SB Nation User Blog: Tyler Durrden

V's

Tyler Durrden — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:26:09 -0000

So somehow last night we pulled it off. Both of the last two games were terrible to watch, the refs let everyone be a little too physical, and in doing so, the true characters of some of the opposing players came out. In the celtics game we saw Garnett taking swipes at people after the whistles, I saw Paul Peirce gut check Andre Miller, all of the Celtics spent the whole game whining to the refs about how they didn't get ALL the calls to go their way. Then last night the refs swallowed their whistles while the pistons turned into a pack of wolves in the second half. Not only did our young squad have to contend with Rip Hamilton's notoriously lady like fingernails, but they also had to deal with Stuckey's constant unchecked hand checking above the circle, and one Charlie V. who got nice and personal with Juwan Howard's throat after an excessive foul on our (just returned from back surgery) Rudy Fernandez.

And somehow, even though our team is ridiculously depleted, our guys took Boston to OT, and managed to take one from a struggling Pistons team in The Palace. How playa is that? So I'm wondering what is it about our guys, that seems to bring out the worst in other teams? Is it our youth? Nobody likes a young know-it-all (or in this case play-it-all).

Is it the fact that our guys don't get extremely emotional when the other teams are trying to play rough and get in their heads? Nothing's more frustrating then someone not responding in kind when you've gotten yourself in a froth.

Is it the fact that even though we are playing rookies big minutes against these guys who have been to all-star weekend, and even participated in them? It's pretty threatening to be taken out of your game by guys who espn has never seen or heard of.

I think it's because we don't play THEIR games anymore. This team has elevated itself to a new plane, and somehow it's taken the decimation of our squad and the greatest team and character building experiment that I have ever witnessed in this franchises history to do it. If you would have told me that our team would be playing without Joel Pryzbilla, Greg Oden, Nicolas Batum, Brandon Roy, Rudy Fernandez, Jerryd Bayless, Travis Outlaw, and Steve Blake, for significant stretches this season and we would be Fourth in the conference half way through the season playing on the backs of guys like Pendergraph and Cunningham, I would have called you, well I'm sure you can figure that out for yourselves.

The good news is, we only have to see some of these guys one more time this year, not withstanding a run at the Finals.

So I would like to raise my glass to the tenacity of this team, just when I thought I couldn't love you guys anymore, well you give me even more reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7npSXQkxE

Poll

here's a poll, who is the Biggest V. that we have to face out there?

KGV?

41 votes

KobeV?

24 votes

Charlie V.?

7 votes

Tyson Chandler V?

1 votes

Trevor Ariza V?

5 votes

Zach V?

2 votes

Birdman V?

16 votes

Lamar V?

6 votes

Other V? feel free to point out other V

5 votes

107 votes | Poll has closed

THANKSGIVING JUNK 11/26/09

Tyler Durrden — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:25:24 -0000

So I am so excited for thanksgiving. It is the biggest meal I will cook in the winter (I got the BBQ going all summer long), and so I thought it'd be appropriate to share my recipe for the most delicious, succulent, juiciest, most moistest, sweetest turkey with the most tender boobs possible. This junk is so wet it's pouring off the cutting board, onto the counter, and down onto the floor. So if you wanna know the secret, (or you think you already know, and want to feel all special and smart about yerself), then cross the jumpy line with me, and I'll clues yous in.

So the first thing to do, is forget what your mom did. Forget about Norman Rockwell paintings and the cover of Sunset magazine. If you cook your bird like Martha Stewart you are gonna go dry. FIGHT THE CONSPIRACY. Now there are two schools of thought when it comes to step number one. To brine or not to brine. Some will say that by brining, you will replace some of the water that's naturally occurring in the turkey with flavored water. Sounds good, and the rules for that are pretty simple. Salt and water are the main components, mixed up like it says, briny. That means saltier than sea water. To that you can add spices, liquor, herbs, sugar, what have you. Personally I don't brine, I rub oil and salt and poultry seasoning all over my bird, and it turns out plenty good. The main reason is because I don't want a couple gallons of turkey water floating around, and I don't have a very large fridge and, what can I say, I'm lazy.

