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Catch team USA on ESPN 2, get me in the picture

Tonight Shannon and I are heading out to Angels Stadium of Anaheim to see team USA take on Korea in the World Baseball Classic.  I was there yesterday with Jeff watching both the USA v. Japan game and Mexico v. Korea.  After seeing Korea against Mexico last night, I am looking forward to this match up.  I have pretty good seats for tonight's game, as we will be sitting in the Diamond Club, section 118 directly behind home plate.  We are in the second row so I'm fairly certain I will be seen on TV making a fool of myself.  I am so glad to be at live baseball games again.  Yesterdays game between the US and Japan was unbelievable.  The game had fall baseball drama, and it is only spring training time (technically).

So, check the game out on ESPN 2.  I do think ESPN is tape delaying the game, so you east coasters may not be able to catch this one live.  If this game is tape delayed, that is a damn shame. 

Here is a pic I took at yesterdays USA v. Japan game of Alex Rodriguez, right before he is about to strike out.  Crappy cell phone pic but it works.

Are you kidding me?

Barry Bonds pulls a Gary Sheffield, lubes up with the CREAM

Barry Bonds admits to nothing.  He apparently used some "cream."  Maybe for dry skin, or a rash on his ass, or in place of Icy Hot.  Cream.  We all need some cream in this world, but the kind Bonds was using didn't 'rule everything around me, CREAM get the money..."  Or maybe it did.  I was hoping that in the wake of the Giambi information that we'd get some other players to honestly admit to steroid use.  But I guess not.  What a fucking farse this cream shit is.  Who the fuck really beleives this garbage?  Of course Bonds does have alot to loose, the homerun record, and an asteric.

I gotta stop this rant before I tear this blog down.  Maybe post on this in the morning with clear head.  At least Bonds kept true and also lied in front of the grand jury. Nice one there Barry, way to inspire the kids.

Giambi admits use of illegal substances

Giambi admits use of steroids, report says.

Not that I am a New York Yankee fan, but if this report is accurate, one of the suspected steroid abusers from the BALCO case has stepped up.  And I can not stress stepped up enough.  Jason "the incredible shrinking" Giambi has reportedly testified to using banned substances during four seasons, one of which includes the injection of human growth hormone for at least one of these seasons.  Giambi should be commended for his admital, and perhaps will sway other other baseball stars who are involved in the BALCO case.  I know Gary Sheffield took a hit with his admonishment of using cream that he "didn't know was steroids" (give me a freaking break, what a lop), but Giambi has brought full fledged steroid abuse to the table.

Not that this testimony will make any other players feel the desire to come clean (I love puns), but it is about time this issue is addressed.  Especially in regards to national role models.  As an avid gym goer, I have seen many younger people start to dabble in performance enhancing drugs.  Due to their age as well as maturity level, many pass the buck off to professional athletes and feel that if it is acceptable for the MLB, it's perfectly fine for them.  I've seen this in both LA Fitness as well as 24 Hour Fitness, and especially in the muscle gym I currently call home.  Major League players are role models, and they have to act like it.  Lying on the stand and touting the effects of steroids is improprietely wrong.  Yes, steroids can give you one hell of a great looking body, but I can't begin to describe what they take away.

It's been raining for days

It's still raining here in SoCal. Off and on but the rain has caused some pretty nasty stuff here. And that is absolutely ridiculous. RAIN, caving in roofs, causing accidents, knocking down trees, keeping people form going to work or school! This is insane. This place is a freakin joke. What a bunch of pansy asses living around LA, and this is hard to handle because most people that are here aren't even from here. They are from North Dakota, or Idaho, or some cold ass town. I am just pissed because I don't mind the rain one bit, but it seriously adds about 35-50 minutes to any commute. Absurd.

On to greater things, the ALCS has become one for the ages. I have spent so much time this past few days watching the Red Sox even the series at 3-3, after watching the Yankees pound the crap out of the Sox to take a 3-0 lead. The last two games were brilliant. Yeah of course I would love to have the Mets in the NLCS, but as a fan of baseball, this is awesome. And of course I will send out some props to the NLCS, in Mondays game each team and 1 hit heading into the ninth! What a great time for any baseball fan. I will digress as Jeff "I sucked as a Met" Kent knocked the game winning shot.

Gotta go watch the rain, it only happens about 8 days a year here, so I gotta make the most of it.