Meatballs, as we've discussed before, today is the day we were featured on one of our favorite blogs/sites, the LoHud Yankees Blog. Pelle came up with the idea for the story and I banged out some writing. Let me know what you think, by clicking over there.
Welcome Yankee fans and LoHud readers. Thanks for checking out our little blog. We write about all types of stuff, but mostly sports and the Yankees. I hope you guys and girls come back often to read our thoughts. Go Yanks!
-Jesse
Monday, February 8, 2010
A few of the people sent me their Bucket List items and I wanted to share some of the best ones. Enjoy!
- Play guitar in a band at a crowded live show.
- Go back to France, do the “Captain” on the Eiffel Tower
- Be in a movie, an Extra is acceptable
- Teach a college class
- Get comped something in Vegas
- Write a book about being a drunken idiot; not become Tucker Max
- See the Bengals in a Super Bowl
- Attend a reds World Series game
- Learn how to Ice skate
- Since I can’t dunk, I’ll take a Hole in One.
- Attend Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street
- Have a beer with Bruce Campbell
- Take a painting/art class; paint something I could hang in my house
- Get a dog; teach it to do sweet Frisbee tricks
- Be at a blackjack table where the dealer has to get more chips from the house
- Talk myself out of a speeding ticket
- Run a ½ marathon (full thing not good for the body)
- Coach boys/mens basketball at any level
- Be at one of those parties where a famous singer shows up unexpectedly to perform
- Continue going to Chicago for St. Patrick’s Day even after kids
- Get paid to review Television or Movies
- Have something I write get published.
- Never be “That Guy” that losses touch with all his friends
- Visit every baseball stadium.
-Travel all over Europe
-Get married
-Be an amazing mother
-Live on the west coast for an extended period of time
-Meet Jimmy Paige
-Become a CRNA
-Go skydiving
-Swim in Hawaiian waterfalls
-Star in a major motion picture
-Be on the cover of Cosmo
-Say or write a quote that will be repeated across the nation
-Punch someone in the face that deserves it
-Return to this massive rock along this trail called via dell'amore in cinque terre with my future fiance or husband
-Dunk a basketball
-Live up to/beyond my potential
-To be someone's idol/role model
-Meet Johnny Knoxville
-Do an Irish Carbomb in Ireland, even thought it's frowned upon
-Own a pair of Jimmy Choo's
-Go to a recording of the Ellen Show
-Get the courage to cut my hair (because I will eventually have to, not necessarily want to)
-Be on Cash Cab
-Make a Bill Simmons Mail Bag
Friday, February 5, 2010
Some Valentine's advice from Meatball Ali
Women are hard to understand. I’m a woman and I know this. I say things I don’t mean to test you, constantly complain about how I look but would be pissed if you agreed, and am rarely straight-forward about exactly what I want. I know – it’s not fair. And Valentine’s Day is one of the hardest holidays, if not the hardest, for men to get right in our books. I am here to help.
While we do usually love expensive things, it’s truly not about how much you spend. You call bullshit, but I’m serious. This is probably the most misunderstood point of the Valentine’s holiday (or all gift-buying occasions for that matter). Women are emotional beings by nature. We love to be loved, to feel emotion, and even best to feel that the person we love has emotions of their own. If you can come up with a Valentine’s Day plan that proves you A) have emotions, and B) pay attention to us even a little bit, then the price you pay doesn’t really matter. The point here is to BE THOUGHTFUL. Don’t robotically purchase expensive jewelry, red roses, and a stupid box of chocolates. Predictability is not a turn on. It’s when you surprise us by showing you really do care, pay attention to what we like, and make a genuine effort to make us happy that there is a payoff.
Here are a few examples of ways you can woo your woman this Valentine’s Day that she will never see coming (especially if you typically suck at gift giving – you know who you are).
