Links, Hodgepodge and Whatnot.

- I was going to do a whole rant on how bad Linkin Park’s Minutes to Midnight is, but Jason stole my thunder. Every point he made, I agree with wholeheartedly. A piece of me has died.

- The situation with the Suns/Spurs series is regrettable. I love the Suns and I actually sat down and watched game 2. I hate NBA Basketball for the most part so that should tell you how good the Suns are for the Sport. Anyway, Now without Stoudamire, Phoenix is done and the Spurs will then roll over the Jazz. The NBA Sucks.

- On another note, aren’t the Spurs getting less likable by the day? I mean Duncan is ok, but everyone else is just horrible. Bruce Bowen should be jettisoned into space. Is anyone against this? Manu Ginobili looks like a weasel. Tony Parker is not nearly good looking enough for his wife.

- In Today’s “Wait, did that just really happen on Long Island?” moment, A Syosset couple was caught keep SLAVES in their basement. That’s right they kept two Indonesian women in their house, made them work and beat them. How does that get any worse? They happen to be members of the gym I work at! YES! I knew someone in that place had to be evil!

- Just in case you haven’t hears, Padres SP Jake Peavy is flat out absurd.

- In other baseball news, Everybody should have already seen this video, but if you haven’t, Here’s a reason to love Royals OF Joey Gathright.

- Everyone stop panicking about the Yankees. The pitching is going to be fine. More importantly, No one the team is hitting. Here’s some fun and interesting stats:

- Bobby Abreu: .239 Avg, .311 OBP, 20 RBI

- Robinson Cano: .235 Avg, .279 OBP, 1 HR, 16 RBI

- Johnny Damon: .256 Avg, .2 HR, 13 RBI

- Do you think that these guys are gonna hit this way all year? I didn’t think so. The team will be fine.

- Solid New Songs Report (AKA What to listen to when you are not listening to Minutes to Midnight!)

Paramore – “Misery Business”

Over It – “Caught in a Rundown”

Patrick Park – “Life is a Song”

- Even as a casual MMA fan, I’m pumped for Rampage v. Lidell on 5/26. Here’s hoping Rampage stomps Lidell. Probably won’t happen.

- Guitar Hero: 80’s edition. Oh Baby.

- Really Funny Commerical.

- Going to Subway Series! Yankees v. Mets on 5/20 with Stein and Glenn. Drunken Photos/ Drunken Recap to Follow.

Dissapointment

So I listened to the Linkin Park CD a couple of times through now and I want to like it but I can't. It's boring and generic, the opposite of everything that made LP so great in the first place. Mike's rapping is almost non-existent, featured on two maybe three songs at most. It's no coincidence that those are some of the best songs on the CD. The harmony between Chester's raspy vocals and Mikes rapping created LP's unique and creative sound. That's replaced on this CD by generic vocals and boring ballads. While it's not awful...it's just blah..you hear a million songs by a million different bands on the radio that sound like this.

While the CD isn't awful only a few songs stand out and have that old Linkin Park feel and after hearing those songs you'll be even more disappointed that the rest of the CD doesn't like that.

Final Grade - F

(EDIT: I just went back and listendto both Metora and Hybrid Therory, Minutes to Minute is horrendous. Completely unacceptable, i'm changing my grade to an F)

Timmy needs to retire

Here's some quick hits

-Linkin Park album drops on Tuesday. First impressions are eh, I feel like it can never be as good as the debut album. The song Bleed it Out is amazingly catchy and definitely has driving blaring it with the windows open potential

-I had to comment on the suspensions stemming from the Suns Spurs game. I was going to devote a whole blog to it and than i realized that I don't really care about basketball.

Here's loyal reader and all around good guy Dave Bamdad's take.

David Stern and the rest of the front office must review the current rule of suspending players for walking onto the court during an altercation. If Stoudamire and Diaw are going to be suspended for getting up after their player is basically hip checked into the scorer's table, Duncan should be suspended for walking onto the court when his player decided to fall on a Sun's player and therefore onto the floor. Just because an altercation did not brew after that incident doesn't make what Duncan did any better. David Stern may have just handed the Western Conference Championship and maybe NBA Championship to the Spurs because of a flagrant foul they committed.

Seriously Robert Horry tries to kill Steve Nash by elbowing him into the scorers table right by the Suns bench and their not suppose to react? I know the rule is there protect things like Artestgate from happening but this is absurd. Way to ruin a great series David.

P.S. This wouldn't have happened if the NBA made any sense and reseeded playoff teams.

-We had a Jenn V Collie Inferno. Jenn won, I <3 Watch this now, thank me later

-Brock Lesnar and Jhonnie Morton are fighting on the next Showtime MMA card...I'm speechless thats former WWE Champ Brock Lesnar, and washed up former NFL Wide Out Jhonnie Motorn...
Thats all for today