If I had to pick a music video for my 62nd birthday this would be it. This is when you start reflecting in a serious, yet not too serious way. I’ll be covering Steve Kerr and his Warriors on my Thunder blog because they’re far more interesting than the Thunder on and off the court. And when you reach sixty-two years of age you can’t waste an NBA season covering the same team as Little Nick Gallo.
You never know when it’s your last season.
Give us your clueless, give us your terminally stupid, give us those still waiting to read their first book ever….the Trump Coalition.
Rome is burning.
It was my birthday on the 3rd. For some reason, doing this makes me feel better. Just doing this is me giving myself a birthday present. You can’t do this in public in Oklahoma…only if you have an underground blog would I even suggest this. If Trump gets impeached…does this mean Sarah Palin is coming back?
I have to have the video of what happens when Little Nick Gallo is allowed to rub Russell Westbrook’s dick during the course of a season in post game pressers on my birthday. In a nutshell…do you think this would have happened with a legitimate championship contender in any sport? Do you think team management would have ever allowed this to happen more than once on a team with championship integrity? I’ll be interested to see if this is how Russ does his pressers in Houston. This is why I didn’t even comment on the Sam Presti presser last week.
What an embarrassment to the archives of American history. What an absolute idiot. What does this say about the 53% of Americans who still support this fraud, phony, and con artist?
I’ll tell you what it says….
Rome is burning.
It says there is nothing left to assume other than America has become the abyss for human stupidity throughout the world.
“Send us your dumbest, your most illiterate, your most clueless. Our torch of freedom will be a magnet for you stupid motherfuckers.”
Putin is smiling. This confirms that the First Amendment has no connection whatsoever to human intelligence in any shape, form, or fashion.
It’s staggering is what it is. Even if you somehow get rid of Trump, what is there that would give us reason to believe these 53% which aren’t Mitt Romney’s 47% could do better if we actually allow them to vote again in the next presidential election.
What do you do with these people? Can they actually be rehabilitated as humans after falling this far?
Rome is burning.
This was the biggest game in Baker Mayfield’s NFL career to date … and he responded with his best game to date as a pro. His coaching staff responded and his teammates did as well as the Browns won at Baltimore and now stand atop the AFC North at 2-2..
But let’s keep this in perspective. Former Bedlam opponent quarterback Mason Rudolph just lead the 1-3 Pittsburgh Steelers to a win over a horrible Bengals team. This puts the Steelers one game out of first place behind the Browns in the North. Such is the AFC North this season. The Steelers are a mess and Baker Mayfield should feel blessed.
Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens did the right thing, that being, he play called like Baker Mayfield is still a rookie quarterback learning his way as a pro. Baker Mayfield isn’t Brett Favre, he’s a young QB still learning how to play in this league and what not to say in the press room. He’ll learn with time. It may take five years, but he’ll get there.
The pass routes were quick short hitters to start the game. The offense relied heavily on running back Nick Chubb. Baker Mayfield was sacked only one time and the Browns looked like a team which could go 10-6 and win what is a very weak AFC North this NFL football season.
The Browns have the NFL’s easiest schedule the last nine weeks of the season. The next three weeks are tough…. San Francisco, Seattle, and Tom Brady.
If the Browns can go 2-1 that would be great… 1-2 would be okay, but the thing in the AFC North is that 10-6 should win this division this football season.
Think 10-6 big picture. Relish the fact the Steelers imploded and learn how to become a winning organization in Cleveland beyond just making the NFL’s first round in the playoffs. Learn how to win in this league and stay relevant as a franchise.
If I were Baker Mayfield, I’d pay a great deal of attention to how Tom Brady approaches the NFL game and ask for his autograph in three weeks.
And if I were the Browns’ coaching staff I’d keep this as simple as possible for my young QB still learning on the job and what to say after the game.
Browns versus 49’ers next Monday night.
My NBA coverage will be different this season. It will depend when the Thunder unload Chris Paul and Danilo Gallinari as to how hard I follow the Thunder.
Golden State, Houston, and the Clippers will be a big part of what I watch this season NBA-wise.
