I’ll tell you what. Why don’t we take all these bricks and build a shelter for the homeless, so maybe your mother will have a place to stay.
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. Day rant. Speed version. Let’s turn and burn.
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1) Greetings and salutations, all. Thanks for joining me. I am not in a rush to leave today because JaVedeon Clowney is picking me up from work.
2) So, since Clowney got an 84 in a 55 after getting in December a 100 in a 70 zone, I would call that improvement. Where the hell is he always in a rush to get to…besides the NFL? Does he want his NFL nickname to be “Leadfoot?”
2a) I think that would actually be a fun nickname, especially if he ended up a bust, which he won’t.
2b) I Googled “leadfoot.” I got two hits.
3) Nice stat line, Chris Paul, in defeat. 34-3-16-6. Wow.
4) He still lost to my “for some reason I have become a fan of” team (since the Timberwolves are underachieving again). Portland is 24-5, people. Lillard is for real. Aldridge is coming into his own. Better hop on board and stay up later on the East Coast to catch some games.
5) Anyone else notice that James Harden had 27 points last night on 2-9 shooting? That is crazy odd. Dude CAN get to the line whenever he wants it seems though.
6) For you local people, I believe the condom on the Capitol Building was scheduled after like 50 years of construction to come off. Nice that it looked ugly the two years I had a front porch view of it.
7) Join the party. I am officially a Twitter addict. 150 followers and counting.
8) It only took me following 1200 people to get to that number. I think it will increase now though. I finally included a description and changed account from “fillerbuster11,” so it looks like a normal person reaching out instead of a misspelled government term.
9) Direct TV has been nice for my Sundays and given me an excuse to stay away from bottomless mimosa bars, but I need to venture out this weekend. The Steelers have two other games that they are dependent on in the early set, meaning I MIGHT have the luxury of coming home and caring about the Chargers-Chiefs game. Let’s hope.
10) Come on, Andy Reid, go with the “momentum going into the playoff” mantra and play your starters. Who the hell IS your backup? Is it Chase Daniels? Ugghhh.
11) Sure, I am pumped for Weidman-Silva this weekend, but MORE pumped for the Rousey-Tate fight. I posted a cool workout video today on Twitter.
11a) All I need is an EXCUSE to post this photo as you long timers know.
12) My ESPN Mag still hasn’t come in the mail. I went to happy hour last night at my Dead-Panic-Phish bar. Reading the sports day on your phone just doesn’t have the same feel as a newspaper or magazine.
13) By the way, CNNSI, your wireless phone appearance and functionality SUCKS. Fox, amazingly, yours is pretty good.
14) LeBron is AP Athlete of the Year. Come ON, Pacers.
15) OK, ok. Griffin shouldn’t have been ejected, so he was right. My editor forgot to double check the tape before my post yesterday. Cut me a break. I work like 60 hours a week.
15a) It is not a paid editor. It is an intern.
16) The good thing about drinking is that it is fun when things suck or are really good. Therefore, the following people WILL be hitting up happy hour for one reason of the other. Leslie Frazier, Mike Shanahan, Mike Munchak, Dennis Allen, and Jim Schwartz. Have fun, gents.
17) I never have to worry about playing music on the jukebox at Sancho’s the previously mentioned bar. I always am lined up with my jam band lineup. Last night, I actually HAD to go play something because of silence. I played the usual Panic, Panic cover, and this gem by Moe. If you get bored, just go to midway through for the KILLER guitar solo that is surprising by the low keyness of the song.
18) Seriously, all of those Penn State players were sold the whole pitch on why they should still go to Penn State after all of the legal stuff and O’Brien is now taking interviews for other jobs. I would be pissed.
19) I feel like Brandon Stokley has already retired a few times.
20) Consistent and a late starter, kind of sad that Kenny Rogers and his 219 wins won’t get a sniff at the HOF.
21) Ubaldo Jimenez was mediocre after the trade to the Indians. Then, he lit it up late this season, just in time to get overpaid righteously. Think about this. 13-9, and he turned DOWN a $14 million offer already from the Indians. Wow.
22) Chris Johnson says there is no way he would take a pay cut ever. In a related story, the sky is blue and the grass is green. If there was a guy who I would say cares only about records and money, it is him. Winning? Not so much.
23) From Peter King. Dallas 2011: 8-8. Dallas 2012: 8-8. Dallas 2013: 8-7. Kyle Orton’s career record: 37-37.
24) Shame about Tony Romo needing surgery. Shame that we the fans miss out on new and creative ways to blow THIS season.
25) Think about this. Keenan Allen almost quit his first year in San Diego. Almost quit. Wow.
26) An FSU player is giving away his two tickets and trying to raise money online for a 16 year old cancer survivor. These are the kids that drown out the idiotic athletes we read about. Props and then some.
27) Cooper Taylor is a very smart man. He is a rookie for the NY Giants, and happens to have a pad down the street from the Super Bowl. He is renting out his pad for $9k for the week. Personally, without seeing the place, I think he could get double that easily.
28) If you don’t think the multitude of Eli Manning’s interceptions haunt him at all hours of the day, then you are wrong. Here he is seeing one of them I assume. Either that, or a very ugly/ scary dessert.
29) The 1993 Oilers say they had gay teammates and didn’t care. Props again.
30) Deadspin even runs low on lists to do. Check out their rankings of “fat, current NBA players.” http://deadspin.com/fat-current-nba-players-ranked-1489872346
31) The confusion that is the New York Knicks can leave little time to relax and catch your breath. So, an optimum time to fall asleep is actually DURING the game.
32) I agree with everyone that the sleeved NBA jerseys absolutely suck. If you are going to do sleeved style, you HAVE to keep it to the GTown old school jerseys.
33) I am not sure if there is an alternative plan, but Lindsey is recently TELLING me when movies that I will get hooked on are on the tube. Recently? White Men Can’t Jump and Rocky IV. Confused.
33a) The talking trash scene in the tournament I STILL roll over watching.
34) In case you fall into the tier that says specifically that Tiger “sucks,” let’s say this. Tiger has missed 9 cuts in his career. The closest future HOF’er is above 50. That is amazing consistency, people.
35) When ESPN started keeping the crawl at the bottom of the screen during commercials, I wonder how much it actually costs to do that.
36) I know, Ponto. I am the only person left in the world who watches commercials.
37) Our new dish set for Christmas is all turquoise. I am amazed. I don’t think it was planned, and I wasn’t involved in the decision making, but turquoise simply rocks.
38) Great Twitter photo by the LostLettermen. Self explanatory and no joke needed.
38a) What happened to him? He was an island CB a few years ago, and now can’t even make the team with the 49ers. But, see above if there are further questions.
39) If you like cartoon films somewhat, and you haven’t seen Hotel Transylvania, then you are truly missing out. Drop everything and watch it this weekend.
40) The one shot on Christmas no one expected at our house was her dad and me doing Easy Cheese shots. It was delicious.
41) In case you care, Peyton Manning’s 50th TD was wrong per the NFL. Guess he better make sure he throws another one or two to silence the asterisk critics in the Northeast.
42) The Nets responded to Kidd’s “we have to fight” comment by saying “you have to coach.”
43) My day stops at 2pm tomorrow. Louisville-Kentucky/ the two teams I currently do not have in my Final Four that JUST outside it. Mine is presently Syracuse, Wichita State, Michigan State, and Arizona.
44) That is it. Gotta go. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed. Will I blog tomorrow? That is a CLOWN question, bro.