This post is gonna deviate a little bit from the usual sports action although I'll include a bit of an update on the sports world.
Play-in game tonight for the NCAA tournament, the game that's like the numerous ads posted on the college community boards: Nobody cares. Whoever wins gets the pleasure of looking bad on national television to a north carolina team that's the hottest in the country. Lots to play for, gentlemen.
John Smoltz and Tom Glavine are reunited in Atlanta, but will they be the anchors of that rotation or the anchors dragging down a sinking ship? It's hard to imagine glavine has much left and as a finesse pitcher it's doubly difficult, and smoltz is also getting up there, but his ERA the last 3 years has been in the 3.00's and no real injury concerns linger, so smoltz should be the ace of that staff for one more year. He's perennially undervalued even though he's a solid pitcher on a team that wins at least 80 games every year.
All they need on the braves is to bring greg maddux back.
When you hear a guy say, " I feel like i'm holding a $90 million lottery ticket that I can only lose by coming back too early," you can't count on him to be back. ESPECIALLY if it's the player saying it. I realize gilbert is just being candid and that the wiz are in the playoff pic, but i wouldn't be suprised if he didn't come back until the playoffs or maybe 1 or 2 games before, which means he's practically worthless in fantasy. Dump. ( Shoulda done it about 3 months ago, unfortunately).
Alright now to the meaty part of the post. Gordon Korman. Now many of you prolly have never heard of him, but that's okay. He'll be part of your literature family as soon as you follow my advice:
1.) Get off the internet ( it's hurting your eyes)
2.) Go downstairs and put your shoes on
3.) Go to your closest local library ( or the one you have a card for)
4.) Search in their catalogues for "korman, gordon."
5.) Check out any of the following books: "I want to go home," "MacDonald Hall Goes Hollywood," "The Chicken Doesn't Skate."
6.) Go home read the book
7.) Thank me via comments on this blog.
Gordon Korman is a writer mainly for young adults, probably from the 6th grade-8th grade level, but his writing is just hilarious. You know how you go to a comedy movie and come out feeling really good? Well, Korman does that, except he has about 20 comic books in his repertoire that are just insanely good. You don't have to be a kid to enjoy them, it has so many subplots, twists, turns, ironic remarks and satiric wit that I consider him one of the greatest writers of our era. Sure, he doesn't have the artistic prose of an amy tan or the oratorial tone of shakespeare, but ask me what I like more, reading Korman or any other author and I go with my man Gordon. And of course he's still writing. Which is awesome.
What I recommend for ANYONE looking for a light, humorous, easy read ( not all of us can digest James Joyce's "Ulysses" or the Mitchell Report on baseball) is any of the 7 Bruno and Boots series books that Korman started out with, his incipient production that really showcased his genius, with the first one written as an English project when he was TWELVE! I dare any of you to read one of these books and NOT read any of the other 6.
Can you believe this guy's Canadian? Just for that I'm drafting Jason Bay on my fantasy team.
Anyway, seriously, follow my advice. I'm trying to help you. And if you're in a depressed mood, or at a crossroads in your life, in a stressed situtation, or tryin to relax before a big test, Gordon Korman will do more for your than any pills, psychics, or pieces of Dr. Phil advice. Trust me. This one's money in the bank. ( Unlike betting on 30 HR's from hideki matsui).
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
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