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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. Not a speed version, but it will be expedited.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people. Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  Blazing through the list today after working a few hours so I am clear for more work and a mini blog tomorrow.  Monday and Tuesday I have a feeling I will be off the radar for work stuff.
2.  I am happy.  Yes.  I am pumped.  Mayweather and Pacquiao finally did what they needed to do to put this megafight on the calendar.  This might be a methodical Mayweather victory that goes to decision, but Manny is at least going to make it a little interesting.  I WANT to believe that someone can rattle Money, but just have seen enough over the last ten fights to be convinced that even know Floyd is older, he is also smarter.  And the best defensive fighter we may have ever seen.  Yes.  It is finally a done deal.  And I have my own problems as I know that I will be deplaning from a trip at about the exact time the fight is going on live.  Are there pay per view APPS?  
3. I think that if Lindsey wasn’t home and there were subpar basketball games going on, that I might watch the NFL combine…like ALL day.  Fun stuff. Where else can you catch Quadzilla?  
4. I watched Winston throw today. His shoulder looked fine.  This takes temporarily away the possibility that his idiot traits won’t be paired with something else really negative.  
5. Sad to hear about Chris Bosh being out for the season. Riley pulls some Tywinn Lannister moves (stolen from Grantland-thank you) to get Dragic and give the Heat one of the best starting lineups in the league, and now this.  Get better, bro.  
6. IF you know basketball really, really well, you will enjoy the trade deadline one.  Trust me.  Great read.
7. MLB has officially put in place rules to speed up play. I will have fun watching them enforce the foot in the batter’s box rule this year.  
8. We all know it like the grass is green and the sky is blue, but it kind of resonates more when Jack Nicklaus says it. Yes, Tiger, the problem is between your ears.  
9. Girardi says A-Rod must “earn” his playing time.   Sounds like a plan.  I look forward to watching $60 million (or whatever it is) sitting on the bench as a utility player.  Sure it will happen..  Ha.  
10. Well, if Silva says he is not a cheater, than he must not be one, right? I mean, I am SURE multiple drug tests probably were all flawed.
11. Very cool, but not overwhelming. Steve Blake gave up his Blazers #25 jersey in honor of Jerome Kersey, but Blake has worn some combination of 2,5, and 25 his whole career, so the sacrifice is minimal I would say.
12. The Daytona 500 turn left contest is tomorrow (I think), meaning I just set my cell phone alarm for about 20 laps left, and hope for the millionth year that Danica whips those southern boys’ butts.  
13. We probably should do one more, right, in the Daytona spirit?  I love NASCAR.  
14. Ok.  One more.  
15. Is Kurt Busch being punished because of that ex-girlfriend stuff? Not sure, and don’t care.
16. THIS is a cool pick. Ice residue from a Jeep.  
17. We are supposed to get 8 to 20 inches of snow in the next two days. It is starting right now, and I assume I will be let down once again. My rationale?  Either snow a LOT or don’t snow at ALL.
18. During editing, it is officially almost a blizzard out there right now.  Guess I WON’T be let down this time.
19. Why are basketball games shown on ESPN News? Seriously, I have complained for years on this. Why did you create a separate channel for sports news 24 hours a day and then decide to throw some games on there?  Is this related to MTV back in the day suddenly showing Real World all the time when I wanted some old fashioned videos?  
20. Quietly, Wisconsin is looking very, very good. When their beginning of the season PG comes back, do you put him back in the starting lineup?   Nice problem to have.
21. Being that there is no overwhelming case out there, please give the player of the year trophy in college basketball to Frank the Tank.  
22. Oklahoma has beaten more top 25 basketball teams this year than anyone in the country…it feels like. It IS a lot, but I have no time to look that up. Sounds like a complicated Google.
23. The Big 12 might own the title of best conference in the land by numbers, but pretty sure the title is going to someone in one of the top heavy conferences.
