Hot Stove and Video-type games

Been a while, man I need to update this more. Anyway, Hot Stove season starts a few days ago, and I'm looking forward to the potential for increased offense with the Mariners. I don't want to see them going after guys who have 0 All-Star game appearances and .269 career averages, I'm hoping the M's will get Nick Swisher. I know most hope for Hamilton, but I feel like if we get Josh Hamilton, there will be loud aggression on the internet for his drinking problem. Julio Mateo beat his wife, so the M's traded him to the Phillies, and Josh Lueke plead no contest to a rape charge and was sent to the Rays. If Josh Hamilton cannot conquer his addiction permanently, the Mariners will not keep him and the fans will be irate that they are giving him millions of dollars for beer. Swisher has no known history of drug use/abuse, so he should be fine. I imagine some people would like to see Ichiro return, but, sadly, I feel that isn't going to happen. It would be nice to see Ichiro close out his career as a Mariner, but right now, the Mariners need a big home run hitter, not a singles hitter, someone who can help instruct the kids how to play the game, not speak mostly in a foreign language and do things their own way. I predict Ichiro will be with the Yankees for at least 5 more years. Next week, I plan to see Wreck-it Ralph, a movie based on video games with cameos of Bowser, a ghost from Pacman and several Street Fighter characters. Hopefully this will lead to some good partnerships between the video game and film industry, thus far, only Final Fantasy VII Advent Children still seems semi-magical to me, and that's more for the well-animated fight scenes. Of course, I'd like to MAKE movies based on Super Mario RPG, Super Paper Mario and Super Smash Bros. Brawl's subspace emissary, but I don't know how to get a job with Nintendo, and most of my personal choices for the characters (Bowser being a comedic oaf all the time, Samus and Zelda being lesbians, Tabuu being the Nintendo world's equivalent of Lucifer) might rub Nintendo the wrong way, plus I feel like I'd try to force in too many third-party characters that Nintendo wouldn't want. Also, whenever it comes to spin-offs, whatever I write usually doesn't have a lot of action. Anyway, here's to better and brighter things in the future. Vote yes on Referendum 74.