Sorry

I noticed that none of my links were working so I am very sorry, I will attempt to get that fixed. 

Interesting

My friend Brett turned me onto TED and I must admit I have been riveted searching the sight often for something new to glean from I found this 3 minute video on a few words that will lead to success.

 

Real world of Sports IMO

I don’t really have any reason for wanting to write this post other then sports are one of the passions of my life and I felt compelled to put forth my two cents on a few different goings on in the sports world.

Let me start with horse racing, I think that it is was awesome that Big Brown’s trainer was talking so much smack the only problem I can see with it is that his horse got it’s hind quarters destroyed at the Belmont stakes!!!  Not only did Big Brown lose, but he came in dead last.  If he wasn’t such a big strong horse you can bet that he would be glue and dog food before the day was done.  (Peta don’t be mad it is the cirlce of life, train, race, lose DIE)  Big Brown was not only supposed to win, he was supposed to win big that is why Hooterssponsored him.  if I am not mistaken he is the first horse to be sponsored before a race by hooters or any company for that matter.  I think maybe he was distracted by the blonds that were petting him the day before. 

I was watching UFC 85 last night and I must say this was by far one of the most exciting fight cards I have witnessed in my UFC watching career. (Yes I do feel I should be paid for watching it as religiously as I do.  I noticed a couple things, one I think that if you are going to talk your trash after a fight and ask for a title fight that you should try to make weight first.  Yes I am talking about Thiago Alves.  This guy goes into the fight having weighed in at 174 lbs when he was supposed to be 170 lbs.  Being a professional Matt Hughes chose to fight the man any way.  Now what we must be aware of is that after weigh ins you tend to put on a few lbs before the next days fights (water weight) so Alves a big man on his own probably weighed upwards of 183 lbs in a fight he is supposed to weigh 170.  Secondly, it takes a lot out of you to lose the weight when you are supposed to drop 15 lbs. so you can fully expect that Alves was probably alot fresher having decided to not fully drop the weight.  Matt Hughes tends to sit right around his fighting weight so he doesn’t have to drop weight.  At the end of fight interview Thiago asked Dana white for a title fight, if I am Dana White I would tell him no until he gets disciplined enough to make weight.

That is it for now!

Todays Top Five

This does not mean that their will be a top five again tomorrow or the next day or ever, these were simply my thoughts on today.

1.  Chelle you have never made me prouder!!! For those that didn’t see her comment, “All you need to know is tito is a Douchbage.”  Great!!

2.  I realized something today this instant and by this instant I mean about 5 minutes ago but I was to busy talking to a friend to bother writing my new epiphany down.  Let us hope I remember the whole thing.  I was thinking about my life and wondering how it has changed.  Why I was thinking that I am unsure, but one thing I was sure of is that it had indeed changed.   Here is what I have compared 17 in high school to 24 in the Marine Corps:

17 in HS-  My friends and I were cool jr highers not so much

USMC Life-  My friends and I are cool and boots (new marines) are not

   And that is as far as I got!! I have found myself in the same situation I was when I was a JR in HS.  HAHA, funny

3.  I wanted to take this opportunity to show a better side of the Marine Corps.  Let me walk you through my day today. 

    0700 My alarm goes off I turn it off roll over and begin to lay there debating whether I should get up and eat morning chow.  This seems like an easy choice but that is because you haven’t received chow from this chow hall.  Eggs made to order which means you order them, they pour them out of a milk carton and you get whatever they felt like making.  Ask them for egg whites only and you get looks as if you just referenced their dear loved ones death or something.  Bacon that is saturated in grease so much so that they shake it out in order to give you the “driest” piece and french toast that is harder then your average NHL hockey puck! So you obviously see where the dilemma was, I did indeed go, and it was delightfully disgusting!  Then I sat in my room and waited. I was supposed to work on the next level of my martial arts program that the corps has, but no one showed up, to include the instructor.   At that point I got tired of waiting and decided to do some training of my own.  I began to play Grand Theft Auto IV.  Yeah, I beat it, what can I say.  I then went to lunch were I was offered an assortment of greasy foods along with a slender piece of chicken and some jello.  1300 I decided I should at least get a workout in, so I went with three of my buddies to the pool were we engaged in a  60 min workout.  It was great especially the cool down which was the four of us falling asleep in the lounge chairs around the outside of the pool in the sun.  At about 1500 we decided it was time to call it a day and went back to the barracks where we immediately let ourselves off work.  These are the days I love my job!

4.  I heard that when you joined the military you should always be ready to move.  Since I have been back in Virginia I have changed rooms 3 times, and had 3 different sets of roommates.  I thought they meant state to state, I was not under the impression that it was room to room.  Is there a certain quota that they are required to meet?  “you must have 17 moves each year in order to fully have full filled your commitment to the military.  (then in the fine print) must be atleast two doors down from your previous room)

 Hello Back Meagan.

Couple quick notes

1.  Kimbo Slice is a joke.  Yes yes, he could woop my ass but only cause he weighs like 50 lbs more then me.  But if you watched his fight you learned two things, one he can’t really do anything on the ground if he were to fight a Randy Couture or a Jeremy Horn he would be submitted in no time, and second he has to be the ugliest person in MMA!!

2.  Rambo 4 was far better then I thought it would be, sure I am behind the times, but I saw it for the first time today and it is by far the best.  Granted that isn’t saying to incredibly much, but still give the 57 Sly a break.

3.  Gina Carano is pretty much a BAMF.  If anyone saw her tear apart Caitlin Young last night they would have to agree.  I mean hell her nickname is Crush on American gladiators (which is actually pretty damn good-okay good is not correct but it is entertaining). 

4.  Did anyone else see Dana White talking about the MMA world and more importantly did you see him rip, and I mean rip the Elite XC for putting up a “a poor display” of what MMA is all about.

5.  If you haven’t read A New Kind of Christian then you should pick it up, B, you were absolutely right, I am just over half way and it has brought tons of questions and some great answers

6.  I think I will enjoy this blogging thing

7.  You are probably tired of reading my numbered posts, I assure you there will be more, but not for a little while

8. Finally,  there are plenty of things I am passionate about, my beautiful Girlfriend, my wonderful family and Sports.  The sport I am most into right now is MMA (see numbers 1, 3 and 4).  Here is why I like it, first it isn’t as boring as boxing.  I can hear it now, “Heretic!!  How can you dog the sweet science.”  But come now first of all were are the real contenders? they don’t exist.  Since Tyson lost his mind, Lennox lost his heart and Holyfield lost his ability there have been no heavy weights.  Sure you say those ruscis are pretty BA fighters, but they haven’t done anything, and everytime some flash in the pan shows up they lose.  ‘But Floyd Mayweather is the savor of the sport.” Oh right, and I am the second coming of Rocky marciano!  Floyd Mayweather has beat the only legit contenders in his weight class.  Ricky Hatton and the 2000 year old golden boy.. ….what is his name Oscar de Lahoya.  Secondly.  the reason boxing sucks now is that they allow so much hugging, if I wanted to watch grown men hug I would go to the Tool Box on 5th ave in NYC!  they should lose points for all that hugging.  Here is why MMA is a better product (please note that I am referring to all of the groups signed under Zuffa). 1.  It is constant action, when there is a lull they are stood up and started again.  2.  there are more legit contenders with 100s more showing up ever day.  3.  It is a faster paced event which is exactly what we desire and crave in this generation.  4.  finally, and this is for all you mothers and safety queens, it is safer.  Sure it seems brutal but there have been no deaths and no serious injuries in MMA in the last 15 years.  Football has close to at least one paralysis a year and I believe badmittion is up to two eye losses a year.