WWE Extreme Rules 2011 Predictions

Now I am certain if you know me well enough, you know how much of a wrestling fan I can be. Wait, I guess they don't want to be called a wrestling company anymore. I am a huge WWE fan and have been watching since I was about 8. Last month, I posted on Twitter my predictions for each match at Wrestlemania. I got the majority of them right, so I figured I would throw down my predictions for the next PPV, which is WWE Extreme Rules. So, without further ado:

1. Michelle McCool vs. Layla (No DQ, No Countout, Loser Leaves WWE)

Right before Smackdown even came on the air, I checked Wikipedia for the list of matches. I thought for certain that this match had already been announced (and while yes, I do check the spoilers for Smackdown on occasion, I hadn't this week). So it wasn't a complete shocker that after a buildup from Smackdown to Raw and back again to SD, this match was announced tonight. What I didn't see coming was the stipulations. While that doesn't put too much of a damper on my prediction, it does make my prediction that much easier. Because Layla I think has a future with the WWE and Michelle has been wrestling for a while now, I see Layla winning.

Winner: Layla

2. Jerry Lawler & Jim Ross vs. Michael Cole & Jack Swagger (Country Whipping Match)

It is weird. Whenever they put Jim Ross in the ring, it tends to devolve into a whipping match. Shocking that it happened again, huh? Well, the difference is that he will be on a team with his longtime announcing partner in Jerry Lawler. While the feud between between Jerry and Cole has been a little too one sided (especially with Cole repeating the same word/phrase OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN ALL OF HIS FUCKING PROMOS!) I think it has to start twisting over to the good guys side. While Jerry did win but didn't win at Wrestlemania 27, I think he wins again at this PPV. It will set up the climax of the feud at the next PPV, and hopefully it shuts Cole up finally.

Winners: Jerry Lawler & Jim Ross

3. Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes (Falls Count Anywhere)

This feud is a weird one. When I put my predictions together for Wrestlemania on the fly, I mainly picked all the faces because I believes that the majority of them would win (and I was right). But, I picked Cody Rhodes because I thought that with the way they were fleshing out this injury angle, he would get a push. Needless to say, I was right. It also sucks that Mysterio always tends to be on the receiving end of a push. But, with Rey leaving to Raw after this match, I think he is going to go over there with a win over Rhodes. Especially since Cody has been embarrassing Rey the last two weeks on SD. Rey will win, Cody will get really pissed, and he will start a feud because of it with another SD superstar (I don't know who yet).

Winner: Rey Mysterio

4. Randy Orton vs. CM Punk (Last Man Standing)

This match is a weird one for me to pick. For one, Orton won at Wrestlemania and did it on "one leg". He also did it with an even playing ground, with him punting every Nexus member before the match. Now, the Nexus is back again to skew the playing level once again. So, how does this match play out? Well, the first half of the match will be "fair" and one-on-one. The two of them will beat each other up very nicely. But after the halfway point, Nexus is going to take over and I think that they will be the reason the Randy doesn't get up. It sends Orton to SD pissed off and CM Punk will be all smug on Raw for a few weeks.

Winner: CM Punk

5. Christian vs. Alberto Del Rio (Ladder Match for the World Heavyweight Championship)

This match is a weird oddity of chance. This match a few weeks ago was to determine the #1 contender for Edge's title. Then, we get the retirement of Edge because of his neck injury thus pushing Christian from mid-level sidekick of Edge who probably wasn't going to compete for the title until the end of the year maybe, to the new champion. Why will he be the champion and not a rising Alberto? Because I said about Wrestlemania that Alberto is definitely shining, he isn't ready to hold the title. I still believe that. I think he will win it in a couple of PPVs from now, but I think with Edge retiring (and was probably going to hold onto the title until Alberto won it from him), they are going to give Christian the title mainly because he is Edge's partner. Edge will be at the PPV and I won't be surprised if he gets involved in the match lightly. Like maybe to drop Alberto from the ladder or maybe give him a spear.

