So the St. Louis Cardinals are doing the same thing that the Chicago Cubs are doing today, trimming their mullets while on vacation.  The NFL was ok yesterday, no Bears in interest.  The Yankees are about to meet up with the Angels, Go Angels…. I mean come on, they have a black man named Vladamir!  I”m too AM right now to recall the unthrilling weekend of sports, which should tell you how much I care about the LA dodgers and the Phillies playing.  Buurs!

Her name is still Rio, and she surely still dances in the sand.  I’m very happy that Rio got the Olympics.  Too bad it makes Obama look a bit bad.  But fuck having that mess here in Chicago, it would have kinda sucked.  Why would America deserve the Olympics?  Don’t we kind have of have a hand in the crap filled mess that is the global economy?  Really?  Oprah, Obama’s…. seemed kinda overly schmoozie.   Once the Olympics are actually going on, I pull for the USA in the sports were not so hot in, but I pretty much roll with the “developing countries” in most events.  So… Rock that shit Rio.

The Man does it again, actually it was the word of a scared line judge.  She might have been on some “20 D energizer?” type of shit, or some “I feel Sorry for your mother” If you know what i’m saying, well.. you know, and if you know and you think i’m out of line, well…”motha fuck you!”  Wow two quotes form Menace to Society, and one from Do The Right Thing, Hughes and Lee got something stuck in my head piece for sure with those.   Serena should kinda know not to loose her cool in one of the churches of The Man.   But still, what a bogus way to go out of a US Open.  Ok ok, I can see how she was most likely going to loose the match.  To quote Herman Edwards “you play to win the game” or maybe it was some a  Grand Verbalizer from X Clan… “ZULU! runnin’ from my magic” type of action by Serena, that caused the folks to deduct a point.

Please leave the cubs on your own, please… just do it.

Narratives should be released, hopefully, this will work out.  I had a  Fin Du Monde beer , sitting in front of the Highdive on Chicago ave, facing East, chair just into the small dot of shade from the tree at my back.  It was hot, but kind of perfect.  103 degrees in Seattle today, we are taking note right?. Crazy town. It was lovely here in Chicago, and the timing of having a day off under the sun was swell as well.  I had to bike over to this  store, and you should check out, Kokorokoko is the jam. Ashland, just south of Dusty Groove, so.. Haddon st.  There was this shirt that I was loving a few months ago, specifically a really nice deep soft blue one. It was a small, I was sad.   So yesterday,  one of the owners, let me know (via secret note style) that there was a nice blue newly arrived shirt for me at the store. So today, I peeped it, tried it on, and now will rock it, most likely little kid new gear style, meaning day one, tomorrow. Teeth kind of freak me out, but the print on the back of the shirt is a spine of teeth, pretty dope. I also got myself a nice Tom Tom Club 12″ of Lorelei. $3.

All About The Roosevelt’s… that shit from Taco Bell… I know its my own fault for even watchin the tele, but come now. Kill that noise, I get parody and the push to drone out the brain with ads, but that song hurts the universe.
Jim Rice went into the hall of fame last weekend, pretty cool. It brought back this really great flood of memories, thoughts and smell recalls from when our family lived in this freaky last neighborhood eat in Urbana Illinois. Washington and 136 if your from the 217. I have a really good instant recall of the field between Carrie Elementary School and our little enclave of cookie cutter cheap houses, that field was where I played baseball with friends and with my favorite Easter present ever, my Jim Rice baseball bat, black with white writing and trim. The model of bat was more recognized with the signature of Reggie Jackson. His bat was an often seen bat in the baseball bat bins at the Zayre, AIr Way (later turned into Target), Goldblatts, and Jerry and Al’s, a super dope old school sporting goods store from Champaign Urbana and… oh, yeah, its not about a list of stores, its about the bat, I loved my Jim Rice bat, it is connected with a the smell of early spring in near rural Urbana. So congrats to Jim Rice, and Ricky Henderson as well, he was strait hood. Lake Side Tarace style.
I just heard a clip of a dude ( not even gonna repeat the fools name, no spread of him here ) calling Obama a racist “who has a chip on his shoulder”. Are things really that way? At least the day was nice and warm.  One a pretty cool last little note, I like the way the Cubs are playing.  I’m thinking this is gonna be a nice run towards the playoffs.  Soriano, Ramirez, Lee, and yep, i’m thinking Bradley is gonna actually heat up.  Kinda offense only?  I’m sure that by the time I hit publish post, that the Cubs could have dropped to 4th place, but as of this second.  First Place baby.

