Warehouse of thoughts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Here you go matt. (Kyle, me, & Scott)

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

JoPA's firing and my thoughts

As you may have heard by now legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has been fired by the School's Board of trustees. what fallow are my thoughts on the firing of the only Penn State football coach I have ever known.

1) I Agree with the Board of Trustees decision.

2) JoPa deserved better, He admitted that he didn't do enough and that he should have done more. However, to be notified by phone that he wasn't going to coach another game at the school he had giving has life to is wrong. The trustees said that this was because they didn't want any more distraction then possible, but your school is under multiple investigations there can't be any more distractions. If your the head of the Trustees you should should have a serious pair of balls or if you didn't you should have grown a set and gone to his house and had the decency to tell him in person!!!!

3) The media needs to shut up! When I turn on MSNBC I don't want sports coverage I want political coverage and when the two are merged I know thing have gone to far in the media.

4) JoPa's legacy will be fine, yes it will be damaged because of this but in the end it is my belief that people will look at the over all body of work that Joe Paterno accumulated not only on the football field but in the field of life and judge him and a great person who made a horrible and awful decision when it mattered most.

5) As i said earlier I agree with the Trustees decision, however I also have empathy for those who are in the streets tonight at Penn State. I don't think the anger & rage come's from the decision but from how it came down. when you as a person are an institution at the institution you are at you deserve better then a phone call relieving you of your duties.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The death of racing

With the death of MotoGP (Pro motorcycle racing) driver Marco Simoncelli earlier today, and Indycar driver Dan Wheldon last weeks that makes two auto racing deaths in two weeks. I now have a fear that we may be on the edge of seeing racing go away as it was meant to be, dangerous. The whole idea of racing is that is fast and dangerous but these drivers do it (and that we cheer on) do it anyway; whether because of the love of speed, or the need of experiencing life on the blade of the sword, or whatever. No matter the reason, these driver who do it and that we support know the risks that come with their profession. However with these two deaths the yells and screams for more safety will be coming loud and fast. To those calls I have one response, look at what extreme safety has done to NASCAR the younger drivers, who have grown up with all the high-tech safety equipment are far and away more aggressive and dangerous then the older ones. Why, because even in the most violent crashes these days in NASCAR the worst you are likely to get it seems is a headache; While the older drivers who have had to deal with getting hurt on a more serious level drive with more respect for the other drivers while still doing quite well. Now don't get me wrong I don't believe that NASCAR should go back to the day when all you had was a seat belt and helmet(if that) or that MotoGP and Indy-car shouldn't look into better safety, Indy-car & F1 cars are designed to fall apart around the driver that's why they look so spectacular, and there's not much more you can do to make motorcycle racing safer. But we need to respect the drivers who do this and realize that they know the dangers & risks; accept that and then real that no matter what when you have people going fast horrible things can and are going to happen.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Albert Pujols=Monster

In case you missed it the third game of the World Series was played tonight down in Texas and Albert Pujols of the Cardinals used it as his personal platform to prove what a monster he is when he is batting. His person box score: 6AB's 5 Hits (3Hr's) 4 Runs Scored, 6 RBI's, 0 walks, o strikeouts, in rout to helping his team win 16-7 & take a 2 games to 1 advantage in the Series. Total distance of his HR's about 1300 ft (431[1sthr], 424[2nd], and 420[3rd] ft respectively) He will when his career is over go down as one of the biggest offensive threats to have ever played; and oh yeah he was drafted in the 13 round of the 1999 draft, I want to know how the scouts missed so badly.

cleaning house

as you might have noticed i did some house cleaning today and removed my older posts as they were no longer relevant. So from this point on I have an empty space that i will use hopefully on a semi-regular basis to write down my thought and opinions.

Friday, October 21, 2011

4 years later

Wow has it been 4 plus years from the time I last posed here. Damn a lot has changed: we have a new president; Barack Obama(the first African-American one at that, something I thought I might live to but not this soon), The war in Iraq is coming to an end (finally, Mission Accomplished might mean something again), Bin Ladin is dead, America's standing in the world is on the rise, while our own prospects for the future seem to dangle in the wind, I am living in my own place, and I just celebrated my 5 year anniversary of working at Value Village. While it's a job it is by no means the dream I have for myself. As I tell people, It was going to be a 6-9 month job while I look for something long-term but about that point I saw the economic cliff approaching rather quickly and decided to sick around; and that 6-9 month job, has now entered it's sixth year with no end in sight. But things aren't all bad, have met many good people, had and kinda lost a girlfriend (we're still vary close, in other words it's complicated) And I'm a Sounders FC season ticket holder.

Now because this is the first post in a while I will re-frame from boring you to death with what going on and my opinions of it. but those will be coming.

AS the title suggests this is a place to store the major thoughts that are floating through my head, as well as my opinions on whats going on in the country as well as the world at large.