Lets Go Yankees!!

Baseball season is almost over and football season is taking over the season, at least as far as sports go. Football is on everyone’s minds now especially since most of the baseball teams have been eliminated due the playoffs. This is probably true for almost everyone who is not a Yankees, Angels, Dodgers or Phillies fan, since those are the only teams that are remaining in the 2009 postseason. For fans of those teams it is probably the most exciting time of their lives especially in my case, since I am Yankees fan and they have not won the World Series in a long time, and this is somewhat of a redemption season for them.

The Yankees are almost to their goal that they set when the season began. They went out and got more players to improve their roster, and are well on their way in the postseason, especially after sweeping the Twins in the first round of the playoffs behind strong pitching from two of the three big people that were brought in to improve their team. CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett are having an amazing postseason with their earned run average under two. This is different from the previous Yankees teams that have made the postseason, as they have always been carried by strong hitting unlike this year when they have been carried mostly by strong starting pitching.

The third player that was brought in to improve the team was Mark Teixeira. He is a first basemen and is probably one of the best young players in the major leagues. After a slow start to the season he picked his offense up and now is in line to win his first regular season MVP or most valuable player award for the American league. He has not only brought over his strong batting skills but also a spectacular glove over at first base. Sometimes is seems like nothing gets by him, that’s how good he can be.

Now, getting back to the post season, the Yankees are one game away from going to the World Series which is the goal for almost every team in the league when the season begins but only two get the chance to play in this matchup between the two best teams from the national and American leagues. The Yankees are in line to play the Phillies in the World Series as both of them are up 3-1 on the opposing teams and it is very unlikely that either team will end up losing the series after such a big lead over their opponents.

This post season has brought the resurgence of Alex Rodriguez who admitted to doing steroids when he was with the Texas Rangers at the beginning of his career. Usually A-rod is a spectator in the playoffs, barely getting any hits and never getting on base. This all has changes with the Yankees bringing in new players and helping out A-rod. He is in line to break many of the post season and all time records and is probably the best player in the league right now. He should be named the World Series MVP if the Yankees end up winning the whole thing.

On the other side if the spectrum is Derek Jeter, who has been doing his part in helping the Yankees by doing the little things like playing defense and getting on base any way he can. He has also blasted some homeruns along the way which is very unusual for Jeter as he is mostly a singles and doubles hitter, mainly trying to get on base and create havoc, but who is complaining.

The Yankees are playing the Angels who have eliminated them from the playoffs the last two times the Yankees have made the playoffs, so this series is in some ways retaliation to the last two post seasons when the Yankees were totally overmatched by the Angels. This postseason is a different story with the Yankees getting on top early and often and not letting the Angels ever feel like they are in the game to win it. This makes it very difficult for a team as good as the Angels to believe that they can actually beat the Yankees.

Most people would say that this Yankees team is unlike any of the past Yankees teams, which I would agree with since they are now in a new generation of Yankees since the last time they won the World Series, but they are also in some way the same as those legendary teams from the previous championship seasons. This Yankees team has the same swagger that the old Yankees teams used to have which went away for a while and therefore resulting in them not winning any championships for so many years. This year the Yankees take the field with the belief that they can win every game and there is no team that can beat them on any given day which is exactly like the Yankees from the old days. This new found swagger had helped them reach this far into the playoffs and will hopefully help them win the World Series, which Yankee fans have waited a long time for.

The Tough Week

This week turned out to be one of the busiest weeks of college so far. I had everything from tests to quizzes to homework. I did a lot of stuff but none of that involved having fun. I went from Monday to Thursday without doing any athletic activities or hanging out with any friends. Going home last weekend and doing nothing over the weekend was fun but really messed up my schedule. Usually I do all my homework over the weekend but that weekend I spent the whole time hanging out with friends or spent the time watching television as football was on all weekend. Since I was home I wanted to relax and not do anything. I learnt my lesson, from this experience, not doing any work only meant that I would have no fun for the next four days, and this was really bothering me as I love to do stuff outside my dorm and not having to do work all the time.

On Thursday night once I was done with all my work I decided to go out for a walk around campus. Even though I was freezing cold I really enjoyed my walk since I got to go out of my dorm, which felt like a prison cell by the time I found my way out of it. I stayed out till about three am that morning since I wasn’t tired and didn’t feel like sleeping. This late night was also supported by the fact that I didn’t have class the next day till one thirty. I came back and watched all the television shows that I had missed due to all the work I had to do in the past few days. I stayed awake till about five that morning just watching shows on my computer.

The next day I woke up at around twelve and then went to eat and then went to class which was probably the lowest point of my day and it was an interesting class too. That shows how good my day turned out to be. After class I had a Frisbee game which turned out to be an awesome game in which I had about four catches that were for scores, which included the game winner. I also got speared by the other teams’ player but it was okay since we were winning and therefore easier to take in.

After the game my friends and I decided to get some food since we had burnt all those calories running up and down the field. We all got three boxes of pizza from west end and before you knew it they were all gone. After this we went and watched the Yankee game which turned out to be an awesome game since the Yankees won and Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter continued their amazing post season.

Then came Saturday, which turned out to another day which included some homework, some football, some baseball and some partying. The day started with me doing homework for about three hours and then I went and got some food. After this I watched college football for about 5 hours and then the Yankee game for about another five hours since it turned out to be an amazing game, with the game going into extra inning with Alex Rodriguez tying it in the ninth with a home run. At that point I exploded out of my chair and from that point to the end of the game I was basically jumping up and down with every play. Then I went to DX with my friends and got some food since we were starving after sitting and watching the games for about ten hours straight.

