Til Death Do Us Part

With Opening Day under two weeks away, teams are tweaking their lineups, and getting themselves ready for The Show. From the looks of it, the Minnesota Twins are gearing up for Opening Day 2010 as well as Opening Day 2018. The Twins locked up perennial All-Star and MVP powerhouse catcher Joe Mauer for eight years and $184 million. Care to do the math? $23 million a year, plus a full no-trade clause throughout.

This year, Joe Mauer is the face of "MLB '10: The Show." Last year, Dustin Pedroia received the honor. Everyone's heard of the Madden curse, the stretch of a few years where whatever player was featured on the cover of John Madden's football videogame either got injured or had a career-worst year. Obviously that can be argued, but for the most part, it rings completely true. On the contrary, it looks like The Show has the opposite effect.

2010 -- 8-year, $184 million for Joe Mauer.

2009 -- 6-year, $40.5 million for Dustin Pedroia.

2008 -- $10 million in arbitration case, World Series ring for Ryan Howard

2007 -- 4th straight All-Star appearance, Gold Glove for Carlos Beltran

2006 -- 4-year, $50 million contract, not to mention 54 home runs (Red Sox record), 137 RBI and 5 walk-off hits for David Ortiz

Minute To Win It

Now I know some of you out there probably are all about this new Healthcare stuff, but I think the masses fail to realize there is something much greater going on. Something that has already stretched across the nation, and that could potentially affect everyone: NBC's "Minute To Win It" game show.



I'm not big on Guy Fieri either, but it's still one of the best shows on television. Best part about it? You can play all of these games with stuff you probably already have laying around the house/your dorm room. Check it out, and go nutty.

http://www.nbc.com/minute-to-win-it/how-to/

Music History

I was in West Virginia the past week, so my bad for not posting. But I was flipping around the iTunes and 'Iris' by the Goo Goo Dolls, and then remembered the most epic live performance in music history...

Best News Story of the Century

I was just flipping around the web, and was checking out the only blog site better than this one (Barstool Sports, Boston), and saw this video. This is one of the most inspirational, touching, romantic, awesome, cool, and hell even heart-wrenching stories I've seen in my life.

If this doesn't boost you to at least Cloud 7 or 8, then you have a problem.

What...

Free hat to whoever tells me what the hell this video is for/about. Hurry, please. Sanity depends on it.

Bow In The Presence of Greatness

Congratulations on the ornithological name, following in the footsteps of guys like The Byrds, Black Crowes and The Eagles. Any reason?
Thanks, but I really don't have a good answer. It's two words that make people ask that question - but the beauty of it may be in the ambiguity.

From an interview with BBC. What a great line from this guy. Who knew such talent could come leaping out of his parents basement in Owatonna, Minnesota. Don't get me wrong though, I can get down with some Owl City. Coming to the House of Blues in Boston April 23rd. Tickets are $20. Whyyy wouldn't you go to that?

We Need Your Help...

The 7 Day Weekend guys are trying to come up with a list of every Tom Hanks movie. AMC had 'Forrest Gump' week this past week, so it got us to thinking...How many other AWESOME movies has this guy been in? We have most of the ones you're probably thinking of, but feel free to comment anyway and name any you can think of.