Alright, time for the mega post. There has been a lot of stuff going on, World Cup, MLB hitting the half way point (plus my domination of fantasy baseball), Pirates of the Carribbean 2, Borat Movie, hot chocolate and huge northerns, terrorist pussies, Zizou headers and much much more.
I'll try and touch on a few things here, first up World Cup. Now I know Teeblahggers are relatively solid on the soccer appreciation tip, but I have to say this WC was tremendous and
this guy may be the world's biggest idiot. Not often am I embarrassed to be a Minnesotan but this was definitely once. Here is some
reaction. Apparently he still has his
job.Anyways, as I am sure you know by now
the Italians have taken the cup despite being seriously outplayed for much of the final. It is too bad this game had to go to PK's but after running around for 120 minutes you have to do something. This totally played against the French however, as there their top penalty takers were off by the time it happened, Thierry Henry striker extraordinare gets cramped up and French captain/national hero/demi-god Zinedane Zidane gets a red card in the 110th minute for a sweet
headbutt/spearing of Italian defenseman Marco Materazzi. Here's an
alternate theory on what happened from the Daily show. I'm sure you can find a shitload more about the whole deal with not a lot of trouble so I'll leave it at that and get to the goals.
Here are some
top goals from the first half of the tournament. Here are some more great goal clips from youtube, choose your own genre!
CLUBMIX 50Cent! Eye of the Tiger! Shakira! (not just goals on this clip) Here is a cool one of
sweet goals from previous WC's. And finally my personal Top 6, you've seen these in the other mixes but oh well.
6. Philip Lahm is a defenseman for christ's sake.
5. Argentina plays with the opposititon for a minute (24 PASSES) before Cambiasso's Finish.
4. Tomas Rosicky shits on USA's hopes early in the tourney.
3. Torsten Frings blazes a shot that is just stupid.
2. Maxi Rodriguez hits the game winner in the second round against Mexico.
1. England's Joe Cole is out of control.
On to baseball! The Twins seem to have some life in them thanks to Francisco Liriano, 10-1 1.83 ERA 102 k's and .97 WHIP, Justin Morneau .300 BA 23 HR 73 RBI .939 OPS and, Joe Mauer .378 BA 7 HR 45 RBI .981 OPS. They enter the break 9 games out of the wild card despite dropping 2 of 3 to the Royals and Rangers. That shit has to stop. Sure winning every game is a little much to ask but we need to take the series' against lower standing teams. If we drop another series to the Royals or the Mariners we will not make the playoffs. What's left of
July is critical I'd say we have to win 12 of the 18 games left to be healthy come
August. The final two months of the season will be great. If the Twins can get through it and into the playoffs, there is no reason they couldn't win the World Series.
Speaking of the golden boy, I'm not sure if I have this right but if Joe Mauer wins the batting title this year, can you imagine the tail he would get if
this is what he is rolling with now? Side note, Is there anyway to look at a myspace page without having a brain aneurysm? Seriously 95% of the pages are downright impossible to look at, pictures every where, oversized and overlapping, background colors all fucked, unreadable text, sparkley moving GIFs and comments with no regards to anything stretching the bottom of the page for miles and top it all of with some shitty song.
I starting to get tired of this post and Blogger is scheduling an outage in a half hour so I'll cut the rest short.
Pirates 2 sucks. This movie is awful. This movie is worse than the LOTR. After watching this movie I challenge you to name a more worthless, completely transparent, obnoxious, money hungry ploy ever.
And naturally it shatters all the box office records. Can't wait to see Pirates 3!
PLEASE WATCH THIS INSTEAD.
Yeah. I'm definitely done for now.