Major League Buzz!

Hey friends it's humble Oz here at your service once again for a sports edition of The Oz Files. Today's topic up for discussion today is the 2009 MLB season is only two weeks away and what do I look forward to and any predictions on any teams or players this season? I must tell ya MLB is one of my great passions so this is going to be a heck of a discussion. Leading things off I do look forward to the grueling 162 game season and look forward to see how the Seattle Mariners can bounce back from a 101 loss season a year ago. I know the mariners are not going to be contending for the AL west or even a wild card birth so I am looking forward of watching the kid Ken Griffey Jr back in the emerald city! It doesn't matter if the M's win or lose it's all about Ichiro and JR! When your a fan of northwest baseball that is the great Seattle Mariners you gotta love the sodo mojo and Hall Of Fame Broadcaster Davie Niehouse my oh my get out the rye bread and mustard grandma it's grand salami time MY OH MY! I'm also a big fan of the Arizona Diamondbacks but I won't go into what happened to them last year just blowing the NL west in the second half of the season! Now it's time for some predictions these could come back to haunt me but I'll just go with the basic stuff and then throw in a couple curve balls for ya no pun intended. In the American Leauge West I will pick the Los Angeles of Anaheim. I will take the Boston Red Sox to win the American League East. In the central I'll take the Indians. The wild card pick this year will be the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In the National League west I'll take my Arizona Diamondbacks I got a good feeling about this one! In the east I'm gonna go with the Mets don't let me down you have so much talent but haven't lived up to the potential. In the central I'll take the Chicago Cubs yes I said it the Chicago Cubs will win the NL central. As for the NL wild card I think I'll roll the dice with the Atlanta Braves we will see what kind of team they have this year with losing John Smoltz huge loss. The AL cy young award winner would go to Eric Bedard of the Mariners if they did not look at recpords but they do so I'll have to go with C.C Sabathia with his first year in the Yankee pinstripes. My NL cy young winner is going to be Jake Peavy in a contract year and the guys so good to beging with and was on the trading block and he may want to prove something to the padres. The AL MVP will not go to AROD because well he's out for 9 weeks with an injury so I'll have to go with Vladamir Guerrerro from the LAA I think it's the angels year and I think it's his time to get the props! In the NL I'd like to go with Albert Pujols the guy is just a man wow go Albert! I won't go into the gold gloves and that sort of thing But I will make an early world series prediciton for ya. The American League representative will be the Los Angels Of Anaheim and in the National League I'm going with the Chicago Cubs. So in the world series I got the angels and the cubs facing off and I'll say Angels in 7. It's bold it's beautiful it's March and we will see how these predictions go down. I would like to close with a couple of my own predicitons. I'm gonna say Ichiro Suzuki is gonna hit another 200 plus hits this season the guy is amazing and I just love watching him run and hit and making amazing plays in the outfield I could go on and on but I might be druelling! I predict that Lou Pinella will be ejected from 10 games this year I'll take the over! I predict the Mariners will still suck next year but I'll be watching them anyways! Finally I predict Barry Bonds will be headed to the slammer with his pending trial on purgery and all about his steroid use say Hi to Bubba with the cute pink dress and don't drop the soap buddy! Well I hope you had fun with this one I sure did and what are your thoughts on the upcoming MLB season? Well until next time may the Oz always be with you so long!

The Oz On Oz!

Hey friends it's Oz here for a great exciting edition of The Oz Files. Leah has decided to name every Friday free write Friday and that begins NOW! So Oz gets to pick his own topic once a week and boys and girls this one is going to knock your socks off! So tonight I will be talking about hmm Yes myself the great and powerful wizard of OZ! You all may want to know how was the super amazing ultra human specimen created? Well you know how I was created but I was born on October 31,1982 and boy when I was born they sure broke the mold! I have to admit if there was no me on this earth I don't think civilization would be able to go on without my presence. The Oz is so talented it's quite uncanny to say the least. I have been in a few plays I was picked as the prince in sleeping beauty in 1st grade and I can just remember it like it was yesterday. Oz with his aluminum swords slaying the dragon and winning the girl ohhhhhhhh what a night! In 8th grade i played the Wizard Of Oz for choir in a monologue version based in California. I am the great and powerful wizard of OZ who are you? I'll tell ya who I am. I am the great OTRAIN that keeps coming at ya full speed ahead taking no prisoners! Probably my best talent would have to be my stellar singing voice. I'd hate to brag or anything but I have won quite a few singing awards in my hay day! I have been apart of award winning high school choirs at Shadle and of course a dynamite performance at the falls! The Oz's passion is definitely sports and let me tell ya sports around the clock is 24 hour a day 7 days a week 365 days a year it never stops! The Oz has a serious side to him this may be hard to believe but it's true. I really value my friendships and love my family so much they mean the world to me. Most of all I love Jesus for he is risen he has conquered the grave! I have written for various publications and I even scammed the Spokane Indians out of season press passes for a whole summer and did not write one story on any game just looked like I was writing and had free hamburgers, hot dogs and pop of course! Having a good time up there in the press box schmoozing with the local reporters and the scoreboard operation and sound guy and PA announcer hmmmm good times! Also you couldn't beat the view! I got caught by the owner of the Spokane Indians bobby brett um ha he just said if I need some tickets he will give them to me who needs tickets when you got two free press passes ha ha ha! Leah will testify that I do tend to fall down a lot I could be sober or drunk it really doesn't make a difference it just happens! I think I could go on about my awesome self but I think I have done enough damage for one night! So I'll leave you with this what are your thoughts on the great and powerful OZ? Well until next time may the Oz always be with you so long!

