We have a situation over here

I like many of you have been thoroughly intrigued by the past few months. So many interesting things going on, so many great water cooler topics to discuss. With that being said nothing beats the Jersey shore, I personally became fully immersed in every moment of this show. At first I was like this is great, it was like going through a carnival with so many different interesting sights to see, but towards the end of the show I actually somehow cared about the characters, It kept me up at nights wondering what is to be with Ronnie and Sammie, would Snookie ever find love, and if I happen to shave Pauly D's hair in the middle of the night would he murder me? The one character who stood out was Mike, sometimes arrogant, cocky, but yet sometimes actually seeming to be a decent guy who actually cared, you saw a bit of his inner goodness outside of the exterior look at me now.


Now having said all this about Mr. Sorrentino, I have to direct blame at him, his nickname on the show "The Situation" although extremely creative, has actually single-handedly ruined the word situation for the entire English speaking world.

Merriams-Webster.com defines situation as

Main Entry: sit·u·a·tion

Pronunciation: \ˌsi-chə-ˈwā-shən\

Function: noun

Date: 15th century

1 a : the way in which something is placed in relation to its surroundings b : site c archaic : locality
2 archaic : state of health
3 a : position or place of employment : post, job b : position in life : status
4 : position with respect to conditions and circumstances
5 a : relative position or combination of circumstances at a certain moment b : a critical, trying, or unusual state of affairs : problem c : a particular or striking complex of affairs at a stage in the action of a narrative or drama

Pre-Jersey Shore, the situation stood for something, if we had a situation going on, it meant something serious was happening, Jack Bauer going after a terrorist about to blow up a mall serious, the word situation was used for that and exclusively for that, sort of how like Fox News has destroyed the breaking news alerts, that used to mean something Pre 9/11, now its used to show a car chase in Iowa......that's not breaking news!! Anyhow Mike's abs are now officially the "situation" and what people think of first when they hear the word situation. If you google situation, Jersey Shore Mike is the third thing that come up after two entries regarding definition, he single-handedly changed how that word is thought upon and I must say very few people in the history of the world have had that sort of impact on our language. Not even Snookie............I was listening to Simmons the other day and he was doing a podcast and he came up with the best line, if his dad called him and said his sister was knocked up and the father left her, and said we have a bad situation here......now it seems serious, but the word situation has become almost comical. Another example would be being in a board room and you're boss saying we have a serious situation going on here, we all could be fired. Do you snicker? or not?.......Bottom line the word situation is now ruined, thanks Mike!!

Speaking of situations, here are two recent situations in my life

The Laundromat Situation

I went to do laundry yesterday, and because I was also trying to fit in the gym and Lost in a timely efficient manner, I was on a schedule, put my clothes in for 45 minutes, go to gym, come back take out then get ready for Lost.

Anyhow I get downstairs I'm in a 16 floor building, only 4 dryers in the building. So one of the dryers was open, the other 3 were going. Now I noticed one of the dryers had 15 minutes left, and had literally 3 articles of clothing. So they were kids clothes , I checked to see if they were dry. They were on fire, obviously done. Now I know the lady who put them in, she's crazy the type of lady who runs for condo board and spends half her day talking about issues within the development and what they can do to change it. Basically its all a bunch of BS, you have to see when it comes to voting how crazy people get for this, its like they are running for mayor, just to run V.V. housing.......anyhow getting back to the topic, crazy lady I know has 3 dryers going, and one has 4 items in it, they were dry.....So I was like I need to get this going its ridiculous that this lady has this dryer going with 4 items in it so I took them out and put them neatly in a bin, she came in saw they were in the bin and flipped on me, threatened to call security, I had no right to do that.....so I calmly explained I'm sorry about that, but I felt that your clothes were very dry you have 2 other machines going and its disrespectful to hog up all the machines. She threatened to call security again, so I responded what the hell is security going to do? She's like they will write me up, I'm like write up what? Am I going to detention? Basically mocking this crazy lady who looks like she has one too many cats and her whole life is V.V. politics, which led her to get more and more mad at me and keep screaming you have NO RIGHT! , I'm like lady relax calm down.........obviously I see where I was wrong, but to use up a dryer that holds 50 articles of clothing for 4 articles is wrong, needless to say I had to cut my workout down 15 minutes, in order to get home shower make dinner, and make sure I was promptly seated for Lost Recap at 8 pm......lucky for crazy lady I was in my seat at 8 pm. I wish I had a picture to send everyone.

Crazy Cabbie Situation

I'm running a few minutes behind the other morning, so I get into a cab with this driver who just looks angry, burly looking guy, unshaven, Russian looking guy. He precedes to pull the fastest U-turn of my life which sends me flying into the other side of the car. Now this guy just starts to talk to me, using the word Fuck as a comma......now one of my pet peeves in life I don't like to talk to cab drivers or waiters while I'm eating food, do your job and let me be. After fuck this, fuck that, he proceeded to utter this saying "I can't wait to retire so I don't have to break out my samurai sword" while swerving in and out of traffic at 60 mph. Needless to say, why does this guy have a samurai sword? Why does he feel the need to break it out. This was a situation, I'm convinced this guy will end up on the cover of the Post one day after driving his cab through a crowd of people in Central Park, getting out than attacking people with a samurai sword. This guy was angry and we possibly could have had a serious situation, or a developing one in this guy's case.

Here are some other quick hit situations that I have been exposed to recently

-The Lost Situation-trying to figure out this mystery is making my nose bleed

-The gay manager at Pret Manger situation- overhearing him tell a customer that the cookies she was about to buy is the best thing to hit his mouth in a long time, and that's the first thing he wants in his mouth. That was a I'm about to lose my lunch situation

- The stock market won't go up situation- Seems everyday the world is going bankrupt and Obama doesn't want anyone to be paid. This is clearly a serious situation.

- The I want school to be done situation- I'm over studying, I'm 30, this degree better be worth it. If it's not we clearly have a situation.


To sum up we need a new word for what "Situation" used to mean, any suggestions? Because I cant take any situations seriously anymore.

TP

All hail Czar Obama

This is from my facebook thread, just thought it was a good musing in my mind, I kept the friends name from not being put on here, but keep in mind this is an actual thread just because of the sheer lack of foresight of our president, it amazes me that he cant see this anyhow here is the thread.

Friend

Ok i went a tad overboard, but I need to release my anger somehow. He is the worst, most unqualified, embarrassment of a leader I have ever seen. Don't die.. Just get the flu... For 3 years. OMG MUZZLE ME!!!

