if silence is golden, then solitarity is platinum

in this world, privacy is a thing of the past. people are on blogs (like this), facebook, myspace, some shit they call twitter, and all sorts of other things that tell people who you are, what youre into, what youre doing, who youre doing it with, and almost anything you want to know about that person. are we really in an era of time that we have nothing better to do than to go to a website and tell everyone your business than we are a sad society.

im all for social networking, i think its great that you can have a quick and easy way to contact your friends across the country, but seriously, its getting rediculous. maybe its just me, but i like to be left alone. i like being by myself. i like it when noone knows where i am. if i could escape to a deserted island every now and then, id be the happiest person ever. i love my friends, dont get me wrong. my friends are the best people in this world, but there are those times when i just wanna call it quits, leave this world and be alone. goddamn, give a motherfucker a second to think.

i dont want to turn this blog into an emotional outlet and all that nonsense, but i might have to. does the phrase "i just want to be left alone" mean anything to anyone? it shouldnt be offensive, as some people take it, and it shouldnt mean anything but "please, leave me be". take it for what you want, but sometimes i wish i could just get in a spaceship and fly away.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3msmv_official-spaceship-by-kanye-west_music

fish sticks

"my ego is my imaginary friend. he was with me when, i was only imaginin'. i had dreams of the league, one day, i play Kobe. i walk up to Puff and he'll really know me"
-KanYe West from Ego Remix by Beyonce

ok, ok. so we all know how big of a Kanye West fan i am, and we all know about the most recent South Park episode bashing Ye. i must admit, it was funny with the whole fish sticks/fish dicks joke, but honestly, is that the level of humor that we are on today that we have to call someone a gay fish to take them down a few pegs? Kanye West's ego is similar to the ocean's waves, it is perpetually going and going strong. can you blame him? his career has skyrocketed from making beats in his Chicago basement to being one of the heads of the ROC, owning his own label (G.O.O.D. music), having his own clothing line (Pastelle), having his own Nike sneaker (Nike Air Yeezy), having designed his own model LOUIS VUITTON SHOE!, and not to mention having some of the hottest tracks in the world! i'd say thats something to boast about.
say what you want about Mr. West, whether you like his music or not, he is a force to be reckon with. who else can say they helped shape a Louis Vuitton creation and at the same time put out grammy winning albums?
Hate is the sincerest form of respect, so i guess South Park must really like Kanye West. even with the inflated ego, kanye still remains on top of his game, and that is incredibly hard to do with today's watered down rap industry.

the lost art of the fight

what ever happened to sports that fighting is now the worst thing imaginable? hockey is complaining about getting too violent, and now they want to crack down on fights. football is making more and more rules about how you can hit quarterbacks, and pretty soon you wont be able to look at the QB without getting penalized. baseball, the least physical sport of the major athletic events, has lost the spark in the bench clearing brawls as well.

today, Easter Sunday, while the Red Sox were playing the Halos, an incident occurred. pitcher Josh Beckett was going from the stretch, eying down the runner on second base. this took about 10 seconds out of the game, but during this time span, the batter Bobby Abreu called for timeout. the umpire granted time for Abreu, but as he did, Beckett was already in his windup delivering home, and the end result was a 95mph fastball up in Abreu's grill. this whole thing sparked the benches of both clubs emptying, both bullpens emptying (returning back to the bullpen then coming back!), and the ejection of 4 Angels.

it gets you thinking though, how much does it take for you to be set off into fightback mode? for some,including myself, its the drop of a hat that can mess up your entire day. for others, it takes a little more than one negative nancy to ruin things. of course, a heater near my face may cause me to lose my temper (and i bet it would be similar for you too), but is that the end of the world? of course not, it didnt hit you, it didnt hurt you, so shake it off and step back up to the plate. if the entire world was built in the mindset of a baseball fight, wars would be happening as often as a ball player spits his dip.

to me, its amazing what the game of baseball can teach, especially on things totally unrelated to the game. the best lessons in life are taught by sports, and thats why i think many people watch. of course, everyone still watches NHL to see two shmucks get the shit beat out of them, but other sports can provide guidance in your life. think about that the next time you watch a game.

by the way, the Sox lost today 5-4.

dark day on the diamond

as you may have heard, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart and 2 others were killed in a car crash the other day. besides the fact that a 22 year old baseball player with his entire career ahead of him, the fact that he was killed by a drunk driver, yes DRUNK DRIVER, makes this story even more of a heartbreaker. many children grow up having the dream to become a professional baseball player, and Adenhart was no different. he grew up wanting to play pro ball, and he achieved that dream. little after he got called up to the bigs, was his season, and life, cut short.
maybe its because i play baseball, im close to the age of 22, and i hate drinking and driving that this story strikes me so hard, but whatever it is, this is just one of the many reasons to not drink and drive. we all make stupid mistakes, but getting behind the wheel while intoxicated is the worst thing you may do in your, or someone else's lifetime.

my prayers go out to the Adenhart family as well as the families of the 2 others slain in the accident.