What else COULD the theme be if you were tortured over the weekend by me with this song?

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.  Not an airplane rant. Speed version.  Evening rant.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  We are doing the speed version tonight as I haven’t blogged since Wednesday.  One sentence and one sentence only per hook for you newbies (and I think we have a few).  Let’s move.
2. We love rivalries, even if they somehow are manufactured, and maybe the NBA should have fined $10,000 the guy for a postgame bump, but coming from a guy who averages 4.6 minutes per game is not the optimum way.
3. It is about STARS, Dahntay Jones.
4. Freaking Duke kids.  
5. Sad the Steelers have to release Brett Keisel, but a new youth movement needs…youths and maybe less beards.  
6. What the HELL was Stephen A. Smith talking about on First Take today…talk about manufacturing SOMETHING???…
7. Didn’t Chip replace…nevermind…ugghhh.  
8. And know I am a Philly guy and MOSTLY love Stephen A. Smith.
9. Watch these games early this week even if you don’t know who the teams are, as their ENTIRE season rides on winning their tournament.
10. We are experiencing a weaker year for mid major teams that don’t NEED to win their tournament to make the Dance.
11. If I am an NFL team with some money, and wouldn’t mind picking up a good locker room #2 or #3 WR, I am all over Andre Johnson.  
12. I am talking to YOU, Colts.
13. I read a story somewhere about the Knicks possibly trading their #1 pick, and it was a very, very short article.  
14. Speaking of draft day trades, anyone else get the feeling that Chip Kelly is going to trade up to get Mariota, an Oregon product?  
15. Hell, I like Frank Gore, but still not saying I would pick up a 32 year old running back to replace my previous younger RB.  
16. I am sure Mark Sanchez is a great dude, but also not saying he is anything MORE than a second string QB…hence the Mariota guess.
17. Plus, Chip is pretty much doing ANYTHING he wants that does NOT fall into commonplace football theory.
18. I just made up that term.
19. I feel like Cliff Lee has been close to retirement several times in the last five years in a way we were not rooting for.  
20. I think this trading of Colin Kaepernick rumor floating around is silly not so much that it won’t happen now that Harbaugh is gone but because I am holding onto anything above a marginal QB these days in the NFL.
21. I know the Pats are smarter than me and just won a Super Bowl and all, but I am holding on to Revis if financially possible…but they are not.
22. He might be a peninsula and not an island these days, but come on.  
23. But, they DID re-sign McCourty, so I guess they haven’t lost it like Chip Kelly or anything.  
24. What a CLASSY goodbye from Torrey Smith to the Ravens and the city of Baltimore from a guy we can’t really hate who deserves a higher price tag.
25. Maybe QB’ing in Houston or New York is a dream of Brian Hoyer and that is fine, but not sure how moving to either city as far as team quality is not a lateral move.
26. I mean, is he really SCARED of Josh McCown????  
27. I know Rodney Hudson is a quality player, but I find myself less interested each year in who the Raiders sign at any position.
28. Discount the whole season if you want, but after the whole thing, we have what most polls had BEFORE the season…Kentucky and Duke at #1 and #2.
29. I am sure you could argue that THAT is the reason you hate the season, but it is also to fill in the blanks, people.
30. I am getting so excited…almost to my favorite couple weeks of the year.
31. Well, technically, we are already there…conference tourneys.
32. I don’t know if I disliked that racist video story more, or liked that Bob Stoops was front and center for the protest.  
33. I hear the NFL warned ALL NFL teams about contract leaks, and it sounds like they have pretty much EVERYONE to be mad at…every single year.
34. See, this is what I love…I just changed from Seinfeld to Furman vs. Wofford, which is going to be awesome.
35. Wow, I feel like Patrick Willis had WAY too short of career…what a badass.  
36. Jones-Drew had too short of career too, but he is an aging RB, and probably now more respectful of how Barry Sanders retired.  
37. My favorite tourney pool JUST went live…contact me directly if you want the most fun pool you can enter.
38. One pick each round…can’t reuse the same team.
39. Odd, but understandable… http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2015/02/13/borgata-casino-atlantic-city-free-throw-contest.html
40. Maybe this is what Ray Allen has been planning all along.  
41. Will YOUR team be the next one to have Percy Harvin on their team…the Jets might not even want them and they suck????….  
42. I am confused how Run All Night only lasts for one night…does he just get bored of trying to kill Liam after 8 hours?  