Yesterday at 3:50pm ·

Me

First off friend you sound like you need a hug. I agree with your assement of his inexperience. Because of that he doesn't realize even though some of his ideas are logical and make sense he doesn't take into account the ramifications of his actions. He basically wants to alter the financial landscape because he doesn't want a repeat of 08 which is commendable and if he gets away will probably curtail any future meltdowns of those proportions, but the problem is we don't live in a utopia, our economy is a mess and by what he wants to do the ramifications would be more layoffs in the financial service industry that is already battered, less compensation, which sounds great to the avg joe plumber that the fat cat on wall st isn't getting richer, but once things trickle down and no one is getting paid and no taxes are being collected nyc is going to be in deep trouble, then when avg joe cop or avg bob fireman or sally the teacher gets let go(which is already happening fyi) everyones going to question why we are in such a mess and nyc is defaulting on its debts, now this is if this actually passes let's pray itr doesn't!. So to sum up his ideas aren't terrible, it just he doesn't consider the ramifications of those ideas, just one mans two cents

Yesterday at 4:23pm ·

Friend

Tom that was an incredibly delightful, well thought and diplomatic approach u took there-- unlike me- that compared the pres to a rectum and wished him death. Unfortunately my one way ticket to right-wing hell was secured a year ago, but u my friend, have the makings of a great political figure. Still I'd like to know how limiting our financial companies from making big profits is seen as sensible-- unless this was a communist country. Did u take notice of the market after his proposed overhaul on our banking system today? It seems as tho everything he touches turns into a hot steaming pile of dog doody. Also, Im not entirely convinced he doesnt understand the ramifications of his actions, but thats a whole other can of worms. PS I so needed a hug earlier... how did u know..lol.

Yesterday at 8:46pm ·

ME

First off Miss XXX thank you for your compliment. Secondly Ill gladly explain, the first problem was when we repealed Glass Steagel years ago that allowed your big commercial banks to become more riskier and start to get into riskier businesses that investment banks were in. The problem with this is that banks are the lifeblood of our ... See Morecountry, they affect our whole way of life. From starting your own business, getting a loan for school, or even putting a roof over your head one needs a bank's resources to make your dream come true. If banks are insolvent our country withers and dies. Now having said that the last few years in order to become more and more profitable for their shareholders and w/ Glass Steagel becoming a thing of the past banks basically become investment banks and started to mimic them in order to chase what their shareholders desire which is/was Growth, In doing so they become entangled in a real mess of financial products they didn't understand and got caught up by taking out too much leverage and when the shit hit the fan well you were alive then, now remember the banks are the lifeblood of our economy of our well being. So when the financial world came crashing down, it didnt matter if Goldman, Merril, Bear, Lehman, or Morgan fell apart, I mean well it did but what was a serious threat to the world was if Citigroup, JP Morgan, Wells, Etc were to somehow fall off the face of the earth. This would cause massive panic and something we havent seen since the 30's.Look how hard it is to take out a loan now. Now Obama like I said before doesn't want this to happen ever again, so now he's using these draconian measures that are sometimes extremely assanine to prevent this thing from happening again, he basically wants banks to become government sponsored enterprises that provide savings and loans to our country , just like they were many years before Glass Steagel was repelled. Now It may look like im an obama lover, but Im completely NOT, he forced Morgan and Goldman to become bank holding companies and now wants them to stop prop trading which is what they do because they technically still operate as an Investment bank. He wants to kill people for taking bonuses and like I said in an earlier post you need wealth to flow through the people to generate economic output. I also dont like the basic principle that most banks have already paid back the TARP with interest, they shouldnt be controlled by the gov't anymore, but from a populist view point he feels the need to tell them how to run their businesses and impose all these different sorts of financial burdens on them which will only hinder our economy. The way the government is set up is to provide for the people, to look out for the benefit of us and to protect our best interests and this is what they did by providing the cushion in order to weather what happened in 08, that should have been it, but now Obama is riding his high horse and wants to control, which I get but he is doing it all wrong. He should force firms to have stricter in house measures, limit leverage to tops 15-1, rather than the 40-1 of a few years ago, and also to spook them eliminate future TARPs and offer the last TARP as a one time only deal, if the banks get in trouble, its their fault, no one else's, I'm also a big of splittling up the banks, in order to generate competition and to also not have one bank so big that they 're failure could systematically bring down the world. Anyhow I said my vantage point, I will talk to you soon.

TP

Yesterday at 9:13pm ·

Friend

TP, first I must express, only as is properly respectful, my sincere personal thanks. I feel as tho I just read an instruction manual for a nikon FM2 camera, you bastard! I knew I was in trouble going into finance with you. Now if we were discussing history, philosophy or secular literature, I could hold my own, but this (although i believe i ... See Moregot the overall idea) im afraid I will need to read about 4 more times in the morning and get back to you when I am certain of what Im saying. Thank U again from the bottom of my heart and damn you finance Geeks. I will begin the arduous task later. Much love-xx

13 hours ago ·

ME

I heard the Nikon FM2 is a phenomenal camera, I understand that I pretty much just rambled on ad nauseum. I may not be correct in my thinking, its just my belief. This is more or a political vs finance argument for Obama, the people want blood because they are out of work or working for less and who else to blame but the big fat cats on wall st ... See Morecomplaining about only getting a half million dollar bonus when some guy in detroit cant pay his $100 heating bill this winter. The reality of it though is that globalization and transparency via the internet has hurt the US economy more than the fat cats of Wall St. could ever, why is GM bankrupt because we pay our workers 3xs as much as car companies overseas and a bloated pension, you cant compete as a retailer selling similiar goods as other stores when you can go online and find it for the cheapest possible price, I mean who can survive on those margins. RIght now we need a new revolution that will take hold that will create millions of jobs, i.e. in the 20's with cars, or the 90s with the internet, Im thinking the next big frontier is energy jobs, as we will find all different sorts of way to provide sources of energy for the world. It is already starting.....but I'll let you follow up on my last post before you jump into this one.........PS damn you Friend for making me think this much and make me write this damn much on my FB wall

7 hours ago ·

Censorship

Just a quick little muse today reading the paper today and had to get something off my chest, I haven't been on here in a while but look at the above pictures......one was the infamous nipple slip, the other one is a guy buried under Haiti's infrastructure dead, just an absolute travesty to happen down there.

What I can't understand is this the first picture caused the entire country to get flipped upside down, I'm watching games on tape delay, Live shows ditto, even Howard stern had to move to satellite because god forbid someone heard the word F$ck!, does it hurt anyone to say that, is it damaging anyone to hear that. What's the worst thing to happen if a 12 year sees Janet's breasts, why doesn't anyone ask these pertinent questions? Their considered to be "graphic" to the majority of America and therefore we should keep obscenities and boobs out of the viewing public because they are bad.

