Sharks on a Plane.

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 as Denver to Albuquerque is a very quick flight.  Yes, an airplane cast.  Tuesday afternoon cast.  Semi-speed version.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people. Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  The plane.  Lots of airplane casts over these weeks.  The theme is a damn boat though.  Short flight to Albuquerque, meaning I have about 20 minutes.  What I forget to cover, there is always tomorrow on the return flight.  Let’s move.
2. Wimbledon predictions. I think Federer has one more in him and it will be on grass.  With Independence Day being out, he will NOT go quietly into the night.  See what I did there?  Anyway, his best surface is grass.  Bring it, Djokovic.  I will pick Tsonga as my dark horse for the 15^th Grand Slam in a row I believe.  At least I am A) consistent and B) totally wrong about big of star he was going be.  For the women, I think the stories of Serena’s downfall are premature.  I like her to take this on grass with the speed of the court tailored to her ridiculous strength.  I like Keys or Stephens to “officially” finally break through as dark horses who could take this down.
3. And I will always root for Venus, but she might not have enough left in the tank for all of these young, fast girls. And I will root for Murray, but pretty sure that is just because England NEEDS a good story after the last couple of days.
4. Lindsey has noticed that I stop what I am doing on the couch and just stare at the TV when she stops by any Shark Week show. I wish you could understand how odd this is when she is finding a “compromise” show.  I guess it is Shark Week and Shark Tank that do it.  I guess I really like shark shows.
5. I got asked in my Uber today if I was heading to Albuquerque for business or pleasure. This is only my second time there, but I learned enough in the first trip to realize not many people go there for pleasure unless they have family there.
6. Exit row, and even took an aisle seat (nothing to see on the approach to Albuquerque).  Elbow room.
7. No one is sure when JR Smith got out of his playing shorts or put on any shirt, but now there is a shirt that is basically the shell of his shirtless body with his tatts.  Brilliant.
8. I can’t believe he has a title. Can’t BELIEVE it.  And, I can’t believe he made two important three pointers in the 3^rd quarter of Game 7 to HELP them.
9. Let’s let the Iceland-England EURO match be the “Iceland story” as opposed to the “downfall of English soccer,” although I can’t get enough of the Brexit jokes in relation to that loss.
10. 8% of the entire freaking country bought EURO tickets. Imagine that number based on the US population as opposed to the 200,000 or 300,000 in their country.  To PLAY in it was big for those fans.  Now, they are all scrambling changing flights in the best mood ever.
11. Congrats, Iceland.
12. I want to go to Iceland someday, and glad the locals and I have something to chat about. Remember that year at EURO when…yeah.
13. Jake Arrieta getting that CC tattoo is a cool story, but assuming he wants them at least to BEAT Arizona in the final series so at least the story has full closure. Otherwise, it will just be a really odd trivia question when he explains it to people.
14. Melo wooing ANYONE about ANYTHING is a joke to me. If I am the Knicks, I am actually telling him to have radio silence with KD and let bright people handle this.  What is he saying?  I WILL pass more.  Yeah…
15. Writers with full time sports jobs will write better stuff, so I will just say thoughts and prayers to Pat Summitt’s family. Tough ending to an absolute brilliant, record breaking, redefining career she had on and off the court.
16. Love that Mike Ditka immediately came out on Mike and Mike and said his Bears wouldn’t have won it all without the brilliance of that 46 defense. Thoughts and prayers also.
17. Wow, we have lost a larger amount of coaches and players in the last month.
18. Not sure which Chinese investor the Wolves sold shares to, but given the global trajectory of the game, expect more.
19. Eric Lindros could have been an all timer without as many injuries, we all know this fact, but I think most of us are elated he finally got the call for the HOF. Still deserving of that.  14 points per game.  19^th all time, and there are guys in the Hall already with careers cut short due to injury.
20. Most of the original GNR lineup (Duff, Slash, Axel) played the other night in MD and sounded GOOD? Get me on that tour bandwagon.  I will have to check out dates.
21. Business first and end of quarter stuff, but getting a little pumped for Steamboat Springs this weekend. First time.
22. The Mets are having a little bad luck, sure, in their attempt to return to the World Series, but bringing on Jose Reyes is not the right plan.
23. I hope Tony Stewart wins again. Not sure why.  Not exactly a Jeff Gordon exit due to lack of class of that guy, but just win and piss off people.  I am down.
24. I think Fred Hoiberg can co-exist with Jimmy Butler right after he names the correct Lopez brother he got in a recent trade. Come on.
25. Coming up on 15 days, Broncos fans, for the Von Miller fiasco. Interested to see how much Elway deviates from what he “believes” Von is worth, but pretty sure they find a way to get this done.  Without knowing where they are at presently in numbers, I think Miller still gets $50 mil guaranteed.
26. I can’t imagine someone as large as UCF fighter Ryan Jimmo just dying because of a weird hit and run. Thoughts and prayers to his family.
27. The Zika threat is real when we can’t even get the #1 golfer to participate at Rio in the RETURN of the freaking sport after not having it.
28. Not sure where I have been to not notice the Indians have won 10 straight games. Finally, they might be surpassing that dark horse mantra they seem to have every year in the last 5.
29. Geez, Evander Kane, if you actually just are who you are, and leak that info, then girls will come to YOU instead of wrestling with them IN the bar. No means no.
30. Pretty impressive, Mr. Ray Bourque. .249.  Not sure you should be walking with that BAC let alone driving.
31. Kind of weird that Spain is out of EURO, isn’t it. I guess they can say that Italy beat them and not Iceland.
32. Don’t look now, but the early season and WS contenders Astros are now two games OVER .500.
33. If you look at the offensive categories in the AL, it is unbelievable how many Red Sox players dot the columns. And Boegaerts having 108 hits already at this point in the season is stellar.
34. There are THREE Giants starters who have combined more than both the Twins and Braves ENTIRE TEAMS.
35. Depending on how high of ceiling you think there is in the USA Today (I read it because it is mindless), I read an “interesting” article talking about how the new Purge movie is coming out in an election year that is nuts and one in which we all want to move.
36. Finally, a shout out to Leah Smith. Who is she?  She just swam the third fastest 400 free EVER.  You won’t really read about her though.  Why?  Because she didn’t win.  She was in the pool with the Ledecky machine.  But, to have Katie say that ANYONE besides a) herself or b) the time “pushed” her is a compliment beyond all belief.    Leah is a UVA girl.
37. No prizes today, Rudy.
38. But, I WILL send your $20, Joseph, Friday before I leave for Steamboat.
39. Not GNR, and definitely not The Purge as the theme today. Guess the sharks win.  Shame there isn’t a movie called “Sharks on a Plane.”
40. That’s it for today. Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.