St. Louis Named Most Dangerous City
Apparently, I’m a bad-ass. Its true. How could anyone not bad-ass live everyday in the most dangerous city in the nation? Well, I guess there has to be some group of non-bad asses in the city for the bad asses to kill or beat up. If we were all bad asses, then it would just be the fightin’-est city and not the most dangerous. That being said, I think its pretty safe to say I’m clearly in the bad ass part of the population. …As if you guys all didn’t know that already.
I guess I should also throw some congratulations at Brick, New Jersey for being the safest, or as I like to call “Pussyville USA”
Yahoo! News: St. Louis named most dangerous U.S. city
Update (10/31/06 1:33pm): A local radio station created this funny promo and is now basting it all over our local airwaves.
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The End of the 2006 Playoff Beard
Guess what? We actually have some Hell Yeah Bitch! .com produced video for you today. First change your pants and then check out the video below. The video retells the beautiful story of the shaving of the 2006 playoff beard that worked perfectly…subtitle: The Greatest Shave Ever.
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Today I am kind of clean shaven and I have to say, I’m experiencing a little post-beard depression. I miss it. Maybe, next season, I should do a Season Beard. Nah, I’d rather have a girlfriend. I’ll have to just wait for October 2007.
Let me apologize for having to use youTube, but when I was trying to get this converted into flash last night it was problem after problem (thanks for nothing FFMpegX) so this morning I had to fall back on the old faithful youTube. Once I find a solid method of flv creation at home, I move this back to a in-house solution. Update: Fixed. Not the way I would have preferred, but fixed all the same. Its still on youTube though, and I’ll leave the link up.
Download the Clinching Playoff Games
I’m really not trying to turn this into a Cardinals site…maybe not as hard as I should be…but I figured anyone in St. Louis might want to know this little nugget of information: You can download, for free, a copy of the clinching games from each round of the playoffs by going to this site and entering in your MLB.com login information (you can make an account there too). Thats all. Download the games you want and watch them until February when pitchers and catchers report. I’m downloading game 5 of the World Series and game 7 of the NLCS right now, and I’ll report back with quality and length, but the wording implies whole games so I hope thats true. Each game in MPEG4 clocked in at around 800 MB so keep that in mind you Amish people with dial up, but if thats not you, go there right now.
Are you going yet?
The Cardinals Are Baseball’s 2006 World Champs
I still can’t believe that it happened…especially in this year with the problems we had. Amazing. To tell you the truth, it really hasn’t hit me yet. I’ll probably be sitting in a meeting on Tuesday and I just stand up and freak out when I finally happens. We ran downtown last night after it happened and the greatest night of my life continued. (I hope the pictures I took with my phone turn out. If so, I’ll have them posted later.) Yes, last night was the greatest night of my life. I can only hope that the day I get married and the day my future children are born can both at least come close to the night the Cardinals won the World Series. Some day I’ll be in the hospital and the doctor will pass me my newly born child and I’ll look into his eyes and say “Hmmm…pretty close. This is almost as cool as that night when the Cardinals won the World Series. You guys remember that? Now that was a night! Am I right?”
Awesome.
Update:
Thanks for the kind congratulatory words for both the city and the team from DaringFireball. Sorry about your Yankees John.
Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale and Friends Photo #36
A little something special is in the mix this week. For one, its this feature is on time. The second special thing is we have a rookie taking the mound this week. (Is it hard for everyone else to not keep talking in baseball analogies when the playoffs are going on?) I present to you: Jordana Brewster. Yes, that Jordana Brewster. The actress famous for picking nothing but the best projects to be in: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, D.E.B.S., and who could forget The Faculty. Shes an amazing actress…ok, she kinda sucks in the acting department. I’ll be honest, the best thing about her is that she looks like a younger, hotter, un-humped by anyone named Aston version of Demi Moore. Frankly, that ultra-specific category that Ms Brewster belongs in is plenty of resume to be included in our illustrious hall of hot chick pictures. I’m sure her mother is just beaming with pride. In fact when asked for a comment on her daughter’s recent web-achievement, the elder Mrs Brewster replied: “Who? Oh you mean the girl that played the cute but bitchy chick in The Faculty that for some reason ended up with Elijah Wood in the end? That movie sucked.” I’m sure that once Mrs. Brewster remembers that the cute, but forgettable actress is actually her cute but forgettable daughter, we’ll get another comment. Until then, enjoy the pics. One here, two if you promise to click the “Read More” link.
