Laurent Courtines – MeowSplash

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I figured as I have nothing to say of late I’ll just crank through and see what happens.

Last week a couple of things went on that MAY be construed as exciting-

- Two long Facebook hosted arguments on the suckiness of Derek Jeter.
I completely enjoy hammering on the Yankee captain because well, he’s an icon and gets far too much credit for the Yankees winning and NONE when they lose. (How he does this is beyond me)

- Twitter (I can’t believe I’m writing about it) has jumped the shark in terms of blog posts about it. Enough already! We get it – its important! It’s going to change the world, blah blah. If I read another useless post about it I am going to shut off your internet.

- I love baseball. Ok. We all know that, but its really getting there. The season starts (HOLY SHIT) next weekend. Got my fantasy team, got my MLB Network and I am geared up.

- We’re redesigning Games.com. Its fun and we’re all jazzed up about it. I’m ready to fight for stuff we need.

That’ll do.

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I’d like to do an odds and ends piece that is basically an advanced links post on the stuff that is on my mind.

These items will not always be linked they may just be snippets of thoughts.

Ok- Round 1.

- World Baseball Classic – Awesome!  I love the internatioanl baseball and the players are into it.  If you are a baseball lover you should watch it.  If only just for the Cubans!

- Fantasy or Roto baseball-  This is the least prepared I will ever be for a fantasy baseball season.  I don’t like it and it doesn’t feel good.  I need a have a good year.  Finished out of the top 3 last year.  That can’t happen again.  I blame AOL.

- My head is spinning with online game stuff.  There are a million things going on and a million games.  The battle in my brain over quality verses quantity never stops.

- I want to be more focused in general.  Any and all tips welcome

-  I am getting married in 60 days.  Wow.  Exciting and nerve wracking worrying about everyone one else.  Lisa and I are tight as ever if not more.

- Max Kellerman is off the air.  ESPN 1050 is retarded for trying to make a national radio host out of Colin Cowherd. Colin is a blowhard douche.  You can quote me on that.

- Our content on our sites needs to get more sports like.  Get nasty,  get dirty.  It’s just more fun that way.

Ok, now that I have spent the last two hours struggling with Facebook Connect and it’s bullshit I have a couple things to say.
1. F U.
2. AAAARRRGGGGHHHH
3. Ok. I get it, I don’t understand how any of these things work but I know how to follow directions and it still no worky.

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If you are a sports fan you probably already heard that Alex Rodriguez has tested positive for steroids. Out-fucking-standing!

Baseball is so good at dragging itself through the mud. From Cocaine, to owners collusion and labor issues baseball continues to try and fuck itself over. Now, it has gone and done it again.  Some asshat leaked the supposed anonymous tests from 2003 that Rodriguez juiced.

Now we’re all stuck with years of listening to knuckle head fans bitch about how the game is tainted and all that jazz.  As a Yankee fan I now have ten more years of Alex Rodriguez on my team.  The 2009 season that had so much promise is now entirely in jeopardy.  It’s just going to suck.  I have to listen to Michael Kay bitch about A-Rod.  I hate him and I hate it.  It’s entirely sucky.  I’m just sick today.

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Just had the boss man in town for a few days.  Not bad,  not bad.  We chilled we talked normal work business.  Fairly happy about it.  Right,  that’s not interesting though.  I’ll tell you what is.

I HAVE A REAL NEMESIS

You are dying to know what it is?  It is not a person,  not an animal and not even something you can kill.  It is a thing and that thing is the V train! If you don’t live in Brooklyn on the F line this won’t mean anything to you but if you do,  you KNOW EXACTLY what I mean.  Anytime you are in Manhattan waiting desperately to get back to cozy, olde towne Brooklyn on the old Culver Avenue line (That’s the F for you historical luddites) the Goddamn V comes.

NO ONE IS IN IT

The V is an evil empty train that comes by and laughs at you.  I think actually,  it should have a Swastika on it because that is what it makes me feel like when it rumbles in,  and rumbles away.  It’s like being punched in the face and laughed at.  How the MTA in NYC can get away with that train running and propose transit cuts is beyond me.  I just don’t know who’s bung hole got licked to get that service set up.  If the V had a physical representation it would be a mangy-dirty-rabies-infested cat.  I would love to MeowSplash that Ratty V train cat!  To the Gowanus with you V train!

In the immortal words of Al Goldstein while doing his best work on ‘Midnight Blue‘  — Hey V train,  FUCK YOU!

Please do not get me wrong. I love the Jews, I love the Muslims, Black people,  Yellow,  Brown whatever you got,  I like them- I love diversity.  Without differences we wouldn’t have ethnic jokes. Plus I live in New York City and have my whole life – you basically can’t be a racist (well you can be but only if you live in a far flung neighborhood in Queens or Brooklyn).  It makes no sense IN Manhattan to be racist. Lastly I come from a sweet mixed up background – Papa (that’s what we call him, but with a French accent) is a French Monarchist – Bronx Jew mix who was raised entirely Catholic and Mama (also in a French accent) is a Puerto Rican (who are an intrinsically mixed people as it is)

My point—oh yeah.  Basically,  I can say what I want when it comes to racially or ethnically insensitive things.  That brings me back to “Happy Holidays“  I hate it.  Whether we like it or not,  Christmas in the United States has lost any of it’s religious meaning.  It has nothing to do with Christians – and has everything to do with buying shit.  In fact I would venture to say it the ultimate American holiday.   Can we just get ride of the catch-all “Happy Holidays” crap?

Why are you getting so fire up?  Who really cares?  Well,  no one.  I get that.  It’s just that we complicate things all the time with extra words, new phrases, new terms etc.  Orwell was right in his book “1984″ except he got it backwards.  Instead of reducing the the dictionary with Newspeak we’re adding to it with “WeakSpeak”  Everything is losing it’s meaning.  Think about it?  Happy Holidays? What does that mean?  Can I use it at Memorial Day?  Can I say it to an English person when the go “on holiday”  It’s Merry Christmas because it the words MEAN SOMETHING.  Anyway.  I’m done. (and no I am not re-reading or editing, it’s my site dammit)