Now to contrast that the below picture is of a dead person buried under rubble, I consider this to be 10 X's more graphic than any pair of boobs, even A cups. I am going to bed tonight having nightmares of this poor Haitian man lying under rubble, if I had children I wouldn't want them to see this, I think this is a lot more damaging than Janet's nipples. Yet, this is the cover of the NY Post today and no one seems to have any sort of problems with this but me.

Boobs or Dead Bodies? What do you think is worse or more damaging to 12 year olds?

Fantasy Football

It's 3 days away from the New Year, and last night mine and pretty much 99% of everyone in the world's fantasy season has ended. It has been a grueling season for me with both teams failing to reach the playoffs, even though one of them I had the 4th highest point total in the league, but I digress, I think I'm over fantasy it's gotten to the point of absurdity where I will be up to 12:30 am hoping for Buffalo's Kicker to kick a field goal because I'm down by 2 points. It's not good for the soul to be rooting for Buffalo's kicker at 1230 am on a school night. It's way too stressful. I was bbming a friend of mine who I thought at one point would spontaneously combust if Sidney Rice didn't catch the ball for 13 yards. I had a visual of his girlfriend with a luggage and their dog walking right on out, as he sat there sweating on the couch in his Sidney Rice jersey. This isn't normal, no one should have this much stress on them for a useless Monday Night game.

I promised my work league champs that I would give them a little write up. Team Fugani for the second year in a row made it to the championship game, after last year's disappointment was geared up and ready to go this year. The team has 3 owners which is utterly ridiculous, has weekly strategy meetings, and has the quant guys at Barclays analyzing match ups on a week to week basis. Granted, they have done their homework and through landing the #1 pick, making some shrewd trades, and some key in season pickups like Miles Austin were able to land in the championship game again this year, but unlike last year this year they emerged victorious. Even though I have been trash talking them since the Pierre Thomas debacle of 08, which was right up there with the market crash of 08 in my mind, I give them credit for running a A+ franchise and for winning the Stock Loan Fantasy Football League.

So why do we do this, why will I probably do it again, I get thrown off my diet on Sundays, I'm not sleeping, I spend time agonizing over questions like who would be a better 3rd receiver Johnny Knox or Bernard Berrian, I end up out a few bills, I openly root against the Giants if I have someone on my team playing them, and I end up having to write columns praising a three headed owner. Here are a few reasons.........

1) The Draft- It's an excuse for 12 guys to get out get really drunk, eat really bad, and to trash talk each other about their lack of football knowledge, an analogy for my female audience would be Sex and the City viewing parties and analyzing shoes, only thing I can think of that would equate to what we do. We spend our time preparing like we are studying for the SAT, and some of our proudest moments in life is getting that sleeper who you have been studying and analyzing for months in the 6th round. Pure Bliss I tell you. We have now expanded from having a draft night to making a draft weekend out of it, hell I can't think of a better bachelor party idea than a Las Vegas weekend on Labor Day weekend with 3 days of vices followed by a draft on Monday in a suite.....the idea has me excited right now, Ray, Carl are you listening?

2) Opening weekend- Is there anything better than having your newly minted drafted team all ready to go, and then having 1 pm hit having your laptop going at the same time and just unleashing your team? I think not, it's like a good version of the first day of school

3) Playoffs- Even though, I knocked the hell out of it, is there any better feeling than watching Sidney Rice get that 13th yard to win a fantasy football championship and then spending 8 months trash talking your buddies about your awesomeness.

4) Your significant other- This is more of a negative, from their standpoint they will never ever get it, it's sort of like us with show pillows we will never understand their importance. Unless the girl is cool and openly roots and pulls what the wife in the League does and blackmails fellow owners into making unfair trades. It's always fun to see the perplexed look on their face when you try to explain to them you need 20 points to win and how you can get those points, bottom line is simplify it if Player X catches the ball a lot, we can go away on a nice trip!

So now its late December, I'm sad Fantasy Football is over, once again my teams were beat, combination of bad luck and drafting guys like Matt Ryan in the 3rd round. I'm a little beat up on fantasy but I'm back next year Team Redemption I hope will finally Redeem itself!

.

P.S. I just got an email as I was writing this next year's draft is tentatively set for 9/6/10, im psyched

RUDY!!

RUDY !!RUDY!!! RUDY!! RUDY!!! RUDY!! , I'm sitting around last night flipping through channels and I saw that Rudy was coming on HDnet at 8. I have never heard of this channel before but they were playing probably my favorite sports movie of all time, and tomorrow they are playing Hoosiers, probably my 4th favorite sports movie of all time, so now this channel will go in my favorites, but I'm running off my main point, Rudy was on! After watching it for maybe the 50th time it dawned on me the copious amounts of chill scenes and almost equal amounts of wow what a douche scene, which we will now refer to as D-bag scenes. I mean this movie has some serious tug on the heart scenes, that even gets me to get a little misty eyed, but it also has scenes that make me wonder if Rudy has Daniel Larusso Disease where every one just loves to abuse him, like I said before seriously D-Bag scenes. Also this movie has a ridiculously skinny Vince Vaughn, and a ridiculously fat Jon Favreau, when did these two just switch......drawing a similar parallel to Daniel-Son, he had a priest he was comfortable with, aka Mr. Miyagi, he had one friend who was D-Bob like D.S.'s Allie, but outside of that no one really likes him, hell his family doesn't seem to like him either.............this leads me to make a list of the film's big D-baggers.........

D-Bags

1) His brothers, can anyone find out why his brothers are so angry, I mean literally up to the last scene, one brother just abused Rudy non-stop and shitted all over him. Did something happen to him, was he supposed to have a scholarship to ND, but blew out a knee, did Rudy bang his ex gf? It amazes me why he is just such a miserable prick, also his other brother I think ended up going out with Rudy's ex fiance/gf or whatever wet blanket role she was, I'm not 100% sure of it but the scene at the house during XMAS, after the first semester, I think that was his ex and she came in with his brother. So it leads me to believe they were together. Having said all that, part of me might understand it if I lived with someone who kept giving make believe speeches from Notre Dame Coaches and kept talking about it non stop when he's slightly retarded and at 5'3" claims he was going to play football at ND, I guess I probably would be a huge DBag to that person also........I'll give them somewhat a pass...........next up

2) The priest at Juliet Catholic- this was the scene where they were going to visit ND for the day and all the students were lined up waiting to get on the bus and the priest with the glasses was basically like hey Rudy we know you like the school, but you are a retard, you are not allowed on the bus, you are dumb, dumb, dumb, and not to mention retarded, except he said it in a nicer way but it came off like that to me. Would it have killed the priest to let him check out the school for the day? Did he have a prior vendetta against him? Who the hell knows? He's a big d-bag, probably couldn't get little Johnny in bed the night before........

