Just how does a cubs fan continue to root for this team? they cubs have screwed up EVERYTHING this winter both on & off the field and made ZERO additions to the team other than the new sacrificial lamb, manager RICH RENTERIA.
now i'll give them credit for third baseman KRIS BRYANT, their #1 draft choice last summer because he's a stud and chicago fans will love this kid...........until he leaves town as a free agent in a few years.
NOTHING. NADA. ZIP. GUVNO. how do you lose 197 games in two years and do NOTHING to improve your team?
and don't give me that crap about "oh, we just missed on MASAHIRO TANAKA because of those damn yankees." pure BS. you never had a chance. and then we go to the other side of the fence where they're saying "i'm glad we didn't spend all that money on tanaka because it would have stopped our rebuilding program." WHAT REBUILDING? when you're rebuilding, you show small signs of improvement every year. the cubs are looking at 90-100 losses AGAIN this year.
OFF THE FIELD, isn't everyone tired of the ridiculous battle with the roof top owners (RTO's) who have forced the cancellation of the construction to build the street party arena that ricketts wanted outside the stadium? like a petulant child, he's not turning "one shovel of dirt unless the RTO's drop their lawsuit." FAT CHANCE.
but let me give you a hint: you have three viable options if you want to end this nonsense with the RTO's: 1) scrap the plans for the scoreboard and advertising that caused the problem in the first place with the RTO's. everyone knows the original agreement was signed with the understanding they would pay 17% of their gross and the rooftops would continue to operate as is. 2) tell the RTO's to go screw themselves and proceed with your plans for party areas, scoreboards, etc. and let them sue you. if you truly feel you're on solid legal ground...trust me, you have more money than they do collectively. bury them in motions & paperwork and nonsensical court appearances and you will bleed them dry. or if that's too harsh for the ricketts clan, then 3) simply arrange for a ghost corporation to buy the nine buildings and be done with it. i'm pretty sure thirty million would take care of the problem and then you can move on. WHAT'S THIRTY MILLION when you spent a billion for the team? GROW A PAIR!
in closing, the only PR in the off season has been the unveiling of CLARK the mascot, who was immediately re-named HAIRBALL by most chicago people. and if that's all you give your fan base, then it's no wonder the attendance forecast is for another 10% drop. the cubs deserve every bit of apathy they get this season.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
bits & pieces
I just had to take a shower. i watched '30 on 30' on ESPN featuring tonya harding and she is worse than i had imagined. everyone was out to get her. everyone hated her. everyone wanted her to fail. give me a break. tonya now makes her living doing auto repair & landscaping and apparently her only sport is eating because she is a fat pig. "i can't believe they banned me from skating for life...what did i ever do to them?" i can't tell you how much she reminded me of people i arrested over & over & over with that same freaking attitude. "it's not me, it's them." what a piece of crap. good riddance to bad rubbish.
lots of sabre rattling over the new concealed carry law but the law is not new in illinois. no, no, no. you see, the boys in the jungle passed their own concealed carry law decades ago so they could go about their business of dealing, thieving, raping & pillaging to their heart's content....not to mention killing their own at a rate of 1 + per day.
the new law simply means that every once in a while, one of the jungle boys is going to have a very surprised look on his face....just before he dies when a law abiding citizen legally takes action and blows his brains out. a reminder to all the the new gun carriers......breath slowly and squeeze the trigger evenly. the results should then be as expected. and always fire that second round.
poor ELIOT NESS. a couple of local politicians tried to do him a solid and name a federal building after him but historians blew the whistle on what a lot of us crime/mafia aficionados already knew. ness was a cop who was highlighted by 'the untouchables' tv show and later the movie but had little to do with capturing AL CAPONE or any other major gangster. ness worked just 17 years for the feds and only 6 in chicago, spending the majority of his later life in cleveland before dying of a heart attack at 53.
how about naming it the FEDERAL MEMORIAL BUILDING in honor of those who have fallen serving their country in law enforcement? salute them all instead of just one.
the largest hypocritical organization in the world was finally forced to release thousands of documents identifying their pedophile employees and how the administration protected them for years. in a perfect world, the catholic church would be disbanded by the goverment and every administrator brought to justice just like the TRIALS AT NUREMBURG where all of the nazis were hung for their crimes. answer this question. what's worse? soldiers following orders in a time of war or pedophiles attacking children and being protected by their superiors? please mark my answer sheet next to choice B.
