SUNDAY NIGHT BASEBALL

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS.....
There is Sunday Night Baseball.
I love Sunday Night Baseball. Joe Morgan, Jon Miller from Washington park.
Must be springtime. So far i must say that the most enjoyable part of this game so far is listening to President Busch speak with Joe and Jon and not have a script in front of him. He is actually a pretty funny guy. Although i think Morgan was trying to score a few brownie point with the extended K-Zone.
Even the commercials are mostly baseball.
4th inning.
Good to see Nick Johnson back this year. He will now be forever in the record books with driving in the 1st ever run at Nationals Field. Although it was immediately shown up by Chipper Jones hitting a line drive out of the ball park.
The Braves look a little different this year. It was a shame to see Andrue Jones leave for the west coast but thing must change in baseball. But Paul LoDuca still has a job. (how the F did that happen. Wait, he had already signed the contract after the Mitchell report came out.)
It's kind of hard to remember that just a few years ago the National were the Expo's and playing ball over the border.
Jon Miller and Joe Morgan must be very good friends. They have been working together so long that it almost seams like there sitting in your living room and your having a conversation with them as your watching the game.
I did not get to see any of the red Sox / Dodgers game but from the highlights i was it was a pretty descent game. Sometime i think the folks on the west coast have a bit of an advantage. Say your a Yankee's or Red Sox fan living in Vegas or California or anywhere on the west coast. Sunday Night Baseball comes on at about 5:30 and you can see the whole game, get all the highlights and still mow the lawn before it gets dark during summertime. (Alright maybe not mow the lawn. Buy midsummer it all brown.)
6th inning already.
Good to see Peter Gammon's back again. Nice little piece on Chipper by Peter. Chipper is only 34? I thought he was my age (37) not that 3 years make a big difference in any normal persons life, but in baseball, that is a lifetime. (Or a great contract year.)

MENS FINAL FOUR...
UNC
MEMPHIS
KANSAS
UCLA
Well, who did not see that coming. Well all except for Davidson who tried there damdist to make it interesting, and the did for a lot longer than only one of us thought they would.

Late Season Hockey (minor league)
I took my brother and his kids to the Bridgeport Sound Tiger's VS. The Hartford Wolfpack. I wanted the to see a real hockey game and get them into it. We all had a good time. My only problem was every time i walk into that place i wind up dropping about $100 on food and a t-shirt. Mostly food. $4.50 for a pizza the size of a quarter, #3.00 for a "small" Sprite and $4.00 for a twist pretzel. Not to mention every time i want an Ice cream it's $5.00. (o.k. I just looked and i spent $79.00 at the game. The T-shirt was $19.00 you figure out the rest.) All i know is that i downed about 4000 calories this evening and right now i can not wait to work out tomorrow.

TOMORROW WORK OUT....
Should be all legs. I usually partially enjoy working legs. But like any man i enjoy working on the muscles from the waist up. It is the ego thing that gets to most men, me included. Ever see a huge guy at the gym with a huge pair of sweat pants on? Yup, skinny little legs. I'm not one to be like that. I will work my legs three time a week t=just to try and keep up with my upper body. I do not want to go the the beach or the pool in a pair of shorts and look like a weeble wobbly standing on his head.

It has been a long day with a lot of driving and a lot of watching the game. I am going to enjoy the last two inning of Jon and Joe and then hit the bed.

Have a good night.

Have a good night..............

Peace.

DJD

WORK, WORKOUT, UNC

UNC
Good game so far. Louisville is putting up a good fight. All day long listening to the talk radio the have been talking about UCLA and UNC. I guess deservedly so. UCLA just rolled this afternoon and right now UNC likes like there going to roll over Louisville.
This has been a pretty fun week. My bracket was busted after the Uconn loss and Davidson making it out of the 1st round. I have said before and i will say again that i am not a huge basketball guy but this year i have paid a little more attention than usual to the games. I put together my picks for the bracket in about 30 seconds and when filling it out did not really care if i won anything.

