For those of you who don’t know I have enjoyed reading one of our local sports columnists, Shooter, for as long as I have lived in Minnesota.  If you don’t read him you, should.  He’s a bastion of information and rumors.  Part of the enjoyment comes from some of the absolutely meaningless things that he writes.  For whatever reason he seems to be well connected to Minnesota sports.  I’m not sure who his “little birdie” is, but he sure knows a lot!

The following tidbit from his latest column really got me going and I had to comment on it, “The Twins have no plans to pursue free agents Alex Rodriguez, who is seeking $30 million a season, or Barry Bonds.”  … Hmm no kidding? To me it’s funny, because if you have followed the Twins organization at all, there is no chance this would even be discussed or thought about. Ah well, it’s probably just Charlie have fun and getting a rise out of people.

Since I can’t stand Sid’s column (maybe it’s because I always catch him on a bad day ), I’ll stick with Charley.

Maybe I’ll make this an ongoing habit and post Shooter’s Hot Rumors

Well I just finished watching the Green Bay Packers pull out a Monday Night win against Denver. A couple great go routes by GB won them the game. Who says Brett Favre is done??? He always comes to play on Monday nights and this was one of the better wins of his 153 win (or so career). I think everybody remembers the MNF game against the Oakland Raiders the night after his father died as well. If only they could figure out that running game I might give em a shot against Dallas :-/

I guess only time will tell.

Go Pack Go!

Big game for the Badgers against Ohio State this coming weekend. It should be an interesting football weekend around the Angerer household.

Well, Guitar Hero has finally arrived. J and I were able to thrash early.. or late as it were. Battle mode is pretty f’n cool, whether it be co-op or head to head. My band name is “Taint Ed Saint”. A little play on words. I’m whipping right through the sets on Easy. It’ll be time to up the ante soon.

The Commander’s birthday was good. It was fun to see him walking around and interacting with another child close to his age. Nice work on the party Courtney and Jason

The Dettloff’s had another fantastic Halloween party. Me, Tina, Chris, and Kathryn went as some characters from Saved By The Bell. Screech, Jesse, Zach, and Kelly respectively. The contest winner was none other than Hulk Hogan. Wonderful job done by Ped. The crew from Anchorman showed up, Fletch made an appearance, as did Steve Irwin (with sting ray intact).

Perhaps some of you have been wondering where I’ve been (on-line). Well it seems IM is no longer allowed while under “the man’s” supervision. I didn’t block you or anything. You’ll have to catch me via e-mail or SMS.

Big Monday night game too. Go Pack!

I am trying to procure myself and Tina a pair of tickets to Lambeau Field for the game on 11/11. While I can appreciate and certainly enjoy a trek to the motherland, ticket prices become more and more outrageous every day.

Brokers sell them for way to high of a price for anyone to reasonably consider buying them. I feel like they (in kahoots with the Packer organization) create a artificial perception of high demand and low supply to drive prices up. The Packers say “whoa, tickets are sold out and we have this ridiculous waiting list”, while in turn sell thousands of tickets to brokers who fetch 6x face value for these tickets. You think they ain’t working together? Just a theory, but I bet I’m not far off. Of course, the Packers get their cut while the brokers are stuck selling tickets at face or less at kickoff time. Oh well, deserves em right.

The reason I bring that up is because I was talking to Dan (if he had a blog, I would link it here) the other day about tickets to the big game as we have made the trek several times and it’s been a great time. I mentioned that I seemed to remember days in the late 80’s when tickets were pretty much given away. The reason I say this is because my dad and I went to many games. Or so it seemed. I can only imagine how it was several years earlier when GB was even worse. Probably didn’t have any blackouts though! Makes me wonder if a certain pending retirement might boost my spot in the season ticket line

For those of you who don’t know Carl Gerbschmidt, who is a rube bit for KFAN’s Bumper to Bumper radio show in Minneapolis.   While Carl is one of the most obnoxious Packer fans you will ever hear.  I’m sure there are some out there like him, but it’s amazing the bits he has on radio.