Then came Sunday and I had to write this blog post and it took about an hour while watching football of course. This weekend I had fun and did my work at the same time which made it a good weekend and now I am ready to go back to class this Monday since I am refreshed from the fun over the weekend.

Six Flags...It's Playtime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRfe5gxKVI

Ever been to six flags; well then you have heard and seen the commercials on television promoting the park. They use an old and crusty person to promote their park. The commercial starts by showing people working around the house and getting done with all their chores. This town is supposed to full of hard working people, and then this bus comes out of nowhere and this old guy gets them all to leave everything they are doing and go with him to six flags. There are many things in this commercial that do not make sense with what the advertisement is trying to promote.

First thing that doesn’t make sense is that everyone is working outside on such a nice day. You would expect some of the people to be having fun on this nice day, but no, they are all hard at work like the advertisement says in the beginning. Even the children are hard at work which is even harder to believe especially since the sun is out and it’s a beautiful day.

After you get over the fact that everyone in that neighborhood was out work at the same time and on a beautiful day, then comes the part with the bus coming down the road. Now this bus is not close to being able to fit everyone in that neighborhood but somehow it does and they all end up going to six flags with this strange old guy, who I will talk about in a little bit. I thought there was a rule that said that you’re not allowed to talk to strangers. I guess that rule doesn’t apply when it comes to old people.

The old man then steps out of the bus and speakers appear out of nowhere, especially since there is no one in the bus, but I guess you can explain that by saying that he pressed the button for the speakers before he came out. That’s not the part that bothers me. The old man then starts dancing and jumping up and down like a fifteen year old teenager. The old man then ends up on top of the bus dancing which is the most shocking part of the commercial, as the old man would have to be really fit in order to get up there. There is no way that a person that old could possibly dance or even move that fast and dance that well at that age. Then they all trust the old man to drive the huge bus full kids and parents all the way six flags, and I know there are rules against that. The old then goes on all the gives which I think there are some rules against; if not there should be rules against that. This totally makes the advertisement seem stupid and make no sense especially since six flags is supposed to be for kids and young adults. Not for old, eighty year old grandparents.

At this point I realized that the point of the commercial might be for older people, and making them realize that six flags are for them too. By having an old man having so much fun at six flags attracts old and young people to come to six flags. They already know that they are going to get the young kids to come to six flags no matter how much they advertise, but the old people need some convincing, as to why they should come to six flags.

The old man is the perfect person to use in this case. It serves the ultimate purpose for the commercial. Taking the extreme for the situation can only help convince their audience of what they are trying to put forward. Picking the old man instead of a random middle aged male was an excellent idea, since people would actually pay attention to an old man dancing and having fun at six flags than a kid or a middle aged man having fun at six flags.

The music is also a great and catchy which helps them get the viewer to pay attention and therefore see the old man and get involved in the commercial itself by connecting their lives to it.

The Surprise!!

Just to change things up, instead of talking about how the football game went this weekend and how V Tech won again, I am going to tell you my plan for next weekend and how I am planning on going home.

This coming weekend is fall break for us, and only a few days ago I wasn’t planning on doing anything the whole weekend but watch the football game and do homework, maybe play some sports while I am at it. This all changed when my friends and I decided to go back home for fall break and surprise our parents by just showing up at the door step.

This plan came up since we would not be able to go home till thanksgiving if we didn’t go home this coming weekend. We are planning leaving on Thursday night after all of us are done with our classes. We plan on getting there at about 10 at night. I can’t wait to see the reaction of my parent when they see me standing at the doorstep. I am really hoping that my mom freaks out when she sees be standing at the door since she hasn’t seen me in a while and she wasn’t expecting me at all.

I plan to go home and visit my school and also visit my friends at the University of Maryland in college park and in Baltimore County. Thursday night I just plan on spending time with my family and catching up on everything I have missed in the month and a half that I have been away from home. Since my parents have work the next day I will probably go hang out with my friends after I spend time with my friends.

The next day I plan on going back to my high school and visiting with some of the friends who are still in high school and also visiting my teachers and also my coaches who I haven’t seen in about 5 months. This should be an awesome time since I loved high school. Going back to my old school will be somewhat awkward since I don’t go there anymore and I was so used to going there.

After school I am going to go to the cross country team practice, and might even join them and do their work out. This would be awesome since I haven’t run on a team since I stopped going to high school. This was the most amazing time of my day when I was in high school since it would get me away from all the work and help me release all the stress that I have compiled throughout the whole day.

After this I plan to do back to my friends’ house and then have game night. Game night was invented when we were in the tenth grade. Game night is basically when we play board games till like two in the morning and watch sports center over and over again. The games include Balderdash, Scattergories, Apples to Apples, and Uno. It is a group of six of us just sitting in a room and having fun for hours.

On Saturday I plan on spending the whole day with my cousin and maybe going down to UMCP to visit my friends. I haven’t seen my friends in a month and a half and I was used to seeing them like every day, therefore I miss them so much. Over the summer we would spend at least 5 days a week together, and before that we would see each other in school all the time. The reunion should be amazing and apparently they have a party for me to go to since they are still in school and don’t have fall break till next week.

Finally on Sunday I plan on spending the day with my family and going to church we would probably eat breakfast together like we used to before I left for college. This was a family tradition, go to church every Sunday and then eat breakfast together.

Then will probably come the saddest part of the weekend when I have to leave. This is probably even worse for my mom since she is not used to me leaving home all the time, and not living there all the time. It was especially hard for her since I am so far away and can’t go home very often and they cannot visit me often either.

I will probably leave Maryland at about 4 with my friends, hopefully having had a good weekend and spend enough time with my friends and family. This trip will be good for me since I won’t miss my friends and home that much. At least not as much as much as I would if I didn’t go home now. I can’t wait for next weekend to get here.