Pic Set 5 Metro Match 6/17

4th set Metro Match 6/17...

 

3rd set pics from Metro on June 17...

 

more pics from the metro match - see below for details

 

Another metro match with my footy team - photos from the June 17th game

Baltimore v. DC -
Baltimore was in the purple jerseys with the Natty Boh logo, I was number 12,
Final
Baltimore 86
Washington 66

 

Another wife meme-ing

1. Choose a band/artist:
Siouxsie and the Banshees

2. Answer each question using the title of a song by that band/artist

3. Are you male or female:
Candyman

4. Describe yourself:
Raw Head and Bloody Bones

5. How do some people feel about you?
Stargazer

6. How do you feel about yourself?
Helter Skelter

7. Describe your ex boyfriend / girlfriend:
Voodoo Dolly

8. Describe current boyfriend / girlfriend:
Melt!

9. Describe where you want to be:
Paradise Place

10. Describe how you live:
Happy House

11. Describe how you love:
She's a Carnival

12. What would you ask for if you had just one wish?
Bring me the Head of the Preacher Man

13. Share a few words of Wisdom:
This Wheel's on Fire

14. Now say goodbye:
Kiss Them for Me

And I tag:
No one...have we addressed my complete lack of blogging life?

Imponderables....

If the chickens are female, why is the term "choke my/your chicken" slang for male masturbation? Shouldn't it be more like "rub my/your rooster"?

It was brought to my attention the other day that http://www.bostondirtdogs.com/ has a little section on the left side of the site that allows you to "keep up with old friends." At the bottom is Alex Rodriguez....or as the roll over says, Slappy McBluelips...

Memed again

Damn you wife...damn you.

I Hate Cows...: "The Rules
1. You can only say YES or NO!
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages you and asks!

Taken a picture naked? Yes
Made out with a member of the same sex? No
Danced in front of your mirror? Yes
Told a lie? Yes
Gotten in a car with people you just met? Yes
Been in a fistfight? Yes
Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back? Yes
Been arrested? No
Left your house without telling your parents? Yes
Ditched school to do something more fun? Yes
Slept in a bed with a member of the same sex? Yes
Seen someone die? No
Kissed a picture? Yes
Slept in until 3? Yes
Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? Yes
Played dress up? Yes
Fallen asleep at work/school? Yes
Felt an earthquake? Yes
Touched a snake? Yes
Ran a red light? Yes
Had detention? Yes
Been in a car accident? Yes
Pole danced? No
Been lost? Yes
Sang karaoke? No
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? Yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? Yes
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Yes
Kissed in the rain? Yes
Sang in the shower? Yes
Got your tongue stuck to a pole? No
Ever gone to anywhere partially naked? Yes
Sat on a rooftop? Yes
Played chicken? Yes
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? Yes
Been told you're hot by a complete stranger? No
Broken a bone? Yes
Mooned/flashed someone? Yes
Forgotten someone's name? Yes
Slept naked? Yes
Blacked out from drinking? Yes
Played a prank on someone? Yes
Felt like killing someone? Yes
Made a parent cry? No
Cried over someone? No
Had sex more than 5 times in one day? Yes
Had/Have a dog? Yes
Been in a band? Yes
Drank 25 sodas in a day? No
Shot a gun? Yes
and I tag (unless you've done this one before, in which case you are excused): Um...no one, because I don't know enough bloggers that visit my site regularly enough to be able to meme them....

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So I've been Memed by my wife's friend Alala in Germany - how's it goin' woman? - and am supposed to do the following;
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they are any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

I will list my seven songs, but there really aren't any bloggers that I look at that haven't already been nailed with this one, so I guess the Meme stops here for the time being...

Unfortunately for me, the song that I could really be into one day might be different the next depending on my mood, so, please bear with me...

1. Ain't Nobody's Business - either the Ruth Brown or the Saphire; The Uppity Blues Women versions. Just a great piece o' blues belted out by women with great voices. Good song to just sit and chill to.

2. Bobby Sands, MP - Black 47. Some definite Northern Irish angst that's palpable in this song. They have a couple that are like this that alternate into place of this song - not necessarily the Northern Irish thing in all of it, but the angst ties it all together - Hey Big Fella, Susan Falls Apart, The Edge of America. One of the few truly indie bands left in America making great music.

3. Little Plastic Castle - Ani DiFranco. She does some pretty good music, but my favorite is the title track to the album. The line about being like a goldfish always reminds me of a favorite movie of mine called "Hear My Song." Won't bother telling you about it here because it's not available on DVD in the US.

