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MLB

Well I started looking ahead tonight to the baseball season. Not that my girlfriend cares... college football is her game. Longhorn fan. So she almost cried twice during the Rose Bowl but that all disappeared as Dusty Mangum's 37 yard field goal sailed over the goal post. She's already started her countdown to next years season. No other sport exists for her. But she'll be a Cub fan before the season is over. Oh she will be. *rubs hands maniacally*

But anyway, looks like Sammy will be around another season. Imagine no one wanting to pick up his 17 million dollar contract. The Mets decided to go for Carlos Beltran instead. Which leads me to my rant... Why the hell would Carlos Beltran want to play for the fucking Mets?

Scuse the F-bomb there... but I felt it was necessary. Why right now would anyone want to play for the Mets? I can't remember their last winning season. Last their 71-91 record is much to behold. At least the Cubs had a winning season. But there's no mystique in being a Mets. They're like the Yankees bastard step child.

And being a Yankee I could understand (almost.) Putting on Yankee Pin Stripes would be quite the thrill. Rather like being a Red Sox and first walking on to Fenway field. But a Met?

We all know it comes down to ca$h. The Cubs put their bid in on Beltran for 5 years and $58 million. But does anyone in the league play for a team because they want to anymore. Mark Grace stayed with the Cubs as long as they'd let him. As did Ryne Sandberg, who made his way into Canton, Ohio this week.

But what happened to the day when you were in Beltran's position and you could just say, "you know, I wanna be a Cub. They need help." No instead it's "Let's be a met cause their offer is 10 million more than anyone."

I mean I understand the love of the almighty dollar. I'm a guy who just wants stuff. Just nutty stuff. You know, like health insurance and a car I can trust to drive me over 20 miles. :) But once you've made 50 million how much more god damn money can you possibly need?

In other news, I can't stop playing the damn XBOX. I've even started playing the tennis game that came with it. It's really good. I don't even like tennis. But XBOX magazine gave it a 9.0 The only thing I've ever liked about tennis is well, Anna. And while I'm at it, let's take another hot look at Anna.

Ahhhhh. Anna. Yeah she's probably a bitch but .... *sigh*

Anyway, it's not a bad game. It took me about an hour to even win a game... not a mtch just a game. It took probably 15 minutes to hit a ball back... let alone volley. But I've started a career, looks remarkably like my girlfriend (the girls don't hit as hard as the guys) and I won my first tourney.

Been having problems with service pack 2. Evil Spyware was the cause. So I'm using Microsoft's beta of their new Antispyware. And it's awesome.

So finally getting service pack 2 installed meant I can finally use my dazzle software I got for Christmas. So expect a couple of video posts in the coming weeks.

Till then TTFN- Ta ta for now.

Matt

Posted by matty at January 9, 2005 01:00 AM