Bob Quote of the Week

After the bears gave up a td to Andre Johnson "Points are like Freetos... or Doritos. You can always get some more"

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R.I.P. Doc Ellis

Former major league pitcher Doc Ellis died of a liver ailment yesterday. For those of you thinking "who the hell is Doc Ellis??".. well he was most famous for pitching a no hitter under the influence of LSD. Read this story, it is ridiculous. "I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing in San Diego , but I didn't know it. I had taken LSD..... I thought it was an off-day, that's how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at noon. At 1pm, his girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said, "Dock, you're pitching today!" What a rediculus story. They won the game 2-0, and even though Doc walked 8 batters he pitched a no hitter to secure a place in baseball history.

Bob Came Through in the Clutch

He got the tenders. not only will i be eating delicious chicken tenders tomorrow... this is our 4th bag, so I'll be getting an awesome Love Me Tenders Cubs shirt in a couple weeks!

Bob Quote of the week

As promised, another Bob quote of the week. Bob went to the grocery store and asked my mom and I if there is anything that we wanted. I only wanted one thing: Love Me Tenders. Here's the deal with Love Me Tenders: 1)They are delicious- I eat them at least twice a week when they are in the Gberg freezer because they are quite possibly the most delicious chicken tenders i have ever tasted. Ok.... here comes the best part about them....2) If you send in 4 empty bags of Love Me Tenders you receive an awesome Love Me Tenders Chicago Cubs T-shirt!!!. What great marketing!!!! So back to the story... The only thing I asked for was Love Me Tenders and this is the conversation that took place:

Me-"Love Me Tenders"
Bob-"I don't think so, I can never find the right ones."
Me-"???"-(the "what the fuck" look)
Bob-"There a bunch of ones that look like them and I never get the right ones"
Me-"You can read....right?"
Bob-"I don't know"

That was the end of our conversation and now here I am waiting for him to get back from the grocery store in anticipation of a fresh bag of Love Me Tenders (I'm guessing there's a 25% chance he'll actually get them). I'll update the chicken/cubs shirt sitch when he gets back....

My Top 5 Christmas Movies

These are the movies that I will undoubtedly be watching from tomorrow until December 23rd (Christmas Eve is violent movie night at the Glassberg residence... i know fucked up right). Being a half-jew I'd like to include a Hanukkah movie, but Eight Crazy Nights just wasn't that good.

5)Die Hard

I know what you're thinking... this movie has very little to do with Christmas. I don't care... it is one of my favorite movies, and a X-mas movie in my book. There's nothing that says "I'm a man and I love Christmas" as much as Die Hard. As much as I like the title "Die Hard" it could have easily been named "John McClain Saves Christmas", and known by everyone as a Christmas classic. John McClain is arguably the best bad ass hero of our generation and Carl Winslow plays one hell of a cop. "Now I know what a T.V. dinner feels like".... God I love this movie.

4) A Christmas Story

Truly a Christmas classic in every sense of the phrase. I've probably seen this movie a dozen times and it never gets old. Scut Farcus is one of the greatest Christmas villains of all time, and every time i see a frozen pole i can't help but think about Flick being "tripple dog dared". Who doesn't associate this movie with the quote "You'll shoot your eye out kid".

3) National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Clark Grizwald is at it again.....As cheesy as this movie can be, it's still a classic. This movie makes its way up to #3 on the list simply because it has Chicago cred. Any movie that was filmed or based in the Chicagoland area automatically gets and extra star in my book (and gets bumped up a few spots on my top ten lists).

[a squirrel is loose in the house] Clark-"Where is Eddie? He usually eats these goddam things." Cousin Cathrine-"Not recently, Clark. He read that squirrels were high in cholesterol."

2) Bad Santa

I don't think they could have found a better actor to portray an out of control alcoholic Santa who can't control his "fuck stick". The late Bernie Mac and the little black midget were also great in this movie. The relationship that Billy Bob Thorton builds with the little fat mildly retarded kid is priceless.

Marcus (the midget)-"more booze, more bullshit, more butt-fucking" Willie (Santa)-"sure the 3 B's"
Willie "you can't drink worth a shit" Marcus"I weigh 92 pounds you dick"

1)Home Alone

The crem de la crem of Christmas movies. I have easily seen this movie 25 times (probably more). This wa also the peak of McCauly Caulkin's career (before he me Michael Jackson). This brings out the true Christmas spirit in all of us, and makes us realize that furnaces in the basement are not all that scary. Also has Chicago cred...but didn't even need it to jump to #1 on my list. Too many awsome quotes from this movie:

"Buzz's girlfriend....woof"
"See that garbage can full of salt? That's where he keeps his victims. The salt turns the bodies... into mummies. "
"Is this toothbrush approved by the American Dental Association? "
"Kevin, you're completely helpless! "..."Kevin, you're what the French call les incompetents."...."Kevin, I'm going to feed you to my tarantula. "...."Kevin, you are such a disease!"...."There are 15 people in this house and you're the only one who has to make trouble."...."Look what you did, you little jerk."
"A lovely cheese pizza, just for me. "
Kevin's mom at the airport-"Kevin!!!!"

