OOOOOOOPS

Having not posted anything on this blog since the Twins got Orlando Cabrera, now with another tie-breaker game on tap tomorrow .. I figured I might as well post that I expect the Twins to beat Detroit 6-3 and have to play the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs in a best of 5 series. That means the Twins MUST win one of 2 in New York to have any shot at beating the Yankees, but I'll try to not think of that until they beat Detroit.

Twins Trade For Orlando Cabrera!

In a sign of the new management.. hopefully.. the Minnesota Twins traded for and received Orlando Cabrera from the Oakland A's! He's a much better career hitter than Nick Punto and hopefully can help them produce from the number two spot in the batting order, where Alexi Casilla has failed all season. Nick Punto can still get plenty of games because of his defense, where he can spell Casilla and Crede and Cabrera so he's worth keeping around.

The one thing the Twins need to do is dump Mike Redmond! Jose Morales has been up with the Twins on numerous occasions and proven he can hit major league pitching! He hit .343 in 67 at bats with the Twins, in 32 games this season... where Redmond hit all of .242 in 33 games. Besides that, Morales is a younger player who can spell Joe Mauer and an play better defense as a better athlete than Redmond.

Go Twins!

Wendy's Boneless Chicken

I stopped by Wendy's today to check out the boneless chicken they have advertised on TV lately.. .. I had the honey BBQ version and the sauce was great.. but the chicken was tough and not tender at all.. I'll still try the spicy asian ones to see if that might be better but I think the chicken will still be the same, kind of tough pieces of chicken.

You get a decent portion but it's not tender like it should be!

Big Brother Seson 11

I've been watching BB11 this year for a the last 2 weeks now.. and this group being put in 'cliques' might be ok.. but they have some casting problems with bringing back Jessie, from BB10 and immediately putting him in a place of power as the starting 'HoH.' He thinks he knows it all because he's been in the 'house' before and uses that to make himself seem smarter than he really is.. when really he only made it 4 weeks last year so he knows nothing.. in my opinion.

Al Franken Finally Wins Senate Seat

Whether you like him or hate him.. or could care less.. I'm glad that we Minnesotans finally have 2 Senators in Washington D.C. again.. The b.s. was going on way too long with Coleman trying to take what the courts weren't giving him.

Most Annoying Thing Heard on TV This Week

Michelle Wie.. giving an internet on ESPN after a round.. she says 'ya know' nearly 50 times in 3 minutes! Someone give her a grammar lesson, ya know?

Squirrel Farm?

This video..is made by a nut .. ok .. made by a cat lady who may BE nuts ;) Check out her regular weekly show (minus the squirrels usually) every Friday night at 1 am Eastern (Midnight Central, 10 Pacific for those too stupid to figure that out) at the "Trailer Radio Network" on Ustream


Squirrel Training

Business Equals Lack of Random Thoughts

Lately, I haven't posted anything on this blog.. though really.. I wouldn't call it lately, since I haven't posted anything on it since... January!

A few completely random thoughts in the last few months...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. really needed a new start and hopefully he's gotten it with his new crew chief.. you can't expect him to immediately start winning.. but it's a huge deal with Lance McGrew taking over for Tony Eury Jr. McGrew probably has the toughest job in Nascar right now, other than those who need to replace moneys lost with GM pulling a bunch of sponsorship money.
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Been taking lots of walks and posting photos, which are updated on one of my other blogs and posted on my website. Besides Cloquet (and some Duluth) area sports, I've posted Pro Wrestling galleries from Echo Pro Wrestling in Sartell, Minnesota, and lots of outdoor photos from walks.
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The new Ice Road Truckers season started 3 weeks ago and each week they tease more and more that one of the drivers gets into a bad accident.. I don't know if it's just for ratings ploys or not, but so far there are lots of other trucks in the ditch on this new show focusing on the Dalton Ice Road in Alaska.
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The Deadliest Catch season has actually been good so far, though it seems the show is lacking some of the drama of last season's medical emergencies until last week's accident trying to put up a tarp on the Wizard, with the episode ending in the hospital.

On the same subject.. Mike Rowe isn't hosting 'After the Catch' anymore, being replaced by Ben Bailey who hosts Cash Cab on Discovery. I think Cash Cab is a joke and can't stand Bailey on it so I don't know that he can make After the Catch the show it's been before. Ratings of 'ATC' will of course be the sign if he's successful.
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The Minnesota Twins bullpen is lame... they used to be a shut-down bullpen that kept hte team in leads.. but this year the only really consistent pitcher from the 'pen' is Joe Nathan. The starters haven't been *that* bad and have given the bullpen leads that they've lost on many ocassions leading to a medicocre .500 season so far.

That's plenty of thoughts for now.. even though the Minnesota Wild, and Timberwolves, have both got new GM's who hopefully can turn their seasons around. I'll deal with those thoughts at a later time.

Funny Video, Only in Los Angeles

What happens when Californians experience hail?

L.A Hailstorm

Finally, NBA 2K9 on the PC

In the beginning of this year, I sold my old X-box and haven't replaced it with a newer video game system because I have a computer able to play the best games..

EA (Electronic Arts) decided to get OUT of the PC Sports game world because of video game pirates copying games...

