Son of a bitch! I just want some nice (dry) warm weather! Damn you snow gods! It's freaking baseball season! Ahhhh! Dammit all.
(Unless of course they cancel Friday classes. If that's the case: Bring it on! Wait... this is UNH... dammit.)
Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Really... really?
Really?!?!
Son of a bitch! I just want some nice (dry) warm weather! Damn you snow gods! It's freaking baseball season! Ahhhh! Dammit all.
(Unless of course they cancel Friday classes. If that's the case: Bring it on! Wait... this is UNH... dammit.)
Son of a bitch! I just want some nice (dry) warm weather! Damn you snow gods! It's freaking baseball season! Ahhhh! Dammit all.
(Unless of course they cancel Friday classes. If that's the case: Bring it on! Wait... this is UNH... dammit.)
Friday, July 9, 2010
Allow Myself to Introduce...Myself
Hello all,
My name is Geoff, and I’m new to this here blog. I would like to start by thanking the New Hampshirite for inviting me to become a writer for the University of Nonsensical Happenings. I’ve been a fan of the blog for some time now, and I’m honored to have the opportunity to write for it. My hope is to entertain as many of you as possible, and to encourage you to comment and become involved in our discussions.
Since I’ve chosen to use my real name, let’s get to know each other, shall we? I’ll be a senior (oh shit!) in the fall. I’m an English/Journalism major with minors in political science and cinema studies. I’m a News Editor for The New Hampshire, which I encourage you all to read and enjoy regularly.
But I thought that instead of sharing the usual information that people give when introducing themselves, I would write you a list of unique (and hopefully interesting) facts about myself. All of the following is true:
- I hail from the small and forgettable town of Burrillville, R.I. We don’t have much, but we do have two Dunkin Donuts.
- My fifth grade teacher told my mother and me at a parent/teacher conference that he thought I should consider pursuing journalism in the future. From that moment on, I wanted to be a journalist.
- In a Little League baseball game, I fouled a ball off of my thumb. On the next pitch, I fouled the ball off of my thumb again and split it open. The result was six stitches. I’m such a badass.
- I played hockey for 10 years. When I was 13, my junior hockey team made it to the state championship to play an undefeated team. Less than ten minutes into the game, I was thrown out for (unintentionally) hitting from behind. We won 2-1. It still hurts me to think about the fact that I didn’t play a part in the win.
- Just days after my eighteenth birthday, my car was hit by a tractor trailer truck in the parking lot where I work. The driver was 70 years old. He fled the scene. My car was totaled.
- I went to a party at a random apartment my freshman year. At one point in the night, I had to urinate, but my friend was busy vomiting in the bathroom. So I went outside in a t-shirt. It was January. I got locked out. In my drunken stupor, I thought I could figure out the combination to the lock before I froze to death. So I typed 1, 2, 3, 4, and the door opened.
- Three of my biggest pet peeves are loud gum chewers, people who walk slowly and the fact that Green Day is popular.
Well, there you have it. If you feel like it, write a unique (and true) fact about yourself in the comment section. Come on, it could be fun.
Cheers,
Geoff
My name is Geoff, and I’m new to this here blog. I would like to start by thanking the New Hampshirite for inviting me to become a writer for the University of Nonsensical Happenings. I’ve been a fan of the blog for some time now, and I’m honored to have the opportunity to write for it. My hope is to entertain as many of you as possible, and to encourage you to comment and become involved in our discussions.
Since I’ve chosen to use my real name, let’s get to know each other, shall we? I’ll be a senior (oh shit!) in the fall. I’m an English/Journalism major with minors in political science and cinema studies. I’m a News Editor for The New Hampshire, which I encourage you all to read and enjoy regularly.
But I thought that instead of sharing the usual information that people give when introducing themselves, I would write you a list of unique (and hopefully interesting) facts about myself. All of the following is true:
- I hail from the small and forgettable town of Burrillville, R.I. We don’t have much, but we do have two Dunkin Donuts.
- My fifth grade teacher told my mother and me at a parent/teacher conference that he thought I should consider pursuing journalism in the future. From that moment on, I wanted to be a journalist.