So once you've figured out what your gonna do there, the next and THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, is how you cook the turkey. I roast mine in the oven. I don't know nothing bout no deep-fried jibba jabba, so step aside with your overloaded, housefire bucket, and talk that smack to someone else. I take a roasting pan, fill it up with chopped onions, carrots, celery and herbs and I heat the oven up to 400 degrees, and I throw that bird in there, and here it is, BOOB SIDE DOWN. I know it sounds crazy, but trust me. Stick that sucka boob side down on those veggies, make a little tent with aluminum foil to keep from burning wingtips, and slide that sucker in. As a rule I drop the temp after about 45 minutes to 325, and cook for another 45 minutes before I pull that thing out, put on my gloves that look like they had a bit part in the hostel movies, and I flip that bird over. Only cook it like this for the first 1/3 of the total time. It'll be hot and slippery, but I'm sure if you ask Tominhawaii nicely, he will tell you how to handle such things.

After that cook it for another third of the time with the foil put back in place, then for the last 1/3, I take the foil off and let it get brown. When the mams are 160-165 take it out and let it rest, for at least half an hour. That's it. The other side benefit, is by cooking it on your veggies and herbs, you will create the best turkey stock for making your gravy, that you could possibly have. Already flavored and thanksgivingy, follow these steps and save your accolades for yourself, give it to your family and look like a friggin' turkey genius. Delicious turkey.

this is a turkey

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this is Turkey

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this is the biggest turkey

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this was my turkey last year ^^^^^

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weird jello product with stuff in it (maybe nuts)

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junkdrawer in case of SO armageddon

Tyler Durrden — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:39:38 -0000

So is it just me or is any game with the Warriors, pretty much the ugliest game of the year? For some reason we just cannot get over on them, and it drives me crazy to watch. Dirty, ugly basketball, which the warriors excel at and we don't. So whatever, they get calls every time, we get favorable calls overturned, and the fury of the fan base gets brought up to a frenzy as our team gets reduced to a bunch of whining, uncoordinated, d-leaguers.

So it makes me wonder, shouldn't we be considering this a rivalry? Even though G-state is a streaky team that won't make the playoffs, they sure have our number. Feel free to talk about it, or not talk about it. Either way, I understand and yes, you are right.

via www.laballtalk.com

Poll

How much do you hate Golden State?

20 votes | Poll has closed

Outlaw out 6-8 weeks

Tyler Durrden — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:19:27 -0000

Outlaw out 6-8 weeks

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Southern Oregon lifeline junk 11/10/09

Tyler Durrden — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:50 -0000

Just thought I'd make another drawer for all of the people running windows 3.0 on a 486sx. So put down your floppy's and get to junking, (Yes I'm looking at you S.O.), you're welcome. The Blazer's are probably driving everyone crazy in the game threads, I'm staying out of it. What is the deal tonight? Why has Oden only played 4 minutes in the first half, even though he only has two fouls? Is Nate second guessing his 3 guard rotation? Will the Grizzlies ever be good? Will they ever sell out their arena? Is this enough words to qualify? Why was there so much insanity around Portland today, school's on fire, shooting in strip malls, and mangled pedestrian effigies?

Discuss...

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how long until Zbo, goes Zbo and the entire Grizzlies team is swallowed up by the crushing reality of their own mediocrity?

20 votes | Poll has closed

BIG DAY IN BLAZERSVILLE(edit)

Tyler Durrden — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:41:24 -0000

So here we are, the end of the preseason is upon us. One week to go. We've barely managed to make it through the desert of the offseason without losing our collective minds. We've had a whole summer to speculate what's going to happen next. A whole summer to recover from an all too quick exit from the first taste of playoffs this town had seen in quite some time, and recover from the realization that hopes and expectations do not make reality. The team is almost through the preseason, fans can almost taste opening night. We've found ourselves in an all too familiar place though, a place we thought we had left behind. The realization that we are no closer to winning a title now than we were last year. For as many things we thought we could assume about this team, the last few weeks have given us an equal amount of questions. How many games will we win this year? How will new additions fit into a system established before their arrival? Will we make the leap towards contender, or will there be a backslide? Who's gonna start for the team? Who's gonna be on the team?