2K Sports has finally come out with their NBA 2k9 and so far it's a great game.. I only bought it today.. but I don't have a single complaint about it yet.. the crowd noise is great.. the players look ultra-realistic and have gotten better every year..and the controls aren't bad either!

The best part of the game is Kevin Harlin. I don't know which year they added him but I've been a huge fan of him since he started working for the Timberwolves in their inaugural season. The call I remember most is Tom Gugliotta making a play, and Harlin yelling 'Great Googily Moogily!' I know my opinion doesn't count for *THAT* much, and I don't post my opinions (and random thoughts) as much as I really would like to.. but Harlin's one of the BEST NBA play by play guys.. even better than Marv 'Cross Dresser' Albert!

This My Name is Earl & The Office Sandwich Tastes Terrible

NBC is forcing Molly Shannon down our throats!! She's nasty 'fugly,' and her comedy isn't very good either... so they put her new sitcom between the two GOOD Thursday night sitcoms, My Name is Earl and The Office....This show Kath & Kim is terrible at best, even with decent looking Selma Blair.

Myspace Heroes

I just started playing Heroes on mysapce.com If you have a small mob and want to add another player click the blog title and let's get together for the Heroes app!

Michael Symon New Host

Food Network is showing commercials for the new season of Dinner Impossible with Michael Symon (who I mistakenly spelled Simon in a post before.)

Robert Irvine as most people know lied about a lot of information on his resume and was dropped from this great show. Hopefully Symon can be as entertaining as Irvine always had been!

My *NEW* Website

Less than two weeks ago, I opened a BRAND NEW WEBSITE! called View Through My Lens. There's going to be a ton of photo galleries AND the website goes along with my Photo Blog. Right now there are a few galleries up, including a gallery of CLOUD photos,
and a great gallery of Heavy On Wrestling photos shot on June 14th in Superior Wisconsin.

There will be a lot more galleries in the future as I bring my camera to more and more places :) Most will be Northern Minnesota photos, seeing how I live in Northern Minnesota. Click the blog title to view the site!

Michael Simon Battle Finally

A commercial last night during Iron Chef America, advertised a new Michael Simon Battle for next Sunday (the 15th.) It's about time they had a new battle with someone OTHER than Bobby Flay or Cat Cora. It seems like Food Network is pushing Bobby Flay for every show they've got, since he's a big part of 'The Next Food Network Star,' a show which I do not watch. Let's see some other 'Iron Chefs' do battle.

Completely Random Stuff, WWE/WCW Wrestling Entrance Themes

Out of complete boredom I went to Youtube to see what there was online for old WWE Wrestlers entrance themes.. a few of my favorites..

Jimmy Superfly Snuka


Ultimate Warrior's Rollin Dead Man Walkin! Keep Rollin!


Steve Austin Titantron


Ya can't post any of these entrance videos without the DX Entrance.. even though the 2007+ version of DX has been really lame with "Shawn Michaels" fricken religious kick.


The NwO Wolfpac theme from WCW was also a great one


Shane McMahon ShanoMac titantron video


Ya can't mention money without
Ted DiBiase.. one of the classic's


Ok, so wrestling is "fake" and "scripted" but who cares?

Ice Road Truckers Season 2!!

Ice Road Truckers Season 2 starts this week! Tonight (Sunday Night) was the Season 2 preview show. There have been posts online that they weren't filming a season 2 because it's too dangerous... but that was just for the diamond mines I guess. Season 2 is 1000 miles NORTH of the other ice road.. and they drove on the Arctic Ocean for this season. As with last year, this season will be on History Channel at 8 pm central/9 Eastern. This was one of my favorite shows to watch last summer and hopefully is this year also.

Iron Chef America, Michael Simon

I know I don't post on this blog that often, but I'm going to start trying to, along with posting on my Photo Blog a lot more often..

A while back I posted about Michael Simon winning the Iron Chef America contest to find a new Iron Chef....The thing is.. they've had new Iron Chef episodes on lately and I still haven't seen him actually "battle" in an episode since the first one he did...

Same with Mario Batali, who it turns out is still an Iron Chef though there were rumors that he'd left the show which was the reason for the contest. There have been more Iron Chef Cora and Iron Chef Flay episodes than the others... I'd rather seen more Morimoto, Simon, and Batali Iron Chef episodes than watch Cat Cora lose once in a while.

Just wanted to do a little rant so there ;)

Cool Aquarium Webcams

I've always liked watching live streaming webcams of different places, including aquariums such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Check it out.. click on the blog title. Occasionally on the Kelp Forest cam you can watch aquarium employees feed fish and even do live Q&A sessions.

They also have sea and fresh water otter cams, penguin cams (which are offline now) and an aviary as well.

Carl Pohlad, Cheap Bastard

I just wanted to take a second and mention how sick I am of Carl Pohlad not keeping his free agents. Torii Hunter's gone from the Twins forever, signing with the Anaheim Angels, because Pohlad's too fucking cheap to put up the money to keep him signed. The Twins are getting a brand new money making stadium, yet Pohlad and the Twins are too cheap to pay the guy. Next up, Joe Nathan and Johan Santana, two of the best pitchers in the league, will be free agents that Pohlad won't pay to play for the Twins.

The new stadium will be a huge money maker for Pohlad's family, especially when they're too damn cheap to pay for a competitive team.