You know I have to repost great things I see about the Chargers, so… 🙂

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The San Diego Chargers didn’t play this week (they had a bye), yet they went from #7 to #5 in the NFL power rankings. Oddly enough, the team they play this weekend (the Ravens) did play this last weekend (and won), yet they went from a #6 to a #8 ranking. {shrug}

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Did anyone else catch the San Diego Chargers stomping the Tennessee Titans by 33 points? 🙂

I caught the game in Vegas with Chris, Jim and Sanaz right before I flew home. The Titans had zero passing yards in the first half and like 10 or so rushing yards. hah Funny. 🙂

All the teams in the Chargers division lost again this week (except for Kansas City, which played someone else in the division, so *someone* had to win.. heh)

So after 2 weeks of the 2006 season, let’s see where the Chargers are at (compared to all teams in the NFL)…

• #4 total offense
• #2 rushing game
• #2 total points scored per game
• #2 total defense
• #1 pass defense
• #5 rushing defense
• #2 points allowed per game
• #4 quarterback
• #5 AND #8 running back

Uhm, you can’t compete with that… 🙂

Uhm, did anyone happen to notice the San Diego Chargers completely dominating the Oakland Raiders last night on Monday Night Football by chance? 🙂

Check out some of these stats:

• Oakland Total Yards: 129
• Oakland Passing Yards: 42
• Times Oakland Sacked: 9 (3 just by Shawne Merriman)

Not a bad way to give your new quarterback some confidence. 🙂 In fact, Philip Rivers didn’t have to do much, but he ended up 8-11 with a touchdown and that gives him a 133.9 quarterback passing rating, which leads the NFL. Of course, it’s only 1 week, but the Chargers have the #1 defense in the NFL as of right now. 🙂

I’m not a big fan of baseball, but I *love* the Padres dugout seats when I can get my hands on them, so I went to the game today.

This is the 3rd time I’ve had those tickets this year, and the Padres have won every time. Maybe they should just give me those tickets to every game, so they win every home game for the season. 🙂

Plus, somehow free everything (steak, beer, wine, cake, etc.) just makes baseball more enjoyable. heh

So I managed to get the kick-ass dugout seats again for a Padres game tonight, and the Padres won in the 10th inning again (they seem to do that every time I have dugout seats). 🙂 It was a cool game, and the best part (like always with the dugout seats) is everything is free (food, beer, sushi, etc.). 🙂

I’m still an amazing golfer, but since Julien doesn’t have as many people reading his blog as I do, I figured I better give him a plug on his golf game today. He shot 38 (vs. my 48) on the front 9. It got too dark to play the the last 3 or 4 holes, and that’s when I was planning on mounting my comeback. So whatever…

Today I beat my best golf score ever by about 20 strokes. I even had 2 birdies (I’ve only had 1 ever in my life before today).

So the plan is to improve by 20 strokes every game I play from here on out. Until I just start getting more eagles than not.

FIFA’s new rule about racist soccer fans will go into affect next month for the 2006 World Cup. Basically if fans are judged to be racist against an opposing team, the fan’s team will lose 3 points.

Should be interesting to see how they control that. Soccer fans are crazy enough that they would probably just be racist against their own team to make the opposing team loose 3 points. 🙂

As far as being a good skateboarder, on a scale of 1-10, I would say this guy is at least a 6…

First, I go to the game and the Padres winning streak starts… then as soon as I mention the 9 game winning streak (starting with that game), it ends.

I’m a prophet of some sort. 🙂

Starting with the great game I went to last Sunday, the San Diego Padres have not lost. That’s 9 games in a row (and counting).

Maybe if the Padres would just give me dugout seats for every home game, my presence would cause them to go undefeated the entire season. 🙂 Or not…

I’m thinking this would knock the wind out of you, and you are going to be sore for a few days. 🙂

This crazy fool does a 125 foot back flip over the Ceasers Palace fountains. Evel Knievel did the same trick (without the flip), and ended up breaking about 100 bones in his body, and put him in a coma for 29 days.

Okay… I retract my previous post about $290 Padres tickets being too high of a price. Everything is free… the best parking, all food, beer, or whatever else you want. There are servers that come to your seat and bring you whatever you want, as often as you want. We had 5 or 6 beers, steak, nachos, hot dogs, carrot cake, cookies, ice cream, pretzel and probably some other stuff that I can’t remember (you could even get sushi brought to you). There was also a secret underground lounge, bar and restaurant (all free too) that you could go to whenever you feel like it.

We were right behind home plate (we were on TV for every pitch), and even better is the game was AWESOME. Padres losing 5-0 in the bottom of the ninth, rally with 5 runs to tie it, then win in the 10th. If you really want a summary, check ESPN.

They were fantastic seats, and actually worth the $290 price.

I found some info on them over here.

I’m not a *huge* baseball fan, but I’ll go once or twice a year, and I’m going Sunday for the Padres/Dodger game (this will be my first game this year).

Steve at Bank of America called and asked if I wanted some tickets for the game, so I figured… what the hell. Free baseball tickets… I’ll go. I picked up the tickets today while in the branch, and I just about crapped myself because the tickets are $290 EACH (“Dugout Seats” whatever that means). Does that mean I get to sit IN the dugout? Where do you even get “dugout seat” tickets? I just went to the Padres website and the most expensive tickets I could find are “Premier Club” at $59 each. For the price of these two Padres tickets, you could get the nicest season ticket for the Chargers.

Bobby and I are going on Sunday, so we’ll see if these 2 seats are really worth $580 or not. Maybe we get massages or something. {shrug}

Dude, I got the beating of a lifetime at golf today by Scott. He beat me by… uhm… 29 strokes. 🙂

Oh well, at least I beat him at foosball (once).

San Diego lost their starting quarterback this off-season to free agency (he went to the New Orleans Saints).

He hurt his throwing arm at the end of last season, and his ability to play at all this season was in question a little bit. I just hope Philip Rivers doesn’t turn out to be another Ryan Leaf. 🙂

I would just like to throw out a big *F-U*!!!! to Anne. She went golfing with Julien, Scott and myself this morning. Naturally Scott won (he has played a lot longer than anyone else). But it was Anne’s first time ever playing golf and she kicked the crap out of me and Julien.

“Oh… gee, another drive onto the green.” Whatever… no one likes playing with you Anne. Go eat corned beef instead.

I did get my first birdie ever today, so I’m still cool.

Uhm… something strange happened tonight. Julien and I went to the driving range to hit some golf balls… and much to both of our amazement, we were both able to hit the ball relatively well with our drivers (this pretty much was a first for both of us). What in the hell happened? Must be something in the water.

That’s the good news… the bad news is I lost $34 to him in our “pitching challenge”… probably because he cheats somehow.

Oh man, I’m awesome. I beat Julien at golf yesterday who pretty much is the best golfer I’ve ever heard of.

I rock! (this is the first round of golf I’ve ever won BTW… hehe)

As of today, I finally got my own golf clubs.

Now if I can just figure out how to actually hit the ball with the club without whiffing it, we’ll be all set…… 🙂

Uhm, would this hurt? He almost lands it too. heh

All I know is that I’m awesome… and this is why…

I went VIP style to the Buick Invitational golf tournament today (thanks to Bank of America). It was pretty fun to lounge on the 18th green/fairway with all the food/drinks you want. 🙂

I’m sure you must find that terribly exciting (whoever is reading this), eh? 🙂

Me and Tiger Woods are becoming old friends these days. 🙂