On my commute home last night Nate calls me with a ticket to the Cardinals vs Phillies. Having only seen a few games this season, and not seeing Nate too often, I happily accepted. When I arrived at Nate’s house I found out that Andrew “Hosscat” Reiter was also attending the game. Flanked by gingers we headed to our base camp at Hammersteins, where met a third Reiter, and ate a few brats before catching the Hammerstein shuttle to the ballpark.
Andrew and Jeff Reiter already had tickets so Nate and I headed around the stadium to the ticketing office to pickup our tickets. When we finally got into the stadium, no more than 10 seconds inside, some guy handed us two tickets for field level. The tickets were 14 rows back from Pujols, really great seats.
The game started off pretty grim, with several home runs by the Phillies. Ryan Howard hit a line drive grand slam that if it weren’t for the stadium, would probably be landing just about now. Eventually the Phillies would get a 11-0 lead on the Cardinals. It was around this time we decided it was time to head out. We caught the shuttle back to Hammersteins during the 7th inning stretch. When we get back to the bar, we find out the cardinals have closed the lead from 12-0 to 11-9 between the 6th and 7th innings. We left before one of the most amazing comebacks in Cardinal history. Begrudgingly we watch the final two innings from Hammersteings, and the Cardinals end up losing 13-11, but not before rallying from an enormous deficit that I only partially witnessed.
This story blows my mind, some lunatic purchased a World of Warcraft account for $9700. Granted the account was pretty spectacular including legendary items, top tier armor, and various other drops, but nearly 10 grand is absolutely mind botteling. I sold my account and purchased a Xbox 360, but my puny $450 is only 21% of what this guy pulled in. The funniest thing about this whole story is that the publicity around this huge sale may have contributed to the account being banned. Selling accounts is strictly prohibited by Blizzard. If this is true then some guy just got Pwn3d!!!
Speaking of money and MMOs, Fury a new PvP-based game is encouraging players to play by giving away over $2 Mil in prizes during its beta test. Step 1) Install Fury Step 2) …… Step 3) Proffits $$$$
The new Nightwish album drops on October 2nd. Judging from the music videos on YouTube, this new album is going to be spectacular. Nightwish is running a special on their website. If you preorder the CD from Nebury Comics, you will receive an autographed CD booklet from the band!
I wasn’t a huge fan of the Watchmen comic book. I actually got really bored with it and stopped about half-way through. Judging from the buzz from others, apparently I’m in a minority. The announcement of a Watchmen movie was met with huge interest among my fellow comic book geek brethren. Recently the cast was announced, and looks to have some decent names among the cast list. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (the dad from Supernatural among other things) is a great choice as The Comedian.
Mark Ecko, the guy behind Ecko Ulimited, paid over $750,000 for Barry Bond’s record breaking home run ball. Now he’s asking the fans to vote on what he should do with it. The choices are: Bestow it to the Hall of Fame, brand it with a giant asterisk before giving it to the Hall of Fame, or launching it into space. I voted for the asterisk!
Absolutely floored by this news about a former classmate and friend.
UPDATE: A sneak peek at the next Working Dead comic. Its not quite finished, but we’ll eventually be moving it to its own website.