3) The pretty girl- , this was the girl who ran the football boosters, seriously what an anal retentive bitch, poor Rudy pretty much creamed his pants being in the locker room, busting his ass for them by cleaning the O-line's jocks, and all she kept asking him was for his ID card, she couldn't have let him pass through.......ugh women in charge of anything.

4) D-Bob- not so much a D-bag, but poor Rudy was sleeping in a locker room, working for $2 an hour, showering in a gym and trying to get D-Bob laid, couldn't D-bob offer to let him crash at his pad every now and again? Granted he helped him get into ND, but to make him do laundry all semester for a gym pass so the kid could shower I mean come on guy, I'm glad he ended up with Elsie, she was gross and so was he for not helping out poor Rudy.

5) The admission boards - These guys suck also, poor Rudy only applied 10 times before they let him in, even with Fr. Cavanaugh's recommendations, they couldn't at least interview this kid in his ND jacket, to see how hard he wanted to get in? I mean seriously....

Finally the award for the biggest D-Bag in the movie......

6) Coach Dan Devine- First off, he's that guy who's in every movie, but no one knows his name, he just looks like a huge D-bag. Secondly, it had to take basically a sit in by the college campus to let him dress up, I mean come on you're playing Georgia Tech, you have a 65 man roster, it would have killed you to let him dress? Then you see this poor bastard kill himself for 2 years, sacrifice everything, you're up 14 with 3 minutes left, and you refuse to let him play? WTF? Huge D BAG!!, then the entire student body is cheering for him to play and you still won't let him play? again WTF!! Did Rudy hit on his wife?? Can anyone explain why he was being such a D-Bag? Finally after his entire O-Line looked like they were ready to murder him, he reluctantly sends him in.........God I hated him for that, I think the writers of this movie purposely made him 20x's more evil than he was because no one could be that big of a D-Bag, he was even D-bagish before the Prayer, angry f'n guy and because of that he wins the big douche factor award for this movie................

Now although there was many, many D-bag moments in this movie, there were equal if not many, many more chill scenes that basically tug at your heart and make you want to adopt Rudy as your son and/or want to go to ND.....

1)The scene in HS where the coach says we will miss you Rudy, to anyone who ever played football that hits home.

2) When Pete dies, a distraught Rudy heads to ND, then has a father son talk at the bus station before departing, huge chill scene throughout

3) Rudy busting his butt only to get rejected every semester, which then was followed by him running with that background music going. Gets me every time

4) Rudy sitting on the bench reading his ND acceptance letter, then heading home to show his dad....major chill scenes, I think I even get teary eyed here.

5) Ned Beatty screaming my son's going to ND, then after Rudy leaves, looking over the letter like a proud father, folding it neatly and sticking it in his pocket, makes me want to go home and give my dad a hug. Even though his brother nearly ruined it by being a big D-Bag

6) The coach with the white hair telling Rudy he's on the team

7) The Charles Dutton speech- You're 5 foot nothing, 100 and nothing speech, gets me everytime, convinces me I could walk on at Duke or play small forward for the Knicks

8) Ned Beatty getting all misty eyed walking into ND stadium saying this is the most beautiful sight my eyes have ever seen. Anyone who remembers walking into a sports stadium for the first time knows what this is about.

9) Rudy being asked to lead the team out on the field

10) The big O-line man Matteus I believe starting up the Rudy chant by looking slightly possessed saying his name over and over again till everyone gets into it including the entire city of South Bend

11) Jamie, the jerk off QB, throwing a TD pass then saying that was for you....followed by an awkward handshake/hug.

12) Rudy finally getting in the game, with the coach saying go back in there, god I love the coach with the white hair, what a good guy.

13-14-15-16-17) Rudy getting in on Defense getting that sack, the father high fiving and hugging his wife and son, Rudy getting lifted up and carried off the field, D-Bob screaming "Who's the wild man now?", and finally Charles Dutton clapping his hands slow and hard at first, finally speeding it up with a tear in his eyes.....cut back to scene of Rudy of Rudy getting carried off the field , with a little follow up and CUT!!

If you don't get emotional watching scened 10-17 after watching the whole movie and the events leading up to the worst O-line protected sack till Strahan broke the sack record, then you have no heart or soul...........absolutely great movie, with D-Bag characters which made the chill scenes that much more memorable.

As much as I admired the Rudy character, I probably would have wanted to kick his ass in real life, he's the guy always volunteering for every bit of work, the ultimate kiss ass, the guy you would just wish would shut the F up, like an annoying Yankee fan to the 10th degree, but I digress I overlooked those things, and still have Rudy ranked number 1, I will now go out and run 5 miles.........


TP

Ladies and Gentleman you're 2010 New York Knicks

I just got through about page 500 of Simmons' basketball book which so far is absolutely incredible, I live reading about history in general, let alone the history of the NBA, right now I'm up to players 19&18 of all time, and with each passing legend that I read about the more I begin to remember how much I love basketball. I picked up the game in 6th grade when I went to Catholic School after finishing up Public School. For some reason the Catholic school kids were born with a basketball in their hand, while the public school kids were more into baseball and football. I, being a competitive little bugger, immediately made my mother sign me up for intramurals. The only problem is I was clueless, I was like a Kenyan on an ice skating rink. When the coach asked us to line up for layups, he could have asked me to diffuse a nuclear bomb and the expression on my face would be the same. Over time though and 7 inches in 2 years later, I had fallen in love with the sport, me and my friends played and watched religiously. I remember playing Paulie Puma one on one in the rain in front of my house shooting into a garbage pail( our imagination was amazing back then), until around the 8th grade when my mother had enough of watching her son shoot basketballs into a garbage pail and convinced my father that I needed a basketball hoop in front of my house NOW. I can even remember spending hours on Saturday and Sunday watching the NBA on NBC, the best is when they had those triple headers, we used to spend hours attempting to re-create all of the moves we saw on TV, my favorite was Barkley's spin move. For some reason when we were out on the court doing those moves in our minds they looked exactly like they did on TV, when in reality we were just a bunch of awkward white kids, if Youtube was around then, our games would have definitely been on there, and I would be smacking myself in my head to see a young TP attempting Barkley's spin move down low.


