Viral Videos Legends

I'm sure this has been out for a while now, not sure if it's the same as the best of youtube video or not, whatever:


Viral Video Legends Compilation - Watch more Funny Videos

Fantasy Football Update

Well fantasy football season is over. Unfortunately no championships, I came in 3rd in my Drexel league and 6th in my Ithaca league. I think I learned a lot this year though, and hopefully it will help me for next year. If I were Jing I'd talk about how I finished the season in 1st place in the Drexel league, but I know that doesn't matter. Every mention of the Patriots perfect regular season is followed by the reminder that they lost the Super Bowl to the G-Men. I have plenty of seasons in fantasy hockey where I finished #1 in the regular season, but I also have plenty of 2nd place finishes overall, and those don't keep me warm at night.

Now for the season awards (D=Drexel league, I=Ithaca league)

MVP: Wes Welker (D), Brent Celek (I)

Best Waiver Wire: Steve Smith (D), Jason Snelling (I)......?

Worst Draft Pick: Derrick Ward (D-5th Rd), TIE Roy Williams (I-4th Rd) and Darren McFadden (I-5th Rd)

Best Draft Pick: Julius Jones (D-10th Rd), Brent Celek (I-12th Rd)

It was a fun year, but it's always nice to be able to sit back and enjoy the playoffs without having to think about roster pickups and the like.

Philly fans

They always complain that they have a bad rap, and then they do shit like this. I can understand a a snowball or two, a friendly thing. But for it to go on that long and have security at the Linc do nothing is ridiculous. By that time they were probably killing the 49ers, so just let the fans watch the game...

Rachel Ray Gettin the Biz!!!

Happy Holidays to her!

Why Alex Doesn't Understand Weather

He's ignorant. (Quick post preview, more to come later!)

**Update**

Here's the thing about weather, the precipitation forecast varies depending on the time of year. During the summer the chance of precipitation refers to the probability that precipitation will occur in ANY area in the broadcast area. So it could be 100% chance of precipitation and if Ithaca had no rain, but Horseheads had rain, then the forecast was correct. HOWEVAH, (AK doing Stephen A.) during the winter the precipitation percentage refers to the chance that the whole area will have precipitation. So if it's 100% chance of snow, and Ithaca doesn't get snow, then someone done screwed up.


Source: a meteorology class my parents took in the 70s

Best. Flowchart. Ever

Commentary deemed unnecessary.

Fantasy Football Round Up

I said I would give a fantasy football wrap up, so here it is! Both of my teams made the playoffs this year, but comparing the two is like comparing a model to Boone, wildly different. On one hand you have the Harlem Dipsetters of my Drexel league which are at the top of the league and totally killin it; on the other hand is Oh Mike Jones who used to be at the top of the league and has now slid to 6th place because of questionable (?) trades and injuries. I now present to you a full roster rundown:

Harlem Dipsetters:

QB: Matt Schaub—6th round pick, very happy with how that worked out, I feel good going into the playoffs with him

WR: Larry Fitzgerald—1st round pick, he has really picked up recently with a healthy Boldin, feeling great going into the playoffs

WR: Wes Welker—4th round pick, has been epic since we’re in a PPR league, monster games these last few weeks

WR: Steve Smith—Waiver Wire, benefit of starting slow, I got a high priority waiver pick and grabbed Smith, excellent

RB: Ricky Williams—Waiver Wire, I guess no one wanted him (someone had him and dropped him earlier) and I think I got him the week before Ronnie Brown went out, excellent pick up

RB: Rashard Mendenhall— Trade for Calvin Johnson, good player that I’ve been rotating in and out, I have high hopes for him as the weather gets colder and windier in Pittsburgh

TE: Vernon Davis—Waiver Wire, dude has been an absolute monster. Started the year with John Carlson so I got his great opening numbers and then picked up Davis who has been great for me

D: Saints—Waiver Wire, have lost some of their luster recently, but put up a lot of games in the teens.

K: Ryan Longwell—Waiver Wire, I pick up and drop kickers as needed.

BENCH

RB: Pierre Thomas—3rd Round, he’s been hit or miss, especially with the emergence of Mike Bell, but he’s still be decent considering it’s a 3 back committee

RB: Cedric Benson—Waiver Wire, how this guy was on waivers when I picked him up is beyond me, but he’s been a stud.

RB: Julius Jones—10th round, I’m ok with this pick, he gave me some good games early, but I’m not sure why he’s still on my team…haha

WR: Percy Harvin—Trade for Calvin Johnson, I’m happy with this trade (Megatron for Percy and Rashard) I think it was a week before he hurt his knee and since then he hasn’t put up great numbers, it gave me a lot of good depth.

WR: Nate Burleson—Waiver Wire, another good pickup, he’s been a solid flex starter.

WR: Chris Chambers—Waiver Wire, would have been a great pickup if I could have traded him after his 2 big games in 3 weeks, but it was past the deadline at that point. Now he’s just kinda chillin on my bench.

As you may have noticed, I don’t believe in keeping extra TE, K, or D on my bench. No need really.

Hopefully most of you can see why I feel so good about this team going into the playoffs. I think I have a ton of flexibility with my roster and lots of good matchups to take advantage of. Hopefully the Dipsetters will lead me to my first fantasy sports championship. I’m getting tired of all my 2nd place hockey finishes.

And now, on to a team that is more sketchy than K is being right now (didn’t return my call, haven’t heard ish from him).

