The Sandlot

So, funny story. I'm working my usual Wednesday route which consists of accounts in and around the Lockport area. My case count happened to be a bit on the heavy side, pushing 850, so I had another merch working with me all day. It was my buddy, Pat, whom I work with frequently, who's also my boss's son.

We were at the Bailey's Sunoco gas station, which is located on the corner of Shawnee Rd and Lockport Rd at roughly 10am. Pat and I have a very, dare i say special, working relationship. We joke around a lot and constantly give each other shit pretty much all day. Today was no exception.

At Bailey's, some of the beer goes in the cooler, but out on the floor we have a section where Coors and Molson 18-packs are on display. At the time of the incident, Pat and I were filling said display. Some scummy song comes on the radio station and as is custom from time to time when Pat and I work together, I started singing along with the song and then changed some of the words to incorporate Pat's name into it (a practice I do all the time with many other people).

The song in question was "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles. You might have heard it featured on the Rhapsody TV commercial where shes on the piano. So me, trying to be funny, I start singing along saying something like "I'm not gonna write Pat a love song." Then he added in the "Cause I ask for it" line, this as we're throwing 18-packs up on a display. At the same time, there's a gentleman customer standing basically right behind us getting a beverage out of one of the cooler doors. He obviously can hear us and at the conclusion of our little improv singing session he turns, looks at us and drops this line on us:

"There ain't no **** allowed in here."

As you might guess, this guy was essentially trash, rocking a cut-off T-shirt and a scruffy appearance. But god damn if that wasn't a ballsy one liner he laid on two total strangers.

I know is only the end of June. I know that meaningless pre-season games don't start for another 2 months and that September is still a long ways off. But, a couple days ago, 2008 Fantasy Football Leagues on ESPN were allowed to be re-activated!

As commissioner and reigning league champ, this news put a little pep in my step. It was refreshing and downright rewarding to see that all my off season research and preparation last year allowed me to claim first place by demolishing the rest of the guys in the league. I've already done a considerable amount of preparation already (in fact my initial research took place some several months ago, possibly when there was still snow on the ground.) This game has become a borderline obsession for me, and for the others in the league as well.

This year, like pretty much every year, there has been a few shakeups. I booted out two people from the league to make room for some better ones, and as always, I continue to tweak the rules in an effort to make the scoring system and everything as fair as possible.

As previously discussed with some of the league members, I'm looking to make this years draft more of an extended event than a dine and dash scenario. I think also, I might need some one to be my assistant. Not for my fantasy squad, but as a commissioner's assistant for draft day. Its very difficult to announce all the picks and keep track of who's on the clock/how much time they have left while managing my own drafting process by keeping track of who's still available and so forth. Ideally, I'd love to get my hand on a projector to hook up to a lap top and have some one there to type out all the picks as they happen which would hopefully reduce the number of instances of repeat picks. Also my assistant would be in charge of the round timer and would most likely announce picks after the 2nd round, allowing me to concentrate more on building an unstoppable dynasty.

On that note I must go cut the grass then get ready for the Sloan concert tonight. Surely, this will not be the only or last entry I make regarding fantasy, so be forewarned. If you're not in the league but want to be, too bad. However, I'm all for creating one or more other leagues. I have the time/money.

Hollywood has done it again. I've gone on record many a time saying they had run out of ideas. I've also stated that the latest trend is to turn TV shows into movies. I can think of no better example of this than last weekends release of...

The Sex and the City Movie!

That's right kids, the TV show I proclaimed to be worse than Mind of Mencia got its very own full length big screen movie.

Already there's been reports of women dressing up in fancy dresses and bukakke goggles to go see the movie in theatres, much like super nerds who dress up like Luke Skywalker to go see the Star Wars movies.

It seems for every 1 good movie that comes out, like Iron Man, there's 4 other terrible ones (Meet the Zohan for one instance). This one has got to take the cake though. I literally doubt I could come up with a worse movie plot/premise than this film. Even a 2nd remake in 3 years of the Hulk movie is better but I digress.

I don't really think I can add any other commentary about this than I already did in the previous post I made concerning the HBO show. The chics are older now and less attractive, when they weren't hot to begin with. The run time is longer and I can only imagine the story line is completely atrocious. Movie theatres should take Jake's suggestion: At every showing of this movie, lock the doors and nerve gas the audience.