With six days to go until opening night we've got some answers. But are we seeing the big picture? I think there are deeper things going on over at one center court than we are being led to believe. I have some theories about why we didn't pick up Ime Udoka, and instead went with a late second round draft pick, who just so happens to be injured (and no it doesn't have to do with money). Why this was the same day that Lamarcus Aldridge's contract extension was finalized. And why Coach Nate, Kevin Pritchard and Jason Quick have been so quick to show their outrage and indignance towards the fifteenth decision. Come with me, through the looking glass, and I will let you in on a theory that has been spinning around in my brain since the news came down the pipe! (Warning: Conspiracy Theories inside!)

So I was pretty surprised by the news today that the Blazers decided to not sign Ime Udoka. The popular thinking around here was that he would probably get the nod. It seemed to make sense. He's a local guy, well-liked in the community. He was a bright spot on the team during an uncomfortable transitional period that saw the balance of power in our Rose Garden locker room transfer from those who underachieved on the floor, and over-achieved at mischief, to those who actually seemed to care about the game of basketball. And not just for the play they could get at the nightclub, or how 'Playa' it made them look, or the street cred that they could get back home. No Ime was here when Zach Randolph had his '@$$' handed to him by a young up and coming Brandon Roy. A moment in time I affectionately refer to as "The Moment of Clarity." We all know what happened, Brandon stood up and declared that he was tired of hearing all the blame being passed around by our teams so-called leader, and franchise player, for our teams losing ways. This marked an end of a downward slide that created the greatest backlash towards the team, by the fans, that this city has ever witnessed. And along the way we got to know and love, our native son, Ime.

Ime was a good story from the start. Raised in Northeast Portland to an American mother and Nigerian father, Ime attended Jefferson High School and later went on to play for the Portland State Vikings. In 2002 he was drafted into the NBDL (National Basketball Development League). There he languished for several years, being called up to the NBA several times, then sent back down. In the spring of 2006 he thought he had caught a break, being picked up late season by the New York Knicks. His tenure with that team would be short lived however as they would wave him by september of the following preseason. It seemed as if his dreams of playing in the NBA may never come to pass. But after Aaron Miles failed a physical to enter Trail Blazers training camp, Ime was invited to come try-out. For him it was a dream come true. He would finally get a chance to try out for the team he grew up rooting for, and he would get to come home. Sadly before the season began Ime's father would pass away, never getting the chance to see his son reach his goal to play in the NBA. Ime was picked up by the team after showing good defensive prowess, toughness and an admirable work ethic, things that had been missing at the position of small-forward on our team ever since the signing of he who will not be named (Darius Miles). His story and play on the court quickly made Ime a fan favorite around here. He was a light in a dim room of mediocrity, and it was with much sadness that he left the team as a free agent, after a botched attempt to get more money than he may have been worth in the off-season. With regret we saw Ime join the San Antonio Spurs.

Flash forward two years:

from Blazers Edge Sept 25, 2009

Trail Blazers Sign Ime Udoka
Portland native played 2006-07 season with Trail Blazers

PORTLAND, Ore. - The Trail Blazers have signed forward Ime Udoka, General Manager Kevin Pritchard announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"We're really excited about having Ime back," said Pritchard. "He played a key role in our resurgence and we look forward to adding a player of his talent, character and experience to what is shaping up to be a very competitive camp roster."

Udoka (6-5, 220), a five-year NBA veteran, has posted career averages of 6.0 points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.0 assist and 20.4 minutes in 227 games (78 starts) with the L.A. Lakers, New York, Portland and San Antonio.

The 32-year-old saw action in 67 games, including three starts, with San Antonio in 2008-09. He averaged 4.3 points, 2.8 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 15.4 minutes.

As a Trail Blazer in 2006-07, Udoka experienced his best season as a professional, notching career highs of 8.4 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 28.6 minutes in 75 games (all starts). His .461 field goal percentage and .406 three-point percentage also marked career bests.

A Portland native and Jefferson High School graduate, Udoka played his senior season and graduated from Portland State University in 2000.

Trail Blazers training camp tips off on Tuesday, September 29.

It seemed that there might be another homecoming for Ime. All he had to do was beat out waived former center for the Utah Jazz, Jarron Collins, and late second round draft pick, the injured point guard, Patty Mills. Most people assumed that Ime was a lock. But as we all found out today, October 21st, 2009, this was not the case.

