Less farting around and more productivity!
Hi Everybody! It's Tuesday, let's celebrate with some soccer news!
Angel Di Maria (Argentine soccer player) has been purchased from Real Madrid by the Red Devils of Manchester United for a club record
£59.7M!! That is some serious scratch just for the right to then sign him to a long term contract. Di Maria a world class winger will really add poise and punch for a currently punchless and directionless ManU side. He had a very solid World Cup for Argentina back in July and was named Man Of The Match at the Champions League final, where Real Madrid took down cross town rival Ateltico Madrid. The signing piles up the total summer transfer costs incurred by Manchester United to a whopping £132M. The jury is out on the productiveness of the signings (the EPL season is only 2 games old for the squad) but I feel like it will not be enough to get them back to where they want to be (on top of the EPL table). They missed out on a ton of top notch talent this summer with most of it either resigning with their current club or heading to the "new" Super Powers, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. I am not saying that they haven't been good in the past but now they are all drawing THE top talent. Toss in the top English and German clubs and someone is bound to get boxed out. The REST of the soccer world does not operate with the high level of socialism found in our MLS. **I am looking right at you New England Revolution and this pathetic "lottery" for Jermaine Jones**
Moving right along - I was called upon to do the Ice Bucket Challenge, kinda nailed it...a big ol' bowl of frosty ice water...which was welcomed given that it is in the mid 80's in Jersey City and the more important part is that my dad, mom and brother were nominated for the challenge. I am sure it will be great to see their interpretations of the challenge! This charitable endeavor goes to raise money for curing ALS aka Lou Gehrig's Disease. I have always found him to be a fascinating figure in baseball history despite being a life long New York Yankee. He was nicknamed the Iron Horse for having played in 2130 consecutive games in the majors, a record since broken by Cal Ripken Jr. Not to take anything away from Ripken, but when comparing Gehrig's career statistics to his, the only way Gehrig's playing were cut short was due to this debilitating disease. The Iron Horse was a lifetime .340 hitter with 493 HRs and 1995 RBIs compared to Ripken's .276/431/1695 stat line. Again, it takes a great player to play this long and for this many consecutive games but as evidenced by his stats, Lou Gehrig was not slowing down any time soon if not for getting ALS. I am reminded of a post I put up last week or the week prior about silly sports injuries and the reasons some guys missed playing time. It would have been interesting if fantasy baseball were around in 1939 and the little injury note icon popped up next to Gehrig's name in your lineup. And you're like WHAT? He can't be injured...and the note just simply says - "considers self world's luckiest man, potentially out for season because he's slowly dying." Gehrig died 2 years later. Let's find a cure!!
Also - I am matching my ALS donation with a donation to The Water Project they help people (kids, moms, dads and everyone else) who do not have easy access to potable water. There are nearly 1 billion people like this around the world. That's not fair and we need to help.
Keep it real my friends, and Dad, Mom and Steve you are on the clock!!!!
Happy Watching!!!
Reporting to you from the US Open tomorrow - will be a good one!
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