I had a great time at the Death Cab for Cutie concert with the Lawlers and Stephanie Steele. Steph was equally thrilled to be there with me.

With the Boston Celtics in town to claim the NBA championship, guess who had SWEET seats at Staples Center this weekend?? Yours truly, along with Jeff and Frank was right there for the big game!

Jealous?? You should be because we were RIGHT there when the home team defeated those chump visitors thanks in large part to Tyler Fredrickson’s sweet foot! That’s right, Tyler Fredrickson and the LA Avengers put the hurt on on Kansas City big time!

Wait, you didn’t think I was talking about the Lakers/Celtics game did you? Do you think I’m made of a very valuable substance that I could somehow use to buy Lakers finals tickets? That’s crazy! I’m just a friend of Tyler and got to see him play. It was my first Arena Football game. The way Tyler was playing it won’t be my last!  You haven’t lived until you’ve witnessed Arena Football.

Here’s Tyler in action. Photo from my lame Treo Cell Phone Camera (someone buy me that new iPhone!)…

I’m headed to the LA Galaxy game. Hey Beckham, I’m the fat guy in the striped shirt and big forehead! Woooohooo!

UPDATE: Oh man! What an awesome game! Beckham must have bent it like a dozen times (what’s a dozen in the UK?)! Here’s a shot of him TOTALLY bending it like himself. Beckham is like the Oprah of soccer. Seriously, I think he just charmed the win from the Colorado Rapids. What can they do? He’s David Robert Joseph Beckham!!!!!!

He’s so gracious too. He just kept passing the ball to all the not-beckhams on his team and letting them score. And score they did! And FAST! Beckham got the assist on the first goal within the first minute of play! It was like hockey fast!

I kept on commenting to Kevin Grose on how Beckham was so awesome and I think Kevin would have been annoyed if he cared about soccer at all or if he had lost all his senses and ability to reason. It’s Beckham!! I think Kevin was a bit jealous of me since he had to check in his really bitchin’ camera as the lens was “too big” and I was popping sweet shots all night on my 2nd hand Palm Treo Phone Cam (thanks, Greg Lawler and David Beckham!).
My other work pals, Jim and Paul, actually play the soccer so they were way more X’s and O’s about the game. I tried to play it as cool as possible with them and made sure I said a lot of things about the game in general like, “Oh man he was totally not off-sides.” when in reality I was thinking “OMG! What are Beckham’s shin guards made of?? Oh right! They’re made of Mithril and LOVE!”

At one point, another fan, who was really getting how incredible David Beckham is, ran out onto the field to simply touch the hem of his garment (and hug it. SO jealous). He must have had some sort of ailment that needed healing or something. Well he got healed alright (and then promptly dropped and kicked by midfielder Chris “Fan Relations” Klein). After the slowest security team in all of sports history finally had the guy pinned down David Beckham glided over and helped the former cripple (or whatever he used to have) rise up from the ground.

It was JUST like when Peter cut that guards ear off in the garden of Gethsemane and then Jesus healed it (it’s called a bible, people. It wouldn’t be the worst thing if you read it.) The comparisons to Jesus aren’t that unfounded. Consider this…
David Beckham says he’s half Jewish. His mom is half Jewish so that just means that Beckham is using some crazy Bible Code math that our planet doesn’t even know yet!
Jesus is half Jewish (mom) and half God-of -the-Jews-ish or something. Six one, half dozen the other.

I’ll close by saying a big thank you for the game to Paul and Anchor Point IT Solutions, where I work and don’t update my blog from during business hours except on an approved break.

In His* Name,

Chris Mundell

*David Beckham

Costco has the following movies for sale on DVD:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Blues Brothers, 25th Anniversary Widescreen Edition
Slapshot
The Jerk
And oh, yes, Fletch and Fletch Lives (bought ‘em last night)
Just though you should know.

Thanks, Steve!!