Stealing Anthony's thunder...it's what I do best!

My thoughts on everything from T.V. to Video games.

Let's start with T.V.

-Entourage. Am I the only one finding the show getting stale? It sometimes feels like plots are forced just to have the show continue and for the show to have a purpose. Some subplots with promise are just 86'd all together. Sloan and E are "on a break", glad they showed us the break up. Wouldn't it make more sense to show the viewer that than some of the other garbage plots were subjected to? What happened to Turtle and his girlfriend, it seemed like Turtle was on the verge of breaking out. Eric's character is the only one that seems to have any depth. His character has actually developed from the beginning of the series till now. Vince on the other hand seems to be regressing into the annoying, helpless, spoiled character that I hated in season one. The show still has it's moments and it's still funny and better than most of the crap on television, but, it seems to have lost the magic it once had.

-24. Did anyone see this article. Thats right the entire plot of Season 7 of 24 has been scrapped at the last minute...I just threw up in my mouth. Season 6 sucked. Don't try to defend it. It sucked from start to finish. The good news was the 24 higher ups realized that it sucked and the show had gotten stale. They promised big changes, necessary changes for Season 7. I was excited. 24 needed a shot in the arm. This news is horrifying though. For one they were going to be filming in Africa, that's totally bad ass. What was going on in Africa? Was Jack in Africa? Were never going to know now. Secondly there was going to be a female president. Was it going to be someone we know? What happened to Wayne Palmer and Noah Daniels? Sigh. I don't know what the hell they were going to shoot in Africa but having several episodes shot in Africa would have certainly been an intriguing direction for the series. Now the producers set everything back 3 weeks and start from scratch. Do they have a backup plan? Is it going to be rushed? I'm officially worried about 24 Season 7.

-WSOPC. That's right WSOPC....World Series of Pop Culture. Airing on VH1 on Monday Nights. Fun show, especially for a Pop Culture whore like myself. Check it out, scream answers at your TV and look for me to be on WSOPC '08

Video game update

-MGS 4 is still PS3 exclusive. Booooo.

-Boo unexpected MGS exclusivity hurray Resident Evil 5 trailer!

-Madden anyone Madden? Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics.

Horray unexpected Feris Buller quote!



Baseball News and Notes

-Yanks willing to negotiate with A-Rod mid season. Smart move, we need to either lock him up or trade him at the deadline. Don't tell me that I am crazy. Look if we can't sign him now he's bound to get a blank check from someone else(like the Angels). If he leaves and we don't get any compensation, besides draft picks, it will be disastrous. If the deadline comes and the Yanks haven't made significant progress in this standings we need to sell. A-Rod, Farnsworth, Abreu, Pettite, Clemens?? All have value and can be shopped.

-All Star game disaster. Athony already wrote about why the game sucks in general so let me touch on something else. Tony LaRussa is an idiot. How do you not pinch hit for Rowand in that situaton. One the point of the game is that everyone plays. Secondly Poo-Holes is his guy. HIS GUY. He made sure he was on the roster and in the biggest situation in the game he elects to go with Rowand, a good hitter, but clearly a guy not on the level of Albert. Just a totally unthinkable decision. In our fantasy football leauge we had a guy like Tony. He over thought everything. In the end it came up biting him in the ass, he lost in the playoffs. Tony is going to be lucky if he makes the playoffs. Enjoy the clubhouse awkwardness for the rest of the year.

NBA

-I love what Seattle is doing. The managed to sucker the Orlando Magic into a sign and trade when they could have singed Lewis outright. Now the Sonic's have a 9-9.5 million dollar trade exception. Since they are rebuilding I doubt they will trade for an aging star with a loaded contract. However what they can do is, either trade with a team needing to slash payroll, ie the Suns. They can trade for Kurt Thomas's expiring contract and receive future draft picks in return. Or they can trade for a player with two years left on his deal, like say Eric Snow. In return they can get young players or picks. Than in the summer of 2009 they would have a boatload of money coming off the books.

-Here's 30 million now go home. Steve Francis is a blessed man. He really is. A team just paid him 30 million dollars not to play. Are you freaking kidding me?!? I know the Blazers were eager to deal Randolph but I think they could have gotten better value for him.


That's all for now. I'm outtie 5,000 take it sleazy.