I feel like I am taking crazy pills....

When I was a young and I followed the Giants, it almost seemed pointless because the owner at the time either didn't have the money to field a good team, or simply didn't want to spend it. For years I rooted for teams that had mediocre pitching, poor hitting, and lousy fielding. It didn't matter to me though, I was a fan and I rooted for them anyway. But I always wished the Giants had an owner who would spend some money and bring me a winner...




Be careful of what you wish for.




A couple weeks ago the Giants signed Ryan Klesko, a first baseman with a bad shoulder who missed 150 games last year, for one year at an undisclosed amount of money (rumors state its at around 8 million dollars) He has never hit well at SBC park, but then again no left hander has for the exception of Barry Bonds.






About a month ago, without any other teams bidding on him, the Giants signed Barry Bonds for one year at 16 million dollars. Barry is 43 years old, can't run, never could throw, and his picture can be found in the dictionary under the heading "clubhouse cancer". But he will be the starting left fielder because he is going to break the home run record that noone will recognize because he was on steroids for the last 7 or 8 years, filling the park everyday in the process. I wonder if they could have signed a closer for 16 million.






And today the Giants signed Barry Zito to the 6th highest contract in professional sports history, 7 years at 126 million dollars, with an option for an 8th year which would make it 144 million. At this price you would think he was a 25 game winner with one or more no hitters to his credit. Zito was 16 - 10 last year with a 3.83 ERA, and that was with the A's who have a good closer, the Giants have Armando Benitez.




So if you do the math, it comes out like this:








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I will be a very old man before the Giants win the World Series...


I don't know what is worse, having an owner who won't put the money out there to get a winning team, or one who spends it like a drunken sailor on a whore binge. It blows my mind that men with that much money would spend it so foolishly. How did they get rich in the first place if they didn't know how to handle thier own finances? Would it be too much to ask if the Giants owners were very wealthy and Jewish?

Up side the head

I am currently on this mission to get into the best shape of my life in preparation for the Boston Marathon in April. (interesting to see how long this lasts) So a day after my last boxing workout, I did a 7 mile run in the morning, then in the evening I went back into "Undisputed" to try out one of thier kickboxing classes. Not Cardio Kickboxing, but an actual Kickboxing workout. I learned that when you kick the heavybag you lean to one side which puts strain on the standing leg, and you lift your other leg up using your abs, and then you kick the bag which puts strain on the kicking leg. Our instructor was a nice enough guy, his name is Eddie and one of his eyes is permanently closed due to a prior fight we are left to assume. He was very informative and helpful. He saw that my kicks on the heavybag were a bit low so he came over and explained to me that "kicking him in the ass isn't very effective, try aiming higher and kick your opponent up side the head." It was an hour long and when it was over, I needed a minute on the floor just to regroup.

When I got up this morning my legs felt OK but my abs are sore as all hell. I need to get back to work, all this excerise is going to be the death of me.

Idle hands....

My company made us take two weeks off this year during the holidays. On the surface this sounds like a godsend, and in some ways it is but when you consider that we have to use our vacation time in order to get paid, and its the coldest time of the year to be off work, it's not all that great either. I plan on taking full advantage of it though. I'll run a little bit, do some errands like get tires for the Jeep and straighten up the pad. But, for the most part I plan on being a couch potato. In most cases, I wont do shit all day, and I wont start doing that until noon....

Crazy

Next time you are at the online dictionary and look up the word "crazy", this is what you might find:

cra·zy /ˈkreɪzi/ –adjective
1.
mentally deranged; demented; insane; Natasha Lyonne

Some of you may remember Natasha from the American Pie movies, but the NYPD remembers her for an argument she was involved in between her and her roommate back in 2004. It seems that at one point in the conversation, Natasha picked up her roommates dog and said "I am going to sexually molest your dog!"

Now I am sure we all have "unconventional" thoughts in our heads from time to time, and in the heat of an argument we have all thought of inflamatory things we would want to say. But to actually come right out and say them? Now that's just crazy....

What happens in Vegas....

Congratulations to all the new Marathoners!!!

With the Autumn wind comes a cruel fashion dilemma

Is it possible to revolt more people with one fashion choice than the split/dolphin shorts? The answer quite clearly is yes... What, did they run out of black at the superhero outfitters??? Come on!!!