Winner: Christian

6. The Miz (c) vs. John Cena vs. John Morrison (Steel Cage Match for the WWE Championship)

I posted on Facebook in a note that I absolutely HATED the title match at Wrestlemania 27. I hated that it was just SO slow, Cena was not the Wrestlemania Cena that he usually is, and it was SHORT. Main events are supposed to be a little longer than what that was. Now, I understand that Miz probably did suffer a concussion and thus wouldn't have been able to end the match because of it (and thus the match was cut short), but it was just an overall sloppy match.

Now, three things are going to happen the night of Extreme Rules:

1. R-Truth is going to take out Morrison and the match will turn into a rematch of Cena vs. Miz.
2. R-Truth is going to take out Morrison and he will be inserted into the match instead.
3. R-Truth is going to take out Morrison DURING the match, and allow the other two to finish the match without him.

In all those scenarios, this match is going to be the launching point for an R-Truth/Morrison feud that is going to brew for the entirety of the summer. It has already started on Raw and will just flesh out the R-Truth heel turn and maybe launch him into a title match soon. I think turning R-Truth into a heel was a good move, now they just need to flesh it out some.

Now, I just spent three paragraphs about what the match is going to do in the future, but didn't predict a winner yet. Initially, I have thought that Cena is going to win the title, but now I am unsure. I don't know why they are keeping the title on the Miz for so long, but I think they are doing it because he obviously is showing the bookers something to keep it on him. While I think that Cena will get his wish (and defend the title against the Rock at Wrestlemania 28), I don't think he will win it until later. Maybe the November PPV or Royal Rumble. So, I think The Miz holds onto the title (unfortunately).

Winner: The Miz

The aftermath of the PPV:

• Michelle McCool is going to take some time off from the WWE or might leave for good. Layla might get another title because of it.
• Cody Rhodes is going to be pissed about his loss to Rey that he will start taking it out on the SD locker room and enter into another long feud.
• Jerry and Cole continue their feud for one more PPV. I think Cole might end up leaving the WWE for a while because of it.
• Christian becomes an in-between champion from Edge's end until Alberto Del Rio's eventually title reign. He might continue the feud with him leftover from Edge.
• Cena will probably challenge Miz again at the next PPV for the title, but won't win it until November or January. He will defend it against the Rock at Wrestlemania 28.

That is all I have. Let's see how much I get right! See you Sunday!

Longing

A month ago, if you had told me that I would have been over the fact that my ex pissed me off enough to order a paternity test a few days before my daughter's birthday, I would have said that I would have held ground and stood firm on my decision and not taken her until the courts said so.

But every day that passed and I was unable to see Liliana in my life hurt a little more. I had been in her life for almost the entirely of her first year on this Earth. While I did ask for a DNA test, I did so to make sure that if I was going to support her, that she was mine. I could never deny that child because she is a splitting image of me, but on the off chance my ex lied to me, I wanted to be 100% sure. Not only that, but if I had waited until the courts, I would have never been served my custody papers and found out that my ex wanted full custody with no visitations with me. I found out later she did that because I denied the baby. I didn't deny her, I just wanted to make sure she was mine. Big difference.

I tried to be the bigger man and work something out with my ex, but she wouldn't budge. She told me that it wasn't a good idea, so I took her court to work out an agreement. The main reason I didn't take the baby over the last month was because I was afraid that after one more argument, I would get a cop at my door requesting that I return the baby because my ex claimed that I had kidnapped her. Which would be impossible, because I wouldn't be able to take the baby, all her essentials, and her clothes without my ex there.

So, that culminated into today when the court date was set. We went in and I wanted things to go back to normal. I would resume my two overnights a week and return Lily on the third morning. My ex thought that the baby was too clingy to her and that she might not take well to coming back into my life after a month. Needless to say, we sat in court for six hours to have a judge claim that we would ease Lily back into my life with "supervised" visits with my ex or her mom to make sure that the baby was comfortable with me to take on overnights again.