- In a Little League baseball game, I fouled a ball off of my thumb. On the next pitch, I fouled the ball off of my thumb again and split it open. The result was six stitches. I’m such a badass.
- I played hockey for 10 years. When I was 13, my junior hockey team made it to the state championship to play an undefeated team. Less than ten minutes into the game, I was thrown out for (unintentionally) hitting from behind. We won 2-1. It still hurts me to think about the fact that I didn’t play a part in the win.
- Just days after my eighteenth birthday, my car was hit by a tractor trailer truck in the parking lot where I work. The driver was 70 years old. He fled the scene. My car was totaled.
- I went to a party at a random apartment my freshman year. At one point in the night, I had to urinate, but my friend was busy vomiting in the bathroom. So I went outside in a t-shirt. It was January. I got locked out. In my drunken stupor, I thought I could figure out the combination to the lock before I froze to death. So I typed 1, 2, 3, 4, and the door opened.
- Three of my biggest pet peeves are loud gum chewers, people who walk slowly and the fact that Green Day is popular.
Well, there you have it. If you feel like it, write a unique (and true) fact about yourself in the comment section. Come on, it could be fun.
Cheers,
Geoff
Saturday, February 6, 2010
There will be Inglorious Baseballs
If you want to read about drugs and alcohol you'll have to wait a few days, I'm trying to be a bit more unpredictable and less cliche. This is a is a random rant on two movies and baseball. I don't really cover sports or movies too much on here even though I am a huge fan of both. As a sports fan I take pride that I am not what people refer to as a "pink-hatter" meaning I was a Red Sox fan pre-2004, a Patriots fan pre-2001, and a Celtics fan pre-2007 (I even went to a Celtics game when the lost like 22 games in a row)... and I still like the Bruins. As a movie fan, I love a good comedy or shoot 'em up film like most college students, but I also love the "classics." I also like a good satire. (But I despise those Wayens brother "________ Movie" movies.)
While a lot of people claim baseball is boring, when you're on the field with the game on the line the intensity is insane. Since the game is slower, it allows time for the tension to build. A baseball game is like Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds" or Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will be Blood" because they are long and drawn out, but they are also amazingly intense... and 3 hours long. Since baseball is slower paced then most sports it allows for intensity to build. A great game climaxes with a walk-off home run or a 95 mile per hour fastball up and in that a hitter chases for strike three. (Like Basterds climax: SPOILER). There is so much strategy leading up to the final innings that a casual sports fan doesn't pick up on, like an a well timed hit-and-run or steal. Almost the same thing can be said about a movie like Inglorious Basterds, or There Will be Blood. A certain wording or delivery to a line, an angle of a shot, or lighting that a casual movie goer doesn't pick up on can add so much more to a scene. For a movie to have an awesome climax it has to have perfect timing and proper scenes prior to build the tension. (Plus any movie about killin' Nazis is awesome in my book.)
As one of my brothers put it, M. Night Shyamalan could not have pulled off an ending like Tarantino in Basterds. Much like a championship baseball team needs the right type of manager. Or any sports team in general, that's why Herm Edwards never won a Super Bowl and Shyamalan never won an Oscar, although he got two nominations for The Sixth Sense. When Edwards coached you always knew he would screw it up when his team was playing well... do I really need to make that connection with Shyamalan?
Those two movies also have two of my all-time favorite bad-ass villains in Christoph Waltz's (if he doesn't win an Oscar for best supporting actor I will flip out the fuck out) Hans Landa, and in Daniel Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview. No, those characters aren't serial killers setting up bloody traps, but they are greed-filled geniuses who do their job better than anyone else. They aren't out for blood lust, but they perfectly deliver some of the most badass lines ever written. When Day-Lewis gives his monologue you learn that he is one bad dude. Although, possibly his best line in the movie is "I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people." It's simple, straight forward, but perfectly written and delivered.
Okay, I have no idea what I am talking about anymore. I think I might still be drunk from last night. If I may borrow a line from Billy Madison "what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Stay classy, not UMassy.
