This whole 24 Posts thing was an utter failure. Maybe I can finish before 2 weeks pass. Sheesh.

The Raiders beat the Steelers tho! This is easily the highlight of our season. Probably the last 6 seasons. We've sucked horribly since we lost to the Buccaneers in the Super Bowl and wins have not been easy to come by. But since we put Bruce Gradkowski in over JaMarcus Russell, I feel like I'm a fan of a bonified NFL team again.

Don't get me wrong. I fully expect us to finish 4-12 or maybe 5-11 but the fact my team is actually playing their hearts out on the field is an amazing sight. It's enough for me to maybe stop wishing death on Al Davis. Maybe.

So I will sleep the sleep of a satisfied Oakland Raider fan tonight and hoepfully everyone else's sleep will be restful too. Unless you're a Steeler fan and worried about missing the playoffs after a Super Bowl win AGAIN. No shots. lol.

Madden retired. Like 5 minutes ago. Really. Not that I'm shocked but i am a little saddened. I know he hasn't been on top of his game for awhile but not having him call a football game every weekend will be weird. I really missed Madden and Summerall and I hoped they would call one more game before one of them called it quits. I guess the chances of that happening are gone now. I think I'm more afraid of what Sunday Night NFL will sound like now, tho if they let Dan Patrick and Olbermann call the games that would be AWESOME. It'll never happen tho.

Thank you John Madden. Thank you for helping me fall in love with the NFL.

Jets 13
Raiders 16

That's win number two! lol.

Sorry popfiend. Not really. Ha!

Sapp says Kiffin treated unfairly, blames Davis for Raiders' mess

How dysfunctional are the Oakland Raiders? So dysfunctional that Warren Sapp warns anybody who asks him about signing there to stay far away.

Nobody tells you how bad it is," the former defensive tackle said on Showtime's "Inside the NFL." " ... any person that calls me on the telephone, [I tell them] do not go anywhere near Oakland."

Sapp, who retired after the 2007 season -- his fourth with the Raiders -- said that Lane Kiffin, fired this week by owner Al Davis, never got a fair chance in Oakland.

"He came in there with a change of mentality. The whole system," Sapp said on "Inside the NFL." "He changed how the locker room looked because it was going to take that kind of overhaul for Oakland to become the proud franchise we all knew it was."

Sapp said Oakland won't change for the better until Davis doesn't own the team anymore.

"[Davis] is the common equation," Sapp said on "Inside the NFL." "You take him out, put him at home watching film or whatever he is doing -- you have a functioning football organization. But once he comes over the top, he goes and starts moving it around.

"Al Davis knows football -- it's just '60s and '70s football. That's what it is. He's thinking that Cliff Branch is outside and [Jim] Plunkett is dropping back and you can throw it 80 yards down the field -- deep ball, deep ball, deep ball."

Sapp even said that Davis would call in plays when Sapp was playing for the Raiders.

"I remember the first two weeks I was there, we played a preseason game. Somebody came up one time and said, 'We're going deep right here, dog.' I said, how do you know? He said, 'The phone just rang.'

"All the preparation that goes into a week of work is there, the practicing that you have to put in order to do these things, sometimes [Al Davis] messed with that part of it and that's what kills you," Sapp said on "Inside the NFL."

I don't know where to start. It's nice to actually have a bunch of things I want to talk about instead of forcing out entries. Tho I'd rather have a decent post once a day. Oh well.

I started my new job at the Shoe Dept. It's not bad at all. I straighten up shoes and I ask people if they need help, which 70% of the time, they don't. When they do, I help them find a shoe or a size and then I get commission. Easy.

The house is about moved into. Angel and Heather unpacked a lot of the kitchen stuff when I was at work Friday. I still have a crap load of my clothes to put away. Angel still has to bring her clothes and some stuff. My computer is up and running and my mic is ready to be put back and and put into use.

I went to see Wiz Khalifa perform on Thursday at Octane. My homies Phyr Squad (and new Soundvizion labelmates) opened for him and killed it. David opened too. He was okay. I think he was more pressed by his upcoming homecoming king run. Seriously.

Wiz...wasn't that impressive. I like him better on the record than live. His live show looked like every other rapper's live show. But Octane was pretty packed so he didn't really care. After the show, I went downstairs with E to interview him. The bodyguard and some big mouth promoter and some guy that I guess was Wiz' manager didn't let me near him. E did his interview and I watched from about 6 feet away. Then a few minutes later Wiz came out and was next to me so I introduced myself as B Hyphen and I was with Monstalung and Soundvizion and I have a blog and I was planning to post his new mixtape. Then someone interrupted. When the interruption was over I tried to keep talking but Wiz gave me some wack ass hand signal that he was busy or to wait a second. I don't think it was wait a second tho. More like a whatever signal. So I went back upstairs.

Wiz Khalifa is a dick.

The weekend was pretty uneventful. I watched season 1 of House minus 4 episodes cause Chiv missed them by accident. I'll need to get season 2 off of him soon. Angel and I just enjoyed our new place for the most part and we went out to Fairmont to see a band Heather knows on Saturday. On the way back we saw a baby deer get hit by a motorcycle. Angel was shook up the rest of the way back.

I was going to watch the Cowboys/Packers game on Sunday night at Sports Page but Angel hit her head really hard and I didn't want her to drive home so she stayed another night and called off work in the morning.

I checked my email and saw that my dad had emailed me on Friday. He's been having back problems and they even found a small aneurysm in his pelvis. He said my mom is doing even worse than he is. I haven't been home since January and because of work I haven't been able to go home with Chiv even tho he's went back twice this month. I hope I'll find a break in my schedule so I can before soemthing happens that I'll regret for the rest of my life.

I got off of work around 10 and called Angel once I got to the station. I'm about to head home. I'm okay, just tired and worried. And hungry. Figure I'll get into some sloppy joes once I get home.

The good news: I really think I'm ready to write and record some new material. 6 will be happy about that. Because of living with Johnathan I found it difficult to write and record new music and I missed the opportunity to be on 6's new mixtape that's coming out. All I keep hearing about is how Phyr Squad submitted nine tracks. Good for them. They worked hard and they deserve it. I got love for those dudes. But my music comes to me when it comes. Plain and simple. But I'm ready to go back in. I just have to learn to stay back in.

I take what they give me. Silver & Black for life.

Edit: Irony. lol.

Excuse me while I get my victory dance on.

Direct quote from Chris Flynn August 14 2007
" I checked your track record/past stats... you know you lookin extra weak right?"

Season:

Chris (Wu-Tang Clan) 12-2
Me (The Megatron Dons) 8-6
I barely had the second best record.  But if you don't show up in playoffs, that great regular season means nothing.  Cheah.

The Raiders are currently 2-2 which equals a .500 record.  Thought I would make note of this before they go on a 12 game losing streak.  lol.

To the originator of the West Coast Offense.
http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-070730walsh,1,7744986.story?coll=cs-home-headlines