4. Trouble - Cat "Peacetrain/Kill in the name of Allah" Stevens. Okay, I know the moniker is not really accurate, but it amuses me...those who are Muslim; DON'T take this as a reason to riot and perpetuate the stereotype portrayed in the European editorial cartoons that hacked you off so.
Incidently - while on this subject - I recall some in Iran calling for a contest to portray Jesus in unflattering situations just to see how Western culture liked it - got news for you - we've had people doing that for years....most often they're called the Moral Majority in the United States. Trust me, you can't get any worse than them, so you might as well forget about it. For more information on that, contact Billy Graham.
As for the song...brilliant, simple, and used to beautiful and heart-wrenching effect in "Harold and Maude"

5. School Days - The Kinks. Recently uncovered all my old vynil from high school. For the younger of the crowd that might read this...like cd's, but larger, with worse sound quality, and a need to turn the disk over halfway through the LP. Have a Kinks album with School Days on it - just a nice piece of nostalgia from HS...loved the song then, love it now.

6. Washing of the Water - Peter Gabriel. There are plenty of Peter Gabriel songs I could put on this list; Shaking the Tree, Here Comes the Flood; Blood of Eden; and Wallflower all come to mind pretty quickly. Just really like Gabriel and this song in particular.

7. Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys. The best of a pretty good lot. The Waterboys had some other songs that could be here depending on my mood; A Bang on the Ear, A Girl Called Johnnie. But the only one that they did that transcends my moods is Fisherman's Blues.

Others that got consideration -
Dirty Water - The Standells
Summertime - Sublime
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
Lorca's Novena - The Pogues
My Blue Heaven - The Pogues
Family Snapshot - Peter Gabriel
Just Like a Pill - Pink
Silent All These Years - Tori Amos
Sweet Marie - The Hothouse Flowers
The Atom Heart Mother Suite - Pink Floyd

New York Daily News - Sports - 'Roid probe is ready

New York Daily News - Sports - 'Roid probe is ready: "But MLB sources have admitted in recent weeks that information gleaned from that effort and the new formal investigation probably would not be enough to suspend Bonds. While steroids were illegal, baseball did not specifically ban the performance-enhancing drugs until 2003. Lawyers have told Selig the union would certainly fight a suspension and would probably win before an arbitrator."

So this just pisses me off. An arbitrator - typically a law professional - will side with the player because the league had no policy against steroids. Somehow it doesn't matter that what the player is doing is ILLEGAL and pretty much all sports contracts have ETHICS clauses which are supposed to protect teams and leagues against players, who often considered team embassadors, from creating negative images of the team or sport. Evidently with Barry Bonds engaging in highly illegal acts which allowed him to cheat in his chosen profession, well, I guess that these ethic clauses mean precisely diddly-squat.

The bottom line - Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader and a man that ran out, not jogged or show-boated, but ran out every homerun he hit - because he knew how to play the game in only one way, full speed - is banned for life from baseball and the Hall-of-Fame for gambling. Sure he gambled and that's baseball's unforgivable sin, but there isn't anyone out there that can look at the way Rose played the game and tell me he ever cheated. He ended a catcher's career in the all-star game in a clean play at the plate, because he knew only one way to play - and that was to never take a play off.
Baseball writers talk about punishing Bonds by not voting him in his first year of elligibility, in spite of the fact that he was only the best player in baseball for a six year period only because he cheated. Sure, there are players that are in the Hall that cheated - pitchers that doctored balls, most notably, but they didn't break state and federal statutes in order to win. Therein lies the difference.
When those other players cheated - scuffing balls, using KY to get more movement on the pitch, even corking a bat - they were doing things, that, were they caught, would have resulted in a suspension because baseball knew it had to create rules to address cheating that wasn't against the laws of the country. Often times it was about getting the winning edge - sure its dispicable, but for many of these guys it was about giving the team the best chance to win.
For Bonds - well, it should be understood - even by an arbitrator - that if its illegal in the rest of the country, then it is a punishable offense in the sport.
If the baseball writers really want to do the right thing, they won't vote Bonds into the Hall...EVER, baseball will refuse to acknowledge his records - rather than having Bonds at the top of the homerun roll with an asterisk in the record books, which has been bandied about, he will be nothing more than a footnote. If he gets in, I will make it my own personal crusade to see that Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose are enshrined as well.

Just a quick observation...

Is it just me, or is playing defensive back for the Pats this year a lot like being the drummer for Spinal Tap?

Thoughts this holiday season...

All roads lead to South Philly...some are just a little dumber than others

Is it just me, or is the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP a moron that obviously A) Knows nothing about football? B) Is the worst sort of racist that has no place in a civil and human rights organization?
To intimate that Donovan MacNabb is a traitor to his race for being a pocket passer is tantamount to calling Doug Flutie black because he likes to scramble.
The man needs a career change...forced on him if necessary.

