HoF Predictions

The time has come for the Baseball Hall of Fame talk. Here's SoulSlam's predictions:
The ballot: Garret Anderson, Brad Ausmus, Jeff Bagwell, Barry Bonds, Luis Castillo, Roger Clemens, David Eckstein, Jim Edmonds, Nomar Garciaparra, Troy Glaus, Ken Griffey Jr., Mark Grudzielanek, Mike Hampton, Trevor Hoffman, Jason Kendall, Jeff Kent, Mike Lowell, Edgar Martinez, Fred McGriff, Mark McGwire, Mike Mussina, Mike Piazza, Tim Raines, Curt Schilling, Gary Sheffield, Lee Smith, Sammy Sosa, Mike Sweeney, Alan Trammell, Billy Wagner, Larry Walker, Randy Winn.

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Griffey

Hoffman

Piazza

Raines

All get in...
Clemens and Bonds creep up but fall short again. Steroids leave a taint. Bagwell and Schilling will have to wait another year. Mussina will get approx. 40%. He's under the radar.

And happy new year.

Top Comic Book Characters

SoulSlam was a big comic fanboy back in the day. Still have boxes upon boxes of mostly 1990's comics around. So I thought I'd rank my favorites (in no particular order!)

Batman (he is #1 though!)

Wolverine

The Punisher

Daredevil

The Hulk

Spawn (if you can call an already dead general of hell a superhero)

Deadpool

Captain America

Now that's a pretty Marvel heavy list, but I think I like DC better overall. And I'm not a huge fan of the Marvel movies. Or superhero movies in general, except the Christian Bale Batman. And the new BvS coming out.

Merry Christmas

And so you can see...

Sons of SoulSlam about 10 years ago.

And...

3 days ago in goofball mode!

MERRY CHRISTMAS
FROM THE HOUSE OF SOULSLAM!

Weasel Alert

I hear the Weasel will be at large tonight at a meeting I attend. I am going to start weasel-hunting.

Passive Aggressive

If there is one thing the SoulSlam hates, it's passive aggressive behavior. I would rather a person tell me to shove something up my a&& than nice me to death but have an agenda. I'm dealing with a weasel now that fits this bill. And he is about 3 seconds from a monolithic beating.

Comeback For All

This happened many many moons ago. Around Christmas. 

SoulSlam was working at Macy's (no joke). In the Men's dept. High end casual like Ralph Lauren Polo, Hilfiger and Nautica. Year was '93 if I remember. And SoulSlam was rocking some pretty long hair. 

Anyway, two ladies come up, I help them out, I'm very nice (we were on commission). One lady kept going on about my hair. Ok, ma'am. As I ring her up she says loudly so everyone in general vicinity could hear "if you were my son I'd throw you out!" 

To which I responded without missing a beat "if I were your son I'd run away!". She had zero to say after that. 

It's all in the timing. 

This Old Home

The House of SoulSlam likes Christmas. Loves Christmas. We've made a lot of nice memories here. My son's are getting older but we look back on when they were little and the twinkle is still here.

The Gym Last Week

Went to the gym Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Saturday, Sunday. Pretty good.

Get BIG!

I have zero interest in losing weight and shedding pounds. I go to the GYM to get BIG!

I read last night that for every inch of bicep mass, you will probably gain 15 lbs. of muscle. I am going for the record!

But seriously, I didn't do regular exercise forever. I was active but not fit. A couple of years ago I started going to gym at BWSS' behest. And I've been a regular ever since. Now with boys sports activities based out of HS and not with me involved other than being a #1 fan I can go to gym more often if I like.

Last night I went, even though it was really a drag to think about but go I did. Warmed up on bike for 15, then did (mainly) chest, some shoulders and triceps for 70 minutes after. And I felt great. Glad I went. Tonight? We'll see. I may do a cardio/abs day since my arms were aching something fierce after Saturday's marathon session. Then come back Friday* for a biceps/back evening. Good stuff.

*Thursday I need to put up Christmas Tree!

NO PC Weekend

Didn't take laptop out of bag all weekend. So there. I still had sweet iPhone6 for all my communication needs however. Tether me if you will. Weekend was lousy. I put that in there so you can all gloat. Gloat away.

Word

Kill 'EM ALL.

12/1/2015

It is the first of December. Last month of the year. The kind of month you go HO-HO-HO. Take a little time off around the holidays if you can.

It's also Tuesday so let me give you a tip:
Watch History Channel tonight at 9PM EST then again at 10PM EST.

Curse of Oak Island. I've been intrigued with the story of the Money Pit since I read an article in Rolling Stone over at least over 25 years ago. I still have the article.

Hunting Hitler. Just started watching. Fascinating. I always remember hearing of his death as a boy and thinking that could have been faked. These guys are in my wheelhouse.