I ended up becoming a Knick fan throughout my youth, even though they played the ugliest style of basketball I have ever seen. In reality though the NBA is all about the individual, it's what separates itself from other major professional sports. In baseball I don't necessarily root for one individual I root for the Mets, In football, I root for the Giants, and well with the rise of Fantasy football I'm ready to adopt Adrian Peterson as my son, but that doesn't count. Even in college I root for Duke Bball and Miami football, but basketball is different, even though I'm a knick fan I always found myself rooting for the individual, I was a huge Shaq fan growing up, him pulling down the backboard in an NBA game when I was 13 was as impressive to me as Moses parting the Red Sea 2000 years ago. Some other favorites of mine were Barkley, Larry Johnson, Mullin, Iverson, Wojo(Duke Guy), Tom Chambers in Lakers v Celtics I loved his two handed jam, Penny Hardaway, and finally modern day Lebron. If any of these guys were on TV, I would spend the next 2-3 hours watching them and openly rooting for them. I would watch them play over the Knicks, and if they played the Knicks I somehow ended up rooting for them over the Knicks, which questions my loyalty as a Knick fan sometime.


Basketball, like most sports in my life I have lost a little bit of interest in over time. I still watch it, I still watch Sportscenter but I won't sit there like a kid glued in front of the TV for 10 straight hours. There is one subject that I could spend hours talking about at end, that is the state of the NY Knicks. Before I delve into that subject one thing as a basketball fan that I have noticed is that there are 3 tiers in basketball, either you are really good, really bad, or average. If you fall into any of those 3 tiers, you happen to stay there for a really, really long time. NBA dynasties are like the old Roman and Chinese dynasties that last forever. In my basketball watching days, you had the Lakers/Celtics in the 80's, the Bulls in the 90's, and the Lakers/Spurs in the 00's, the key to it all is having that one alpha dog on your team who when in power will will their team to victory for a decade at a time. Bird, Magic, Jordan, Kobe/Shaq, Duncan all alpha dogs, all willed their team to victory. This generation's alpha dog is Lebron and of course he is a free agent in 2010. Like I said before the state of the Knicks is one of my favorite conversations going today, I can spend days arguing about what they should do. The Knicks smartly realized they were between stuck in the middle and really awful the last few years and are doing the smart thing, letting contracts expire and clear up cap space for 2010, which for the most part they have done successfully. Their are two problems though, 1) because the NBA and the economy are in the gutters, the cap has been cut and 2) they lost their 2010 pick years ago, I believe in the Marbury deal. So right now the state of the Knicks is that after this year, I'm think 19-63 they will have a top 3 pick that they won't own, they're cap room will be limited to maybe one superstar free agent and a journeyman, and they will have about 5 scrubs on their team.


The best laid plans of mice and men.......the thinking of the Knicks for the first time since the horrible move of trading Ewing's expiring contract (which led to the mess they are in now) was sound. I was such a proponent of what they were doing, I was on board with ripping down the building and starting anew versus building on top of a foundation with cracks on it. The problem though is this is real life not NBA Live 2010. Most likely Lebron stays in Cle, Wade stays in Mia, and we end up with some second banana guy like Joe Johnson or Bosh(who's been playing for his contract this year). I hate this because now we will be stuck in mediocre land for the next 5 years, with no supporting cast and a shrinking cap we will be ordinary and stuck there for at least the next 5. That downright sucks, but right now I'm embracing the Bosh/Johnson era. I actually might even buy a ticket, this brings me to this morning......


A friend of mine on Facebook, mentioned something about the Knicks looking at Iverson. Then I saw this on ESPN "New York Knicks president of basketball operations Donnie Walsh told the New York Daily News on Monday night that the team will explore the possibility of signing Iverson" . This whole scenario got me giddy. Remember from earlier I was a huge Allen Iverson fan from his days in Georgetown, I used to make my friends sit there and watch him play on CBS on Saturday, I remember telling my friends, that they had to watch this 5'10" (more around 5'8") lefty point guard who's as fast as a track star just dunk on 7 footers, they didn't believe me until they saw him and were equally amazed. Iverson's career, even though it was very successful I felt like it didn't reach it's pinnacle he was always saddled with a bad supporting cast and always had a bad attitude, basically a bad teammate guy, who was also a good teammate guy, it was hard for him to be good without shooting 30 times a game and having the ball in his hand, but no one played harder than Iverson. The problem though is he's a cancer everywhere he goes outside of Philadelphia, he has that TO factor, that he is polarizing and if everything isn't centered around him, you can consider the team gone for the year, if he isn't happy.


So my thought process goes like this, the Knicks who have been doing everything right up to this point are just downright horrible 1-9 through 10 games, they might be at best a 2nd round playoff team if they sign the right bodies. I say let's go in an opposite direction, let's just get the most dysfunctional team on the court together, have cameras follow them all year long, and put it in on NBC as a reality show on Tuesday nights. First step, sign Iverson, then after about a week or so surprise everyone WWE style and bring back Marbury. Now that you got your dysfunctional backcourt, Step 2 involves firing D' Antoni and bringing back Isiah, firing Walsh, and hiring Elgin Baylor as GM. Now the back court and the front office are completely dysfunctional. Third step , trade one or two of your expiring contracts to bring back Zack Randolph. Fourth step find wherever Tim Thomas is playing and bring him back as your 3. Then final step trade for Shaq, and immediately sign him to a 4 yr, 80 million dollar extension. Basically this is the equivalent of playing the Sims and just torturing your Sim by putting his shower and bathroom outside, and making his carpet gravel. At this point if you are going to be bad, be really bad. I don't want to be 1-9, with some Italian guy, a midget, an overachieving white guy at Power Forward. I want to be a mess.


For those scoring at home I want our 2010-2011 Knicks to look like this.

PG Marbury
SG Iverson
SF Thomas
PF Randolph
C Curry
Bench 1 Galinari
Bench 2 Lee
Bench 3 Shaq
Bench 4 Nate Dogg
Bench 5 Harrington- after re-signing him to a 7 yr 80 million dollar deal
Bench 6 Darko
Bench 7 Jordan Hill

HC Isiah Thomas
AHC Larry Brown
AHC Don Chaney
AHC Patrick Ewing

GM Elgin Baylor


WOW JUST WOW, can you imagine being a beat writer for this team, I don't know if the beat writer for the Knicks would come from the front of the paper or the back of the paper. Think of the scenarios that could come up.

Iverson, Marbury, and Nate Robinson fighting over minutes, shots, and street cred. I can envision one of them dying at the hands of the other at some point in the season arguing about a tattoo.

Shaq, Curry, Randolph- each one of them ballooning up to 450 pounds. This would be like the Biggest Loser gone awry, I can just see them in Popeye's in the off season fighting over the last piece of chicken. On the court I can see each one of them not playing Defense and not moving on Offense.

