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Hey what's up? This thing still work? I have not posted here in a long time! For those who are interested, all the posts on this site are now available in the archives over at my main page, www.mrblackandwhite.com Thanks!

Site News: I'm moving! Update your links

Hey all, If you have not figured out by now, I'm moving my blog to a new location. I'll be leaving this site pretty much 'as is'. I'm not going to take it down but I won't be updating it at this location anymore. The new location is now (http://www.mrblackandwhite.com) If you link to this site, I'd like to say thank you very much for linking to me. I really do appreciate that you think I am worthy of a link. Please update your links and any feeds, bloglines, kinja, etc you may have to point to the new site. I'd like to say thanks to everybody that has stopped by to read the site, and espeicially to those of you that actually come back! ;-) I hope you will continue reading my site over at my new home. Thanks again -ME

Ok that's IT!!!

Hey everybody! Well I think I've finally got my blog template set up the way I want it over at TypePad. Go over and look at it and tell me if it sucks or not. I value any input I can get. So let me know what you think! Thanks Update: While I was trying to post this little blurb, Blogger did it's thing where it forgets where it is and goes off into Neverland. That's the final straw. My mind is made up. Sometimes you just gotta say, "What the Fuck."

UNH eliminated... Sox countdown

I got my hockey fix yesterday and watched the UNH / Denver game. (ap) UNH got outplayed most of the game and was lucky to even be in the game quite frankly. Thanks to some great plays by their Goalie (or Net-Minder, whatever) they managed to keep the score tied up going into the 3rd period on a flukey goal and a penalty shot. In the end though, Denver played a much more physical game and eventually got the go-ahead goal to win the game and move on to the Frozen Four. I was really rooting for UNH in this one since they were the lone representative from Hockey East left in the tournament. Now that they've been eliminated, I'll root for JoC's team, University of North Dakota. We now have less than a week to go till opening day of Baseball Season and the excitement level is starting to build. I've managed to get my ass out of bed in the mornings and start excersizing again. Since it was raining this morning, which is so much better than snow by the way, I watched NESN while walking on the treadmill (fuck jogging). They had an interview with Edgaaahhh Renteria with a little bit of assistance from Manny. Edgar does not hablo ingles very well so Manny was there to help him out. During the interview, Manny was sporting some shades with bright white frames, which are beyond my ability to describe accurately. They were not on the goofyness level of Elton John sunglasses, but Manny looked pretty funny wearing them. When the interview was over Edgaahhh did the classic 'Manny two-handed point' to the camera, which I got a good laugh out of. NESN also had a little blurb on the outcome of the Yankees pre-season game and I could not help but notice that Slappy McBlue Lips (A-Rod) is still wearing those dumb looking Mickey Mouse gloves. I can't wait for Baseball Season to start.

Q&A with Will Carroll over at Firebrand, New MVN Sox Site...

Hey all! Evan over at Firebrand of the American League e-mailed me and asked me to help him let people know he's hosting a Q&A session with Will Carroll on his site this Thursday. Will is an expert on baseball injury and writes for Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Toaster. If you've got any questions for Will, head on over and get them in! Also, I wanted to give some plugs to the new Sox site over at Most Valuable Network, Wallball Single, written by Dan Kobayashi from Keys to the Game and Brian Young from Tao of Manny. There ya go. As they say here at the ever-so-exciting and completely-fulfilling-on-a-daily-basis Software Factory, you've got your 'Marching Orders'. There's plenty of links for you to go follow. That should keep at least 5 of you busy for a good couple of hours. Have fun!

TypePad...

Hey what's up everyone? I've signed up to try out TypePad and you can check it out over there if you are interested. The main thing I am finding out is that TypePad is extremely customizeable, which is cool, but also a little overwhelming... I've got 30 days to decide if I want to switch. I'll still be posting stuff here in the meantime, so stay tuned!

Firebrand's new home...

Hey all, just wanted to help get the word out about 'Firebrand of the American League's' new home. Evan writes a great Red Sox blog. If you have not read it yet, you should definetly check it out! (Also, you should know there will be some new writers taking over the Red Sox blog at Most Valuable Network too!)

Will it ever sink in?

