More Football News

This week is just full of news from around the NFL, this new piece may actually be the saddest news the NFL has heard in quite some time. John Madden, NFL announcer for the past 3 decades has retired from the booth.

Football news!

Ahhh! That was a mini orgasmatron my friends, the big news in the world today, besides pirates messing everyones shit up in somalia, is the release of the NFL's 2009 Regular season schedule. And no offense to all the other teams out there but I don't really give a crap about you, just the Bears. As far as I'm concerned thats all that really matters, for the other games I will see whats on each week and watch what catches my interest, ahh but who the Bears play each week, well thats important to me. And let us think about this nugget, the Bears have the easiest schedule of all NFL teams, the road to the playoffs is becoming a heckuva lot easier for da bears the past few weeks. Another bonus for me? at this time 5 prime time games and each game prior to week4 against the Lions doesn't start until 4:20 or later, that has the potential for a lot of Bears games to view. The Bears are slated to have 3 sunday night games, and One Monday and Thursday night game. The sunday nighters are against the rival Packers, a rematch of one of last years most exciting games against the Falcons, and a rematch of anopther exciting game agaisnt the Eagles (3rd year in a row they've played each other). Of course the match I am most anticipating/Dreading is the Steeler @ Bears game in week 2. I will be quite alone that week as the whole of SRU will be against me. But anyways football fans rejoice the 2009 season approches quickly

Lets Play Ball!

America's Pass-Time is offically back everyone, on April 6th the 2009 Major League Baseball season kicked off. And In case anyone was wondering, I am a Cubs fan, now I am not a huge baseball fan, and Barely know the players on the cubs roster, and don't even ask me about previous Cubs players cause knowledge of them is limited at best. But I am a fan of the MLB's most loveable losers. But this post really isn't about them, all though I will probably talk about their futility sooner or later in a post. No this post is about how baseball is actually a very exciting game, and it's easy to see why it recieved the moniker of America's pass-time. Now for anyone that has watched Baseball on TV we probably both realize, it maybe the most boring sprots event to be put on tv, and if not the most boring deffinatly top 3 (I'm looking at you Golf and NASCAR) but thats ok because Baseball has the unique ability of being a sport better viewed live then on TV. I've been to the big 4 sports events in person (Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey) and Baseball has by far been the most enjoyable live. To starty off anywhere you sit in a baseball stadium is a good seat and you can really tell whats going on (except if it's a pitch or strike but your going to think its one or the other depending whoes batting anyways) but other than that the whole field is open to view, and you can tell what is happening. But in the other sports, especially basketball and Football, depending on where your seats are you can never really tell how great a play was, and in basketball anywhere besides mid court you can never teall whats going on. But in baseball you always know whats happening, also in baseball there is just something about the atmosphere, the ball park is a place to just go and relax. On TV the slow pace of the game is painful, when you are at the park, the laziness of the game works perfectly, just sit back and relaz and enjoy the game. Then of course there's the interaction in baseball, in all the other sports there is very little chance there is any fan involvment, sure maybe a basketball player dives into the crowd, but those seats are so expensive somebody rich or famous is alread there, in hockey the plexiglass seperates the fans, in football they even put up nets to make sure fans don't get kicked balls. But in baseball, home runs are common place and foul balls are routinly thrown to fans. And of course lets not forget even more importantly how fans affect the game, I'm looking at you Steve Bartman and Eric Detweiler. But anyways, Baseball is an American Tradition and I can see why, I can't wait to go see a few ball games this summer.

Bears and a Good QB?

Ah, so many new posts so soon! I can't believe I didn't comment on this when it happened, but after arguably 60 years with out a decent QB the Bears have a star. Jay Cutler the cannon armed QB was traded to the Bears from Denver. Denver recieved 2 first rounders (2009 and 2010) a third rounder (2009) and Former Bears starter Kyle Orton. The Bears Recieved Jay Cutler and the Broncos' Fifth round pick. So I can honestly say this seems too good to be true, Not since the days of Sid Luckman have the Bears been this scary (in a good way) at the QB position. With the addition of Cutler the Bears O has become dynamic, Matt Forte was scary good his rookie season and that was with opposing D's loading the box to stop him because there was no passing threat, and with another year under his belt, and Cutler under center the running game is even better. The O-line has gone through an overhaul, as Orlando Pace, the Veteran from St. Louis, was signed to sure up the left side, this leaves 2008's first Rounder Chris Williams to develop at on the Right side (which is an easier position to dominated at then Left Tackle) Olin Kreutz is still the rock at center and the Guards are young, but have veteran leadership to help round out a pretty deep O-line that may not be as bad as some make it out to be. The defense, while getting older should see a positive impact from Cutler as the Offense can now stay on the field longer and allow the D to rest a bit, Urlacher is keeping it strong in the middle, and Tommie Harris, Alex Brown, and Company should be improved on the line.

Not everything for the Bears is honket dory though, The secondary is painfully old and the loss of Mike Brown doesn't make things better. The recivers are also unproven as Devin Hester is the number 1 guy right now, and he really should be a return specialist and be brought in as the x factor on certain plays, he loses something trying to be a bonafide reciver. Earl Bennet and Rashied Davis will be batlling for number 2, Bennet played with Cutler and Vanderbilt, but they will both need to reconnect and Bennet needs to see the field (he did not play in '08). But it isn't hard to believe that Drafting a reciever in the second round, a couple d-backs in the third round and looking for the diamonds in the rough at the D-line position later in the draft and the Bears would be sleepers for the Super Bowl, as they are right now, They are the Sexy pick to win the north, and I am on the bandwagon.

Cosmic Bitch Slap

Sooo....It has been far too long since I've posted and even longer since that a post hasn't run down a list of something I enjoy. So it might be important to catch everyone (all 3 people) up on what has been going on in my life. (And let me tell you it's quite a tale). Well first off, I am caught up academically here at SRU, and Will be a full fledged senior come fall of 2009, unfortunatly, I may not be in school. But more on that later. After nearly 3 years of thinking I would be at good ol' SRU for at least an extra semester, I have found out that I will be able to graduate with my fellow class of '06 mates and become the class of '10. Alas, with all that was looking up in my life the things that are greater than I decided to send me back to eartn in a big way. On April 1st I made a choice that altered my future forever. To sum it up I have been charged with Furnishing Minors with Alcohol, and That charge will keep me from becoming a teacher, and SRU has a minimum 1 semester suspension for that charge. So I will be forced to leave school for a semester and come back a semester behind, again. Now that isn't bad by it-self, but coupled with the fact that I will not be able to become a teacher seriously alters what I plan on doing with my life. One, what can I do with a history degree? Not a heckuva lot. So depending on what the court system does I will be left graduating in December of 2010, with esentially a useless degree. Hard times if I ever saw them, but I will not despair (I just realized I have no idea how to spell that word), because If the charges are reduced I can have them exsopunged from my record and I will be able to become a teacher still, and If they aren't changed, well two new options open up to me, maybe they will both be intertwined. With my degree I could head down to DC and work in many of t=Americas finest museums, or if I feel extra daring attend school for another 4-6 years and become Dr. Nishan Thomas Garabedian, and then I will be able to teach again, but this time at College, a bit more prestigious (I really stink at this "English" stuff). So lets recap, my life was going swell, the cosmos Biotch-Slap me and now I am picking up the pieces and moving forward again. So maybe in 2015 or so I will become the first PhD in my family which is, in itself, something that I can get excited about. But we will see what the future holds for me, so Bring it on Cosmos, Mr. Garabedian is coming back for more!