The White guy/Europeans-- Poor Danilo, our only hope is now laden with Milicic who might be a terrorist, and David Lee the only player who seems to give a crap, has now officially gave up, now that the Knicks gave him another 1 year deal and settles just to become the token white guy on the bench in the mold of Scalabrine, Jack Haley etc.

Coaching Staff- Just one look and you can tell the power struggle that would happen

GM- I can see Baylor trading 3 #1's for Ron Artest and an expiring contract.


Bottom Line Bring it, Bring on the dysfunction!!, if you are going to be bad, be shockingly bad, dysfunctionally bad, just overall bad on all different levels. Put this team together, I think the melee in the palace a few years back is peanuts, compared to what could happen here. A team with ballhogs, no defense, and 3 400 lb guys. I love it , I would watch ever single game..............

Ladies and Gentleman you're 2010-2011 Knicks

Hedging your Happiness

Well it's been a while since I wrote, I mean a really long while, life has been really, really busy with school, work, etc. Being a diligent student I have worked my ass off and have been doing well in school so being ahead I actually have the time to write up a little something. Before I go into my main story, just a few tidbits........

- why do I keep losing socks? And why do the only socks I have are my ugly ones from 15 years ago, all my good ones I keep misplacing.

- This stock market has been crazy, I still think we are down 10% by March from this point.

- My neck and legs are killing me from my first fitness class, you know the ones where an overaggressive trainer tells you things like higher, faster, quicker, while all you are thinking of is can I get away with throwing her into the mirrors and actually have a defense for it?

- I met my literary hero Bill Simmons the other day, this is the equivalent of me meeting Mickey Mouse when I was 5.

- His book is actually really good, I got through about 50 pages last night, must say I'm impressed

- I plowed threw 5 seasons of Lost and am completely caught up at this point, that's one messed up Island

-As for TV, my two new favorite shows, which I will eventually blog about in the future are FlashForward and Modern Family. FlashForward has that Lost feel to it, each week I am more and more curious to see how all this works out, and it's not because Domenic Monaghan is in it.....Modern Family is what life would be like for Al Bundy, if Peg died, he won the lotto , married some hot ass Latino, Bud turned Gay, and Kelly grew a brain and married a helpless loser......it's so good to have Ed O'Neill back in my life, I missed him.........future blogs will be dedicated to these shows.....zurica I expect something on FlashFwd, maybe you already have, I just haven't had a chance to look at your site........

Anyways now that I touched on some things, I want to introduce you to a theory of mine called Hedging your happiness. I am writing about it today because my buddy Steve, who's also one of my clients is from Philly, die hard Eagle & Phillies fan and this is a HUGE weekend for him. Absolutely huge! So we were talking about the line to the Giants/Eagles game, and being an Eagle fan he couldn't bring himself to betting on the Giants even though he thought the Giants being a pick em would win. Bottom line , he said "Cant" on an IM convo we were having. I thought this is utterly ridiculous and I'll explain why in 3 different ways below...

1) Ever play the game how much would you spend on _______ : Well if you haven't, it goes something like this , I would spend $1,000 to see the Mets win the world series, I would spend $500 to see the Giants win this weekend, I would spend 1$ to hang out with Carrot Top for a day, etc. You get the point, so in steve's case, I say hedge your happiness, if I would to ask steve if I could guarantee you how much you would spend to be sure the Eagles were to win, what would it be? Whatever that number is bet on the Giants, if the Eagles win, great!! you're happy, if the Giants win, it sucks they lost but you have a little cashola in your pocket. It's called hedging your happiness, you're diversified.

2) Fantasy Football- another huge area of hedging your happiness, I almost refuse to ever have players from my favorite team on my fantasy team. Perfect example, last year NFL week 1 Tom Brady knee explodes into a million pieces, If you are a New England Fan, you now want to drink Drano and if you drafted you're favorite player Brady, now you might actually do that. I say hedge, draft Brees in that spot instead of Manning, that way both of your teams don't get blown up.

3) Real life-you're 25, your living at home, your trying to save a couple of $, you in essence are hedging your happiness. You have $, but your not getting any ass, you decide to move out your getting ass, just have no $$, that is a perfect hedge.......unless you start making more $ , than the theory gets thrown out the window and you are happy all the time.

If anyone else can think of any good hedges let me know, I just wanted to break down TP's theory of hedging your happiness

Choosing my adventure

I was having one of those retro conversations with M.M. the other day. You know those conversations, especially if you are a child of the 80's . Do you remember Thundercats? Did you beat Super Mario Brothers? Do you remember glam rock? It seems like our generation has a great nostalgia for our youth, to remember things that bring smiles to our face, I mean we are regurgitating the 1980's everyday( See GI-Joe, Transformers, Michael Jackson) we can't get enough of it. My buddy Lou even mentioned to me once and from what I gathered about it was that we are just an uncreative generation we take things from our past, re-package, sell it, if it makes money, rinse, repeat, and do it till it eventually dies.......see Transformers 2..... anyways on that note M.M. eventually bought up the subject of the choose your own adventure books, which I absolutely loved as a kid.

Now for those who remember those books, choose your adventure basically allowed you to read up to a page in the book where there was a fork in the road to either A) go to page 53 to go one way or B) go to page 78 and go another way. As a curious little tyke I would always do both adventures, just because I always wondered what if I went one way as opposed to going the other way. Sometimes it hurts me in life because I eventually paralyze myself into just staying put and doing nothing. I tend to over think! Life would be so much easier if we could see either end of the path we choose. It would never leave us up at night question what if I went that way, what would have happened.

Thinking of my life up to this point, I truly enjoy all of the choices I have made. One of the first forks in the road in my life, was choosing college. I was choosing between Scranton and Iona or a third possibility was to stay at home in Staten Island. I ended up at Iona, and to anyone who knows me, knows how my life played out, I don't need to mention I ran Greek council or anything along those lines. What if I went to Scranton, would I be married with a kid to a girl named Beth Ann right now working for Michael Scott at Dunler Mifflin? If I stayed in Staten Island, would I have a fake tan working out 5X's a week, with cool spiky hair? Wait a sec that wouldn't even be possible, but point being I could have went that option. Instead the path I chose was to go to Iona, where I met some great people, wrecked my body and went on to my career.