WORK
Went to work for a little while this morning to try and clean things up for my trip this week to North Carolina. (Now i know why the plane tickets were so expensive.)
Seams like i could stay at work for the entire weekend and still not finish everything that i need. I went in for almost 5 hours and walked out pretty happy but still did not finish everything i wanted.

WORKOUT...
Yup, back at it again tonight. I am still working out based upon how my body feels. I have a solid routine that i am trying to follow. But i have been taking a few extra reps to try and push myself a little when i actually feel like pushing. The more i let my body tell me what it wants to do the better i have been feeling every day. I almost feel like Hulk Hogan. I have been eating right and taking my vitamins. I am still smoking but have cut back quite a bit since i started working out again on consistent basis.
The weather up here is on the verge of breaking on the warm side but just has still not turned the corner. I can not wait for the nights when it is light until 9pm and the temp is in the 50 to 60 to 70 degree range. I will bitch when it gets into the 80 and 90's but i should learn to take the good with the bad.

2nd Half of the game...
Is just about to start. I need some food and gonna sit and watch the entire 2nd half with out switching the channels and seeing what else is on.

Have a good night............

Peace.

DJD

Short post tonight

I'm frickin tired........

Last night at the job and working out for the last two days have gotten to me. After I did a little over an hour tonight i was just whipped out.

No jokes, no rude comments tonight.

Just sleep..................

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Peace..

DJD

TUESDAY NIGHT

Nope... Did not work out tonight........
I know. I'm a moron. But i just felt like crap tonight and every move i make reminds me of what i did over the last few days. Plus i went to a wake of a friend and did not get back to the house until after 7pm tonight and had lost all of the daylight. I know that is an excuse but tonight it is a good one.
I will be back in my own little dungeon tomorrow night.

I am watching the biggest loser though.....
Jay, Last week he only pulled a 3 pound weight loss and was awarded 10 grand or the option to buy that pound back for the 10 grand he won. What an F-ing moron. He just pulled a 5 lb weight loss. bob changed his workout routine. Of course he is going to pull a better number.

Roger,
Another 6 pounds. This man has about another 60lb to loss by the end of the show i bet.

Dan,
I like this kid and think he has a good shot of winning. He kinda funny as well. I love seeing the old photo next to them when there on the scale. Gives you a reminder of how far these people have come. -1lb what? Holy shit? WOW WOW WOW WOW......

Mark,
I really do not like this man. Kind of a jerk to me anyway. -4lb. He safe. FK. Think i have to see him again next week. everyone thinks he only lost 4 pounds but it is the percentage of weight loos compared to your body weight.

Ali
She looks f-ing HOT. Remember what she looked like when she got in the game? She lost 85 pounds and is down to 149. WOW. Back to her later.

Kelly,
She also looks good in a "mom lost weight" kinda way. (Commercial) 7lb!!!!!! By by Mark. Wait, maybe not. The men have two votes and the women have two votes. So anything can happen. Let's see who gets the shaft.

I can not believe Roger has lost 127lb. And Ali just looks phenomenal. She did most of this on her own and at home with out a coach. When she came back she looked awesome and now with 3 more weeks of training and training her right she has just had the three best weeks. And she just looks WOW.
The brother are a strong alliance and i thing that Mark will probably stay. But i will know in a minute.
I do not know how i got hooked on the biggest loser club. Here i am trying to gain muscle every week and not trying to take off any weight to make myself bigger. i was never a big kid. I was the kid that everyone picked on as a kid. Now being bigger than the average man and just a little smaller than the average bear i feel good when i walk down a hallway and people move out of my way.
Danny has to go.
To bad. I'm gonna miss the kids humor. And he went out with class and style.