say good-bye to CUBBY BEAR NORTH, a great place to watch a sporting event on route 21 in lincolnshire. closed suddenly on january 1st due to the economy.
another victim of the economy? or poor management? a local tradition said adios when the KRISTOF SUPER BOWL PARTY which has been held for more than thirty years was cancelled for lack of interest. WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE?? the bar business is hard enough but when you have surly employees, obnoxious new management with a bad attitude, no bowling leagues and the highest drink prices in the area, it's no surprise that they're struggling. were it not for their very successful haunted house every october, you'd have to wonder if the doors would still be open today. and don't blame the economy. go two miles south and LAKES BOWL is doing boffo business at the bar and with bowling leagues. and the employees even smile. try them both and judge for yourself.
a final note to the ladies: there are two sundays that are very important to pro football fans. conference championships, which are held this sunday and of course, those two winners meet on february 2nd in the super bowl.
so if you could care less about football, take the kids to grandma's house and let your other half stay in his sweats, have his buddies over and lay on the couch all day and eat pizza and nachos and drink beer. believe me, this is worth BIG TIME BONUS POINTS which, with a gentle reminder, results in him going with you to see SEVERAL chick flicks during the year and even having dinner with your parents. and maybe watching the kids while you take a spa day. think about it but not too long because he has to call his buddies to let them know about sunday. P.S.--the kids are off school on monday so spend the night at grandma's. even MORE bonus points! stay warm.
lots of sabre rattling over the new concealed carry law but the law is not new in illinois. no, no, no. you see, the boys in the jungle passed their own concealed carry law decades ago so they could go about their business of dealing, thieving, raping & pillaging to their heart's content....not to mention killing their own at a rate of 1 + per day.
the new law simply means that every once in a while, one of the jungle boys is going to have a very surprised look on his face....just before he dies when a law abiding citizen legally takes action and blows his brains out. a reminder to all the the new gun carriers......breath slowly and squeeze the trigger evenly. the results should then be as expected. and always fire that second round.
poor ELIOT NESS. a couple of local politicians tried to do him a solid and name a federal building after him but historians blew the whistle on what a lot of us crime/mafia aficionados already knew. ness was a cop who was highlighted by 'the untouchables' tv show and later the movie but had little to do with capturing AL CAPONE or any other major gangster. ness worked just 17 years for the feds and only 6 in chicago, spending the majority of his later life in cleveland before dying of a heart attack at 53.
how about naming it the FEDERAL MEMORIAL BUILDING in honor of those who have fallen serving their country in law enforcement? salute them all instead of just one.
the largest hypocritical organization in the world was finally forced to release thousands of documents identifying their pedophile employees and how the administration protected them for years. in a perfect world, the catholic church would be disbanded by the goverment and every administrator brought to justice just like the TRIALS AT NUREMBURG where all of the nazis were hung for their crimes. answer this question. what's worse? soldiers following orders in a time of war or pedophiles attacking children and being protected by their superiors? please mark my answer sheet next to choice B.
say good-bye to CUBBY BEAR NORTH, a great place to watch a sporting event on route 21 in lincolnshire. closed suddenly on january 1st due to the economy.
another victim of the economy? or poor management? a local tradition said adios when the KRISTOF SUPER BOWL PARTY which has been held for more than thirty years was cancelled for lack of interest. WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE?? the bar business is hard enough but when you have surly employees, obnoxious new management with a bad attitude, no bowling leagues and the highest drink prices in the area, it's no surprise that they're struggling. were it not for their very successful haunted house every october, you'd have to wonder if the doors would still be open today. and don't blame the economy. go two miles south and LAKES BOWL is doing boffo business at the bar and with bowling leagues. and the employees even smile. try them both and judge for yourself.
a final note to the ladies: there are two sundays that are very important to pro football fans. conference championships, which are held this sunday and of course, those two winners meet on february 2nd in the super bowl.
so if you could care less about football, take the kids to grandma's house and let your other half stay in his sweats, have his buddies over and lay on the couch all day and eat pizza and nachos and drink beer. believe me, this is worth BIG TIME BONUS POINTS which, with a gentle reminder, results in him going with you to see SEVERAL chick flicks during the year and even having dinner with your parents. and maybe watching the kids while you take a spa day. think about it but not too long because he has to call his buddies to let them know about sunday. P.S.--the kids are off school on monday so spend the night at grandma's. even MORE bonus points! stay warm.
