Is Joe Biden Too Old to be President?

It’s going to be a beautiful day of college basketball and Toby Keth music as I’ll be sitting seven rows from the floor just close enough to Mike Boynton to give him a warm smile this afternoon. The game is a sellout and basically this is another must win for the Sooners to continue making their resume for a spot in March Madness. This would be an absolute horrible loss if the Sooners fail at home against the worst team in the Big 12.

As far as the video above…I meant to post this earlier in the week… and then came the news of Toby Keith’s passing. This rendtion of Fast Cars at the Grammy awards literally stopped me in my tracks and I have to have it here on my subtle, nuanced underground blog in the heart of redneck America.

As far as the Smerconish Question of the Week as it was rendered in different wording…Should Jill Biden Tell Her Husband to Not Seek a Second Term?

Almost 35,000 people replied with almost two-thirds replying…yes, Jill Biden should tell her husband he’s too old to seek a second term as POTUS 46.

I voted yes as well and have been clamoring for such a move for at least six months. This in no way changes my opinion of Donald Trump because he is even more unfit than Boe Biden.

Donald Trump is not only too old…he’s a pathological liar, and a sociopath who in no way has displayed any remorse whatsover as to the fact five people are dead because of his premeditated insurrection against our democracy.

As I stated earlier on my blog… I would vote for my neighbor’s German Shepard ‘Harley’ or even a dead body or a slab of concrete before I would vote for Donald Trump for ANY OFFICE in any jurisdiction.

Next week I’ll present my list of about eight moderate Dems or Republicans I could seriously consider to be POTUS 47. Being I am at heart a Republican like Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt and just a touch left of center it will of course be a serious list which doesn’t include Mr. Pillow, Mr. Ed, Tucker Carlson, or Donald Trump.

But Joe Biden, dude, here’s the deal, when you and your handlers have to say no to a soft Super Bowl thirty minute interview which would reach over a million Americans because your team is afraid it could turn into a complete debacle….it is time to do as LBJ did in March of 1968 and go back to the ranch and enjoy life.

Joe, I think at the center of your heart you’re a good dude, but you’re just too old for the task at hand.

Now…I’m going to go have a brisk pre-Bedlam workout, then come home and take a jacuzzi before working forty minutes or so on my Toby Keith lyrics.

Life is good.

Have a gorgeous Super Bowl Saturday. MJ

Sooners Host O State in Bedlam Tomorrow

I haven’t blogged too much this week despite it being Super Bowl week. I did go to both the Sooner mens and womens games this midweek and was gratified to see both teams play well and get wins.

The Lady Sooners are now winners of eight straight and one of the hottest teams in the country as winners of eight straight Big 12 games and standing at 16-6 heading off to play a very tough Iowa State team tomorrow in Ames. That will be a very difficult assignment. Very tough.

OU played much better on Tuesday night than they did at UCF and notched an 82-66 win over No. 17 BYU. The Sooners are 5-5 in Big 12 play and 17-6 overall. I would say right now from my perspective…this Sooner group needs to be more consistent and more mentally tough. I would probably right now assume the Sooners will be 18-6 after their game with a struggling O State team and 6-5 in conference play after tomorrow’s Bedlam…which isn’t horrible considering the toughness of the league. But you’ve got to go win tomorrow’s Bedlam game first.

I just got an email from the Sooner athletic department today stating they’re going expand on the celebration of Toby Keith’s life which they did on Tuesday evening at the BYU game. I thought Tuesday was pretty cool already in that there was a prayer before the national anthem with the lights down and eveyone’s cell phones lit up. It was beauftiful. Toby’s songs were played at every play stoppage with the overhead video board scanning the crowd as they sang along.

The video above was provide to me from my friend Thunder Chick over at the always uber soft, homery Daily Thunder. But I thought it was very cool and thoughtful she sent this to me considering my own situation. Every dude needs a platonic chick friend in their life. Jake Owen should have added that line in Journey of Your Life.

There’s a ton to be blogging about right now, but my pace this week was rather slow.

I’ve got great seats tomorrow for the Bedlam game.

So… go Sooners and god bless Toby Keith and his family. I can’t wait to enjoy the basketball and music as the game is a sellout.

I’m officially giving this song to my grand-son Robert (4) and grand- daughter Aubrey (3). I love them dearly. I get to see them ski next week. Very cool. Life is good. But everybody needs a dog and a song to sing on.

MJ

Toby Keith Passes

My heart is a little heavy today as I heard the news in regards to Toby Keith’s passing. I will admit it brought a tear to my eyes and a somewhat attached surreal feeling considering my own cancer journey.

