Seriously??

I read on soccernet.com and just watched Around the Horn in which they talked about a possible punishment for Thierry Henry on his hand-ball. Now I know everyone has talked about this for a couple of weeks now but I believe I should put my two cents in here because I like Henry, even though he plays for Barcelona and all. He has always been a cool footballer that I enjoyed watching on the pitch.

I am wondering how FIFA continue to get things wrong. Let's see, Thierry apologized, he was very contrite about what happened in fact he even said that he would be in favor of a replay. And yet FIFA would rather punish him than the people who really got it wrong. Making him a scapegoat because of your refereeing mistake will not make the problem go away. I can understand punishing those who dive, or yeah use their hands to gain an unfair advantage but he's already apologized and done everything that someone who knows they cheated should do. If they throw Henry under the bus then it is just going to make people increase the death threats that he and his family are getting.

I've already started my personal war against protecting footballing referees and I believe that this is a solid reason why. The linesman missed at least two or three players offsides. And you can't forget the double hand-ball that has gain worldwide recognition. How on earth can you miss that? And I still haven't heard any punishment for the referees. They should be banished from the World Cup, you think that it would be devastated for them to miss World Cup games and not Henry. If Henry misses at least one game then it would most definitely hinder France's opportunity of advancing to the World Cup final stages.

I've thought about this and I believe that a video replay would do wonders for Soccer. People would like to say that it would waste time. It would only take about 30 to 45 seconds. You can get the fourth official to see the play in question and flag the referee and tell him that he has made a mistake and give it a second look. That is just me.

FIFA stop your unnecessary protection of referees if they are wrong. I don't just want to hear that they are wrong. I want you guys to do something about it. Ban them for a game or two. If Henry claimed that he did nothing wrong then I would be all for punishing him but leave the guy alone, he's done more in his career than any of you suits have ever done.

A nice long lazy Sunday...

After Saturday night in which I had a game and went out with a couple of the guys on the adult league team. I set up shop at my place for the entire day today. It was kind of relaxing for a change to just be in my place. Playing some video games, Doing some reading for my classes and listening to some good music. The only reason why I am currently online right now was to really write this. Then once I am done I will get back to the virtual world of FIFA for a little longer before I go to sleep.

I have started this book called the "Miko Kings". It is for my Native American History class. It is an interesting book, the setting is at Oklahoma and it talks about the story of the Miko Kings, one of the greatest Indian Baseball teams of all time. Also it discusses more of the struggles that the late 19th and early 20th century Indian had to go through. I have just started it and hopefully I can finish it by the end of wednesday so I can begin writing a paper on it. Ha! Of course I only read when I need to.

FIFA has taken over my life. Which is a good thing really. I don't have to worry and think about people that much. Especially the people that don't really care much for me. I would usually spend my time on facebook and AIM trying to see how other people are doing, which I should just be worrying what I am doing and the ones that care will show it. Anyways me and Aaron had another one of our battles on FIFA today. I am not going to try to get too much into or somebody might get mad (it might be me or it might be him, you'll never know.) Then once I got done with that I got back to my manager mode and played a couple of games in that before deciding to read the book that I just talked about. I am finding FIFA much easier then how I've found it before. I have avoided the 4-0 beat downs that plagued me earlier and now I've been able to ball out all the time.

Today overall was a good day. I didn't waste any money on gas or food. I got a little cleaning done and even though I hardly talked to anyone. I feel like I accomplished alot today without even opening my door. I might have to do this more often and also disconnect my computer so I won't have the temptation to get on it. Hmm, that might be a little hard even for me.

This week, I will probably only do two posts. Trying not to ram lots of info down your throats. So I decided to take it easy on the blog posting. The first one I will discuss is about Halloween on Franklin Street and how it is a joke and the second one will be my first edition on my war against ignorance. So now I will get on facebook one last time tonight and I'm Out! Peace