AGREE OR DISAGREE?
AGREE OR DISAGREE??
CLAYTON KERSHAW & 210 million for 7 years? AGREE.
(the money is obnoxious but it's the market)
ALEX RODRIGUEZ gets 162 games suspension? AGREE and i couldn't be happier. he is so slimey. i hope he spends another 30 million in legal fees and his testicles disappear from steroid use.
MEL TUCKER back as the BEARS defensive coordinator?
DISAGREE. just an observation at this point....his two white assistants are dismissed but good ole mel keeps his job despite have the worst defense in 30 years.
this guy has had 12 jobs in 15 years. is that any type of hint? he fails every place he works. he reminds me of ROMEO CRENNEL who also keeps getting recycled and sucking everyplace he works. crennel is also black but the league is very sensitive about blacks losing jobs..............i'm just saying.
the BLACKHAWKS need to make a trade to get better offensively. AGREE. the inability to put games away will hurt them in the playoffs and they have plenty of depth to trade for a sniper.
THE NEW CUBS MASCOT is just plain stupid. DISAGREE because mr. ricketts is here to make money and every warped child will want a stuffed 'clark' under their xmas tree. but who the hell came up with that name???
the BULLS trading LUOL DENG was necessary. AGREE. no choice when you get three high draft choices or face getting nothing when he walks away at the end of the season. and when they release CARLOS BOOZER under the amnesty clause when the season ends, they'll have 33 million in cap space to shop for a free agent.
the BULLS should draft a guard in the upcoming draft. STRONGLY AGREE. who knows if DERRICK ROSE has lost a step or even two? truth be told, he wasn't that good when he came back this year and looked slow in transition.
and i AGREE that i'm done typing for now.
CLAYTON KERSHAW & 210 million for 7 years? AGREE.
(the money is obnoxious but it's the market)
ALEX RODRIGUEZ gets 162 games suspension? AGREE and i couldn't be happier. he is so slimey. i hope he spends another 30 million in legal fees and his testicles disappear from steroid use.
MEL TUCKER back as the BEARS defensive coordinator?
DISAGREE. just an observation at this point....his two white assistants are dismissed but good ole mel keeps his job despite have the worst defense in 30 years.
this guy has had 12 jobs in 15 years. is that any type of hint? he fails every place he works. he reminds me of ROMEO CRENNEL who also keeps getting recycled and sucking everyplace he works. crennel is also black but the league is very sensitive about blacks losing jobs..............i'm just saying.
the BLACKHAWKS need to make a trade to get better offensively. AGREE. the inability to put games away will hurt them in the playoffs and they have plenty of depth to trade for a sniper.
THE NEW CUBS MASCOT is just plain stupid. DISAGREE because mr. ricketts is here to make money and every warped child will want a stuffed 'clark' under their xmas tree. but who the hell came up with that name???
the BULLS trading LUOL DENG was necessary. AGREE. no choice when you get three high draft choices or face getting nothing when he walks away at the end of the season. and when they release CARLOS BOOZER under the amnesty clause when the season ends, they'll have 33 million in cap space to shop for a free agent.
the BULLS should draft a guard in the upcoming draft. STRONGLY AGREE. who knows if DERRICK ROSE has lost a step or even two? truth be told, he wasn't that good when he came back this year and looked slow in transition.
and i AGREE that i'm done typing for now.
STATE OF THE UNION SPORTS REPORT
are you looking for the worst basketball in the nation? then go no farther than the state of illinois where i have never seen such a collective group of collegiate crap in twenty years. of the 12 teams i investigated, just ONE, illinois state has a winning league record at 3-2. the other 11 teams are ALL BELOW .500 in league play and nine of those have overall losing records. just pathetic.
the worst? no doubt it's NORTHWESTERN, who get hammered night after night in the big ten unless they're playing the most over rated team in the country which happens to be ILLINOIS who were embarrassed by the wildcats a few days ago.
i have long advocated illinois being dropped by the BIG TEN in both football & basketball and being reassigned to the MAC where they would at least be competitive.
NORTHWESTERN basketball should apply for entry into the IVY LEAGUE where they could at least be a middle of the road basketball team and not have to worry about scholarships, which are not allowed in that conference. rich kids don't need financial help anyway.