For $12 mil I'd work for the Yanks too...

Yeah, it's sacrilege for a dyed in the red wool fan like me, but this isn't about Damon screwing the Sox (he didn't - he took the money and the Sox didn't get him when they could have, nor did they offer him comparable money), or about the Yanks doing it either. This is about the Sox putting the ball on the ground like Chris Simms in a Foxboro backfield...speaking of which...

The Monsters of the Midway, The Killer Bees, The Big Blue Wrecking Crew, the Steel Curtain, The Purple People Eaters...and the Patriots...

In the history of the National Football League defense after dominant defense has made a name for itself...well, a nickname at least. There was the Steel Curtain in Pittsburgh, Doomsday D in Dallas...the list goes on. These were championship caliber defenses. The players and schemes dominated opponents, propelling the respective teams into the big game - often key components in who hoisted the Lombardi Trophy.
Of the great defenses that were dubbed with a nickname, only the Purple People Eaters in Minnesota never held the trophy, but they made it to four Super Bowls in the 1970's. They were tough, strong and dominant. They were loaded with players that would eventually be enshrined in Canton. It is one of the common threads between all of these squads.
Since 2001 no team has won more post season contests than the New England Patriots, no team is wearing more championship jewelry...and nobody has come up with a nickname that has stuck. There were efforts to call the unit The Homeland Defense, but it never stuck (thank god).
Somehow, a nickname doesn't fit with a Belichick coached team, and maybe it just doesn't fit the time. Most of those units of yore had players that spent their entire careers with the team and the units were together for multiple years - Jack Hamm, Joe Green, Jack Lambert were just some of the players that stayed together for the better part of the 70's on the Steel Curtain.
The Patriots starting backfield for the 2001 Superbowl - Ty Law, Otis Smith, Tebucky Jones, and Lawyer Milloy. Last year - Randall Gay, Asante Samuel, Rodney Harrison, and Eugene Wilson. Sure, Tedy Bruschi, Richard Seymour, Mike Vrabel, and Willie McGinnest were starters on all of those teams, but gone are major contributors and/or starters Keith Traylor, Bobby Hamilton, Ted Johnson, Ty Law, Lawyer Milloy, Tebucky Jones, Otis Smith, Terrell Buckley, Victor Green, Ted Washington, Antwan Harris, Roman Phifer, and Greg Spires. None of the teams of the 70's ever had to deal with that sort of turnover in a four season span. As such, there is no identity to be built over a span of time as a team, only over a season.
After ten games of searching for their identity, the Patriots look like they could be one of the most dangerous teams going into the AFC draw for the playoffs.
Pity the Jets, for Belichick doesn't believe in resting his starters, and the starters are just finding their stride. Notify Bollinger's next of kin, Bruschi, Colvin, Vrabel, and McGinnest will be introducing themselves on Monday. There will be no nicknames.

Learn what composer you are...here's my result...

Shane MacGowan... unconsciously brilliant. You
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theology, history, literature and philosphy...
though only while you're out of your skull on
booze.


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A look at the Pats for the remainder of the season...

Player The theory
2 Flutie – QB Will be converted to free-safety, brutalizes Brandon Stokely in a playoff rematch, picks off Manning three times.

4 Vinatieri – K Vinatieri will make his first pro-bowl as a punter – see below
8 Miller – P Will be injured in freak punting accident, with no room left under the cap Vinatieri will be expected to punt

12 Brady – QB Pilots the Flying Elvii to another Super Bowl
16 Cassel – QB Continues to excel at clipboard holding
18 A. Davis – WR Continues to be cut and resigned because, hey, it's just something that Belichick likes to do
21 Gay – CB IR
22 Samuel – CB Loses starting job to Troy Brown but excels in nickel coverage
23 Starks – CB IR
24 Stone – S Due to injuries ends up spending the occasional down at D-tackle in the 4-3, ends up leading the team in sacks

25 Hawkins – CB Plays in two games before landing on IR for the season
26 Wilson – S Loses starting job to Doug Flutie, but is still in the safety rotation
27 Hobbs – CB Begins to show something on the other side of the ball as he plays at wide out when Troy Brown is winded from playing D

28 Dillon – RB Loses starting job to Evans, but becomes the most punishing third down back in the league
29 G. Scott – S IR
30 C. Scott – CB IR
32 Poteat – CB Soon to be dubbed Saint Hank by the fans for his ability to continually come off the street and help the Pats defensive backfield

33 Faulk – RB Out. Upon return, Mike Cloud is cut
34 Cloud – RB Upon Faulk's return, gets cut
35 Pass – FB Tweaks other hamstring in freak bowling accident, is put on the Injured – non-football list ending season

36 Sanders – S Sorry, got nothing here....
37 Harrison – S IR
38 Poole – CB IR
44 Evans – FB Becomes the Pats own “Monster of the Midway” as he tramples opponents with a vengeance. Feels only marginally bad about stepping on Zack Thomas's head in Jan 1 game in Foxboro.