Baseball......................
Canseco has a new book coming out that will shock the world. Pretty good marketing strategy pulling A-Rod's name out of the hat. AND he claims that Alex went after his wife. Alex's wife is a smoking hot chick and Alex could get any woman he wants in the world. Why would he go after Jose's wife? I am not sure about this. Although when his first book came out ever one questioned that one as well. Now he is sitting back and telling everyone I told you so.....
This is a book that i am actually going to buy. Does anyone know then this book goes on sale? Is it in print yet? Can we read parts of it on the net yet?

Anyway the best sports news i read today was that Manny hit #491 today at the opener and won a million yen. (That's $10,000 Give or take the market.)

Tired. Time to go to bed.

Later..... Peace...................................


DJD

Let's see how much i can get done in the next hour.

DAY #2 Back working out.
In the words of Nirvana and Johnny Cash..
I hurt myself today.....
Actually i hurt myself yesterday. I just did not know it until this morning. I woke up to every muscle in my body screaming at me. No wonder i slept threw the night. I am sitting here working on my blog in pain and listening to my I-pod, and watching wrestling on t.v. I if had not quit drinking i would swear this is a beer commercial.

The Workout....

Triceps, abs, and lower back. I can only imagine how i am going to feel tomorrow morning when i wake. If i make it to work and have the strength to fire up the computer maybe i will do a quick update. I know it has only been one day but in this world of instant results i am still pissed i have to continuously take weight off of my dumbbells. I know it is my fault for taking time off but isn't there a magic pill that will pump me back up to where i was? (Of course i know there is not.) But still? modern medicine can not come up with a magic Popeye pill of something? It kinda hurts to type. I know that this too shall pass but can't it be like a freeway instead of a traffic jam?
I only had time to do about an hour before i lost all the daylight. Until the sun stays out until 9pm at night i am going to need to be home by 6pm to get at least an hour and a half in every night. (I can not believe how fast i am typing tonight. maybe this whole being tired thing has a benefit.) I could use something to eat right about now but i promised myself i would not eat and hour before bed to try and keep some of the excess fat off of my fat ass. I also did 227 reps on the ab lounger. I can not wait to get up tomorrow and not be able to get out of the fetal position.
Anyway tomorrow i plan on doing legs and upper back. Not having all the equipment of a regular gym this should be pretty interesting. I am going to have to go back to the old school method of working out.

UCONN WOMEN.....
Went to the game last night and it was apparent after about 11 minutes that is was going to be a total blow out. Least i had plenty of entertainment. Looking around at the crown you could see who actually wanted to come to the game and who was forced there by the significant other who dragged them out the door. The old man behind me seemed to really enjoy the game. If i had to guess i would say he was in his mid 80's and just tickled pink to be out of the house and at a real basketball game.
The women looked sharp. Good passing and setting up for the open shots. Maybe they were using the game as a tune up for Texas, but boy do they tune up well.
Something about going to Harbor Yard in Bridgeport that always makes me a little hungry. Maybe it is just the smell when you walk into the Arena (And I am not talking about the sewage that Bridgeport was famous for.)
We stayed for a little of the Texas vs. Minnesota game. I was watching Texas warm up and the only thing that kept coming to mind is that they do grow them bigger in Texas. I am talking TALL not BIG. Even the cheerleaders were all tall and could see straight down to there toes with out even leaning forward a little. (You get my point.)

MONDAY NIGHT RAW....
Sorry i am not listening to a work anyone is saying on the tube tonight. All i see right now is Flair walking around the ring. Probably talking about the heart break kid. O-LOOK! there he is.
I can read lips, Wanna see?
Flair - I know you respect me but I'm gonna beat you.
HBK - i do respect you Rick but at Wrestlemania I'm gonna have to beat you.
Flair - Really?
HBK - Really.....
Flair - I love you man.
HBK - I love you too.

Flair - Wanna go do some coke and get a few hookers?
HBK - Sure. Meet you in the locker room in 10 minutes...

See, I was pretty close, right?