1. Cook her dinner yourself!
Skip the long waits, overpriced restaurants, and public displays of affection. Instead, show her you are willing to try (even if you absolutely suck) and plan a dinner at home. Don’t know what to cook? Try this man-friendly menu:
Red roses are safe, but do not try to be cute and get any other color of roses. They just don’t have the same effect. And to be honest, roses in general are just kind of boring. If you want to get bonus points, show a little more effort and pay attention to what flowers she likes best. If you don’t know, here are a few other cool alternatives that show thoughtfulness and creativity:
3. Write her your own card, and skip the chocolates.
Don’t stand in the card aisle with all the other chumps looking desperately through Valentine’s Day cards. These cards were most likely written by women, and we know you don’t talk like that or write poems. Buy some plain cardstock in the arts and crafts section and make her your own card with your own thoughts. We are constantly trying to convince you to express your emotions, use this opportunity to write down what you feel for her, what you’re thankful for, and how much you love her. While this is the cheapest part of your plan, it is also usually the most significant. Don’t worry, your buddies will never read it – so show some feeling and tell her how you feel! And oh yeah, don’t buy a box of chocolates. Generic and thoughtless.
4. Choose a gift she’ll love and appreciate.
If you feel like your woman will also expect a wrapped gift (thoughtfulness goes a long way with most women, but there are a few who expect materialistic gifts in addition to), continue down your road of thoughtfulness and buy her something that she has mentioned wanting lately. Don’t feel like you have to pick the perfect piece of jewelry (we are usually too picky anyway) – but instead get her something you know she wants that is in your price range. Has she mentioned how bad she wants to see the Black Eyed Peas in concert, or how she would love to get a pedicure but just doesn’t want to spend the money? Show her you listen and find a tour date near you, or ask one of her girlfriends about a good spa in your area. Trust me, pedicures and massages will always go over well.
While women are hard to understand, following this go-to guide for Valentine’s Day is going to be a slam dunk for you guys out there. Feel free to improvise where you see fit for your own woman’s wants and needs, but emphasize your thoughtfulness and creativity and she won’t be disappointed.
While we do usually love expensive things, it’s truly not about how much you spend. You call bullshit, but I’m serious. This is probably the most misunderstood point of the Valentine’s holiday (or all gift-buying occasions for that matter). Women are emotional beings by nature. We love to be loved, to feel emotion, and even best to feel that the person we love has emotions of their own. If you can come up with a Valentine’s Day plan that proves you A) have emotions, and B) pay attention to us even a little bit, then the price you pay doesn’t really matter. The point here is to BE THOUGHTFUL. Don’t robotically purchase expensive jewelry, red roses, and a stupid box of chocolates. Predictability is not a turn on. It’s when you surprise us by showing you really do care, pay attention to what we like, and make a genuine effort to make us happy that there is a payoff.
Here are a few examples of ways you can woo your woman this Valentine’s Day that she will never see coming (especially if you typically suck at gift giving – you know who you are).
1. Cook her dinner yourself!
Skip the long waits, overpriced restaurants, and public displays of affection. Instead, show her you are willing to try (even if you absolutely suck) and plan a dinner at home. Don’t know what to cook? Try this man-friendly menu:
- Bottle of wine – figure out if she likes white or red better, then pick out a bottle that you think has a cool look (if the wine itself sucks, you still picked a cool-looking bottle). Go mid-range in price, and make sure you have a bottle opener at home!
- Dinner – Try steaks on the grill, baked potatoes, and green beans – all as simple as it gets. Grab a few steaks of your choice (sirloin, rib-eye, whatever you like), steak seasoning (spice aisle), 2 potatoes, foil, some fresh green beans, onion, bacon, red wine vinegar, margarine, and whatever else you like to top your potatoes with. You will have a killer dinner in about an hour’s worth of work.
- Dessert – All women love dessert, so it’s hard to go wrong. This is an area where you can skip the baking yourself and pick something up from a local store or restaurant. Does she love a certain flavor of ice cream? Pick up a pint at the grocery. Does she go nuts over a certain desert at a local restaurant? Order it to go on your way home that day.
- Ambience is also clutch – Light a few candles and turn the lights down a little. Play some music (any style you both like) and show her you thought of everything.
