IGN just gave GTA IV a “10″, Perfect Ten, rating

Cripes.

It must be a good game.

Maybe I should have reserved a copy at a local game store.

If it’s scarce, it’ll cost $100 on Ebay.

I should maybe buy it and play it, it looks fun.

IGN, I guess, rarely gives perfect 10 ratings. This must be a pretty good game. At least, GTA IV must be great enough to generate the most excitement of any recent game for the people over at IGN.

Even after all this, I really am not that surprised at the fact that IGN just gave GTA IV a perfect ten rating. I don’t expect any less from Rockstar.

Olde English HG800 #2

Believe me, this is not a consistent situation.

I’m on my second Olde English Forty in two days. It’s kinda cool. I guess I’d talk it up if it came up during a casual conversation. I just like drinking malt liquor while watching Twins baseball, what can I say?

I should drink one of these every night. Maybe I shouldn’t. It’s hard to say. It probably depends on the evening more than anything.

As an afterthought….

Last night after I finished off my Olde English HG800, I browsed eBay and ended up dropping 14 bucks for an Olde English 800 baseball cap. I hope I receive it soon. It’s being delivered to my office. That will be some good subject material for office conversation, that is for sure. Guaranteed.

New Rally Cap?

I can’t wait until I receive my hat. That is going to be awesome. I’m going to wear it while I disc golf. That should be fun. I’ll probably wear the hat at other time as well. Maybe during Twins games. Maybe the hat will turn out to be one of those mythical rally caps for Twins baseball.

I could only hope.

Olde English HG800

This is good stuff. I probably drink too many Olde English beers to make any type of excuse about drinking them. I like the flavor. Haha, yeah I actually put that into print.

HG800’s are better

There is something about the flavor of an Olde English HG800. They are better than the original Olde English 800’s. They are stronger. They taste a little funkier.

Cats Like Olde English HG800 Caps.

My cats like it when I twist the cap off of an Olde English HG800 and toss it down the hall. The cap from and HG800 is the best cat toy ever. I don’t know why they like it so much. Cat’s are weird.

When the apartment is cleaned, 40 ounce beer caps are found everywhere. Under couches, in couches, under cabinets, under other stuff. And the cats are the reason that all the caps ended up under stuff as opposed to in the garbage.

Carlos Gomez: The Successor of Torii Hunter

Being a Twins fan can be tough.

I watched Johan Santana and Torii Hunter (and to a lesser degree, Carlos Silva) walk from the Twins this year. You may or may not be big fan of any of those players, but that was a meaty part of the Twins right there.

Even Carlos Silva, the third, lesser regarded player mentioned, was a very important part of the Twins pitching staff last year. Check out these stats. This shows that Silva covered a huge portion of the total pitching time of the Twins. And then, of course, it also completely stands out how important Santana was to the Twins pitching staff. That guy was never on downtime. And 2007 was one of Johan Santana’s down years.

Here’s the Twins 2007 Pitching Stats, from Baseball-Reference.com:

And now I have managed to wander into paragraph #4 before actually talking about the player in the headline.

Carlos Gomez is the guy that is propped up as the return savior of the disappearance of all these guys.

He’s the only guy in the trade that is on the Twins MLB club roster right now.

He’s playing hard, showing great promise, and making a good presence. This alone is helping the Twins convince the rest of the world that trading Santana might not have been that bad of an idea.

Yeah.

If Gomez is running the bases, he’s usually got dirt on his Jersey. That has to be a good sign. He’s also filling Torii Hunter’s shoes out in center field. It’s not an easy slot to fill.

And, not to mention, Gomez is wearing Brad Radke’s number.

When Brad Radke retired in December 2006, the Twins didn’t reassign his jersey No. 22. But new Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez will wear it this season.

If Gomez pans out and keeps up his exciting reputation, he’ll solidify the Twins hustle approach and be the payoff for losing all of Hunter, Santana and Silva.

A.L. Central Standings

TEAM ------------
W --
L --
% ------
GB ---
Chicago
6
4
.600
-
Kansas City
6
5
.545
0.5
Minnesota
6
5
.545
0.5
Cleveland
4
7
.364
2.5
Detroit
2
9
.182
4.5

It’s funny to see Detroit so low in the standings, I thought they’d be better at this point in the year. They almost got no-hit today.

Just Another North Dakota Spring

Here’s what it looks like outside of my apartment right now. This is a view off my second floor balcony. That’s my jeep on the side of the road. I didn’t park in the garage last night because it is April. Why would I need park in the garage in April? This is why:

And to think, I was foolish enough to think I might be playing disc golf today. Expect the worst I guess.