The blog formerly known as The Gun Show (sorta)

We're lookin' for a new start. And like the Tampa Bay Rays, we're hoping that a new name can help us out here.

So this blog is now called Calling the Shots. The name comes from Zak, oh, excuse me, "The Profit- Z", his old blog on AOL which he no longer runs (does that make me "The Revenue- N? I don't think so.) I don't know what point I am getting to, I guess just letting you guys know we are still apart of a site called FYI Sports Fans, which is currently being worked on but you can check out the forum at http://fyisportsfans.net. Anyway, enough of that.

* About an hour ago Jermaine O'Neal was traded to the Toronto Raptors. Some noise before the draft tomorrow night?

* Speaking of draft, Pat Riley has implied that they are probably going to skip over Michael Beasley with the No. 2 pick (assuming that Chicago takes Derrick Rose, which they will). I think he's out of his mind, Beasley is Elton Brand and then some, but it may just be a ploy and hopefully they do take him. You can't pass up a talent like that, no matter how bad you need a point guard to compliment Dwayne Wade.

* Fresno State won the College World Series yesterday (it's 1:00 am). To me, this needs to be publicized more. Yeah yeah, college baseball isn't as popular as the other college sports, but this "postseason" I guess has been nothing short of amazing and what Fresno has done is unbelievable. As I said in an earlier post, a No. 4 seed is like the equivalent of a 13-16 seed in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. We know how big a Cinderella like that is, well the shoe fit tonight with Fresno. Congratulations.

* Germany ousted Turkey's run in EURO 2008 today, winning 3-2. And because of a power failure, none of us were able to see it.

* Gary Sheffield just won the game for the Tigers. Slowly crawling up to .500 and this is a big win considering they waited out a 2-hour rain delay and won it in this fashion.

Pic from Wimbledon

Welcome to the Gun Show

Working out is not exactly my field of expertise, but Zak could help you out there. Welcome to the Gun Show is merely a description of the explosiveness feeling you will experience when you visit this internet page.

To tell you the truth, I don't think you can beat that entry he put down there. I mean, you got the insults, a description of his sorry, soon to be college life (god help you all at West Chester), and he said I work the streets of NYC. Now, New York is a couple hundred miles away, but it is easily within reach if necessary. And he definitely is speaking the truth when he says Nick Barnowski is the mastermind behind this site called FYI Sports Fans. Great guy!

You'll find the big stuff here. We like to keep the discussion part over at our forum, conveniently located at the web address http://fyisportsfans.net.

What I mean by big stuff is the articles that I desperately need to get back into. I used to blog. I was in sixth grade. It brought me some good things, like actually knowing what I want to do in life and got me some good connections with some very cool people. I can't speak for Zak, but for me you'll mostly find a mix of opinions and the facts in my writings. And mostly articles about hockey or baseball, my two favorite sports.

At the moment we are working on starting fresh with our main site - www.fyisportsfans.com, as Zak pointed out in the last entry (try and make a painting of that, Da Vinci!). So to catch up on everything FYI Sports Fans visit our forum which you can find in our navigation bar on the side of this page. Pretty soon we will be adding polls, possibly a podcast, and some live blog events, so stay tuned!

That's it for now. I don't have a cool nickname like "The Profit." And neither of my names start with "Z." So you're stuck with -- Nick Barnowski for now.

-- Nick Barnowski
Executive Administrator
FYI Sports Fans

What You've Been Waiting For

Wutsup everyone,
My name is Zak but you can call me 'The Profit' or simply 'Z.' By now you all will know that I am cocky, arrogant, conceited or any mixture of those words that you like to use. Frankly, I do not care because I like it and don't even mind if you judge me. My partner in crime, the brilliant mastermind behind FYI aka Nick Barnowski will be the opposing force to my crude humor. Let's face it, we all need some leveling out here and there and Mr.B is a very cool, down-to-earth dude. This is a small introductory for right now until Nick finds the time to give you the big picture but in a quick little overview, we are just here to blog. Whether you enjoy the entries or not they will keep flowing like the overpriced Cristal at a Puff Daddy bash.

This blog will be strictly sports and we hope you all enjoy our writing enough to visit our main page and work of art...FYISPORTSFANS.COM (yeah, Da Vinci couldn't even think of that shit.) If you do swing by the page, kudos to you and make sure you sign up for our forum because that is where the magic truly happens (get your head out of the gutter.)

That's all I can grace you with for right now but I plan to make an entry somewhere along the day and Nick will pop his head in whenever he gets back from workin' the corners of NYC. Hey, don't judge him, everyone has to pay the bills somehow and I hear prostituion is in season! Just kidding of course but I really have to go. Thanks for sitting through my horrible ranting, bye.