Garza for Young

Yesterday the Twins and Rays (lame name) made a blockbuster trade. Tampa receives Garza and others for Delmon Young and others. You rarely see trades of young players anymore but I really think this benefits both teams. Garza will be a solid #3 starter for the Rays in a division where you need at least 3 good starters (ask Toronto). Young will get out of Tampa Bay and play in Minnesota (if they trade Santana and Nathan, they might be worse than Tampa Bay). Young will get a fresh start. Short term it helps Tampa more because of their need for pitching. Long term it will help Minnesota (until Youg can become a free agent).

Tobin

GPS navigation

I usually spend my mornings watching ESPN news and with the holiday season approaching, you see ads for a whole bunch of gizmos and devices. But there is one devise you would not catch me with: a GPS navigational devise. What happened in the good old days when men pulled out their trusty map and navigated to there location. I forsee in the future a bunch of morons that will not be able to give diections. What would Christopher Columbus, Lewis and Clark and all of the other great explorors say. What makes it worse is having a commerical of some single dude telling his GPS unit that he loves it while having to listen to the nausiating song "Turn Around". Well that is all I have to say, Man Up and throw away those devises.

Tobin

Radiohead--In Rainbows

Radiohead graciously release a new album on line that allowed fans to pay whatever they want for the album. I am a huge fan but I did not pay a thing but I can give you a review on it. Most critics have given it rave reviews some even saying that it is the album of the year. Knowing how much my good friend Jeremy hates Radiohead (Thom yorne still sounds like a dying cow), it will come to shock to him that I think it is not their best album. As an album as a whole I would rank it behind OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Thief. But their are individual songs that highlight the album. The best song on the album hands down is track 10-videotape. It has a haunting melody and it just sticks in my head. Other good songs include track 1-15 steps and track 2-Bodysnatchers. The best part about the album was they used more guitars and it wasn't has experimental. The worst part was that a lot of the middle songs sounded the same. Until next time. Down load the album for free, you won't get in trouble for it.

Tobin

Horrible sports week

I woke up this moring and put it on the typical ESPN news (because Sportscenter is blah) and realized I could care less. There is a few things wrong with sports now to make me feel this way.
1. It always sucks when Ohio St loses. I didn't expect them to do this well at the beginning of the season and I had a feeling a couple of weeks ago that they would either lose the Wisconsin or Illinois game. But it still does not make me happy.
2. On the subject of Ohio St. This is the weekend that all Buckeye fans look forward to; the huge Ohio St-Michigan game. It is usually a time I pull out the chicken wings and enjoy the game. But not this year, instead I have to go to a wedding of someone I have meet a few times. Are these people not Americans? It is a crime against society.
3. The Bengals are terrible. They played beter when someone was in troble with the law. I could care less about the NFL unless the Bengals are doing well.
4. OJ on TV again...enough said.
5. NBA--blah, blah, blah, the strat game is funner than watching it.
6. College Basketball--usually I love college basketball but it is too early to start thinking about it until the Buckeye football season is over.

The only thing I look forward to is Gardner-Webb vs. Connecticut but I have to work. Thank goodness for strat baseball. I am currently replaying the 1901 season which has fun and interesting.

Best baseball name: Boileryard Clark or Noodles Hahn
Later
Tobin

BBL--The Haiku

Buckeye Baseball League
Strat-o-matic at its best
Someone beat the Czar

(except the hated White Sox)
This could be the first Haiku dedicated to a Strat-o-Matic League.

Later
Tobin

C.C. Sabathia is my hero

Since Sabathia is on the legendary BBL Tigers team, he has quickly became one of my favorite players to own. He is the most "rounded" player to play for my team since Bob Hamelin. For winning the Cy Young Award, the BBL Tigers reward him for a gift certificate to Goldon Coral, Ryan's or any Las Vegas buffet of his choice. On a serious note, this is the first season owning him that he has stayed healthy. He usually has to make his yearly trip to the DL. BUt I watched a few games (not including the post season) and he looked really good this year. Now hopefully Brandon Webb can repeat his reward and the BBL Tigers will proudly own 2 Cy Young winners.

And the Bulldogs are Running

Congrats to Gardner-Webb for whooping up on Kentucky. I told my wife this morning during my morning ESPN news ritual and she has been flying high all morning (she is a GWU alum). She pulled out all of her GWU shirts, sweatshirt and even her blanket. I have notihing against Kentucky except for I always seem to pick them for the Final Four and they always go horrible in the tournament. I found Kentucky fans more tolerable than Duke fans. But that is not what is important, this small podenk school put a serios beating on big-time Kentucky. I guess my wife will drag me to a few Gardner-Webb games is winter.

High School Musical

My wife loves Disney Channel. I have probably seen every episode of Hannah Montana and Zach & Cody. For the most part it is tolerable but there is one thing I cannot stand: High School Musical. I sat down and watched the first High School Musical with my wife. It was OK but it is definatly not my thing. Then Disney Channel played it non stop and had 50 different versions of it. It was more than one can bear. When I heard they were working on a second movie, I was like great I am going to have to listen through countless months of hype for this movie. So I watched the second movie, it was one of those times I wish I could have back. It was so bad that my wife couldn't stand it. Let me list the countless reason why this movie is horrible.
1. "I can't dance"--That was the title for one of the songs. Well maybe they should have changed it to "I can't act", "I can't write an original skit" or "I can't understand why so many people love this movie".
2. Too much high school spirit---Every other line said, "we can do it were Wildcats", "What team, Wildcats", "come on man, we're Wildcats." or "we stick together because we're Wildcats". I will never root for anyteam called the Wildcats ever again.
3. Zac Efron--He can't act but it was funny watching him doing a solo. It was probably the best Michale Jackson video impersonation ever.
4. Sharpay and her brother--These students are filthy rich. But why are they at a public high school.
5. The story--It was very cliche. Most popular guy gets job, brings friends with them (because they are Wildcats and they stick together), guy gets a huge ego, stops hanging around them, comes to his senses, lives happily ever after.

After watching the movie and seeing how bad it was made me thing they it was finally going to die. But no, it is more popular than ever and even more annoying. If a commerical for it comes on, I will flip the channel. You know it is bad when they come out with High School Musical action figures. Well our only hope is that it will die soon like every fad.

America's New Favorite Pasttime

This week starts the week for America's new favorite pasttime. It will be the beginning of mudslinging season. It happens every four years when "distinguised" partys contest to see who can dig up the most dirt and throw it at the other party. I am not looking forward to this presidential election. It is going to put the others to shame. I can also tell now that I am not going to like any of the canidates. I chose not to vote in the last presidential election. I was exercising my right not to vote. Some people consider it unpatriotic but if you don't like support either candidate why would I choose to vote for one (I don't buy into the choosing the lesser of 2 evils arguement either). Hilary Clinton will probably win and that is not a good thing. Most politicians are dillusional and out of touch with reality. So come election time next year...write in Eric Tobin for president!!

Kobe Bryant-a haiku

You want me to pass the ball

Pass, What is a pass?

Never puts up a bad shot.

Does not like to share.