I thought 24 hours meant something

Around 1:45am, I decided to go to the grocery store and find a 2 liter bottle of Sunkist. So I went to Kroger, which was the first place that I thought was open 24 hrs and it was closed. Then I thought Wal-Mart should be open it is usually open 24 hrs, no dice. So I was getting frustrated and decided to get some food. Went to McDonalds, nah McDonalds isn’t open right now. WHAT? I thought all failed and I wasn’t going to get my Sunkist. Then I found the Harris Teeter and it said open 24 hours, so I was like yes. Finally I am going to get the Sunkist I was looking for. I walk up to the door and it has a note: “Doing maintenance closed from 10pm until 6am.” Are you kidding me? Let me tell you something you can do your maintenance while I pick up my Sunkist. I won’t be in your way. This is when I said okay I am just going to the gas station nearby my place and get a couple of 12ozs of Sunkist and put some gas in my car. I put the gas in my car and I saw all the lights on in the gas station so I expected it to be open. What do I get? I tried to open the door and then I finally read the electronic sign above me and it said closed. After the gas, I went back to my apartment complex and decided to get at least some Mountain Dew out of the machine there (I knew that the Sunkist was out). I got there put my dollar in and tried to get a Dew and it told me that it was sold out. All that was left was Diet Sunkist. Yes Diet Sunkist. So I decided whatever, this last hour has gone this bad I might as well take it and deal with everything tomorrow. So now it’s 2:45, I’m finishing up my Diet Sunkist, which isn’t too bad actually, I never thought that Diet drinks were bad I just didn’t want to drink them plus they have the aftertaste that I just do not like, and I am watching Sportscenter talking about the MNF game that was on last night (Monday).

I had my late night planned, I was going to drink the 2 liter of Sunkist and play my Manager Mode on FIFA and just forget everything else in the world and focus on my virtual world. However no Sunkist made me less likely to stay up too late tonight. I am kind of upset about it, but whatever I guess that’s what happens when I expect places to be open 24 hrs.

Cutting myself off from reality

I have many of times thought about cutting my ties from AIM and face book. I just don’t know if I can do it for a long extended of time. People will not be able to get in touch with me and I won’t be able to get in touch with other people. Also I wonder if I would be forgotten if I decided to let go with these social network/ instant messaging services. I do not really know. Will it be worth it? After all not many people talk to me as it is. I don’t if I am forgotten or anything. I am not really caring because if people worry about you after the fact it is kind of too late.

I believe that if you really wanted to get in touch with some one then it would not be too difficult to do. I have some friends that actually get in touch with me without using these services. I know they are few and far between but I have to believe those are the true people in my life. Unless for those who are always asking for favors. I probably should leave those people alone. We will see. I will keep facebook because it is funny just looking at other people and what they do and say on their statuses and we know that I have to join in on the fun with my crazy statuses. I think AIM is more overrated as it goes because no one is really up there and anyone hardly talks to me on it. Then again, I may be back on that junk as soon as I leave.

What will I do? Play fifa of course. Look for some new kicks to buy (yo Aaron I think I am going to buy some supras not the high tops though but I think I found some on the right price range) Listen to the music that I’ve been buying (hahahahaha) lately. All those new mixtapes and junk.

“Shawty you the hottest, love the way you drop it, brain so good could have sworn you went to college.”
-This is the hook to Sho da Don’s ‘Dean’s List’ on Evil Empire‘s Be South 19, but he took it off of T.I.’s ‘Whatever You Like’ song.

Maybe go workout and run. I need to stay fit for whatever that may come to me. I will probably end up in Switzerland somewhere, hahaha as you can tell I love that place (I saw some stuff on the travel channel that made Switzerland look tight). Watch some TV, clean my place if it does need cleaning or just go outside and walk around for no good reason at all. I am sure there is more to do then to look at social network sites and hope anyone will write on your wall or IM you because honestly they probably won’t by now.

My World has taken a turn.....for the worse cause FIFA 09 is bangin'

I felt like a little kid going into the Gamestop yesterday and seeing if the new FIFA was out. I was kind of expecting the same thing that usually happens when they say the release date was on Wednesday. They would tell me to come back on Thursday and I would be impatiently waiting until I could get my copy. Yesterday was a different day, I asked politely is it out and they said the magic words: "Most Definitely!" I didn't even know what to do. During training I was waiting and wondering what the new features would be and how would be the perfect way to score among other things. Once I got home and showered I took off the plastic and I went at it with full force.