That was the first major fork in the road, and of course there were many other forks in the road after that whether it be my career, my love life, and so on. I always felt that I chose the right path. In these uncertain times, again I feel like I am at a major fork in the road, sitting up at night wondering what is to be. So with that being said I'm taking an aggressive move in life. I decided in the Fall to attend Graduate School. I feel like this is a choose your own adventure book, I am about to hit 30, well at least all the surprise balloons are telling me I am. At this fork in the road, I can go many different ways, I feel like it is more than a fork. I ended up choosing this path because I feel like this can lead me to all other forks in the road, mostly good ones. If I were to choose my own adventure to go the other way, I feel like I would be left with less choices in life which ultimately led me to go this route.


Now I know this path is going to be an arduous one, hell I suck lately at posting blogs, I might not have the time to do this much more, it might just be more quick hits similar to twitter.com/tpalmeri. The first step along this road is starting up my own frat AKA Old School. I figure I get a close network of guys who can eventually take over the world with home base being 430, I hope M.M. doesn't mind serving beer from the keg on the 12Th of Sept for our inaugural rush. In all seriousness though, I do plan on taking the knowledge and contacts from school and playing it to my favor. Life is one great adventure, unfortunately we have to choose a path and go for it and not look back at what could have been. Drive fast down that lane and head straight towards your goal and don't look back, don't ever look back.


TP

TP'S Draft Blog Via Twitter!

NBA DRAFT TIME!!!!! Possibly my favorite sports day of the year. I don't know why it is, maybe it's the idea that my Knicks can be great again if they select the right guy, maybe it's watching kids who have never had a dollar in their life become instant millionaires, maybe it's hearing Jay Bilas use the same 7 adjectives over and over again I don't know why but I come back every year with more and more excitement. It's weird I watched more of the draft than the NBA finals. For some of us we love it!! Anyways last night I decided to use Twitter as an electronic diary to store my thoughts for today's blog, you can follow me at Twitter.com/tpalmeri. Anyways without further ado.........TP's draft blog..............

7:00 pm --The night starts off with a bang as not only did the beautiful Farrah Fawcett pass away after a long illness, but Michael Jackson passes away suddenly yesterday.......so bizarro just an interesting news night before my sports XMAS..........anyways here are my thoughts via Twitter. For those scoring at home the Bold, italicized stuff is my thoughts last night, today I'm going to add a little more to them........

Love when stern says the home of the knicks and the......liberty...let the wnba die alreadyabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry -

- God will the WNBA just die already, no one cares....no one at all, someone please tell Stern this, they are like the loser member of the family that the parents just can't cut off

Digging blakes purple suitabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

- Loving the purple shirt he's wearing he looks like Barney

Gail griffin looks like she was a fox when she was younger!about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I'm not sure but Gail Griffin looks pretty damn good to me today for a 50 year old

Thabeet looks like my grandfather making it up the steps of the podium never a good sign...bilas just mentioned potentialabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

God Thabeet looks terrible, raw offensive game, if you have the second pick you can't pick someone who's "Raw"

Not good when the number two pick who's 7 foot 3 has limited offensive skills....someone tells the grizzlies they're not drafting a LBabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Love harden rocking the bow tie...anyone notice rubio looks like frodo from lord of the rings? He also sounds like himabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

The bow tie was huge, I wasn't a Harden fan until I saw that and his perfectly coiffed beard! I think he has possible ROY potential in OKC

I'm so hoping the kings take frodo so the maloofs can corrupt himabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Wow he's so Frodo it's scary....http://www.thingsthatnerdsdo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/frodo.jpg and this is Rubio http://blogcesto.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ricky_rubio_1.jpg

all he's missing is those weird eyes

Ugggh there goes my sleeper knick pick!! Ty evans is going to be a beastabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I think Ty Evans can be huge, he passes my name test, hes 6'7 I like him

Minnesota on the clock do we go rubio here....does he leave spain for the winters of minnesota??about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I would pay money to see Rubio trying to dig his 4runner out from under a foot of snow after leaving Spain.

4 first round picks in the worst draft in 20 years good job minnyabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Why they have never been good EVER

Signs you're getting old I think rubios mom is my age...I'm getting giddy to hear his voice againabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Another hot mom, I think shes 25 though.....first sign of the night I'm getting old

Why do they keep making a big deal the he's 18 half the draft just came out of the wombabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Yeah one of the big running lines of the night was he's 18 , the rest of these guys are a year removed from the prom

Definition of hyperbole frashilla just used rubio and grretzky in the same sentenceabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Yeah I'm still mad about this one.....

OMG he really is frodo.... A spanish frodo!! Where is sam wise?about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I love johnny flynn...I'm still memorized by that 6 ot game....I think I went to middle school with his momabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I love Flynn a lot but after Rubio.......hmm going to be a tiny backcourt

Flynn hasn't grown since 8Th grade because he broke his ankle along a growth plate @dr.oz is that true? If so I'm using that as my storyabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

If this is true, I'm so using this story for why I have been 5'10 since freshman football

They must be doing a better job educating prospects all of them so far are coherentabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

No mumbles, no slang, these guys all sound like Barack

GSW on the board waiting for them to take curry to

hear msg explode in boosabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

There we go... The 30 year old man in the knicks jersey looks like he's going to cry...knicks on the clockabout 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I still think Curry is going to be a bust, I don't like undersized guards

Knicks on the clock...m.m. Just called my tweets are now delayedabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Of course she did, girls have innate ability to walk into the room or call in the middle of all major sporting events, it's like they just know

Loving someone holding up the lebron jersey is it 2010 yet?about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Is it 2010 yet?

Here we go...about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Jordan hill ehhh he reminds me of channing frye...ehh I do like the hair doabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I don't think this is going to make me want to get a season ticket plan

He has skills and he is a good athlete...pearls of wisdom by jay bilas...really

though he's playing in the nba I hope he doesabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Bilas is really the best, he uses the same 7 words over and over again, if he was in my english class in college he would have gotten an F on every paper for repetitiveness

Now I know why he reminds me of frye another 6 10 guy drafted 8 from zona....ps I think he just smoked pot...he sounds burnt..ugh the agonyabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

UGH

Walsh looks "content" ughh I hate being a knick fanabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Toronto I feel is going to take derzoenabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Of course they did...I wanted him on the knicks love the idea of calling him double dabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Prediction mil takes henderson to replace jefferson they have the same gameabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Joe alexander is why you don't draft white guys in the top ten 4.8 ppg last yrabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

White guys just can't play.....especially white Americans guys

Is brandon jennings a member of bel biv devoe with that haircutabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Wow BBD back again.....I love it

Nets on the clock I like dejuan here if I'm themabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I want the nets to run my stock portfolio they always sell at the perfecrt timeabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I Love the Carter trade, get rid of him right at his high, get some new faces in here, clear cap space, with V.C. as your star you are going nowhere, this is the ultimate sell high move.

