At least I'm in the door...

Well, I finally got tickets to Anaheim. Don't get me started on the 25-dollar per-ticket ticketbastard charges. I also had two pre-sale passcodes (one for me, one for Melissa), and I couldn't use one of them. But, hey, at least we're going. And my friends and I have a total of eight seats, all between sections 410-412.

Screwed By TicketBastard

Ticketmaster and U2.Com had a grat partnership set up. Until ticketmaster remembered that they are a direct desendant of Satan. U2.com fan club members were allowed access to a special pre-sale for tickets to the upcoming Vertigo//2005 tour.

However, the ticketmaster pre-sale went off like a Anna Nicole Oscar acceptance speech. Myself along with three friends all attempted to use our pre-sale access today for the on-sale all ALL THREE OF THEM got tickets. All I got were error messages from ticketbastard. And I'm sitting here with 2 hours of my life wasted and NO tickets.

Doing the SAG Dance

Freddie Highmore was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award today for his supporting role in Finding Neverland. He won't win, but it was great to see him recognized, since it wasn't a powerful enough "child actor" role to get noticed by the Oscars. He was amazing in that movie, outshining both Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet (Depp was nominated as well today for Neverland, Winslet for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).

Next up for Highmore, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory!

R.I.P.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1958082

Today the team name has been officially changed to The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Ok, I'm not one of those retarded Angels fans that is going to denounce the team, and say that I won't be a fan anymore, only to continue to fill the stadium year after year. I understand the principle behind it, although I REALLY don't like it. Although I have nothing personal against Los Angeles as a city, I despise what "Los Angeles" represents in the sports world. When I was a kid, I loved the Showtime Lakers, but I don't even like The Association any more, so I just don't care about Kobe & Co. And Duck the Fodgers. I HATE the boys in blue. I HATE chavez Ravine. I won't go to a game at Dodger Stadium, because I value my life and my car.

I DO NOT want my team to be called the LOS ANGELES anything. I know that this will possibly bring stronger T.V. revenues and therefore more money to put a better product on the field (which of course has been working so well for the Yankees the last few years). And I also understand that Anaheim is too localized. But don't call us something that we are not. I would have been happy to change it back to the California Angels, afterall, we ARE in California. I would have been happy with the Southern California Angels. But NOT Los Angeles.

I still like Arte Moreno, for everything he has done for this team, but I don't like the plan to become more attractive to hispanic fans because, call me a racist if you want (even though I'm not), it's only going to turn US into the Dodgers with the lowest quality and caliber "fans" in baseball.

Oh well. Still the defending AL West champs, still going back to the World Series next year.