Am down with the glasses but not with Keanu Reeves doing another movie.
Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.
In no particular order of chronology or importance…
Somewhat on the clock. Evening rant on an airplane. Let’s turn and burn.
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1) Greetings and salutations. Airplane and pretty cramped to be honest. This will definitely not be a full one as in the whole 4.5 hours. Let’s just cover the list stuff and call it a day. This guy next to me AND me have pretty wide shoulders. We are not saying it, but kind of alternating between leaning forward and laying back.
2) We all know there is VERY limited defense in the NBA All Star Game, but last night really pushed the envelope to say the least. When you have like FOUR guys all in the vicinity of Wilt’s scoring record for one game, it is a little out of hand.
3) And what was with all the 3’s? When a guy like Steph Curry is shooting 3’s, I get it. That is what he does. But, Melo, you do other stuff too. I know you were a little in the zone, and maybe I am just trying to find another reason to dislike you. Very possible. Plus, the last thing your teammates need is a great shooting night by you and more reasons to not pass to them.
4) And although I LOVE that song by Aloe Blacc I’m the Man or whatever it is, dude sounded a little off key if you ask me during pregame.
5) And what is up with the start time? It was 20 minutes until the NEXT hour when it was supposed to start, and they were still singing.
6) The Barkley-Obama interview was interesting. Since there are probably a solid 2-3 people in the world that Barkley won’t be as feisty with, we saw a rare occurrence. I ran outside after to see if there was a meteor shower, but I ran out for nothing.
7) Running a hotel is not rocket science, but always happy with a Hampton Inn. Mine was in the middle of nowhere, but it still was solid.
8) Toll Roads, and the fact that there are more of them out East, suck.
9) My colleague and I had separate rental cars because of logistics. We were running a little late after leaving client site, but Ponto, the Garden State Parkway is NOT a road to speed on when I am trying to follow you. I let you do your thing after passing 3 cops in a mile, and you got lucky.
10) Austin Dillon won the pole for the Daytona 500. I don’t know much about this except for the fact that he is driving Dale Earnhardt Sr’s #3 number on his ride. I suppose that is cool.
11) It was a “W,” sure, but I don’t think Canada expected that 2-1 OT win over Finland to be that close.
12) Wichita State advanced to 27-0. I feel like Widespread Panic just had a billboard #1 and now everyone knows about them. I feel like I lost a secret.
13) I know. Wichita State was in the Final Four last year, so this is not revolutionary, but still.
14) On a busy travel day, I thought the one score I did see that WOULD be women’s was Michigan State losing to Nebraska. Not sure what exactly is going on with Michigan State, but the one sure bracket advancement I had before the year started is now making me very nervous.
15) Ray Rice got arrested for a physical altercation with his fiancée. He was in Atlantic City. Maybe no one felt like flying anywhere, or maybe they were just lazy, but Atlantic City would be one of the last options for spots for me if I made his money. I don’t have that money, so this is a moot point, but I can still blog about it.
16) Bubba Watson won for the first time since the 2012 Masters. You know, he loves that Masters course and I could see him as the next guy to kind of claim it as his own. I think he has a good showing this year in Augusta, and I like the fact that he is playing this well this early in the year. Poor Dustin Johnson (my breakout player a couple years that never happened). Dude shoots two straight closing 66’s, and doesn’t get a whiff.
17) And I have to start rooting for someone else if El Tigre is going to keep sucking.
18) Speaking of the Masters, The Eisenhower Tree was lost with this last snow storm. I am curious to see how they fix this one of these years, or are they just going to accept the 17th and next to last hole as a relatively easy hole overall. You need something like that Eisenhower Tree.
19) Just read Deadspin please. You will be better for it.
20) Bob Costas will return to host the Olympics. Not sure what that Twitter eye account is going to do now that he is healed up. Good idea though. I checked it out.
21) ADDED NOTE DURING EDITING SINCE I COULDN’T SEE MY KEYBOARD DURING TYPING ON PLANE: I am confused on what the hell the difference is between ice dancing and couples skating.
22) Lamar fired Pat Knight from their basketball program. Firing one of the greatest coach of all time’s kid might not seem smart, but when you are at a small program playing other small programs and are 3-22, then there really is no other choice. Pat, you are officially off the pace of your dad. Missing a year hundreds of games down is not a good start. Sorry.
23) Mark Texeira says the Yankees are back to being the Yanks. I am not sure what that means. Does he mean overpaying for a roster that doesn’t win, or overpaying for a roster that DOES win? Overpaying would be the constant in this word algebra problem.
24) I didn’t know that the 1500 running thing was so huge with the Dutch. Seems kind of an odd thing to specialize in.