As I was riding into work today I looked down at my Sox cap with the World Series patch on the side and thought, 'Holy shit, The Sox won The Series... and The Pats have won 3 Superbowls... Am I dreaming? Is this really for real?' Sometimes I still can't believe it... The 05 Season is a little more than a week away and it still has not fully sunk in yet. Yesterday I got the Red Sox Newsletter e-mail. Nice of them to personally let me know that they plan to stay in Fenway. Thanks guys. There was also an area in the e-mail to let me know that tickets were still available for some games. I kind of frowned and was like, 'yeah right' but then I figured 'what the fuck, why not see what there is.' I checked it out and all that was available were obstructed views. I highly considered buying some anyway, but I eventually balked at the price tag. I did'nt want to pay $100 bucks to sit behind a pole... The quest for tickets continues... On a side note I am highly considering moving 'mr. blackandwhite' over to TypePad. I've made a few bucks from the ad links here and I was thinking of using that to pay for it. I'm also going to cancel my .Mac subscription after this one runs out and the money I save there would pay for a year and a half of TypePad. If you are a TypePad user and happen to read this, I'd really like to hear what you think of it. Thanks!

Yah whatevah it's snowin. Go Sox!

I'm sick of snow, sick of bitching about the snow and I'm sure you're sick of reading me bitch about snow. So instead, enjoy this cool picture and try to remember what green grass, budding trees and a brand new Baseball Season feels like. Think Spring!!

Just when I was starting to see some grass...

The sidewalks and roads around here are finally clear enough for me to get out and walk in the morning before I go to work. I saw a robin and a cardinal this morning. I can actually see some grass in my yard. Baseball is 2 weeks away. Its officially spring. Temps have been in the 40s, sometimes 50s! Too bad it's going to snow again tonight. I'm convinced Mother Nature has it out for us.

Just so we're clear: I Love Fenway Park

Every day I read The Soxaholix and Surviving Grady. Today they both had some good posts about the Sox staying in Fenway. I went back and re-read what I had written yesterday about the Sox staying in Fenway and I thought it sounded a little bit like I was bashing the place so for my own peace of mind, I just wanted to clarify things... I truly love going to see Sox games at Fenway and I am very glad the Sox are staying there. Like Red said in his post over on Surviving Grady, there's just nothing like walking up that concrete ramp and seeing that green feild. Every time you see it, it takes your breath away. It's an indescribeably great feeling that could never be duplicated or replaced at a new stadium. Yeah the seats may be a little cramped, but I've never seen anybody bitching about the seats during a game. All I've ever seen are excited, happy faces. There's very much a feeling of "We're all part of Red Sox Nation and we're in this together" at Fenway. I've never had a bad time watching a Sox game at Fenway. Even when it rained or the Sox lost, I was still happy I got to go to Fenway and see the game and be in the ballpark. It's one of my favorite places. As I said yesterday, the only other MLB stadium I have been to is Yankee Stadium. It's a lot bigger. Other than that there's no comparison to the 'enjoyment factor' of seeing a game at Fenway. And I don't just say that because I was a Sox fan in Enemy Territory. I think the renovations the Sox Ownership have done so far has been great and I only expect things to get better. Look what they've done just in the last year; improving the playing field, adding seats, opening up concourses, etc, etc, so hey, maybe all the seats will face the right way someday! I don't put it past them. So, just so we're clear: I - LOVE - FENWAY PAHK!!

No Sports... No Problem

Overhaulin' is a re-run. The Celts have the night off. The Sox have the night off. I don't care about college basketball or poker. I'm too tired to practice or write anything substantial. Thankfully, there's Chuck. (mgm.com)

Various topics...