While a lot of people claim baseball is boring, when you're on the field with the game on the line the intensity is insane. Since the game is slower, it allows time for the tension to build. A baseball game is like Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds" or Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will be Blood" because they are long and drawn out, but they are also amazingly intense... and 3 hours long. Since baseball is slower paced then most sports it allows for intensity to build. A great game climaxes with a walk-off home run or a 95 mile per hour fastball up and in that a hitter chases for strike three. (Like Basterds climax: SPOILER). There is so much strategy leading up to the final innings that a casual sports fan doesn't pick up on, like an a well timed hit-and-run or steal. Almost the same thing can be said about a movie like Inglorious Basterds, or There Will be Blood. A certain wording or delivery to a line, an angle of a shot, or lighting that a casual movie goer doesn't pick up on can add so much more to a scene. For a movie to have an awesome climax it has to have perfect timing and proper scenes prior to build the tension. (Plus any movie about killin' Nazis is awesome in my book.)
As one of my brothers put it, M. Night Shyamalan could not have pulled off an ending like Tarantino in Basterds. Much like a championship baseball team needs the right type of manager. Or any sports team in general, that's why Herm Edwards never won a Super Bowl and Shyamalan never won an Oscar, although he got two nominations for The Sixth Sense. When Edwards coached you always knew he would screw it up when his team was playing well... do I really need to make that connection with Shyamalan?
Those two movies also have two of my all-time favorite bad-ass villains in Christoph Waltz's (if he doesn't win an Oscar for best supporting actor I will flip out the fuck out) Hans Landa, and in Daniel Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview. No, those characters aren't serial killers setting up bloody traps, but they are greed-filled geniuses who do their job better than anyone else. They aren't out for blood lust, but they perfectly deliver some of the most badass lines ever written. When Day-Lewis gives his monologue you learn that he is one bad dude. Although, possibly his best line in the movie is "I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people." It's simple, straight forward, but perfectly written and delivered.
Okay, I have no idea what I am talking about anymore. I think I might still be drunk from last night. If I may borrow a line from Billy Madison "what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Stay classy, not UMassy.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Trans-Global Googlelization
Not having the internet these last few days has led me to better understand myself. Over this past week I couldn’t believe how many times I strolled into my house’s office in hopes of expanding my useless knowledge by using Google; only to realize that the room was completely empty. I kept track of a few of these things that I needed to know. The following is only a small fraction of the questions I asked myself over the past week. Without Google I didn't know where to go.
- The name of the Clint Eastwood movie on AMC. (In the Line of Fire)
- How many movies Morgan Freeman has narrated. (6)
- Where my name ranked on the Social Security Administrations 2008 top baby names. (Top 50 but has declined each year since 2000.)
- Jason Bay’s highest single season homerun tally. (35)
- Red Sox hit streak record. (Dom DiMaggio 34 in 1949)
- Beastie Boy’s new album release date. (December 29th)
- What year The Godfather came out. (1972)
I realize that none of this information was even remotely relative to my life. This discovery has led me to believe that Google is trying to slowly take over the world by brainwashing and filling the minds of innocent people. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is actually run by the US or the Chinese government. It is a tactic that has worked well to help take peoples’ minds off important events. Take a look at the latest Google Trends to see for yourself. Notice how nothing important comes up for a until at least the 20's. We have become dependent on search engines like Google to tell us what to do and if we are not careful soon we will feel the true rath of the Google and it's brainwashing capabilities.
Google Safely.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Fuck Yeah Friday
Welcome to the debut post of "Fuck Yeah Friday!" It's warm, the sun and shining and the Sox take on the Yankees tonight at Fenway. Oh yeah, and it's a fuckin' Friday at UNH! It is time to party hard, we need to step up if we want to get back into the top 10 party schools. It's up to you to make the change. I hope to see you at DHOP tonight, singing loud and dancing awesomely. I'll probably be there, this may be your once chance to spot the New Hampshirite in action.
Readers, I just realized that our one month anniversary is rapidly approaching! You can expect an awesome and corny "look back" post which will be the first of hopefully many multimedia posts.
