when i come back like Jordan, wearin the 4-5.

First let me flat out apologize to any follower of mine who has noticed that i have not posted anything in a long while. i'm extremely sorry, i've been rather busy with baseball, work, and getting my bartender certification. (that's right, im a certified mixologist, but i'll get into that later). once more, i am really sorry for the delay, i hope to start blogging more regularly, and in the meantime i hope you enjoy the changes i've made to the page. thanks for reading and continue to support Patron & Swag!


Seeing as I'm a little tardy to the party, let's just get the big sports news happenings out there.
1. Lebron James, who prior to his 1 hour debacle on ESPN was rather disliked by a select few fans. After his 1 hour special entitled "the Decision" on ESPN, James definitely asserted himself into the #1 spot of most hated athletes. LeBron decided to "take his talents to South Beach" and join the Miami Heat, along with Chris Bosh who are now paired with Dwayne Wade. Woo. That is my reaction for this. Lebron sold out. He bailed on Cleveland, his home. His "Kingdom". His beginning. After the decision was made, Cavs fans in Ohio were seen burning LBJ jerseys in the streets, crying over this choice, and pretty much contemplating suicide. Can't blame the folks of Cleveland. They haven't had a winning championship team in what feels like forever. Now that their only chance of an NBA title bounced to Miami with 2 other superstars to "win a title..or 2,or 3, or 4.", they have NOTHING. Hell, even their economy will be changed now. no more LBJ means no more sold out Cavs games, means no more big revenue streams for Ohio. Way to ruin a city, Lebron. No wonder you didn't go to Chicago, AND why you changed your number. LEBRON WILL NEVER BE JORDAN. nor in the same league as His Airness. Kobe is 24, one OVER Jordan. Lebron is 6. Way to eradicate any and all comparison to greatness. Lebron James basically ducked his way out of anything legendary. I could win an NBA title if i have 2 other superstars at my sides. (by the way, when did Chris Bosh become "superstar" talent?)
In all seriousness, Fuck the Heat. Go Lakers, Go Celtics. (By the way, all the time Lebron spent on TV doing his little interviews and ESPN specials, Kobe and Pierce were in the gym's getting bigger and working on this upcoming season)

The "new big 3" which is a wicked unoriginal name, is seen here at their "house party" the Heat had to show off their new 3-man lineup. literally, just those 3. no one else on the team. JUST 3. still need 5 for a starting lineup, and theres still only 1 ball...

2. Some country named Spain won the 2010 World Cup. They beat my team, the Nederlands. I'm not gonna talk much about this because i hate Spain and i really wanted Le Oranj to win. Screw you Paul the Octopus. That is all.

3. Louis Oosthuizen won the PGA British Open at St. Andrews this weekend. WHO? Thats right, this young man from South Africa OWNED the course. He won by over 7 strokes, which is RIDICULOUS. to win any competition by that margin is phenomenal, but the windiest, most unkind mother nature'd course in the world? unheard of. Tiger and Phil Mickelson fell off in the 3rd round, neither of them finish near the top. Tiger had a new putter, and for some reason that made all the news headlines in the world of golf.

4. Terrell Owens is being T.O. again. No team wants him, but still all ESPN's attention is on him, wondering where he will sign. He supposedly wants to go to the Patriots. I'll say this. If he comes here to New England i will officially become a Pats fan. Atleast ESPN's attention is on a character, and not some boring, old, farm boy from Mississippi who throws more picks than completions to his own team but apparently can still lead a team to the playoffs. (coughfavrecough)

Atleast T.O. isn't at the point where he's doing THIS again.

5. I became a certified bartender this week! in what was by far the hardest testing i've ever had to studyt for, i passed and became an official bartender. now, im not any Tom Cruise in Cocktail yet, but im gonna try and be that good. I just needed to share this with you all because well, i just wanted to brag haha.


ok, thats all i have for today, i promise i am going to write more continuously on here. please check back frequently as i assure you there will be new posts, be it about sports, music, fashion, or whatever, there WILL be something. thanks again for reading!