AND NOW HERE'S MY IDEA FOR THE REST:
you want a competitive conference where fans could stay excited thru most of the year? check these current records:
UIC 5-12. NIU 7-8. LOYOLA 7-10. WESTERN 7-9. SIU-EDWARDSVILLE 4-13. BRADLEY 6-12. SOUTHERN 6-12.
and let's not forget the inflated record (10-8) of DE PAUL, who have beaten such power houses as lewis college, grambling, wright state, florida atlantic, chicago state, houston baptist and the aforementioned northwestern. see how easy it is to inflate your record?
we can also add ILLINOIS STATE to the garbage pile as they also got to 10-7 in the same manner as the blue demons.
so add depaul and isu and you suddenly have 9 teams all located within 150 miles of one another. we call the conference THE BOTTOM FEEDERS, save tons of travel money and have a conference tournament to see what team gets one of the play-in games for the NCAA march dance and the excitement would be endless for the students as opposed to the basket vomit we're now offered on a daily and yearly basis when all of those teams are already eliminated for any serious consideration.
think about it. it makes sense.
the worst? no doubt it's NORTHWESTERN, who get hammered night after night in the big ten unless they're playing the most over rated team in the country which happens to be ILLINOIS who were embarrassed by the wildcats a few days ago.
i have long advocated illinois being dropped by the BIG TEN in both football & basketball and being reassigned to the MAC where they would at least be competitive.
NORTHWESTERN basketball should apply for entry into the IVY LEAGUE where they could at least be a middle of the road basketball team and not have to worry about scholarships, which are not allowed in that conference. rich kids don't need financial help anyway.
AND NOW HERE'S MY IDEA FOR THE REST:
you want a competitive conference where fans could stay excited thru most of the year? check these current records:
UIC 5-12. NIU 7-8. LOYOLA 7-10. WESTERN 7-9. SIU-EDWARDSVILLE 4-13. BRADLEY 6-12. SOUTHERN 6-12.
and let's not forget the inflated record (10-8) of DE PAUL, who have beaten such power houses as lewis college, grambling, wright state, florida atlantic, chicago state, houston baptist and the aforementioned northwestern. see how easy it is to inflate your record?
we can also add ILLINOIS STATE to the garbage pile as they also got to 10-7 in the same manner as the blue demons.
so add depaul and isu and you suddenly have 9 teams all located within 150 miles of one another. we call the conference THE BOTTOM FEEDERS, save tons of travel money and have a conference tournament to see what team gets one of the play-in games for the NCAA march dance and the excitement would be endless for the students as opposed to the basket vomit we're now offered on a daily and yearly basis when all of those teams are already eliminated for any serious consideration.
think about it. it makes sense.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
TIDBITS
we all worry about our weight when the new year begins and struggle trying to lose those winter inches but i'm going to share with you a guaranteed way to lose weight in a very short amount of time. as follows:
wake up saturday at two in the morning covered in sweat with your stomach doing flip-flops. proceed to the bathroom where you drop to your knees and pray to the porcelain god with projectile vomiting for the next twenty minutes before collapsing and discovering how nice a cool bathroom floor feels against your temperature ravaged body.
on your hands & knees, crawl back to the bedroom and pull yourself back into bed and try to relax while your stomach muscles cramp intermittently for the next twelve hours. oh, and don't forget to drag the waste basket with you so you can continue praying bedside and avoid the return trip to the bathroom. the porcelain gods apparently don't mind.
repeat this procedure over & over & over for the next 72 hours and alternate between your temperature being 5 degrees over your norm and laying with ice bags on your head and neck in an attempt to keep your face from melting with chills so bad that you shake hard enough to spill a glass of water when you attempt to drink.
make sure you add in all the other discomforts of flu such as headache, muscle ache, major league sweating, zero appetite and of course, all the biological discomforts known to man and when you stand on that scale tuesday morning, SEVEN POUNDS will have disappeared! see how easy that was? no working out, no crazy dieting, no healt clubs, just all natural arithmetic.
i don't normally do public service announcements but here's my best effort.
now that i've returned to the living and had time to think about it, i don't think i've ever had the flu before although i've made the statement "i had a touch of the flu or i had the 24 hour flu." NO SUCH THING. the flu will normally last for 4-7 days and even after the bad stuff disappears, you still have zero energy and 'elvis' legs.' 15 hours + of sleep per day becomes normal.
