New Year New Ish

New Year…New Ish

Im back and reloaded, I feel re-invigorated and most importantly rehabilitated……That’s right, im back like spine’s and car seats. Plenty to be thankful this year; good health, my homie had a gorgeous baby girl …all good things and now my sword is sharp as ‘uck so get ready for the bumpy ride…it’s gonna be fun.

First things first…….on the tv front…..Real World-Road Rules Challenge 3 is coming back. Now everybody who knows me knows im a huge fan of the whole RW-RR series. In fact me and my old roommate used to have RR-RW challenge parties and invite girls over to watch……ohhh the good old days. Anyways I was talking to my brother and I was thinking when will I be to old to watch these type of shows. Im 26 now but in 4 short years I will be 30 and looking at 18yrs old bungee jumping into pools wearing little bikinis…..Am I wrong for that. By the way for all the Coral fans she will be back and those golden globes will be bungee jumping into pools wearing little bikinis…… I love it.

Secondly the greatest show ever…..that right I said it….The Wire will return this weekend. U ask what makes it the gr8est ever and I ay…..drama, action, gr8 acting, real shit, compelling actors and not the Hollywood polished shit…….This is the best show period coming in close second is OZ, but even OZ cant mess wit the Wire. In fact before I moved in with my Cubby-cakes, she never seen an episode before, never knew about the harsh reality of Bodymore-Muderland or more socially accepted Harm oops I mean Charm City. It’s such a hard city like everybody there is very rugged and hard and not like DC where the crime rates are similar but dc is very polished almost a smoothness to the madness. I grew up about 20 mins away from bmore and spent many night there…….just a real rugged place. Anyways she was hooked after watching this scene :

Simply the best intro to a show ……ever!!! Look at the Sales Associate Face….This season of the Wire is even more special to me, not only is it the last but a good friend of mine is actually on the show this year…..he’s an extra cop but he has some speakin lines. I will be lookin out for the Trunny, Just updated he will be on the 4th episode.

Now speaking of B’more they finally fired Brain Billick of the Ravens. Now most of my clique didn’t really grow up as ravens fans since they were born in 1997. But when they won the chip in 2000 we collectively grew to mess with them. Once again one player transcended and became the pillar/rock of the city……..Ray-Ray Lewis was that man. His passion and energy is second to none. But to be totally honest the Raves are in transition. There vaunted defense gives up way to many big plays and to be honest has gotten old and predictable. The offense is down-right filthy and nasty. No playmakers, the QB situation is garbage……they suck. I’ve been doing some due diligence to figure out how to get this once mighty franchise back to respectability. First thing is to let the best commodity go, trade All-Pro and best safety to NE for there 1^st and 3^rd (1^st=7^th overall). Now I know all the pundits and raven fans in denial will say that crazy why trade ur best player. Easy, you won 4 games with him and lets be real maybe 6 games next year without changes. NE has not been shy about his love for Ed Reed and to be honest NE will be a gr8 fit for Ed Reed. The whole thing of blowing a team up is to build through the draft…need examples…the Indy colts starter consist of 95% of the players they drafted. That’s right the world champs and one of the one of the most winnings teams of the decade. You simply cant win from free-agency…the redskin learned that the hard way the last few years but finally have been building thru the draft and being a little more fiscally responsible. Last example; when Jimmy Johnson took over the 1-15 cowboys he traded his number one commodity, Hershel Walker for 7 draft picks from the Minnesota Vikings. By the way some of those draft picks turned out to be Emmit and Darren Woodson. Now the move that goin to hurt the most; they should trade Ray Lewis. He is an iconic figure and a sure fire Hall of Famer:

But at 30 plus linebackers don’t really get better .Plus he starting to get nick’d up. I think he can really help teams on the brink that new a strong defensive influence such as: Indy, Arizona, SF and maybe even a Carolina Panthers. All in all trade him for a 3rd round pick. Now were starting to destroy and rebuild. We should have accumulated at least 5 xtra picks to start building up the roster. The O-line is in shambles and u can never have enuff depth, Re-sign T-Suggs, Get rid of Mccalister , Rolle and Heap and decide if Troy Smith is the answer, if not draft a QB and develop him and finally please draft some playmakers…WR and better D-backs . This is not an exact science but the Raves have to stop putting band-aid on the problem and finally go in for that much needed surgery or fall into the trap of being only one player away for 7 years.

