A Bunch of Stuff

Yes, to the 8 people who read this blog, I am alive.
The worst part of the hurricane passed to the east of where I live. We got half the rain and half of the wind gusts that were forecasted for my neighborhood.
A tornado warning at about 9pm shook me up a little, though, but basically I’ve had regular thunderstorms that were much worse for me.
But I don’t want to downplay the severity of something that took lives and something from which people are still recovering in flooded-out areas.
Water always wins.

A 3-game sweep of the Brewers by the Cardinals left St. Louis 7.5 games back in the NL Central. But with just about 30 games to go it would take a giant collapse for that gap to shrink enough. Albert Pujols slugged 2 hr’s and went 4-4 with 5 rbi’s in the final game of the series. He is the NL leader in homeruns with 34 but only has 89 rbi’s himself.
The Brewers Ryan Braun is looking like the MVP in the NL right now hitting .331 with 25 hr’s 89 rbi’s and over 30 stolen bases.

I will say that baseball has been pretty boring this year. I was watching the Yankees and Red Sox off and on between other garbage and it didn’t have the excitement that it usually does. That’s probably because both teams are coasting into the playoffs at this point and whether one team is first or second in the AL East really only determines who they will play in the first round. Both teams should cruise through that round and just meet other again in the championships of the AL. I would think that then there the excitement level would increase.

The Tigers Justin Verlander became the Major’s first 20-game winner. A couple of others still have a shot to do so. Verlander is also second in the league in ERA and leads in strikeouts. He is only .10 of an earned run behind Jered Weaver in ERA. If he should happen to overtake Weaver in that category and maintain his lead in the other two major categories, he will win the pitching triple crown in the AL. That is about the most excitement from an individual player that this season is yielding right now. Statistically this is an awful year.

Bring back roids!

Summer TV shows are almost over now. America’s Got Talent is one that I enjoy. The finals are now all set. This week a couple of my favorites had a great moment on the results show.
Eleven-year old Anna Graceman sung a Motley Crew song, which she killed, and was brought out for results with Landau Eugene Murphy, the W. Virginian car washer who sings like Sinatra.
With just the two of them there, one finalist already revealed, and four left to name with nine remaining contestants, I was shocked to see both of them potentially ready to go home.
Graceman’s name was called as the finalist and Murphy was headed home. When he was called over by Nick Cannon, the host, he was then told that he made it through to the finals after all. It was cruel in a way but the result was great and the embrace of the short young little blond girl with the tall dark-skinned, dreadlocked man was touching. And they both deserved to be in there.

Murphy and Graceman Embrace

I also watch Big Brother. I started watching this show last year and got hooked in to it. I don’t know if they call this a reality show or not, but I guess it’s in that genre. It’s a game show where people get locked into a studio house for a couple of months, compete against each, vote each out and try to win a half a million dollars (if you didn’t already know that.)
I like strategy games and this is why I do like this show. It always helps to have hot girls in there, of course, and there are still three left of the five remaining, so my interest is still fresh. This year has been much more dramatic than last year so it means that the show has casted well and provided enough twists in the game to prime the strategy pump.

True Blood is another that I watch on HBO. There are just two shows left in that season and it’s frustrating that these cable series are so short. They differ from mainstream network shows in that there are half as many. There are half as many mainstream shows during a season as there used to be also. I would think that with the plethora of people who can write material out there that successful TV show franchises could produce more shows for their fans.

I also admit to watching Bachelor Pad on ABC. The producers throw some twisted twists in this strategy game which is essentially a relationship game. It seems as if any time there is a relationship brewing they will throw in some sort of twist that will cause all sorts of chaos between the couples who are pairing up with each other to try to create new pairings. The girls on this show are usually the worst as far as just being loose hussies.

Shows that I am waiting to see in the fall include Survivor, Two and Half Men (with Ashton Kutcher replacing Charlie Sheen) Dexter, X-Factor (with Simon Cowell) and hopefully that is all that will keep my attention. I shouldn’t watch anything at all and just turn off my cable completely to save the money, but I am undisciplined and need a beating.

For some reason I was thinking about how people seem to confess all of their sins on their death beds, try to apologize to everyone, say goodbye to everyone, and tell certain people not in their lives that they love them before drawing their last breaths.
It made me wonder and want to ask if you would write a “goodbye” letter like that knowing that, unless there is some sort of accident, you still have a lot of time left to live.
Do you have things that you absolutely need to tell people before you die? I’m pretty sure that everyone does.
How about making a public proclamation? See, those are the ones about which we might hear and the ones that are so profound and memorable; how someone on their death bed pens a letter of remorse or love and doesn’t care who reads it or hears it.
Would you make such a statement while totally healthy? Would you say the most important things within you that you absolutely have to get off your chest before you pass away?

I’m not sure why I was thinking about that. 

I’ve been here a little less because I’ve been working on finding a second job. There is no way around this situation I am in currently and unless show bookings increase two-fold, it’s the only way to survive right now.
I’m in a testing process for a sports writing position that would provide enough flexibility to deal with show schedules.
Other projects like the Dungeon show and Delaware Sports will continue.

Done.