Random Acts of Journalism

This is almost as good as “I’m on a Boat”:

I don’t know what this umpire is doing, but i want to learn these steps for my next night out.

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PS. Sorry about this space increasingly becoming about sports and/or completely silent. I’ve been rendered almost completely catatonic about the state of American politics and the current position of our country. I would rather keep my thoughts to myself then lend my vitriol and anger to the already poisonous levels of rhetoric that currently infests this landscape. It’ll be back, just don’t know when. Until then, enjoy dancing umpires.

I don’t know how, but Gus Johnson always gets the craziest games to call. This is one of my newest favorite things. It’s DVR-ed, “Save Until I Delete Status”:

Note #14 – 9/16/2008 – 10:34pm – “I’m not nearly as stupid as I seem,” said the fist to the drywall.

Note #13 – 3/18/2007 – 3:15am – Las vegas is a soulless place full of track homes and evil people. Smoke and mirrors, deullsions of grandeur, retirees, smokers now asked to leave the room to smoke and the only town in the world where a high school dropout routinely makes more money than the PHDs from the nearby college.

Note #12 – Ongoing - I have a dream of being the best lead singer of the best cover band in the best bar in a small town in the mountains, somewhere. This is our set list, which is not in order and is always being added to:

Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell (in a weird acoustic way that makes it sound totally different)
Scene from an Italian Restaurant – Billy Joel
Only in Dreams – Weezer
Mrs Potters Lullaby, Friend of the Devil – Counting Crows
I Fought the Law – Social Distortion
Right Now – Van Halen
The Entertainer – Billy Joel
Sending out an SOS – The Police
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana (but in a slow, quiet haunting Tori Amos way)
Walk with You – Dispatch
Anything, Anything – DramaRama
Glory – The Rent Soundtrack

Walking after Midnight – Garth Brooks
Same in the End – Sublime
Space Odyssey – David Bowie
Friends in Low Places – Garth Brooks
Fire and Rain, Sweet Baby James – James Taylor
Kodachrome, Slip Slidin, 50 ways to Leave your Lover – Paul Simon
Better than Love, Guy that Says Goodbye to You – Griffin House
Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
Four Horseman – Metallica (country blues style)
The Road Goes on Forever – Pat Green
Turn the Page, Night Moves – Bob Seger
Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy
Fool for a Lonesome Train – Ben Harper
Angel from Montgomery – Tom Prine

Note #11 – 3/23/2009 – 9:35pm – Freedom isn’t free but there would seem to be a point where it costs too much.

(See Note 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Note #10 – 3/17/2009 – 5:07 – For the longest time, I lived my life on my own terms. My own friends, my own principles, my own morals. I knew what I wanted, and I knew what I didn’t and I didn’t let anyone change my mind about that.. Somewhere along the lines, that went away.

(See Note 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Note #9 – 3/23/2009 – 9:35pm – If you’re pissed that you have to press 1 for english, blaming Mexicans may be misguided. Blame the American companies that are catering to them while they outsource your job.

Note #8 – 3/7/2009 – 4:15pm – We can’t save the planet. The earth will be fine. We’re the ones that are fucked. We’re just another failed mutation.

(See Note 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)