TRIP TO NORTH CAROLINA....
Next Wednesday i leave for 3 day of training in N.C. I am and am not looking forward to it. There is going to be a lot of information i am going to have to take in. I'm not gonna have a lot of time to take it all in. Plus this agenda is basically planned down to the second. I was surprised they did not a lot about 20 minutes between 12 and 1pm for us to take a crap. (A scheduled crap no less.) I am bringing the laptop so i can blog a little and maybe even put the notes down in here. (Probably not a good idea.)

Today Random thoughts.....

If we all know wrestling is fake, Do we watch for the story lines or for the women?

I thought it over and i am still picking Kerry Wood to win a Cy. (This could happen. He's in a contract year, I think.)

How many youtube hits would this get.
A-rob and Jeter are each charging for the same grounder. Neither stops. The collide. Neither get hurt. Both are pissed. They start brawling at short stop. The entire Yankee's squad surrounds both of them and lets them go at it keeping everyone away. A-rod get one lucky punch in an brakes Jeter's eye. Jeter goes ballistic taking off his shoe and starts stabbing A-rod over and over again with his cleat. Breaking his arm and ending his season along with over 300 stitches. From the stands A-rods wife comes out on the field and start screaming at him that they should have gone to L.A.............................

It could happen.

I'm outta here.

Peace.........................................................

DJD

Sunday roundup.

I have said before i have not gotten into collage basketball this year. Tonight i am going to see the Uconn women play. For Free. Box seats in the upper level TV broadcasting the game behind us and a full view of the court. Game starts around 7 and should end about 9. Not bad for an Easter Sunday.

EASTER SUNDAY WORKOUT

I worked out for the 1st time this week in almost 3 weeks. No running on the treadmill or hugging the StairMaster for an hour. HEAVY lifting. Well, Lets back up a little. I got sick almost two months ago and have not really felt right since. I know i should have gone back to the doctor but the man mentality would not let me. I worked and them came home and crashed for close to the last 8 weeks. I wanted to work out but did not have it in me to go to my garage or to the gym. I would always use and excuse not to do something.
Today i said F-it. It was about 45 degree's out and the sun was in full bloom. What an awesome day. I cleaned out the garage and dumped about a gallon of Febreze in it to get rid of the stale smell. (It's still kinda there.) Then i went in the house and changed into my sweets and went to the dungeon.
I was determined to lift as heavy as i had when i went down sick. Mistake number 1.
Two months of not consistently working out takes a big tole on your muscles. I should know better than that.
What do you think is the 1st thing i did after stretching? YUP, started working on the guns. Ego is one thing, but an inflated ego will rip a bicep. I did not hurt myself but i probably should have. I am down about 40% of my max weight. I discovered i could do my max for one rep and no more. This was kind of dangerous as i work out along. I have said in my previous blog entry's that i hate people watching me work out. And I was the one who thought it would be a good idea to going the busiest gym in town. (Really David? You thought that to be wise?).
I finally gave up the macho thing and went with weights i could work with for today. I was kind of pissed having to change all of my dumbbells and actually take weight off of them. Normally i would be adding weight to try and push myself past another level. Now i am dropping down to where i was not 2 month ago but pretty close to a year ago. I know my muscles will react quickly (I hope) and soon i will be at least back to where i was.
This is also a nice opportunity for me to quit smoking....... again.

SMOKING, LIFTING AND REHAB.
As a recovering addict and drunk i had a great chance to quit smoking the last time i went into rehab (2.5 years ago) but was told i should not because my body could not take the withdrawal from more than two drugs. I guess it was better i got off the booze and the other substances i was downing on a daily basis. But right now that is a decision i regret.
When i do work out i am always gasping for breathe of taking a few extra seconds to fill up my longs before starting another set. I have tried to quit smoking about 5 times last year. I got 3-4 days with out and then something would happen at work that would bring my stress level to a climax. I would try and stay away from a convienance store but when i was driving home i would see a place where i use to cop, or a package store i would stop at and i would look at those places a little too long. I would get pissed and then stop and buy a pack of smokes instead of stopping and getting a case of beer or a bottle of southern. I love driving my car and i love my job. If i start drinking or anything else again i will loss both of them. If i ever get caught drinking and driving again i will most likely go to jail for 12 years and never get my drivers licence back again. (That last sentence was for me.) So i guess for now smoking cigarettes in a viable option for stressful situations.

