Catch of the Day. Airplane Rant.

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…

On the clock.  Airplane rant.  Evening rant.  Quick flight from Albuquerque. Speed version.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  Planning on one sentence hooks, but might go back and elongate a couple if there is time (probably not though as this flight is speedy).  Onward and upward…
2. That was my set up and what I wrote before getting on plane.  Somehow my flight is 50 minutes and 50 minutes only.  Definitely a speed version for a full sheet of legal pad paper.  Not limiting myself to one sentence though.  Go!
3. Lindsey is going to Virginia for family stuff and I am not going on this one.  I would like to thank the PGA Championship for scheduling their tournament during this time.  Couch ridden for sure on the weekend.
4. Those of course would be the days AFTER going to see Straight Outta Compton on the opening night with the story about the start of my boy, Dr. Dre.
5. Is it real that UCLA has given an actual offer to a 13 year old basketball player with the very adorable name of LeMelo Ball?
6. I am sad that Mayweather hasn’t chosen my cat to fight for his final one-Jackson has been doing mad training sessions and would give him a run.
7. Mayweather DID pick Andre Berto, and picking a fairly easy last fight is cool with me, but can you not pick a guy who is 3-3 in his last 6 fights?
8. Kind of sad he picked a date right in the middle of my previous fun trip out there and my future business one. Doesn’t work for me, Money.  Sitting this one out (at least live).
9. Sounds about right. 27 out of 27 voters picked OSU to be in the football playoff.  We are NOT splitting the atom in any realm in saying that they are pretty freaking good on paper.
10. I was hoping for a little more from this sensational Messi headbutt/ throat grab that was around social media today.
11. Why am I so enamored with the movie Seven?
12. Where the HELL is the show Drunk History?
13. Why can’t I remember to watch Battlebots on Sundays?
14. Why do I put myself through the pain of looking at Vegas receipts after getting back?
15. The Jays have the pieces now and are in a division that is for the taking once the unstable pitching of the Yankees settles in, so they need to strat now on their run to the division title.
16. I can listen to a boring baseball game any day of the week. They are FULL of information.
17. No way I can finish this on the plane.
18. Lindsey and I didn’t really forget to get a tattoo in Vegas as we just had very booked schedules for our fun.
19. I think I know what a double negative is, and most people don’t use them, and I guess DeSean Jackon was just being really, really humble. What a guy saying he’s not saying no one can cover him.
20. How many 34 second Ronda Rousey jokes have YOU heard in the last week?
21. I have begun to tire in reading about the Hernandez trial.
22. I have begun to tire in reading about the Brady testimony.
23. Scary that there is a “bid” of $200 million to James Harden and that they haven’t just signed everything already. Lots of money, folks.
24. I was going to talk about the MLB playoff races and my interesting tidbits on them, and I was going to talk about my preliminary fantasy NFL picks, but there is no time today.
25. I am not happy he is injured and undergoing surgery, but I would like to thank the Arian Foster situation for allowing me to finally NOT get sucked into picking him on my fantasy team and then watching the injury updates every week for hours before the games started.
26. We know you are ALWAYS, hopeful, Pete Rose. Dammit, why did you get busted for betting on baseball as a player?
27. The bat boy story is sad as can be, accidents happen, and many people have written many, many paragraphs of beautiful writing that would be better than me.
28. I am flying into Denver and would like the Missy Franklin greeting to be the one tonight before I hit the terminal.
29. The Mets are…starting to make me believe.
30. If there was a more confusing good team on paper than the Nats, I don’t know of it.
31. Happy birthday this week, Marv Levy. Ninety years young is doing pretty damn good.
32. Decent horse talent there at the race, and pretty stellar of Pharoah to just do his thing.
33. I think the Bills and Vikings might be the two best NFL teams that have a huge just NOTHING at the QB position. Maybe Jeff Garcia wants another go at it.
34. I am not saying that Adrian Beltre isn’t a good player, but I am saying he just doesn’t FEEL like a HOF’er. Take THOSE negatives, DeSean.
35. The Beltre/ cycle record is pretty cool though.
36. Albuquerque is a very, very strange town.
37. I ate New Mexican every meal, and the Bistronomy had a great green chili burger that I had with a great green chili beer.
38. We went to have $1 PBR’s at a place called Imbibe, and it was part cigar store, rooftop bar, dive bar, dance club, bottle service place, wine bar, shady place, and other things and the weirdest vibe ever.
39. Actually, not “weird” as there were $1 PBR’s, but we couldn’t figure out what the damn place WAS. It had a freaking DRESS CODE that we barely qualified for.
40. The Library had Phi Delts partying it up, and somehow one started calling me brother when I said I was from the Beta Pi Chapter of Sigma Pi. All the Greek stuff lost him.
41. I had a Tacopilla at some local dynamo place, and it was the size of a football. Didn’t make it through much of that.  But, CHECK that off my bucket list.
42. I even had a ham and cheese panini at the airport an hour ago with ranch and green chili.
43. I might start making that sandwich at home.
44. Speaking of chili, sucks about Clowney’s dad.
45. Chilli Bean, folks…did you READ the story? Kicked out because he was sitting ON the dancer’s stage, waited at back, fired at a guy with a gun, and THAT dude happened to have a gun to fire back.
46. If I had a sinker today, Justin Blackmon would be considered. He still is on contract, and all he has to do to get reinstated is APPLY with the NFL, but he just is chilling I guess, out of touch and uninterested apparently.  Waste of a draft pick, waste of talent.
47. Might suck being an athlete who does anything in open water for the Rio Games. Filthy stuff.
48. Finally, the real life Crash Davis (closest thing to him) just got the minor league record for HR’s. I read his bio.  It does sound a little like Crash.  Nice job, Mike Hessman, and thanks for giving me my random theme on the last hook.  One of the best sports movies ever…
49. That’s it. I made it before they made me turn up my tray tables.  Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.