Month: April 2007

City vs. City Smackdown news

Alright, the City vs. Smackdown is starting to come together nicely. We have venues confirmed in Denver, Seattle, DC, Toronto, and here. I think I have a venue all ready to go, I just have to confirm this afternoon. Will let you know as soon as it is confirmed. It is gonna start as an invitational. I will be offering certain teams invites. Once that is done, I will open it up for other teams to enter, if there is any room left. I need a little help from you guys though. I need to know if you wanna keep it on the cheap or if you wanna play for big money. I can charge $5 a head, and winner walks with $250 ($75 for second), or we can go $10 a head and winner gets $500 ($150 for 2nd). That would be in addition to the $250 (currently) you will win if you beat all the teams in the other cities. There is limited seating, and I expect us to have a crowd of about 100-125. This is not a Quizzo Bowl type thing. No band, no dancers, just damn hard questions and some damn good teams. If you think your team is gonna win, I would suggest going $10 a head. Please answer the poll below if you plan to play.

Around the horn

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-Yeah, today is the Bard of Avons b-day, and to celebrate, you might wanna think about seeing some of the shows in the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, which is currently going on. I think. Their website is kind of confusing, or more likely I’m just dumb. But I think the shows take place at 2111 Sansom Street, and it lasts through mid May. For more info, click here. Tonight, the Comedysportz crew takes on Shakespeare. They are an incredibly talented bunch, and I’m sure it’s gonna be a funny show.

-Rock Paper Scissors season is kicking off at Bob and Barbara’s (15th and South) tonight at 7 p.m. And yes, I did check with the Jam Master before I posted this.

-I pick on Philadelphia Magazine a fair amount, but I must give credit where credit is due. I thought Jason Fagone’s column this past month on Brian Tierney was pretty damn good. (Yeah, I know it came out like a month ago. I’m a slow reader.)

Mondays with Boris

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It’s noon on Monday, and you need something to get you through the second half of you day. I think this may do the trick (Warning: The volume on this thing is way too loud, so turn the volume down). Alright, Art and I are off to get some pizza. Me and D-Mac had some on Friday, and when he gives me his 2 cents I’ll let you know how it was.
NOTE: When I posted this, I honestly had no idea he just died. Someone just sent me an email with him dancing in it. That being said, though, Boris always struck me as a pretty fun loving guy, and I don’t think he’d mind being honored by posting his dance moves.

Baseball Fever

I’ve been watching baseball for 25 years, and yet I saw two things for the first time ever live this weekend. On Saturday, I went to original Nick’s Roast Beef (20th and Jackson) to watch the Phils game after being infuriated by Trash Gordon on Friday night. I was with Mike of the Minions. In the bottom of the fifth, the Reds got men on first and second with nobody out. Then one of the craziest things that has ever happened in my life occurred. Ploddingly slow David Ross stepped to the plate. Mike turns to me and says, I swear to God, “Well this is the one guy on their team who is so slow he could hit into a triple play.” On the next pitch, David Ross hit into a 5-4-3 triple play. I totally freaked. “No way!” I screamed “No freaking way.” The people in the restaurant, several of whom weren’t watching the game, turned and looked at me like I was crazy. It was the first time I had ever seen a triple play live, and Mike had called it. Then, on Sunday night, the Red Sox pull off back to back to back to back home runs, something I had ever seen live and the first time it had happened in the American League since 1964. I’m going to the game tonight, and we’re gonna kill the Astros, as long as we don’t bring Trash into the game.

Pics of winners

Alright, I’m gonna post pics of last weeks winners and put a question below. Since April 23 was both a birth date and death date for Shakespeare, I gotta ask questions about him. One guess per person.