I’ve been trying to figure out who does the bit.  There have been many discussions amongst my friends about who exactly it is.  We all like to think it’s Kevin Seifert a writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Well Kevin and Carl were supposed to be on the football picks segment of the show this past Friday.  Guess what, Kevin couldn’t make it.  It really makes a guy wonder.

Being that I work across the street from the Clear Channel studios, I should really do some more investigative work.

Finally pulled into my second nearest gamestop and reserved myself a copy of Guitar Hero III for the Wii.  For whatever reason my local gamestop doesn’t do the midnight release thing.  It’s all good tho.

I’m pretty pumped as I have been a fan of GH on the PS2, but since I don’t own one I’ve never been able to just jam away at my own discretion.  Well that’s all gonna change come Oct. 28 at 12:00:00AM.  Although I have a prior engagement I’ll make my way up to gamestop for the release.  Since I won’t be able to do the early registration I may have to stand in line for a bit, or so says the local nerd with whom I negotiated a copy of Gh3.  Jason
says he’s coming over at 12:30 with his guitar.  We’ll see what happens since we (he more than me) has a certain little b-day to function at the next day.

I did find it interesting how much more nerdy the employees where I purchased GH3 vs my local shop.  No wonder Jason likes to go in there and shoot the shit and ruffle their feathers a bit.  Not so much the case at my home location.

Come Sunday let the red bull flow!

Perhaps…

I am going to attempt to play, not necessarily listen, to each song on my ipod.  I have them queued up as one big shuffle… all 7122 of them.  I certainly don’t intend to listen to every minute of every song, but it’ll be interesting to see how many I actually skip through.

Some skips will be made because of moods, others because of shitty songs.  At the very least I should have a good idea of my inventory and what I need to get rid of.

I’m not entirely sure it’s gonna work out tho.  There are times when I get a hankering for a particular artist or song.  I’ll see what happens.

I’ll try to make a long story short…

I went to get my hair cut over lunch today and my primary location was no longer!  I even looked online before I went to find something closer to work.  I didn’t find anything, nor was my location listed.  I thought nothing of it, but when I drove by the signs were gone and I didn’t have a goto.  I was pissed since I needed a haircut badly.

I got back to work and started talking to BT as I know that he cuts his own hair.  I have some experience cutting my hair back in the high school days but it  didn’t include the “fade” which is what I need now.  Any way he convinced me to go back to the home haircut and buy myself a clippers.

Well I cut my hair along with some help from LBT  Its not too bad.  I think it’ll take a few more tries to really hone in the skills, but now that I am saving myself roughly $300/year I don’t care all that much.

Final regular season game of volleyball tomorrow.  Let’s keep this shit going!  And Happy Birthday BT ! and Mom!

On a side note… When will I get back to Vegas!?

I had the pleasant opportunity to witness history in the making on Sunday as I saw Brett Favre complete his NFL record breaking 421st touchdown pass at the HumptyDome in Minneapolis.

Tina and I procured tickets after some last minute scrambling.  It was well worth it.  We met Dan downtown at Rosen’s for some breakfeast and a few drinks.  Then light-railed it up to the dome for the much anticipated game.  While the Packers’ start made me a little nervous the TD put me at ease and I settled in for a pretty good game.  I must admit watching a game live is awesome.  You can see so much more develop, and you get to see things that the TV cameras just don’t catch… like the couple in front of us who high-fived and kissed on EVERY Viking first down… ok ok, and holes, seams, and routes that all the WR’s are running, and the lines are blocking for.  The Packers/Viking games are always close ones no matter who the dog is or where it’s played.  It’s fun to watch especially when my team wins.  I can’t help get pumped up when you are at the visitor’s house and above the loud pumped in music of the dome you can hear that chant “Go Pack Go! Go Pack Go!” Brings chills to the spine.

In case you missed it and the great call by my favorite play-by-play guy Wayne Larrivee here it is

And like Favre says, “Let’s keep this shit going”.  GO PACK GO!