PERSPECTIVE

If you're having trouble keeping things in perspective, you might wanna look at these comparisons. This is really facinating. Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than a 1000 light years away. Now how big are you? How big are the things that upset you day to day? What's really important?...

CAN'T HEAR NOTHING BUT THE MUSIC PT 7

The summer's finally here and you need some good tunes to go with the sunshine. This tracklist is perfect for your BBQs and pool parties, your beach chair naps and friendly pinp-pong tournaments. Link to the official "Summer Breeze" mix coming very soon...

1865 ( 96° in the shade) - Third World
Sun is shining - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Summer madness - Kool & The Gang
Summer in the City - Quincy Jones
Summertime - Sam Cooke
Summer Soft - Stevie Wonder
Summer Breeze - The Isley Bros.
Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers
I am the Black Gold of the Sun - Minnie Riperton
Give me the Sunshine - Leo's Sunshipp
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Soleil du Nord - Oxmo Puccino
Dear Summer - Jay-Z (Memphis Bleek)
(Always be my) Sunshine - Jay-Z feat. Foxy Brown
Summertime remix - Beyoncé feat. Ghostface
Ice Cream - Raekwon
Ice Cream Castles - The Time
Summer Love - Justin Timberlake
I see the Sun - Vikter Duplaix
Summertime - The Ohio Players

PAPARAPAPARAPAPA RAPA E BOOM!!

As you may know, I was in Belgium with my Baseball crew last week and we got beat baaaaad! (click here for photo album) We did however beat the Portuguese team 21 to 20 thanks to yours truly. Unfortunately, the C.E.B. (Confederation of European Baseball) decided to disqualify our team due to "Article 26d2" of the competition rules and not give us the win. Politely put, " they let us compete "out of competition" because we only had 11 players in our roster instead of a minimum of 12. I still feel that they could've kept up our stats and box scores and give us the official win for the books but oh well. We did however come back with our Indians Anthem and that's something they can never take away from us. We sang and danced to that song 435 times a day, on and off the field. We really created a movement with the whole "Paparapa papapa pa papa pa e boom" over there!!! We even had little kids come up to us and ask us to do the "rapapapa dance" for them after and during games. It all started with one of our latin players singing out loud with his ipod on before a game. I heard it and started imitating him not knowing what he was trying to sing... then another one started and so on. Then the organisation's music man played it inbetween innings after hearing us sing it and we all went nuts. Just imagine 11 retarded basball freaks singing all at once at the top of their lungs in the middle of a game-LOL!!! From then on, it just stuck, we were rockin it in our bus, at the hotel, in supermarkets, restaurants and of course on the dancefloor of the Noxx club that my man DJ Sake hooked us up with...

INDIANS GET CRUSHED... AGAIN

I predicted a 35 to 0 defeat against the Germans... we only lost 21 to 1. They put a young pitcher on the mound, so did we. We got some hits, so did they. They made some errors, so did we. Their whole lineup is pretty much filed with switch hitters who can really hit. They had me chasing flyballs and running down line drives all day in the gaps. Our goal was to atleast score a run and to make the game go to atleast 7 innings. We did both. I grounded out, popped out and brought in our only run with my new bat that I just bought (woooohoooo!!).
Today's our last game... We'll be playing the Hoboken Pionners representing Belgium at 6 pm today. They'll probably end up playing the Germans in tomorrows final...

ANOTHER BOOGIE NITE

While I'm in Belgium swinging the bat and catching fly balls in centerfield with my Lausanne baseball team, my Boogie Squad is holding down the fort in Switzerland. D! Club tonight, best party in town, be there BIIIIIITCHES!!!

LAUSANNE INDIANS - BASEBALL UPDATE

Ok, so we get crushed in our opening game against the Espoo Expos from Finland, we lose a close game against the Oslo Pretenders from Norway and we beat the White Sharks from Portugal 21 to 20 in a 9 inning nail-biter !!! We made 15 errors and still won. I'm happy to say that I had 4 RBIs and brought in the Game winning run. What a crazy scenario that was. We were losing by 10 points in the bottom of the 6th inning, I hit a single to right field to bring in 2 runs to avoid the merci rule (10 point spread after 7 innings = end of game) to make the game go 9 innings... long story short; we were losing 20 to 14 in the bottom of the 9th, we rally, score some more runs, I step up to the plate with a man on 3rd, score tied at 20. I hit a little chopper to 1st base on a 3 and 1 fastball to bring in our clean-up hitter, (the slowest on the team-LOL) who dives save head first from 3rd base on a fielder's choice, safe at home, we win 21 to 20!!!!

Today we're gonna get annihilated by the Mannheim Tornados from Germany...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUPAC

I'm in my hotel room in Anvers, Belgium right now. Great setup; Nice pool, tennis courts, big room, great bed, good food but bad weather. I'm here for a week with my Lausanne Indians baseball team in the European Cup qualifications. Yeah bitches, I can still play ball!! LOL. I admit, we got our asses kicked by the Espoo Expos (Finland champions) yesterday. We're playing the Oslo Pretenders (Norway Champions) today at 2pm. There are some good players around. Great organization, Good field!! The German and Belgium teams look really solid, we'll see what happens. Anyways, I won't be blogging much this week due to my athletic responsabilities but I do have to put this Tupac video up real quick. Happy Birthday to one of the best!!! Pac would've been 38 today...RIP, see you in Thugz Mansion...

FOLK SONG TACO BELL DRIVE-THRU ORDER

It all started with this in 2006.... then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and did their weak versions (that weren't funny or original)..... and then, finally, these dudes came and took it to a whole new level !! Shout outs to my homie Dynamike for sending me this...

MVPS - LEBRON 2010

MVPS - LIL DEZ RAP

MONEY LOST IN A MATTRESS

It was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, but turned into the shock of a lifetime.

How would you like being in the middle of a dumpster, going through 2'500 tonnes of daily rubbish with your barehands? Well, that's what this lady was doing, looking for her mattress with one million$ stashed in it... you have got to read this

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RONALDO TO MADRID

$131m, £80m, 94 million Euros? Choose your currency, it all adds up to Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Manchester United. That's a record breaking transfer fee that Real Madrid is willing to pay to get "le Ballon d'or 08" from Ferguson. The deal should be completed by the end of the month. If this goes through, Real Madrid will have the top 4 transfers ever (remember Zidane for 75m in 01, Kaka for 65m this week, and Figo for 61 m Euros in 2000) I just hope Ribery will be wearing the number 7 for the Red Devils in exchange. read article here

THE SECRET OF THE SKYHOOK

It's known to be the greatest offensive weapon unleashed in the NBA!!! Why is the deadliest shot a lost art? And here's what I wanna know; Why doesn't Patrick Ewing teach Dwight Howard how to do some of that... He definitely needs to step his offensive game up a couple of notches... click here to read espn article and check out the footage below of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who didn't create the hook shot but perfected it to an untouchable powermove and went on to become NBA's All-time leading scorer with 38'387 points !!!

pt 1, the Skyhook:


pt 2, the Unbreakable Record: