Alcohol Evolution

Big surprise...Mac became Season 6's Ultimate Fighter. He won by rear naked choke in the third round. As for the rest of the fights, I don't remember too many of them due to the fact that I was drinking. Marcy's birthday was last Wednesday, so I went to Candor this weekend. Last year around this time, I came up here just to get out of the house. I wasn't really into drinking. I only drank once or twice and that was in March. There was one party in March that almost got me to swear off alcohol period. Marcy had tried to get me to drink with all of them before, but she kept on wanting me to do shots of vodka with them and I couldn't do shots back then. I preferred Smirnoff and Zima, which is basically "bitch beer". So, yeah I wasn't really big on drinking. Basically, I was a pussy when it came to alcohol. Until I came up after Marcy's birthday last year. She talked me into doing a shot of vodka with her as a birthday present. I didn't want to be an asshole, so I groaned and said ok. Well, one shot turned into six. I didn't throw up and I didn't have a hang over. I started coming up every other weekend or if the situation called for it, I'd show up two weekends in a row. Every Friday, Marcy, Aaron, and I were drinking shots of Vodka. I didn't like the taste of beer back then. I've had other kinds of hard liquor that Marcy gave me. Captain Morgan's Tattoo, Yagermeister, Ice 101, Everclear. At first, I liked them. Now, I can't drink any of them, because my system doesn't like them. I'm starting to be able to drink shots of vodka again. I prefer beer though. Before I worked with my dad at Akraturn Machine Shop, I couldn't drink one beer let alone another. Before I started at Akraturn, the neighbors came over and as I was getting them each a Coors light, I got one for me too just for the hell of it. I kept drinking them until the taste didn't bother me. That made me a beer drinker. Some of my female friends think I drink too much, but I don't think I'm that bad. I can have only one drink and leave, I can wait for the weekend to come, and if I don't feel like drinking, then I won't. There are people around my age that head straight to the bars after school or work. They get messed up every night. They have a problem, not me. I know when to say "when" and I've done that before.

Second Chances

Last night marked the final episode of The Ultimate Fighter Season 6. It was full of second chances. Mac was scheduled to fight Ben from Team Serra. While preparing for the fight, Ben cracked a rib and didn't want to continue. Therefore, Matt Serra and Dana White needed to pick a fighter to replace him. It looked like it might've been Ritchie Hightower vs. Mac and that would've been awesome. However, Ritchie didn't show much interest in wanting to fight. In fact, most of the guys on Team Serra really didn't seem too interested in fighting Mac. As much as I wanted to see Hightower fight Mac, I was very pleased with who Dana picked. My pick, John was chosen to redeem his loss. I wanted so badly for John to beat him and advance to the finals. However, Mac beat him again. The second encounter between these two was better. John made a stupid mistake and Mac capitalized. There was a second semi-final fight between "Mini Hughes" and George. Believe it or not, I wanted Tommy to win this fight. George is the only guy on Team Serra that I really didn't like. He doesn't know how to be a team player. Fortunately, Tommy knocked his ass out. There is a down side to Tommy winning. The Final fight consists of Mac vs. Tommy. Both are from Team Hughes. We're looking at an all-Hughes final. I'd have much preferred an all-Serra final or a Team Serra vs. Team Hughes final. It would've been a better ending to the season. I don't care which team the finalists are from, Matt Serra won the competition in my opinion. In the preliminary fights, Team Serra finished 6-2. In the quarter-finals, they drew even. In the semi-finals, Team Hughes finished 2-0. The sad part is that Matt Serra had to give two of his fighters to Hughes in the quarter-finals. It's weird that they didn't do that in Season 3 and Season 5 when Tito Ortiz and Jens Pulver were dominant against the opposing team. Things should've stayed the same. Here's the bottom line from all of this. Hughes only had two good fighters on his team. They basically had to carry the load for the rest of the team. I'm trying not to make excuses for Team Serra not being in the finals, but there has to be some reason to why they didn't make it. Mac has four years experience in mixed martial arts (MMA). The rest of the guys on both teams didn't have that experience. It would have to have been a lucky punch, kick, or a quick submission to beat Mac. The guy's very good at what he does. Hell, he's leaving the house with $15,000 because he submitted Joey and John. As for Tommy, there's a reason why I call him "Mini Matt Hughes". His style is the same that Hughes in his fights. He's a country boy that got his strength from working on the farm. Hughes was able to relate to him on a variety of levels and that helped him get Tommy in the finals. Hughes pretty-much pulled one out of his ass. If he didn't have Mac and Tommy on his team, Matt Serra would've wiped his team out. I don't want to hear that Matt Hughes won the competition. I don't want to hear that he's one of the greatest coaches that The Ultimate Fighter ever had, because he sucked at both. Matt Serra won the competition and he was the better coach. Like I said before, Hughes only had two good fighters and the fact that both are in the finals doesn't mean he won the competition. I'm sure some will see me as biased and sore that my hero, Matt Serra didn't get one of his boys in the finals. They may be right, but the facts are right there. Hughes...got...lucky, end of story. Matt Serra did say something that did get me thinking. He said, "I never thought I'd find myself pulling for Matt Hughes, but I hope he beats GSP (George St. Pierre)". He said that he wanted to fight Hughes to finally shut him up. Personally, I'm pulling for George St. Pierre because I don't think Hughes deserves a championship opportunity. Then again, if Hughes did win, I wouldn't have too much of a problem with it. I'd love to see Matt Serra knock out or submit Matt Hughes. What would Hughes say if Matt Serra beat him? Would he say it was another "fluke" victory? It'd be kind of hard to say that the champion got a fluke victory on supposedly "one of the best welterweight fighters" in the UFC. The finale for The Ultimate Fighter season 6 is on Saturday. I could care less who wins, but my prediction is that Mac's experience will help him pull off a victory. Either way, it'll be a Team Hughes victory.

Two-a-Days

I hung out with Cody this weekend. Every day was pretty much a party with the exception of Sunday. He had some of our friends come over and hang out with us for a while. I just watched while they got retarded. They left the same night and they're still alive. Saturday, Cody and I just hung out playing guitar hero 3 and watching chick flicks. That was during the day. Him and I agreed that we were gonna hit the bars that night. We left around nine. We waited for his cousin to give us their hockey tickets, which awarded us one free drink. We went to Flashbacks, because that's where the "free drink" perk was allowed. At first, I wasn't a big fan, because it took a good fifteen minutes to get my beer. I'm used to the bars at Harpursville. Everybody knows me there and it only takes two minutes for me to get a beer. After I got my beer, I started to relax a bit. My intention was to at least get a phone number. There were some hot girls there, but some of them were with guys. At one point, Cody asked me who my number one was. I scanned the crowd and there was this one in a red dress that caught my eye. She was there with three other girls. After two beers, I went over to where they were. I didn't have much cash on me, so I couldn't offer to buy her a drink. I saw her dancing earlier, so I thought that my best line should be to ask her to dance. Well, that didn't really work. She said that they were just leaving, so I said thanks anyway and went back to work on my third beer. Cody and I left ten minutes later. Here's the best part. Her and her friends were still there. So, she basically turned me down gently. I was slightly annoyed by that, but oh well. We went back to Cody's, because he invited the whole freakin' neighborhood over. When it comes to partying, Cody's pretty good, but sometimes he'll book several different things at the same time. As a result, he tries to do them all. We've already agreed to go back to the bars next weekend. Next time, we're gonna do it right. This was just a feeling out process for us.