Fantasy Football can lead to Fired in Reality

There are a lot of similarities between me and some guy I just read about in an article. We are both into fantasy football. We both have had discussions about our team at work. The only difference is he got fired for it!

That is some bull. This guy chatted with a friend via IM about how bad a player did during a week of games, and his employer ended up calling him into an office and firing him for gambling on the job. That is ridiculous. If that was the case, most of the guys at LD would be fired. Devane, Frank, Me, Dindo, Scoop, Richard, Jason (fired twice cuz he talks so loud about it), Hien (fired twice cuz he's on so much and that's all he uses his 2nd screen for), and a bunch of warehouse guys too, oh and even Michelle! Oh, and Aaron would have to fire himself.

I thought this article was going to be about how much time this guy spent on fantasy football sites during work or something along those lines (cuz there are definitely some people here that spend too much time reading up on their players and yelling about it from downstairs so everyone can hear it) , but it was simply because they considered it gambling. It's not gambling. Anyone that plays fantasy football or fantasy sports, knows it goes way beyond that. It's a game. It's fun. Sure, in most cases there's a league fee of like $10-20 but that is only to ensure people are committed and don't just join the league and not change their players over a span of 17 weeks (this would be boring, trust me some people still do it). You wouldn't call someone a gambler if they payed to join a basketball tournament where the winners win money.

Fantasy is about having a reason to watch every football game, being able to talk crap to people even when you're favorite team is sucking (49ers haven't had a winning season in almost a decade :( ) Unfortunately for me I took last place in my "leagve" (that's a whole other story), so have had crap spoken to me about my favorite team and fantasy team.

Here is the link if you want to read the story: http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/blog/roto_arcade/post/Investment-company-to-fantasy-owners-You-re-fi?urn=fantasy,208825

Good luck to this guy. I hope for his boss' sake that this guy sucked on the job and they are using this fantasy thing as a cover to fire him. What is the world coming to?

Leave Tiger Alone

Where's Chris Crocker when you need him? Ok, so when do you think this whole Tiger Woods thing is going to blow over? (get it blow.hehehe) Give the guy some air for crying out loud. I mean haven't we heard enough? (don't answer that Biancs...she loves celebrity gossip) so the guy messed up, once, twice, ok about 20 times, but really it's no one's business but him and his wife. Why are we so intrigued with other people's misfortunes? I admit that sometimes I too enjoy hearing these things, but enough is enough. I can only imagine how shitty it has to be for her.

Poor woman (not literally, cuz I heard she's balling if she stays with him). Imagine trying to get over this and being reminded every time you turn on the damn tv!!! You can sometimes have something that reminds you of an ex-flame like a song, a movie, even a trinket, but his wife gets to listen to the radio, watch tv, and probably have stranger's look at her and whisper, "It'll be ok." It won't! Not if these people don't leave them alone. Geez (she's hot btw)

Sorry I was just watching football and heard that he's losing a bunch of endorsements over this whole ordeal. I wish his family the best, good luck trying to fix this crappy situation.

Finding a Christmas Tree

It has become a ritual that Steph, my mother, and I go to All American and find our yearly Christmas tree. As we performed our yearly tradition and went on the hunt to find a tree, I quickly realized that I have no idea how to find a good Christmas tree. Every tree that I thought was good enough, was either crooked or too empty in certain areas. What makes a good tree anyway? I'm sorry Biancs, I know that next year (when we finally get to choose our own tree and start a new tradition of our own) I'm going to suck at picking a tree. I'll keep pushing for a reject tree that looks like the Charlie Brown tree.

This got me wondering, what happens to all the reject trees? Steph and I made our way down the aisles and came across an aisle that seemed to be full of the rejected trees. Ones that just looked beat up and you just knew no one was going to pick . I wanted to choose one of these reject trees for sympathy and just have it on display in our front yard or something. Poor trees. They were like the ginger children of their society. All the other trees poke fun at these trees and pick on them and designate a day to kick them. It's a very sad sad scenario. I think that places that sell Christmas trees, should at least offer some sort of discount for these "ginger" trees so that they can at least stand a chance to be purchased.

Notice that in this picture above, this tree appears to have a crack in it.

Well Merry Christmas everyone, let me know if you have any tips on finding a good tree so I won't be so bad at it next year. I'll post up pics of our decorated tree once it's finished.

The Cup of Life

Here we Go. Ole Ole Ole. The Cup of Life. Ole ole ole.

That's right everybody, it's that time again (or at least 8 months until that time). The world cup drawing has officially happened, so now we know the dates of the games and who is playing in them.

I'm very excited about Argentina's group, because it's a relatively easy one. We've been stuck in the "group of death" (the hardest group) in the past 2 world cups and in the past 9 were in 7 of them! Ain't that some shhhh.

The 2010 world cup is going to be awesome and I hope that each and every one of you takes some time to watch the world's most watched event. I sense some BBQs are going to take place. So remember to shake your money maker and root for your country (and the countries where your ancestors are from).