On the political side, it was quite refreshing to see Obama win the Iowa Caucus. I found myself asking friends and family can he really win….like really win. My friend sent me and interesting clip

Wow , that some powerful shit, how can u sing laws and bills in effect without congress, what happened to check in balance. The funny thing is this is going down and cant none of is stop it like it or leave it….we the American public have sold our soul. Everything is out sourced…and I mean everything. I called Microsoft for some tech support and the techie was located in India, now u can’t hate on the techie but u can hate and if necessary boycott Microsoft products……. My theory has always been built around the the saying ‘Power to the People”. Let hypothetically say just for 3 days, Americans limit or cut back, hell even carpool or use public mass and totally not even go to the gas station unless deemed 100% necessary. Do you really think Exxon (who made a 8billion dollar profit) will feel that.. Think about that for a minute… 2 fronts, just 3 days of not getting gas unless 100% necessary will kill there bottom line and think about makin a 9 billion dollar profit, no business makes that much profit….that damn robbery. But the major corp don’t have to worry Americans have become so weak and dependent on them instead of each other. I came across that best describes this problem:

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will see peace"
~Jimi Hendrix~

Deep shit ……real deep

Random Jungle Juice:

• Wow Mtv is killin them this Month, Jan. 28th Making the Band 4…..Diddy putting Danity Kane, The Band and Donnie(Really) in one house…..WOW
• I hate all Boston sport fans and Giants Fans
• Tmz and the King of Queens hour has replaced Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy for the after work Tv selection.
• If I was Hed Coach (peep the spelling.lol) and just won the Superbowl uck’ Gatorade I want a Mcdonald Sweet Tea Shower……
• My most reasonable New Years Resolution…..keep my kitchen as clean as Lance’s mom’.
• Best song of the week I-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t. by The Trill Fam….Peace to Trunny for putting us on.
• I was watching a well-done document on the Late Great James Brown and came across thie clip,…..might be the funniest thing ever :
• Lastly Im goin to switch up my flow a lil, Im going to a full mustache ‘uck the goat-tee. It will be premiering Next Week (1/7/07)

That it for this session, remember to watch The Wire and sit-back and realize your watching the greatest show ever…….

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JEFF VAN GUNDY LIKE SLOW WEEK 11-17-07

Ok, fireplace is blazing… right?! Check, Patron is flowin?! Yesss sirr!!!, What a life. That basically described my weekend. Everything was just a good old solid, except Saturdays sports was kind of lame. Very happy MD beat BC, I just really can’t stand Boston fans. There everywhere when there winning but no one remembers the Redsoxxx when they sucked before getting Manny, Big Papi and Pedro, they don’t remember the C’s wit the great Dino Radja(my 3^rd fave celtic ever and fave European player), but winning cures all. Speakin of Boston I saw the Departed for the first tyme since opening week at the movies. Great damn movie, I posed the question to the Get Right Clique, where would u rate it against other gangster movies. Some did didn’t even put it in the top ten, I cant see that, when match-up the master Scorsese, the diabolic one Jack, then 3 of the best young actors, Wahlberg ,Leo and Damon, u get a certified banger. E’nuff about Southie,

The first weeks of the L are in the bag and what have we learned. We learned KG (as mentioned in my earlier blog) is playin like he on a mission. We learned that Wiz our in serious trouble. I was scanning Gilly blog: http://my.nba.com/forum.jspa?forumID=400032200 and it doesn’t look good, he been playin major minutes and his knee has already been drained. The scary part about the Wiz is they have been playin bad, the big # have pout up good numbers and Brendan Haywood has been havin a career year and there still 0-5. they got make move, me personally I would love to trade Brendan for Brad Miller, that will give Brendan a fresh start and he will be a fine player; it gives the Wiz the gr8 passing big man that it a must for the Princeton Offense. Can one imagine the wings spread and Gilly back door his man and Miller hittin him from the high-post wit a perfect bounce pass. Sitting in front of my fire I was sitting Indian style and thinking about diff offense and the beauty of basketball when I was inttrupeted but Tmz.com (tv show) they had a clip about The Doggfather, has to be one of the funniest things I ever saw. Im sorry I couldn’t embed but here the link please watch and laff: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid353549946/bctid1293608637

