How About Some Respect?

No one is giving any respect to the Super Bowl XLII Champions.

The Patriots lost the Super Bowl, the Giants didn't win it. ...

The Giants had one good month last year and got hot at the right time...

The Giants lost Jeremy Shockey (the malcontent to the Saints), Michael Strahan (to retirement), Osi Umeniyora (to injury) and because of that they have no chance to even make the playoffs this year. ...

The Cowboys are God's greatest gift to football. ...

Even the Eagles will be better than the Giants this year. ...

The new look, Jim Zorn Redskins are going to give the Giants fits tonight. ...

That's what I'm hearing and it's ridiculous that no one respects the Super Bowl champs. I don't understand it one bit.

Sure the loss of Osi is huge, but it's not the end of the world. The offense is back and better than ever. And I think that the team stands a good chance to go 11-5 this year.

Whenever this team is disrespected they outperform. It sure looks like they are getting disrespected this year and for that reason I think we're headed toward another great year. I'm not talking about repeating as champions, but I really believe that they will at least make the playoffs.

Go Giants!!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife who turns 30 today. I love you babe!

Entertain Me...

We've got a little different Entertain Me this time around.

Instead of just being entertained this past week by movies, TV and games reviews, I was entertained by some live, action entertainment.

Wicked - For the wife's 30th Birthday - happy birthday baby - we went into NYC to see the much heralded and ballyhooed Wicked on Broadway.

Overall, I thought it was great.

It was slow in parts and I think they tried to tie it too much to where the scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion came from, but I liked it a lot.

The wife thought I was falling asleep in parts, but I was definitely not.

It kept me entertained throughout and I would recommend it to anyone.

Tropic Thunder - I finally got around to seeing Tropic Thunder and in typical paperboy fashion, I was underwhelmed by it.

I thought it was funny, don't get me wrong, but I didn't think it was that funny.

I would rent it, but not spend money to see it in the movie theater. Few movies these days are movie theater worthy anyway.

Mercenaries 2 - Speaking of being underwhelmed...

I loved the first Mercenaries game on the original XBox when it came out 4 or so years ago, so I was really looking forward to Mercs 2.

Well, two days after I bought it, I already put it up for sale on eBay.

The game overall is okay, but the enemies are so dumb that it makes the game so boring to play. I've played it for a couple hours and don't feel like wasting my time any further.

You Can't Handle the Truth

Now that McCain has announced Sarah Palin, as his surprise pick for Vice President, I thought it was appropriate to highlight Colonel Jessup's quote from A Few Good Men:

"There is nothing on this earth sexier, believe me, gentlemen, than a woman you have to salute in the morning. Promote 'em all, I say, 'cause this is true: if you haven't gotten a blowjob from a superior officer, well, you're just letting the best in life pass you by. 'Course, my problem is, I'm a colonel, so I guess I'll just have to keep taking cold showers until one of you gals is elected president. "

And the best random thought

And the best random thought of all...

Barrack Obama just surprised the Democratic National Convention crowd and showed up after Joe Biden's speech....

He also surprised Jill Biden - who was standing next to her husband on stage - by kissing her squarely on the lips.

I think it was initially intended as a cheek kiss, but went in the direction of you go one way and the other person mistakingly goes the same way and you end up kissing them on the lips ... instead of the whole Al-Tipper Gore disgusting lip lock featured in the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

Funny nonetheless. ...

Random Thoughts ...

I haven't been very dedicated at blogging lately, so here are some random thoughts...

I'm listening to Joe Biden accept the Democratic nomination for Vice President and he just said the funniest thing. To paraphase: He said that George W. Bush has left our country in disarray and that's the same thing that George...John McCain will provide us with if he is elected President. He said it was a Freudian slip and it's pretty clear that it wasn't planned because of the way that he delivered the line. Very funny. ...

I have 3 fantasy teams this year and out of all of my teams, my best team by far was the one that was drafted by the computerized autopick. I should probably stop reading 2 fantasy football magazine each offseason. ...

The Yankees are dead. I haven't blogged about them much this year (except when I attended 3 Yankees games this year). Most of the reason for this is that I've been so frustrated with the team this season. Between the slew of injuries (Wang, Chamberlain, Hughes, Kennedy, Posada, etc.) and lack of hitting in clutch situations from the Yankees, they haven't given me much to cheer about. ... Thank God it's the start of football season next week. ...

Happy 30th Birthday to my lovely wife on Sept. 2nd. We are going into NYC on Saturday for a nice dinner and to see Wicked on Broadway. Should be fun! ...

Happy Bday to both Eddie and BBR as well ... Good luck in Vegas guys! ...

I'm in friggin Scranton again for 4 more public open houses. The 3rd open house was conducted tonight and so far this week there's only been 77 attendees combined. Boy, that sucks. ...

I really want to see Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express, but haven't gotten around to it. I'll probably end up waiting until the DVDs come out. ...

I'm being very democratic/patriotic tonight and after Biden's speech is over I plan on watching Beavis and Butthead Do America. ...

And finally...when someone (like your boss) tells you that they need something ASAP, why don't they just say that they need it NOW?

I'm Tired Of the Olympics

I usually love it, but after 12 days of it, I'm tired of the Olympics ...

I'm tired of 14-year-old Chinese gymnasts winning medals when they weren't nearly -- old enough or --as good as the other gymnasts.

I'm tired of Bob Costas' expensive toupee. ...

I'm tired of stories of reporters eating BBQ'd scorpions from Chinese food markets.

I'm tired of Michael Phelps. He won 8 medals with a superman swim suit and a deeper, hi-tech pool. I get it. He's going to make millions and get tons of ass. Maybe he can take some of that money and fix his damn lisp...

I never thought I'd say it... but I'm tired of Kerri Walsh's ass. ...