Fall from grace

Has there ever been a pro athlete go from so loved to so hated in such a small period of time as Sammy Sosa?
I guess all that steriod, corked bat, jumping-shuffling-kissing fingers touching chest- kissing fingers toucing chest to the camera, leaving before the game has ended caught up to him.
If I am a Cub fan, today is a great day.

Dude, that is sooooooo tight.

My office is the size of my left pant. It's small. I have a large heater in my room and if my window is closed for 3 minutes my room turns hot. I am constantly up and down to adjust my window allowing for the just right amount of 17 degree air to come in. That's right. When it was 2 outside, I had my window open. That's how hot it is in my room. My dancing doesn't help to cool things down, either.

I was driving to the Quest offices this week and I was driving behind a guy in a beat up Hyundai. I wasn't hatin' on the bro. You know, counting it against him that he was driving a Hyundai. Unitl I saw his rear window that had a decal that covered the ENTIRE window that read
"Imports...You hate 'em because you can't affored 'em".
Then I started hatin' on the guy. Dude not only are you driving a cheap crappy brand of car, but you are driving an OLD NASTY cheap crappy brand of car. (please, do not be effended if you drive a Hyundai. It's just this dude)

That entire rear view decal surpassed my other two favorite entire rear view decals...
One in Decatur had a spider's web spanning the whole window and read, "Oh, what a tangled web we have spun".
So true, gansta driving in da hood of Decatur. So very true.

And then my other favorite was at Eastern.
On a Ford ZX2, HUGE letters and numbers that read "ZX2"
As a fellow owner of a Ford ZX2, I can bash this with complete fun. The ZX2 is the cheapest car Ford makes. Sure ZX2 sounds really cool and fast, but let us not forget that just 3 years ago, the ZX2 was called the "Escort".
When you have to put the name of the car you are driving on the rear window, you are probebly one of the coolest people who have ever lived on Earth.

*THE* My Turn

For those who have read the comments section to John's post yesterday, you might have noticed a couple of things.
1. Only one actualy responded to it with anything to do with what he actually wrote. Hey, just cause we might not have met this person in real life doesn't mean you can't take part in conversation with him!
2. I sounded really ticked off at the end.

Where as it is annoying that someone is posting under my name, I really just wanted to give a scare. Did I do a good job? Were you fooled? Hahahahahahahaaha. ha.

Last night I watched the Ilini game.
Because I am a fair weather fan? No.
I have a scale to which I rank sporting events I watch accorinding to my interest in the game. Last night's game started at a 5.5 and ended at a 6. Which is pretty good. Here is what my ranking looks like...

0 - no sports to watch
1 - on par with watching the Bengals vs. Texans
2. on par with watching the Clippers vs. Nets
3. Packers vs. anyone
4. Rams vs. anyone
5. Cubs or Astros vs. anyone (check on the score every few minutes)
6. regular season Cardinals game (sit down and watch the whole game)
7. Cards vs Cubs or Cards vs Astros
8. Blues playoff game
9. Cards in the playoffs
10. Cards in the NLCS or World Series

If you are confused, those examples are just to give you and idea as to how excited I am about a particular game. So, for example, the game last night started on par with a Cubs or Asrtos game, but ended on par with a regular season Cardials game.
About 6.5 is where my stomach starts getting into it. You know, nervous and all that.
It's pathetic, I know.

The New Co-Blogger

Ever since Hifi aquired The_Dude (TJ) as co-blogger, we knew we had to make a move of our own. Something huge. Big. Something really huge and big.
The time is here. We here at "My Turn" have a long standing tradition of bringing you only the best in bloggs, thoughts, and such not. As of 9:41 Central time, I am proud to introduce the newest member of "My Turn"...
John Meredith-Cox

Some of you may not know John personally, but you will very shortly. John brings with him life experiences from places like University of Illinois, Peoria, St. Louis, and to now Paris, France. Even though John is allready primary manager of his own Blog, "Floor Space", he will be a regular contributor to "My Turn".
Some of you will be refreshed by John's intelligent words, good spelling, and overall exceptional grammar. Three things that have been lacking here at "My Turn".

As a new fresh start to this blog, John will be writing under the name "Roland" and I will be writing under the name "Brian Fantana".
John's time is 7 hours ahead of ours, so when we are all sound asleep in our beds, we can rest assured that John will be blogging the night away.