Red roses are safe, but do not try to be cute and get any other color of roses. They just don’t have the same effect. And to be honest, roses in general are just kind of boring. If you want to get bonus points, show a little more effort and pay attention to what flowers she likes best. If you don’t know, here are a few other cool alternatives that show thoughtfulness and creativity:
3. Write her your own card, and skip the chocolates.
Don’t stand in the card aisle with all the other chumps looking desperately through Valentine’s Day cards. These cards were most likely written by women, and we know you don’t talk like that or write poems. Buy some plain cardstock in the arts and crafts section and make her your own card with your own thoughts. We are constantly trying to convince you to express your emotions, use this opportunity to write down what you feel for her, what you’re thankful for, and how much you love her. While this is the cheapest part of your plan, it is also usually the most significant. Don’t worry, your buddies will never read it – so show some feeling and tell her how you feel! And oh yeah, don’t buy a box of chocolates. Generic and thoughtless.
4. Choose a gift she’ll love and appreciate.
If you feel like your woman will also expect a wrapped gift (thoughtfulness goes a long way with most women, but there are a few who expect materialistic gifts in addition to), continue down your road of thoughtfulness and buy her something that she has mentioned wanting lately. Don’t feel like you have to pick the perfect piece of jewelry (we are usually too picky anyway) – but instead get her something you know she wants that is in your price range. Has she mentioned how bad she wants to see the Black Eyed Peas in concert, or how she would love to get a pedicure but just doesn’t want to spend the money? Show her you listen and find a tour date near you, or ask one of her girlfriends about a good spa in your area. Trust me, pedicures and massages will always go over well.
While women are hard to understand, following this go-to guide for Valentine’s Day is going to be a slam dunk for you guys out there. Feel free to improvise where you see fit for your own woman’s wants and needs, but emphasize your thoughtfulness and creativity and she won’t be disappointed.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Facebook Virus!!!
Fellow Meatballs - ***IMPORTANT MESSAGE***
For all you people with facebook, there are evil doers amongst us that we must stop.
Steps:
1.Go to settings
2.Privacy settings
3.type - "automation labs" where it says person
4. A list of names will come up - you must block all of them
example - Matt Freeman from Texas A&M.
5.There is about 30-40 of them.
For all you people with facebook, there are evil doers amongst us that we must stop.
Steps:
1.Go to settings
2.Privacy settings
3.type - "automation labs" where it says person
4. A list of names will come up - you must block all of them
example - Matt Freeman from Texas A&M.
5.There is about 30-40 of them.
Bucket List
After I clicked 'Publish Post' on my meatball from earlier this week, my mind ran wild with all the other things on my bucket list that I left off for one reason or another. I thought it was a big enough list to throw them in a new post, rather than updating the old one. At the suggestion of Molly Meatballs (and since the idea of a bucket list is too long for me to remain interested) this is going to be a 40/40 list. 40 things I want to do before I reach the age of 40.
