Him and Steph Marbury playing against each other..
Showing posts with label comeback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comeback. Show all posts
So.....1-3 huh? 0-4?? Really? Lets talk about it. Steelers...3-1..Ben is back..
Hats off to B-more too. Good game. We beat OURSELVES IN THAT SHIT TOO. Too many penalties....too soft of a zone at the end of the game......Missed FGs..Yeah I said it! His job is to hit field goals. We didn't ask him to 'put us over the top' with a game winning kick. We asked him to HIT FIELD GOALS IN THE COURSE OF THE GAME! So yeah, I said it. He needs to hit them damm things. That is is his JOB. Period. We never 'put it in his hands to win it' we just asked him to help us win it. He needs to do his part.
I see my baby Timmons, who is actually the player I use when I am on Madden, is KILLING 'EM out there. Leading the L in tackles. Ike actually caught a pick! They picked on Ryan a bit but I am not mad at him though.
Mendy is showing us why we felt comfortable letting FWP just go ahead and go. (I would like a wee bit more depth behind him though.) Mike Wallace is playing his behind off and Hines is just Hines. Hats off to the Qbs man. I mean even Batch. Yes, he threw a pick at the end but he is the 3rd STRING QB....Can't get but so mad at the man after everyone had us buried.
I saw the video (Damm NFL Network is hogging videos like NOBODY WOULD SEE THAT BIG ASS LOGO IN IT) where Ben said he was practicing with his QB coach and working out more than he would in practice. I know he watched the games. I know he saw how the D was playing and he should fit right back in. Remember, there was a time when he was still learning the game and we won. He was asked not to 'lose' the games for us. That wasn't that long ago. So for all of you out there saying 'He is going to come back in and ya'll are gonna start losing watch...He won't fit in now..' I think you are wrong. We are still going to run Mendy and he should have even MORE FREEDOM NOW because we have a guy who threw for over 4000 yards last year BACK WITH US AGAIN. You wanna play 8 in the box? COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!! Audible out and we will see what happens. Oh you wanna play us for the pass? COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! Audible out and give the ball to Mendy. Nothing there? STILL COOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! We will punt and let our D play the 'field position game' with you. Only we won't be kicking as many FGs in all likely hood. Or at least they will be more in Jeff's 'can't miss' range.
I like our chances with our QB back. And we OWE CLEVELAND. Trust and believe we haven't forgotten that. Why do you think our D is playing the way it is? Because of last season's abysmal performances against the likes of Cle, KC and such.
The CHIP IS STILL THERE. You saw that Ravens game. I don't give four shits about the 'odds', we weren't supposed to be IN THAT GAME...Anytime the League's #1 Defense is facing a team's third stringer, it is supposed to be lights out. Oh you forgot that B-More's D was rated that didn't you? I didn't. So miss me with the 'Ya'll were favored...' shit. By analyst who had us dead in the water in preseason & who were trying to save face. That's all that was.
And we have a week to get him ready too? This is going to be fun...Who knows how many games we will win but we should be in great shape. I am feeling good about my team. I know ya'll must be sick about it though. Especially if you are on our side. I know you had us penciled in as playing 'catch up' and panicked ridden about this time....
Lauryn Hill on her way back it looks like...
She is scheduled to be at Rock the Bells next months...
" “There were a number of different reasons,” she says. “But partly, the support system that I needed was not necessarily in place. There were things about myself, personal-growth things, that I had to go through in order to feel like it was worth it. Oftentimes, I think people are forced to make decisions prematurely. And then that sound radiates.”
“I’m trying to open up my range and really sing more,” she says. “With The Fugees initially, and even with “Miseducation,” it was very hip-hop — always a singing over beats. I don’t think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.”
“I don’t know if you know this, but I have five children,” she says. “The youngest is 2 now, so she’s old enough that I can leave her for a period of time and know she’s going to be okay. That’s one reason. And I think it’s just time. I’m starting to get excited again. Believe it or not, I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first. I think people might realize, you know, ‘We love the way she sounds, we love the music, but I think we just love how fearless she is. How boundless she is, when it comes to what she wants to do.’ And I think that can be infectious.”
On her creative experience:
“When I create music, I think the feeling you get, I get first….when I first have a creative insight, not just the voice but the creativity, the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved, there is a high, there is an emotional experience for sure. I think I made music, especially back in the day, as consistently as I did because it made me feel so good. Some might even argue that it may be a creative addiction, but the healthy kind.”
More of the article here: I would go there so you can listen to the audio of her being interviewed. This above parts were taken from there....
It doesn't take much for a group of 30-somethings to get nostalgic about Hill. Put her solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, on at a bar, and it takes the crowd right back to college days or high-school summers. I met Daryl Lutz while he was hanging out with a group of friends on the deck of Marvin's Bar in downtown Washington, D.C.
"We went to school in Hampton, Va., and she came to do a show," he said. "It was one of the best times in my life — I mean, she spoke to me! We snuck backstage and I got her to sign my meal card. She said, 'This is your meal card, brother, you know?' I said, 'That's all I got.' She signed it, 'Eat well — L. Boogie.' That's something I'll never forget. I love her. I love her to death."
I heard tons of stories like Lutz's that night — mostly closed with this plea: "Come back, Lauryn. We need you. Come back!" People spoke directly into the microphone, as if it were a telephone line.
From New Ark To Israel
Hill became a star with the hip-hop trio The Fugees. Their second album, The Score, came out in 1996, and it was an instant classic. The group — Hill, Wyclef Jean and Prakazrel Michel — sounded like they were in perfect sync. On the first single, "Fu-gee-la," Hill sang the hook, rhymed a verse, then sang again. She was the total package, more so than any other rapper, male or female, has been.
She's one of slickest rappers ever: Her rhymes are dexterous, spiritual, hilarious, surprising. Without a doubt, she was the best-looking rapper the world had ever seen. And Hill was a soul singer with a real old-school, almost militant, politic. The second single was Hill's cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly." That recording has never really gone away, and its success built the expectations for Hill's solo record to a fever pitch. Particularly to women and young girls who listened to her then, she was a revelation. There was steel in her voice when she rapped; she sang like she really cared about our hopeless crushes and our impotent rages, like she really loved us. We thought maybe we could grow up to be like her.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill came out in 1998. It was like LeBron James' rookie year in the NBA. You knew he had the potential to be great after seeing him in high school — and then, right out of the gate, he's one of the best ball players in the league.
Jayson Jackson, part of Hill's management team, described the recording process this way: "The record was already inside her. She would go into the studio, and it would just pour out of her."
Lenesha Randolph sang backing vocals on Miseducation, and she describes herself today as the backing vocals "to all your favorite artists." She's on tour with Lady Gaga right now, but a formative influence on her singing was her work in the studio singing backup for Hill.
"I don't know if people are gonna like this album, because I'm just singing, and nobody wants to hear rappers sing," Hill told Randolph at the time. Randolph says she couldn't believe it. "I was like, 'What are you talking about?' " Randolph says. "I would just stare at her, like, look in her mouth! Because when you hear her sing, and then hear her speak — it had such power and volume and rasp. It was something to strive for."
Oh you have a new album coming out eh, Mr. Debarge. No wonder you were on BET last night...
Interesting....Should be good. He showed he STILL HAS IT. New track is called 'Second Chance'..
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