Oh, my. I knew I was going to put some Jose Altuve love on my blog, but I had no idea it would be with a walk-off homer in the ninth to end the NY Yankees season.
I’ve spent the last three days in Denver getting to know my grandson, eating great food, and watching sports around the clock. He’ll be getting his first set of skates at three months on Christmas.
My son took me to the University of Denver vs. Boston College hockey game on Friday night at a sold out Magness Arena. Denver is the No. 1 ranked team in DI and Boston College is No. 6. Denver University hockey is iconic as they’ve won eight DI national titles in hockey. That would be eight more national titles than Mike Gundy’s feeble O State Cowboys will ever win on a football field. At some point in this coming week—I’ll have to comment on O State football without Boone.
The Colorado Avalanche are on fire in the NHL. It will be a great hockey season for me… which coupled with the Boston Bruins and OU’s football run should make up for the Oklahoma City Thunder’s season which starts on Wednesday on the road against a Utah team which will be better than last season.
Plus, as I wrote on here earlier—I’m adopting the Golden State Warriors as my team on here as a hedge move for the blog. I loved the Warriors’ competitive heart last post season as they fought though the injuries and made the NBA Finals. I still believe they would have beaten Toronto if Klay hadn’t gone down with the ACL injury..
I’ve given a lot of thought to this Thunder season and will start blogging on it tomorrow with my Western Conference Regular Season Standings Predictions which have beaten Vegas nine out of the last ten years. Last year was the outlier for me as LeBron James and Anthony Davis literally destroyed my bracket sheet..
But these picks won’t go into the Daily Thunder contest which forever has sullied itself with me for the nonsensical Little Nick Gallo bullshit which makes Oklahoma City look like the dumbest hick market in the NBA—which of course it is. But you don’t have to be so overtly obvious about advertising you’re the dumbest market of thirty cities.
The Western Conference is brutal as in tough. I picked my top twelve teams of the entire NBA and my split had nine teams from the West and but Milwaukee, Philly, and Toronto from the East.
I suspect some of the Little Nick Gallo millennials will peek at my Western Conference picks and contemplate cheating… but that’s out of my hands and I can’t be concerned.
It’s time for NBA basketball.
At the hockey game at Magness Arena which is on campus—the sold out crowd of seven thousand stood in unison and sang Take Me Home Country Roads with John Denver on the sound system.
They substitute Colorado for West Virginia, Rocky Mountains for Blue Ridge Mountains, and Colorado River for Shenandoah River. Give it a try.
Ah, come on. The contest has nothing to do with Nick Gallo.
https://dailythunder.com/community-predictions/
I’ll do it for myself on here. I lost all respect for the Daily Thunder when they sullied all Thunders bloggers by using Little Nick Gallo as some ‘sort’ of Thunder source. I’ll play you on here. They took the William Hurt role in Broadcast News to something below Mike Gundy’s mullet. I’m doing mine tonight. Good thing I waited this long given the Zion injury coming out of the gate. My primary goal is to not allow LeBron or AD to destroy my bracket this season.