Survivor Island!

Hey friends it's Oz here for another solid edition of The Oz Files. Today's topic is If I were stranded on a deserted island what three things would I bring and why? This topic is intriguing if you ask me. Just imagine you are all by your self on a deserted island and you have to find a way to survive. There are no cell phones or emails or no digital devices and you have to dig deep inside to find the will to press on for your sheer survival of the game of life. Yes, it's a daunting task but you are in this situation and you have to find a way out and then you can tell your friends and family and who knows maybe some media outlets the whole story and you can have a nice laugh over it that is if you survive the elements! If I were stranded on a deserted island my first thoughts would be holy crap what am I going to do now? First of all you have to be grateful that your still alive and think of this situation as a positive not a negative. I would first papoose the area and see what all I had to work with and I find a way to make a shelter. That is the number one priority on antibody's list maybe or maybe not! The first item I would have on the island would be a huge box of matches. It's a very sound decision because without fire your life grows dimmer by each moment that passes. Making fire and keeping it going is very essential to survival and is also good for cooking meals that is if you can catch anything. Also fire is a good tool to utilize to make a S.O.S flare so someone can find you and that's the most important hing of all. My second item would be to have fishing equipment such as a fishing pole, bait and those sorts of things that is all in one group as a item. Without the fishing equipment I don't think your going to make much use of the firepit. You can catch some big fish and that could last you for a couple days. Drinking water could be an issue but I guess that's something I will have to deal with. My third and final item would be my shaving kit because I always want to look good no matter what. It's a shame to be all scraggly and look like your a bum! That's not how I roll and you never know maybe a shaving kit could come in handy down the line. Well these are my brilliant thoughts and I hope you enjoyed it! What would you bring and why! Well until next time may the Oz always be with you so long!

March Madness!

Hey friends it's oz here once again for a gripping edition of The Oz Files! Today is going to be a fun one with it being the start of march madness tomorrow and through out the the next few weeks it's gonna be a march madness edition of The Oz Files. I'd like to be the first one to say that WSU will not be in it this year they lost 1st rd at home to St Marys gotta dig it WSU blows! This is definitley the best time of year to be a sports fan. You gather up the "best" 64 teams and let them play it out and upsets prevail and the big teams go bye bye! There is always one team that becomes "cindarella" Gonzaga has had that title quite a few years agao! I will never forget the call with Gus Johnson saying the runnnnner THE SLIPPER STILL FITS GONZAGA OH BABY gives the Ozman chills and they are multiplying and yes they are definitley losing control! So i'd like to touch on the Syracuse Orangement for a minuite. They played in the Big East confrerence tourney last week and they really gaev it there all. With an instant classic with UCONN going six OT"s that is insane who does that? Then the next night they go to another OT game and survie that one how they did nobody will know. I would have to say pure addrenline. In the championship game against Louisville I think it all caught up to them and they did falter but wow what a great performacne I gotta tip the hat to the ORANGE! I'll let you know if the orange can get a few lucvky brakgs and get hot hey that team could win it all you never know! That was for you mr Blanchat! Some memorable moments from past NCAA tourneys have to be DREW for the WIN goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood! Goooooooooooooooooooooooooood! Wow what a great call Ted Robinson! You can't forget Chris Webber calling a timeout with no timewouts left with a lead against North Carolaina which resulted in a technial foul and CWEBB getting know as the guy who cost the Wolvarines the title! Nick Leute has requsted me to countdown the top 5 Douchebags in the NCAA tourney and even a wildcard that isnt' even in th tourney you girls will DIG IT! Let's start at number 5 and I'll have to go with all the 16 seeds in the tourney! Oz really commends you on your efforts on making it this far but I will have to sadly inform you that um you don't have a chance in hell to beat these great caliber #1 seeds so have fun back on campus and enjoy the driving range peace out 16 seeds! We now move to the number four position and the winner in this is Greg Paulis from Duke oh my God I hate Duke with a passion. They are on the same hate level as WSU wow that's a huge hatred I call it a loathing! Greg Paulis a little white guy who thinks he's all that and a bag of chips HOWEVA I don't think that much of you because your white and you think your black and you have a bad game playa! At number three were gonna go with Lorenzo Romar the head coach of the UW huskies! How lame are you bro when you don't want to play the Zags because you think and know your going to get your ass beat! You might as well wear a skirt and call ya susie because you have no balls check the unit! Now we move on to number two and I think I'm gonna go with Thabeet from UCONN he's this huge man beast who think he can get away with anything he wants too! I'm sorry dude this is AMERICA you can't do whatever the hell you want here you have to deal with consequences. So you can't just throw elbows and get away with it here man so so sorry! Don't cry when you don't get the calls nobody like that so be a man and take your beating! Okay we have come to the number one on this list and this one is going to be Jason off the bacheloer so girls have a nice giggle! I don't watch the bacheloer but Nick Leute thoght it would be a nice touch so there ya go! I'd also like to mention how epic it would be if Gonzaga faced off vs UW in the championship because you would have two washingotn state schools battling it out! Also UW would bow down to the Zags pure surpremency and they would love it take a royal beating behind the woodshed and yell uncle we surrentder! Wow that's a lot of blogging Skills right there yo so I hope you enjoyed this special edition of The Oz Files! Well until next time may the Oz always be with you SO LONG!

