I've decided that I'm an awful sports better. It's not that I'm betting a ton, but whenever I do bet, I'm wrong. So far in the NFL playoffs I've bet on Minnesota, Carolina and Tennessee (all of them lost). Awesome. I was also going to bet the Giants, but overslept and didn't get my bet in. I was also going to bet the games last weekend. I was all ready to bet Arizona until I saw that Bodog was charging 25% juice on the bet. That is insane and I refused to pay that much. Of course, I would have won that. I opted instead to bet the next game where I took Baltimore. I didn't want to bet that game, because I thought it could either way. I expected Pittsburgh to win, but giving up 6 points is a ton in a game that could have easily been 7-3 or something shitty like that. I always like betting the Super Bowl. The problem is that I want to root for Arizona, but I'm not sure I have faith in them to beat Pittsburgh. The line is 7 right now. I'll probably go ahead and just bet them anyway. I was thinking I'd put a G spot on them and either end the playoffs as a winner or a big loser. We'll see if I follow through on that.

Rickey Henderson recently was inducted into the Hall of Fame, so he's been in the news some. The guy is a complete character. Very entertaining to watch/listen to. Whalen sent me a link of his top 25 quotes/moments. It's hysterical. Do yourself a favor and spend 5 minutes reading it.

There were a couple of crazy news stories on ESPN this week. First, Michael Irvin got pulled over by two guys with a gun. They soon realized it was Michael Irvin and rather than robbing him just talked about the disappointing season the Cowboys had. The better story was Donovan McNabb's vacation home in Arizona getting vandalized. It wasn't so much that someone burnt "Go Cards" into his lawn as it was the fact that the guy left the box with the fuel on the lawn. The box had his address on it. Not to mention the guys' name was Rex and he was 37 years old.

We bought our "season tickets" for the White Sox the other day. This is the second year in a row that we've done it. We get the Ozzie Guillen package which is for 13 games. You get a pretty good deal and it comes out to about $300 per person. I really like going to baseball games, so it's well worth it. I had a great time going last year. When I first moved to Chicago, I loved going to Cubs games and went to a ton of them - it helped that I live in the neighborhood. Overtime though I grew somewhat disenchanted with cubs games. For one, the seating sucks. You either get seats in the 200 level and you are scared you are behind a pole or you get bleacher seats and then you have to get ot the game at least a hour early to have a seat at all. That sucks. Not to mention the bathrooms and food stands are terrible and the fact that the NL is simply worse than the AL. As I went to Comisky more and more I just realized it's a better baseball experience. As of now, I haven't bought any tickets to the Cubs this year. I'm sure I'll go to a few games, but my ratio of cubs to sox games is way in the favor of the Sox now.

Someone made a comment about my brother looking like Carrot Top. That reminded me that I never posted about meeting Carrot Top in Vegas this summer. I don't know how I didn't post about it. Better late than never though. As we were leaving the Wynn at like 3am after going to one of their clubs, we ran into Carrot Top. He joked around with us for a few minutes and took a few pics. Guy was weird, but nice. He's also jacked as hell. When we got back to Chicago we convinced everyone we had gotten into a fight with him. Luckily, Whalen had received a black eye from an aggressive game of pool basketball so it went along perfectly with the Carrot Top fight story. A few people actually believed us.



Carrot Top holding out money to me for some reason.



Carrot Top and Trevrob



More crazy looking, jacked Carrot Top