Random Thoughs, Sights, Sounds - A Potpourri of Knowledge

The Randomness starts off a little music-news heavy this week.

It's finally here. The album that Metallica fans have been waiting for since 'And Justice For All' - Death Magnetic. And it is outstanding. After listening to 75-minute masterpiece the majority of Friday morning, the leaders in the clubhouse for best songs on the album are the 10-minute instrumental epic Suicide & Redemption, Cynaide and My Apocalypse.

As much as I looked forward to hearing the entire Death Magnetic album, there's a new band that has formed and is releasing a new album early in 2009 which will either be really, really great or really bad and awkward. The name of the band is 'Chickenfoot' and it's members are Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Chad Smith (drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and get this - Joe Satriani. This could be the greatest band ever created or the biggest track wreck/car crash in music this side of the whole Boy Band era.

Not that it's members don't have high expectations of the group, with Hagar already saying that that, "the band could rival Led Zeppelin", and Satriani saying that the "music reminds you of early Led Zeppelin."

Losses in the final two games of the Tampa Bay series, makes this weekend's series against Toronto much more significant than it would have been if the Red Sox had been able to pull out those final two games of the Tampa series.

Toronto is probably not high on the list of the teams that the Red Sox would like to be facing this weekend as they traditionally struggle against the Blue Jays. Add to that the fact that Toronto is one of the hottest teams in baseball right now (winners of 11 of their last 12 games), and the four starters for the Red Sox this weekend are: Tim Wakefield, Paul Byrd, Bartolo Colon and Jon Lester and Boston will have their hands full this weekend.

Hey, Matt Cassel no pressure this weekend in making your first start since the Y2K bug was on everyone's mind while the opposite QB has made 257 consecutive starts and the last time that Favre missed a start was when Cassel was 10 years old.

And finally, the Russians certainly know how to construct a playground for kids, check out the area the kids are coming out of and what it looks like.



Happy weekend everyone.