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!)

No Such Thing as an Offseason

Wow.
That is all I have to say after a huge day in the Major League Baseball world. I spent all day at school wondering who I would find on the Mitchell Report that afternoon.
Some names, Bonds, Vaughn, Canseco, Ja. Giambi, for example, were no surprise to me, but some of the names on that list completely blew me out of the water. Basically the whole Orioles starting lineup was on the list, along with players who aren't even great "superstars", or players I have never even heard of. The ones that probably surprised me the most were Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens, two of (who I thought) were a couple of the hardest working players in baseball. Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez also floored me. I just find it hard to believe that such a hard working player with a background from a third-world life, would result to using performance-enhancing drugs. Why can't people just be happy with their God-given talent and luxurious lives they had before trying to up their game. It just goes to show that humans beings are never content with what they have. Everything always has to be better, and we are willing to do anything to acheive it.
So now for the aftermath. What happens to all these players, esp. the ones who are still active in baseball? I guess we will find that out shortly.
The thing about this whole mess that I get the biggest kick out of is that A-Rod is still the best all around player in the country, and probably the world, and has never injected himself with anything. See steroiders, success can be achieved with a little thing called HARD WORK! Steroid users are just a bunch of over-paid couch potatoes who are too lazy to work for what they want, so they just decide they will cheat. YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT!

Days go by....

The mavs were POUNDED by Toronto tonight. I dont know what happened, I'm just glad I was at a make-up drivers ed class so I didn't have to endure it! I made a 73 on a chemistry test today but still have a 100 average in the class after a 127 on the last test.
COMMERCIAL: something cool I learned in drivers ed class tonight is that if you are a game warden, you have to move every 5 years, BUT, every five years you will get a brand new house, a brand new truck, a brand new bass boat, and all the brand new weapons you need. How awesome is that!?
I don't quite agree w/ Terrell Owens trash talking to Keyshawn Johnson, because Keyshaun Johnson made a great point. TO just needs to learn to take criticism, heck, he's in the NFL, there's gonna be criticism!
Now get this. Our school has homecoming for basketball since we don't have football. Here's the schedule for homecoming week-Monday-dress up day, Tuesday-college day, Wednesday-carreer day, Thursday-Spirit Day, Friday-Decades day. Ummmm....am I missing something? Shouldn't decades day be Thursday and Spirit Day be Friday, since the actual homecoming game is Friday??? Duhhhhh cmon! They are doing this because the pep rally is Thursday, since we have homeroom classes Thursday, but not on Friday. WHO WANTS A PEP RALLY ON THURSDAY FOR A GAME THAT'S ON FRIDAY????????? ALL THE "PEP" WILL BE GONE BY FRIDAY. OUR SCHOOL SPIRIT IS BAD ENOUGH ALREADY!
Ok enough for the caps, but homecoming is the biggest day of the school year for us and I don't agree with everything that is going on behind the scenes.
I am ready for post-homecoming too. Can you say partaaaaaay!!! I know I can.
I really wish I could stay up for this whole Phoenix/Utah game. Top two scoring teams in the NBA mono y mono baby! Buuuuuuttt, it will be over late in CST time and I need all the rest I can get for Homecoming so I can blow the top off Friday nite!
Prolly won't blog tomorrow cuz I have another make up drivers ed class (last one!!...I think!) and/or count of Monte Cristo reading for English class:( c ya after Homecoming!!!!!!!!!!

top 10

Pretty boring day aside from the Mavs beating up on the hapless Knicks and the Stars up on Edmonton, so I thought I would make a list of my top ten favorite athletes ever.

1. Derek Jeter
2. Alex Rodriguez
3. Mike Modano
4. Henry Aaron
5. Mariano Rivera
6. Tony Romo
7. Wayne Gretzky
8. Sidney Crosby
9. Joe Nieuwendyk
10. Last but not least, Brett Hull, for winning the Dallas Stars the Stanley Cup

Honorable Mentions:
Derian Hatcher
Michael Jordan
Dirk Nowitzki
Terrell Owens
Bill Buckner (haha)
Aaron Boone (cant deny that homer in Game 7 vs. BoSox)

Verse of the day: Philippians 4:6-7

sOrE!!!

Super sore after whiterock today. I felt like i ran fairly fast though (at least for someone who is in basketball). We finished first in our division after a third place finish last year, and did purdy good over all. I am disappointed after the effort the Steel put forth tonight trying to knock off the Pats. That was the last chance for anyone to beat the Pats. I guarantee an undefeated season IF they don't rest their starters. The Colts are massacring the Ravens right now, and I am just waiting for sumthing about the White Rock to come on the news. I'm also not 100% happy w/ the Cowboys today even though they won. I didn't see any passion until that last TD pass to Witten. We have a double-dip tomorrow night with the Stars at home vs the LA Kings, and the Mavs at Madison Square Garden to square off with the Knicks (why even watch). I have a so-so opinion about the Rangers signing Milton Bradley. They need an outfielder but I think they need to sign someone they are willing to keep on this team long term. Just one more week (not counting finals) till Christmas break. This should just be a review week for finals so hopefully not too much homework ;) Congrats to all marathoners and half-marathoners and relayers!!!!

Whiterock Time!

Just four more days till the Whiterock marathon (relay). Running the 6.2 mile anchor leg. I have a basketball tournametn thursday friday and saturday. I hope not to be too fatigued. It should be fun though. It was really fun last year;)

Slumping:(

Its getting to the point of insane. I havent scored more than six points like the last six games, after averaging thirteen the first five games or so. Shots just arent falling. Its just a really long slump.Just gotta keep shootin'. Disappointed to hear that Yanks dropped out of the race to get Santana. Today is just another day closer to baseball:)

Monday:(

Mavs are looking better against the bulls. I cant watch much though. I have been swamped with homework last weekend and tonight after our bball tournament in houston thurs. fri. and sat. Cant wait to see montreal visit the aac on the 23rd of december. nosebleed seats but hey who cares the tickets are free. Yanks resigned pettitte today. they have a pretty good rotation now, esp. if they get santana. The rotation would most likely be Santana, Wang, Moose, Joba, and Phil Hughes, bullpen concerns are still there though, even though Mariano re-signed. Stars won in SO so thats good. I love the fact that each day that passes is a day closer to baseball. NE pats actually looking mediocre tonight against the ravens. they will come back though and win.

What up w/ the mavs?

the mavs just lost to new orleans and i dont think they are as good as they were last year. They have already lost half as many games as they did last year, and if you cant beat the pacers, hornets or bucks, you are dead against the elite of the west. I think they will pick it up though, just a slow start. Keep the faith.

Please give advice about yankee stadium

aside from the rangers i am also an avid fan of the evil empire the new york yankees. i plan on traveling from texas to the bronx next summer to see the house that ruth built. comment if you have any advice on getting around yankee stadium or the bronx or any other tourist attraction in the bronx. my youth pastor originally from new jersey has already told me not to stop at the red lights or stop signs in the bronx! lol. comment if you have any advice

Down with Daniels and Hicks

Im tired of john daniels and tom hicks ruining my being a fan of my beloved texas rangers by making bone head decisions. Lets count all the players that are having decent if not all star careers elsewhere: Chris YOung pitching in San diego, Adrian gonzalez playing along young at first base, and who did the rangers get for him? Adam eaton who was injured for a majority of the year and left after his only year there (???) John danks is pitching well in the white sox organization, and doug davis is a solid starting pitcher for the brewers. somebody please tell me why all this is happening!