I'm wicked tired today so this post is going to be kind of all over the place... Can you believe it will be time for Real Baseball soon? I'ts hard to believe the season starts next Sunday. I'm looking forward to it. I have to admit I have not paid too much attention to Spring Training other than acknowledging it's existance and wondering when Curt Shilling will be able to pitch again. Even though Curt will be out the first few weeks, I feel good about The Sox rotation going into the season with Wells, Clement, Wakefield, and Arroyo. Clement seems a little 'iffy' right now but then again, it's Spring Training so it's hard to tell how he's really going to perform. I'm glad that Wells is going to open up the season at Yankee stadium. If there's anybody on the staff who is capable of that type of situation, it's him. I was very surprised today to learn that the Sox plan to stay at Fenway. Really?? I never would have guessed! Maybe someday they'll make the seats face the right way. I'm not trying to bash Fenway. I love the place and I can tell you from first hand experience it kicks ass over Yankee Stadium. I can't wait to take my kids to a game at Fenway someday. I've already started saving up for the tickets. My neck does get kinda sore watching a game at Fenway though, since I'm usually in the right field box seats and my head is constantly turned to see what's going on at home plate. I have to take a rest every so often and just watch Trot wear out the grass in right field. Of course, that's always when something exciting happens... Even better is the upper deck seats. When somebody hits a fly ball, you have no idea if it's a homer or a pop up. You see the ball go up, dissapear somewhere above the roof and it either comes down and somebody catches it, or you never see it again and the place goes nuts. By the way... tickets? Anybody got any Sox tickets they don't want?? Let me know. Really. The Pats open up against the Oakland Raidahs who have not been to Foxboro since 'The Snow Bowl' game a few years back. It will be their first visit to the unfriendly, (for the visiting team that is) confines of THE RAZOR. I'm sure we'll hear non-stop Tuck Rule Hype leading up to this one. Uggghhh. As much as I miss football right now, I'm not looking forward to that nonsense. I am looking forward to Warren Sapp finding out how good Russ Hochstein has gotten since his days with the Bucs. Also, Ted Washington will get a reminder of what he's missing out on playing for Oakland when the latest and greatest Championship Banner goes up. No hard feelings Ted. If you did'nt leave, we might not have gone after Wilfork. Oh yeah. I almost forgot, Randy Moss is a Raidah now so there will be that whole sideshow too. When's 3 Games to Glory coming out?? So far I have aquired the following Superbowl 39 items: - Championship Cap - Championship T-Shirt - Championship Sweatshirt - Championship DVD - 3 Games to Glory has been pre-ordered - New pair of Pats socks. (Yes, I wear Patriots socks and have even gotten compliments on them when I wore them to a Sox game and was returning to my seat from the beer line, double fisted of course. "Nice socks dude!") - Championship 'On the Field' football. - 2 Championship 'Dynasty' Mugs, one glass for indoors, one plastic for outdoors (but beer tastes kinda funny in the plastic one) - Championship '3 Time Champs' t-shirt. - Championship keychain - There's more but I can't remember it right now... I miss Football... In other news, the reason I'm so tired today is because we got a hand-me down (free) Dell laptop for the kids to play with and I was up half the night setting it up. I told them I'd have it ready for them so they could play "Higgly Town Heroes" today. I got it done in time but #&$))!! what a friggin pain in the ass! I felt like I was still at work, dickin' around with Windoze all day. It's ok though. My reward of happy faces and hugs made it worth it. When I get home tonight I'll need to update all the service packs, spyware scanners, virus scanners and all the other junk you need to do on a Windows computer... People actually put up with this on a daily basis?? It's one thing having to deal with it at work but when I'm home the last thing I want to do is dick around with a computer just so it will work like it's supposed to. Seriously. What the fuck? That's why I bought a Mac so I would not have to deal with this shit, though I know somebody who I'm sure would be happy to trade systems with me. Stupid computers. Thanks for taking time out of your day to read this goofy post!

Save the excuses and just leave Tedy alone...

In both Boston papers today there were stories all about Tedy Bruschi and the recent invasion of his privacy by some local TV stations. Both stories were basically long winded rationalizations of why Tedy is getting what he deserves because he's famous and the press needs its story and he's not being very forthcoming with details and information about his condition. The press feels it's ok for them to stick their cameras where they don't belong and they want you to 'understand' they are just doing their jobs. Give - Me - A - Fucking - Break!! Stories like this are hard for me to write about because I get so pissed off just thinking about them, I can't write anything rational. I used to work for the local TV stations a long time ago and let me tell you from first hand experience, the people in the press do not give a rat's ass about Tedy, or you or me or anybody. All they care about is selling their fucking story. If it bleeds it leads baby. Dear Boston News Media Scum, Spare us the excuses because there is no excuse. Leave Tedy Bruschi the FUCK ALONE. Thanks scumbags. We got your back Tedy. - Patriot Nation

"The TV Business.. is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs..." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Once again, the good Doctor is absolutely correct.

Wifes Eye for the No Fashion Sense Guy...

All my jeans have been starting to look grungy and ratty so I went out shopping with my wife for some new clothes this weekend. I generally hate shopping and have been told that I am 'a horror' to shop with. However, being fashion-challenged, I told my wife that I would be good and let her pick out whatever she wanted for me to wear and I would not complain. It would be like playing dressup with a life size Ken doll. She was skeptical but agreed to help me anyway. We started out at Old Navy where all the jeans are conveniently pre-ripped and pre-grease-stained for you before you buy them. I could not help it. I had to say something. I told her, "Ok, I just have to say this and then I won't make any more comments. My current jeans are in better shape than the ones hanging on the rack." I got a quick glare so I shut up and then we went back to looking at jeans. Thankfully she did not like any of the Old Navy jeans so we went to another store where we found some jeans that actually looked new. Now I'm looking "Faaab-u-lussss!" In other "Me" news, I had a Larry David moment recently. A few weeks ago, it was my birthday. "What do you want for your birthday," my Wife asked. "I'd like you to call me "Crazy-Eyes" for the day," I said. "No" "WHY NOT?? Come on! Just for the day!" "No. I'm not calling you "Crazy-Eyes", and that's it!" (Humph!)