Another one that went the way All Star games in baseball have gone lately, the way of the American League.  Lame… Even as a helpless glass half full kind of Cubs fan, I would want the Cubs to have home field advantage over say the White Sox.  Ok, I might be kind of wizard friendly with the match up, so sure.  But to see the AL peeps act like they have been there before and perform better at the end of the game, and the NL was classic non clutch, it just gets tiring. Carl Crawford had an amazing home run saving catch, and well… a couple hits, for as close as the score 4-3 is, it was kind of a snooze train for a chunk of the game.  Oh well,  on to the second half.  Go Cubs Oh… Row Cubs Row, Hey Shecky.  Oh man, (that is part of my constant war on the go cubs go song, i’m about singing it out of tune, and way off time, join  me)

We were talking about how the Lame looking 3D flick G Force, and how that title was some crazy Japanese kids show that made it over to the us, and how they were not only wore capes and were the Guardians of Space, but that they were also a spin off of a show called Science Ninja Team _______…. oh I’m forgetting the last word.. i’ll post it tomorrow?  But yeah, maybe that is why the game seemed boring, we were clearly talking about more important things.

Just peeped her whoopin’ some serious butt on youtube.  She is no Anna Kournakova, no… She has skills, Anna doesn’t.  Table Tennis just got a new fan. Peep Game, and heres the kicker for a dirt farmer like me, she lives here in Chicago.  I love this city….

Wow, look at the 7 footer just fold under the pressure.  Pau Gasol looked like a decent center next to this joke.  So selfish, and so lame, and look what we have now…. Another laker championship.  Come on Dwight, and the dude has the worst name in sports, Superman.. Stupid stupid stupid.  At least the season is over, and I can just chill out on that shit until the Bulls get going next fall.  D Rose tossing gang signs in old photo’s…. whatever, you can find that same thing with most silly boys living in hoodish areas, gang or not, you just know how to toss a sign. But really, Dwight Howard is a chump.  Lame ass 50′s looking mustache.

I have to start this by saying RIP Steve Goodman, He died of leukemia in 1984, and thats sad,  well…. its sad when anyone dies for sure, and especially when ones time is cut short from desease or accident.  Steve penned the “Go Cubs Go” song that is blasted through the speakers after every home game victory.  Thats not the only way its blasted, all of the lame ass cub fans sing along in the most Jimmy Buffet kind of way.  If I happen to catch the final out of a  victory, i turn the channel as fast as I can in order to not hear one lick of that terrible song.  So yeah, Sorry Steve, but you have totally given the drunk frat vibe of Wrigley Field a shot in the arm, or in the case of Sammy Sosa, in the ass.  I would rather hear Queen or even C+C Music Factory than all the people in the stands rocking out to “Go Cubs Go”… I mean, come on… “hey Chicago whataya say?   the cubs are gonna win today”  If they are gonna win, maybe play the song at the start of the game, like a couple hours before the game.   I may start working on a remix of this song, complete with mega beat and bass, with nothing but the haunting chorus for vocals.  Maybe we could get it to have a nice european soccer match feel, like at the end of that one Pink Floyd song, with the soccer chants.  All of this said, i’m a full on Cubbie Fan, and when we get Aramis back, and get rid of some of these total scrubs on the field, we can get to business.  But That song might keep us from doing anything better than getting swept in the playoffs.  Like some kind of jinx but on us for bad taste.  If you don’t believe me just ask the Black Hawks, Illini, Redskins, Seminoles ( you get what i’m saying with this right?)  Lack of respect for first peoples is just like lack of respect for the art that is music, at least in the realm of sports jinx’s.  In no way is genocide the same as off key drunks.  Speaking of drunks, i’m gonna get me a beer, and start the new mix.  Go Cubs Go, and RIP Steve Goodman, you know, in case he is the haunting type.

