After finally working my way of running 8+ miles at a solid pace, I hurt myself.
View from the Camden side of Philly.
I had been leading up to longer runs for about 2 weeks straight and then on a run I tried to max out a half mile about 6 miles into a workout. I ran a 2:33 but I could tell that my lower Achilles felt off. I slow jogged home and by that night I knew I was going to need some time off.
I didn’t run for the next week and now I’m sitting here two weeks later trying to get back to where I was. I’m not quite there but getting close. My theory is that after 1 week of taking off from running, you lose 2 weeks of training (I’m sure I picked this up from somewhere but we’ll just call it my theory). I notice that I feel slower, fatter, and my endurance is noticeably worse as I breath heavier running slower. So it goes.
They look like this.
I ended up purchasing a new pair of shoes called the Altra Torin 2.0. I went out for a run today over the Ben Franklin bridge and decided to time trial myself across. If the bridge is 1.5 miles long, I ran it today in 8:08 which was about 5.23 pace. It’s obviously not an exact time but I’m getting back to where I was.
It sucks having to come back from injury because you always start weaker and slower. It’s a slow trudge back but always worth it in the end.
Karma is a bitch and it kicked South Snohomish in the ass.
and those 3 idiots cost their team a chance to play in the LLWS.
This story develops in the depths of Female Little League Baseball. 6? teams were left in a playoff format where each team plays 4 games. South Snohomish, WA was 3-0 and they were playing North Carolina who was 2-1. Central Iowa had just beat a team to finish 3-1. If South Snohomish won the game against NC, they would be 4-0 and play Central Iowa. However, if they lost the game, they’d all be tied and the tiebreaker had them playing NC. So what happened?
In an incredible display of stupidity, the girls were bunting with two strikes and swinging at balls in the dirt. They lost 8-0. Iowa’s coach appealed the game and the commissioners decided to make South Snohomish and Iowa play a playoff game for rights to the finals due to poor sportsmanship. As luck would have it, Iowa won 3-2 and knocked out the Washington team that laid down.
Here was all I could find on why Washington thought laying down was the right play:
It was not immediately clear why Washington might prefer North Carolina to advance rather than Iowa. Washington had beaten Iowa by only one run in preliminary play, and might have wanted to avoid facing it again, Chadd suggested.
My Take
The Central Iowa girls who will advance to play NC.
Lose better. How stupid do you have to be to lose that moronically. You tell your team to let a ball go through your legs. Overthrow the cutoff man. Get called out looking. The team even decided to sit their best players. You had a pitcher pitch every single inning of every single game and you decide to sit her. C’MON. You don’t need Sherlock Holmes for this one.
What the North Carolina team should have done was to stop trying as well. They were going to advance no matter what so they should have started to let the other team win. That would make for good ratings. Two teams seeing who could be worse. I’m really not sure if there were a whole lot better outcomes other than the two teams playing each other for the spot.
It’s easy to say, “I hate Kim Kardashian because she wears fur, she has a fat ass, and she named her kid a direction”, but that’s too easy. I don’t even dislike her though because she seems to know what she’s doing amidst so much negative attention and doesn’t seem to crumble. This list though will take on celebrities who I feel are actually liked, but for the reason (and this is what I concluded after thinking about it) that other people like them, I dislike them.
You’ve Done Nothing to Upset Me…and I Still Dislike You
Amy Schumer
“Would you do me? Oh, you’d so do me.”
She’s not model pretty but she’s better looking than the average female and she uses this to her advantage because, once again, she’s not hilarious but she’s funnier than the average comedian. I don’t find her schtick funny though. How many times can she tell stories of her sexual failures or use the word vagina and penis? I haven’t even seen any bit of work she’s ever done so I’m pretty much taking a stance without doing any research but this will most likely be my conclusion either way because other people think “she’s so damn funny.”
Steven Colbert
“My nickname is Gray Bush.”
He seems like a second rate Jon Stewart. I’ve never seen the Colbert Report but I think I get the gist -a bunch of democrats laugh hysterically at unfunny jokes that are told from someone they’ve hoisted onto their shoulders. Now he’s getting a late night show. Maybe he’s funny. Maybe he’s not. I don’t care.
