Chopped up

Well, if any of you have been following the Sox for the past two days, you are wondering what the hell is going on. It is a good question. Is it pitching? Is it lack of good pitching on our part? Better pitching on the Indians part? Who knows, I just hope this 15-3 loss is the kick in the pants they need to realized they need to be better if they are going to beat the Yanks next week.

Pickler gets kicked (finally)

Finally, the voters for Americal Idol have come to their senses and gotten rid of Pickler. Her lack of confidence reared its ugly head again this week and she delivered a dreadful performance of "Unchained Melody" (apparently it was Leann Rimes version of the Righteous Bros classic). So, with the fact that voters may actually be smarter that I was giving them credit for, I am revising my final two to Katherine and Chris. The rest have the chops or charisma to be good but not both. Not that Katherine and Chris have both either, but they appeal to the widest population of voters, even Chris, as a rocker, is cute so all those 12-15 year old girls who have posters of Nickelback and Bon Jovi in their rooms will vote for him. I am still leaving Paris in there as the wild card.

BIG NEWS!!!!

I would just like to use this space to say CONGRATULATIONS to my little sister on getting ENGAGED!!!!!! I am so happy for her and her old boyfriend/new finace. I love you both!

Ads and Americal Idol

I was just reminded of this horrible commercial I saw yesterday. I usually don't watch commercials anymore because we have TiVO, but I was just flipping through and there was this commercial where these people were driving in a car talking and all of a sudden they were blindsided on the drivers side by a suburban, and the next shot is of the girl in the passengers side saying something like, "holy sh*t", but it's obviously not that since you can't swear in commercials, and then it shows you the car is a Jetta. It definitely has shock factor - I'll give it that. But seriously, are they trying to beat Volvo or somthing? There are so many other selling points they could choose from. Maybe it's just our society isn't wowed by anything except shock factor anymore, which is a sad commentary on society that we are so numb to everything that we have to see an horrible car accident on a commercial to movitate us to think about safety in our vehicles. I'm glad I don't have to watch too many commercials anymore.

On a completely different note, does anyone watch Americal Idol? I am totally hooked on it, and the remaining singers are actually pretty good, although, I cannot
for the life of me understand why country girl Pickler is still on there, except that she is blond and has big boobs (they're not even that big). And I am not on the Katherine McPhee bandwagon. Sure, she can sing, but she's kind-of a boring performer and just doesn't seem genuine, however, I skip right through the interviews and personal interest stories and just listen to the performances so I could be missing something. For those of you who know me, I am a sucker for a rock star and so I love Chris. He has a good rock voice, and although I don't think he will win Americal Idol, I think Clive Davis is already assembling a band for him when he gets kicked off. I am glad Ace finally got kicked off, I don't know if I could stand any more falsetto from him. My best guess for the final 2 is Katherine and Kellie. Elliot has the voice but not the looks, Taylor is too crazy, Chris is too much of a rocker and Paris is too young, although she could be the wild card.

Fenway Home Opener!

Congrats to the Red Sox on the Home Opener yesterday. I was a little nervous in the first inning when Beckett walked a couple of guys and gave up a run, but his nerves settled and he pitched pretty well for the remainder of the game. Foulke is still having problems but then Papelbon came in to get the save. Maybe Foulke intentionally gave up those runs so Papelbon could get another save, boost his confidence a little..... (Doubt it though). I can't wait to go to our game!

Red Sox Opening Day!

Today is the first game of the regular season for most teams. My beloved Sox will be playing the Rangers in Texas at 2 pm today - Schilling v. Millwood - should be a good game. I am very anxious to see how the boys will play together considering this is practically a brand new team. I am quite hopeful that with the mix of new blood (Coco Crisp), veterans (Varitek), and power (Big Papi) we will be successful. Yesterday was the season opener, White Sox v. Indians with the reigning World Champs winning 10-4 - good for them - a great way to start the season.

I will not be making many predictions except that it will (as usual) be a good race between the Yanks and Sox and that I hope the Reds and Dodgers do well this year.

GO SOX!