Friday, April 11, 2008

What Not to Do

Note TO self FROM self:

Never, ever again get so excited because your baseball team gets off to a dynamite start at the beginning of the season. As soon as you start having those crazy hopes and dreams (not to mention writing about those crazy hopes and dreams), everything goes to damn Hell. Your team's hitting and pitching begins to fall apart. Only five players out of the entire roster haven't let you down so far: Nick Johnson, John Lannan, Odalis Perez, Lastings Milledge, and Cristian Guzman.

Lannan and Perez have been solid starting pitchers. When your team's starting pitching allows only the 2 or 3 runs per game that those two have, your team should win. But since everyone on the Nationals apparently forgot how to hit (excluding Johnson, Milledge, and Guzman of course) they haven't been able to break an 8 game losing streak that will probably continue today when John Smoltz tears the Nationals a new one.

Now you look like a stupid asshole for getting all excited before. From now on, you, be reticent of fortunes that any wins the Nationals get will foretell. If they win anymore games this season, as it were...

Friday, April 4, 2008

It's About Damn Time...

...that the baseball season is here again. Thank God because, while I am loving the Washington Capital's season and Alexander Ovechkin's superhuman hockey exploits, there's just nothing like spectating the epic clashes between two teams battling for control of the diamond. The Nationals got off to a good 3 (wins) 0 (losses) start but blew a 5 run lead yesterday to lose 8-7 to the Phillies. Although, even with a 3 (wins) 1 (loss) record they are still at the top of the National League East. It's still only the first week of the baseball season so I am constantly having to check my enthusiasm and high hopes. I'm just gonna have to see how the rest of the season goes but so far the Nationals are having a promising start.

Speaking of starts, Opening Night on Sunday was just amazing. I wasn't able to go the inaugural game at the new Nationals Park but I did watch the entire game on TV. I laughed (with and not at) at George W. Bush's high heat (as Joe Morgan so aptly put it) ceremonial first pitch. Then there was Jon Rauch's passed ball that scored from third and tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the 9th inning which got me steaming mad. And I cheered wildly, hopping around my apartment like a maniacal madman when Ryan Zimmerman hit his walk off home run (bottom of the 9th, 2 out, 1-0 the count) to win the Nationals very first game in their new ballpark.

God I've missed baseball. I just love the tense minutes of each close game as they tick by and thrive on the myriad of possibilities of what each new inning will bring. Baseball is a game where truly anything can happen at anytime (unless you're the Orioles because then you're pretty much guaranteed to lose no matter what).

Nick Johnson picked up right where he left off in September 2006 when he broke his leg and was out for the entire 2007 season. Ryan Zimmerman continues to establish himself as the most potent hitter in the lineup and the face of the franchise, having already hit 2 game winning home runs in just 4 games! Lastings Milledge, whom anyone that reads my blog knows I was rather unsure of, has proven that he can be a dangerous hitter when he's given the chance. Paul Lo Duca is a much better hitting catcher than Brian Schneider could ever be and his bat adds a much needed punch to the lineup. And last, certainly not least, Cristian Guzman is just on freaking fire. It seems like everytime the guy comes up to bat he ends up on base.

I cannot wait to see what the rest of the season brings. The Nationals may not be on top of the NL East for long (in all likelihood they won't) but I am going to enjoy their magnificent start immensely while it lasts. Besides, it's still early enough in the season where I can have the Washington Nationals at the World Series stars swirling in my eyes.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

There is a massive conspiracy theory afoot. A theory even bigger and more widespread than the 9/11 conspiracy all those certifiable nutjobs are banging the drum for. That theory is: Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain.

But think about it. Does that really make sense? Why would she, of all people, murder Cobain? What did she have to gain from that? It's not like she is any more popular than when Cobain was alive (although Nirvana is a million times more famous than they ever would have been were Kurt Cobain not dead). She's still drug addled, mentally troubled Courtney Love. Nothing's changed for her.

So that means that Cobain killed himself, right? I mean if Courtney Love didn't do it then nobody did, right? Right? Wrong. I'll tell you who murdered Kurt Cobain.

Dave Grohl

It makes perfect sense to anyone who can see the evidence that's piled up over the years. Grohl was sick of being in the background of the band, probably the least known and most worthless member. He wanted Cobain's limelight all to himself. After all, who would suspect meek little Dave Grohl when Cobain had more drugs than blood cells in his veins at the time of his death AND was married to clinically insane Courtney Love.

Need more proof?

Barely a year after Kurt Cobain died, Dave Grohl formed the Foo Fighters and released a debut album with his new band. The curious thing is that the Foo Fighters started off (and for the most part still do) sounding EXACTLY like Grohl's former band, Nirvana. Suddenly all those kids sobbing and depressed over the death of Cobain (and Nirvana) could latch onto the Foo Fighters' unoriginal and uninspired sound because it was pretty much the same music. Now Grohl had all the fame and glory he so desperately wanted. And the best part (for him) was that all of the moronic conspiracy theorist fans believed that Courtney Love did it!

Can anyone come up with such a compelling (and entirely believable) motive for Courtney Love to murder her beloved husband? I think not. Why do you think that there has been such animosity between Grohl and Love over the years? Because she knows...she fucking knows. And now you know too.



Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Baggles Top Ten Video Games of Last Generation Consoles

I've been itching to write a top ten list and this is one that is relatively easy.

Some of these games do appear on different consoles but I am putting them under the console that I played them on. I'm too lazy to actually look up every single console the game graced. If I feel so inclined then I will write a short paragraph underneath the game about why I chose that game and what it did for me (and video games in general). Other than that I am just going to list them down the page. So without further ado and in no particular order (create your own), I present Baggles Top Ten Video Games of Last Generation Consoles:

Champions of Norrath
Playstation 2

WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain
Playstation 2

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

Gamecube

Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker

Gamecube

GUN

Gamecube

Soul Caliber 2

Gamecube

Resident Evil 4

Gamecube

Fable: The Lost Chapters

Xbox

Guitar Hero

Playstation 2

God of War

Playstation 2

I purposefully didn't put any PC games into this list because computers aren't limited to different generational consoles. It's a little difficult for me to zero in on what generation of video game consoles a certain PC game was released so I just left them out entirely. Besides, I've never been an overly enthusiastic PC gamer...excluding World of Warcraft and Counterstrike of course. Everyone's enthusiastic about those games.

Anyways, that's my list. It may change in the near future considering how finicky and scattershot my brain is. I'm sure that I've forgotten one or two particular games but this is a pretty definitive list as far as I can tell.