43. Is this a Taken version of The Purge?  
44. I am personally glad that Dustin Johnson won this weekend, we know he has the game to be the best golfer, and I hope he beats whatever demons he may or may not have.
45. So you know, Ohio State is a decent basketball team, they were at home, Wisconsin is hitting a scary stride, and going on a 16-0 run on the ROAD is pretty impressive.
46. You know the RB position is bleak in a way in the NFL and that having one under 30 years old is important when Mark Ingram gets the contract he got from the Saints.
47. Yu Darvish still has life in his 28 year old arm, and if you love baseball, I think we all hope he gets out of this injured state with the same velocity and mindset.
48. Slice and dice it any way you want it, but the Pack giving Randall Cobb some cash and Aaron Rodgers a signed weapon is a good idea.
49. When a story reads like “only person who has done this in the last 50 years is Michael Jordan,” you are doing pretty darn good.
50. Unless you live in a bubble, that last hook was about Russell Westbrook.  
51. I don’t follow club soccer like I do country (for me Euro and World Cup), but 24 hat tricks is a LOT.
52. Unless you live in a bubble, that last hook was about Lionel Messi.  
53. Are there a lot of drive by’s in Orlando?  
54. Unless you live in a bubble, that last hook was about Chris Johnson.
55. Please don’t pick CJ2K up, Pittsburgh.
56. LeSean McCoy will want to go to Orlando after spending some of his career in Philly and the next part of his career in Buffalo.
57. Buffalo is horrible…sorry…except for being near those cool falls.  
58. Speaking of cities, Suh will like Miami and his paychecks, but is he really happy to be leaving that Lions squad JUST hitting their prime????  
59. UVA lost to Louisville, and I think that they still get a #1 seed as long as they make the ACC tourney final.
60. They MIGHT be on the same side of the draw as Kentucky now.
61. If Rick Pitino keeps aging game to game like he is, he might be 248 years old by the Sweet Sixteen.  
62. I enjoyed Vitale doing the UVA-UL game, but it is just SINFUL that he doesn’t do the Duke-UNC game every single time.  
63. I might have had some pops when telling Lindsey that Sean Penn would win an Oscar for The Gunman, but he is still a badass.  
64. I snowshoed for the first time in Crested Butte, and more on that trip in a bit.
65. I never want to be mature enough when parties I go to do not involve shots, hot tubbing, and people passing out on the couch and it looking normal.  
66. I watch The Voice with Lindsey for quality time, kind of like it, but had NO idea that Adam LeVine was the lead singer for Maroon 5.
67. I also never liked Maroon 5 before I don’t think.
68. I also tortured (to put it nicely) the others in Crested Butte with that not so hip song Payphone.
69. I specialize in liking songs AFTER they hit their prime…there is a long list.
70. I also have moved up Adam LeVine to #5 on my man crush list, but Matt Damon, Justin Timberlake, Tom Brady, and Mark Wahlberg are pretty safe in future rankings.  
71. Here is the song if you have lived in a bubble like I evidently did with this guy (I HEARD the song, but now I LOVE it).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaWnd3LJfs
72. Ignore the buzzer beater the other day, and know Arkansas might jack up your tourney bracket.
73. Iowa will be dangerous if they get in too.
74. So will Iowa State and that has nothing to do with the state of Iowa.  
75. That is “The Mayor,” one of the coolest nicknames in sports.
76. I have many more to tell you about, but we have time.
77. I watch a LOT of basketball.
78. So, Lynch signed with the Seahawks, so all that releasing talk this season was just crap?  
79. The last Family Guy had Stewie getting pregnant with Brian’s hair in a machine, and might have been the weirdest Family Guy I have ever seen.
80. And that is saying a lot, and I LOVE Family Guy.
81. Pretty impressive that Okafor is the FIRST ACC freshman to win POY, and that is awesome, but let’s just pass the overall POY to Frank the Tank.  
82. I think the Clippers should hold on to Nate Robinson for the stretch run if the numbers work…like the 10 day contract for that little guy.  
83. Someone tell Melvin Hunt to STOP winning and trying to impress people, as the Nuggets’ faithful are losing their mind with…this winning crap.  
84. Sad about these Syracuse penalties no matter how much you try and find a way to not be sad.  
85. I am trying to figure out who has the height and defense to beat Kentucky in the tourney.
86. I WILL say that after seeing the Ole Miss, Ole Miss, and Georgia close calls, if you are ahead late, you go against ALL bball rules, don’t hold the ball longer, and keep gunning it like you were before and while you got ahead.