47 Claridge – LB IR
50 Vrabel - LB In what Belichick dubs his Flex-defense, Vrabel ends up playing every position on the defensive side of the ball so that offenses never know where he is coming from

51 D. Davis – LB In an effort to spark a floundering offense the linebacker/safety is used as a wing-back in the old wing-T formation, scores two Tds

52 Beisel – LB In a freak accident with one of the stadium consessionaires, ends up sold to a memorabilia shop owner and is never seen on the field again

53 Izzo – LB After the season is arrested in a case of mistaken identity, and is tried as a Kennedy in a rape case. Is eventually acquitted as Lar-Lar.

54 Bruschi – LB Loses comeback player of the year award to Joey Galloway, to which he responds, “what the fu....?”

55 McGinnest - LB Breaks other hand, just starts clubbing people with the cast – trainers cringe.
58 Chatham – LB Tired of Chatham, MA jokes about his name gets in a barroom brawl with a couple of townies in Plymouth. Judge throws case out.

59 Colvin – LB Looks at the injured list, is heard to mutter, “the horror, the horror...”
61 Neal – OL Is kicked out of playoff game against the Colts for putting Corey Simon in a full nelson, inspires teammates to play more physical

64 Mruczkowski – OL Gets signed, gets released, gets signed, gets released, gets signed gets released....no this is not Lou Merloni.

66 Paxton – OL When Vinatieri kicks the game winner against the Colts to clinch the AFC, runs into the endzone at the RCA dome and makes snow angels in the beer bottles chucked on the field by upset fans.

67 Koppen – OL IR
68 Ashworth – OL Splits time with Gorin, asked to take some reps at corner, “just in case”
70 Mankins – OL In a moment of coaching genius, ends up swapping positions with Wilfork. Improvement is seen on both sides of the ball.

71 Hochstein – OL On an episode of PTI proves once and for all that he can indeed block Wilbon and Kornheiser

72 Light – OL Out. Returns to find has lost job to Kazcur, works out at center for rest of season, backing up Hochstein

75 Wilfork – DL See Mankins
76 Gorin – OL Solidifies hold on position, but continues to split time with Tackle/Corner Ashworth
77 Kazcur – OL Improvement continues, forcing Light to learn a new position when he finally returns from the broken leg.

80 T. Brown – WR Becomes the shutdown corner Belichick was looking for, leads team with Int's
81 B. Johnson – WR In a brief moment of candor, calls Mr. Rogers a punk. Redeems himself with families everywhere by scoring the game winning TD on a kick return in the Super Bowl

82 Graham – TE Comes back from injury to find that he may have to occassionally play linebacker because who knows where the linebackers will be playing

83 Branch – WR Lost for season while playing TE for the injured Graham. “I just play where coach tells me to,” he says after game.

84 Watson – TE Secretly thinks about Graham “better him than me”
86 Dwight – WR In the absence of Branch, and with Brown playing defense, becomes the Patriots go-to receiver along with Givens

87 Givens – WR Is seen in the locker room looking at the Cliff Notes version of the injury list, is heard to mutter....who's that? I don't know him either. When did he get signed?

88 Fauria – TE Confuses days, misses 2nd Jets game of season, nobody notices, is cut in the offseason.
90 Klecko – DL In what Belichick calls his Big Beef Package, goes strictly to offense as Evans' full time blocking back

91 Hill – DL Finishes season healthy, lost for playoffs due to fight with Dolphins linemen over bad “playing without a sense porpoise” pun

93 Seymour – DL Changes nickname from Big Sey to Shawna – worries teammates
94 Warren – DL Is seen in the locker room at one point clicking the heels of his cleats and repeating, “there's no place like Texas, there's no place like Texas...”

95 Banta-Cain – LB One night after practice Roman Phifer kidnaps Banta-Cain, poses as him for remainder of season. Coaches take note of improved play and are pleased with their own ability to get more out of Banta-Cain

97 Green – DL Plays more regularly as the team moves to more exotic line sets. Often lines up over the wideout and rushes the QB from there

98 C. Brown – LB Retires after season citing “too much weird shit happening on the field...anyone seen Monty?”

99 Wright – DL Somehow ends up on the Wheaties box despite being deactivated for the Super Bowl.

Team shot from Metro finals

Front Row; Metro Champions Northern Virginia (in the new jumpers)

Back Row; Runner up DC 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know what's being done to Jeff (#37), but I suspect it's illegal in most states, and just considered highly immoral in the others...