Now, I am not one to brag... Oh wait, yes I am. Needless to say, I went to see the baby today and was slightly nervous that she would not remember who I was and shy away from me. My fears were extinguished the minute Lily set eyes on me at the park for the first time in a month. She gave me the biggest smile she can put on that face, waved at me, and ran right at me. She thought it would be funny to veer at the last minute, but I snatched her up and hugged her tight and gave her a big kiss. Ease her back into my life? It's like I never left.

Unfortunately I have the biggest test of my patience in my life tomorrow and next week. I have to hang out with Lily with my ex or her mom around to make sure Lily is alright. But after today, I find that pointless. But I also know that if I am going to fix my relationship with Lily and be able to communicate with my ex again about the baby, I need to follow the courts for now and deal with it. In three weeks, I get the baby on my normal days and everything will be back to normal. Hopefully for good. Hopefully, I only have to talk with my ex on those days if needed.

Now, I have a belated one year old party to plan for my little one. I guess it will be a one-year-old party mixed with my 25th birthday. What a way to celebrate my birthday than with a birthday party for my little one. Nothing special really, just to say that I am sorry that missed your birthday, but I felt that having eyes bore holes in the back of my head because everyone hates me would not have been my idea of a fun time.

Anyway, that is all for now. I will post again later!

Banks: An Adventure to Hell

I have definitely posted enough online and told everyone in real life that I fucking hate banks with a blinding passion. Most of the major branches love to find ways to fuck you over and get some extra money in their pockets. It's not like that they don't get enough money from their interest on loans and mortgages.

Now why do I hate banks so much? Overdraft fees. I am pissed whenever I get them and usually it is not my fault. It is the way they like to fuck around with my money in my account.

Take for example the most recent example and see if this makes sense. I checked my account this morning to see that my Best Buy geek squad protections for my phones are on hold for tomorrow. This puts my available balance into the negative, but my current balance isn't affected. So it is saying that I have -33 available, but 6 current (which is what I had in there).

I was planning on going to the bank anyway yesterday to put $100 in the bank for my car insurance which comes out on the 26th every month as well. So, to add everything up, I have $140 in insurance coming out later today.

Now, the bank has done this to me in the past and I know it's going to happen again. This is what they do, ready for this?

Now the Best Buy insurances come out as $10 charges and there are usually two per month. Now last month, they didn't take it out because for some reason they said my card was giving them an issue. So, they are taking out four this month. They were put on hold on the 25th.

Now later today, my car insurance is going to come out and all four Best Buy insurances are going to come out officially. Now, if I didn't get the money in on time yesterday, which I hope I did, they are going to claim that the four charges were taken out of my account, put my account into overdraft, then they will take the car insurance which will put my account further into overdraft. This stemming from the fact that those four charges were put on hold for the 26th.

Even better? They are going to put the four charges back into my account AND CHARGE ME AGAIN FOR THOSE SAME FOUR FUCKING CHARGES. Thus, putting my account further into overdraft and charging me an overdraft FOR EACH FUCKING CHARGE.

Thus, if I didn't get the money into my account on time, I will more than likely see anywhere from four to eight overdraft charges for $37 each. How does that make sense for a charge that wasn't due to come out until the 26th?

Even better? If I hadn't checked my account (because I wasn't planning on paying Best Buy this month because they were having issues with my card, so I figured I wouldn't get charged anymore) yesterday morning, I would have just deposited $100 for my car insurance and may have not avoided this entire mess. Now, I just have to sit and wait to see if they fuck me over.

The best part though is this: I have my court date for the baby on Wednesday. If I find all those overdraft fees in my account tomorrow, it is going to royally piss me off and I am going to end up going into court Wednesday pissy. Yes, I am going to call customer service Tuesday to have them fix it, but I might go into court uncertain of how fucked I really am.

That's all. My fun with banks never ends. Also, you know I am really pissed when I say "fuck" a lot in this blog. I try to avoid swearing too much here because I want to keep this blog semi-professional. Oh well. Have fun everyone.