The game is sick! They have definitely solved some of the problems that was in previous games. The through ball feature has improved. Now some of those balls that got intercepted in 08, they can get through the defenders. Also the forwards make smarter runs; Instead of you having to let him make a straight run, they curve their runs out and if you can time it right they are in on goal. The finesse shot has more importance in this game also. On breakaways, sometimes you can blast the ball and sometimes it will go in or bounce off the post and leave you frustrated. I can guarantee you at least 85% of the time you hit the finesse shot on a breakaway, it will go on for you. This game also punishes those who make rash tackles but they play the advantage and wait until the ball goes out of play before they give them a yellow or red card. I like that because I get soo pissed when someone fouls me, it makes me feel good to know that a card is coming when the play ends.

I've been trying to get my timing down on heading. It has been difficult for me to score off crossing as of now because you have to have a good cross and after that you have to time your jump this time instead of hitting the header button 10 seconds before the ball gets to you. Another difficulty is trying to defend. In World Class, the computer are ballers, they change directions real quickly and they use their speedy players to get around the flanks all day. It isn't like previous games where you can easily bring on the second defender and they would take it. There has to be some strategy of taking the ball away from them. In most instances, you have to let them pass the ball around the back because the likelihood of you taking from them back there is pretty slim. So I treat it like a real game and wait until they get into the midfield. Still I am finding trouble of ripping the ball away from slick midfielders. I think the key in trying to tackle is that you have to predict which direction they are most likely going to go and be there before they do. Sometimes you will get it wrong and have to deal with it, but I have been able to do it in the first couple of games and I've been finding minor successes.

I am loving this game right now. I told you guys about dropping out. It might happen but not to play soccer, but to play this game religiously. Okay you know I won't drop out but the school work is going to be harder to do. I think I may need my mom to hide the game from me until the weekend like she did to me in elementary and middle school. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Rationalizing For What?

I usually have these times when I am by myself and I see myself trying to rationalize other people's thoughts. It's weird, I take somebody not talking to me or looking my way and then I tell myself, "well this person probably doesn't like me." Honestly you don't know if the person really knows it is you and the other thing that I want everybody to know me but everybody doesn't and they might not feel comfortable talking to me which is cool. So the goal that I am going to have is not trying to rationalize and over-think what people do.

How is it going? I had a good weekend. I can not complain at all about what happened this weekend. Had an alumni game on Saturday. It was cool we played duke's alumni which they only had about 12 to 15 while we had freaking 20 guys and we made line changes in the middle of each half. We struggled because of that and the fact that most of the guys can't really play anymore which made it extra frustrating. Whatever, I kept my Carolina jersey afterwards and that is really what mattered. #20 baby! Today I went out and watched the girl's soccer team play Va Tech. I noticed that it always gets hot on Sunday. The whole week, it is cool with cloudy skies. Then today the sun was out and of course I was drenched with sweat. After the game ended, which they were winning when I left 4-0, I put my shorts on and went for a nice long run. Of course It is never nice when you run for more than 45 minutes but that is what I decided to do and yes I did hit the wall while I was on that run. I'm pretty sure I ran about six miles today, so I'm glad I survived that. Now I'm watching the Cowboys game laying on this couch and probably going to start studying on my two other midterms that I have on Wednesday. Well at least I don't have class at 9am. I can sleep in a little bit! What Up!! I'll be back this week talking about other nonsense not pertaining to me. Peace!

P.S. FIFA 09 in 4 days!!!

I decide against...

I thought about starting an all out war against most of the people in my life that call me their "friend" but I decided that it would be just me doing more whining which I will admit that I do from time to time. I decided to stop it in its tracks.

I decided that something more important to talk about and that is....FIFA coming out next week son. I cannot wait for it to come out. I've heard many things and I've heard many different tactics that could be used in this game, but I guess I won't know the difference until I see it myself. I am not able to download the demo because my Xbox Live won't work anymore, what else is new. But like always I hope there is many more improvements to this game compared to the others. I feel like there is always a different way to score in these games. I remember in 02 you can basically score from anywhere. 07 on 360 all you had to do was send your player on a threw ball and he'll be in on the keeper 1 v 1. I hated that one because all Aaron did was hit those long balls and then I'm just sitting there like 'whatever man, this is wack.' But I hope they are able to combine all the elements of other games and put it into this game. I always have complains about this game and I'm sure after I play this one for a couple of months I will have some more but I continue to play this franchise more than any other and I believe that I will continue to play until I'm old or they discontinue it. What? discontinued? I didn't say that.