Dice-K is back!

Alright, it looks like Dice-K is making his return tonight against the Angels, one of the best offensive teams in the league this year. All logic would point to him giving up at least 5 runs, walking at least 4 guys and throwing 356 pitches in 4 innings. Let's see how this plays out...

Well that sucked...

What was supposed to be a great, epic weekend for me turned into a horrible failure. As you know, I went to New York to attend the US Open Super Saturday (both men's semifinal matches). It started off nice, as Frank and I managed to get from Boston to New York in just over 3 hours on Thursday. I was driving around 90mph the entire way and we didn't really hit any traffic so that was a good start. Got to NYC, had a great time there food-wise and social scene-wise, but mother nature decided to F me in the ass by raining out all of Friday's matches. That meant that Super Saturday turned into Super Sunday, which normally wouldn't be that bad, except for the fact that I had my softball playoffs Sunday morning that I had to be back for.

This happened while I was driving home.

So Saturday night, I sped home in 3 hours and made it back in time to attend Big Wil's bday bash at Wonderbar. Had a great time there (not as good as Balco apparently) and made it home in one piece. Yesterday, we had our softball playoffs and started off well by avenging our loss to Hung Lo last year which meant we'd be playing in the championship game for the 3rd year in a row. We won in 2007 and lost last year. The game was back and forth and in the end, we lost on a walkoff hit. Completely demoralizing but what can you do? What's done is done and there's always next year, but it still sucked. 2 Ls in the last 2 championship games were the difference between "great team" and "dynasty". Oh well, the quest for next year's championship begins today.

As for tennis, I missed being able to watch Nadal-Del Potro live, but that match wasn't that exciting as Del Potro won 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. However, the Federer-Djokovic match was really exciting and Federer hit a shot he deemed "the best shot of his career" which was a between the legs cross-court winner while running backwards after a Djokovic lob. Amazing. So let's recap: I missed out on watching the US Open live at Arthur Ashe Stadium and lost a championship game on a walkoff. I guess the correct term here is "F My Life"?

22 down, 11 more to go...

The Bella twins. Things always come better in 2's

The Red Sox swept the Rays today, effectively ending the Rays' season. I think the Rays have lost 11 in a row or something like that. This is a far cry from last season where they stormed to the AL East crown and made it all the way to the World Series. Can you say aberration? Well, in light of the twin killing today, we bring you twins!

20 down, 13 more to go...

Sox won another one over Tampa Bay last night. It was a 9-1 laugher as the game got called in the 6th due to rain and due to the Rays getting their butts whipped. But that's neither here nor there right now. It's football time baby!

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It's not Monday night, but I am ready for some football!

With the football season about to kickoff tonight, I think it's fitting to talk about fantasy football, since for some people it is actually more important than the games themselves. I am not one of those people, but hey, I aim to please all of my readers. I technically have 3 fantasy football teams this year, but I'm only counting it as 1 since I missed 2 of the drafts which resulted in the computer auto-drafting those teams. And everyone knows how that shit ends up (2 tight ends, picking a defense in the 5th round, picking a kicker anytime before the last round, and so on and so forth). I fuckin hate auto drafts. Well anyway, aside from the pure joy of beating your opponent each week in fantasy football, the next best thing is to gloat, brag and taunt everyone in the league before, during and after an ass-kicking.

There are a number of ways to do this. Here are some examples of what I am doing this year:

• My team name is PeteSpelmanIsGay.com, named after my friend who talked shit about my attempts to promote my buddy's website.
  
  
• Yahoo! Sports offers the ability to use "smack talk" which gives you 150 characters to say whatever you want underneath your team name. Below you will find a screen shot of my team. Click on the image to enlarge.
  

My opponent loves Pearl Jam. His team name is "Team Vedder"

I'm sure you all are wondering where the hell I got that sweet ass OJ Simpson logo. Well wonder no more. Anyone who plays fantasy sports (football, basketball, baseball, even hockey) will enjoy this website. It's called BigTroph.com. I play fantasy sports and a lot of times when I'm talking shit to the rest of the league, I like to accentuate my point by having a cool image, or logo, to flaunt in peoples' faces. Now back in the day, I used to have to photoshop this shit by myself, which was kind of a pain in the ass. Well, I don't have to do it anymore because this site offers free fantasy sports logos and I think that the selection is pretty solid. Here are some other cool logos they have on their site:

Brett Favre, he's probably a virgin too

Shocker baseball, I used this on my fantasy baseball squads.

The always famous "ass trumpet"

This is just a taste of some of the stuff they got on this site. So if you're looking for something to differentiate yourself from all the other bastards in your fantasy leagues this year, come check out this site.

They also just released a new fantasy team name generator. This is for all you tools who can't think of something witty, or are just horribly unoriginal. Essentially, it just randomly selects an adjective and a noun. It's not perfect, but it works. The best team name I got so far was "Deeply Bananas". Sounds like a porn film. For the record, I have never watched porn in my entire life (sarcasm alert).

You might be thinking "why the fuck does this blog entry sound like a fuckin advertisement for BigTroph.com?" Well, the simple answer is because it is. My buddy created the site, I think it's fuckin cool, and I want my readers to enjoy the fruits of his labor while also being able to shit on everyone else in their fantasy leagues. Personally I think it's a win-win for everybody.


Now go to the fuckin website and thank me later.

19 down, 14 more to go...

Vida Guerra's ass isn't even that good... That was a joke.

The Sox swept the lowly Orioles in a mini 2 game series last night with a 7-5 victory. We have an off day today followed by a 6 game homestand versus the Rays and the Angels, respectively. A week ago, the series against the Rays would've meant something for the Rays, but at this point, their chances of making the playoffs are pretty slim. However, we still need to fuckin win this shit since the Rangers won't go away. And we need to make a statement against the Angels as well, since we will most likely play them in the first round of the playoffs if we are able to secure the Wild Card spot. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here. Last night's hero was Victor Martinez, who hit a clutch 3 run double to break a 4-4 tie in the 7th inning. Damn Latinos are so good at baseball. So I reward those with Latino love to enjoy my chick of the day, the booty-ful miss Vida Guerra.

18 down, 15 more to go...

Simona Halep "had" huge jugs

Sox destroyed the Orioles last night 10-0. No big deal, it's the fuckin Orioles, nothing to get excited about. I'm more excited about the US Open right now. Keeping with the tennis trend, here is Simona Halep (featured previously on this space) and her gigantic twins, which have since been reduced to the disgust of all of the men in the entire world.