Diego's Ramblings...

Diego sent me a bunch of links for all yinz, but in true Snack fashion, I've been busy running around doing stuff all day...so here's his thoughts about the game tonight and his links will be up later tonight...

Well its Monday, so that means one thing, Diego is back and bringing you the Monday Morning Hangover. Nonetheless today isn’t just any normal Monday, it is a Monday Night Football Monday in Pittsburgh. If you are from the Pittsburgh or surrounding area, then you understand what I’m talking about; that the importance of this day lies somewhere between the holidays of New Years Eve and St. Pattys Day. The fact that it is against the Ravens and we are wearing the throwbacks only makes it that much more awesome.

Shannon Sharpe, I hate his guts, I can’t understand one word this horse faced jackass says during the halftime show. Where the hell is his brother? Maybe he can translate this nonsense for me since I don’t speak jive. They would include captions when he talks, but no one cares what he has to say anyway. I am sure, like me, Cowher wants to strangle the life out of this useless human being. With that said, he is still better then Emmitt Smith who I am pretty sure doesn’t even know how to read, and Deon Sanders who is quite possibly the most obnoxious and intolerable human being on the planet.

It really sucks to have to be sitting at work all day waiting for this f’n game, I don’t wanna do any work; I am ready to drink some Iron’s, eat some hamburgers, freeze my balls off, and yell some obscenities at grown men wearing purple shirts. Trust me, the folks I work with won’t appreciate it if I start mf’ing the ambiguously gay coworker, who wears the purple polo shirts to work a little too much…in a little more then 4 hours I will be joining the Steelers Nation in celebrating the festivities tonight and I’ll try to bring back some pics to post up tomorrow for you.

Finally, the sign I wanna see tonight but I am too lazy to make… “HEY ESPN: Put Merril in the Booth” I am sick of hearing Kornheisers lame jokes and corny observations. I like him on PTI, but as far as MNF is concerned he gotta go.

Until lata...

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Good Morning Boys and Girls...

Here's some links and morning news from Snack...Diego should have his Monday Morning Hangover done sometime today (we hope)...

Last night, the Steelers held a gala recognizing the 75th anniversary of the team as well as the naming of the All-Time Steelers team...It's always nice to see old guys such as Jack Ham and Mean Joe rubbing elbows with big C. Hamp and Hines...and judging by how Mean Joe looks, he could still put on the pads and rip Old Balls McNair a new one...

Yea, I'm the man...

In other Steeler news, the Ravens come to town tonight, fresh off their bye and angry as hell over a 4-3 record...Oh no, I'm scared of a 72 year old Ray Lewis chasing down Willie from behind...HAHAHAHAHA....with the exception of Ed Reed, their defense is good, not great, and the Steelers SHOULDN'T have any problems, but as we all know, that doesn't mean it'll be easy...GO STEELERS!!!

In honor of my boy Dog, who appears to be dead in the water since his show was taken off the air, I'm posting what I consider the funniest South Park clip ever...Peace out, Dog, hope you enjoyed your 15 minutes, we all sure as hell did...

Cartman is the dog
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That strike I discussed yesterday has happened...The Writers Guild of America is on strike , meaning that all of your favorite shows may have to play repeats...But not until Christmas, as most primetime shows were smart enough to tape well ahead...Watch out though, Stephen Colbert, John Stewert and Jay Leno are all up the creek without a paddle...

Today's the day they announce John Russell as manager...I was somewhat excited about this, until I read that one reason he was hired was that his horrible team last year didn't quit on him...No one, besides his ex employer (who is bound by professional code to sing his praises) has mentioned what a great baseball guys he is. Maybe I'm just not aware of his other talents, but why would we hire a manager who had a 55-88 record last year including having the league's worst team ERA, least homeruns and fewest runs scored? Looks like he was managing the AAA version of the Buccos. A losing minor league season AND a previous stint with our Buccos (post-1995)...How did we get so lucky?

I wonder who's hand he had to shake to get this job...

Finally, we want to start your work week off in style...so here's a link to the trailer for John Rambo, the last movie in the Rambo series (which still stars Sly Stallone)...This thing has got to be the best trailer I've seen in years, and I'd like to thank loyal reader Bobinkle for helping his boy Snack out...

Until lata today...

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Snack's Midday Munch...