WARNING: when a flu victim is sleeping, it's a welcome respite from the illness. god forbid, don't wake him to see if he needs anything. the phrase 'justifiable homocide' jumps into my mind immediately.
a bad cold is not the flu but can also be nasty.
yesterday, i did my homework on the flu and you have to have most of the symptoms to qualify and MOST TIMES, it starts with a headache, which is what i had on thursday & friday. i chalked it off to the warmer weather and the catch-all for everyone.....sinuses. surprise!
bottom line....in the winter, our houses in the midwest are shut up tight for the better part of five months and we become like a giant petrie dish and a breeding place for germs & bacteria.
#1 helper: hand sanitizer. carry it with you and DON'T shake hands with anyone. fist bumps are very fashionable. if someone offers an open hand, just say "i'm fighting a cold and don't want to pass it on but it's nice to meet you."
#2 sanitizing wipes. worth their weight in gold. items to wipe down every day: telephones, remotes, refrigerator handles, cabinet handles and door handles. on-off switches. alarm board panels.
and don't forget the interior of your car. while germs don't live long term in the cold, they can definitely be transferred short term. wipe down the dash, steering wheel, radio buttons and door handles. keep a container of wipes in the car. have your kids wipe down 'their' door before exiting the car because all children are walking petrie dishes.
#3 aeresol spray sanitizer. this is perfect for spraying down sinks, bathroom areas and counter tops.
well, my bed is calling me back for another visit but at least the waste basket is back in it's regular place. see you in a few hours.
wake up saturday at two in the morning covered in sweat with your stomach doing flip-flops. proceed to the bathroom where you drop to your knees and pray to the porcelain god with projectile vomiting for the next twenty minutes before collapsing and discovering how nice a cool bathroom floor feels against your temperature ravaged body.
on your hands & knees, crawl back to the bedroom and pull yourself back into bed and try to relax while your stomach muscles cramp intermittently for the next twelve hours. oh, and don't forget to drag the waste basket with you so you can continue praying bedside and avoid the return trip to the bathroom. the porcelain gods apparently don't mind.
repeat this procedure over & over & over for the next 72 hours and alternate between your temperature being 5 degrees over your norm and laying with ice bags on your head and neck in an attempt to keep your face from melting with chills so bad that you shake hard enough to spill a glass of water when you attempt to drink.
make sure you add in all the other discomforts of flu such as headache, muscle ache, major league sweating, zero appetite and of course, all the biological discomforts known to man and when you stand on that scale tuesday morning, SEVEN POUNDS will have disappeared! see how easy that was? no working out, no crazy dieting, no healt clubs, just all natural arithmetic.
i don't normally do public service announcements but here's my best effort.
now that i've returned to the living and had time to think about it, i don't think i've ever had the flu before although i've made the statement "i had a touch of the flu or i had the 24 hour flu." NO SUCH THING. the flu will normally last for 4-7 days and even after the bad stuff disappears, you still have zero energy and 'elvis' legs.' 15 hours + of sleep per day becomes normal.
WARNING: when a flu victim is sleeping, it's a welcome respite from the illness. god forbid, don't wake him to see if he needs anything. the phrase 'justifiable homocide' jumps into my mind immediately.
a bad cold is not the flu but can also be nasty.
yesterday, i did my homework on the flu and you have to have most of the symptoms to qualify and MOST TIMES, it starts with a headache, which is what i had on thursday & friday. i chalked it off to the warmer weather and the catch-all for everyone.....sinuses. surprise!
bottom line....in the winter, our houses in the midwest are shut up tight for the better part of five months and we become like a giant petrie dish and a breeding place for germs & bacteria.
#1 helper: hand sanitizer. carry it with you and DON'T shake hands with anyone. fist bumps are very fashionable. if someone offers an open hand, just say "i'm fighting a cold and don't want to pass it on but it's nice to meet you."
#2 sanitizing wipes. worth their weight in gold. items to wipe down every day: telephones, remotes, refrigerator handles, cabinet handles and door handles. on-off switches. alarm board panels.
and don't forget the interior of your car. while germs don't live long term in the cold, they can definitely be transferred short term. wipe down the dash, steering wheel, radio buttons and door handles. keep a container of wipes in the car. have your kids wipe down 'their' door before exiting the car because all children are walking petrie dishes.