John... she's all yours.

HUGE aquisition

At 10 pm central tonight, My Turn will announce the signing of it's new free agent. After numerous weeks waiting for just the right co-blogger to emerge, we have found the perfect piece of the puzzle.
Beltran?
The_Dude?
Please.

Just wait...

Extreme Football Makeover

Kortny and I were watching Exteme Home Makeover last night. I think this is one of my more underrated TV shows I watch. By that I mean, for how much I actually watch this show and enjoy it when while I am watching it, I really don't talk about it or list it as one of my favorite TV shows. Cheesey, yes. Cool- what they do - yes.
As we were watching it, I was flipping back to the Steelers/Pats game. Kortny was laughing non-stop that I, Jeremiah Christopher Cox, was actually interested in a football game. The reason I was into this was because my good friend, Nathan, is a huge Steelers fan. I would say ALMOST on par with me being a Cardinals fan.

ALMOST , people. Let's not get out of hand here.

So, being the good friend I am, I was merley pulling for the Steelers because I want my friend to have playoff bliss. I know that all of you would or did the same for me when the Cardinals are in the playoffs.
This laughter at my interest of the football game really made me take a long look at my manhood. I mean, I know that I am not a football fan, or a basketball fan. But I do enjoy sports.

So here's my question...

If you were cuddling up next to me instead of Kortny last night, would you be lauging at that the fact that I was flipping to the football game to check on the score? Am I that Unman-ly that the mere thought of me interested in football game makes you laugh?
Let's hear it...

Highlights

Here at "My Turn", we really want to support our links. My brother John's blog, "Floor Space" had probebly the most entertaining post I have read in a long, long time. Without his permission, I would like to copy and paste it here.

Enjoy...

Dear William “Refrigerator” Perry,
You’re awesome! And you’re really big. How much do you weigh!! That’s why your called “The Refrigerator”, because you’re so big. That’s a cool nickname. I want my nickname to be Scooter, because I’m a fast runner. I have the Super Bowl Shuffle on tape, and I watch it all the time. I always fast forward through the boring stuff at the beginning of the tape, though. I only wanna watch the song. My favorite is when he says, “I’m the funky QB!” You didn’t say very much in the song. Why not? I think you are the best football player who ever lived. I would like to play football with you sometime, but I know you’d beat me!! Real bad!!!!
Well, gotta go.
From,
John


Dear Michael Jackson,
Your music is really good. I love it. How did you learn to do the moonwalk? Did someone teach you, or did you figure it out by yourself? Remember when your hair got caught on fire? I would hate it if my hair got caught on fire! Is that tiger that’s in the picture on the Thriller record real? Is it your pet? A pet tiger would be awesome!! I have a dog. My little brother is allergic at it, though, so she stays outside all the time but during the winter we take her to my grandma and grandpa’s house so she can live with them. Do you have a dog? What is your favorite song? Mine is “Walk Like an Egyptian”.
Well, bye!
John


Dear MacGyver,
You are really cool. How do you do all those things with all that stuff? I saw it once where you made a bulldozer stop and all you had was a Swiss Army knife and a 2 by 4. Why do they call them 2 by 4s? Did your boss really go blind? I want to have a jacket like yours. I hope I get one for Christmas. Is MacGyver really your name? It’s a neat name. You’re cool.
Your biggest fan,
John

Dear Alf,
Are you real? That would be neat if you are. Willy’s not very nice. I don’t like him. Your feet are humongous! I hope the Air Force never catches you.
Good Luck!
John

P.S. Do cats taste good?

Jeremiah and Britney sittin' in a tree...

Yesterday I was at school. I was wearing a sweet new shirt that Kortny bought for me. One of the student at school asked me...
"Mr. Cox. That shirt is clean, bro."
"Thanks. My wife bought it for me."
"Your wife Britney Spears?"
"No"
"Oh. I thought I saw you on TV with Britney Spears."
"I wish. But no."
"You have a big ol' house? Big ol' mansion?"
"Again, I wish. But no."
"Shoo. I thought I saw you on TV with Britney Spears and you had a big ol' mansion and sh--."


Not kidding, here folks. The kid was straight up fo real.

