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I’m Excited in November #2 Colts vs. Patriots

Nov 17

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal

I’ve been documenting throughout the month ten things that I’m really excited about.

#2 New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts

I was so pumped for this game. So many questions to answer. Can the Colts survive a banged up secondary and put up enough points to stop Tom Brady? Can Tom and his team of studs kick the habit of losing to the Colts.

Well after 60 minutes, 702 passing yards, 69 points and one of the most controversial plays in the last 5 years not many questions were answered.  It was 4th down and two yards to go.  You’d expect the Patriots to punt the ball knowing they are up 6 points and a little over two minutes to go in the game.  Let Peyton Manning beat you.  Nope not today The Patriots go for it on their own 29 yard line and don’t get the first down.  Peyton marches his team down and scores with 13 seconds left on the clock.  It reminded me of playing Madden Football online.  You always go for it, because who cares.  Apparently Bill Belichick has played one to many games himself.

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#3 I’m excited about in November “Reality Killed The Video Star”

Nov 10

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal

Over the last few days I’ve been writing about what I’m excited about in November.

#3 Robbie William’s new album “Reality Killed The Video Star”

If you haven’t heard of Robbie Williams I’m not surprised. He’s huge across the pond, but in the United States not many know who he is. He’s sold over 70 million albums and is returning after getting sober with his new CD.
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It will be interesting to see if he can return to form considering Eminem has been unable since getting Sober.  He’s enlisted super producer Trevor Horn who is famous for not only writing Video Killed the Radio Star, but also bringing Seal out of homeless ness and into Heidi Klum’s arms. Check out his latest single below and the album is available everywhere as of today.  He’s already moved 85,000 physical units in one day in the United Kingdom.


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Things I’m Excited About in November #5

Nov 2

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal, Technology

#5 The Final Table at the World Series of Poker (November 7th - 10th)

Beginning last year the WSOP decided that they would hold off having the Final Table in July and instead make the final 9 players wait until November to finish what they had started.  What that means is the nine players who finished in the Top 9 out of 6,954 players have been sitting around for 120 days collecting endorsements and brushing up on their skills before their poker battle.

This year is extremely unique because of who is involved.  Phil Ivey.  Arguably poker’s greatest player has finally made it to his first WSOP final table.  You could argue why hasn’t he gotten here before if he is so great, well when you are competing against 7,000 other people a certain amount of luck is involved.  Well he has arrived and is ready to unleash his greatness.  Currently Vegas has him as at 7/2 to win the whole thing which I think isn’t high enough considering he has the 3rd to lowest stack of chips.

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How Can You Watch the World Series of Poker?

It is going to be broadcasted on ESPN via  short tape delay  on November 10th from 9 to 11:30 eastern.  Be sure to tune in.

You can see previous entries of what I’m excited about in November here.

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Ten Things I’m Excited About In November #7

Oct 30

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal

Reading The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons.

Bill Simmons is a writer for ESPN who spends a great deal of time worshipping Boston Sports and relating pop culture to the world of sports.  However, over the last few years I’ve grown tired of his columns and podcasts, but I’m really excited for this book. He talks with such passion about basketball and the book is over 500 pages!  Any editor in their right mind would have had Bill shrink the book down to save money if it sucked.

I’ve so far completed the first 50 pages of the book and have found myself laughing out loud to the reference of having unprotected sex with your wife referred to as “pulling the goalie” and his meeting with Isiah Thomas at a topless pool in Vegas.  The next 460+ pages I hope are just as good.

You can read #8, #9 and #10 as well.

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