Madonna
“Just benched 400. Let’s do 450”
Stop, Madonna. Just stop. You’re 57 years old. You just released an album titled “Rebel Heart” and have a track on it called “Bitch, I’m Madonna” with Nicki Minaj. The track sounds like my garbage disposal when I get a coin stuck in it. You were huge in the 80’s being a sexual icon but you can’t still strut your weird ass powerful arms and sing new age pop songs. Instead of producing the same pop albums that you did in the 80’s, why don’t you try painting or teaching a yoga class.
Kevin Hart
“I’m confused what time of the year it is.”
This picture pissed me off. It’s from the Rolling Stone and look at this guy parading his washboard abs and stupid coat. He creates crappy movie after crappy movie and our society just lets him slide by because he’s “funny”. Funny in what? Ride Along was a fucking joke and it’s making a sequel. Grudge Match? The 5 Year Engagement? Maybe you’re a stand up genius but your movies suck.
Do you feel like you’re going to be asked about a “Flight of the Conchords” movie every day for the rest of your life?
We have actually started writing one. But who knows if it will ever be made, we’ve written some notes for some different film ideas. We’re not down to the stage where we’re going, “The film is going to be like this,” it could be this, this, this, this, this.
Some Flight Clips to make your day. Share your favorite in the comments. I think if you just copy the URL into the comment section it actually embeds it.
Every so often I’ll get about 5 smaller ideas that don’t round themselves out to full posts so I’ll just combine them into a simple, bullet point list of splat.
I had some back and forth with Sam on Friday night that deserves some clarification. I was hanging with Brookes and Laura when Sam told me he was going to Howl at the Moon. I was there on Wednesday and basically blacked out and had no intention of going. Plus the line to that place gets absurd at 11pm and the idea of sitting through that, mostly sober, to get into a place with mostly drunk people wasn’t appealing. At 12:30 or so, Sam gave my phone a call, I was just about ready for bed and didn’t pick up. A 2nd phone call from a member of his group called and I didn’t pick that up either. It’s nothing personal, I just didn’t want to hear drunk ramblings of how I should be out and about. This is old man shit but I actually wanted to wake up in the morning before noon and not feel like a piece of shit. Funny how that changes as you get older.
Drinking Naked Juice makes you take a shit. I don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables so I see these juices at Wawa for 2 for $5 and think “why not”. My instinct is that if they are expensive, they must be good for you. After drinking a few, I’m pretty sure they are so high in nutrients that they are too much and then overload your system and it makes you take a shit. They aren’t normal shits either. It’s like one minute your enjoying the game and next minute you have to run to bathroom.
Sam made a comment that said “good post” on my Chris Farley post. I always like a comment but I need a little more (claps to actually commenting though) Here are my actual thoughts on that post. I essentially combined as many facts and comments about Chris Farley as I could in one post. I highlighted videos that were on point and gave insight into what his life was like. The writing wasn’t beating around the bush and presented info straight up. I know I’m not the best writer but if I had an editor to improve my writing, that was as good as or better than 95% of the posts that grace the internet. Most likely 21 people will read it. This is what makes is difficult to get better feedback.
I apologize in advance for this post because it will contain data that only 2 people will care about. The results, well, you’ll find out for yourself.
Golf is looked at as an individual game. There is no help from teammates and you control your own destiny. However, each player has to play with someone else and it struck me that your playing partner could have a huge effect on your game. So I figured some playing partners must be better than others.
I decided to take the results of this year’s majors and note scores lower than 66. The idea being that to shoot a score lower than 66, the golfer enjoyed the company of his playing partner. I cared 0 about the golfer who shot the low number. The player who was with him is what I paid attention to.
Rounds lower than 66 happened a total of 47 times during the 4 majors. Tiger Woods was with a golfer 3 times who shot 66 or better topping the list. Everyone else on the list was 2 (and there a ton of guys with 1 but they didn’t make the cut). The scoring average of the golfers who were playing with this golfer is the number in parentheses. The lower the score, the better effect that golfer had on his playing partners.