Then, this morning when I was on duty on the playground, I heard this from one of the 6th graders playing basketball.

"Shoo. If it was warm up in here, I be drainin' these shots. It be like 2 degrees up my a--."

That's the thought of the day for you all.




"It be like 2 degrees up your a--."

Coffee Revolution

I am actually sitting in a Language Arts school in-service about "Strengthening Students' writing" by Mr. Stephen Peha. So, if this entry is extra awesome in terms of capitalization and writing style, you may give credit to Champaign Unit 4 schools.

Some of you may know my feelings on this next topic. I know Dave and I have talked about this at quite some length. I am, of course, talking about coffee. I hate coffee. Not just the taste, but everything it stands for. Matt encouraged me on Monday to start an anti-coffee revolution. So, if you read what I have to say, and agree, please sign my petition. Here are my reasons why I think coffee "sucks".

1. It does not taste good.
- Now I know that some say it is an "aquired" taste. I believe if you sip, drink, or eat something, you should like it the first time you have it. Why have people drank coffee and thought, "just to be cool, and because I want to be a coffee drinker, I will continue to drink coffee until I have aquired this taste". That's bull, man.

2. People become dependent on it
- Why get hooked on to coffee? Why get yourself into something that you KNOW is going to make you jittery or give you a headache if you don't drink it?? I am tired of people telling me, "don't talk to me until I have my coffee". Get over it.

3. How does a gathering revolve around a "cup of coffee"?
- Who chose coffee to be the queen of beverages? In the 50's, you could meet over a Coke or a Soda, but now its just coffee. Two people can meet somewhere and just have coffee. People don't ask each other anymore to meet over Coke or anything.
"Let's meet over a cup of coffee, okay?"
"No."

4. Free Coffee
- How come work places give free coffee to their employees?? Now, I understand that Motorolla has free hot chocolate to their workers. I am going to buy stock in them now. But why do coffee drinkers get all this free coffee? If I am a sprite drinker, I don't get free Sprite. I have to pay $1.25 for a bottle of Sprite.

I could go on, but I think these are 4 sufficient reasons for starting the revolution.

So, if you want to continue to drink coffee so you can look hip or smart, go ahead. You know it doesn't taste good until you convince yourself after your 100th cop. Get your headaches. Get jittery. Be grumpy until you drink some. You know it's going to to happen. So why do it?

not my desk

One of my fellow teachers asked me to sit at her desk so she can eat luch today. Her two students are in here and they are arguing that one of the students (the much shorter one) got a love letter. The one who go the letter said to his classmate,
"shoo. nobody gotta know my bidness."
very cute.

I anticipated me sitting at a woman's desk to be refreshing. But as I sit here, it is not any less messy than mine or less smelly. I had envisioned a desk of violet smell and of brighter hue. There is a baggy with four mini frosted mini wheats in them. When I look at them, I am reminded as to how great a snack dry mini frosted mini wheats can be. Just be sure you have a bottle of water on hand.

The taller of the two students just turned to me and said...
"I know something you don't know" (sung, of course)
Classic.

I won't tell you what he told me. But to be honest, it rocked my world. He was totally right. He knew something I had NO IDEA about. I mean, it would have never entered my mind if he hadn't brought it up.
Thank you student. Thank you.

run-on

This is definatelly one of those 48 hour periods where your stomach is dragging on the floor and you have constant things you are worried about and there is nothing you can do about it because you just have to wait until you get to deal with it because it is nothing you can solve right away so when you are at school you are hoping just to make it through the day or in my case just trying to make it through the year and you really feel like calling in sick but if you do that you will just get even more sick to your stomach by sitting there doing nothing because all you have to do is think about everything but the one good thing about today is that it is raining and i really like rain and when i have days like this i write all in one sentence and i try to put things into perspective such as i could be in disaster areas of the world or in iraq or something like that but when i do that it just makes me feel like a dork for even being in a bad mood in the first place and then i think about HiFidelity and how awesome they have become and how you all are reading this depressing blog i am sorry but i still love you.

Testing the Free Agent market

Abe's blog, HiFi, has aquired a *hot* new free agent.
T.J.
I must say that they really must have broken the bank with this one. TJ's experience, wit, smarts, and good looks can only be an asset for the Hifi blog. His bloggings will enhance both the enjoyment and class of the blog.