#3 aeresol spray sanitizer. this is perfect for spraying down sinks, bathroom areas and counter tops.
well, my bed is calling me back for another visit but at least the waste basket is back in it's regular place. see you in a few hours.
Monday, January 6, 2014
BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!
ALMOST had to wear long pants to get the newspaper from the driveway this morning as CHI-BERIA approaches -40 with the chill factor. this is absolutely incredible but we've been spoiled for a couple of years with soft winters. put another log on the fire.
think it's tough this winter? jump into my time machine and revisit 1979, which was my rookie year as a police officer and the second coldest winter in area history with an daily AVERAGE temperature of 18 degrees. AVERAGE. fifteen degrees BELOW average. every day. every. day.
on new year's eve of 78, we got 12 inches of snow, which used to paralyze communities because of little manpower or equipment. les than 2 weeks later, the area got hit with twenty MORE inches of snow and when combined with sub-zero temperatures.....houston, we had a problem.
my first purchase as an active police officer? hot dogs. that's right, hot dogs. i bought them to lure runaway dogs into the back seat of my squad car. why so many loose dogs? well, the above mentioned snow was piled so high and frozen solid which allowed bowser to literally WALK OVER THE BACK YARD FENCE to freedom in an early version of 'shawshank redemption.'
want to feel a little old? it was 15 years ago last night that "THE SOPRANOS" debuted on HBO.
how about a little older? it's been 20 years since the NANCY KERRIGAN/TONYA HARDING incident prior to the olympics in 1994. harding, who is truly a white trash, trailer park living, dope smoking, low life cretin pled guilty for her part in the attack although she says she knew nothing until after kerrigan's shin got whacked. sure.
al-Qaida militants have risen up in IRAQ and are attacking SHITES in an effort to take back the country. the military responded with air strikes and ground fighting. DOES ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR? at least this time, we're staying home......where we belong. these people have been fighting for thousands of years and nothing we do....or have already done....will ever change anything permanently.
homicides dropped 18% in chicago last year and we still had a body count of 415, mostly in the jungle areas of the south & west sides of the city. permanent outlook for those areas? see the last sentence from the above paragraph.
JIMMY FALLON is incredibly talented with both comedy and musical chops and he constantly entertains me. he makes the big jump next month when he takes over for the retiring JAY LENO. the chair on THE TONIGHT SHOW is a huge one to fill and basically, only two men have run that show over the past 50 years, leno & the king, JOHNNY CARSON.
hope he makes it.
ok,one more 'feeling old' tidbit before i get back under the covers. next year, it will be THIRTY YEARS since the CHICAGO BEARS won the super bowl. thirty. ouch.
stay warm!
think it's tough this winter? jump into my time machine and revisit 1979, which was my rookie year as a police officer and the second coldest winter in area history with an daily AVERAGE temperature of 18 degrees. AVERAGE. fifteen degrees BELOW average. every day. every. day.
on new year's eve of 78, we got 12 inches of snow, which used to paralyze communities because of little manpower or equipment. les than 2 weeks later, the area got hit with twenty MORE inches of snow and when combined with sub-zero temperatures.....houston, we had a problem.
my first purchase as an active police officer? hot dogs. that's right, hot dogs. i bought them to lure runaway dogs into the back seat of my squad car. why so many loose dogs? well, the above mentioned snow was piled so high and frozen solid which allowed bowser to literally WALK OVER THE BACK YARD FENCE to freedom in an early version of 'shawshank redemption.'
want to feel a little old? it was 15 years ago last night that "THE SOPRANOS" debuted on HBO.
how about a little older? it's been 20 years since the NANCY KERRIGAN/TONYA HARDING incident prior to the olympics in 1994. harding, who is truly a white trash, trailer park living, dope smoking, low life cretin pled guilty for her part in the attack although she says she knew nothing until after kerrigan's shin got whacked. sure.
al-Qaida militants have risen up in IRAQ and are attacking SHITES in an effort to take back the country. the military responded with air strikes and ground fighting. DOES ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR? at least this time, we're staying home......where we belong. these people have been fighting for thousands of years and nothing we do....or have already done....will ever change anything permanently.
homicides dropped 18% in chicago last year and we still had a body count of 415, mostly in the jungle areas of the south & west sides of the city. permanent outlook for those areas? see the last sentence from the above paragraph.