T. Woods – 3 (71.33) 18 scores
P. Mickelson – 2 (71.875) 24 scores
B. Snedeker – 2 (72.7) 20 scores
L. Oosthuizen – 2 (73.58) 24 scores
M. Kaymer – 2 (71.8) 20 scores
B. Grace – 2 (71.9) 22 scores
M. Jones – 2 (72.66) 12 scores
S. Garcia – 2 (70.9) 24 scores
D Johnson – 2 (70.75) 24 scores
H. Stenson – 2 (71.375) 18 scores
B. Horschel – 2 (71.18) 22 scores
T. Fleetwood – 2 (71.71) 14 scores
Horschel and Stenson are only on the list because of Jordan Spieth’s first 2 rounds of the Masters. Louie’s final number got blown up by Tiger and Fowler firing 80 and 81 respectively during the Open’s first round. Tiger’s negative playing has no ill effects on his partners. What does it all mean?
Unfortunately after sifting through all of this data, the results are pretty inconclusive. To start, the premise is probably completely wrong that just because someone shot a round lower than 66 with that playing partner, that it had anything to do with how good of a partner they are. Assuming that actually holds any validity, the results show that you want Dustin Johnson or Sergio Garcia as your playing partner.
Another skewed aspect is that these low golfers also had 24 scores of playing partners, and were near the top of the leader board, which means that they usually play with the best golfers. With these details in mind, I pretty much wasted a ton of time coming up with results that have no significance whatsoever. You’re welcome.
I Am Chris Farley is a detailed glimpse about what it was to be around Chris. It was riveting. People like David Spade, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, Adam Sandler, and his family shared stories that gave the viewer a truly real experience of who Chris Farley was. Here is what I took out of it.
Character Traits of Chris
He was on SNL for over 100 episodes and truly cared about the show.
Never fought for a piece or made it about himself. He was there for everyone and never left another member hanging.
Had the most fun as possible with a joy to what he was doing.
Incredibly friendly with little sense for competition among other comedians.
He had a kind, gentle heart with a sense of innocence.
Automatic charisma that made him powerful on stage.
Total commitment and a perfectionist.
Didn’t take it well when his work wasn’t reviewed favorably due to low self esteem.
I Am Chris Farley Details
Del Close
He learned from Del Close who was the Svengali chief to Bill Murray, John Belushi, and Dan Aykroyd. Close taught creativity and not how to be funny. “Be free. Unafraid. Fail as often as possible. Try things. Die on stage.”
Chris Farley was not the idea man for a bit and did not write his own material. He was intimidated by the writers and thought his own ideas weren’t strong enough. However, writers loved writing for Chris because he was able to make any idea better because of his natural improvisational ability.
Farley, Rock, Sandle, and Spade
Lorne Michaels was a big fan of Chris’ talent but knew he had some issues off the set. One time Lorne was talking to Chris and was warning him the risks of his lifestyle. He shared that Chris thought “If I’m a little fucked up, it’ll be alright. That’s where the magic comes from.”
Bob Odenkirk gives insight into Farley’s mindset in this quote, “When your jumping up the steps in the showbiz ladder, and your leaping over everyone around you, and everyone is saying, “you better watch out.” Some part of you is saying, “No, you better watch out cause I’m kicking ass everyday.”
Mike Meyers shared one of the gayest stories possible where he said Chris would be naked and interrupt his shower on a weekly basis and try to kiss him. It was weird.
Rise and Fall of a Motivational speaker
On May 8th, 1993, this iconic clip was delivered to the delight of SNL viewers. David Spade and Christina Applegate doing their best not to laugh steals the secondary show. I personally like the “rolling doobies” line.
In the years that followed this ’93 performance, Farley continued his rise to super stardom. The 1995 hit Tommy Boy is still considered an all time great comedy. His subsequent films like Black Sheep and Beverly Hills Ninja didn’t have the same luster but he was proving himself a leading man.
As his fame grew, so did his drug abuse. Later in his life he had attended rehab a total of 17 times. I’d have to guess that these occurred most frequently in the years of ’96 and ’97. As his drug problems grew, his ability decreased. Here is a performance in the beginning of ’97 where Chris was not doing so well.