So now we find ourselves asking a lot of questions. Why Patty Mills? Why wouldn't we want someone who can play now, instead of someone who most likely won't play in the NBA this year and maybe not ever? Why didn't the team make the obvious, popular choice and bring back the hometown kid. The answer we got from the coach, the general manager, and the beat reporter is that this decision came down from the top. As in it wasn't the coaches choice. In fact not only was this not Nate McMillan's choice he went on record with Jason Quick that he wasn't happy about this at all. Jason Quick openly questioned the motives of the Vulcan Group on 95.5 the game earlier today. He was audibly angry when talking about the signing of Patty Mills. "This didn't make any sense", he said"From a basketball perspective." He went on," This only makes sense from a financial perspective." A lot of reasons followed as to the motivation for signing an injured, unproven point guard, who many say might not ever have a career in the NBA. John Canzano talked about how "Paul Allen likes point guards." He talked about how Paul Allen would regularly ask Coach Nate before games last year if Sergio Rodriguez was going to play. He seemed to imply that Paul Allen has almost a fetish with point guards. Maybe he likes their speedy play, or their flashy passes, or the fact that the smallest guy on the court can create such havok among these giants. John Canzano talked about how he liked this move from a business perspective. "Why pay a veteran salary for a player who is the last guy on the bench, and not likely to play anyways?" He talked about how Patty Mills could be stashed in the D-league while the team evaluates his potential.

So understandably, people are a little confused. We all wanted this to be a happy ending for Ime. We are concerned that there is a schism occuring in our Blazers orginization. We are nearing the season opener with plenty of questions about chemistry, questions about whether new additions to the team can work with our established talent. Whether players feelings are being hurt, and whether that will prove to be a distraction once the games count towards the win column. And now we have this happening? The ownership is not following the desires of coaching and management. Why would anyone want to destroy the already tenuous hold this team had with cohesiveness? And that's when I got thinking. Maybe Ime was never going to make the team. Maybe there are things happening that have nothing to do with money. Maybe in the long run, this will all be for our benefit. Follow along with me while I build a case.

One thing that I was openly critical about last year in regards to this team was our lack of identity. When I look around the league there are teams, many perrenial contenders, who have there own identity. And what I mean is they are the same team night in night out. They don't adjust their gameplan to other teams, other teams adjust to them. They are defined more by their system's than by their players. Think the San Antonio Spurs, The Los Angeles Lakers, The Utah Jazz, The Dallas Mavericks. Often these teams have a few top players, all-stars, and are filled out by role players. Players who can change from year to year, without disrupting the overall function of the team. This is not how I would describe the Blazers from last year. Last year our team had one established star in Brandon Roy. We had another up and coming star in LaMarcus Aldridge. These are our cornerstone players, the ones we will build a system around, a system that will also probably include a future all-star center, and a playmaking point guard. Unfortunately, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. There are players on the team right now who I don't foresee being here next year. The talent level is unsustainable after the rookie contracts expire, from a financial standpoint, as well as a playing time standpoint. Now a lot of people have talked a lot about this recently so I know it's no surprise.

But how do you trade these people, lose them to free agency or not resign these players without creating a public backlash. Obviously this is important to think about from a public relations standpoint for an orginization that just recently regained the trust of its fanship, and love from the city that has seen them through forty years-with one championship. How do you transition from a team with a lot of lovable individuals, to a team that can consistently win? How do you change from a team that is fostering personal growth, to one with winning expectations, one where finding your stroke is something to be done on somebody elses time? A team where role players can be plugged into the system, where you can plug a known commodity into a known formula, and get a known result?

The answer is not everyone can be friends anymore. Comfort zones are going to be breached. In order to grow, Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge are going to have to learn there roles, and become the stars that they are. There is only room for a few egos on this team. Everyone else will have to sacrifice. While last year we marvelled at the chemistry of this up and coming team, what we failed to notice is for the players last season was more analogous to the final year of high school than the first year of college. So the time to set the tone is right now. I'm not suggesting they blow up the team and alienate everyone. But people are going to leave and everyone is going to have to get used to it.

So you invite a former player at the tail end of his career to come in to training camp to send a message. You bring him in to get people nostalgic, and then you rip it away from them just like ripping off a bandaid. Why? Because after the first time it gets easier. Also I'm not sure I totally believe the byline that accompanied this story today. Nate McMillan openly expressing anger and frustration towards ownership? Kevin Pritchard not toeing the party line? Jason Quick sounding shaken and upset on the radio? It seems staged to me. Staged to create the illusion of seperation between Nate and the Vulcan group. Good cop, Bad cop. What better way to manipulate the lineup of the team without hurting the feelings of your most valuable players and disrupting the chemistry of a team that you have yet to create.

