The World Series

Wow. How dissapointing. First Scott Kazmir. Unbelievable last game. Getting pulled in the fifth??? What the heck. This not the juggernaut pitcher we saw during the regular season. Walk after walk he struggled, while being able to maintain the phillies two run lead he still was a huge dissapointment. Secondly, Evan Longoria??!! Ranked in the top twenty players in the MLB, and going 0-16 coming into this game!!! What is he thinking. I know every baseball player, all ages, goes into slumps because I am one of them. But in the most important series of games of your life?? Ahh I dont think thats the best time, sorry Longoria, whether its changing your socks, rutine, or changing your bathroom schedule, you better think seriously about changing your current way of playing, and fast. No better was Carlos Pena. He's been at the top of the lineup for the whole year and is part of the backbone of the team and he as well has gone hitless in this world series. UNBELIEVABLE! I have never ever seen a team with this much talent and potential go into the seven most important games of their life and play like this. Now for those of you reading this dont get me wrong, I am still a huge rays fan and have been cheering for them the whole season but I among the other many rays fans, am very frusterated in their playing. I just think Joe Maddon better get his players in shape for this next game and better pump them up and get them situated more than ever before. This game is a must win and I have faith in the rays, I always have. So good luck rays and lets beat THOSE PHILLIES!!!!!

Rays win.

Alright. I know a lot of people have been saying that anybody who wanted the rays to win is just jumping on the bandwagon. BUT I AM NOT. Ha but seriously. I still cannot believe they won the game and the series. After watching them lose in the first game to the sox 2-0 I was absolutely extatic when I watched them absolutely inialate them three games in a row. I know it may sound cruel but it made my two days to see redsox fans on the verge of tears when they were defeated 9-1 and 13-4!! It was unbelievable, something I dont think anyone saw coming. After those two games my heart was actually up in my throat October 19th after the sox had just won two straight. The sox definitly had the momentum coming into game 7 and hopes for the rays were definitly not up for most rays fans. It was the first inning and Dustin Pedroia stepped up to the plate. With a 1-2 count Pedroia blasted a fastball delivered by Matt Garza to deep left field. It was only the first inning and the rays were already in the whole. But as the game progressed Matt Garza just shut down in a total of seven innings pitched he had 9 k's, only 1 ER, and only allowed two hits. He seemed unstoppable. He wasnt the only one though holding up the team, with scores in the 4th and 5th inning and a homerun from Willy Aybar off of Jonathon Lester the rays had taken all pre game momentum from the sox and transfered onto their team. Its the ninth inning and all the rays had to do was get three solid outs, and Price did just that. He closed the game out to give the rays a very solid win to win a very tough played ALCS.

No Country for Old Men

I am currently reading no country for old men for my outside reading book report. It became widely known after the Coen Brothers made a movie based on the book. Its a story about a low income couple living in Texas, Llewelyn Moss and Carla Jean. One day while hunting Llewelyn comes across a very disturbing and astonishing site. Their are ford pickups everywhere shot up and a handful of dogs and men lying dead. When he walks up to the scene he discovers loads of heroine, and two million dollars. Not really knowing what to do or where to go, Llewelyn does what he will later regret, he takes the money. But it doesnt stop there. The money and heroine belong to one of the most dangerous drug dealing psychopaths ever known to man kind. He is a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get his money and drugs back. Llewelyn takes his wife to go stay with her mother and Llewelyn is on the road running for more than just his safety, now its his life thats on the line.
No Country takes many unexpected twists and turns with constant action. Cormac McCarthy does a great job of portraing each character and not letting you want to set it down. It is a must read for anyone interested in gun fighting, high speed action, mystery, or just looking for a great novel.

