Monday, January 29, 2007
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Wii Sports Baseball has Ruined my Life
I waited in line for the Wii. I was lucky number twenty at the Toys R Us on that beautiful Sunday morning. Four weeks later I find my life consumed by Wii Sports Baseball.
It was a quick rise to the "Pro" level, but I doubt that I have won three games in the last week and a half. Even at 1285 points, I often end up pausing the game in the bottom of the first inning, and reluctantly restart the whole thing. This usually followed from a lopsided score induced by sometimes as few as one pitch/strike per at bat. It seems that I will never win again.
My current nemesis is Sakura--a black woman with a Japanese name who throws sidearm up to 104 mph. I don't know who programed this evil spirit, but I have not been able to defeat her in close to thirty attempts. The closest I came was going into the bottom of the third inning, up nine to seven and having her team score three runs in a row after getting down to their last out of the game. What do you know? Walk off double. Final score: 9-10.
Sakura pitches; 104 mph fastballs, 96 mph screwballs, 98 mph curves, and 92 mph sliders. Of course she is also capable of throwing every pitch as low as 59 mph immediately afterwards, as well. Her team also hits. Any pitch close to the strike zone gets hammered to the gap for a double. I remember them hitting about five of those in a row during one game.
Best of all, it seems as though my team just finished a Special Olympic double-header right before taking the field. I've seen balls hit right to almost every position player get completely misplayed. Sakura's team looks like nine Derek Jeters, though.
AGHHHHHHHHHH! I hate this fucking game....
It was a quick rise to the "Pro" level, but I doubt that I have won three games in the last week and a half. Even at 1285 points, I often end up pausing the game in the bottom of the first inning, and reluctantly restart the whole thing. This usually followed from a lopsided score induced by sometimes as few as one pitch/strike per at bat. It seems that I will never win again.
My current nemesis is Sakura--a black woman with a Japanese name who throws sidearm up to 104 mph. I don't know who programed this evil spirit, but I have not been able to defeat her in close to thirty attempts. The closest I came was going into the bottom of the third inning, up nine to seven and having her team score three runs in a row after getting down to their last out of the game. What do you know? Walk off double. Final score: 9-10.
Sakura pitches; 104 mph fastballs, 96 mph screwballs, 98 mph curves, and 92 mph sliders. Of course she is also capable of throwing every pitch as low as 59 mph immediately afterwards, as well. Her team also hits. Any pitch close to the strike zone gets hammered to the gap for a double. I remember them hitting about five of those in a row during one game.
Best of all, it seems as though my team just finished a Special Olympic double-header right before taking the field. I've seen balls hit right to almost every position player get completely misplayed. Sakura's team looks like nine Derek Jeters, though.
AGHHHHHHHHHH! I hate this fucking game....
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
March and Rally in Chicago - 120 Years Later
When is the last time May Day was celebrated in the United States? It's been a while, but yesterday I was lucky to have been a part of the biggest general demonstrations of the last 70 years.
I don't care what your stance is on illegal immigration, because more than likely, it doesn't even affect you. If you want to piss and moan about something [that hurts your wallet], maybe you should think about the billions of dollars spent subsidizing corporations that continue outsourcing jobs to Asia, Mexico and soon, central America. Anyway, yesterday was historic. Period. Why else did you and everyone in the world know about it?
Being in the Chicago march was really unique because I got to walk with 400,000-700,000 people I had never met before along the same stretch of roads and sidewalks that American workers demonstrated on 130 years ago. Haymart Square. Walked right past it. Sad to say, it looked like it had been turned into condos.
If the industrial revolution has been the story of the struggle of human vs. machine vs. employer, I would have to say that humans are far behind in the fight's tally. The almighty dollar is strong, but yesterday was definitely a victory for the people, hands down.
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