I DO NOT TYPE WELL...
And i always have to go back and check my spelling mistakes with the spell check. I have been on front of this computer now for the better part of 45 minutes. This is how slow i type. But i love updating my blog. Something i have nothing really to talk to myself about. (Face it most blogs are us talking to us. If someone else happens to read them we'd be happy if they laughed once or twice and did not think we were a complete moron.) My thoughts anyway.

BASEBALL...
Baseball season is around the corner and a few random thoughts i am hoping to see this year.

#1 - Manny being the ultimate Manny.
I would love to see him smack 50hr's, get 15 outfield assists, Finally get a gold glove in right, and hit .401 for the season.

#2 - Barry Bonds,
Going to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Hit 125 home runs.
Walk once.

#3 - Kerry Wood
Post 58 saves.
Hit 250 for the season
Start 5 games (and pitch one shut out.)
Start game #7 of the world series in Chicago and pitch a perfect game.

#4 - Vlad...
Knock the cover off a baseball. (this could be done.)

#5 - The Yankee's
Pull a Miami Heat this season. (This also could be done.)
(Hey, I said i did not watch basketball. Not that i did not follow it.)

#7 - Ichiro...
Have a career year and show everyone why he is the most complete player in the game of baseball today. Period.

That's it for now. Off to the game.

Later...........................

DJD

WORKOUT MUSIC AND BRETT FARVE

LET"S GET TO FARVE 1ST
Man I'm gonna miss him. Being 36 and pretty close to Farve's age on way too far away from retirement to even think about that I can help but think, why now?
One one hand everyone thought he would be back next year, n one of the sport writers were really harping on him retiring this year, then you think about the year he had. He's right though. If he had come back this year and not won a Superbowl then it would have been a disappointment. But he is not coming back (We think) for one more last year and a farewell tour. He ended his year and his career on and interception. For the man know for throwing touchdowns he is also known for the pics. Kinda fitting he is going out like this.
I really do not expect to see much of his except for in 5 years when he is elected into the hall of fame. There will probably be another emotional speech from the man who wore his emotions on his sleeve.
Monday night will not be the same in front of the TV or for John Madden. I Will bet know we still hear his name come out of John;s mouth three or four times a game. Should we start a pool?

Workout Music....
I have a bunch of songs in my I-pod but i still have a few to put in. I have put in everything from Metalica to 311 to House of Pain. i am looking for a few of those songs. Those songs are the ones you hear and can not get out of your brain. Those songs are the ones that make you drive faster, Those songs make you react the same way today as when you 1st heard them.
Something to take to the gym and every song is one you want to listen to. I know everyone has different taste in music but there has to be a majority "list" of songs in the alternative music circuit that almost everyone agrees upon.
I know that is wish full thinking but after countless house in itunes and listening to every alternative music station on the radio and satellite i am all tapped out.
For who ever reads this on a regular basis, suggestions are much appreciated.

Got a long day tomorrow. Should be putting close to another 200 miles on the old ford.
sucks being a salesman sometimes.

Peace.

DJD :-}

MONDAY NIGHT
Now, falling asleep at 7pm and waking up at 9 is never a good thing. But i fell asleep with it on channel 36 and woke up to the start of Monday night raw. I have not bought a pay per view for anything in a long time but i may actually fork out the money for this one. Not sure yet it is still 20 days away.
I just saw the Big Show toss Floyd Mayweather over the top road on to a few of the wrestlers. Pretty good show Vince. wrestling is not what is use to be but still no where as good as when i was really into it in the Earlie 90's. We actually had plots back then. Remember when Randy Savage and Elizabeth were in turmoil? When every other month someone threatened to put Hogan out of comission? When you never knew if Lex Luger would show up on a good cycle or he got a bad batch or roids? That was good shit back then.