We can put this article in the "women buy the dumbest things" category. A South "Scarolina" (chuckle chuckle) woman stole over $2.5 million from Lube USA and spent ALL the money on shoes, clothes and jewelery. Just wait till you see the end where it tells you how much money all the stuff was sold back for.Nice investment lady....

Here's another link I'm yanking from my boy Mondesi...It's about a Seahawk fan in Da 'Burgh for the Steelers-Hawks game. It's interesting to see how well we treated him, seeing as I've been known to throw down with opposing fans on occasion (I blame the beer and their stupidity) and I know yinz have too.

Looks like Diego's uncle Joe Torre may be close to a deal with the Dodgers to be their new manager. With A-Rod hitting the free agent market, could a reunion be in the making in the City of Angels?

And just to show yinz my love of all things mafia, here's a link to Jerry Capeci's This Week in Gang Land article...It updates every week and keeps you up to date on the goings on of Jr. Gotti and all of his cohorts from across the country.

Until tonight...

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Monday Morning Hangover...

Alright, well after sobering up from the weekend festivities, it's none other than Diego the great here stopping in to write his first weekend recap for pierogis n’at hereby titled the Monday Morning Hangover. In this segment I’ll recap this weekend’s sports action, the stuff I care about at least, and give you some insights and observations I made while I was watching the games, greazing, and drinking some Irons…

The weekend in sports started off pretty f’n weak, as they didn’t even give as a World Series game on Friday night. I mean I am as sick of baseball as the next guy, but there wasn’t even a college football game on Friday night. So if you were looking for any sports action your best bet would have been to go to a high school football game and hit on some “mature looking” high school students. To quote Matthew McConaughey’s Wooderson from Dazed and Confused, “That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

Speaking of high school football did anyone else see that Jeanette Greesburg CC game Thursday night on FSN? Ya, I didn’t either, but while tuning in before the start of the Pens game they showed one highlight of the two TD’s Jeanette had already scored. It involved All-Everything QB Terrell Pryor aka Superboy faking a handoff right and running a naked boot left, scoring about a 10 yard TD, and along the way just about decapitating a poor Greensburg CC linebacker… and not only did he just about knock this kid into next week but this kid was also rewarded with Pryor giving him the longest "f you buddy I’m sure you’ll remember this when your watching me play starting for Ohio St. next year in both football and basketball stares that I’d ever seen in my life". It looks like Pryor is already a pro at bruising both bodies and egos alike. If you don’t know about this kid check out and crawl out from whatever rock you’ve been living under.

I was looking forward to Saturday because its finally that time of the year when we are getting past all the BS in college football now that the Penn St.’s and OSU’s of the world are done playing teams the likes of Florida International and Kent St we can finally see some real ball and some rivalry games. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending how you look at it, I had tickets to the Pens game that evening, so I couldn’t watch highly touted OSU-Penn St match up at 8:00, I had to settle for a little Pitt-Louisville action at high noon.

My first thought after watching a few series from this Pitt game is the same thought I had after watching every Pitt game so far this year… these guys are hard to watch. With such a young group of players Pitt just looks disorganized and they have trouble executing, constantly starting out the game going three and out. Once again Pitt offense underperforms gaining only 270 yards on a team that hasn’t been able to stop anyone all year long. Pitt did do a good job of holding future NFL QB Brian Brohm to well under his season average in passing yards.

Still, the story of the game was Shady McCoy getting a case of fumbilitis on the one yard line, just as we were about to tie the game up. Although it’s easy to point fingers at Wannstache (shout out to Mondesi’s house) or Cavanaugh for the disappointing season, the bottom line is they are doing the best with a depleted roster due to injury, and with the young talent they have. After all, it’s not easy to win games when starting three true freshmen on offense in any conference, let alone the Big East.

On a positive note, the last two weeks have shown that Pitt isn’t giving up. After coming back to upset 23rd ranked Cinci, and this week almost completing a comeback against Louisville, Pitt showed that they have a solid core of young players led by freshmen starters McCoy and Pat Bostick. Hopefully Pitt can finish the season strong with a few more wins to have momentum built up for next year because after this disappointing season Pitt fans are just counting down the days till hoops starts. The Trib’s take on it

JoePA craps his pants again (figuratively) and Happy Valley is left dejected as #1 OSU silences critics and Penn St fans alike. Penn St. Sucks

West Virginia keeps their win streak alive and stays in contention for the Big East Title and BCS bowl birth. WVU Sucks

Uconn proves to skeptics they are for real taking out South Florida and staying at the top of the Big East standings. UConn Sucks Too

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Update...