The Warriors are clearly in reset, but it shouldn’t be awful once Klay Thompson returns from his ACL injury. Klay, Steph, and Draymond still form the nucleus of this Warriors team. Kevon Looney resigned. Willie Cauley-Stein was obtained. And unlike the Thunder, the Warriors got a quality player in exchange for Kevin Durant in hybrid guard D’Angelo Russell.
That’s six nice players to build a team around and add some special pieces here and there.
Once Klay returns the Warriors will still score the ball no doubt. The question will be on defense without the length of and flexibility of Durant and Iguodala. Call me crazy…but a player like Jerami Grant now at Denver would be a very nice fit for this team.
I’m not going to pout about the Thunder because the rest of the West will be fascinating to follow and Golden State will be a consistent part of my blog this NBA season.
So much history unraveling in front of us this week. But, of course, in Oklahoma where books aren’t read and Fox is a religion it won’t matter. I think I’ll call my good friend James Lankford on Monday and see where we stand on Putin/Pence 2020.
As I’ve crawled through traffic with my Putin-Trump sign there really hasn’t been that moment yet with a Ttump person. I’ve gotten some smiles from college educated suburban women, blacks, and Hispanics with a few cell numbers who want to join the Resistance Movement, but no fistfights. No one has even flipped me off. I feel a little deflated actually. I even have my Golden State Warriors ball cap on and…nothing.
Trump now joins the group of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton as going through the impeachment process.
My advice is to watch McConnell. That’s where the impeachment either will or won’t take place. Can he extract anymore from his idiot puppet Donald Trump? I mean…he got two Supreme Court justices. massive tax cuts, massive deregulation for the then two Koch Brothers… and a rollback of most everything Obama.
You would have to think McConnell and the other Never Trumpers should be somewhat satisfied with their haul to date.
It’s all about McConnell at this point. Can he get anything more from his reality television star?
Who could have known it was a no-no to roll the president of the Ukraine for a quid pro quo on an arms for trashing Biden deal? Who would have known?
Who in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Mississippi, or Arkansas could have known this?
Who could have know we don’t deal arms for dirt during the campaign itself?
This must be Obama in the Deep State doing this because he was envious of the attention Joe Biden was drawing of late.
Who amongst who’s never read a book in their life could have seen this coming?
I’m guessing I get in a fist fight in these next several days over the sign in my truck.
But really….who amongst us who gets their new from Fox could have ever imagined something like this could happen in real life?
I was in Stillwater that fateful night when Boone’s team kicked OU’s ass 44-10 to win the school’s only Big 12 football championship to date.
As I weave through this blog post it is a small world indeed. Back then, Boone demanded that AD Mike Holder’s coach Mike Gundy turn over his offense to a coordinator and quit calling plays himself. Boone wanted Gundy to seem more ‘head coachly’ on the sidelines. I’m telling you this was Dan Jenkins in Semi-Tough with oil tycoon Big Ed Bookman running the show for the TCU Horn Frogs back in the day. God… the things which have never been written.
So somehow Boone gets Gundy to hire Todd Monken as his offensive coordinator…. and it was magic.
Monken connected with QB Brandon Weeden. The offense soared. Weeden became a Heisman contender and Boone got his Big 12 championship over the hated Sooners. Other than Bob Stoops’ repunt to Tyreke Hill–this would be Boone’s lone win over the Sooners.
Fast forward. Todd Monken went on to head coach at Southern Miss. He then became the offensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Bucs and is now Baker Mayfield’s offensive coordinator in Cleveland where it isn’t going well three games in as it appears head coach Freddie Kitchens is reluctant to allow Monken to call the plays from the press box.
Let me say this, I love Todd Monken. He is a player’s coach. Especially if the player is a quarterback. I love listening to Monken talk offensive football like I love listening to Nick Collison talk basketball. I just love listening to the guy.
He could pass for a State Farm agent, but the guy is a quarterback whisperer. Trust me.
So…I’m saying this to myself…if Monken goes down in flames this season with the Cleveland Browns—then Boone in his now ethereal spirit form will make Gundy hire Todd Monken as Spencer Sanders’ offensive coordinator.
This is how my mind works.
So you read it here first on my modest rogue blog…Todd Monkon back to Oklahoma State in 2020 to whisper in Spencer Sanders’ ear.