MARCH MADNESS
I really did not get into collage hoops too much this year. Sure i followed the standing abd read a few coloms and caught the NC / Duke game twice this year but other than that i sparatically watched and paid attention only once and a while.
Now that the brackets are out i have no idea who to fill in. I took a couple of the no brainers but being from Connecticut i have Uconn going all the way to the final 4. I even went so far as to put them in the championship game. No, I'm not telling you who i put in agemst them.
I still trying to figure out how i can get this pumped into the office with out having to buy the package on ESPN.
Still working on it.

COUPLE THINGS THAT MADE ME THINK.....................
If NASCAR fans hate Jeff Gordon because he speaks perfect english, do they hate Montoya because they can not understand him?

With everything going on in the world (or at least the US) with e-mail, texting, video confrencing and i-phone, Do we even need fax machine's anymore?

If you have a back and arms full of tatoo's are you desting to become a cage fighter or a profeshional wrestler?

That's it for tonight.

Spell check is not working. Sorry for the mistakes.

DJD

Atlanta.



I did not get to see much of the race. All i know is that i had #29 and that finished 7th. Not bad considering may last three races my driver finished and average of 32nd.

For most of his time in NASCAR i have done nothing but bust Kyle Busch's ass about everything from his driving to his ears.

I am almost beginning to like him.

Almost.....



Fox does these special on the drivers every week and the other week he was at a school and had some kids ask him some pretty tough questions. I also think that him pairing with Tony is not such a bad idea. Tony is still a little rough around the edges, Kyle is alot like Tony in more ways that one.

Tony would just assume run you over than pass you, Kyle, ditto.

Tony never backed down from a challenge, Hmmmmm, Kyle pretty much is not afraid of anyone on or off the track. (He's a big tall shrub, I can not see him taking on and beating, say, .. Carl Edwards in a fist fight. But i give him props for not backing down.)

Tony is a great driver who does not know when to keep his mouth shut, Kyle? Nff said.



Joe Gibbs is a motivator, a leader, and a hell of a coach. This alliance he has going with Kyle, Tony, Denny, and Toyota may be just the thing he needs to get this team and one of there driver there 1st or 3rd championship. Toyota is hungry to get into Nascar. Tony wants a championship for himself and for Toyota. Denny is a very up and coming driver who i can see winning some kind of championship in the next few years. Kyle on the other hand i can see winning a cup in the next year or two. And with him in the points lead right now, Toyota backing this team, Tony and Denny as his teammates and Coach Gibbs as the leader i do not see stopping this kid. At least not right now. I know Tony is getting "old" but he is not that old where he can let Kyle take the lead and bring him along for the ride. But lets not get too ahead of out selves, This is only week three of course. Let's see what happens in the upcoming weeks.

Tony, Tony, Tony...........................
Could not keep his mouth shut. It was not enough that he was upset with the tires, but he called out good year, and also mentioned (by name) all of there replacements. Goodyear right now is sitting in NASCAR's corporate telling the to tell Tony to shut the Fuck up or else. Not only do they support NASCAR but they in turn give alot of money back into the sport. For him to open his mouth and do something like that on national t.v. is almost uncalled for in this industry. Imagine if Jeter or A-Rod publicly came out and said that the Louisville Slugger sucked? If Tom Brady and Tomlinson said Nike cleats or one of the other major providers product was worthless?. Imagine the fall out from something like that being said on t.v.....
I can not wait for the fines to be handed out by NASCAR on this one.
Tracking............................

I know i have said this before......
But i am know wireless on my house and can update this from any room in my house. So even if it is a short update, There will be an update.
Maybe on day when i have a few hours on my hands i will share the long and agonizing story of the wireless serves and the one witch who almost had her way.......

PEACE.....................

DJD