Impressed

Now, we all know that I am a huge sports fan. What you may not know is that I am not one to sit and watch a lot of games. Even my favorite sport baseball, I don't watch a lot of games throughout the year. It is a mix of the fact that I work a job and can't watch them all that way and because I usually find myself playing a video game instead. With the addition of Liliana in my life, that also takes away from my sports viewing time as well. But, if you have met my daughter and find out how freaking fun and funny she is, I think you would choose her over the sports too. Trust me though, she will know the rules of baseball (and the other major sports) when she grows up and she will be given the choice of whether she wants to watch or not. But that's my duty as the dad.

While I don't watch all the games throughout the year, I do make it a note to make sure I know what's going on in the world of sports. I know that the Celtics and Bruins are in the playoffs and I know that the Celtics just moved on to the second round. How do I know? Well, I do pay attention to this wonderful device known as the internet, the other device known as my cell phone, and the wonderful gadget in my car known as a radio.

This definitely isn't the same as actually sitting and watching the Bruins score that goal in double OT and watch the frenzy as they go up 3-2 in their series. Nor is it the same to just see that the Celtics just manhandled the Knicks in their series and swept the ever-loving hell out of them. But, at least when I go to work the next day, I know what the fuck is going on.

Now the Sox, I definitely pay attention to the most. Baseball is my number 1 sport, so naturally they fall on my radar more times than the other two. So, it was to my utmost surprise to see that Daisuke Matsusaka absolutely annihilated the Angels the other night, with 8 innings of 1-hit ball. Not only that, but he has allowed no runs and two hits in his last two starts. This, after being hammered by the Rays three starts ago. Sports radio was not kind to him after that Rays loss and wanted him to go away. Now, all you haters can suck it.

Now while it was a surprise to see Daisuke succeed (because he really hasn't done too much while he has been here), it was a surprise to see Lackey start off weak. He had one full year in the AL East to work out the jitters of being in Boston, so surely he would start out alright? Well, he has been the second question mark in the rotation. He got a win against the Yankees, but still allowed 6 runs in the game. Apparently he was bad enough to skip a turn in the rotation as well. He pitched fine in Oakland, but was just the victim of a bad offense at the time. So, it was somewhat of a surprise to see him pitch a shutout in back to back days with Daisuke. That, my friends, will definitely shut up those whining about the rotation.

Even better is that the lineup seems to be finally putting it together. They scored 12 runs in the last two games, and Carl Crawford hit a HR. So, it is definitely starting to look up.

Now all we need is for the Bruins to kill Montreal Tuesday and move closer to their first Stanley Cup in almost four decades. Go Bruins!

I guess that is all. Two more days til court. Wish me luck!

Liliana's First Birthday

April 23, 2010. A little girl named Liliana Grace Healey was born into this world. While it was unexpected for her to come along, she was definitely welcome into this world. It is unfortunate that she is growing up in a broken home, but sometimes that is something you can't predict nor stop. You just have to give them the best you can.

The worst thing a parent can do is use a child as a bargaining tool in a fight. Yes, me and my ex have definitely both used that chip, but the fact of the matter is this: I did mine to make sure that if I am going to support Lily, she is mine. She did hers to make sure that I don't see the baby, if the baby is mine or not. That is just not fair.

So, Liliana turned one yesterday and I was not able to see her on that day. It's not that I wasn't invited to the party, but I chose to give her a hard time about the fact. I also felt that I would not feel welcome. She told me that if I were to go, she would have to warn her friends to be cool with me. Now, as much as she can tell her friends that, I didn't feel like having eyes on me the whole time.

Then, there was this fact (which I learned something later, but still): Her boyfriend would be attending. Now, her boyfriend is the reason this whole mess occurred. Not for the obvious reasons, but the underlying ones. I gave in and said that I can't control her life and that is her decision to make who she dates. Now, I was worried about Lily's safety and who this guy was. Now we all know that when we ask an ex about her new significant other, they are going to do nothing but praise that person. So, I decided to dig. I logged into her email to find out where she met him, his dating site profile, and make an assumption based on what I knew.

