Obligatory Intro Post

Hello and welcome to Hot Ham Water: Water with a Smack of Ham. As the title, subclause following the main title, the website address, my posting name, and most likely plenty of references to follow indicate, we're big fans of Arrested Development around here. However, this has almost no relevance to the general topics that will be presumably rambled upon on the pages of this here blog. This here blog is a sports blog, primarily. I personally am a huge fan of the San Diego pro sports teams, namely the Friars and Bolts. My partner in posting is a huge fan of Los Angeles sports teams, primarily the Dodgers and the men of Bruin but not so much the men of Troy, and also somewhat the Lakers. Being a nomadic fellow, in his traversings of the globe (mainly attending school at ASU), he has also picked up an affinity for the Sun Devils and Cardinals of Arizona. He tolerates and roots for the Chargers as his football team, but the Padres will always be the inferior, annoying little brother to the south of the Dodgers to him.

So that is us. I personally am looking forward to having a place to ramble endlessly about my favorite teams. So expect Padre and Charger posts aplenty from me (assuming I actually have some dedication and stick with this blog - which I am, because we're making this thing huge!!one!, and using it to take over the world: that's our motto, world domination one seemingly innocuous sports post and really long run-on sentence at a time). We are also big fantasy ballers (or something like that, maybe not quite as gangster sounding as ballers), playing football and baseball. We engage in epic battles when we matchup in either sport; these will quite likely be recounted to you the anonymous reader in a future post. But fantasy baseball and football will be discussed here, however, certainly not in a way that will leave you under the impression that we are anything close to professionals or skilled in these games. Our credentials for these discussions are a second place finish in fantasy football this year (by me, carl weathers) and a third place finish (by Ian) in baseball two years ago, where only a -10 start by the infamous Tim (or was it Tom) Corcoran in the semifinals stood between him and the championship. But I did pick Matt Holliday last year with the 32nd pick, so I have a keen eye for sleepers.

I believe that about wraps up the obligatory introductory post. Please keep coming back, and maybe give the ads a couple of hundred clicks while you are here. Remember, our writing may seem like the generic terrible sportswriting you are used to, like bland hot water if you will. Every once in a while, though, you will come across some phenomenal analogy, metaphor, or particularly inspired advice or analysis, and that will be that smack of ham in that hot water that we guarantee*. Or it might just be Buster's thumb. Don't choke on it like the racist old lady did.


*Offer only good in Alaska.