Star of the Victoria Fashion Show

Tonight many people watched the Victoria Secret Fashion show and went straight to Facebook or Twitter to give their input on it. From girls saying why can't I be as skinny as them or guys saying they are so hot, everyone flocked to social media myself included. However my posts were not about one of the models, they were about my future wife, Taylor Swift or also to be known as Taylor Kasman. Yea I may be biased a little bit since she is my future wife and all but how could I not. She looked amazing, sang amazing and was able to keep up with some of the hottest girls in the world. Not only was she extraordinary on the runway with the models and angels, she was even asked to be in the picture with all the models at the end. In addition, some of the models lip sang one of Taylor's songs as a viral video. What is their not to love about her? 

Sorry about my bias but you all know it is true, Sorry I have not blogged in a long time but will get back into and here is the star herself. Enjoy.

The Knicks and Rangers - a 1 billion dollar disaster

Obviously it's not Madison Square Garden's fault that the teams inside it are a disaster. But the fact remains that high school level teams would pose a real tough competition for the Knicks and Rangers at the moment. The Knicks fell again tonight 109-94 to the Cavs and the Rangers lost 4-1 to the Predators. Just when things looked like they were turning around for both team (Knicks 2 game winning streak, Rangers a win and a 2-0 lead over the Devils) things have fallen squarely back to earth and both look terrible again. Good thing it's still early in the season!

But seriously, between the Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Nets, Jets, and Giants right now New York Sports are about as bad as I can ever remember.

Carlos Beltran signs with the Yankees

All I can say about it is at least he is off of the Cardinals. It becomes so much easier to root for him to win a World Series now that it is almost ridiculous. As far as whether he will or not is still left to be determined by him staying healthy and the Yankees making their team better. But for now he's no longer a Cardinal, and let's face it, seeing him on that team was just sad. It's like having your wife leave you for a dude that kicked your ass then offering to live in their house and clean it, and do the dishes, and cook dinner.... it's just wrong!

The Mets officially sign Curtis Granderson

Yes, it's true, he can................................................

And now he will for the Mets for the next 4 years!

It's a big signing for the Mets who basically now have 2 major leaguers on their team with Matt Harvey missing a year. It's a small step in the right direction, and one that might really mean nothing if the Mets continue to act as cheap and stingy as they have so far but it's something. And, wouldn't you know it, they're using to sell tickets. Again, stingy and cheap.

If you're not a Mets fan and you got insulted by what Granderson said at his Mets press conference today you should know he 100% doesn't believe what he said. He's pandering to his new fans, as he should, because he will be playing in front of about 8,000 of them 81 times a year over the next 4 years. But with any luck we will get 4 good years out of the Grandyman and he will stay healthy and produce and help build this team and help make it better. But, on the off chance he doesn't, at least it cannot possibly be any more pathetic to watch the Mets play.

What the Mets Must Change to Succeed

Mets’ fans can certainly be forgiven for thinking the team’s owners and management don’t really care one way or another about success. Coming off another disappointing season in 2013, where they ended up 22 games out of first in the NL East and were out of contention by the end of April, it’s amazing that anyone even showed up to the ballpark.

The Mets inflicted pain in fans’ wallets and on their eyes. Ticket prices were high, and when wannabe attendees factored in the costs of parking and food, they cringed. It’s hard enough to scrounge up the dough for first-class entertainment, so why waste hard-earned money on a second-class team? Stay-at-home fans weren’t talking about sparkling defense and pitcher-pounding offense. They were instead talking about ownership obsessed with mindless money ball and a GM who says “prospect” so often you’d think the Mets had one.

If—and that’s a very strong if— the Mets can turn this team around and become contenders, they should start by flipping young talent like Noah Syndergaard, Wilmer Flores, Juan Lagares, and maybe even Travis d’Arnaud for proven players like Matt Kemp, Giancarlo Stanton, or Carlos Gonzalez. Then they should make a big splash in the free-agent pool by luring Jacoby Ellsbury, Robinson Cano, Chase Utley, Carlos Beltran, Shin Soo-Choo, or Brian McCann to Flushing. A veteran first baseman like James Loney will fill hole, and then the pitching leaks can be plugged up with arms attached to hurlers like Chris Capuano, Chris Carpenter, Tim Hudson, A.J. Burnett, Erving Santana, Matt Garza, Dan Haren, and Josh Johnson. Note that when I say “veteran,” I don’t mean players born before 1973!

Shoring up the team with at least six new position players, some solid veteran arms, and a non-volatile bullpen will have an immediate benefit. The moves will show disenchanted Mets’ fans that they’ll have something more to cheer about than designer tacos if they show up at the stadium. 