JIMMY FALLON is incredibly talented with both comedy and musical chops and he constantly entertains me. he makes the big jump next month when he takes over for the retiring JAY LENO. the chair on THE TONIGHT SHOW is a huge one to fill and basically, only two men have run that show over the past 50 years, leno & the king, JOHNNY CARSON.
hope he makes it.
ok,one more 'feeling old' tidbit before i get back under the covers. next year, it will be THIRTY YEARS since the CHICAGO BEARS won the super bowl. thirty. ouch.
stay warm!
Sunday, January 5, 2014
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
the college games in december/january have been an awful lot of fun starting with the AUBURN "kick six" at jordan hare stadium when they beat ALABAMA and twisted coach nick saban's face as if he had bit into a lemon. auburn went on to crush MISSOURI in the SEC title game to get a chance at FLORIDA STATE tomorrow night.
what happened to alabama? got their asses handed to them by OKLAHOMA in the SUGAR BOWL. somewhere, new york yankee haters got their off-season smile in.
did you get a chance to see the WISCONSIN BADGERS embarass themselves AGAIN in a bowl game? SOUTH CAROLINA toyed with the fat boys for a while before beating them by ten in the capitol one bowl. the badgers have lost 6 of 7 bowl games including 3 consecutive rose bowls, in which they were favored in all three. to paraphrase the dean of students in 'animal house'....."being slow, fat & stupid is no way to play division one football."
and how about the FIESTA BOWL! a remake of the 'shootout at the o.k. corral' with the undisciplined BAYLOR BEARS, ranked #6, getting taken to the woodshed by the 17 point underdog UCF KNIGHTS. after committing SEVENTEEN PENALTIES, baylor couldn't play defense and the penalties derailed their offense when they needed it most, 52-42. another one dimensional team goes down.
UGLIEST BOWL GAME? easy. LSU/IOWA in the OUTBACK BOWL. the tigers win it 21-14 but the local high school could generate more offense. iowa scores on a pick 6 and a punt return. not even 200 yards of total offense by the hawkeyes. only bright spot for LSU is that due to an injury to their graduating quarterback, freshman ANTHONY JENNINGS played the entire game and while he wasn't pretty, he got some valuable time heading into next season.
another put down game was the ORANGE BOWL where the mighty buckeyes of OHIO STATE completed their late season collapse by losing to CLEMSON 40-35. think coach URBAN MEYER has problems on defense? consider this fact: in their last three games, they allowed ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN POINTS and lost tthe last two after escaping michigan 42-41. methinks buckeye fans need to shhhhhhush their mouths about playing in a title game.
AND THE BEST BOWL GAME TO DATE???? absolutely no doubt about it, the CHICKEN BOWL on new year's eve when JOHNNY FOOTBALL brought heavily favored TEXAS A & M back from a 4 touchdown deficit to beat DUKE, 52-48.
JFF was 30/38 for 382 yards and 4 td passes and 73 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. incredible. i have no idea if he'll succeed in the NFL but he sure was fun to watch the last two years.
AUBURN will try to give the SEC their seventh bowl win this post season tomorrow night but i don't think so.
what happened to alabama? got their asses handed to them by OKLAHOMA in the SUGAR BOWL. somewhere, new york yankee haters got their off-season smile in.
did you get a chance to see the WISCONSIN BADGERS embarass themselves AGAIN in a bowl game? SOUTH CAROLINA toyed with the fat boys for a while before beating them by ten in the capitol one bowl. the badgers have lost 6 of 7 bowl games including 3 consecutive rose bowls, in which they were favored in all three. to paraphrase the dean of students in 'animal house'....."being slow, fat & stupid is no way to play division one football."
and how about the FIESTA BOWL! a remake of the 'shootout at the o.k. corral' with the undisciplined BAYLOR BEARS, ranked #6, getting taken to the woodshed by the 17 point underdog UCF KNIGHTS. after committing SEVENTEEN PENALTIES, baylor couldn't play defense and the penalties derailed their offense when they needed it most, 52-42. another one dimensional team goes down.