Which is why we here at My Turn, must respond with an acquisition of our own. I would like to test the free-agent market out there for people who would be interested in a guest posting job. We here at My Turn don't have quite as big of a pocket book as HiFi, but are very competative and have a great fan base. We will be reading the comments for people who say they are interested in the position. We will then e-mail you and we can negotiate a contract then. We would like to have the position filled by the end of Saturday. In order to stay competative in the blogging world, we need to not only "keep up" but hope to "leave behind" the competition.
Hifi doesn't know what's about to hit them.

Good Luck.

to die for

Well done on the comments the past few posts. If we can get past the 15 mark on a topic like this, I will be very impressed.

My halfway vegitarian wife introduced me to a new recipe for hamburgers the other day. I tell you kids, it was heaven. Right here. On the planet Earth. Here's all it calls for.
Mix...
1 lb ground beef
1 packet of Ranch dressing mix
1 cub of shredded cheddar cheese.

That's it, kids.
Oh yeah...
And if you happen to have seatbelts on your dinning table chairs...
you might want to fasten those, too.

per your request...

Little Dabid Burke didn't like the *hot n' steamy* conversation happening with my latest post. He said he wanted a post on The Cardinals, my job, or fashion.

1. I've allready addressed fashion this week, with my plea for Abe's jacket
2. Not enough people care what I have to say about the Cardinals (besides that they are awesome!!!!!)
3. I really don't like talking about my job because I hate it so much right now. (not quest)


So, I really don't know what to talk about. I could do my top 15 favorite things I like to think of when I think of Abe, but on second thought, I'll just email him those.

Here is how the Card's line-up will look if the season started today:


KEY
niiiiice = Can't get any better at this position
welikeit= Strong, but there may be a way we can get better
eh.= Take him or leave him
pshhh= Anyone interested in a trade?


2b - Robbie Alomar (not yet official) *pshhhhh*
RF - Larry Walker *niiiiice*
1B- Albert Pujols *are you kidding me??? (way obove niiiice)
3B - Scott Rolen *niiiice*
CF - Jim Edmonds *niiiiice*
LF - Reggie Sanders *eh.*
SS - David Eckstein *pshhh*
C - Yadier Molina *welikeit*

SP - Mark Mulder *niiiice*
SP - Chris Carpenter *niiiice*
SP - Jason Marquis *welikeit*
SP - Matt Morris *eh*
SP - Jeff Suppan *welikeit*

I'm going to write a book.

Now, I know that I am talking about a touchy subject here. And I will not make a habbit of doing this. But is anyone else discusted with this Amber Frey in the Laci Peterson murder case? This lady wrote a book and is making the tour of interviews on TV. (Don't miss her on Oprah today) Amber, in the midst of all this murder hype, I'm really happy for you that you will be making millions off your new book.

Oh, boy! I sure hope she has a book tour!

come out of the walk-in closet

Okay, so a friend of mine emailed me and said, "I am a closet reader of your blog, and am just waiting for the right blog to comment on".

So here's the deal. If you are a closet reader, now is your time to finally comment! I have made commenting easier, you dont have to register or anything. Just click on comment. And for a limited time only, you don't have to be funny when you comment either. Just say "hey". Or a small "hi" will do too.

And for those of you who are veterans to this blog, don't think this is time for you to take off. Get in there and help out the rookies. Encourage them. Love them. Lead them to great comments. Show them how its done. Let's set a record, here folks!

I bought some new soap yesterday.

rock star jacket

We were shopping in Chicago with the In-Laws and I saw a jacket I was absolultly IN LOVE with. I tell you, kids, it was fabulous. It was tan and it was leather. It had zippers up the sleave and it was to die for. I tried it on. It was $700. I put it back.
This morning at Church, I saw my best friend in the entire world, Abe. He was wearing a jacket ALMOST identical to the one I saw in Cubbie land. It didn't have zippers up the sleaves, but hey, not even Abe it totally perfect. He said he got it on sale at an outlet mall for $20.

Abe, I'll buy it from you for $30.
You just made 10 bucks.

Anybody here think Abe should sell it to me?????
Anyone?? Anyone??
Abe??