Poker, Xmas trees, and a lot of Sports

I'd like to talk about Christmas real quick. My roommate Jon and I were feeling some serious holiday spirit so we went to Home Depot on Friday night and picked up a Christmas tree (a real one). It's 8 feet tall at its peak. Only cost 30 bucks, for those of you interested in doing the same thing. We've outfitted it with lights and ornaments. We are so cool. Pictures will be posted soon. We also plan on ordering a Star of David to put on top of the tree. Yes, we know that the Star of David is Jewish. Yes, we know we are not Jewish. This is all I did Friday night. I am a loser. I'm getting myself a hooker for a Christmas present. Tis the season for HO HO HOES!

Also: Tis the season for DO DO DOUGH! I won 2 poker tournaments this weekend. I am retiring from poker because I'm never this lucky. Just kidding about the retirement part. We're probably having people over for poker in the coming weeks. Stay posted.

In other news, if you look at the comment section from my previous post (the guest author), it looks like we got our first taste of haterade:

More sophmoric humor! You know, sometimes one would like to read a little bit about trillion dollar bailouts and failing economic systems, not whether or not a girls nether regions are taken care of. Is this all we have to look forward to from your generation? More questions about the state of our once fine country lies in the echos of double d's and hairy pussies! This speaks strongly to what many of us have thought to ourselves, but have been to afraid to say aloud, and that is that we are DOOMED! Keep up the good work fellas, we are all very proud of you!

December 5, 2008 3:21 PM

This is great for a number of reasons:

1. Once people start criticizing you, it means that you've finally made it!
2. This person must really like my blog to continue to come back to it to read my "sophmoric" humor.
3. Dude, it's spelled "sophomoric".
4. If you really wanted to read about "bailouts" and "failing economic systems", why the hell would you come to this blog to do that? It's fuckin called "Brain Dump" with a reference to defecation.
5. We are DOOMED!

Moving on to sports. This weekend was pretty interesting if you are a sports fan. Not only did we have a massive amount of college football conference championship games, but we also had the De La Hoya/Pacquiao boxing match, the Bruins continuing to win, the Celtics continuing their dominance, some exciting NFL games, and the deadline to accept/reject arbitration for major league baseball free agents.

Let's start off with Saturday, and we know that Saturday equals college football. It looks like all the projections were correct. Florida and Oklahoma are gonna duke it out in the BCS national championship game on January 8, 2009. The Florida/Alabama game on Saturday was pretty close the entire time until Florida pulled away at the end. I was impressed by Alabama because I thought they were going to get smoked (even though they were the #1 ranked team in the country coming in). Congrats Florida, sorry Alabama. Oklahoma also did its job by pounding Missouri. They scored over 60 points for the 5th consecutive game or something like that. This should be one interesting national championship game! Here's a list of the bowl schedule.

Now I'd like to talk about what potentially could've been the worst BCS bowl game in the history of the world: Cincinnati vs. Boston College. The BCS should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible system. These automatic bids for the "BCS" conferences is such a joke. Cincinnati isn't even that good. And then you have Boston College play Virgina Tech for the ACC title, and the winner of that crap fest was going on to play Cincinnati. All 3 of these teams are not BCS bowl material, but if anything, Virginia Tech deserves to be there because they had to suffer the Seung-Hui Cho incident. If you don't know what that is, google the name and you'll remember.

Let me say something: BC fans are terrible. They are not "superfans" as they call themselves. They don't even travel to road games, and their enthusiasm at home games is atrocious. I know because I've been to 2 games at BC. It's like a morgue in there. Plus, they have got to be the most arrogant fans in the entire country. I don't know why they think their teams are so good. The only sports they consistently have a chance of winning a national title in are hockey and men's soccer. Back to football. You should not be BCS bowl eligible if your fans are as non-diehard as BC fans. Fortunately though, Virginia Tech smacked them and at least made the Orange Bowl somewhat acceptable because there may actually be fans from both teams there, unlike what would've happened if BC won.

And fittingly, guess what happened. BC is playing in the GAYLORD HOTELS Music City Bowl. Enough said. The following video is the best thing that happened during this game. It is a player celebrating after the kicker was good on a 50 yard field goal:



Saturday night consisted of the Bruins smacking the Florida Panthers 4-0 and MANNY PACQUIAO destroying Oscar De La Hoya. This guy is no joke. Manny Pacquiao is incredible. Best pound for pound boxer right now. Good thing I lived with Filipinos in college because they introduced me to Pacquiao about 4-5 years ago. This man is the truth. I'd fight him... HAHA.

Ouch!

The NFL slate of games yesterday was pretty good. There were a bunch of close games, and on top of that, fantasy football playoffs were happening to a lot of people as well. Fortunately for me, I had a bye week since I finished in the top 2 of the league. Thank you very much. As for the real games, the Patriots looked like an old and beaten team for most of the game, but then realized that they were playing the 2-win Seahawks and pulled it out at the end. The Cowboys somehow blew a 13-3 lead in the last 7 minutes of the game, the Giants and Jets both lost (woohoo!) and Indy is becoming dominant again (dammit!). Add to the fact that I won a poker tournament, ate a shitload of tacos, drank a bunch of beer, and watched my Celtics crush the Pacers spirits in overtime, my Sunday was pretty good.

The Winter Meetings start today for major league baseball. Looks like all the big name free agents rejected arbitration from their respective teams last night. Basically, the team offers a player arbitration to protect itself in case that player signs with another team. If so, the team gets compensatory draft picks in return. For more information about the specifics of arbitration and how it is handled, look it up yourself haha. It'd be nice if the Red Sox could sign another big bat. There are many media reports saying that the Sox are interested in Mark Texeira, but I have no idea where he'd play. Youkilis is at first base already and reports indicate that Mike Lowell is progressing nicely from his offseason hip surgery. But hey, I guess you can never have too much depth. Problem is, we're not gonna put people who have 8 figure contracts on the bench just for "depth". We'll see what happens here, maybe they trade Lowell, I don't know.

Finally, according to the current poll results, it looks like I'll be writing my next topic of the week regarding "Pick up lines real vs. fake". There's still 1 day left to vote. Remember, your vote counts here!