, that will be too much to overcome.

Know when to hold em

Last night I entered in a Texas Hold ’Em tournament here at the college. It was the first time I played in a tournament that wasn’t on a computer.

I was actually nervous. I sat down at a table then a few minutes later the dude that won the tournament last month sat at my table, and he sat to my left. You wouldn’t think that sitting next to a 21 year-old kid and playing cards could make me nervous, but I was.

I really can’t remember my cards for the first 5-6 hands, except that they were bad hands. I was sitting at this extremely small table and it was crowded. I couldn’t get comfortable. Even thought they weren’t looking, I felt like my cards were exposed every time I took a peek at them. I felt rushed in making my decisions as to whether I wanted to fold, check, raise, or call. I felt like I couldn’t look at the table and see what was there and make a decision as to what I wanted to do.

I lasted 45 minutes. I wasn’t the first person out of the tournament (which was my fear) and I wasn’t the first person out at my table (which was my second fear) so hopefully next time I can hang in there a little longer.

I know next time it will be easier, I just have to find a bigger table.

Movie Reviews on the Run, Part 2

I haven’t been too busy watching movies lately, with vacation, work, my college football dynasty on the PS2 and Rockstar: INXS. Here are the ones I have seen:

Bridget Jones's Diary – Watch, surprisingly funny.
Kissing Jessica Stein – Watch, also surprisingly funny
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze – No. Maybe if it's ever on TV.
Seeing Other People – Nope
Lucky 13 – Nope
Beautiful Mind – Watch. First half very slow, the second half is much better
Manchurian Candidate – Watch. A mild nod.
Motorcycle Diaries – No
Monster – Watch
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde – A mild no. Stick with the first one.

Just say no to Crack

Ok I have to admit that is one was inspired by Trent’s blog about belly overhang/exposure.

School here started last week, and with the warm weather you have young college co-eds walking around campus in many of the newest fashions and styles, but I have seen a very disturbing trend lately and it really isn’t one I have been looking for.

It is hard to imagine, but if you work or have been around a college campus over the past few years it was common place to see female students with their thong underwear exposed as they wore short low rider jeans and short cropped shirts. It was actually so common that no one really flinched when they did see it. And like Trent said in his blog, what would make you want to walk out of the house with your underwear exposed, and think no one will notice?

Well it seems like that trend is over but the low rider jeans still are around, but now the thongs are gone and it is just butt crack that is now exposed. I have no idea where the underwear went, but walking from my office to my car the other day you would have thought we had a plummer convention on our campus. Girls sitting and eating lunch on the mall and on the benches, it was a crack epidemic out there.

Come on ladies, I beg you. Crack is never attractive, and you have to know when you put those jeans on that either your crack, or underwear is going to be exposed. Please choose the latter, I have gotten used to living in a society where you see thongs half way up the women’s midsection, but I will never, NEVER get used to having to see crack everywhere.

Cold Pizza

Sometimes I wonder how people, and shows stay on the air.

This week I have started my 7 a.m. workouts again now that the gym is opening early and the ESPN2 show Cold Pizza is on a few of the TV’s.

Now when this show debuted over 2 years ago (if you can believe it has been on the air that long) they had 3 nice looking women hosts and 1 guy thrown in there to add some “legitimacy” to the sports/entertainment programming. The show would touch on some of the relevant topics in sports and also would touch on things like people who collect Air Jordans or the Miami South Beach nightlife after Heat games. I gave the show a chance, I though, here might be an alternative to the Today show or CBS this Morning, but it was clear that after about 3-4 viewings that this was a stinker and that it really doesn’t matter how good looking the hosts are if the content stinks, it stinks.

Well I got the show this morning and I have to say it still stinks and the people on the show are worse than before. They have gotten rid of the 3 women hosts; added Dana Jacobson (from ESPN SportsCenter) kept the one guy, Jay Crawford, and added for some strange reason Woody Paige and Skip Bayless. Now if it was a show with Jay and Dana it would just be called SportsCenter sitting on couches, but they have theses idiots (and I am putting it lightly) Woody and Skip doing this stupid arguing and sniping First and Ten segment where not one intelligent thought is uttered. It made me more stupid watching it. It is truly too painful to watch.