Vikes Pull It Out

It was there second monday night game this season. They were 1-3 and Gus wasn't playing all that bad, he just really didn't have anyone to work with except for running backs Chestor Taylor and Adrian Peterson. Ten minutes before gametime the espn guys took their picks on who was going to win the game. The Vikings recieved all but six votes; seven people had voted. So if you could do some rocket science here that left us with a grand total of one vote. Well as the bible says, "the first shall be last and the last shall be first", I doubt anyone had a ton of faith that the Vikes would win the game. But anyways, four minutes into the game Drew Brees rifled a pass to wide reciever Deverie Henderson in the endzone to put the saints up on the board. It seemed that all hope was lost until at about six minutes left in the first quarter Antoine Winfield shows gave some light to what seemed to be a dark turn out. As the Vikings defensive line got their hands up and blocked the field goal attempt the ball flew backwards right into the hands of Winfield to give the Vikings their first score of the game. But neither the Vikings nor Winfield was about to let down now.
The second quarter had just started and the saints had the ball. Brees dropped back into the pocket but Winfield had his number ever since the snap, Antoine bolted outside the saints tight end coming around and pummeling Brees. You can call what happened next luck but I think the football gods were watching down on Antoine that day because when he sacked Brees the ball just sorta rolled right into the hands of Winfield once again. Winfields big play lead to another score for the Vikings putting them on the board once again. The rest of the Second quarter just resulted in big play after big play. From Chad Greenways missed facemask call on Reggie Bush resulting in a turnover, to Ben Lebers amazing interception. The Vikings definitly had the upperhand going into the second half.
But not all hope was lost for the saints, it was demonstrated with three minutes left in the third quarter. Reggie Bush was back for the punt return, he recieved the ball and just booked it down the field dodging everything the Vikings put out for him, Bush hit a top speed of TWENTY ONE MILES PER HOUR, it was olympic like speeds. And just like that the saints were back in it.
The fourth quarter came with many surprises and poor play calling. The Vikings were forced to punt once again with Reggie once again back to recieve it. Now this is where the poor play calling comes in. What Childress should have had Longwell do is just boot the ball as far as humanly possible and give the saints a touchback, but no they decided to kick it right into the hands of Bush, and boy did he capitalize on it. Bush litterally jumped through and over defenders to plow his way to another SIXTY FOUR YARD TD! He became the first guy since nineteen eighty four to have two punt returns in the same game. This punched a huge hole into the Vikings level of moral. But they werent about to give up yet.
With seven minutes left to play in the game Feorotte dropped back and launched one down the field to what at first appeared to be an incomplete pass, but Bernard Berrian somehow worked some magic and came up with the ball for a score to tie the game at twenty seven a piece. Then with a missed field goal by the saints the Vikings had one last shot to give it all they had to try and get a huge "W" on the board. After a huge mistake on the saints part by recieving a pass interference penalty on Bernard Berrian the Vikes saw the opportunity to prove everyone wrong. Longwell got the snap and kicked the field goal to score the final points of the game, a huge win for the Vikings.

White Sox Tigers Game

Ugh yesterday at four o'clock I entered the schwappach household, booked it to the living room and turned on the tv to channel twenty two. My heart sank as I looked at the scoreboard and the sox were up one nothing. But when I looked to the right I saw that it was only the second inning so my heart returned to its normal position in my body. As the game continued the tigers began to restore some hope back into my head by scoring two really solid runs against this first place powerhouse team. It was the bottom of the sixth inning and the tigers were beggining to show some signs of laziness and fatigue. With an error, and two wild pitches the bases were loaded up. Alexi Ramirez stepped up the the plate. There was one out and an 0-0 count when the pitcher threw a fastball just off the plate. Alexi showed true skill and maturity by capitalizing on this rare pitch and smashing it to deep left field for a grand slam. I screamed so loud I think my neighbors three houses down heard me. I was mad at alexi, I was mad at the pitcher, I was mad at the world as a whole. Now I know Yogi Berra's old saying of, "It aint over, till its over" but right then I knew the sox had done it and the Twins would be playing game number one hundred and sixty three tomorow. My prediction was correct. After the sixth inning everything just went downhill for the tigers. Constant errors led to more scored runs which eventually led to a final score of 8-2. I will never ever like Alexi Ramirez again for what he did but I have every once of fail contained in my body that the Twins can pull it out and make their first playoff appearance in two years. GO TWINS!!!!!

The Vikings Game

Over the weekend after I had finished caddying I was able catch most of the vikings game on sunday. It was a game against the carolina panthers and the panthers had just gotten steve smith back. The panthers had also just come off of two big wins and had some strong motivation on their side, so with a new quarterback, an 0-2 record, the vikings didnt have the odds in their favor by any means. But as the game progressed and Gus Frerotte was able to get warmed up the Vikings were able to put up a very strong and surprising fight against the 2-0 panthers. Upon being a non-tavaris jackson fan I was excited to see Gus Frerotte back in the starting spot and was ready for some change the current failing game style of the Vikings. But when the Vikings' Antoine Winfield recovered the fumble and returned it for a TD my hopes for a good game to a wild turn and I was back to a optimistic thinking fan. As the final seconds ticked down in the fourth quarter of the game I was very satisfied at how the Vikings had played the game and was happy for Gus Frerotte on winning in his first appearance of the season. I hope to see more of these well played games and I hope we keep on winning.

How I Feel About Siddhartha

I feel that Siddhartha could be a very good character, with his ability to meditate and connect with the gods and his very mature personality he has the potential to be a very good person who could teach others and learn a lot from others. But instead of him being good he's kind of ignorant and selfish. I understand how he wants to try to find his inner self and get away from the lazy, selfish, brahim ancestors but there is another way of doing so. He doesnt have to run from it, he can learn from it and change his and others ways of doing things. When he joins samanas he learns a lot about transfering his soul to others and learning to concentrate hard on "trying to not be hungry" or , "when he's thirsty, he'll try to wait until he's not thirsty" but if he really wants to find his inner self he needs to use what he has been given by god which are the graces of being good looking, his ability to connect to the gods, his meditation skills, and his good friendship he could be a very significant figure in his society and contribute his many gifts but instead he tries to starve himself and give away his soul to other beings. He needs a kick in the head to get his wheels back on the road.