Hitler speaking to Nazi youth in Thurengia, Germany 1933. Be careful, West Virginia.
Donald Trump, July 24th, 2017 —speaking to 40,000 Boy Scouts at the Jamboree. While Trump has an historically low approval rating of 36-38% nationally–his approval rating in West Virginia is near 70% which is the highest of the fifty states. Yikes. Seriously…yikes. I’m sure Rex Tillerson has never been prouder as a scout. A great moment for Rick Perry as well.
I don’t know, but it’s an intriguing thought because as we all know in OKC the future is now. Maybe what Sam Presti learned from the Hamptons debaucle is that conventional team building per se doesn’t come into play this summer. Russell Westbrook needs to see Presti and Clay Bennett are willing to put a championship team around him.
You’d obviously need to unload Kanter’s salary and another player would have to be traded as well. I’m not sure how it would go down, but if you have Westbrook, Paul, and Carmelo as OKC’s top three players that’s very formidable.
Thunder’s starting five would be Russ at the point, Roberson at the two, Paul George at small forward, Carmelo at power forward, and Steven at center. This would move Patterson to the second unit to team along with Jerami Grant, Abrines, McDermott, and Raymond Felton. But again, not sure who else besides Kanter would have to be packaged to bring Carmelo to OKC.
I’ve seen a lot of Carmelo over the years both at Syracuse and the Denver Nuggets. His ‘Cuse national championship team beat Kelvin Sampson’s OU team in the NCAA Tournament in the Elite 8. OU couldn’t guard him. Period. If you combine Westbrook, George, and Carmelo you suddenly have your top three core averaging around 75-77 points a game. And you know what that does—if starts to make the Golden State math not quite as daunting as you put a team together which can consistently score around 122 points a game and play some defense.
Another twist is OKC’s assistant GM, Troy Weaver, recruited Carmelo to Syracuse.
Note to Sam Presti—the future is now.
One Shining Moment, 2003. I love these. I truly do.
Yikes. The only thing missing here was an accompanying video of Caligula having sex with Ivanka with Jared handcuffed to the bed. The notion that this young man along with Donald Jr. and Eric should have any positions of any influence whatsoever in running this country is even more frightening than colluding with the Russians. It’s just stunning. Simply stunning.
In reality, Chris Christie sitting with a 15% approval rating would look pretty good right now. But of course that would have caused internal angst in the Trump Family since Christie as a federal prosecutor put Kushner’s father in prison. But still… Chris Christie—your country needs you, buddy. Get on the plane and come back.
Even Frank Underwood doesn’t do this.
Who in their right mind would waste their time watching House of Cards anymore?
That was something else for sure. One of the most interesting rounds of golf I’ve ever seen in a major. No way though they should have allowed Jordan Spieth over twenty minutes on the 13th to get that kind of relief on a sight of line ruling. Kuchar with all the momentum, had to sit there and wait and wait and wait.
But I’ll say this for Jordan Spieth—he’s a bonafide bulldog and what the game of golf desperately needed after Tiger Woods decided he needed to screw every escort in the world.
Jordan Spieth now joins Jack as only the second golfer ever to win three different majors by the age of twenty-four. Only the PGA Championship eludes him and of course that comes in August.
After the bogey on the 13th, he promptly turned on the switch going five under in the next four holes. Kuchar didn’t choke—he just was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Jordan Spieth went into full Jack Nicklaus bulldog mode.
Spieth, Dustin Johnson, and Rory are the three guys from this point forward to carry the game of golf. It was good to see Rory get his game back on track. Matt Kuchar is a wonderful golfer, but my advice to him would be—do you want to be the nicest guy on the tour or start winning some majors. He and Ricky Fowler kind of similar in that vein to me.
Golf has its alpha bulldog in place and that’s good for the game. For crying out loud, Steph Curry was tweeting shit about that back nine. Maybe Kuchar and Fowler should ask if they could be traded to Team Spieth. Durant wouldn’t hesitate—we can only be grateful he’s not an elite golfer.
