The Summer So Far

I know it's been a while since I've written on this thing, so let me bring you up to speed...

well that's about it.

Nah,  just kidding.  I've been busy watching baseball, soccer football, watching my lawn die and then come back better than ever, and thinking about slapping someone with a restraining order or at least change my phone number.  But tonight is the MLB All-Star game, and as much as I love baseball, the All-Star game is pretty useless and its a good opportunity to update this thing.  So first things first:


Cliff Lee is a Texas Ranger!!!  That is HUGE.  It increases the Rangers chances to make the playoff by about a thousand.  Cliff Lee = WINS.  He came to Texas with a 2.34 ERA can go deep in games which will benefit the bullpen (even though his first outing with the Rangers SUUUUUCKED).  I know it's a bit early to be talking playoffs, but let me dream, ok.  Its all I got.

 I will postpone getting a new A/C for playoff tickets if possible.

In other news, my yard is looking the best as its ever looked.  Well, at least the front yard.  The back yard looks like crap, but no one ever sees that so I don't care.  You know, kinda like how if you live your life looking like you've got everything together outside looks good to everyone else, it really doesn't matter what kind of garbage and turmoil is on the inside.  That's how I live my life, anyway.  Well, I do that and make remarks in blogs that I really hope people pick up as sarcasm.  If they don't, then I'll more than likely end up on the bad end of an unnecessary intervention. 

Back to the yard.  I've got a problem with my Mexican neighbor.  He mows it all crooked and it looks bad.  I've tried to talk to him about it, but he doesn't speak English.  Oh, and I mow my lawn an inch or so higher than he does, because it's better for the grass.  So most of the time the property line ends up looking something like this:

Yes, he was actually mowing in a sombrero one day.

I really don't know what to do at this point.  I've done everything short of putting a fence up to try to get this guy to mow in a straight line.  And I would make some comment about how its just my luck to live next to the only Mexican in the country that doesn't know how to mow a lawn, but I'm not a stand-up comic and can't get away with making politically incorrect statement like that.  So I won't.

Surprise news of the year, I'm a football fan.  I'm not talking about Pittsburgh Steelers football.  I'm talking about Fédération Internationale de Football Association.  The World Cup was crazy and of course I followed the US team as much as possible.  But I also found myself doing things like waking up early on Saturdays to watch matches and taking really late lunches to watch matches of teams I know nothing about.  I even caught myself watching a couple of Major League Soccer games.  I already knew a little, like some of the big name:  Landon Donovan, Cristiano Ronaldo and my personal favorite since 2007, England's Wayne Rooney.  

Getting in a bar fight with Wayne Rooney on my side is on my Bucket List.

Now I know other big names and have more favorites like Didier Drogba, Diego Forlan and Wesley Sniejder.  I also got to know some of the players that I really don't care for, like David Villa, Luis Suarez and John Pantsil (I really have nothing against Pantsil, it's just fun to say his name).  If I'm still into this stuff in 2014, I'm going to Brazil.  And now that its over for this year, maybe I can get out and live a little.  So I can have something interesting to say next go round and it won't be so sports heavy.  

Here is the "Write the Future" commercial that Nike made for The 2010 World Cup.  It's got and awesome song, "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, that starts playing at the Wayne Rooney part (0:45).  Alright, I'm off to write my future.