Terrence williams ehh doesn't pass the name test with meabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I just can't see Marv Albert getting excited for Terrence Williams.......

Fun fact he jhad a barbie backpack in hs....has an nba player ever came out of the closet?about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Wow, just wow.........him and Brook are going to have fun together

Charlotte loves taking hometown college guys...love the shot of the lone duke guy repping the hill jersey...has to make mom proudabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I love Henderson, but can someone tell Charlotte that this is the NBA draft not a territorial draft

White guy alert white guy alert!! First one off the board congrats ind on getting 7 ppg for ten yeatsabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I'm mixed here , I guess he can be a glue guy, but I'm not sure if Indiana is going for the Hickory High School thing and going with an all white starting lineup this is about as revolutionary as Texas Western's 1966 all black starting lineup

Tyler just looked awkward chest bumping someone definitely not "athletic"about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Just realized as much as I like blair he reminds me of sweetney from georgeotwn who I loved butended up being horri ble what do I knowabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Even though he is the second coming of Sweetney I still dig him, think he will be big in S.A.

Wow amare might get traded!!! To golden state!! Wow gS going to be fun to watchabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Wow phx are great drafter too bad they tradedevery first rd pick away...earl clark louisville not loving it...wait a minute there he is BJabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

A stat came across of the their last 5 drafts, they had some pretty damn good picks that they all traded

Got to love jennings coming in behind the podium like a suprise announcerment in the wwe I was waiting for him to hit stern with a chairabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I thought he was going to pick up a chair and hit him for making him play a year in Italy instead of being able to go straight to the NBA

Earl clarks nickname is e 5 really though?? I don't knwo what I'd do without knowing thatabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

The ESPN guys are just grabbing at straws here

Just wondering would I be in the nba if I didn't injure my growth plate hmm and if so what color suit would I have worn on draft nightabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Some random thoughts

Austin daye to detroit liking the prep look on him...192 lbs though! God I would hate to live in detroit nowabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

He makes Tayshawn Prince look like Lou Farregno

Can someone teach bilas new words...he's so repetitiveabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Upside, Raw, Potential, blah

Darren daye looks like he 22...I'm def older than him...ugh I hate that I'm turning 30about 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I like that dicky vs shirt matches his lampshadeabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

At least he's not in all red like a few years ago, made him look like Beelzebub

Gosh I love jvg"s comedyabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I dont remember what he said but he sounded like a comedian about to be thrown off stage

Ughh rubio is the first player to be drafted that was born in the 90s goddam broken growth plateabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I was in 6th grade when he was born ugh

James johnsonehhabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Don't mess witrh the johnsons... All of them are kickboxers they should make a movie about themabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Sounds like a Tyler Perry movie, Don't mess with the Johnson's

With phillys pick they hsould go wioth blair a poor mans brandabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Jrue holiday to philly...his frist name confuses meabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Jrue---what the hell kind of name is that, did they misspell Drew?

All of these tweets will be on www.tpsmusings.com tomorrow check It outabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I smell either trade or they're telling telfair please leave our city right this very moment....they should play fly,telf,laws,rubio togetheabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Ty to den I like itabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

utah s such a smart franchise....love the maynor pick....might be the best pg of the draft!about 13 hours ago from web

I like Maynor since I saw him rip apart Duke two years ago, I'm still mad about that

like the collison pick.....actually i lie i hate this whole draft!about 13 hours ago from web

The trailblazers just drafted someone who soiunds like an authorabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Got to love shaqabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Wow that's a first 6 guys with an israeli flags cheering at msg...jewish jordan??about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Don't mess with the Zohan

Bilas on mavs 7'1 draft pick mullens..."He has good size"... Canyt believe he's a basketball analystabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Bilas is always very informative

Harden reminds me of mitch richmond would like to see them draft blair here...I think I ha ve a man crush on blairabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Wow where's guadeloupe?? I shoukd knoiw this okc drafted a guy from thereabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

They're scouting everywhere these days

I'm confused dal and okc just swapped picks...why not just draft them in order?about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I like taj to the bulklsabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Sign this is a bad draftnumber 32 memphis firstrdpick at 27 might beed a kidney transplantabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I guess that's up there with a broken growth plate

Nice pickup by the wolves there I like ellingtonabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

The darko and danilo era has begun!!!about 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

I feel like we are creating the axis now from WWII, they should make a documentary about Darko and Danilo hitting the town on a Saturday night looking for ladies, could have such a high comedy appeal

Love love love the tony douglas pick he will be a knick for ten yearsabout 13 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Great name

I know nothing of the guy from the congoabout 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry

@kevin_love hahahaha especially the guadolopean guyabout 12 hours ago from web in reply to kevin_love

Im done after 1 rd can t tweet no more.....need some z'sabout 12 hours ago from web

I thought I was done I love san antonio...they toolk one of my fav players blair I think hell be a nice asset for themabout 12 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Well my fingers are absolutely killing me, on that note. It's weekend time, RIP MJ AND FF

TP

Monday morning rant

It's Monday, my weekend is done I am back in the office for another 5 days, so I feel like ranting!! ..... This monday morning rant has to do with physical fitness. I personally have been trying to get in shape for some time now and I feel I'm making some good headway in doing so, now I'm by no means the Hulk yet but I feel I'm getting to that point. Usually on a nice day I like to head on out for a little bit of a run, I have a preset path, I get my Nikes on, a t-shirt, a pair of shorts and go.....sometimes I believe I'm Rocky running through the streets of Philadelphia, then I realize after 1/2 of a mile when I begin to tire that I'm not that guy.........anyways I'm completely jumping off the subject of my rant, my rant this morning has to do with that "guy", the guy who is Rocky, who feels the need to run with his shirt off on a 70 degree day. I hate this guy. Not only does he look like the world's biggest tool running down the street without any garments, he also gets M.M. to make googly eyes and then make up some sort of lame coverup about how great I am. .... Blah!! ........ I mean seriously can this guy put on a shirt, that's great that you have a 6 pack go to the beach, I dont need to see you parading it through my neighborhood, it makes the rest of guys look bad and feel bad that we had that extra piece of bread over dinner the night before.........The question that I end up pondering is if I end up turning into this guy would I just start running naked through the streets? Granted I sound a little angry, maybe a little jealous, but If I got the body to look like that would I be that guy?? Would M.M. let me be that guy?? Would she yell at me to put on a T-shirt before I left the lair?? All intriguing questions..........I'll let all of you know in a few months when I am super buff ;)

P.S. I would like to also rant about the guy who runs with the way too short shorts......come on dude, really? You can't spend the extra 50 cents on some more thread???

On that note, back to work

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