UGLIEST BOWL GAME? easy. LSU/IOWA in the OUTBACK BOWL. the tigers win it 21-14 but the local high school could generate more offense. iowa scores on a pick 6 and a punt return. not even 200 yards of total offense by the hawkeyes. only bright spot for LSU is that due to an injury to their graduating quarterback, freshman ANTHONY JENNINGS played the entire game and while he wasn't pretty, he got some valuable time heading into next season.
another put down game was the ORANGE BOWL where the mighty buckeyes of OHIO STATE completed their late season collapse by losing to CLEMSON 40-35. think coach URBAN MEYER has problems on defense? consider this fact: in their last three games, they allowed ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN POINTS and lost tthe last two after escaping michigan 42-41. methinks buckeye fans need to shhhhhhush their mouths about playing in a title game.
AND THE BEST BOWL GAME TO DATE???? absolutely no doubt about it, the CHICKEN BOWL on new year's eve when JOHNNY FOOTBALL brought heavily favored TEXAS A & M back from a 4 touchdown deficit to beat DUKE, 52-48.
JFF was 30/38 for 382 yards and 4 td passes and 73 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. incredible. i have no idea if he'll succeed in the NFL but he sure was fun to watch the last two years.
AUBURN will try to give the SEC their seventh bowl win this post season tomorrow night but i don't think so.
FLORIDA STATE 38 AUBURN 27
or maybe not. just hope it's a good one.
NFL FOOTBALL
i've always said that when you lose on wild card weekend, it just proves you didn't belong there in the first place. was anyone really surprised when the chiefs, eagles, and the packers all spit the bit this weekend?
the packers (or the bears for that matter) had no chance of advancing and even with home field AND "packer weather" they played the game in slow motion.
the chiefs have been running on fumes the last two months, losing 5 of their last seven. remember when they were 9-0? they had a TWENTY EIGHT POINT LEAD with 28 minutes to play and throated to indy & andrew luck. the coach of the chiefs? andy reid, who couldn't win in philly with the best team in the league. the beat goes on.
and speaking of the eagles...another team with home field against a team that had NEVER won a road playoff game.
eagles, meet the saints. bye-bye.
and now we come to the team who has to be the most disappointing of wild card weekend, the cincinnati bengals. they ran away with their division, were undefeated at home, scored a hundred and twenty-five more points than the enemy during the regular season, had the third ranked defense in the nfl and had a west coast team playing on the road in the worst midwest winter in years. a major bed wetting by andy dalton who has yet to win a playoff game in three tries and has turned the ball over 7 times in those efforts. oh yeah, never trust a red head.
and now some news from a non-playoff team, the chicago bears. A HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION for jay cutler over the next 7 years. take a moment to absorb that. he probably got all that money for each championship he's won starting with college. no, that's not it.
nfl playoff games? not that either. it just goes to show you that you can win 25% of your college games and never lead your nfl team to a playoff game BUT if you're teacher's pet, there are chests of gold waiting for you. just picture the bears (marc tressman) as a desperate poker player going "all in" on a hunch and then crossing your fingers hoping for the ace. that's the feeling i get when i look at this deal.
the packers (or the bears for that matter) had no chance of advancing and even with home field AND "packer weather" they played the game in slow motion.
the chiefs have been running on fumes the last two months, losing 5 of their last seven. remember when they were 9-0? they had a TWENTY EIGHT POINT LEAD with 28 minutes to play and throated to indy & andrew luck. the coach of the chiefs? andy reid, who couldn't win in philly with the best team in the league. the beat goes on.
and speaking of the eagles...another team with home field against a team that had NEVER won a road playoff game.
eagles, meet the saints. bye-bye.
and now we come to the team who has to be the most disappointing of wild card weekend, the cincinnati bengals. they ran away with their division, were undefeated at home, scored a hundred and twenty-five more points than the enemy during the regular season, had the third ranked defense in the nfl and had a west coast team playing on the road in the worst midwest winter in years. a major bed wetting by andy dalton who has yet to win a playoff game in three tries and has turned the ball over 7 times in those efforts. oh yeah, never trust a red head.
and now some news from a non-playoff team, the chicago bears. A HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION for jay cutler over the next 7 years. take a moment to absorb that. he probably got all that money for each championship he's won starting with college. no, that's not it.
nfl playoff games? not that either. it just goes to show you that you can win 25% of your college games and never lead your nfl team to a playoff game BUT if you're teacher's pet, there are chests of gold waiting for you. just picture the bears (marc tressman) as a desperate poker player going "all in" on a hunch and then crossing your fingers hoping for the ace. that's the feeling i get when i look at this deal.
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