Articles from June 2011

I’ve been working on this site almost exclusively for nearly two years. Though the site has a respectable following, I know it has the potential to do a lot better.

The main problem is that I am only one man, with one perspective on life. I’m a white guy in my late 20’s and recently married so I can only write about life from that perspective. I envision Living with Balls as a site where men of all ages and lifestyles can make a few jokes about their lives.

I’d like to have all types of people write on this site. I want to hear about a 21-year old college kid and his quest to get drunk and sleep with freshmen or the 40-year old married man dealing with raising teenage daughters. I want to have men of all ages and lifestyles coming to read content on this site. I want people to come here and get excited when their favorite writer has just posted new content.

I also don’t have the time to write posts on a consistent basis. I have a busy life like anyone else, and this is something I do as a hobby with my spare time. It’s challenging to always come up with original, funny pieces. Sometimes inspiration hits me and I come with brilliant posts like this one or this one. But more often than not, I am struggling to come up fresh content. (more…)

The recent interleague baseball match-up between my hometown New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs gave me an excuse to make my first trip to Chicago this past weekend.

As I took in a pair of games at historic Wrigley Field, I started to learn why the Cubs haven’t won a series since 1908. Losing has become part of their appeal and their fans have embraced the concept of the “Loveable Losers.” I even saw some kid being interviewed on ESPN saying he’d rather be a Cubs fan than a Yankees fan because “it would be boring to always win.” I’ve been a Yankees fan my whole life. Trust me kid. There is nothing boring about winning.

Cubs fans and their relationship with Wrigley Field is like being in a bad relationship with a beautiful woman. They are blinded by its exterior beauty and can’t see the flaws on the inside.

On the exterior, everything about Wrigley Field looks amazing. The field has a quaint atmosphere of a minor-league park with its ivory-covered brick walls and auxiliary scoreboard. But what you’ll find in the interior are cramped seats, no video board and a trough in a disgusting men’s room where 50 men are pissing simultaneously. Oh yeah…and the team playing inside stinks.

But Cubs fans are blinded by Wrigley Field, just like a man would be blinded by dating a beautiful woman who brings nothing else to the table.

Every game is like a party for Cubs fans, where the outcome isn’t as important as having fun. Remember the crap your parents told you after losing a game in Little League, that it’s not important if you won or lost, as long as you had fun? It seems like Cubs fans live by that notion. The result is a side note to getting drunk and tossing beach balls around. I can see why Wrigley Field is called “The Friendly Confines”: Because the park is too small and their fans are wimps (except for the teenage girl that called my 63-year old father a “faggot Yankees fan”). Obnoxious Yankees fans were scattered all over that park, talking shit at every opportunity and most Cubs fans just sat there and took it. Even when the Cubs won on Friday, they failed to seize a rare opportunity to talk trash. Maybe that’s the difference between New Yorkers and Chicagoans. Perhaps they are just too polite to say anything.

As the team with 27 World Series Championships took two-out-of three from a team who hasn’t won a title in over 100 years, it became clear which city had the better baseball team. But when it comes to other important aspects, Chicago holds its own against New York City. Though I was only there a few days, I took in a good amount of the city and have drawn some key comparisons between Chicago and New York. (more…)

The three major American beer companies (Bud, Coors, Miller) are in a continuous battle with each other. However, it’s not a battle to see which company can make better beer. It’s about which company can come up with the more ridiculous beer bottle gimmick.

As time goes on, each company has tried to outdo the other by changing their beer bottle in a way that supposedly makes their mediocre beer more appealing. It seems like one idea is more absurd than the other.

It made me wonder…if things continue along this path, what will beer bottles be like in the future?

Well I decided to fire up the DeLorean and bring back some beer bottles of the future to show you what gimmicks these companies have in store for the naïve consumer in the years to come.

The Coors Light Absolute Zero Can (more…)

I came across the video today— It’s a young girl recording a video for her eHarmony bio. As you’ll see by this video, she REALLY like cats and gets pretty emotional about it.

Unfortunately for this girl (whom I probably would bang if I wasn’t married and she wasn’t crazy), there will probably not be much interest from the men on eHarmony. Cat owners have long been stereotyped among society and this girl is not helping. Enjoy the video… (more…)

Art is always trying to be interpreted. You walk into any museum and there is guaranteed to be some pretentious asshole that wants to assign meaning to every brush stroke an artist has made. Well what if some famous pieces of art already showed what the subject was thinking? Here is some famous artwork with captions included…
The Scream

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