Anyways back to the beauty of basketball, mainly the Princeton offense, I found this old clip by the father of the Princeton Offense :

Very deep stuff he had some major upset and major scares in the nc2a tourney. Watch and learn suckas. Speakin of Nc2a my boy OJ had a killer game albeit in a loss to Mercer… which got me to thinking about upsets already, Wat the deal wit Kentucky losing to Gardner Web. The pundits will say it early and this and that but they just fired a gr8 coach in Tubby Smith for this type of loss. One can only imagine wat they would have done to him. But in lighter news I was peepin the ESPN family of networks schedule, one word insane: http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnTopics?topic=Basketball&watch=CollegeBasketball

U can really o-d on this stuff. In a sidenote, I was watchin the Notre Dame game and was really in shock. It one thing to have some injuries and lose games, that happens in football, but to see the team lose to service academy’s is just unacceptable. Can u imagine the gap in athletic budgets between ND and Air-force, it has to be a diff. of about 100 mill. I found this clip by Dr. Boyce Watkins :

Peep his website: http://www.boycewatkins.com/

It’s an interesting concept/idea, I’m kind of torn to be honest, I’m a diehard Notre Dame, been one since my dad let me stay up late for the 1989 Natl. Championship game and I saw Rocket Ismail took the kick-off back and I fell in love wit those Golden Helmets. Unfortunately cant let me love be blinded by the god (touchdown jesus) awful teams. Was it blatant racism exercised at the expense of Ty Willingham, I think that pretty obvious now. Every coach should have 4 yrs min. ot prove that they can or cannot handle the job, firing him 3 yrs into his contract wit a winning record is unheard of. Now the kicker is wat if all elite Black athletes boycotted Notre Dame………..Imagine that. That would rock the sporting world on fire…….the power would inevitably return to the people oops I mean players. Stay Tuned.

Tuesday Night Special

Man the traffic coming home has been great, I’ve even managed to get a round of bowling in. Now I can admit I’m not a the best bowler, hell I have no strategy or form, in fact I just try to throw that son of a gun down the lane as hard as I can which usually end up in the gutter. But for my last frame I was like PT Weber (u know the dood who wears the sunglasses after NFL countdown), 3 str8 strikes……….an amazing feeling, comparable to a weekend marathon of real world/road rules challenge on MTV or and Intervention marathon on A&E. Anyways since it was the Bones-House medical drama on fox night, I was sanctioned to the backroom to watch ‘Cuse and St Joes. It got me thinking about that magical 2003 run, man that was a squad, the Mel-man, Gerry Mac, Colin Firth(the biggest stiff in college-basketball history), Duaney and I forgot the the other starter. I remember watchin PTI wit the big homey Mikey; were very big Melo fans since he represents East b’more not far from us; Tony asks him how ya’ll gonna do in the Nc2a, he says “if we get a 3 seed or better chalk us up for the chip”. Classic Mel man line let hope one of the great incoming freshman can have the same Swag.

A real quick entry from the "U cant blame Davey Stern" office:

I was watching the De'twat and Lakers game last night and they made injured Chauncey Billups watch the game in the locker room because he did not have on a Blazer on. Now u can look at it from multiple angles; Angle 1-who cares about a 10 mill dollar over paid point guard who blatantly dissed the rules, Angle 2- nobody could lend homey a blazer and Angle 3-he knew the dress code an s still said uck it, no matter how u call it on or off the court u better have ur uniform on.

In closing, real quick I was thinking just how good is J-Kidd, I saw he just dusted the Magic for 11-19-10 are u serious. That 19 boards……6-4’ son. Anyway I had to compare him to Magic just so see how close they are. Very interesting

Magic Johnson 6'9"
G played 906
Asts 10,141
APG 11.2
Stls 1,724
Blks 374
Pts 17,707
PPG 19.5
FG% .520
3PFG% .303
FT% .848
Rebs 6,559

Avg 7.2

Jason Kidd 6'4"
G played 954
FG% .40.2
3PFG% .33.3
FT% .77.9
Rebs 6374
RPG 6.7
Asts 8771
APG 9.2
Stls 1,915
Blks 291
Pts 13813
PPG 14.5

Kidd the sickest shit out but Magic was and is still in another level.. I leave u wit some Kidd Nuggets, Get Some!!!

Peace