Anyway, great day for golf. Traber doesn’t need to keep ranting about Tiger Woods. Nobody cares anymore. How sad is all that from a human perspective? What a tragic waste of a career and a legacy.
The Arnold Palmer commercial was equally awesome. As a fourth grader I attended by first junior golf clinic in the fourth grade at Lincoln Park and became somewhat of a golfer. Bobby Tway’s family took me out to Lincoln Park that day. I wanted to be just like Arnold and so did almost every other kid out there. Bobby Tway went on to win the 1986 PGA Championship with the iconic holed out bunker shot.
Bobby and his family moved to Georgia several years after that clinic at Lincoln Park. He came back and went to O State and played for Holder. In 1986, he won five tournaments and was the PGA Player of the Year. As much as I loved Arnold, this is my favorite golf highlight of all-time because of how nice he and his dad were to me. I’m grateful they got me interested in golf.
Parts of Arnold’s memorial service. His two biggest rivals, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player loved him like a brother. You don’t see sportsmanship and class like that anymore in sports. Jordan, Dustin, Rory, and maybe Jason Day—you are the present and future of golf.
We’ve watched him go from Wild Thing to Bad Little Dude to scoring champion and now MVP. Only one thing left to add…world champion. The future is now. Why not?
LET’S GO Thunder!
I’ll miss him. Going from Sean Spicer to Anthony Scaramucci is like going from Pee Wee Herman to Michael Corleone. Trump just went Godfather with this move. Beware…Jeff Sessions—you would appear to be the most likely Fredo candidate. If ever a goofy little southern redneck fuckstick deserved to end up in the bottom of a body of water—it would be this peckerhead or maybe Ted Cruz.
Hard to believe it was only six months. Feels like several lifetimes to me.
I’ll miss him. It won’t be the same. Scaramucci is a self made billionaire and a Harvard law school graduate. Pretty much all the things Trump and his two weak dick sons wish they were. He reminds me so much of Michael from the Godfather.
Welcome to the Anthony Scaramucci Era.
It’s too damn hot in Oklahoma to write about Thunder basketball this week. Trump isn’t worth the time except for the occasional snarky comment which illustrates what a complete junk bond piece of shit he truly is.
So—I thought I might put another song on here for Paul George. In reality, I went to John Marshall and pretty much have considered myself a partial brother even though my birth certificate says otherwise. One of the truly great things about John Marshall–skin color never mattered. This was my favorite high school song at John Marshall. One we pretty much sang in the parking lot after practice with it glaring from someone’s car stereo. Thunder should use this as their theme song this season if you ask me.
So….. if you’re one of these whites in a New Confederate state like say– Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, or West Virginia….does this mean the focus now goes back on Building the Wall and Who’s Gonna Pay For that Wall?
Who could have possibly known the nuance of health care reform could be this delicate? Who amongst us could have possibly known this would be more difficult than passing a NASCAR Trivia Exam or knowing the do’s and don’ts of furniture store sport fucking?
Who could have possibly known?
I almost forgot. I haven’t done this in a couple of months in that it doesn’t make musical sense with the Russians.
It’s Sunday morning—that time of the week. Time to not watch the Sunday morning news shows in the hope I won’t depress myself into a stupor. Time to hope Caligula doesn’t do away with everything good since WWII, the Marshall Plan, Nato, winning the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the expansion of the middle class, and so on—and just basically being the greatest country in the history of the world these past seventy years.
Just the hope that Mattis and McMaster can prove to be the ultimate firewall to protect what we once viewed as America versus just a really obnoxious real estate con artist trying to do away with the alternative minimum tax.
So—-here’s Will Ferrell singing Bob Goulet.
My Favorite Seinfeld Scene. Kramer hosting the Merv Griffin Show from his apartment.
Enjoy yourself. Have fun being in Oklahoma. Not everyone is a redneck. There are some cool people here. Winning is fun. Hope you stay.