The Only Meyer You'll Be Seeing in South Bend is Oscar

Yes, I realize the Oscar one is spelled Mayer but it's a pun people!

Well my apologies to all as it has taken a little longer than I expected to get up a new post. I had half of one ready to go for last week but I never got around to finishing it and since then it’s grown dated. But hey, now there’s just so much more news to comment on.

Alright, let’s get the monkey out of the way right off the bat: The Firing of Ty. I do not in any way agree with this decision. I think it’s total dick of Notre Dame to do this to him. I mean Christ, Gerry F-ing Faust got 5 years! Do I think this is a racial thing? No. I think this is Notre Dame never really wanting Ty to begin with (cause God knows George O’'Leary worked out great for them) and suddenly they saw they could get Urban Meyer. Oops. Trust me, I laughed like hell when Meyer chose Florida. Why wouldn'’t he? Notre Dame showed they have no loyalty to their coaches with the firing of Ty. People will say, well they'’re just doing what’'s best for the team. Call me crazy, didn'’t we have a winning record this year? Didn'’t we upset two of the best teams in the nation? Yeah, we had some embarrassing losses. But you know what? The difference between winning and losing most of those games were two decent cornerbacks to give us some pass coverage. How many times did they give up 3^rd and long? BC beat us with a last minute 40 yard pass to the end zone, Pittsburgh beat us by throwing a 20 yard pass on 3^rd and long. The Irish simply sucked at covering those receivers. But no, giving Ty an off-season to boost those positions wasn'’t good enough for the Notre Dame alumni who are still under the delusion that it’s the 1940’'s and Notre Dame is still the perennial powerhouse who went to National Championships every year and that all it’'s going to take is a simple coaching change to get them there. Hate to burst their bubble but the Irish aren'’t suddenly going to become amazing again because they screwed over Ty. They seem to be under the impression that it shouldn’t take more 3 years to turn around a program that has decayed to a mere shadow of its former self. But that’'s just me. Maybe I'’m wrong and ND will make a sudden miraculous return from the dead. But if that’'s the plan, they better start adding more masses to the Basilica'’s schedule.

In Major League Baseball news I gotta say I’'m excited for the upcoming season as this will be the first time ever that I’'ve been living in a city with a MLB team. Naturally in order to get everyone around here as excited as possible, they had to come up with the inanely boring name the “Nationals”. Who thought giving a team the nickname of the “"Nats"” would be a good idea? Do you realize how many dumbass puns we’re going to have to hear now involving swatting, squishing, exterminating, etc from the sports writers who don’t seem to realize that just because you can come up with a pun doesn'’t mean it'’s necessary to use it. In addition to that the team logo is terrible. I mean it’s just so generic it could honestly be an all-star or league logo. However, aside from a marketing team that should be fired, I’m still excited to be hitting up some games. Rumors are circulating that the Mets are now trying to pick up Pedro Martinez. God, that would just make my day and lead to an endless amount of taunting on my end towards my Red Sox amigos.

Update on the current NHL Season: They’'re still not playing.

Quick review:

U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.

The new U2 album is very reminiscent of their last one. Safe to say if you liked All That You Can’t Leave Behind, you'’ll want to get this one. The first single off it, Vertigo, is completely misleading so if you didn’'t like it, don’t worry, there’s really nothing else on the album like it. Sometimes You Can'’t Make It On Your Own is going to be the Stuck in a Moment of this album so expect to love the song the first 25 times you hear it on the radio and then curse radio for managing to kill any halfway decent song by playing it 10 times an hour. All Because of You is their next single after Vertigo runs its course. It'’s definitely a throw back to their earlier sound like Where the Streets Have No Name or Mysterious Ways. And as all U2 albums seem to end with the spiritual or "God" song, this one is no different with Yahweh. It's actually one of their better ones, being much more upbeat. I’'ve heard somewhere that this was supposed to be Edge’'s album but you really don’'t notice anything different. He still gets his high-powered guitar solos but to me it didn'’t sound any more prevalent than other albums. Some of the songs work better than others but in the end it'’s a good if not a groundbreaking U2 album. Then again a good U2 album is better than 99.5% of the drivel currently being put out these days by so called “"rock"” bands (I'’m looking squarely in your direction Simple Plan, Nickelback, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park, etc etc etc).

Alright crazy hombres, until next time:

"I remember another gentle visitor from the heavens. He came in peace, and then died, only to come back to life. And his name was... E.T., the extraterrestrial."