Great Weekend

The theme of the day is celebrate...not only a successful series for the yanks but everything in life should be celebrated. Its such a repeated thought that all too often comes about due to tragedy rearing its ugly head in our lives, but it really is the way we should all feel about the time we are given on this planet. Granted some days are better than others but all in all our time here is limited and I plan to make the best of it.

A Couple of things I wanted to mention... I had contemplated starting this a couple of months back when I officially hit my tipping point in my relationship with ESPN. Like most kids errr young adults my age (25) we had grown up with the network and HATE the transformation that has gone on there, however like an abusive relationship, the abused always goes back to the abuser. In my case this means that no matter what, Sportscenter was always the last thing to watch before bed, and always the first thing to watch in the morning. This was right around the time of the brutal "nappy headed ho's" situation that almost got the Governor of NJ killed. I remember reading on Deadspin or another similar publication(?) that the comments were picking up some steam and had a sense that the shit was about to hit the fan. Seeing my parents for dinner that night and knowing the place Imus holds in my fathers heart(big fan--for whatever reason) I bring up what he said and how people are outraged and wondered if they had heard his comments. Not only were they not aware of the storm heading Imus' way, they weren't even aware of HIS COMMENTS. The whole situation was like a light bulb going off in my head. It was not the first time, but perhaps the most profound moment in which from reading something online I knew about a national phenomenon or story well before the print or television media would or could break the story, times had officially changed and I could sense a shift was taking, or had already taken place. The media is useless to our generation. We are not content to look towards one source or place for information to be provided to us, we want it, find it, and make up our own mind about it. Yes, I know there are some parts of the country that still don't use computers and dial-up does still exist but Northern NJ has blessed me with high speed and I am not afraid to use it.

Anyway, I sense that I have rambled but as you may be able to tell this decision has been brewing within me for quite some time so bare with me, perhaps in the future I will be better at self editing or maybe posting more than once a day for an hour straight. My sole hope is to be able to mold this into something that makes sense, something with a theme, something that isn't A.J Soprano looking up the ills of the world on his macbook that he didn't pay for, complaining about injustice as he zooms away in his M3. In other words, I hope I'm smart enough to make this not suck.