This team is not finished. None of us has seen the vision that Nate has for his own team. When he took over as head coach for Seattle he inherited an established team full of veterans. When he came to us he inherited a pr disaster, a team that would need to be burned and built from the ashes. While the team was being rebuilt, and trust was being re-established among the fanbase it was important for the players to be likable, good-character guys. Guys who the public could trust, and relate to and we would forgive some of their shortcomings on the court because we could always look at them and embrace there likabilty. But this is not a sustainable model. We need talent and we need it now. It's no use having two or three all stars on a team filled with substandard role players or players that are too good for positions that we don't need them to fill. And now that we have seen a good guy get the axe, and we have seen the owner become a pariah for making the unpopular decision, we now have a system for recreating the team.

It was also a very good day today in the eyes of many Blazer fans. Today LaMarcus Aldridge was signed to a contract that we've all been waiting for. Some questions were raised, one very big one was answered. This team is Brandon Roy. This team is LaMarcus Aldridge. It's official. Hopefully this distraction has been put to bed. The hierachy is being established. Soon to join their ranks I believe are Greg Oden and a point guard more in the style of Andre Miller than Steve Blake. It's gonna hurt, people might not like it right away, but in the long run it may be a better formula for winning. There will be growing pains for the players and for the fans, but today a tone was set. A tone that says there are only a couple guaranteed guys on this team. Everybody else is going to have to prove their worth or get out of the way. You can no longer survive on personality alone. Winning>Likability. Sometimes you have to make the unpopular choice to get to the next level.

Why not make it look like Paul Allen is the one pulling the strings? This way Nate and KP can make whatever moves they want and not lose face. It's called "Plausible Deniability". Ultimately this roster spot didn't mean anything. So what better explanation for why so much frustration has been expressed over Ime not being picked. This team is now through it's image rebuilding phase. The players value has changed from players that the fans like, to players who can help us win. Not all of the current roster fits within that second group. There needs to be this separation, so that Nate can explain to the team when Travis or Rudy goes that, "It was out of my hands. I really pushed to keep Rudy, or Travis."(or Blake, or Bayless, etc.). So it will look like he still has the players backs, and along the way it will set a tone for those who remain. Play to the highest level you can and help us win, or ownership won't hesitate to ship you out the next chance they get. It changes the team dynamic from a bunch of young guys palling around together, feeling their way through their youth, to a proffessional atmosphere where getting the job done is paramount.

I'm not real big on conspiracy theories normally, but when it comes to Paul Allen, I just don't think he's always right up front about his motives. Remember when he was talking about selling the Rose Garden? What happened? As soon as a market value had been established, he changed his mind. Why? It turned out that he was more interested in re-negotiating his management contract with those operating the Rose Garden events, and in order to do this he needed an established market value for the arena. And it's not like you can just call an appraiser. This is a guy who is partners with Sir Richard Branson in an endeavour to fly citizens into near outer space. He has built large scale telescopic arrays and has almost singlehandedly taken over the seti program(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), after congress stopped funding for it. This is not your normal guy. He is a genius, who in all likelihood has surrounded himself with geniuses for the sake of reaching some very ambitious goals. I don't put it past him at all, that Patty Mills or Ime Udoka never had a chance to be on the team. Patty is still easily waived. Ime and Jarron already have jobs it sounds like. This was all announced the same day that LA's deal was announced. To soften the blow perhaps? Could be. Maybe this all sounds like a bunch of craziness, and maybe my point didn't get across to everyone, but I sense change is in the air.

This team doesn't have to worry about all the fans liking the players for being great guys. Rip City is back. The games are selling out, and the only thing left to do is win. Win the whole thing. And win with guys who are just likable enough, to keep fans coming back for more. Maybe after it's all said and done, Paul Allen will have stopped being a regular guy who sits next to regular fans down on the floor. Maybe he'll alienate himself. But when it's all said and done, who do you want more? An owner who we can trust implicitly, or a team that wins? So I say go ahead Mr. Allen, make the hard decisions. Be the bad guy. Just give us a team that wins, and wins it all. If you can do that, then you will be a hero to all of us, and we will forgive what we know you must do....

