Sun Oct 1-- Polish Sausage Fest

When: Sunday, October 1, 5:00pm

What we will serve: Polish Sausages and beer. They may look like the last box of German Sausages from last week’s Oktoberfest, but trust us, they are genuine Polish Sausages from the heart of old Prussia.

What to bring: Some else too much on, maybe those vegetable things Even though they are grown in the dirt they are apparently very good for you.

What to Wear: Shaun Alexander’s protective boot, because apparently he doesn’t need it. Prayer, it there anything it can’t do?

Why: The undefeated Seahawks and the undefeated Bears are playing on Sunday Night Football, it simply doesn’t get any bigger (in week three). Couple that with the fact that people can’t stop talking about our Seahawks Philly Cheese Steak Festival last December, well it’s mainly our cardiologist, and it seemed like a no-brainer. We figured if we could replicate the taste of South Street in our basement, we could easily put ourselves with the unwashed masses who gather in the parking lot of Solider Field before every Bears game.

“Hey, looksh like itsh gonna be a good game dere.”

Who to invite: Fans of football, Eastern European Sausage connoisseurs, and this guy.

A nice little Saturday...and Friday, and Sunday

Jason had a nice little weekend.

On Friday, Terence, his old chum from Boise who is Can-asian-dian arrived on a train just in time to enjoy the 7502 Winona Oktoberfest 2006: This time it's Personal party. The part went well (we won't talk about David's salt spilling, fire lighting issues, or accidental self-mutilation beforehand nor the open propane tank in the backyard--the latter was a nice conversation piece actually), even though there was a random visit by a guy who claimed to be a neighbor and urinated on a van on his way out.

At 7:15am Saturday morning, Jason's mom Debbie picked him up and they together drove to Snohomish, strapped themselves to two men they just met, and jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet. Fortunately, they only fell really fast for about 8,000 feet and that part was really cool. Once the parachute opened up, it was a great day to view the Canadian Rockies, Cascades, Olympics, Mount Baker, Mount Ranier, Seattle, the San Juans, and even Mount St Helens on the way down. Holy crap is this state gorgeous.

Seriously, if you're even the slightest bit inclined to go skydiving, go tandem with the guys at Skydive Snohomish. They do great work.

Later in the afternoon, Seth, Jason, and David went to the UW-UCLA football match. After a rough 0-16 start, the Dawgs rode Isaiah Stanback's arm and legs (248 yards total offense, out of 249 for the team) to a 29-19 win.

Basically, Saturday alone would have made for a great weekend. But wait, there's more (is anyone still reading?).

The Woodland Cosmos kicked off their game at 1pm, as the Seahawks were getting underway in Seahawk Stadium. Before Matt Hasselbeck had thrown an interception on the first play from scrimmage, the 13 year olds turned a terrific combination of teamwork anf finishing into a 1-0 lead. Be the time the 'Hawks had a 21-0 lead, the boys had buttoned up a 3-0 win over the Shoreline Green Twisters. Editors note: We know you don't care about U-14 boys soccer, but Jason coaches the team, so we let it go

Jason returned home to watch the Seahawks complete the stomping of the Giants. Postgame was a trip to Ivar's on Lake Union for happy hour snacks with Saira, Dr. Sal, and Kris Abbasey-a great way to wrap up one heck of a weekend. Nobody even had to call the cops.

Vin Scully and Aaron Sorkin-- Lovely

While most people in the free world (sorry Sweden) will be enjoying Monday Night Football, that won't be the case at 7502.

Much to Jason’s chagrin it is baseball pennant race season (trust us), and tonight house favorite Vin Scully will be broadcasting the key Dodgers vs. Padres game. The winner will be in first place in the NL West, and the loser will be in first place of the NL Wild Card.

Seth’s co-worker/Dodger fan Clint will be there, David will try and get his dad to show up by convincing him that it’s 1955, and Jason will be there trying to watch the Jaguars and Steelers on TV number two.

Following the game, oh boy, will David be in hog heaven. After the cancellations of Arrested Development, West Wing and with the summer hiatus of Entourage, he needed a new show, bad. In his time of need none other than his absolute favorite Aaron Sorkin has delivered.

It’s the premier of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The TiVO season pass has been ordered, and David is ready to love it unconditionally.

Let’s review the shows Mr, nay, God Sorkin has been behind; Sportsnight (the behind the scene look at a sports highlight show) The West Wing (the behind the scene look of high powered politics), and now Studio 60 (the behind the scenes look at a sketch comedy show). Wow does God Sorkin read David’s diary? If he does he is soon to be reading many passages about himself.

Sir Bails-a-Lot Changes 9/15 Plans

Seth and the phrase, "man of his word,” go together like peanut butter and something you would never, never, never ever, never in a million years put with peanut butter.

Our man to the right of the bathroom is proud of this fact, often bragging that while living in New York his friends referred to him as Sir Bails-a-lot. The middle aged men on the Brooklyn Height Promenade would refer to him as Susan, but that's a story for another time.

So when Seth decided that after the Garfield vs. Franklin game, we would all be attending the new The Rock film, Gridiron Gang, a movie about incarcerated teen age boys and a film that Seth has been a little too excited to see, well, we should have known better.

Even after he wrote, "Following the game we'll head over to opening night of "Gridiron Gang"…Holy crap, this could be the greatest night of our lives." Even after he screamed at a housemate, "You are going to be at this movie with me whether you like it or not!" His face turning purple and veins on his neck popping. Even after talking about this night for the better part of a week, we were not completely surprised when he announced that he wouldn’t be going to the movie.

Why did Seth change his mind? What powerful force will be pulling him away from enjoying the greatest moment of his life?

A work party.

Don't cry for him, he is already dead.

The tailgating, the Garfield/Franklin game, and Oktoberfest on the 22nd will still go on. There will be no movie viewing, and for that we apologize for Seth.

U-S-A, U-S-what?...to Greece? In basketball? Really?

Anyone who follows this blog knows that 2006 has provided the best summer ever for your heros at 7502. Fortunately for our masochistic-Seattle-sports-fan selves this summer included:

• The US Men's soccer team forgetting that we use our hands in sports in America
• Frequent displays of incompetence by Mariners players, coaches, and fans (Seth)
• The Sonics got sold to a bunch of Okies who want to move the team to BFE
• Floyd Landis's amazing steroid-powered comeback in the Tour de France--unfortunately he got caught
• The Storm were eliminated in the first round of the WNBA playoffs
• Every American track star from the Olympics was caught doping
• The Seattle Sounders are on the verge of not making the A-League playoffs

Note: Upon further review I don't actually care about those last 4 items at all

• Mr. Anthony, Mr. James, Mr. Anthony, and Coach K just got knocked out of the Basketball World Championships by the basketball powerhouse that is Greece

Is anything being done to make sure the rest of the world doesn't start playing football? Seriously, we're going to need to start inventing new sports to win.