Thinking is easy, but the doing is hard.
Been inspired to edit my blog after reading tons of professional blogs over the past week and adding on an "about me" section, and sample "professional work". Having specific tags and themes for each post, rather than clumping everything into one. Hmm.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Still trying to figure how to construct this post, of random thoughts classified into their respective sports. Incoherency enters the bloodstream when on the booze wagon, but not now. It can't rock me like a hurricane. I need to have some form of structure, and practice what I parrot to students when judging debates/giving them constructive feedback.
AL Baseball: Less than two weeks till the season is over. So much for Anaheim overpaying for Albert Pujols and CJ Wilson. They didn't live up to the hype. Third place in the AL West? Who would have thought that Oakland, with a paltry payroll would be playing bridesmaid to Texas in vying for a spot for the wildcard? Not me. Mark Trumbo and Mike Trout are the future of Anaheim. Not a fan of the team, my gut feeling has Trout winning AL Rookie of the year in a landslide. (Sorry, Pat- your Angels will be staying home in October after a good 4, 5 months of trash talking with you about Angels rocking and my Yankees that suck as you said. Still friends, yea?)
Boston could very well lose 90 games for the first time since the 90's when I was still in elementary school. Bobby Valentine was clearly not the right candidate as the skipper for the team. Right from the get-go of the season, the Red Sox played the slow and painful sinking of the Titanic, ironically on the hundredth anniversary. No prizes for guessing this: Who played the Captain? Bobby Valentine, of course! What a way to go down in style. The Red Sox season has been a soap opera and a bad drama series with nothing but arguing and deceit and accusations. No fried chicken, beer guzzling and video gaming sob's like last year. Well, Josh Beckett, one of the main culprits has been shipped off to the Dodgers with the poster bust child, Carl Crawford.
As for the AL Central, the White Sox might very well win the division and could be a cinderella come October. Robin Ventura has done a fantastic job, going above and beyond expectations in his rookie season as manager. Detroit was supposed to have ran away with the division, but no.
Last but not least, the Yankees have attempted to pull a Red Sox of 2011 collapse in the final month. Baltimore is neck-in-neck with them, the leech that refuses to fall off your skin despite multiple burnings. That's how I view the Orioles. It annoys me that I get so stressed and nerve-wrecked because no win is safe, and two straight losses could spell the takeover and lead given to the Orioles.
Come on Yankees!!!
The NL in one blab: The Phillies season has been an ultimate failure. Washington's dominance has signaled a changing of the guard. The Reds are either hot or ice cold. They might flame out in the division series. So much for Ozzie Guillen's first season in Miami. He couldn't walk the talk and could walk the plank this offseason and end up in the unemployment sack. The Giants have done surprisingly well despite Melky Cabrera's suspension. Dodgers are an ultimate flop. Houston won't do any better next season when they move to the AL West.
In other words, I've had a rough past month(s) and am no longer at that job. It's a learning experience for sure. And to a certain someone, I'm glad we're still friends. :)
Oh, and in college football news, what do Matt Barkley and Peyton Manning have in common? Both have failed to beat their biggest rival teams in every collegiate season they've played. Matt Barkley failed to beat Stanford, with last week's loss to the Cardinals, in his senior season.
Someone met Ben Howland and the UCLA team in China. I'm jealous. Would've been a million times even more if it was the UNC team.
AL Baseball: Less than two weeks till the season is over. So much for Anaheim overpaying for Albert Pujols and CJ Wilson. They didn't live up to the hype. Third place in the AL West? Who would have thought that Oakland, with a paltry payroll would be playing bridesmaid to Texas in vying for a spot for the wildcard? Not me. Mark Trumbo and Mike Trout are the future of Anaheim. Not a fan of the team, my gut feeling has Trout winning AL Rookie of the year in a landslide. (Sorry, Pat- your Angels will be staying home in October after a good 4, 5 months of trash talking with you about Angels rocking and my Yankees that suck as you said. Still friends, yea?)
Boston could very well lose 90 games for the first time since the 90's when I was still in elementary school. Bobby Valentine was clearly not the right candidate as the skipper for the team. Right from the get-go of the season, the Red Sox played the slow and painful sinking of the Titanic, ironically on the hundredth anniversary. No prizes for guessing this: Who played the Captain? Bobby Valentine, of course! What a way to go down in style. The Red Sox season has been a soap opera and a bad drama series with nothing but arguing and deceit and accusations. No fried chicken, beer guzzling and video gaming sob's like last year. Well, Josh Beckett, one of the main culprits has been shipped off to the Dodgers with the poster bust child, Carl Crawford.
As for the AL Central, the White Sox might very well win the division and could be a cinderella come October. Robin Ventura has done a fantastic job, going above and beyond expectations in his rookie season as manager. Detroit was supposed to have ran away with the division, but no.
Last but not least, the Yankees have attempted to pull a Red Sox of 2011 collapse in the final month. Baltimore is neck-in-neck with them, the leech that refuses to fall off your skin despite multiple burnings. That's how I view the Orioles. It annoys me that I get so stressed and nerve-wrecked because no win is safe, and two straight losses could spell the takeover and lead given to the Orioles.
Come on Yankees!!!
The NL in one blab: The Phillies season has been an ultimate failure. Washington's dominance has signaled a changing of the guard. The Reds are either hot or ice cold. They might flame out in the division series. So much for Ozzie Guillen's first season in Miami. He couldn't walk the talk and could walk the plank this offseason and end up in the unemployment sack. The Giants have done surprisingly well despite Melky Cabrera's suspension. Dodgers are an ultimate flop. Houston won't do any better next season when they move to the AL West.
In other words, I've had a rough past month(s) and am no longer at that job. It's a learning experience for sure. And to a certain someone, I'm glad we're still friends. :)
Oh, and in college football news, what do Matt Barkley and Peyton Manning have in common? Both have failed to beat their biggest rival teams in every collegiate season they've played. Matt Barkley failed to beat Stanford, with last week's loss to the Cardinals, in his senior season.
Someone met Ben Howland and the UCLA team in China. I'm jealous. Would've been a million times even more if it was the UNC team.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
A million thoughts running through my head, but nothing concrete and definite coming out. Been stuck in a rut, in the mud, and can't figure a way out. I need to write. Badly. And the thoughts aren't able to flow properly. The cross between a hurricane and the aftermath when everything is gone and damaged.
Dreams come crashing down like a helicopter shot down in a war torn country. Head down, in a funk. Downward spiral, falling faster, deeper into the pits of the unknown. The feeling of being pulled even further by quicksand sucking you in like going down a never ending drain pipe leading into the sewage, full of darkness. No hope, no chance of survival of reaching sturdy ground to stand on, a free disaster, death wish. Maybe death could come faster and spare the pain and agony and terrifying hell?
Dreams come crashing down like a helicopter shot down in a war torn country. Head down, in a funk. Downward spiral, falling faster, deeper into the pits of the unknown. The feeling of being pulled even further by quicksand sucking you in like going down a never ending drain pipe leading into the sewage, full of darkness. No hope, no chance of survival of reaching sturdy ground to stand on, a free disaster, death wish. Maybe death could come faster and spare the pain and agony and terrifying hell?
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