New Monday!
I just saw Willie Randolph online at the unemployment office. He was trying to convince the government why he should get that extra $400 per week after taking pennies on the dollar to defend his National Leage East title.
It's Monday, but I have no case of the Monday's. That is because it is 75 degrees in LA every day. In New York when you're bored and broke you are relegated to your couch for entertainment, stuck in your apartment due to fear of cold weather.
You say to yourself, "I cannot watch anymore coverag about Peyton Manning's thumb or the all-black coaching battle in the Super Bowl," only to then tune back into ESPN with the prayer that something else might come on. That thing you see is the death of a horse and you want to shoot yourself.
Out here, things are different. A walk to 7-11 to get your morning cup of coffee and you don't get angry, you feel like you are on vacation.
In fact it is imposssible to have a case of the Monday's. You could be the biggest horse racing fan in the world and still not be upset.
Because Monday's are television heaven. I am not talking about what was perhaps the most boring Monday Night Football Season ever.
I am talking back to back 24 and and the second year man out of the pen.
You all know how I feel about 24. It is the Wright, Reyes, Beltran of television. It is my core. It has the talent, power and speed to dominate now and dominate in 5 years. This season hasn't really disappointed. Jack's vampire escape in the first episode was a top-5 Bauer moment.
24 is my crack. I never took drugs and we here at Yankees 2000 are a drug-free blog. But if 24 feels anything like heroin, then shoot it up fellas. I live for that.
I knew 24 would be there for me. She always is and she always will be. But games are won by the bullpen and I needed something else to close the night out.
I signalled for the Righty, Lauren Conrad, and the cast of the MTV smash, The Hills, and all was good.
Just like its mother show, Laguna Beach, the Hills started off decently in Season 1 only to emerge as a sensation in its sophomore season. Dare I say Duaner Sanchez? With LC getting dumber, Heidi getting hotter, the dude who is playing Heidi and Audrina and the out of nowhere emergence of Brody Jenner -- incapable of speaking in anything but cliched pick-up lines -- the Hills really has turned into Must-See TV.
It's been a while since I was last sucked into MTV reality. The Dual didn't do it for me and this recent class at Laguna Beach high didn't draw me in. Dare we say Anderson Hernandez?
But These Hills. Maybe it is that I live in Hollywood. Or maybe it's cause I hit LA's "Cool Lunch" scene and saw Jason and Talan at the table next to me. That's right, in LA, they don't just do lunch. They do "Cool Lunch."
All the waiters are models, the brunch is served "extra chill" and the food takes a backseat to "the being seen" factor.
LA is so weird.
But yeah, with the biggest thing in baseball being a recent signing of Aaron Sele - this guy had huge upside in 1991 - and the biggest thing in sports, other than the new look Pacers, is the death of a horse, it is time to curb your TV appetites and give some things a shot.
I am happy to have the debate about whether to wait for 24 to come out on DVD. I am also happy to forget that Season 5 of the show ever happened.
But if you want entertainment and you just can't wait for a DVD, then 10 p.m. tonight on MTV.
Vaya con dios,
Sip
It's Monday, but I have no case of the Monday's. That is because it is 75 degrees in LA every day. In New York when you're bored and broke you are relegated to your couch for entertainment, stuck in your apartment due to fear of cold weather.
You say to yourself, "I cannot watch anymore coverag about Peyton Manning's thumb or the all-black coaching battle in the Super Bowl," only to then tune back into ESPN with the prayer that something else might come on. That thing you see is the death of a horse and you want to shoot yourself.
Out here, things are different. A walk to 7-11 to get your morning cup of coffee and you don't get angry, you feel like you are on vacation.
In fact it is imposssible to have a case of the Monday's. You could be the biggest horse racing fan in the world and still not be upset.
Because Monday's are television heaven. I am not talking about what was perhaps the most boring Monday Night Football Season ever.
I am talking back to back 24 and and the second year man out of the pen.
You all know how I feel about 24. It is the Wright, Reyes, Beltran of television. It is my core. It has the talent, power and speed to dominate now and dominate in 5 years. This season hasn't really disappointed. Jack's vampire escape in the first episode was a top-5 Bauer moment.24 is my crack. I never took drugs and we here at Yankees 2000 are a drug-free blog. But if 24 feels anything like heroin, then shoot it up fellas. I live for that.
I knew 24 would be there for me. She always is and she always will be. But games are won by the bullpen and I needed something else to close the night out.
I signalled for the Righty, Lauren Conrad, and the cast of the MTV smash, The Hills, and all was good.
Just like its mother show, Laguna Beach, the Hills started off decently in Season 1 only to emerge as a sensation in its sophomore season. Dare I say Duaner Sanchez? With LC getting dumber, Heidi getting hotter, the dude who is playing Heidi and Audrina and the out of nowhere emergence of Brody Jenner -- incapable of speaking in anything but cliched pick-up lines -- the Hills really has turned into Must-See TV.It's been a while since I was last sucked into MTV reality. The Dual didn't do it for me and this recent class at Laguna Beach high didn't draw me in. Dare we say Anderson Hernandez?
But These Hills. Maybe it is that I live in Hollywood. Or maybe it's cause I hit LA's "Cool Lunch" scene and saw Jason and Talan at the table next to me. That's right, in LA, they don't just do lunch. They do "Cool Lunch."
All the waiters are models, the brunch is served "extra chill" and the food takes a backseat to "the being seen" factor.
LA is so weird.
But yeah, with the biggest thing in baseball being a recent signing of Aaron Sele - this guy had huge upside in 1991 - and the biggest thing in sports, other than the new look Pacers, is the death of a horse, it is time to curb your TV appetites and give some things a shot.
I am happy to have the debate about whether to wait for 24 to come out on DVD. I am also happy to forget that Season 5 of the show ever happened.
But if you want entertainment and you just can't wait for a DVD, then 10 p.m. tonight on MTV.
Vaya con dios,
Sip
posted by Sippy Momo at 1:02 PM
3 Comments:
Wow, Sip, really gotta disagree with you on two things here:
1. Barbaro. I loved that horse, and not because Will Leitch made him cool. Those who know me either from real life or blogger hangouts like the Magician know that A Friend of Mr. Glass' isn't my real name. My real name bears a certain resemblance to Barbaro, and for that reason I've been on that horse's bandwagon since before he won the Derby. I loved that horse. He was a champion.
2. Season 5 of 24. I just had a marathon session this past weekend re-watching Season 5, making it through 16 episodes before I had to leave to come back to New York. It was a great season, better than I remembered. It doesn't touch Seasons 1 or 4, but it's better than 2 and possibly better than 3. I know you've got some free time -- watch it on DVD, all the episodes back-to-back. I'll bet you enjoy it more.
The only thing that got me through between seasons of 24 was watching the first 2 seasons of The Wire, which I started watching this year.
If 24 is Jose Reyes, The Wire is certainly Tom Seaver.
You want a "24" post? Check this out:
http://ridingwithricky.blogspot.com
Oh yeah, and I also discuss the Barbaro nonsense too.
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