Here is today's song of the day. If you don't like it pound a few and turn up the volume to 11. I present the ultimate band of gypsies. They have soul, they have talent, and best of all they know how to party. They are Gogol Bordello.
The school year is winding down, so party hard, have fun and be smart. You all better be at DHOP tonight.
Stay Classy, Not UMassy.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Generational Throwbacks
I grew up in the 1990’s and the early 2000’s. I really enjoyed my childhood, because of all the different things that were going on during that time. I will be posting articles titled “Generational Throwback” whenever I feel necessary. These posts will be about a person, band, song, movie TV show ect. that impacted my childhood. Each post will include a brief summary of the topic and a “where are they now/ what happened too” section. Think of it as my personal version of VH1’s “I Love the 90’s/00’s.”
For today’s “Generational Throwback” debut I’m busting out the name Danny Almonte. Danny Almonte became a little league sensation when he led his team from the Bronx to a third place finish at the Little League World Series in 2001. As a pitcher he struck out 62 out of the 72 batters he faced. The problem with this was that Danny was 14, two years over the age requirement. His physical appearance and dominating fastball caused many people to doubt the legitimacy of his birth certificate. Basically it was like he
was on steroids and none of the other kids were. His team was stripped of their 3rd place finish and it was of the lowest points in LLWS history.
In the fall of 2007 Danny enrolled at the junior college Western Oklahoma State where he is a pitcher and right fielder for the baseball team. During the 2008 season the team advanced to the Junior College DII World Series. Almonte finished as one of the top hitters in the league batting .497 with 14 home runs and going 7-1 with 1 save as a pitcher. This season he is off to another great start. It is good to see that he has been able to play baseball competitively, because it is believed that he didn't even know his own age until after the LLWS scandal.
Props to my boy Jake in Maine for the tip to look up Almonte.
Thanks and don't forget to spread the word!
Stay classy, not Umassy.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thursday Thoughts
Hello readers, hope your week has gone well thus far. I have a few things I'd like to briefly cover. First off, there is a good chance I'll be attending "Theatre Sports" tonight at 9pm in the basement of the MUB. A good friend of mine is one of the performers and I like to attend now and again to show my support. TS is always good for a laugh and it is a great, and healthy, way to spend an hour on a Thursday night. As I sit here listening to my ipod on shuffle the song Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd came up, I figure that would be a good song of the day choice:
Also, I've been informed to keep an eye out for the "Thumbs Up" section in The New Hampshire, let's hope something good happens to help promote the site.
I would like to take this time to wish my condolences to the family, friends and teammates of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher Nick Adenhart, who passed away this morning after a car accident. Adenhart was only 22 years old.
In other sports news sources have said that Fenway Park in Boston will be hosting next years NHL Winter Classic. It is expected that the Bruins will play fellow "original six" team, and rival, Montreal Canadians on January 1st 2010.
That's all I have for now. Stay tuned and tell your friends.
Stay classy, not Umassy.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Song of the Day
In honor of the 2009 baseball season, today's song is "Centerfield" by the legendary John Fogerty of CCR.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Baseball Season
Alright, I'm a huge baseball fan and I'm going to take a step away from my normal posts and put up my season predictions. And yes I play favorites.
AL East: Boston NL East: New York Mets
AL Central: Minnesota NL Central: Chicago Cubs
AL West: LA of Anaheim NL West: Los Angeles
AL Wildcard: Tampa Bay NL Wildcard: St. Louis
World Series: Boston over NY Mets
AL Awards NL Awards
MVP: Miguel Cabrera MVP: Hanley Ramirez
Cy Young: Jon Lester Cy Young: Johan Santana
Breakout Player: Nick Markakis Breakout Player: Jay Bruce
Comeback Player: David Ortiz* Comeback Player: Chris Carpenter
Dark Horse Team: KC Royals Dark Horse Team: Cincinnati Reds
*OK, last year he wasn't bad but his numbers were down due to his wrist injury. He will back back to his MVP form this year.
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