Just Keep Going

Pretty boring first day back at school after the Christmas break. We watched basically the most boring movie in chemistry during 8th period so that pretty much put an exclamation point on the boring day. Tomorrow won't be boring though. We get our state Cross-country rings and t-shirts and play one of our arch-rivals in our third district basketball game.
I got around to watching the Roger Clemens press conference from today, and don't know what to think. I wouldn't be surprised either way. If I had to pick one, I would say that he is innocent because I don't think someone would go through all of the trouble that he has gone thru if they knew they were guilty, and Roger Clemens seems to have been a moral, honest person in the past.
The Stars finally ended their 4-game skid with a 3-1 win over Minnesota tonight at the AAC, althought their power play was still stalling going 2 for the last 32 in previous games. They went 0 for whatever tonight. The penalty kill in ON FIRE though, so that's good.
Exactly twelve weeks till baseball time in Texas (84 days for those who don't want to do the math.) It feels like it should be sooner though with the 80+ degree weather here in Texas the past few days!!!

Dog Days of Winter...

92 days till baseball.
I can't stop thinking about it. It takes basketball, football, and hockey to tide me over to baseball.
I can't wait till the time on Opening Day when Chuck Morgan utters the hallowed words, "Ladies and gentlemen, it's baseball time in Texas." Those words are on the wall of my room reminding me that every second that goes by is getting closer to "baseball time in Texas."

!Feliz Navidad!

Merry Christmas everybody. I had an excellent Christmas and got most of the things I asked for, including an autographed picture of Nolan Ryan after getting hit in the mouth with a line drive with the blood everywhere, which I thought there was no way I was getting. It was a total fluke thing. My aunt knew I wanted one and she went to a local craft show and there happened to be a memorabilia dealer there and she asked if they had a Nolan Ryan autographed Bloody Lip picture and they said yes and it was a done deal.
I also got a personalized framed picture of my name on the Yankee Stadium scoreboard during a game. It's pretty awesome too.
I also thought I wasn't getting a set of golf clubs to replace the ones I've grown out of, but I got that too. Now I can play golf without needing Knee-Savers.
A Rangers 10-pack of tickets also came my way. I'm so excited about being able to drive to Arlington myself for games since I get my license in March. Now a 10-pack actually means "10" instead of "5" since I had to have a parent go. (Nothing against my parents they are awesome and I love going to games with them.)
The Uncle John Bathroom Reader I got is also pretty fun too. It has a ton of interesting, funny, and amazing stuff in there, and I even learned how to make and origami toilet. It looks pretty rough but hey, it's a toilet. Sometimes that's all you need.
A couple pairs of pajama pants, some golf balls, a book of Psalms written in some pretty language, a Target card and a set of like 118 Black and Decker drill bits round it out.
I made myself a Baseball Opening Day Countdown Thing (97 pieces of paper and a bunch of staples and your imagination) where I can tear off one piece of paper daily and then see how much days left till Opening Day (March 31st).
One of my good friends passed on a tradition to me that his friend started a while back. You take a "fish" fishing lure and put it in the corner of the roof of your car and when someone else that does it sees that they pray for you. It is a neat deal and I plan on passing it on to my friends. In return I gave him a Krusty doll from The Simpsons that I won from a vending machine at a Fuddruckers in Austin after the State Championship cross-country meet.
Two more weeks till the break is over and we have to get back to school but that's a good thing b/c we are getting our State Rings presented to us between basketball games the Tuesday that we get back.
I had a great Christmas with friends and family and God has blessed my family and me in so many ways.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Victory

Great game tonight at the AAC. 4-1 Dallas Stars win over Montreal. Good hard fought game and Montreal pretty much gave us two goals. Marty Turco stepped up, allowing just one goal, coming in the third period. Mike "Ribs" Ribeiro had a great night against his hometown and former team, ending up with a goal and two helpers. The game got off to a pretty physical start, basically just because of some good checks from Steve Ott. Even Mike Modano got into it with a Canadien and he never fights! Stars just keep on rollin', although I don't think anybody will catch the Red Wings barring a meltdown. But it's early so we can't say that yet. Dallas has been holding on to that 2 spot in the Western Conference for a while, but I keep having to remind myself that it's way to early to start predicting and the 2-8 spots at one point were all within 3 points of each other, and then you have games at hand and all that mess to sort thru, so let's just wait until February or March and then sort things out from there!

Dumb and Dumber

Tom Hicks and Jon Daniels made yet another bonehead decision today. I honestly don't know why I even let it surprise me anymore. Edinson Volquez, one who most say has the best stuff of any young pitcher in baseball, is off to Cincy for (what do you know) another outfielder in Josh Hamilton. Nothing against Josh Hamilton but WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE OUTFIELDERS! Let's think this through. Starting pitching has been our weakness basically forever, so why don't we just send off all of young pitchers to have all-star careers elsewhere, while we keep the players we get out of the deal for one year and send them off too.

A big Texas-sized your welcome from Tom Hicks and JD for giving you a pitcher that is going to have a break-out season one of these years while we have another mediocre outfielder we don't even need.

Dr. Pepper Commercial

I'm sitting there wondering what to blog about for today since I haven't blogged in a few days and don't want to blog about the homecoming loss. The shamed Dr. Pepper commercial comes on. That drives me nuts. It was a funny commercial for a while (a while meaning THREE MONTHS AGO!!!). It should have been gone a long long time ago. For those who don't know I am talking about the one with the big lineman scoring a touchdown and pulling a DP out of his sock (what lineman carries a celebration prop in his sock? I can see T.O. doing it but not a lineman.) and dancing around and then jumping off the goalpost. I have lost all of my liking of that commercial.

TGIS

Since I made a list of my ten favorite athletes a few days ago I am going to make a list of sports figures that are in my dog house before todays post. (in no particular order)

1. Barry Bonds (cheater)

2. Benet Salvator (bailed out the out-of-control dwyane wade, allowing him to make two free throws to win the Game 5 of the 2006 NBA finals)

3. Bruce Bowen (he's so dirty and he's the most hated player in the NBA and he's overrated)

4. Manny Ramirez (he's such a hotdog)

5. David Stern (I think he's the ANTICHRIST)

6. Mike Lowell (I just don't like him)

7. Jeremy Shockey (the biggest whining baby in all of sports)

8. Lance Armstrong (he somehow thinks he beat cancer all by himself AND used 'roids)

9. PA announcer for the San Antonio Spurs (has his voice started changing yet?)

10. Mike D'antoni (you can't have 3 first names!)