Anyone hoping to go to a Big Brother live show, make sure to go EARLY. Didn't figure they'd be using line format, was wrong, got "turned away," as they called it. Ehhhhhhhh.
Not a big flippy-cup guy, but the Survivor format of that game is very intriguing. Equal teams on both sides drinking that many cups, but once one side loses a round it has to eat one of its own, a.k.a. vote out one of their members. Politics, competition, and social gameplay come into play. (Actually, it's more like yelling, beer drinking, and general mayhem). But it's real fun; glad I learned it.
The Wire, Season 3, Episode 11..........Heard it was the best episode of the series. Gonna find out soon.
Fantasy Playoffs are upon us. (Or, at least, my team.) Evan Longoria, Matt Holliday, Adrian Gonzalez, do your regular thing. Jimmy Rollins and Matt Kemp, you've disappointed me all year; time you gave something back. Max Scherzer, be the ace that you are.
Miraculous baseball season if you like pitching. None of the starters I currently roster were on my Opening Day Roster, yet they're all viable (these are not household names): Jhoulys Chacin, Vicente Padilla, Gio Gonzalez, Jeremy Guthrie, Jason Hammel, Jordan Zimmermann. No, I would not know who those people were if I didn't play fantasy baseball. Just the nature of the beast: Pitchers are a dime a dozen this year.
Stock market watch: My synopsis is, "What in the World is going on?" Another loss of 107 points to 10,340 today. The general consensus is that it's a bear market, and there definitely seem to be more down days than up. Made a bit of dough with Amazon stock recently, but there are NOT many stocks you can go long on and expect to make money consistently with. It's a tough situation, and no matter what Ben Bernanke does , the labor reports and disappointing economic reports, along with rumblings of a double-dip, are scaring investors away. Is it a buy-low opportunity? Could be, but it doesn't seem as clear-cut as back in 2009 ( of course hindsight's 20-20).
I think the biggest factor is still jobs. Consumer reports, labor reports, are gonna be key. It's really scary thinking about how many jobs the economy needs to generate just to get back to pre-recession levels, much less get to a rate that it neds to get to in order to sustain population growth patterns. You can't really blame why employers are not hiring; they look at industry data and see these things happening, they can't afford to bring on more workers because they can't afford to estimate their revenue stream. It's unfortunately a negative domino effect where some see others cut costs and consequently cut costs themselves, most often at the expense of the everyday worker. We gotta snap out of this somehow, fellas!!
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
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