Site reconstruction/hiatus/etc

Sorry about the delay in between posts, I know its been months and so much has happened in sports over this time frame, but I've been somewhat busy so much I didn't even have time to breathe. I'll be back blogging sports fashion and music soon, but before that I'm gonna put this site under construction, maybe change nothing maybe change everything. Be sure to check back sooner than later because by Monday this should be running full steam again. Once more I'm sorry for the lay off, but I'm back on my grizzy and hopefully taking this blog to new places.

Peace!

Tryna hit it and quit it and walk off (not like big papi anymore)

Three games into the Major League Baseball season and we already have a plethora of walk off wins! This is why no sport is better than baseball. Seriously though, let's go over some of the walk offs this year.

A's Kurt Suzuki
Dude is DIRTY so far this year (excuse his 2 throwing errors though). he's always been one of my favorite players, especially lately because i play for the Boston A's and i am the catcher. Kurt hit a walk off double to win the game for the A's vs. the Seattle Mariners.

Cincinatti Reds Jonny Gomes
Gomes went deep against the St. Louis Cardinals, and when i say deep, i mean he absolutely PIMPED THE SHIT out of the ball. the second he made contact, (FULL EXTENSION BTW) he knew it was gone. Love that feeling.

Pittsburgh Pirates Ronny Cedeno
Cedeno only had a walk off single which scored Lastings Milledge (bases were loaded), but still, a walk off hit is clutch.

A's Mark Ellis
Ellis also hit a walk off single to win. Its boring, but it gets the job done. The A's have 2 walk off wins already...ridiculous but the fans love it!

Texas Rangers Jared Saltalamacchia (on opening day!)
The Rangers catcher (finally, the catcher's showing up big!) hit a walk off single to beat the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rangers home opener. Saltalamacchia sucks, which makes it even better that he did something good for the team.

... and this is only 3 games into the season!!!

We also have the Masters golf tournament, which means..*drum roll please*.. TIGER WOODS IS BACK!!!!

*cues music - Maino - Get Em Tiger*


My man Tiger Woods is finally back on the course. Tiger, seen above schooling the world on how to keep your hoes in line, finished day 1 yesterday with a -4, which is the best he's EVER done in the first round of the Masters. Today at the current time (11:24am EST) Woods is -5 through 2. I want the world to know, the second his whole "scandal" broke, i called that he would have to leave golf for awhile but then he'll come back and win whatever tourney he enters...I STAND BY MY CLAIM AND I AM BEHIND TIGER 100%!!! Who cares if he got around with some broads, hes the WORLDS BEST GOLFER. i could be the world's best blogger/baseball player/sexiest man alive but i dont need to wear a scarlet letter cus i "thug em fuck em love em leave em cus i dont fuckin need em" (jay-z - big pimpin). Hop off the hate train of Tiger and get back on the bandwagon because DUDE IS NICE with the golf clubs.

/rant.

Thats pretty much all i have for this morning. i just felt like blogging in between classes today, not so much that i have a bunch of new stories or anyhting. I do have this though...

Check out this phenomenal video of what would happen if retro video games took over the world...

PIXELS: Retro Gamers from addwork on Vimeo.

Well, hope you enjoyed that. I sure did. Ill probably blog later today or this weekend if i get around to it. Im seeing Drake at Northeastern University Saturday so i will be sure to give you my review/dope pictures/etc of the concert.

LATER!

I SWAG, I SURF.

OK, well, since there really isnt much baseball news to inform you of (because i figure if you read this sports/swag blog you most likely watch Sportscenter anyways) so instead of baseball news, im going to give my predictions for this season and throw some swag shots in for the hell of it as well.

So let's get down to business (i dont got no time to play around, what is this?! /eminem). But really though, baseball predictions. Here we go...

AL
East - Red Sox
Central - Twins
West - Angels
W.C. - Yankees

Big (bigger than usual) seasons expected from: Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox. Brian Matusz, Orioles. Evan Longoria, Rays. Nelson Cruz, Rangers. Kurt Suzuki, A's.