This image was from an article about this song online..... strange eh?

I completely enjoyed the 2-1 victory of the Pittsburg Penguins over the D

HA  HA HA HA…..  That hardy laugh if directed to the NBA.  Wanting so bad to have a Bird vs Magic kind of moment, that they signed off on a series of commercials that feature puppets that play the roles of Lebron and Kobe, the commercials are actually for ESPN I think.  Though they are kinda funny, with voices that are nothing like the actual people they are playing (which is one of the things I like about the adds), they  are a bit presumptuous in tone.  They started airing while there were 4 teams left in the NBA vying for the title.  There was a point when I was rooting for the Nuggets to beat the Lakers, and for the Magic to beat the Cavaliers, just to muddle up the dream match up the NBA wanted.  As the Lakers took care of the Nuggets, and the Cavs were still fighting the Magic, I changed my tune.  Why not get this thing going, this super battle of mega stars, KOBE V LEBRON! became the very thing I wanted to see, my bitternes about what the league wanted melted once I thought about how much fun that would be to watch.  Another thing happened along the way.  I became a Dwight Howard hater.  Lots of  “I statements” come from that dude.  While he is clearly the star of that team, I just feel like he thinks he deserves a chunk of what Kobe and Lebron got going, and if he dominates in the finals, that may be true.  But yeah, that little 1940 mustache he rocks, and well… his team is called the Magic, that is some soft ass shit. “its and illusion” says Doug Henning in his lispy magical way.

Kobe vs Lebron, Not

So here we go, Lakers vs. Magic  i’m not super into either team, and won’t really follow this series.  Deep down, i’ll be rooting for the Magic.  Even with all my new found Dwight Howard haterness, I still can’t ever go with a Laker team.  Especially while their star player calls himself the black mamba.  Worse sports name ever.  Lucky Lou and Slingin Sammy look good next to that tag.   Snakes and sports don’t really go together, don’t know why, but its true.  I went to a community college for a couple years before taking off to Evergreen, and our schools mascot was the Cobras.  I played on the fall baseball team for the Parkland Cobras, and boy did that feel silly.  I have left the topic completely…  I’m going to twist the Magics name into the Lando’s, kinda for Orlando, but mostly for Lando.  You know which Lando….  There is only one.  Damn, that works, i’m fully into the Lando’s winning over the Lake Show in 7 games.

Earlier tonight I found myself sitting on the sofa leaning slightly forward, nervously watching the Hawks down one goal to the Detroit Redwings.  This is my first full season of paying attention to the Chicago team.  I’m all about the Hawks.  I can’t get with the First Peoples (indian) head as the mascot.  Through the vail of proclaimed dignity, the image is still  what it is, and i’m not down.  Respect the Indian was a marketing battle cry this year, it sifted into my head, and reminded me of of land, lands, and the people that were all over said land.  I respect the vibe of Chicago hockey, and we’re gong to be damn good for a long time.  The youth of this team is crazy, half of the players that played in this years playoffs were under 25.  That a nutty bar!  Even with their little baby faced playoff beards, they still got game.  So check them out next season, and look up Dustin (Big Buff)Byfuglien, I”m donw with his play.  Nice Balance to all of the super fast skill skaters dudes like Kane, Sharp, Toews.  And never sleep on Martin Havlat.  Go Hawks