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Jesse Ballgame

Headliner: I challenge you to a game of horseshoes. A game of horseshoes!

About Me

I'm a Nike head. I also tend to wear chains that excite the feds.

My Interests

high school kids, homeless people, sour candy, dogs, baseball, bargains, television, emergency contraceptives. you know, normal stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone in the Guinness Book of World Records. Preferably the fat twins who ride motorcycles.

Music:

When I was young I was a fan of the Jackson 5.

Movies:

A good penny matinee at the ol' picture show always tickled my fancy.

Television:

"Two and A Half Men", "Jeopardy!", "Saturday Night Live".

Books:

Biographies. Just read "The Chris Farley Show". Did you know Chris Farley was an avid churchgoer and the inspiration for Shrek?

Heroes:

Professional baseball players.

My Blog

The Future Is SO Bright...

I haven't done this in awhile, and for pretty good reason. My wit ain't what it used to be. But here goes nothin'....I moved to Brooklyn 5-or-so years ago. Lived in the Greenpoint neighborhood for,...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Fri, 18 May 2007 03:41:00 PST

Shallow Thoughts. By Jesse Sullivan.

Doogie Howser invented the blog. The pitbull is the Arab of the dog community. I do not have yellow fever. Does anybody else think it's weird that everybody knows O.J. Simpson brutally murdered two pe...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:11:00 PST

Baseball Fever - Catch It.

I must've been about 5 when I first fell in love with baseball. I remember those rare summer nights when Fox would air a Yankees game instead of a west coast game (a rarity in New Mexico) and my old ...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I Love It When You Call Me Big Poppa

I was just listening to "Big Poppa" by Notorious B.I.G and has anyone ever noticed when he says "if you've got a gun up in your waist, please don't shoot up the place" a little voice (I'm pretty sure ...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's your favorite song.

There are about a gazillion songs on this great earth, and of those, a small percentage of them are really darn good. Once a month or so, one of these songs comes around and finds itself on top of my...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Becoming a rap superstar is easy as pie

Today on the way to work, I had an epiphany. I will become America's Next Top Rap Superstar. I mean, how hard is it to make words rhyme? That's all it is. Half of the songs those rappers sing (?) ...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I Am A Modern Day Gloria Steinem

Back in the heyday of the femenist movement, some radical broad by the name of Gloria Steinem worked undercover for three weeks at The Playboy Club and then wrote an article on the low wages and the p...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

MySpace cliches: The Tip of The Iceberg

I like to think of myself as a, somewhat, seasoned veteran of the online profile community. When you work in front of a computer all day, there is nothing better to pass the time. Well, in my surfin...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce to you, the always sucky....

STORY ABOUT DREAMS!! Seriously, man, anytime someone starts off a story with 'I had the craziest dream last night' be prepared for a whole lot of nonsensical, boring bunch of bullcrap. I'm going t...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's September 8th. I'm bad at everything. But am I as bad as the MTA?

Its 11:41am and Ive already had one of the most bizarre days of my life. My morning starts far too early, as I was actually awaken by how hard it was raining outside. Thats right, it was rainin...
Posted by Jesse Ballgame on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST