WWE Friday Night Smackdown! @ Cow Palace, SF

Tomorrow, WWE Smackdown tickets go on sale for the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Normally I'm thinking, YES! WWE in the bay area lets go! But let me tell you a little story about the Cow Palace...

2 years ago, my dad and I went to WWE No Way Out at the infamous Cow Palace. Now remember this was after the terrorist bombings. Every event has high security. Well the thing about the Cow Palace is that there is only 1 enterance. So you take 15,000 people and stick them into 1 entrance... do you see what's happening here? The show starts at 4:30 for Sunday night Heat We were in line at 3:30. We didn't get in till 5:30. Ever since then we decided NEVER to go back to the Cow Palace for an event. It just wasn't good.

To make matters worse, I wrote a letter to WWE and the Cow Palace. They were never answered. Fine that's ok. I just won't go to the Cow Palace ever again.

Though I would love to go see the Smackdown! Stars. I refuse to step foot in the Cow Palace again.

Laterz

A's, Giants Eliminated from Postseason

2 Days ago the A's were eliminated by the Angels (again) in Oakland (again) for the 2nd time in a row. To be honest, I'm NOT surprised the A's didn't make it. There was a certain something that they are missing that makes them from a Contender to a Western Division Champion. I think it is the intangables, the Xfactor, the Leader of the group. In years past they had Giambi, Tejada, and Hudson who were THE team leaders. This year they had an inconsistant Chavez (.200 ba in April), an injured Crosby, and an inconsistant Zito.
But lets look at the positives: Rookies, Swisher, Johnson, Street, and Blanton, were HUGE for this team and will only get better. The starting rotation can only get better with Haren, Blanton, Harden (healthy), and Saarloos. (I still believe they will trade Zito in the offseason). Ellis is a comeback player, even though he won't get it because he's on the west coast. It will be interesting to see what they do... oh by the way, Macha deserves a new contract. we'll see...

As for the Giants. Well, No Bonds and the entire West goes south... If the Giants were .500 they'd be the champs. But San Diego eliminated them too. If Bonds were healthy it'd be a completely different outlook for the Giants. There will be more turn over in SF than Oak. My guess is Durham, Alfonso, and Snow are gone. The Outfield will have Bonds, Winn, and Alou, the Infield will have Feliz, Visquel, (2b) and Niekro. Matheny catching. Maybe the A's will send them one of their 2nd basemen...

Well Baseball in the Bay Area is over... (well 5 more games left, and no playoffs) sooo... HOCKEY SEASON!!! Sharks are 6-0-0 in the Preseason! and look great! so I'm switching to Hockey! Laterz

Marvel (comics) The House of M

We're entering the last month of House of M story line that crosses over (Astonishing) X-Men and (New) Avengers.
Summary of Events: If you blinked, you missed alot. Without too much detail (I hope) heres the prelude:

1. Wanda Maximoff, using her power to change probability, creates 2 children. But when confronted with her "imaginary kids" she goes MAD.
   
2. Avengers 500-503, she goes beserk, killing her teammates and causing her team, the Avengers, to disband. Magneto (her father) appears and takes her away to get help.
   
3. Magneto and Professor X fail to help her. Dr. Strange, who understands Wanda's powers, also fails.
   
4. The (New) Avengers and the (Astonishing) X-Men are called together to decide her fate, continue to help, or put her tormented soul to rest. But before that can happen, she turns up missing (after a visit from her dad and brother (Quicksilver)).
5. BLINK BLINK and Wanda's powers are used to recreate the entire universe. The Mutants are the dominat species, and normal Humans are the minority. and the leadership is the "House of M" people referred this to be the "House of Magneto" or "House of Magnus"
   

HOUSE OF M. It's the main story is is worth all 8 issues (only 6 are out so far). Basically, Wolverine wakes up in another life and discovers (somehow) everything is wrong, he runs into a kid who knows the same thing, except she is a psycic who can fix people's minds. so they, along with Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and others go around fixing people's minds, like Emma Frost, Cyclops, Daredevil, and others. This is the best story out of House of M.
So they spun off all these issues:

• House of M: Spiderman - Spider-man poses as a mutant until J Johnason reveals he is a human bit by a spider. This story is interesting, however I think it is a "flash back story" not impacting the present.
• House of M: Iron Man - Another flashback story on how the Humans are resisting the mutants.
• House of M: Fantastic Four - Dr. Doom's Fearsome Four; and how Dr. Doom tried to take over the House of M, but loses his family instead.
• Uncanny X-Men - I don't know how this plays into everything, Capt. Britian gets pulled into a universe and Psylocke and Marvel Girl are along for the ride. This story sucks right now.
  