Sports Quotes That Make Me Laugh

Here's a list of sports quotes that made me chuckle to myself

10) Devil Rays GM Chuck Lamar

"The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level."
No wonder they made the world series 3 years after he was fired

9) Thom Brenneman, Cubs Broadcaster


"A lot of good ballgames on tomorrow, but we're going to be right here with the Cubs and the Mets."
I'm guessing this was said any year between 1991 and 1997

8)Yogi Berra


"You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
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7)Russ Grimm- Redskins Offensive Guard


"I'd run over my mother to win the Superbowl"
wow....i'm speechless

6)Lou Holtz- Notre Dame Head Coach


"On this team we are all united in one common goal: to keep my job"
Way to tell it like it is Holtzy

5)Tug McGraw- Former Phillies Pitcher (and Tim McGraws Dad)


When asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf- "I don't know, I've never smoked AstroTurf"
I guess this goes hand in hand with the john Kruck quote "I'm not a professional athlete, I'm a baseball player"

4)Charles Barkley- Suns Forward


"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it."
This was my favorite of dozens of hilarious Barkley quotes

3)John Daly- Professional Golfer


"I tried but every time I worked out I threw up, and I thought to myself that you can get drunk and throw up, so it's just not for me, I'd rather smoke, drink Diet Cokes and eat.”
Another guy I that could have his own top ten list of quotes

2) Shaq- NBA Canter/Kazaam


"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."
one of many....http://shaqquotes.com/

1)Dick Butkus- Chicago Bears Linebacker


"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something."
What else can I say..... this guy was a beast. In college they made him practice against a tree because he was injuring all of their starters.

Another Sad Day for Cubs Fans

If the Chicago Tribune filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy wasn't bad enough, Ron Santo was snubbed from the hall of fame yet again. After falling only 4 votes and 5% short of being inducted into the hall of fame lst year, Santo needed 75% of the votes from the 64 members of the Veterans Committee this year. He received 39 votes (60.9%). Even though he receved the most votes of all of the post 1943 players on the ballot, he did considerably worse than last year. Don't these guys have any sympothy for Santo? I mean come on..... the guy has adult onset diabetes, no legs, and the only two things he wants in life are 1)Induction into the hall of fame (which is looking bleaker and bleaker every year) and 2) Witness the Cubs win the World Series (If this does happen Santo will surely die of a heart attack). This guy played the game the right way, put up great numbers, and bleeds cubbie blue. It's only a matter of time before he gets inducted. I know i've said/heard this before but..........wait till next year!!

Bob Quote of the Day

This may become a weekley segment on the Glassblog

"there has never been anything invented worse than pam... you talk about the atomic bomb, i bet that more people have died from Pam"-Bob

This was not even taken out of context. This was said after he bought a new pan, giving Mike explicit instrusctions to never use Pam on it, because it is the root of all evil.

Hitler Hates the BCS

Proof that even Hitler hates the BCS

Is the Price of Gas too Low?

Does anyone remember in May when a Goldman Sachs analyst predicted $200 barrel of oil prices by the end of the year, and in July when the price of a barrel of oil was around $150 a barrel, and we were talking $6.00 a gallon by the end of the year?.... So what the hell happened?? To put it in Lehman's terms (not Lehman Brothers), supply stayed steady, while demand dropped (due to a number of things...mostly a cut in consumer spending due to the recession we're in, also because people couldn't afford $4.00 a gallon so they found other means of transportation). When there is a drop in demand, the price goes down (think about bulls tickets in 1998 compared to this year). In the summer, there was a big scare that we might be consuming way too much oil, and prices had to go up so we would be forced to figure something out (alternative energy, hybrid vehicles, public transportation). Well, now oil and gas prices are the lowest they have been in 3 years, and i think this will lead to an increase in demand (because people can afford it again). This increase in demand will shoot oil prices back up to around $100 a barrel (my guess is in the next 2 years) and we will hear the same energy shortage talk that we heard over the summer. So....how do we fix this?? I think we should steal a page from the Europeans book and tax the shit out of gas. Does anyone notice that they pay about double the price we do? Gas should remain around $4.00 a gallon and the taxes that we pay should go to fund 2 things: 1) Research and development for alternative energy and 2) Public Transportation. This would a) decrease energy consumption and b) help America become energy independent (something Obama wants to do in the next 10 years.) If we are going to implement this strategy, we need to wait until the recession is over because doing this will only hurt our economy in the short term, but in the long term i think we can benefit from high gas taxes.

Sorry for gettin all economicy and financy today but i just had to get this off my chest... I'll be back to sports or food or something tommorrow.

Its World AIDS Day!!

I just found out that its world AIDS day.
Tribute to AIDS day video

Derrick Rose is the Real Deal

I haven't really been watching the Bulls that much this year (because they suck) but Derrick Rose put on a show last night. This kid is the read deal, check out his highlights from last night.

Derrick Rose highlight from last night

Another sick play from last night

Can you name the last Chicago Bull to play in the all star game??

I couldn't think of any since Michael Jordan so I looked it up...... Michael Jordan (1998)