NL
East - Phillies
Central - Cardinals
West - Dodgers
W.C. - Braves

Big (bigger than usual) seasons expected from: Roy Halladay, Phillies. Jason Heyward, Braves. Cliff Lee, Mariners. Ken Griffey, Jr. , Mariners.

World Series - Red Sox over Phillies in 6 games.

There you have it folks, my picks for this season/playoffs. I have it correct, they don't even have to play the games but hey, let's play em anyways. (sarcasm)

as for the Swaggage that I promised...

The Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles have BY FAR! the most swag out of any team in baseball, maybe in all of professional sports. "They swag is on one hundred, thousand, trillion..." - Yeezy









^^ Adam Jones's swag is RIDICULOUS!

for example, look at his swingman remix cleats
http://www.twitpic.com/1dmy3j
http://www.twitpic.com/1dmy57
http://www.twitpic.com/1dmy47
( courtesy of his twitter page @The_Adam_Jones )


and to end this post, i assume you've all seen this by now, but still the fact that he finished the play is just insane.

Vanderbilt pitcher Corey Williams took a liner back up the box hitting him FLUSH on the knee, shattering it in half (seriously. look at the x-ray picture, looks like a cracked open egg) and STILL had the balls to make the out!


here's the play.



now tell me baseball players arent tough. we are the best breed of people out there.

SEACREST OUT! (no homo)

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!

As you may have already known, Sunday was a holiday. No matter what religion you are, the only one that mattered was the church of BASEBALL! OPENING DAY 2010 was upon us, and in what better way to start a season than with the Boston Red Sox taking on the defending World Champion New York Yankees at Fenway Park in Boston. The game was fantastic, especially because the Red Sox won 9-7. The game had numerous celebrity sightings, such as Dr. Dre, Lebron James, Jimmy Iovine, (all plugging Dre Beats headphones Red Sox edition), Neil Diamond, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Keri Hilson, and PEDRO MARTINEZ EVEN THREW OUT THE FIRST PITCH! Not much is better than Opening Night baseball!




Aside from the star studded crowd at Fenway, there was even more swag on the field. Yankees starting pitcher and world's fattest baseball player C.C. Sabathia was sportin some HEAT on the field.
In the 1st and 2nd innings, Sabathia was wearing Cool Gray Jordan XI's as seen here

but after the 2nd inning changed into black Jordan IV's


I believe the Yankees organization made C.C. change his cleats because they have a black cleat policy, where every player has to have predominantly black cleats as part of the uniform.

C.C. wasnt the only one sporting some fire on his feet. Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia was wearing his new signature New Balance 1100's in Red Sox red camouflage. Pedroia also went deep for the second straight Opening Day.



Yankees Captain and shortstop Derek Jeter also wore his latest signature gear/batting gloves in the game.


Also in baseball news, Atlanta Braves rookie/phenom Jason Heyward went deep in his first Major League Baseball at bat. Heyward, who is in my opinion the next Ken Griffey Jr except without the injuries (aka the best ever) is going to carry the Braves to the promised land (playoffs) this year. IM CALLING IT! Dude's 1st pro at bat and he jacks a 3-run bomb...need i say more?


St. Louis Cardinal 1st baseman Albert Pujols is already playing his way to another MVP title. Pujols drops BOMBS and plays a mean 1b. dude has 2 homers already. THEYVE ONLY PLAYED ONE GAME!


BY FAR, the best play of the day, and very well may be the best play of the YEAR, is this: Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle.


Also Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers hit an opposite field home run off a pitch that was low and outside. Cruz flicked his wrists and cranked one out farther than most players that swing as hard as they can. DUDE IS A STUD, WATCH HIM. HES GOING TO HAVE A MONSTER SEASON. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.