Oh Mike Jones

Wow, how did this team become so bad? I started off 5-1 and have since gone 2-5. I’ll tell you how it went bad, questionable trades and injuries. You’ll see them outlined below but I probably shouldn’t have gotten rid of MJD… I think I went into panic mode and just made things worse. Here’s my lineup with comments:

QB: The one, the only, Brett Favre—Waiver Wire, he’s a gunslinger who loves the game and is just having fun out there, but he’s actually been putting up good numbers this year. He had a stinker last game, but hopefully he got it out of his sytem.

WR: Mike Sims-Walker—Trade, he has been very shaky, some good games, some bad games. And now it looks like he might be injured. Great.

WR: Mario Manningham—Trade, dude is slumpin real bad and I think I traded for him before Eli was injured, who knows

WR: Jason Avant—Waiver Wire, he’s actually been alright since I picked him up, decent 3rd wide receiver, but nothing special

RB: Adrian Peterson—Trade, no here’s where my team shines. It’s AP what else is there to say

RB: Michael Turner—Trade, boom baby, best running back corp in the league…if everyone was healthy

TE: Brent Celek— 12th Round, Surprise player of the year, he’s tailed off a little, but that could be due to injury. Hopefully he gets used to the hand and picks it up

K: Nate Kaeding—15th Round, kicker, whatever

D: Green Bay—14th Round, they’ve been alright, haven’t tried to pick up anyone better

BENCH

RB: Justin Forsett—Waiver Wire, I started him for his 25 point game I think, maybe his worth a start again…

RB: Justin Snelling—Waiver Wire, Turner back up, had a good game against the Giants, I didn’t start him, at least the G-Men beat the Falcons

RB: LeSean McCoy—Trade, fill in until Turner is healthy but he hasn’t been spectacular

RB: Cadillac Williams—Trade, might give me 10 points in a week, nothing special

RB: Darren McFadden—5th Round, I dropped this dude and then picked him back up. He still sucks

As an FYI, this was my draft:
1. MJD
2. Roddy White
3. Tom Brady
4. Roy Williams
5. Darren McFadden
6. Jamal Lewis
7. Bernard Berrian
8. Domenik Hixon
9. Fred Jackson
10. Chris Chambers
11. Rashard Mendenhall (why did I drop him?)
12. Brent Celek (Best pick I made)
13. Jarett Dillard (who?)
14. Green Bay
15. Nate Kaeding

Here are the trades I made:

Give: Tom Brady, Roddy White, Barnard Berrian
Get: Adrian Peterson, LeSean McCoy, Mario Manningham

Give: MJD, Fred Jackson
Get: Michael Turner, Cadillac Williams, Mike Sims-Walker


So you can probably tell why I’m so down on Oh Mike Jones, and not down in the good way, like how I’m down with the set. I need to step my waiver wire game up, and I had a really bad draft in retrospect. As a Giants fan I feel like I should have known that Steve Smith would be better than Hixon, whatever. Basically all of my sleeper picks were wrong though I give myself credit that I was aiming for players like Percy Harvin, but I just waited too long. Gotta re-evaluate that next year.

Anyways, I think I have a legit shot to win a championship with the Harlem Dipsetters, but I think I’m one and done with Oh Mike Jones. Hope this has been entertaining!

Another reason for AK to be excited.

Winter Classic, coming up!!!!

One reason for AK to like hockey

This guy:



References to Kanye, that weird clown in AK's room, and a Hawks player! And that's only part 3!

Vevo

Since I know my readers aren't always up on the latest in internet goings on, I'm gonna hit you with some fresh ish. A new site is up called Vevo (vevo.com) that is a partnership of youtube and some of the major record labels. It does music videos, and only music videos. The goal was to eliminate all the clutter and duplicates you find when searching for music videos on youtube and it should be pretty succesful since these are no longer user submitted videos, they come straight from the record company. It doesn't have HD capability yet, but they're saying that it will be coming sometime in 2010. To celebrate the launch they have are premiering a few new videos including one from the terrible 50 Cent (I don't remember who else). The only problem with Vevo that I can see, it doesn't have any Dipset yet (but it does have Killa)! And it's also running slow as hell.

http://www.vevo.com

Shout Out To Dave

Since people need posts, I'm linking to my boy Dave's website from high school, specifically his 100 observations he has made about life (they are essential). I bet AK is pissed that I beat him to this even though he linked me to it.

The gems: (italics are my comments)

The Mets are good, but Mike Piazza...well... How times have changes

Golden Eye for n64 is the best video game ever. I think Call of Duty has it beat

Weird Al Yankovic is hilarious. This observation will never change

The Jet will happen. Oh yes. Keep that hope alive Dave!

Tie Domi kicks ass, literally Absolutely

Hockey kicks ass. And he got a real Ivy league degree so you know it's true

Every single male older than 12 would pork Britney Spears. No exceptions. Okay maybe 13. I believe this answers the question AK posed to him a few days ago...


Thanks for the insight Dave!

Movie Review: The Blind Side

Overall, a pretty enjoyable movie experience. It was a feel good, kid rises from poverty story and that’s what I expected it to be. All the reviews focused on how well Sandra Bullock did in the movie and I’d have to agree with them, she fit the role of a driven, tough southern woman pretty well. It was a fun movie to watch, and a great movie if you’re trying to appeal a wide range of people (parents, guys, girls, etc.). Quinton Aaron who played the character of Michael Oher did a good job, but didn’t seem convincing in the most “dramatic” part of the movie. There weren’t many highs and lows in his character’s emotions, but maybe that’s what he’s like in real life, I don’t know. Jae Head who plays the little kid in the movie was great. He came off exactly how I would imagine a kid in his position would, and he played the role of coach/pseudo-agent perfectly. I’d recommend seeing it, especially if you’re looking for a holiday movie for the whole family.

On a side note, if their house looks like that from owning Taco Bells, I’m gonna start buying some franchises! Dayumn.