• Incredible Hulk - he becomes a leader of some island. but turns out Magneto wanted him to be the leader. It is "HINTED" that the Hulk will turn on Magneto. It almost sounds like the US/Saddam Hussain situation... crazy huh?
• Mutopia X - I dont understand this one. it really does suck. Following Bishop around. Who cares?
• Cable/Deadpool - Even MORE POINTLESS. They're jumping through dimensions and so happen to fall into the House of M dimension. Then they leave. BIG WHOOP!
• I haven't touched a few of them: New X-Men, Black Panther, New Thunderbolts. These are beginning to waste my time.
• The one I want, however haven't gotton, is the Capt. America #10. They had a touching moment in HoM, where they were about to fix his mind, however Capt America was over 80 yrs old, in this world not been frozen over time (like the original timeline).

All in all, this storyline is supposed to change the entire universe. It still can. It will be different. However all these stories seem to be pointless at times. And I'm wasting my money on pointless stories.

The big question out of all of this is: Who is behind the House of M? Here is my Guess... Ready?

Pietro Maximoff aka QUICKSILVER

The "M" in House of M doesn't stand for Magneto or Magnus. It stands for Maximoff. Pietro is over protective of his sister and will do anything to stop anyone from killing her. so he manipulates his sister to recreate the world.

I guess we'll see at the end of October (unless it gets pushed back again)...

Marvel Video Game Month!

Marvel Comics has gone wild! Check out the games it has released this last month:

• The Incredible Hulk: Total Destruction - Looks like a really good game where everything is breakable and hulk going nuts breaking stuff
  
• X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalyse - I love this game! Pick a team of 4 X-Men/Brotherhood and fight Apocalypse!
  
• Marvel Nemisis - A streetfighter type game, spiderman, Ironman, and Thing and others fight a bunch of cyborg-ed up, characters trying to take over the world!
  
• Ultimate Spiderman - Be Spiderman... or be VENOM! Gotta love that!

Only Nemisis looks kinda weak, however I'm still going to check it out. All the games have high marks. Maybe Marvel finally figured it out how to make good games!
You probaly won't see me for a week. I'm trying to beat X-Men Legends 2!

Laterz

X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse

Based on the success of X-Men Legends, Raven has developed X-Men Legends 2 Rise of Apocalypse. Watching the trailers, it looks really good. I hope they improved on some of the replayability of the game. I'll Update this Entry with a review as soon as I go rent it down at Block Buster.
Until then check out their website:
X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
From XML1 : Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Gambit, Iceman, Jean Grey, Rogue, Nightcrawler
New playable characters: Magneto, Toad, Bishop, Sunfire, Scarlet Witch, Juggernaut

Badguys: Apocalypse, Mr Sinester, Abyss, ArchAngel, Makhail, Grizzley, Sauron, Omega Red, Bastion, Deathstrike, Stryfe, Zealot, Holocaust, Deadpool, SugarMan

This game is PACKED the Trailers look good, plus Online play is there. so this should be a good game! Review coming soon!

--- I got the game! It's great! Its just like the first game! Lots of nonplayable characters appear too. soo far, Blink, Sabretooth (who I thought we should be able to play) and Mystique, and Angel. It's crazy!

Wazzzup fools

Alrighty. Here's my first Blog, brought to you by Blogger.com, blogspot.com and aka who knows what else. So I'm going to toy with this for awhile. then eventaully get it to publish on my website. so that will be awesome. I'll soon find out if this works or not. Until then hold on tight prepare for a ride.
Some Ideas I'll talk about:
1) Taylor (my niece)
2) Sports (including the WWE)
3) Comics
4) COmic movies
5) Chicks... hot chicks, like Cheerleaders.
6) Tech News.
7) Well that's alot, whatever the hell I think I should talk about...

Word up, take it easy, and enjoy