87. I think I am mad about it being 4 plus hours away, but I think I MIGHT like Crested Butte more than Aspen.
88. Drive is MUCH better too…MUCH.
89. When I have to drive over ONE shady mountain to get to a cool place 4.5 hours away in CO, that is amazing.
90. Sorry, my Crested Butte new friends…I am including all pics, but eliminating some stories on my blog list.
91. I think I might have been winning the embarrassing ones anyway, and it is my blog…get your own blog.
92. If Texas basketball ends up out of the tourney, can they just fire Rick Barnes for wasting talent for like 20 years IMMEDIATELY???  
93. If you didn’t know it before the OU win over KU, then know OU has beaten a boatload of top 25 teams, and they will also wreck your bracket.
94. It wasn’t AT KU, but still impressive.
95. Wichita State went from a possible #2 seed to a #5 seed most likely, and that is a HUGE drop.
96. How can I have Bill Walton on one channel and Hubie Brown on the other ALL the time?  
97. Bill Walton is fun and has a scary memory, and Hubie Brown is a genius…who is just getting old.  
98. Bill Walton is very excited about the Dead get together in July…I almost input my name but the system sounded complicated.
99. I have a feeling that we will get more Papa John’s and Buick commercials with Peyton’s pay cut.  
100. I feel like I am reading Greg Hardy updates more than I should be on the wire.
101. Justin Wilfork would be a huge pickup (no pun intended) for a team.
102. Does JaVale McGee understand that no one really wants him, and if they do, they want him at a LARGE amount of money less?  
103. Kurt Busch had no charges filed against him, and I am not even sure what he was in trouble with aside from having a sharpshooting girlfriend.  
104. I think that Darnell Dockett joining the 49ers is a GREAT pickup, and although I don’t have all the math, I am unsure how the Cardinals let him go.
105. IU’s AD backs Tom Crean, but I hear when he got drunk, he starting slurring words that sounded like Brad Stevens a LOT.  
106. Baylor football will try a 400 LB player at TE, and I am unsure how that dude plays before the red zone in that offense.
107. I think at any time in your life, you could Google “trade rumors with Brandon Marshall” and find a hit in the last week.
108. Plus, Google is really powerful.
109. Rousey in a movie, Rousey hurting reporters, and the world is now hers as long as she doesn’t mess this up.
110. Well, at least until the Cyborg fight…live it up, girl.  
111. I feel like we should balance that with a good looking photo of Ronda.  
112. How badass…the Wofford band just played Game Of Thrones.
113. April 12^th…  
114. I got done snowshoeing in Crested Butte, and let’s just say I DESTROYED a couple bowls of soup of a soup with some of my favorite words “roasted, red, pepper, gouda.”
115. Geez, Atlanta Hawks, please simmer down and make me right.
116. Ok…now for the Crested Butte pics knowing I am a HORRIBLE photographer.
117. Just going in the saved order, which might be backwords…not a bad view on the way there or way home, aye???  
118. Shot outside a CB bar:  
119. Much harder to catch guys and girls in the air than you think…big air at CB.  
120. This would be Britney and Shauna, the party on wheels.  
121. This is my new friend from Santa Barbara.  
122. This is my new friend with his brought along friend, who was also cool as hell.  
124. 
125. Some more of the friends… 
126. 
127. The party on wheels and her husband-I went to Wisconsin to watch them get married.  
128. Fun dude who I watched the UVA game with and also lost a close game of 26-24 in ping pong WAY too late for ping pong.  
129. 
130. SO hard to get these guys in action.  
131. When I had an adventure and went elsewhere…  
132. I want THIS dog.  
133. View from the front porch of our rented house.  
134. Party on wheels, part two…Wildfire.  
135. I TOLD him this pic would make my blog, and I don’t lie.  
136. I forgot to take ONE of my hats off snowshoeing.  
137. Snowshoeing.  Come ON.  
138. I call Sara “Gangsta,” and if you haven’t partied with her, you don’t know.  
139. Gangsta wanted an action shot.  
140. Gangsta is also a very happy person, unlike SOME gangstas.
141. If you made it this far, I will send you a Crested Butte snowshoeing clip of your chosen color…or maybe it will be just white, since I don’t feel like making that drive in the next two weeks.
142. That is it. Hope you enjoyed or at least more informed.  Were you not entertained?