1. Kick a door in to save someone
2. Makeout with a supermodel/A-list actress
3. Drive through a fence or building
4. Change the game (any type of game- PR business, blogging, music, sports marketing, fashion, I don't care)
5. Go to the Grammys or Oscars
6. Win a ring (any level championship from college on up)
7. Do a triple Lindy
8. Make a hole-in-one
9. Catch a homerun,
10. Party with Jay-Z, Dan Marino and Derek Jeter
11. Make a 40 under 40 list in a magazine or newspaper
12. Be well-known enough to have my own Wikipedia page
13. Coach my future son's team to a championship in LL baseball
14. Attend a Stanley Cup Final game
15. Attend the Super Bowl
16. Attend an Olympic event (100 M, 200 M, men's BB, men's hockey, ski jump, bobsled, skiing, snowbarding)
17. Make at least $1 from this blog
18. Buy a house
19. Get married
20. Have kids
21. Make it back to NY
22. Attend the Kentucky Derby
23. Attend the Indy 500
24. Have a feature article written about me (or maybe a feature film!)
25. Have a famous singer write a song about me
26. Have a city/building/highway/street named after me
27. Go to a Jay-Z concert
28. Visit 10 states I've never been to
29. Work for the Yankees
30. Work for myself as a consultant/adviser
31. Invent something that the world didn't need, but now can't live without (Facebook, cell phones, iPods)
32. Make at least $1 off of a rap I wrote
33. Grow my hair (sort of) long again
34. Wrestle a wild animal
35. Save someone's life
36. Teach a college class
37. Coach H.S. baseball
38. Survive something I'm not supposed to (plane crash, hurricane, wrestling a wild animal, etc.)
39. Take a private flight
40. Have God speak to me as clear as day and tell me something that'll change my life
What are yours? E-mail me at meatballsinthemorning@gmail.com and we'll post the best ones next week.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Recent News
This may or may not be true, for the time being I'm going to say it's not true; however if this is true then it really makes the college basketball regular season that much more worthless. Pretty much 3/4 of the teams in the power conferences will make the tournament making the regular season and conference tourney's absolutely pointless.
PETA does it again - we may need to start having a weekly rant about PETA's ridiculous views and antics. Did Phil ever get hurt in the 3,857,476 years this has been going on? Give me a break. I guess this is the best alternative.
The LFL (Lingirie Football League) played its first game outside of an arena last week. The game was played in the L.A Coliseum and the Tempation beat the Seduction 53-0. But these photos really show that there were no losers in this game. Thanks John Photography!
PETA does it again - we may need to start having a weekly rant about PETA's ridiculous views and antics. Did Phil ever get hurt in the 3,857,476 years this has been going on? Give me a break. I guess this is the best alternative.
The LFL (Lingirie Football League) played its first game outside of an arena last week. The game was played in the L.A Coliseum and the Tempation beat the Seduction 53-0. But these photos really show that there were no losers in this game. Thanks John Photography!
This is Britainie Degerbott of the L.A Temptation - she wants roses for V-day send them from meatballsinthemorning.blogspot.com and she'll probably give us love and we can start getting that internet money. Contact Miss Robin for mailing details!
The Power of Context and Ten Things to Do
Context: 1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. 2. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.
I was in church yesterday and something the pastor said (who was inexcusably wearing black shoes with brown slacks) caught my attention as it had to do with context. What someone says or does means very little if you take it as an isolated sentence or incident.
Example 1
Curse words, for the most part, mean nothing inherently. There is nothing about the the F-bomb, C-word, etc. that make them offensive, it's only when you apply a meaning to them that makes them that way. Dirty words are powerless without the context humans supply them with.
Example 2
Seeing a woman naked. Is there anything natural about seeing a person of the opposite sex undressed that does something for us? I don't think so. If we saw each other naked all the time, it wouldn't be as exciting and stimulating as it currently is. Breasts are amazing because they are normally hidden by blouses and tank tops, not because they have awesome lines and curves.
Example 3
For me, loving someone doesn't mean anything without the actions you put behind it. I can tell a girl I love her, but it means noting if I run around on her, or if I treat her poorly. Sweet nothings have zero value if you don't back them up with productive somethings (cards, back rubs, dates, calls, etc.).
Example 4
There are a ton more I could list here, but I'm sure all of you have situations you can relate to when someone took you out of context. It can lead to all sorts of problems when you isolate a word, action, sentence, idea - anything. It's unfair to take a kid from the country and tease him for the way he talks, without looking at his environment before judging. In that same vein, take the situation, paragraph or area under consideration prior to judging the smaller part of it.
Ten Random, Sort of Shallow, Things I Want to Do Before I Die
-Kick a door in to save someone, makeout with a supermodel/A-list actress, drive through a fence or building, change the game (any type of game- PR business, blogging, music, sports marketing, fashion, I don't care), go to the Grammys or Oscars, win a ring (any level championship from college on up), do a triple Lindy, hit a hole-in-one, catch a homerun, party with Jay-Z, Dan Marino and Derek Jeter.
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