9/26 junk drawer re: your face

Tyler Durrden — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:53:59 -0000

So I have noticed a trend lately, one that promises to take away all that is good and fun from our clever little junk drawers, and replace them with pedestrian mediocrity and a complete and total lack of spontaneity. This trend that I speak of follows the known phenomena whereas something clever and indy goes all mainstream and loses all of the shine that made it attractive in the first place. The subject of this trend? YOUR FACE! This is becoming a part of the lexicon for too large a segment of the population. The masses are gathering to steal away our beloved and endearing burn! We cannot allow this to happen. I'm not suggesting that we somehow go after the perpetrators of this injustice, (they're everywhere, they could be your friends, your neighbors, your family, maybe even YOUR FACE!). What I am suggesting is we come up with some new, more creative burns that couldn't possibly be known to the brainless mob, that exists out there in the world we used to know before we decided it was much better for us to spend our time showing each other how sharp and witty we are here in the land of make believe. So here's one to get us started: instead of replying "Your Face!" to something we may want to act like we object too, we say "You Suck", no wait I think Sandler has the market cornered on that one. Oh geez, umm, umm I'm thinking, Oh I got it "Your FACE", CRUD! I think it may be too late for me, maybe I'm trying too hard, I don't know. This must be what addiction feels like, it's just so natural for me to fall back on your face, I can't imagine a world without YOUR FACE! Dang main stream! Why do you destroy everything we love, with your STUPID FACE!

Poll

SHOULD THIS JD KILL ITSELF?

YES

2 votes

NO

1 votes

SHUT YOUR ZACHIN' FACEHOLE

10 votes

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junk drawer 9/7 I got funk in the junk

Tyler Durrden — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:44:46 -0000

Labor day? The irony of the term is so compelling. If nobody's working why do they give it a name synonymous with work? We may never know the answer to this perplexing, and esoteric conundrum, so better save yourself the obligatory head-explosion and stop pondering right now. Seriously!!!!

On a different tact, while many of us are now grown and no longer being held to the rigid guidelines of a public school system that was clearly put in place by evil adults,( Who we have now become), to destroy the will of children everywhere and supplant their stupid little imaginations with the inane reality that as adults we would so often find that life is anything but exciting and our happiness would slowly be bled out of us through a series of work related humiliations and frustrations, the likes of which the aforementioned imaginations could never possibly conceive of.

Be that as it may, the Labor Day weekend still gives me a visceral emotional response, that seems to have been driven into my very soul by the many years of having a blissfully free summer ripped from my reality all too soon to know how it happened, and more so how it all went by too fast. Now however I am on the other side of the coin, and relish the time when all the spoiled, god-forsaken hellspawn stop roaming the streets in a never-ending quest for destruction of property, destruction of the self before they have truly become self-aware, and sticking it to the man who is about to take it all away from them, and mandate their every step for the next nine months!!!!!!!

And it is why this year I am so happy that I have chosen this weekend to begin my vacation. No snot-bubbled, sticky handed, infectious germ-bomb, vandals to get in my way of having a good time. The next two weeks will be bliss as I forget about the life-sucking reality of a job that has lost its luster, co-workers who stopped caring a long time ago, and the perpetual feeling of futility that surrounds my daily existence.

Tell me what is your favorite thing about this time of year? What memories and feelings come flooding in? And btw we are only 60 days from the full-on start of the regular season!!!

8/15 Junk Drawer-It's summer whatcha doin?

Tyler Durrden — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:06:27 -0000

So normally by this time in summer, I would have already gone on a couple of fishing trips, gone camping a few times and had some serious BBQ under my belt. But since THIS year I have to go to a wedding in Maine, where I am one of the groomsman, most of my recreational funds have been allocated. And because the doctor says my triglycerides are high I have to lay off the bbq,(too bad I already made 3 gallons of sauce). In your face Doc- I feel funny.....
So just wondering what are everyone's favorite things to do in the summer, things you can only do in the summer, what you have done this summer, what you wish you had done this summer, et. al.....

check out this trade

Tyler Durrden — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:22:01 -0000

check out this trade

Just shows the distorted values we used to have. My nightmares are made of this!