Those of you who are baseball fans are aware that the Major League All Star Game was tonight on Fox. The game was held at Yankee Stadium. In their typical low class asshattery the Yankee fans booed every single Red Sox Player that set foot on the field, including the Manager Terry Francona who by the way won the World Series Last Year.. wait what? Jealous?
But they showed their true colors when Jonathan Papelbon took to the field. They booed his every pitch and chanted “Over Rated” among other bullshit. This was due to some comments that he made earlier in the week saying that he should close the game and not Mariano Rivera. First off, this guy is a competitor and his job is to win and be the best he can be at his role. Of course he is going to want to pitch the 9th inning at the Major League All Star Game. Should he have opened his yap? Probably not. But the NYY fans and media took it to the typical extremes of booing his every move.
They even booed him, and his family on the Major League Parade earlier in the day. They booed him and his pregnant wife on the red carpet before the game causing her to fear for her safety. It’s one thing to love the game, and the rivalry that NYY and BOS hold, its another all together to be completely disrespectful to the players of this game who regardless of their team are All Stars of the MLB. Today was a day to celebrate Baseball in one of its greatest stadiums. It was a day to admire and pay homage to the greatest players of the game. But thanks to typical Yankee fan actions and the NYC Media this day will be forever scarred in history.
Way to go Yankee fans and the New York Media!
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Late Friday night I started reading the various blog and news sites discovering that the iPhone was selling out (which turned out to not be totally true..) regardless I decided to head out to the Apple Store just over the border in New Hampshire. I arrived to find about 20 people in line so we decided to stick it out. They came out and said they had well over 100 8gb iPhones left so I was good to go. It was certainly much better than some folks who had been sitting around in lines for days and camping out.. no need for that.
About an hour later I had my new shiny iPhone. And let me say it’s a pretty impressive device. The only thing I have been disappointed with so far is the battery life however I can’t totally blame that on the phone because I seem to work and live in the lowest service areas in all of Massachusetts so the damn phone keeps trying to acquire and transfer data over a low signal thus using more battery power.
Overall though I have been very impressed with it’s performance. It does what I ask it to do and doesn’t crash or freeze. Mobile Safari is a pretty nice mobile browser compared to the other shitty ones floating around out there all it needs now is some flash support to make it even better. The GPS functionality is really cool and usually it acquires my location in 5-10 seconds. Also you can take a screenshot of any screen on the iPhone if you hold the home button then hit the sleep button, it saves it to your photo roll.
Anyway it’s a short week here for me, in a couple days I head north to Canada to visit Jen’s family.. let’s hope that the data roaming feature works!
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So just a couple days now till the much anticipated iPhone 3G hits the stores and I am pretty much 99% sold on getting it at this point. I know I know, it’s an over priced closed device that nobody should buy, don’t pay into the Apple Machine.. blah blah blah. Truth is I never even considered getting the original iPhone instead settling for a iPod touch. I needed an iPod and I didn’t have 300gb of music to store like some folks do and the multi touch screen really appealed to me.
This time around though they’ve pretty much fixed or added anything I didn’t like about the original. First off it was a 1st generation device which you knew would be improved upon in short order. Second it was overpriced, I couldn’t justify the cost of the original plus the data fees. Third there really was no expandability to the device. All of those things among others are now fixed and I honestly can justify the costs associated with it. I’ve used and managed a variety of devices from Windows Mobile, to Palm, to Blackberry. Most of them were a bitch and a half to manage, some downright suck ass (Blackberry I am looking at you..)
The additional features some of which I never expected like Microsoft Exchange Active Sync support and some pretty sweet GPS capability with Google Maps, and even add to that the ability to download and install apps from the new “App Store” pretty much finally sold me on it. Sure you can bag on Apple all you want but what they are doing for the average Joe and for the SmartPhone industry in general is great (ie Mobile Me “Exchange for the Poor Man”). Sure some of this functionality has been around for a while but what makes Apple successful is they make it easy enough for any average Joe to use. Many tech heads can’t look past their own geekery and see that this device appeals to the masses. So even if you can’t do something ridiculous on it or if it doesn’t have some obscure ass feature nobody cares about people will still buy it.
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