What I found was the fact that the two of them started talking four days after I left the house and dirty pictures of her sent to him a month later. I gathered from what I read that he asked for them, a lot, and convinced her to send pictures that she told him she would never send. I also am lead to believe that she hadn't met him in person when she sent them and that the baby might be in the house while she was taking them. I only assume that because the pictures were taken on the couch when there is a bed in the other room that is comfier. But that's a stretch and I know that.

Now that I totally swerved to the past, the reason I didn't go to the party was him. For some reason, I just so feel angry towards this guy because I don't trust him around my daughter, but I don't have the say in that matter. But I do feel that if I met the guy, I might do something I regret. Besides, I feel like that they probably won't last more than six months, so why bother meeting this guy when he will be out of her life so soon. The reason I believe that? He is only in the relationship for the sex and I know that my ex will hold out if she gets pissed, so sure enough that is going to happen eventually, and once that happens, he will be out the door. My ex will suffer and so will the baby.

So the underlying issue here? I am upset that my ex is setting my daughter up for disaster so soon after I left the house. Even better? My ex doesn't want me to have joint custody of the baby or even have visitation rights and wants me to pay child support. How much sense does that make?

I am also pissed that my ex said that she wasn't going to invite her new man to the party, just because the day was about Lily and not about him. I found out later that she stuck to that, but still he was there and if anyone asked, she was going to tell the truth about who he was. Plus, it probably wasn't hard to put two and two together on who he was.

But anyway, I am not just ranting. So, since it is now 4am, I feel that going to bed is a good option. Good night for now.

Necessary

I haven't updated this in three and a half years? What the hell could I be doing for three and a half years that would stop me from doing so? Well, my friends, if you are reading this, you more than likely know why.

While she is only a year old (well, she will be in almost 20 hours by the time I write this), had to meet the girl that bore her and date her for almost 2 years and create that. But, of course, in that last year of the relationship, it all exploded. I mean, nuclear bomb explosion.

And now I fight. I fight to bring that beautiful girl back into my life. But that isn't why I posted this.

I posted this because I haven't posted in a long time and have been finding that posting my thoughts of the last day are helping me through some tough times. Fighting with my ex over our breakup, fighting with her over her choices in life (which I know I have no say in but when they relate to that little girl I do), fighting to win custody of the baby. Finding a new girl to enter my life and not having luck in that department. Being stressed that a girl may have entered my life but that has definitely has stalled beyond belief. It's like a certain friend zone girl all over again, and if you knew that story you would know that I do not want to venture on that journey ever again.

I also am posting because I have realized lately that I haven't done anything really to further my career as a journalist. Since the baby was born, I have put all my effort into making sure she was taken care of before I continued my education. Now that I am back on my own (well, living with my family again) I have the chance to go back to school. Now I won't go back until the fall more than likely, but I still want to get back and finish it eventually.

How does that relate to this blog? Well, putting my writing out there is the first step in proving that I definitely can write and write about anything. Now, my passions are sports and video games, so I definitely will be writing a lot about those two topics. I have a little extra money nowadays that I can use to go out and buy some games and try to review them as best I can. That way, when I put together a portfolio of my work, I can hopefully include this work. I may even start my other blog up again and try to play through the NES library. For those who don't know, I made it a goal last year to play through the NES library, finish them all, and review the games and process. It did end up changing to just at least playing each game once and review the game and the process. I didn't even make it out of the A's.

I am definitely looking for ways to enhance the fact that I end up staying up til 4-5am every day. Now that will more than likely change once I get the baby again, but for the most part it won't. The days I have the baby, I will go to bed early, but the days I don't, I will stay up. What a better way to waste my time than to chat with friends and to further my career. Now the thing that I need to work on is making sure I follow through on promises and actually do it.

With that said, I think I will go to bed for the evening, since I have to work at 1 tomorrow and it is currently 5am. So until later, have a good one internet.