Mevio Men

Eddie D is back with a new show for the new year, and it’s all about Baseball! On this episode of Full Count, Eddie’s got a rundown of the top five baseball apps for iPhone and iPad.

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball – This one comes in as the top fantasy baseball app. Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball gives you real-time fantasy score updates wherever you go. View team, league, and player stats, edit your lineups, and check your standings and matchups.

Ultimate Baseball Trivia – The top trivia app for baseball lovers, test your knowledge with Ultimate Baseball Trivia. Go for your best score and then challenge friends and family to do the same. Eddie notes that this app has just about every Yogi Berra quote ever.

ESPN Radio iPhone App – The best app for baseball news talk, ESPN Radio app gets you live streams from more than 15 of your favorite ESPN Radio stations on your iPhone and iPod Touch, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, LA, DC, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Tampa and Orlando. You’ll get your favorite ESPN shows such as “Mike & Mike in the Morning,” “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” “The Scott Van Pelt Show,” “The Michael Kay Show,” “Galloway & Company” and more, along with SportsCenter on demand.

Bleacher Report Team Stream – This is our top baseball news app. Get real-time streams and alerts from across the web for your favorite teams. Pick your favorite teams and topics and that’s the news you’ll get. Giants fan? Pick the Giants. Cardinals fan? Pick the Cardinals. Cubs fan? God help you.

MLB.com At Bat – Without question the top overall app for lovers of the game.

Got your own favorite baseball app? Hit us with a comment.

“The Devil Inside” could easily be the scariest horror movie every made. The way the movie bends it’s approach to “exorcism movies” takes you on a roller coaster ride that will keep you up at night weeks after seeing it.

After seeing the movie, I was invited to explore the premise of the movie by Paramount Studios in a very interesting way. But, before I continue, let me say that Paramount could be the most inventive studio when it comes to marketing their movies. They are consistently coming out with great movies and marketing them like no other studio does.

So, I get the call from Kyle at Paramount telling me I have the opportunity to interview the world’s foremost expert on Exorcism. (Just in time for the movie opening)  You know the best way to make a horror movie even more frightening? Find out what you have just seen could very well be real.

I was introduced to Rev. Bob Larson who is the world’s foremost expert on cults, the occult, and supernatural phenomena.  He is the real deal. When it comes to the study and practice of exorcism he wrote the book.  He literally wrote the book, well more like 31 books, translated into more than a dozen languages. His books include four best-selling novels. His 575-page classic work Larson’s Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality is a standard reference encyclopedia at many colleges and seminaries.   His latest book is Demon Proofing Prayers.

Rev, Bon has even starred as a real-life exorcist in his own TV reality show seen worldwide, “The Real Exorcist.”  He is currently launching an International School of Exorcism to train exorcists worldwide.

We talked about the subject and this amazing movie.  I was surprised with what I learned and the fact that according to Rev Bob, this movie “The Devil Inside” could be the most realistic horror movies on the subject ever made.

What follow is my conversation with Rev. Bob.

Read the interview at www.icplaces.com

From Michael Bloomberg’s New Year’s Eve sweater to Michael Beasley’s jammed finger whining, 2012 is off to a less than testosteroney start. Embrace it. Happy Wimpy New Year from Ride the Pine!

Here’s the story that really caught our attention.

On New Year’s Day, during ESPN’s morning SportsCenter, Mike Ditka said that Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Dan Orlovsky had “a good Polack name.” Later on, of course, he had to apologize, “to anyone who was offended.”

Really?

Okay, first off, you can’t say “Polack” on TV, or at least you can’t call someone a Polack, or say the word in reference to someone of Polish descent, or even to someone that’s not of Polish descent, unless you, yourself are a Pole, or unless you are playing a person of Polish descent in a cop drama, or playing a bad guy in a cop drama who uses ethnic slurs because he’s – you know – a bad guy. Ditka probably should have known this, since his fellow ESPN commentator got in trouble just a couple of years ago for using the term in reference to Ron Jaworski. Although if he watched Chicago Code during it’s short run (which would be just like him), he might have gotten confused by that.

At least we haven’t been reduced to calling it “the P word.”

In case you’re interested, the word is actually borrowed by English from the Polish language. “Polak” refers to a Polish male (“Polka” is the female iteration). There was a time when saying it in English was not considered derogatory, but that time has passed. Ditka, who is of Ukrainian descent, and grew up around other Slavic Americans in Pennsylvania, apparently hadn’t gotten the memo.

So, to anyone who was offended, you now have coach’s apology, not that he’s sorry he said it or anything, or that he won’t say it again. He just probably won’t say it on TV. Unless they bring back Chicago Code and he gets a guest spot.

Wouldn’t that be something?

Personal finance guru Rob Black hosts Market Movers, daily commentary on the top news in money. On this episode, he reports on a stellar holiday season for online retailers, the trouble with Sears holdings, and a banner year for airline safety.

Online shopping hit another record for the 2011 holiday season, with sales in excess of $35 billion in November and December. That’s a 16% increase from 2010. The $1.25 billion was spent on Cyber Monday alone made it the single largest day for online spending ever.

Sears Holdings (SHLD) has experienced eighteen consecutive quarters of declining sales and the stock is down 55% for 2011. The company continues to lose market share to other retailers, and recently announced that it will be closing more than 100 of its Sears and KMart stores.

Finally, 2011 was a great year to fly. Airlines world wide had the safest year on record, with a rate of just 0.34 serious accidents per one million flights. This is the lowest accident rate since World War II when the airline industry began. The least safe places to fly were Africa and Latin America. 2011 had the second-fewest number of fatalities worldwide ever, according to the Flight Safety Foundation, with 507 people dying in crashes. There were fewer fatalities in 2004 (323) but there were also fewer people flying that year so the 2011 incidence rate is lower.

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