Brazil v. Venezuala

This is Kaka's goal in the 6th minute in today's World Cup qualifier. The final score was Brazil 4-0 Veneuzuala.

Kaka' ought to do this more often.

What I've Been Listening to Lately

Random: My Favorite Soccer Players

I have decided to, once and for all, make a list of my top favorite soccer players. I have made an even harder decision, by putting this list IN ORDER. Don't ask me how I made these tough decisions... I don't know myself...

1. Alexandre Pato- This is an easy one. Maybe the only easy one.
2. Kaka'- Maybe this one was easy too.
3. Theo Walcott- the only native English speaker. Unfortunately, I hate his team. (Arsenal)
4. Bastian Schweinsteiger- love his name!
5. Andriy Schevchenko- I liked him more before... when he wasn't Pato's competition.
6. Roman Pavlyuchenko- I like him more when he DIDN'T play for Tottenham!
7. Paolo Maldini- what's not to like?
8. Gennaro Gattuso- His eyes are like.... CRAZY!
9. Iker Casillas- he's just so GOOD!
10. Fernando Torres- What's not to like? (But this time I know there are things to dislike).
11. Marco Boriello- I like him A LOT more, now that he plays for Milan (because before I kind of DESPISED him).

That will do for now.

What I have been listening to lately #16

And here's another take:

This one is about a different letter:

Just in time for Halloween

What I have been reading lately #8

Sparky Lyle wrote The Bronx Zoo in 1978, his last year with the New York Yankees. 1978 was not the year Chris Chambliss hit the home run to win the ALCS against the Kansas City Royals and then barely made it around the bases to score. That was 1976. 1978 also was not the year Lyle won the Cy Young Award and Reggie Jackson hit three home runs on three straight pitches in Game 6 of the World Series against the LA Dodgers. That was 1977. 1978 was the year that the Yankees came back late in the season to catch the collapsing Boston Red Sox and then beat them in a one game playoff. I remember that game well: I was in 5th grade and my History teacher, Mr. Philbrick (who was from Maine), let us listen to the game in class. I heard Bucky Dent's home run in the car on the way home (or maybe it was Reggie Jackson's less-well-remembered HR that I heard), and I saw Yaz pop out to Nettles to end the game at home on the tiny black-and-white television set in the kitchen. It's amazing how times have changed - back then I was devastated by the Red Sox loss but turned around and rooted for the Yankees to beat the squeaky-clean Dodgers in the World Series. Now I can't stand either the Red Sox or the Yankees.

Best day of the baseball season

This year it took longer than most, but, once again, the Chicago Cubs will not be winning the World Series. Let's all give thanks to those Los Angeles Dodgers! (I never thought I'd be rooting for Joe Torre again.)





The last time the Cubs won the World Series, there were no favorite television shows, because the television had not yet been invented, and the President was Theodore Roosevelt. In the election that fall, Republican William Howard Taft defeated the Democrat William Jennings Bryan.


27th President of the United States,
William Howard Taft