24. I think my Final Four right now is Kentucky, UVA, Wisconsin, and…hmmmm….ummmm….Utahhhhhhaaahhhhnoooooo…..Gonzagaaaaaaaannnnoooooo…Duke. I know that is not exactly groundbreaking, but I like all of those teams. It is more that I am not sold on any of the second tier teams, and not that I think these teams are untouchable.  All have flaws.  Maybe not Kentucky aside from age.  Gonzaga doesn’t play anyone to test them, but I like their lineup.  Not sold on Zona.  Kansas keeps confusing me.  Not sold on Utah.  Notre Dame can’t guard anyone.  Northern Iowa doesn’t play anyone.  Louisville can’t score.  Not sold on Nova, and if they played Pittsburgh and Syracuse this year still, they would have at least two more losses).  I love Wichita State, but they fooled us last year and might do it again.  Iowa State plays up or down to its competition.  UNC can’t shoot from the outside.  Oklahoma not the total package if you ask me for six straight games.  Arkansas is a year or two away.  Butler is…Butler (plus, they got smoked today).  Baylor is bi-polar.  SMU is just weird.  Oklahoma State is ALSO bipolar.  WVU is just irritating.  Ohio State is too young.  VCU has key position injuries.    I will stop now.
25. The announcement that Kendrick Perkins will join the Cavs after a buyout reminded me he was traded in the first place.
26. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool that UNC started the Ga Tech game today with Four Corners.
27. Durant is out again, no one is worried, and I assure you they ARE.
28. Some players get some more work in during the NBA All Star Break, and some attend the activities whether in them or not. Rose goes to the beach. Watch jogging on that beach with your knee, bro, as I am sure you were running each day.
29. Someone tell Lindsey to NOT turn on Diehard and NOT expect me to watch the rest of the movie.  I refuse to live my life by the slogan “the DVD is right there!  Why do we have to watch it NOW??”  If Rounders is on TV, I am watching it, dammit.  
30. I watched Frozen last night. Decent flick, but no Hotel Transylvania as far as cartoons. I did dig the reindeer.  That guy was dope.  
31. Did I just see a commercial for a CSI Cyber show???? Alarming if true.  Stop the madness.
32. On Jimmy Fallon last night, he mentioned that the Oscars gift bag has $167,000 of worth. That is also alarming, but I found it funnier they also got a place in Tuscany. The Maestro would lose his shit if he knew about this.  
33. Lindsey and I need an animal but don’t have the logistical ability to properly take care of a dog. A cat is in the conversation, and my vote is one of these two kinds.  
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35. Norwegian Forest Cat and Scottish Fold. We even took a “cat test.”
36. When does this cricket World Cup thing end?
37. I WILL say there is a riveting story in ESPN about the earthquake that decimated a town a couple years ago and how cricket is bringing it back to life.
38. We finally got these kids to GO to school for a year before entering the NBA and the Big Ten is toying with the idea of making them SIT????? Yeah.  THAT plan has a prayer.  “Come to Ohio State, where you can walk around campus for a year!”
39. And by the way, OSU.  Stop saying you are THE university.  UVA by a long shot.
40. If I had my way, I would take a nap, go through a time warp, and wake up with whatever plan for the NFL in Southern California resolved.
41. Hey, all. Those Clippers are looking pretty good, aren’t they? My pre-NBA blogs got THAT covered.  With Jordan playing like he is lately, they become a legitimate force, especially when Griffin comes back.
42. I hope he is working on free throws as I write this.  
43. I was digging through my piano books as I am playing again and found my Magna Cum Laude certificate. Yes, I was a master of the dead language. Mrs. Gable was one of my top three pictures I have ever had easily, and when we wrote a love note to someone IN Latin and it wasn’t in the subjunctive mood, the note was posted on the projector.  And, if you were late to class, you had to lie like Cicero and make the lie complicated to get back into class.  I chose that language because I planned on being a lawyer, which was derailed most likely once I strolled down fraternity row at UVA.  
44. My favorite Twitter guy posted this tweet the other day…and I was sad. He followed me before I replied back perhaps a little feisty.  
45. He hasn’t watched them enough.  He knows his stuff, but when you are holding multiple opponents to under 40 points, it is REAL.  I personally am sold as long as Justin Anderson is back before the second weekend.  
46. If you don’t know what the Curtain of Distraction is, you should. I think it is kind of a cool idea, it must take a lot of coordination, but the stats don’t lie. It works.  
47. That is it. I hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed. Short one tomorrow, and then off the radar for Monday and Tuesday.  I hope you were entertained.