Soccer. I know not of what I speak

Right now, The good ol U.S.-Of A. are trailing 3-0 against Brazil.

As someone who really does not watch the game of soccer that extensively, or, lets be honest here, understand it overly much, I'm mildly impressed that the score isn't, like, 300353-0 Brazil. The Brazilians are good at this shit right? Don't they have Pele or some shit? That motha fucka can BALL.

It is impressive to watch though...these goddamn Brazilians are bouncing and dribbling shit around like its nothing, and in turn are making the Americans look like douchebags. Not that that would be overly hard.

This is extremely difficult to watch when you have NO IDEA who ANYONE is. I mean, I know Landon Donovan, and I've heard of this Brazilian 'Kaka', but Everyone else? Fuck if I know. They really should market these guys better...I mean, theyre representing OUR country, and I bet you that average American sports fan would have no idea who anyone on this team is. But, if you had, say...when its time for the World Baseball Classic or that FIBA tournament that happens every once in a while is, average American Sports Fan would know a good number of those players. Everyone knows Kobe or Lebron are. Who knows these guys? Someone needs to get on that, because it really is a disservice to these players.

RIP iPod...UPDATE: BACK FROM THE DEAD!!

Yes, just moments ago, my iPod, with 17000 songs, decided to become corrupt. Understandably here, I am crushed.

Just take a minute and think about that, 17,000 songs, HOURS spent downloading, GONE. EVERYTHING IS GONE.

UPDATE: IT LIVES!!!!

Yeah I dont know what happened. In order to uncorrupt it I needed to...corrupt it? My ipod in general is just fucked at this point. but it works, and thats all I can ask for

Song of the Day...

New Track off the Beastie Boys upcoming release entitled 'Hot Sauce Committee' due out in September, heres Lee Majors Come Again

Somewhere, Jose Canseco is smiling

Oh look, there he is!

As the world very well knows by now, Sammy Sosa, former Chicago Cubs slugger who can lose the ability to speak english at drop of a hat (or in front of Congress), was allegedly one of the 104 players that failed a drug test back in 2003. These tests, of course, were supposed to be 'private', but thats not the point.

The fact of the matter is that Sammy Sosa...well, Sammy Sosa did what the vast majority of the sports media probably thought he did anyway. This was just confirmation. Do you wanna know why nobody was shocked?

Take at the smiling bastard above.

Now, I can't remember or find any solid evidence that Canseco accused Sosa of any wrongdoing. But Sosa was present during the aforementioned Congressional Hearings, called (in part) due to Canseco's book Juiced which outed several other players as Steroid users. And it was at said hearing that Slammin Sammy made himself out to be a stupid, stupid ass. He claimed that he wasn't comfortable enough with his english to actually defend himself, so he spoke through a translator. Problem was, he was speaking english in public FOR YEARS.

My point? With each name that comes out, Canseco comes out looking like more and more of a freaking genius. He was right about Palmero, A-Rod, Bonds, The Rocket, and Manny, and was most likely right about McGwire, and now we can add Sammy Sosa to that list. Didn't we all think this guy was just a raving, fame seeking lunatic like 5 years ago? Now look...he was right.

Mission Statement

The start of something great...great sports, great music, great movies, great shit in general. Well, not shit in the literal term...you know what it is that I'm referring to.

Anyway, the purpose of this blog will be to...well, It'll be the purpose of any blog, really.

So let me tell you a little bit about myself. I go by the name of 'Hummer' both on the internets and in real life. I am a stark Philadelphia sports fan (thus I am a biased asshole), enjoy a nice guitar solo rather than needless screaming, and I'd like to think I have a better taste in movies than most people I know...granted, I know very few people.

This is coming off really fucking lame, isn't it? No matter, this will pick up semi-rapidly.

Well this was awkward.