So we didn't get as many articles as we hoped up yesterday, had some logistical problems but THEY WILL be up today...Diego's Monday Morning Hangover will be up tonite and it will blow yinz away...Diego isn't half the moron I thought he was...

As for what I, the Snack Master will be up to this fine Tuesday evening, I'll be at the Snack Shack (my crib) watching the Pens on Versus. Hopefully we start Danny Sabourin but I doubt it as I'm sure they'll try and get Fluery's confidence back up against the Wild.

I'd like to see us come out of our shell a little bit tonite too. I think a game where we score five or six goals and absolutely demolish a team could set us back on the track we were on last year. Playing .500 hockey as we are now is not good enough with the talent we have, and if we don't get hot quickly, I could very easily see Michel Therrien getting the axe around the All-Star break. He only got a one year extension, and there had to be a reason for that. Snack thinks Ray Shero wanted Therrien to prove last year wasn't a New Orleans-style fluke (with the Pens potentially leaving doesn't it seem like the team played for us the way the Saints played for New Orleans after Katrina?).

Who knows, maybe it's just a bad start and I'm making moutains out of mole hills.I guess only time will tell...

For the time being, yinz can check out this tribute to Sid the Kid I found on youtube..it'll get ya all fired up for our national TV broadcast tonite...

Until lata tonite...

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Pens lose...

So the Pens lost in OT to the Canadians, and Snack and Diego were in the house...not a good omen to start the blog off with a loss, but hey, at least we got a point...

Some observations...

1. It was good seeing Sid the Kid getting physical...especially since he was scrapping with Alex Kovalev. It really got the crowd going and was the impetus of that two goal outpour in the second. I only wish he woulda dropped the gloves for the first time in his NHL career. Talk about bringing down the house, that woulda been front page news in every newspaper in Canada. I can see the picture now, Sid bleeding from the face like that poor bastard from Chicago who got his nose busted two games in a row.

2. Marc Fluery is as inconsistent as advertised. I watched those two games in a row where he looked like Patrick Roy reincarnated, and I had hoped all this was behind him...God, was I wrong. Those goals he allowed tonight looked soft and his confidence gotta be shattered.

On the same note, Dan the Man Sabourin looked outstanding in that shootout. I swear he has the quickest glove I've ever seen. I can't believe he stopped 5 shots in the shootout and still came away with the loss. Where did the vaunted Pens attack go? You'd think as talented as they are, they'd be better at shootouts, but I guess 1-on-1 isn't their strongpoint.

3. I was not a big fan of how many Canadian fans were in attendance. For a team that prides itself on selling out all its games, it seems a lil odd for so many fans of a different color to be there. But I guess that's what happens when you play an Original 6 team (except the aforementioned Blackhawks...no one gives a damn about them...). Thank God those Pens girls were running around the crowd to liven up the "atmosphere". And whoever Vinny from the X is, you better watch yourself...you might be the next victim of a Snack Attack!

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Welcome to the site....

Pierogisnat.com is your one-stop shop for all things Pittsburgh. We’ll have a daily segment written by one of our staff writers (Big Snack and Diego) and will have links to pages that yinz guys will like. Our segments will hit on the hot topics of the day, or whatever the hell we feel like talking about. Nothing is off-limits, and any topics you wanna hear us take on just send us a message or post what you think under our original article (trust me, we won’t be offended if you think we got it wrong…Diego maybe, but Snack’s cool).

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Our inside sources give us the best trade rumors and our slight gambling problem gives us the edge when we tell you who to bet on come Sunday afternoon. We’ll pick all the big games and give you our reasoning…we won’t guarantee a win and nobody in their right minds would listen to us (especially Snack) when it comes to working the lines, but it’ll be another resource for yinz guys going to see your man over in Bloomfield.

Snack and Diego are recent college grads who have bled black and gold for 25 years a piece, and this site is their way to add their twisted take on everything Pittsburgh and to makes yinz guys laugh your buns off watching videos (like the classic Brian Trottier and Kevin Stevens versus Brian Bellows during the Stanley Cup…hilarious) and reading our homemade Top 10 lists (such as the Top 10 biggest criminals in sports and Top 10 most beloved Steelers of all-time).

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