One More Game…Here’s a Pumpkin.
I present the Yadi-o’ lantern. Why? I’m not sure, but its cool.
I swear I’m going to pee myself if the Cardinals win the series. Amazing.
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I Don’t Know, Just Line Up a Bunch of Country Artists
I love baseball and I love the St. Louis Cardinals…and as improbable as this sounds after three, eight game losing streaks, I’m excited to say the Cardinals are in the World Series. I do have a problem with the World Series though. No, I’m not going to beat a back-from-the-dead pitcher about his dirty hand, I’m talking about something more important: the city of St. Louis’ national image. The nation at large already thinks we are a bunch of hicks and Major Leage Baseball and the Cardinals themselves seem to be more that happy to simply back that claim up by launching the following lineup for the musical preformances at the three World Series games being held in our fair city:
Game 3 National Anthem: Trace Adkins
Game 3 God Bless America: Jo Dee Messina
Game 4 National Anthem: Billy Ray Cyrus
Game 4 God Bless America: Sugarland
With the execption of Billy Ray Cyrus (Who can forget “Achy Breaky Heart”?) I have no idea who these people are. I’ve been told they are country artists though, and that pisses me off. Although I understand that it can be hard to believe but I’ve lived in St. Louis all my life and I have never listened to country music. Here’s another interesting fact, we have musical talent from the St. Louis area that are not country acts. I know! I couldn’t believe it myself! What are the odds? It makes me want to vomit when I think of the meeting where Major League Baseball was planning out the musical acts:
Guy #1: Who do we want to sing at the St. Louis games?
Guy #2: Does it really matter? Just toss a couple of country artists in there and make them scream “America” a few times…that ought to get that hoosier crowd out there going.
Guy #1: Nice…nice. Good plan buddy. Now what do you say to getting back to our hotel and beating up those Japanese hookers we got earlier and tied up.
Guy #2: Oh yeah!
Besides the fact that those two guys are kinda weird with their beating up hooker fetish, thats probably how it went down. Not all people in St. Louis are inbred hicks…we do however all approve to beating up Japanese hookers. Get your facts straight.
Behold the Lego Flamethrower
Mark Puustinen likes legos. Mark Puustinen likes fire. In the spirit of the pure simplistic genius that gave us chocolate and and peanut butter, Mark has created the Lego Flamethrower. According to Mark, the whole thing is made of lego with the exception of a piece of string and a refill bottle of butane gas.
My question is whether or not he will make one out of Duplo for our younger pyromaniac friends?
Video of Mark’s amazing creation after the jump!
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Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale and Friends Photo #35
Scarlett Johansson, or as I like to call her “Scarson”, makes yet another appearance on our Friday feature. I’m not sure why, but if I had to guess, it would be because she is hot, has a nice rack, and I found these pictures of her recently. Other than that, I have no idea.
Short one today folks…I’m running on empty.
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Yadi Does It!
I guess I won’t be shaving the playoff beard tonight! Yadier “I batted just above the mendoza line all season” Molina hits a homerun in the top of the ninth to pave the way for a knee-buckling curve ball strikeout thrown by his battery-mate Adam Wainwright (and a fellow Brother of the Beard) to one Carlos Beltran for a trip to the World Series. This is the second trip to the World Series in the last three years for St. Louis and their 17th National League pennant all time.
A commenter on Dave Winer’s blog, a Mets fan, said this game wasn’t good. I replied and I’ll just quote my previous comment to save time:
…I think this was one of the better games in the playoffs. It was tight all game, two good starting pitching jobs (I still can’t believe thats the same Oliver Perez), and amazing catch, a clutch homerun, and a bases loaded bottom of the ninth 2 out strike out Is there another great baseball moment that didn’t happen in this game? It was a fantastic game, regardless of the outcome or who you were rooting for. Great season for the Mets and a surprising continuation for the Cardinals.
It was a great series by the Mets, and they had a great season and a great game 7, but something got into these Cardinals. I don’t know if it was being called an “underdog” for the first time in years, but these Cardinals came together in all sorts of ways including Yadi finding his bat, Rolen actually getting a key hit or two, and Jeff Weaver and his Great Dane hoped in their van and solved “The Mystery of the Left-Handed Hitters”. Zoinks! Have yourselves a Scooby Snack or two Cardinals, you’ve earned it…but keep going, this post-season that no one saw coming isn’t over yet. Detroit will be really tough, but the Cards have been picked to lose the last two series too so who knows.