Chris on Coke on Jay Leno
He had a final performance on SNL on October 25th, 1997. He was a far cry from himself in 1993 and is difficult to watch as Matt Foley trying to motivate Will Ferrell. Comparing this to his ’93 performance is striking.
Chris Farley’s Death
His last day was Wednesday December 17th, 1997. He spent it primarily with a hooker called Heidi. Chris hired hookers regularly. Heidi was hired for Farley by a friend for $2,000. She joined Farley at a party in Lincoln Park (in Chicago) at 11 AM. There were drugs going around. Later that day, Heidi took Farley back to her apartment – where they continued to smoke crack and snort heroin. January 2008 Findadeath pal Pete Hertzberg sends this picture, which is most likely the door they used. Chris claimed he’d been up for 4 days, without sleep. They tried to have sex, but Chris couldn’t. Cut to 11 PM – Chris and Heidi were back at his apartment in the Hancock building. She was getting pissed off because she wanted to get paid, and Chris claimed that the friend was supposed to pay her. They supposedly tried sex again, unsuccessfully, and finally at 3am she decided to take off. Farley was clearly inebriated, and as she was leaving his apartment, he collapsed about 10 feet from the door. Heidi claimed she could hear that he was having difficulty breathing. He said to her, “Don’t leave me.” Figuring he had finally passed out, she snapped a photograph of him lying there and then left.
Afterthoughts
The word tragic should probably be used to describe the death of Chris Farley. Watching him shine in ’93 and then his demise 4 years later should be used in drug and alcohol classes around the world. How a person with so much talent can fall into the vice of that world is what you see. When I watched motivational speaker for the first time I couldn’t stop from laughing because I couldn’t understand how David Spade wasn’t on the floor already. Tommy Boy is still one of my favorite movies because I can relate to it so well. You learn to love Chris Farley because there is nothing not to like. It’s a shame that his life went south but it’s better than not having him at all.
DraftKings is advertising like madmen throughout all forms of media. I saw them on Super High Roller Celebrity Poker, they are one of the main sponsors of the PGA, and also inked a huge deal with ESPN. Obviously if it involves gambling and sports, I’m there. It’s a shame because I was on the Fanduel bandwagon for a while but they are getting out dueled.
On to the golf. I put a team together for Draftkings that looks like this.
David Lingmerth
Obviously I wouldn’t be showing it if it weren’t doing well. I’m currently in 1,154th place out of 188,925. David Lingmerth was the pick of my life so far so we’ll see if he keeps it going. I also bet on Louie and Brookes Koepka straight up. Those don’t look as favorable.
If all 6 of my guys make the cut, it’s going to be a weekend.
One of my challenges in life to become a well-rounded individual. One trick pony’s don’t survive. Darwin’s theory of evolution stems from adapting and having many different skills. As such, I try to learn as many different ways of testing myself as possible. Here are a few of the new ones I’ve picked up and old ones I maintain.
Jack of All Trades
Sudoku – I picked up this number puzzle game and get increasingly frustrated playing. I’ve beaten a medium board in under 9 minutes which is my current best but I often sit for minutes making 0 moves and then turning it off. It seems to stimulate the mind but gets tiresome because the game isn’t very dynamic. It’s also a puzzle that no one gives a shit about.
Bowling – I got my first personal bowling bowl this past Monday which is the first step to becoming a better bowler. Bowling with house balls is fine but you don’t clean a house ball. I explained this to the Shee but using a towel on a house ball is ruining a rag. Your own ball that’s weighted for better back end action into the pocket is the way to go. I’ve only bowled in one league and finished with a 150 average but I think I could get around 180 with some work. Plus I enjoy the laid back nature of the game.
Find a prettier hole. You can’t.
Golf – I actually find golf to be the most fun game to play. Being outside and testing shots where the swing stays the same but the landscape changes is fun. Hand eye coordination is key and your game can always improve. My biggest problem, completely personal, is that I mostly play golf on weekends. Most weekend nights I spend drinking alcohol and when I wake up hung over, I’m not going to play my best golf. So I’m in a constant struggle to play golf feeling my best and it doesn’t happen as often as it should. By far my favorite game to relax too while drinking some cold ones.
