Friday, February 24, 2017

How Has Rogue Sriracha Hot Stout Gone Unnoticed This Long

Shopping at the Fruit Center tonight, I came across this beauty. Sriracha and beer, two things I hold so dear, coming together to bless taste buds throughout this great country of ours. There was only one left on the shelf and the smoke of a beer attendant informed me that they had been flying off the shelves all day. I had never seen or even heard of this before, but a quick Google search informed me  it has been around at least a couple of years. Very disappointed in myself for not knowing this. I am usually up to date on all things beer and sriracha so to find out about this 2 years after the fact is a huge hit to the ego. As for the beer itself, its pretty good. Smells like your average stout. Tastes like your average stout at first, and then a couple moments after the spice hits your lips for a very pleasant after taste. The spices stays in your mouth for a while too, so if you are like me and put sriracha on anything and everything, this stout should serve you well. Now if the could only find a way to incorporate cheese into it, I would be able to get all my nutritional needs in one bottle.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Jimmy Butler and Paul George Will Not Be Walking Through That Door.

I'd like to thank Rick Pitino for that headline.Anyways, three o'clock this afternoon came and went without the Celtics making any trades. I am ok with them not moving anybody. The team they have now has been  the second best team in the East, and have never really been fully healthy. I'm not expecting Avery Bradleys hopeful return this Friday to turn them into Cleveland, but his 18 points and 7 rebounds per game can only help. This team is not winning a title this year, or next even, without improving on their rebounding, an obvious deficiency. At some point, this glaring hole needs to be filled. Maybe Al Horford brings his game back down low and returns to being the almost 9 rebounds per game player the Celtics thought they signed. I like Horford and the Celtics are definitely a better team with him, but at some point he has to stop playing outside and become a presence on the glass. If the draft and free agency come and go and the Celtics are still relying on Amir Johnson as their big man, my attitude towards Danny Ainges approach may change.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

MLB Wants to Quicken Pace of Games, Gets Rid of Intentional Walk Pitches, Keeps Infinite Pitching Changes.

Major League Baseball is apparently doing away with the need for four pitches during an intentional walk and allowing managers to give a sign to the ump that they are giving the batter the free base. This is being done in an attempt to make the games play faster, but how much time are they really saving? Baseball had just .38 intentional walks per game last season, so its not like the minute or two that an IBB takes was causing some games to go as long as 3.5-4 hours. If they really wanna speed up the games, they should limit the amount of pitching changes per inning. Nothing slows down a game more than a manager waddling out to the mound 4 times in 8 minutes to get the right match-ups.Whereas the IBB rule is just an attempt to make it look like MLB is doing something to speed up the games and keep their audiences engaged, limiting pitching changes could drastically speed the game up. The only proof I need to back me up is my eyes. I've seen enough managers plod their way out to the mound 5 times in an inning to know that one of those trips back and forth take a lot longer than 4 wasted pitches. Or, if the really wanted to speed up the game, they could enforce the rules they put in place a couple years ago in regards to time between pitches and leaving the batters box. That would help, too.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

What the Fuck Smells in My Fridge?

I opened my fridge today and got nailed in the face with a horrible stench. It was like Shawn Michaels was waiting inside and when I opened the door, BAM! Shit sandwich superkick to the face. After looking at the contents of the fridge, I have narrowed down the potential culprits. I will list the odds for each food item and then smell each one, and figure out just what exactly is producing that foul smell.

Magic Johnson to Take Over the Lakers Front Office

Jeanie Buss brought the hammer down today, firing Mitch Kupchak as GM and relieving her brother, Jim, of his executive vice president role as well. Since hiring Magic Johnson a couple weeks ago as an adviser, this move by the Lakers Governor doesn't come as much of a surprise. Johnson will take as the new president of basketball operations. I'm sure Lakers fans are ecstatic over the move. And analyzing Johnsons tweets referencing basketball moves over the last few years, I can't say I blame them. Just last May, Magic tweeted out in back to back posts that the Lakers should go after Kevin Durant and Lebron James in free agency. Who would ever think that targeting the top two potential free agents would be a sound business strategy? If he suggests to Jeanie Buss that they should place a call to Steph Curry or Blake Griffin this summer, she should double his salary. Who can ever forget his tweet from March 2014 in which he says the only way the Heat or Spurs wouldn't win the Finals that season is if they didn't make it. That's some NBA moneyball type shit right there. The rest of the NBA should take notice, the Lakers are back!





Friday, February 17, 2017

George "The Animal" Steele Passes Away

The WWE has lost a legend today. George "The Animal" Steele has passed away at the age of 79. Though he played a baboon on tv, Steele was actually one of the smartest people in the business. He had a Masters degree and was a Detroit area high school wrestling coach when the WWE came calling in the 1960s. For two decades he was one of the biggest heels in the biz, before turning face and fighting Macho Man Randy Savage over the honor of Miss Elizabeth during the wrestling heydey of the 1980s. Known for his green tongue and a penchant for eating turnbuckles, Steele was one of the most beloved WWE superstars of all time and was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame in 1995. Rest in peace, Animal.

Robert DeNiro is an Anti Vaxxer and Plans to Give Away All his Rocky and Bullwinkle Money

I know Jenny McCarthy gets a lot of the "credit" for the leading the charge against vaccines, but the anti-vaxxers have been around since at least the 90's and besides, if you are listening to medical advice from a Playmate, you're an idiot. Don't get me wrong, between Jenny and Anna Nicole Smith 1994 was a very busy year for me, but I'm only looking for her help with my knuckle children, not my real ones. Where was I? Oh yeah, Robert DeNiro took part in a press conference yesterday with Bobby Kennedy, Jr in which they talked about how giving vaccines to children can cause autism. Despite the fact that there is no validity to these claims, Kennedy and DeNiro were there to announce a $100,000 reward for anyone who can "prove the safety" of vaccinations. My lucky day! Here you go, guys! You can make the check payable to cash.

In all honesty, if you believe that vaccines are bad, you are a fucking moron. The reason measles, mumps and rubella are pretty much non-existent now is because of the vaccines. I don't even know what the fuck rubella is, all I know is that I got a shot for it years ago and now don't have to worry about it. When you see cases of the goddamn measles popping up throughout the country, it is because the idiotic majority believe that they know better than the scientific community. There was an outbreak of the mumps in the NHL a couple years ago. The fucking mumps! Bottom line, refusing to vaccinate your children is abuse and it puts other children in harms way. Don't be an idiot.