So I guess my question is, how does this crap stay on the air? I mean it is a cable show so you know right of the bat that the rating is low, then you are competing in one of the toughest timeslots in all of TV (7 a.m.-10 a.m., and you aren’t starting the show until 8 a.m.) I mean if the Today loses half a rating point someone is fired yet this piece of dog poo is still on the air.

And how do Woody Paige and Skip Bayless keep popping up on TV? They are morons, plain and simple. They were writers that made the jump to TV, but how? Who looked at these guys and said, “I see them being great TV stars.” Who? I mean really, can you see two ESPN executives sitting around patting each other on the back for making the hire of Woody Paige? “Woo hoo, what a coo, I am glad we grabbed him up before CNN did.”

I guess I just can take comfort in the fact that if these are idiots can make a lot of money being complete morons, then someone like myself with just a tad bit of intelligence will find the company out there that will spend a lot of money to hire me.

Sign Him

Usually I have a pretty solid view when it comes to professional football players “holding out” for more money. 99.9% of the time I side with management. You signed the player to a contract, the player should honor that contract, no gray area, it is black and white.

In the case of Hines Ward (WR for the Pittsburgh Steelers) I have to side with the player in this dispute. Hines Ward has been a 4 time Pro Bowler and is paid a base salary of $1.25 million. I know this sounds like a lot of money still, but he is one of the lowest paid WR and is nowhere near being paid his value. Hines asked to renegotiate his contract with the Steelers last summer. The Steelers said they do not renegotiate contracts with players until they are in their final contract year, but they would renegotiate with Hines and make him their “priority” in the off-season.

So Hines played the year, and when the season was over he thought he would be a “priority.” So then February, March, April, May, June and July all came and went and other players signed and Ward, who was their “priority” was left without any negotiations.

Now right before training camp the Steelers and Ward started talking and there is a rumor out there that the Steelers had and offer out there that would make Hines the highest paid Steeler ever, which is like telling a homeless person that they are living in the nicest box on the block.

The Steelers are notorious for letting players go at the right time in their careers and casting players away because they are asking for too much money, but in this case they need to swallow some of their fiscal pride and sign Ward to a deal that will keep him a Steeler for life. Ward is a fan favorite, a positive influence in the community, and has been the example all players should follow on how to play the game.

Pittsburgh, sign Hines. Don’t you remember Rod Woodson?

A line has been crossed

I think we have now reached the point where we have too many peripherals for the ipod.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Audi-oh, Lord helps us all.

http://www.audi-oh.com/Store/default.asp

Movie Reviews on the Run

Ok, so the blog as slowed WAY DOWN. I think it is because I am doing these little projects on this site called www.sportslogos.net. It is called the Logolympiad, and yes it sounds dorky, but it is a chance to get my brain exercise in doing some design work not Marietta College related. So anyway, I will post some of the designs here hopefully soon, but in the meantime I know I am way behind on Movie Reviews so I will just list a bunch of movies and give you short critiques of each (cause there are way too many to go in-depth about.)

• The Incredibles (2004) - Watch
• Envy (2004)-Bad. Don't watch
• Super Size Me (2003) - Very good. Watch
• Man on Fire (2004) - Surprisingly good. Watch
• Badder Santa: The Unrated Version (2003) - Watch
• Hidalgo [WS] (2004) - Watch
• Mean Girls [WS] (2004) - Watch
• Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) - Only watch if you have seen Vol. 1, if you haven’t seen the first don’t watch either one of these.
• Open Water (2003) – Slightly give the watch nod. Thought it would be better.
• Secret Window [WS] (2004) - Watch
• Ray [WS] (2004) - Watch
• Troy [WS] (2004) -Watch
• Stepford Wives [WS] (2004) - Don't Watch
• Finding Neverland [WS] (2004) - Watch!
• Terminal [WS] (2004) - Watch
• Mr. 3000 [WS] (2004) -Watch
• Friday Night Lights [WS] (2004) - Don't Watch
• Hulk [WS] (2003) - Don't Watch
• Jersey Girl (2004) – Watch, not bad, thought it would be worse
• King Arthur [WS] (2004) - Eh
• Hellboy (2004) -Eh
• Saved! [WS] (2003) - Watch