KOSUKE!

The worst part about the first full day of baseball is that it's on a Monday. Fortunately I have a rather flexable schedule and the rain in Chicago allowed me to listen to the begining and watch the end of the Cubs-Brewers game. I'm looking forward to taking in the Twins-Angels tonight on ESPN as Torii Hunter plays his first game in the Metrodome as a visitor.

But right now while messing around with the layout of the blog I just witnessed the first MLB home run of Kosuke Fukudome. After watching Kerry Wood give up 3 runs in the top of the 9th of a scoreless game that saw Carlos Zambrano leave early with cramping in his pitching hand (I've never seen a team with more cramping problems than the Cubs over the past couple years). Fukudome came up after the great Eric Gagne (seriously this guy was named in the Mitchell Report after he was given a $10 million contract this off-season, my first nominee for the bone head move of the season) walked the previous two batters and crushed one to right center field to tie the game at 3.

More to come....

Bull shit, Cubs lose 4-3 in 10 innings. Heroics wasted....

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

Well not really, I guess that's reserved for Christmas, but this really is a great time of the year for sports fans. You have the NCAA tournament for the next 2 weeks, baseball's opening night is tonight, The Masters is in 2 weeks, and the Frozen Four is in 2 weeks. There was plenty of action last night....

(1) North Carolina - 78, (4) Louisville - 74
I know what you're thinking, Louisville was a #3 seed and I got the score all messed up. Acutally this was the score from women's NCAA tournament last night. I didn't watch a minute of the game, but I thought it was interesting that the two schools faced each other in both tournaments last night.

NCAA Hockey
So far Michigan and Notre Dame have advanced to the Frozen Four with the final 2 teams to be determined today. Wisconsin will play North Dakota and Miami (Ohio) takes on Boston College. I try to follow WCHA Hockey during the season and I do my best to watch the Frozen Four. I'm a little bummed because the Minnesota Gophers lost last night to Boston College. The Gophers really turned things around at the end of the season. At the end of the regular season the were not expected to get invited to the NCAA tournament. After a run to the WCHA Final Five championship the secured their berth in the tourney only to be sent off to Worchester, MA to face the Boston College Eagles in the 1st round. Anyways, the Gophers lost so now I have to root for the winner of the North Dakota/Wisconsin match up as they will be the only remaining WCHA representative. I can't believe I just said that I was going to root for one of these teams. North Dakota is really good, Miami (Ohio) held down the top spot for a good portion of the year, but they have slipped lately and needed overtime to take down Air Force last night. Michigan is the odds on favorite and I think they will again take home the championship. Here's an interesting little twist to the North Dakota/Wisconsin matchup later today. The game is being played in Madison, WI. North Dakota is the #1 seed in the region and Wisconsin is the #3, but Wisconsin will have a huge home ice advantage. Welcome to the way every other NCAA Division 1 championship works other than football and basketball.

NCAA Tournament
Wow, North Carolina is good and UCLA put together their best game of the tournament so far. I didn't watch much of the UCLA/Xavier game since I was watching the Minnesota/Boston College Hockey game, but from what I can gather the game was never in question. I was able to catch the end of the UNC/Louisville game. When I turned on the game it was only a 4 point game as Louisville had mounted a big comeback. Then the wheels came off and Tyler Hansbrough took over. I really hate North Carolina, but I just can't help but love Hansbrough. I'm really looking forward to today's games I think Memphis falls today to Texas. I know this is the popular pick just because no one believes in Memphis, but I really like Texas. The Kansas/Davidson matchup should be fun. Stephan Curry has been just amazing for Davidson, but I think the ride ends today. Kansas just has too many weapons.

I'm really not sure where this whole blog thing is going to lead, but I'm going to try to post a couple times a week and see if I have any fun doing it.

Metro (1997)

I was up really, really late tonight and I caught the movie Metro on TBS. Eddie Murphy played a cop hunting down a jewel thief who killed a friend and took his girl friend hostage. Michael Rapaport also stars in the movie as Murphy's negotiator in training.

This wasn't a bad movie. I have to say I don't think I've ever watched a movie with Eddie Murphy where he played a dramatic role. There isn't much humor in the movie like you usually expect from Murphy or Rapaport. To be honest I only watched this movie because I got busy doing some work and drinking a couple beers and next thing I knew I got hooked. That seems to happen a lot with movies on TBS, TNT, FX, USA, etc. I've always liked Eddie Murphy and I just love Michael Rapaport. I was seriously bummed when his series The War at Home was taken off the air. It was one of the top priorities on my TiVo. Anyways, this movie isn't bad. It held my attention at this late hour of the evening (I guess morning). The action is decent and the story isn't half bad. If you are a fan of action cop movies I guess this one would be right up your alley. I give it 3.5 out of 4 stars.

Kickoff

Well let's just get this endeavor started. More than likely I will soon move on to other things and forget completely about this blog. Also, more than likely is that fewer than 20 people will ever read it. Oh well let's give this a shot.

My name is Tony, I'm a 30 year old husband, father and sports junkie. I'm starting this blog mainly as a vessel for my responses to my now fellow blogger CSD72 over at Confessions of A Sports Junkie. CSD is one of the people in this world that I tend to live vicariously through. Along with a number of other people he is my link to the freedom that I once enjoyed. Not saying that I don't love my life, but we all have to make choices. I got married and had a kid and the wild and crazy road trips and insane weekends quickly came to a end. The purpose of this blog is to give me an outlet for my thoughts on all things sports, politic, pop culture and whatever else my mind wanders to on a given day while hopefully bringing a few laughs and periodic contemplation to whom ever happens to wander on to the site. So check back from time to time. Hopefully some one will enjoy the trip...