Video game laughs, go Marlins

You may not get a laugh out of this if you don’t play video games but maybe you will. Last night I decided to throw in NFL2K3 on my Xbox and go online to play with the XBOX Live service. Live is a service that allows you to play people worldwide and also has cool features like letting you talk to your opponents as you play. So I find a game. I haven’t played NFL2K3 in at least 6 months so I will suck for sure but I just wanted a casual game. We get to the team choice screen. I say HI. No response. I say helllllllo. Nothing. Evidently this player does not care to speak. (it can be turned off) Ok no big deal. He picks the Eagles as his team, oh well that is my team normally but I don’t mind playing as someone else because it’s just for fun. I pick the Rams and then wait. I watch him goin through dozens of screens customizing his roster, play selections, selections, everything….. What the hell, I say, even though I know he isn’t listening. Evidently this guy takes his NFL2K3 seriously. Still I laugh it off. Finally he is done tweaking his team and we start. I win the toss and receive. On my first possession I go 3 and out and gain like 1 yard. I punt to him. On his first play he throws a 65 yard touchdown pass! Grrrr. Then after the play he pauses the game goes into the stat screen and highlights his passing statistics and keeps flashing the screen. He was basically talking smack without speaking. It didn’t take me long to figure out he was trying to punk me. I was laughing still but I also wanted to give some pay back. Soon I remembered enough about playing that I was able to score and tie it up. I returned the favor by bringing up the stats screen and highlighting my stuff. 🙂 We went back and forth till halftime. Him flashing stats, showing me replays and just generally being annoying. By halftime I think he was ahead by a touchdown, 28-21 or something like that. Regrettably I had to flick it off at that time to go catch Survivor. Funny stuff. Had to see the non-verbal taunting to appreciate it. 🙂

I am a Marlin backer. Even though they bumped my Phillies out of the playoffs, it’s hard to not like this team. Basically a bunch of younger guys just playing their asses off. Although I haven’t seen any of the series games to their conclusion due to sleepiness, I have watched the majority of all the games. It made me remember why I enjoyed playing baseball. The one on one confrontation between pitcher and batter is what I miss the most. The Marlins closer has a great name, Ugeth Urbina. Perfect name for a closer.

Tomorrow we plan on going to the beach and renting ocean kayaks. 3 years ago we were going to do it and didn’t with the idea that we would do it soon. Well 3 years isn’t soon but better late than never. My mom cleaned up the house yesterday on her day off so that was a nice surprise, less for us to do this weekend.