Tuesday, July 12, 2005
International House of Pancakes
I'm pretty sure that the "Favorite Rudy" poll has been up for too long. It has gotten about 60 votes so far, which is probably twice the amount of people that actually read MesteeBlogger. If anybody has a good idea for a future poll, send it to MesteeBlogger@gmail.com.
After work yesterday, I went down to the park with Jimmy, Brendan, and Mike to play some hoops. After shooting around for a while, we decided to get warmed up by playing Knockout, a game that I haven't played since Summer Rec in grade school. It's much more of a workout than I remember, or maybe it just felt like more of a workout because my primary activities last week were eating clam chowder and sleeping. We finally started playing a little two on two and I was draining everything from three point land between games, but only managed to hit a few when it counted. By the last game, when I was paired with Mike, it felt like I had cement in my Nikes -- I could barely grab the rebounds that were coming right to me. When I woke up this morning, it felt like someone had spent the night hitting the bottom of my foot with a baseball bat. I don't know what muscle or tendon it is that runs along the bottom of your foot, but every so often, I manage to really do a number on it.
We watched the Home Run Derby last night, which they decided to re-format into an international competition. What does your home country really have to do with Major League Baseball? I mean, the players are already divided into teams, which are divided into leagues, which are divided into, well, divisions. Why the need to find another way to sort the players? Also, because they needed representatives from eight countries, they really had to stretch for players who were even qualified to be in a Home Run Derby. For example, the derby featured Hee-Sop Choi from Korea, who has hit 13 homeruns so far...hardly qualifying him as a power hitter. Also, they put Pudge Rodriguez in the contest, who only has 7 round-trippers on the season. As they announced the eight international contestants, Brendan suggested that it might be more interesting if they broke up into teams according to their country's old war allies. I couldn't disagree, though there seems to be a shortage of Russian and Italian power hitters, so that would hardly be fair.
Click here, then click on "Jump Clips Online" to watch Danny Way jump the Great Wall of China on a skateboard. It's pretty awesome.
According to this article, Reading Rainbow might get canceled. I was actually more surprised to find out that it hadn't been canceled already. I wonder if they still have that cheesy theme song, or if they've turned it into a hip-hop remix to "change with the times". Oh Lavar Burton, will you ever win?
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After work yesterday, I went down to the park with Jimmy, Brendan, and Mike to play some hoops. After shooting around for a while, we decided to get warmed up by playing Knockout, a game that I haven't played since Summer Rec in grade school. It's much more of a workout than I remember, or maybe it just felt like more of a workout because my primary activities last week were eating clam chowder and sleeping. We finally started playing a little two on two and I was draining everything from three point land between games, but only managed to hit a few when it counted. By the last game, when I was paired with Mike, it felt like I had cement in my Nikes -- I could barely grab the rebounds that were coming right to me. When I woke up this morning, it felt like someone had spent the night hitting the bottom of my foot with a baseball bat. I don't know what muscle or tendon it is that runs along the bottom of your foot, but every so often, I manage to really do a number on it.
We watched the Home Run Derby last night, which they decided to re-format into an international competition. What does your home country really have to do with Major League Baseball? I mean, the players are already divided into teams, which are divided into leagues, which are divided into, well, divisions. Why the need to find another way to sort the players? Also, because they needed representatives from eight countries, they really had to stretch for players who were even qualified to be in a Home Run Derby. For example, the derby featured Hee-Sop Choi from Korea, who has hit 13 homeruns so far...hardly qualifying him as a power hitter. Also, they put Pudge Rodriguez in the contest, who only has 7 round-trippers on the season. As they announced the eight international contestants, Brendan suggested that it might be more interesting if they broke up into teams according to their country's old war allies. I couldn't disagree, though there seems to be a shortage of Russian and Italian power hitters, so that would hardly be fair.
Click here, then click on "Jump Clips Online" to watch Danny Way jump the Great Wall of China on a skateboard. It's pretty awesome.
According to this article, Reading Rainbow might get canceled. I was actually more surprised to find out that it hadn't been canceled already. I wonder if they still have that cheesy theme song, or if they've turned it into a hip-hop remix to "change with the times". Oh Lavar Burton, will you ever win?
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