Is there a such thing as too much football?

If you're like me you love football, are in a committed relationship with your Red Zone, have multiple fantasy teams, and put a small amount of money (really, just $20) on a pick-em league just so you can bitch about everyone else's team just as much as your own.

Yes, football is the only time of the week I'm not severely depressed about being an unemployed recent college graduate but it also leads a lot of yelling at the TV, some cheerful, some sad, some neutral (it's just fun to yell at the TV sometimes) but is this all taking the fun out football?

Each week I take a bunch of guys who are insanely gifted athletes and slot them into different positions on a fantasy team and each week one ends up disappointing me because he didn't see the ball enough. Sometimes his team wins, sometimes they don't but that player still gets harassed on Twitter (not by me though). So it begs the question, is all of this worth it? If like the old days (and by old days I mean like 3 years ago before Red Zone and possibly about 10 years ago before I was aware of fantasy sports) you would watch your team at 1 or 4, possibly get a game on the other channel at the other time, and get Sunday and Monday night football was that more enjoyable? There was no being upset because Texans are no longer trustworthy as a pick, or anger because the Colts spent a first round pick on a great young RB and are playing Donald freaking Jones instead. There was just your love for your team and getting to enjoy some great national games.

These types of leagues also force you to root for guys you wouldn't normally like to root for. For instance as a Jets fan I might have Tom Brady on a fantasy team (though I really try hard not to) and enjoy his fantasy output but still get mad when the Patriots win. And some folks might even root for a guy on their fantasy team to do well against their own team (I'm not one of those people but they exist) and it's becoming a giant hypocritical vortex in a way... who can I root for and still feel good about myself and who do I need to root for because I refuse to lose?

It now also gives meaning to those games you never thought you would care about before.. "what's going on in that 1 o clock Jags Titans game" is now something that people utter, even in Jacksonville and Tennessee whereas if this was 10-15 years ago people might not even realize it ever happened.

And really, at the end only one person is left at the top of the fantasy football summit, they're the only winner, the rest are just sorry losers who wasted their whole fall/winter obsessing over something that left them alone and cold, high and dry, and with an empty feeling for another 7 months.

But to answer the question, is it worth it? Is all this losing, and frustration and anger about super teams being formed, and stars not living up to their expectations, and rooting for a bunch of assh*les really worth using up your entire Sunday over?! Well...probably not but it's better then dwelling on your own thoughts and the 8 straight hours of commercial free football is just so wonderful with it's quad boxes and octoboxes that really at the end of the day we will always be moths drawn to the light of the NFL and the fantasy leagues and the pick-em leagues because we just can't stop ourselves from it because, just like real football, when you finally win that fantasy league and all your hard work paid off as the head coach of some poorly named fantasy team you can call yourself a champion, and only a few select people in this world can ever call themselves a champion

You're Welcome, Mexico!

Tonight the United States Men's National Soccer Team beat Panama 3-2 in Panama to keep Mexico's hopes of reaching the World Cup Final alive. Yes it ruined Panama's dreams, but quite frankly if you couldn't beat the American B team with a 1 goal lead in stoppage time you didn't deserve to go anyway Panama. Mexico, like all good football teams that wear green, limped into this playoff through the backdoor and sparked by this will probably find a way to defeat New Zealand (which blogger doesn't think is a real word apparently?); and though I can't personally say I will be rooting for them (because I won't be) I can say that you're welcome, Mexico, but now you owe us!

In exchange for keeping you in the World Cup hunt Mexico now must allow for "Taco Tuesday" to be every single day of the week. That's right, Monday is now "Taco Tuesday", Wednesday, nope, not "hump day" but "Taco Tuesday" and on and on. Next, we would like a lifetime supply of Sombrero's shipped to America and the ability to co-use the word "siesta" as well as take them regularly during work days. Lastly we would like to ask you to stop naming your sports teams racist things like "Redskins" because it's really offending the natives who allowed for this country to have a soccer team in the first place.

Let's also not forget the type of financial impact missing the World Cup would have on a country like Mexico. According to Leon Krauze, a writer for Bloomberg  “If it doesn't [Mexico] make it to the World Cup, everything related to it will devaluate. Losses could be upwards of $600 million.” 

This type of financial loss would have been (and still could be) detrimental to Mexico and really drag down on them for years to come. It's almost amazing how a sports can carry a country so mightily...

But not to rain on their parade, go enjoy your playoff with New Zealand (still not a word according to Blogger), you deserve it!

P.S. check this video out -

Really cool stuff, they really are grateful and you can't knock that.

America can just sit back relax and tell this Mexico for a while now "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."

Minus the whole daughters wedding day thing...but you know, you get what I mean.