Wow, those three hairstyles just beyond the mic and to the left are incredible.

May 18, 2015 Filler

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. Barely edited. EARLY morning rant when written, not posted. Semi-speed version. Let’s turn and burn.

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Greetings and salutations, people. Thanks for coming aboard (the boat). Let’s clear the list before I get to Seattle. Let’s move.
Forget that it happened at all. Forget it was the ninth time ever a team has relinquished a 3-1 lead in an NBA series. I was more surprised HOW that last game went down. Not a lot of Game 7 like emotion, strategy, or intensity by the Clippers. There were like two times the entire second half where I got halfway through the statement “maybe we might get a game….never mind.” And as the game crept along, you KNOW that blowing the last game leaked into their minds. Here is the thing. It is probably better this way. With the lack of bench the Clippers were using (MIND blowing numbers to support this fact in the playoffs), they would have run out of gas anyway. Keep the core, keep Rivers, and bring in some quality bench players. Mentally though, this won’t be easy to recover from.
I don’t want him to, and I think he still has game left, but I think Paul Pierce should retire. Sure, the Wizards probably have a deeper run in them, but I can’t see a player going out cooler while still losing as Pierce might go. He hit a couple buzzer beaters, and then made one JUST after the buzzer. Not a bad exit. Cool nickname? Ring? Check. Tried to play for one team and be loyal? Check. ALMOST Cool exit? Check.
I actually LOVE rain, so a good time was had the other day attending the DU lacrosse game. Kind of weird and taking time to adjust that UVA is NOT in the mix, but a great comeback from DU against Ohio State regardless. With the Cuse getting knocked out by old school Johns Hopkins, it might set up a SWEET championship game with DU vs. Hopkins a.k.a. the origin vs. the transfer location of top flight lacrosse coaching (with Princeton in the middle of course).
By the way, glad the university who says THEY are THE UNIVERSITY is out of tourney. Damn you, OSU.
This is my smooth friend and DU grad, Brian, with the rolled up jeans and then turned around calling me out and his coolness.
What a good looking dude that guy is.
Love the sport of college lacrosse, but it really DOES need a shot clock.
The refs in college lacrosse get to wear shorts, and that would be a HUGE selling point for me if I was choosing which ref career path I was planning on following.
Just some cool photos of Denver sky when we left after all that rain.
Speaking of shot clocks, LOVE the fact they are talking about making the college basketball shot clock 30 seconds. Faster pace of the game, more like the speed of the NBA game, and a smart move if you ask me.
I am in Pacific time and as I short edit this blog in the evening, I HATE that although I am a morning guy and will wake up at 5am as normal, it will already be 8am on the East Coast.
Tom Thibodeau has two groups of phones with two groups of people loyally watching both of them. The first group is the phone the Bulls will call once they make a decision on his future, and the other group is the LONG list of teams that will call him IF he is fired.
Interesting question with or without Thibodeau. Do you disband the current makeup of the Bulls? Well, do you disband them at all as soon as you do the OBVIOUS first thing, which is give Jimmy Butler a max contract?
DeAndre Jordan’s eyes are really, really close together. Sorry to hear he doesn’t get along with Chris Paul.
I hear Bo and the Bos talked this month. Does the Bos simply rationalize these days and assume his career would have gone downhill anyway…monster hit or not?
I am heading to Seattle, probably #4 or #5 on my favorite city list and ALMOST where I ended up back in 1997. It sucks that this work trip will give me NO time to enjoy this great city though.
When I watch NBA games, I basically break it down as follows. There is about 25% of the players who ARE better than anyone else on earth at the sport…even the street courts There is about another 30% of the players who are simply large, tall people who then get an NBA job and may or may not have actual skills. There is about 35% of the players who have a specialized skill that is needed by a team at that level (jumping, snipe shooting, defense, etc.). Then, there is about 10% that are simply lost very tall souls who got a little lucky and do NOT have skills…and these people don’t mess around on the street courts at ALL.
I don’t really understand why I would want my phone as a watch on my wrist.
For you fellow Silicon Valley watchers, you knew the blackboard thing would come back at some point, and it looks like we just entered that time frame.
To prime myself for Sunday’s Game of Thrones, I even mixed in a Spanish version of the last episode when Lindsey fell asleep Friday night.
Sansa just gets screwed like every time on dudes, doesn’t she? Not sure how this Ramsay thing shakes out, but the last scene of the new episode was slightly uncomfortable. Not that we watch the show FOR comfort though. Actually, it was extremely uncomfortable and they didn’t even show us.
And I realized my comment on Sansa was a pun NOT intended. That was borderline rude. But you can only be rude if done on purpose, right? Well, kind of. Be quiet. I didn’t ask your opinion. Moving on… Why did Littlefinger screw over Sansa this way? When the HELL is Theon going to come back to his mind? When the HELL are the Dragons going to eat Ramsay, and will Jon Snow hurry the hell up what he is doing? When is my midget dude going to regain alliances? And now no one can help because the show is off the book rails, if you will…
The kicker unfortunately died the other day, meaning there is one less champagne glass needing to be filled whenever the last unbeaten NFL team loses EVERY year.