25) We can question Ryan Dempster all we want, but taking a year off because you care about someone’s health and because you want to spend time with your kids sounds alright to me. We are just not used to athletes being good enough to be there but also wanting the real things more. Refreshing.
26) The thing that sucked about cutting it close for my flight is that I didn’t get ONE Dunkin Donuts order in two days. Not doing that when IN Jersey is like illegal.
27) I don’t understand why NBA players want sleeves and I think they are dumb. And I think if teams DO start wearing them, that Dwight Howard needs to pay more attention when requesting his jersey.
28) Because of its tininess in the ASG.
29) When not interviewing the President, Chuck was up to his old tricks. Loved the “hungover means I was drunk yesterday” and the Tom Chambers” mention. Good stuff. No one mentioned Tom Chambers without knowing exactly when the reference happened.
30) And this is not me cracking on Tom Chambers. He is actually one of my favorite 5 players in the NBA of all time. Seriously. I patterned my game off of him.
31) Seriously.
32) IF, and I mean IF, you lived in a bubble and thought that someone besides Doug McDermott was winning the college bball POY this year, then I hope you noticed the 39 point effort against #6 Nova the other night. That pretty much sealed THAT up. And any time you are passing Larry Bird in ANYTHING on a list, that is a good thing.
33) LeBron has been to TEN ASG’s? My, how time flies.
34) The Braves signed Craig Kimbrel to 4/42. He is a closer. 1.39 ERA. That is a lot of money for someone playing an inning a night. But I guess if the given is that all baseball players are severely overpaid, then I guess his salary is about par for the course.
35) I watched the ASG from my hotel room in New Jersey. There is no way I could live out East again just for TV alone. 10pm is when I start shutting it down, and considering it wasn’t even halftime of the ASG at that time this weekend, is NOT me.
36) Congratulations to Violet Palmer for becoming the first female ref in the ASG. It is basically the honor than anything else, and not much officiating needed to be done in that game. Over/ under on her whistle blows was probably ten times?
37) Nice that Van Halen still was the song played right before they tipped at the ASG. Right Now. I get older, and my boys still are being played although pretty much being done overall. I am sure David lee Roth is doing drugs somewhere right now debating on a new album and touring again. Being present at the last tour, I will say the fork should be stuck.
38) Yay. Turbulence coming over Chicago. Basically in so many words the captain said we are going to have a fun 20 minutes or so. Attendants are getting ready to sit down. Let’s do this. I love turbulence and more importantly love watching other people freak out about it.
39) Blake Griffin was just the man throughout the ASG, and shame that most of the time it goes to the winner’s player. OU product was simply BALLING early and late.
40) Interesting. So James Harden couldn’t crack Scott Brooks’ starting lineup in his time in OKC on one single team in the league. BUT, he can crack the starting lineup for the whole CONFERENCE. Ironic.
41) Now that Matrix stuff is back in commercials, and Lawrence Fishbourne is doing that character, I STILL want those freaking sick sunglasses he wears in those movies.
42) This doesn’t mean Keanu Reeves is making another Matrix though, right? Let’s reel that in right now.
43) The fans and players singing happy birthday to Bill Russell during the ASG was freaking cool as hell. That dude was the MAN.
44) Still is technically. Until he dies. He just WON.
45) So simple. Packing a roll of tape these days in my backpack for traveling as it makes all the sense in the world to just tape my legal note pad thing up on the seat in front of me. I get weird looks, but I already am getting weird looks being in shorts flying into cold places.
46) Newark Airport sucked leaving as much as it did arriving to it. Only good thing today was that I was leaving the town.
47) I have thought it but never said it. Kind of funny when Reggie Miller admitted that Grant Hill and him look pretty freaking similar.
48) The USA Today has an article about the Phillies and how they are not rebuilding and feel like they can win right now with who they have. I am a diehard fan, but not drinking the Kool Aid yet. Let’s see how many of the plus 33 year old guys look after spring training.
49) I have not decided whether to be VERY excited for this Next 300 movie or whether I should just dismiss it and move on with my life.
50) Wisconsin won their game against an inconsistent Michigan that is athletic as hell but no one knows what the heck to do with. I don’t know what to do with them either.
51) Kobe’s Mount Rushmore had Magic and Bird on it. Not buying it and you are taking up valuable room on the mountain taking BOTH of them. You are pulling Magic for the Big Four if any of them, which you aren’t, because SOMEONE from the pool of Mikan, Oscar, Kareem, and Wilt needs to be used.
52) That is it. A little too cramped to keep on trucking. Going to eat my Combos (my airplane snack food oddly) and figure out the best allocation of space with me and this dude next to me. Think it is my turn to lean back. Hope you enjoyed or are least more informed. Will I blog tomorrow? That is a CLOWN question, bro. Peace.