Long Live The Irish!

Hey friends it's Oz here for another rendition of The Oz Files! So it being the spirit of St. Patricks Day Leah has decided on a blog of St.Patricks Day. She said are you excited about doing a blog on St.Patricks Day lol I was quite hesitant but I guess we will see where the wind blows! I will start off by saying I am Irish and I am quite ashamed to let you all know that I did not know it was St. Patty's day until I got to work and I saw all the different shades of green. A pinch from a fellow coworker right in the arm on the flesh um not so nice at all! That is when I realized I had made a drastic mistake in forgetting that today was indeed St. Patricks Day! Maybe in 2010 I will get it right and maybe I'll do the pinching ha ha! What do people do on St. Pattys day? Well if you live in Ireland I'm pretty sure the whole country is shut down accept for the local pubs or bars that servce Alcohol. Rumor has it that the Irish like to drink and who can't blame em cheers all around! I am sure leprechauns love to drink but I am sure they only drink small shots because there tiny little bodies can't handle the heat of real alcohol! Bless there little leprechaun hearts! People in the United States Of America they drink on St. Patricks day but I am sure it's not on the level where it is in Ireland mate! Don't get me wrong you will definitely find a lot of people calling into work the next day saying they are sick but everyone knows what is going on you can't handle the thought of working with a hangover! I think for the most part Green Beer is a huge part of St. Pattys day and I have heard it's not that great and that really doesn't shock me to say the least. One thing I will say about the Irish, Notre Dame basketball blows blue balls big time they suck! Anyways those are a lot of thoughts for one person and it's raw emotion and definitely heart felt! So I hope you enjoyed this edition of The Oz Files. What do you like most about St.Patricks day A.K.A. St. Pattys and why? Well until next time may the Oz always be with you so long!

Animal Power!

Hey friends it's Oz here back again for another great discussion. Today I will be talking about what animal would I be and why? The possibilities are endless aren't they? There are wild animals and there are domestic animals it all depends what your preference is. I like tame animals and they call them wild animals for a reason. Just look at the alligator guy he died cuz he's stupid and got ate by an alligator or something! My choice is the ole fashioned pet we like to call a dog. Being a dog would be a lot of fun! To start off being a puppy is a good thing because you don't get in trouble for not being house broken so you can piss and take humongous craps in the house without getting in trouble. But as you get older if you still do it then you might get in trouble by your owners! Dogs can play fetch and do tricks and hell they can even enter some stupid dog shows! Also dogs can eat and sleep and play all day and they have not a care in the world! Dogs make good guard dogs or even a good hunting dog if you like hunting and I do not! Dogs love to give people kisses so that would be a lot of fun! Lastly all I have to say is a dog is truly a Man's best friend! What is your choice and why? Well until next time may the Oz always be with you so long!

Superheroes Revealed!

Hey friends it's Oz at your service once again. Today's blog topic got me really stumped and I hope I can BS my way through this. Leah thought it would be a good idea for me to talk about superheroes. Actually wants to know who my favorite superhero is and why? Gosh I've only seen the first two spiderman movies and the Dark Knight that is how much qualifications I don't have for this subject! I will dig down deep and find a way to contribute my two cents worth to this great nation we call the United States Of America. So as you all know it's down to two choices spiderman or batman? Batman is really cool however I have to go with my main man spiderman yo! Peter Parker is your average high school kid with good grades and all. He goes on a class field trip to a museum and a spider bites him how rude is that! That was a blessing in disguise because when that event happened that changed the course of Peter Parker's life forever may I quote Sandlot forever forever forever! So Peter Parker made this kick ass uniform he's half spider half man half amazing! Sorry couldn't resist myself. Spiderman fights crime in the city he meets people along the way that don't like him we like to call them villains! The people adored spiderman and well they should he was the peoples champion! spiderman always said can you smell what the web is weaving? The cool thing about spiderman is that he weaves these webs and scales buildings and swings from one building to another what a great guy! As you know he gets the girl Mary Jane she's smoking hot and he's quite the ladies man. So this my friends is my choice of a superhero. If your a comic nerd and try to prove these statements to be falsified then go read another comic book ha ha ha! What is your favorite superhero and why? Well until next time may the Oz always be with you so long!