Happy Halloween!

A picture from our friends over at MOKB trip to the Big Easy! I guess this is “Good-Bye Kitty”!

Red Sox Win The World Series!!!

If there was ever a year since 1776 that it was great to be a Bostonian, this is the year! Well that is for Boston’s sports fans anyway: Boston College is ranked second in the nation in college football. The Patriots are embarrassing every team they play and even my beloved Celtics (who’ve been laughed at since the early 90’s) present a positive outlook (with a charming nick-name-the PGA Tour) for the coming season. And of course, there’s also our beloved Boston who Red Sox won the 103rd World Series last night, sweeping the Colorado Rockies in four games: Game 1: Red Sox won 13-1 @ Fenway. Game 2: Red Sox won 2-1 @ Fenway. Game 3: Red Sox won 10-5 in Denver. Game 4: Red Sox won 4-3 in Denver.

They say Boston’s 2004 World Series win (the first in 80+ years) was for the older fans of the team who’d waited patiently, last night Terry Francona and the Sox won one for won one for the Red Sox Nation (from the Dominican Republic to Japan to right here in the States).
Hats off to the World Series Champs and the World Series MVP, Boston’s third-baseman, Mike Lowell! Let’s not talk about it right now, but I don’t see how you can give up the team RBI leader, World Series MVP. Then again, this is a business and it would appear that Bill James’ protégé Theo Epstein is onto something.

Btw, I love what Dan Shaughnessy wrote in the Globe today: “If you go to a high school graduation in New England in the Year 2026, you will hear a lot of Jacobys, Dustins, Jonathans, and Hidekis when they call the roll.”-I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Georgia Wins Against Florida!

Dubbed the largest outdoor cocktail party in the world, Georgia has now owned the Gators in JAX all time (45-35-2) and this year as the #20 Bulldogs upset the 9th ranked and 8.5 point favorite Gators 42-30! I wish I could tell you has on the helmet, but Bulldog fans like to remain anonymous and keeping with Bushido tradition, we'll respect that!

SABA

I am sure you could have deduced by my lack of posting (unreliable narrator) that I had taken a couple of weeks off to go on sabbatical, holiday, riding the couch reading and watching baseball, search for enlightenment-give it a name.

Things I learned on my search for enlightenment:

1. Baba Ganush is a Middle-Eastern eggplant dish and not just a cool nick-name that most guys started calling their pals after watching the movie “Wedding Crashers”.
2. Chuck Norris taught me that the symbolism in the final fight scenes in every martial arts film. Did you ever notice that in the final fight scenes the weapons malfunction, the swords are thrown to the side and the final fight is hand-to-hand-combat? As Chuck would say, “That’s how we all have to face our problems that beset us; when are hands are empty, what will decide the fight is what is inside our minds.”
3. I know that he is in Cooperstown and he’s one hell of a guy, but Tony Gwynns’ voice annoys the sh_crap out of me. Come to think about it, Gwynn’s voice is the same voice used by black comedians when they impersonate a white male’s voice.

Red Sox win Game 1 of the ALDS

There is a reason Josh Beckett is the only twenty-game winner in the American League and he showed it tonight, allowing just four hits in his complete game shut-out against the Anaheim Angels in Game 1 of the ALDS. After giving up a hit in the first, Beckett retired 19-straight, blast you Vlady! This is Beckett's coming out season and he hasn't thrown this well since four years ago when he showed the Yankees that fanning isn't just something that gets rid of the vapors down in Florida.

Most Citadel guys will tell you that the name John Lackey will strike fear in any cadet's heart (he gave the Bushido 120-tours, no cuts, no amnesty), but alas, there was no Assistant Commandant Army Colonel on the mound for Anaheim and the Red Sox didn't fear this Lackey-they just treated him like the definition in the dictionary. The Cincinnati Kid, Kevin Youkilis smacked a 92-mph pitch from Lackey deep in the first for a solo-home run. Big Papi followed with a two-run shot in the third inning. After Lackey walked Manny Ramirez and then he advanced to second-base on a wild pitch, Mike Lowell did what he does best with a RISP (Runner-in-scoring-position) he hit a single up the middle to knock in Manny.

For the record:
(Stat: Lowell is currently leading the Red Sox with 120 RBIs) I hate to think about it now, but I hope Theo brings Mike back next season. Also, Boon was at the game tonight, I'll edit in a picture from him as soon as I get them.

Game Two:
Matsuzaka, aka: Dice-K (15-12, 4.40 ERA) will face off against the Angels' Escobar (18-7, 3.40 ERA) on Friday for game two, in the best of five, of the ALDS.
Posted by The Bushido

Wednesday's WTF? WTF Did Rob Fowler Shave The 'Stach?

I don't know what it is, but I just can't get used to local weather-csar Rob Fowler shaving his 'stash. Grow it back Rob, you're scaring the kids and freaking me out too. Dang, WTF Rob?