One down, 161 more to go. LET THE SEASON BEGIN!

lighten the mood

In my internet travels i've come across some awesome things lately, and i figured i'd share some.
First off, as you know im a HUGE fan of TITS....and also Two in the Shirt clothing. Recently they had a "Bonita Applebum" text-in contest, which of course, I won. I have been retardedly lucky with contests in the past few years. Anyways, the shirt i won is exclusive as of right now, but the shirt will drop on the shoptits.com site later this month. Peep this if you dont believe me:

As for T.I.T.S as a brand, they are doing a collaboration with Sunny Leone and i love her. here, watch this video, you'll love her too.

TITS X Sunny Leone: Behind the Scenes from TITS BRAND on Vimeo.

Enough with the TITS(wrong, you can never have enough) but still...The following image is so true to life its creepy. Everyone (that still uses AIM anyways) has a buddy list full of people. For guys like me, this is basically what your buddy list consists of. This was nearly 100% dead on with me,
There are many things that all men have in common, and their buddy list is one of them. Check any guy's AIM, there BL is for the most part going to consist of the exact same people. Crazy.

This next image i stole from DCtoBC.com . I saw this on his blog and just died laughing, so, for your viewing pleasure...

There you go guys, follow the flow chart and you should be good to go.

Also, i got some new tunes for you.
This song, which i first heard from local DJ and legend Clinton Sparks on his Smashtime radio show last weekend, is called Crush by Theory featuring Red Cafe. Take a listen for yourself.


ADVISORY WARNING: I HATE FAT JOE. but i gotta give him his props because him and Jeezy (no longer Young Jeezy) went hard as hell on this track. "Ha-Ha (Slow Down Son)"


and that's all i got. i figured since i hadn't blogged in a few weeks id drop some funniness and shit to lighten the mood, and if i didnt...

...speechless...

Today, the Boston Red Sox signed former phenom shortstop Nomar Garciaparra to a one day contract. Sadly, Nomar signed this contract so he could announce his retirement from baseball, in a Boston Red Sox uniform. To you, it may not mean that much, but for me, Nomar retiring really puts my age in perspective. I am 20 years old, and as far back as I can remember, Nomar Garciaparra has been the first baseball player that comes to my mind when I'm asked "who is your favorite ball player?". He played 14 seasons in baseball, which means I was 6 when i started to admire him. At first I liked him because of his fun-to-say last name, but then I saw him play. Everything about his was awesome. From his swagger on the field, having always atleast 2 pairs of batting gloves on him (in each pocket) and multiple wrist bands, to his legendary and unmistakable batting stance, to his ridiculously flashy plays in the field, Nomar will always be one of my favorite players. If anyone is from Boston, or has ever got to witness one of his at-bats at Fenway Park, you must remember how stoked the crowd got when they heard this over the P.A. "Now batting, for the Boston Red Sox.....the shortstop....number 5....Nomarrrrrrr....Garrrrr-ciaaaaaa-parrrrrrrrr-aaaaaaa". To this day, whenever I play baseball, parts of his legendary toe-tap and batting glove fixing regiment have worked their way from Fenway into my own stance. Nomar is probably the best shortstop the Red Sox have ever had, and to think that he is done playing ball is a heartbreaker to me.

Aside from my admiration of Nomar, take a look at some of his accomplishments:
* May 10, 1999: Garciaparra hit three home runs, including two grand slams, in a game against the Seattle Mariners.
* July 23, 2002: Garciaparra hit three more home runs on his birthday against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
* 6-Time All-Star (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006)
* 2000 American League Batting Champion
* 1999 American League Batting Champion
* 1997 American League Rookie of the Year
* 1997 American League Silver Slugger (Shortstop)
* 1997 Topps All-Star Rookie Team

Not other than Jordan has an athlete made any number more popular than Nomar. EVERY baseball playing child in New England wanted to wear #5 and wear it with pride knowing it is Nomar's jersey number.

Luckily for me, and all other Nomar fans, he is now a member of ESPN's Baseball Tonight crew, and I look forward to seeing him on my favorite television program.



It is sad to see one of my heroes hang up the cleats, but at the same time, it makes me happy to have seen one of baseball's bests entire career.

Congratulations Nomar Garciaparra, on a tremendous career.