Clayton Kershaw just got his 100^th This is scary because he is easily the most dominant pitcher in the sport and has been for years. And, he is ONE THIRD of the way to 300 wins, a landmark number for the Hall of fame. Wow.
I get why sensitive people would be offended, but still wish Under Armour didn’t have to take that SWEET Iwo Jima T Shirt off the market.
Two players hit their 400^th home run this week. Miguel Cabrera kind of feels like he belongs in the Hall. I am ok with that one. With Adrian Beltre, I don’t have that same feeling, stats or not. Maybe 500 HR’s needs to be the benchmark moving forward. Not buying that Beltre should be in the Hall. We really need to advance all sports beyond the consistently decent to overwhelmingly good for more than 6-7 years.
Yes, that is why I don’t support Terrell Davis in the Hall in football. That is also why Roger Maris shouldn’t be in the baseball one.
I feel like the entirety of the Josh Hamilton saga is done, or SHOULD be done whether the Angels owner decided to not talk to Josh or not. I am tired of it.
I am not smart, but not dumb either. I went to work in my Dockers shoes on Friday. I went out that night in sandals. I went to the lacrosse game on Saturday in sandals. I stayed home Saturday night. Where the HELL are my Dockers shoes, and know our condo is not THAT big, although the cat IS big enough to pull on some shoes I think? I have my BACKUP, torn Dockers shoes on this work trip. Not the same.
It would be too easy to pick the hottest player in 2015 to win the French Open, giving Djokovic the one Grand Slam he doesn’t have. Djokovic looks pretty unbeatable right now. I am still sticking with my guns. Give me Nadal, Nadal, and Nadal. He might even retire after barely winning it this year. Going down with the ship, dammit.
Bruce Irvin apparently was misquoted and didn’t say he was going to Atlanta. I really didn’t care about the story the first time around, so really don’t care how accurate the quote was either.
Before you go off on me for the Blackhawks getting worked by the Ducks in Game 1, it is a seven game series, adjustments will be made, and chill the heck OUT. The Ducks are the best team they have faced thus far, but they will still take them down.
If you are a weird person and somehow not like NHL playoff games because it is slow play, then turn on the Rangers-Lightning series and enjoy the speed of both teams, both with players and in style.
I don’t think I heard any new updates on the Goodell-Brady thing over the weekend, and am pretty happy with the lack of information.
I like everything about him anyway, but classy how Le’Veon Bell accepted his ban for this season.
I am not being crazy like before and playing the same song over and over these days, and maybe the list of songs I like by them is not as long as I would have predicted a few months ago, but I still like Maroon 5 a lot (at least a couple songs like Animal and Phone Booth) and am man enough to admit that fact.
After some pops Saturday night, I went through a little overload on the remote with both Top Gun and Diehard on the TV at the same time. TOUGH, tough choices at every turn.
So, I guess Rory McIlroy is doing ok, isn’t he?
Pretty impressive win by American Pharoah the other day, and you get the feeling we are about to see a Triple Crown winner finally. If he was going to lose, it would be while starting on the rail. He not only won, but won impressively. The Belmont is longer and I think he still gets beat, but I am less confident about this decision as I was before the most recent race.
I made Lindsey watch the Secretariat races in case she thought American Pharaoh was doing ANYTHING special.
Someone pinch me. The Cubs have won 6 straight and the Astros still have the best record in the AL. This is just crazy talk judging anything on the last 5 years.
I would like to apologize to my Demon Kitty, which somehow has a pink toy I bought when I was hungover at the pet store the other day. My bad, Jackson. Stay the crazy, demonic, man you are.
We got him a fort for his kitty litter though. I think every young boy needs as many forts as possible.
Wow, I love window seats anyway because of my length and it is the only way I can lean against anything to sleep, but this ride up to Seattle is gorgeous with these mountains.
Too good, too deep, too much shooting. Give me the Warriors in 5 games.
Not as deep, not as balanced, and it just doesn’t add up. I don’t care. Give me the Cavs over the hawks in 6 games as LeBron continues to do something special. Irving can give them enough to take out Spurs East.
Not really sure Mike Redmond was your problem, Marlins.
Whenever I try NOT to talk about how they are running out of movie ideas, they do something like re-release Poltergeist. They can’t make modern movies scary ANYWAY, Poltergeist was an ok movie, and I would have preferred them to just leave it along.
On editing, I am adding a few items, as I work all day tomorrow, will not want to blog at night, and am on a plane Wednesday night for another airplane rant.
If you think the Rangers-Lightning series is not going 7 games, think again.
If you think the Pats would like to smooth out Deflategate through the media publicly, think again.
If you are a Dolphins fan who is excited about the Tannehill extension, think again.
If you think that 49ers fan is not unhappy about ANOTHER defensive player retiring this year, think again.
If you think that Charlie Weis is NOT getting paid $2 million for the team he coached TWO teams ago and possibly $18 million from the team he coached ONE team ago, think again.
I hung out for an hour in Olympia. One of the weirdest cities I have been to like ever. Kids on skateboards in face paint with earrings smoking cigs while wearing odd clothing combinations that combine eras and logic. I believe the highlight was playing a game of pool with my colleague while Cinderella, Scorpions, Poison, and LA Guns all came on back to back. I liked it, but couldn’t figure out how the previously described kids even KNEW those songs.
That is it for today. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed. Will I blog tomorrow? That is a CLOWN question, bro.