I don’t remember this part but I’m guessing Bella gets it.
Chess – I will not rise up the chess rankings. I’ve stalled at a 1200 ranking about 3 times in my life and have no desire to improve. Slight work like learning a few more openings and knowing when to play a certain one against another is all it takes. My creativity with the game is pretty high but it gets me in trouble often. I honestly can find about 0 people who would play me in a game of chess aside from strangers.
Basketball – I enjoy the game because of the physical nature. I’ve been playing basketball since I was in kindergarten and know the subtleties to boxing out and PASSING which is a lost art. Being in good shape is also a huge advantage because the game involves constant motion. I’ve lost my touch for the game because I don’t play that often but can still play D and rebound effectively.
I fire a fastball
Beer Pong – A game that gets very little love as a skill game. I get a charge from being on a team that ends the game on 2 back to back cups. Any dope can’t just fire at the last cup. I’m not a fan of 10 cup, “he’s on fire”, more than 1 re-rack, sidecar, or any part of the game that is straight up stupid. This is a fun game though as long as people drink their beer. Try making cups after winning 10 games straight. The bell curve is 100% in effect for beer pong.
How I play 1-2
Poker – I’ll still play some 1-2 and the occasional tournament but the bottom line is I’m rusty. I have no intention of grinding out cash games to make a few hundred bucks and my tournament game is such a far cry from where I was when I’d play 100 tournys a week online. My feel for the game is better than your average player and I’m not afraid to stick my money in the middle but I usually drink when I play and that leads to volatility which I’ve been on the wrong end of in recent memory.
Baseball – I’m putting baseball last because I’m fine if I never play it ever again. This sport is on the decline because it sucks. The hitting aspect is ordinary and fielding really isn’t that much fun. I also hate when you make a mistake in the field and everyone knows it was you and you just cost your team the entire game for messing up one simple play.
This is a ridiculous story. IK Enemkpali purchased a plane ticket ($600) for Geno Smith. Geno Smith had something come up and couldn’t use the ticket. IK Enemkpali demanded the money. Geno said he didn’t have it. IK Enemkpali punched him in the face and knocked him out 6-10 weeks with a fractured jaw. Let’s realistically look at this situation.
The Worst Statement of All-Time
IK Enemkpali
“I apologize to the Jets organization, coaches, teammates and fans,” Enemkpali said. “Geno and I let our frustration get the best of us, but I should have just walked away from the situation. I deeply regret and apologize for my actions. It was never my intention to harm anyone. I appreciate the opportunity I had with the Jets.” – IK Enemkpali
First and foremost, Ik will be trying to get on another team as hard as possible so let’s dissect the accuracy of his statement.
There should be no “Geno and I” in this statement. Ik, you punched him in the face. He’s the starting QB. You did this over $600 dollars. What are you thinking? You aren’t.
“Deeply regret and apologize”. If the question was phrased, “would you still apologize if someone told you your career was going to be over?” “No” is going off at -1000.
“It was never my intention to harm anyone“. You punched him directly in the jaw. You had no other intention other than punching him in the jaw. This must be construed as an intent to harm someone. Who wrote this shit?
How Good is Geno?
This is the STARTING QB of the New York Jets. New York is only the biggest city in the USA and this team has a significant fan base so this story must be important. HOWEVER, the news doesn’t seem to be mentioning that Geno Smith stinks. This is supported with the fact that Vegas didn’t move their 100-1 on the Jets winning the Super Bowl (should be 1000-1) and only dropped their O/U win total of 7.5 from -130 to -120.
This is Geno’s 3rd year and he has started 29 of 30 games he’s played. He’s essentially played 2 full years early in his career. He is 11-19. He went 8-8 his rookie year. This means he was 3-11 last year and lost 7 games in a row. Stop the fight. This really isn’t a monster loss.
Ryan Fitz-Magic is his replacement. Older veteran with a 38-58 record career record. He keeps games close. He’s better than Geno Smith. He went to Harvard.