I would think all of us who have been or are currently on this journey completely respect the manner in which Toby Keith handled his journey. His grace, strength, mental toughness, and just basic human kindness will accompany me as I contnue my journey.

Like Ernie Johnson…TobyKeith is/was someone I’ve looked up to for an example of how to deal with the journey and hopefully be and become a better human every day of the journey.

Toby was an avid OU sports fan and donor. He supported many causes including the fight against cancer for children…which I greatly admire. That’s one of the things which always pulls at my heart when I’m at the Integris Cancer Center. That being, how unfair it is children and their familes have to deal with this horrible disease.

It’s not fair, but it is what is.

Me? I’ve had a great life. I’m sixty-six years of age and truly feel as if I’ve already been blessed to the max regardless of when this journey for me continues at the next level. In fact….I can’t recall ever feeling better both spiritually and physically.

You literally take one day at a time and live it to the fullest. That’s the mantra.

I’ll be in Norman tonight for the OU mens game versus BYU. I’m sure there will be a moment of prayer for Toby Keith.

God bless you, Toby Keith.

I didn’t mean to double click the video. My bad.

MJ

John Denver Friday Karaoke

Just an incredible weather week in Oklahoma after the bitter cold of the two preceeding weeks. I mean…I already have my early spring sun tan working….which is nice.

I’ve even taken the driver out of my golf bag and hit a few golf balls off our back porch into the deep woods beyond our property boundaries and into the woods. If I had a new right knee I’d be dangerous…just saying.

I’ve created this game called Mike Golf. So near the back of our property before the treeline begins…about a 160 yards from our back porch, I’ve created a golf green of sorts with an offcial cup and pen plus flag from which I borrowed from the now closed Silverhorn Golf Club. Dan Jenkins would be proud of me. I then place my ball in a position based on how well and straight I hit my driver from the tee box.

Anything I hit on the green inside of five feet is good for a birdie. Anything outside of that five foot radius is a two putt in Mike Golf. So ironically, I think the biggest cheater in the history of the game, that being Donald Trump, would probably love playing Mike golf since he normally picks up his ball from ten feet on the green.

It’s supposed to begin raining in Oklahoma later this afternoon so I hope all the ultra serious Trump Christian evangelicans in Oklahoma have gotten outside this week because Saturday and Sunday are going to be somewhat rainy. Both the OU men and women are on the road this week… so they both have tough assignments.

Go Lexey, go Jalen Moore!

I’m still… eventually going to write something Thunder related here at some point this basketball season and the podcast is still evolving in the second stage of the creative process.

Have a wonderful pre-Super Bowl week-end.

I love this song. It calms me.

MJ

Sooners Stun No. 2 Kansas State, 66-63

What a great basketball game this turned out to be on Wednesday night inside Lloyd Noble Arena. The Sooners fresh off their impressive win over top ten Texas last week encored that win with a stunning upset win over No. 2 Kansas State by a score of 66-63.

This game had everything you would want in a game featuring the two teams atop the Big 12 standings.

OU came to play and the lead never stretched too far apart in this game as each team would answer a spurt with a spurt of their own.

This was my third time to watch the Lady Sooners this season and I’ve been impressed every time I’ve watched them play.

Coach Jennie B has this team team playing a very fast, very tough, very opportunistic style of play which is fun to watch. This group does not kill themselves with sustained boneheaded gaffes. These Sooners play with a very high BBIQ…very high. Coach B only had to use one timeout the entire game in that regard to settle down some turnover issues.

They’re not an uber big team, but they can fly, shoot the three ball, and play surprisingly good team defense given their size limitations. It’s a team with a nice mixture of youth and vet saavy which has gotten incrementally better each game.

I believe this marks the first time since 2004 the Lady Sooners have beaten two top ten teams in a season. I may need to recheck that one though in the Sheri Coale era.

It was a good crowd… very much into the game. A high BBIQ crowd. There was no nonsene after the game with the crowd doing the SEC, SEC chants like the Aggies did mockingly in Stillwater when they were gifted their recent Bedlam football win.

Just two teams who played a great game and have mutual respect for one another.

My favorite two players on the team are Sklar Vann who’s what I would describe as a power hybrid guard who can do her work with equal effectiveness inside or outside. She was my No. 1 player of the game and the Big 12’s player of the week last week. Very heady player who BTW was a Deer Creek girls’ super star before heading to the Sooners.

And my second favorite player would be the O State transfer Lexey Keys who is what I would decribe describe as the fastest player on the team who creates constant havoc with her hustle and can shoot the three ball pretty well.

I ran into her in the tunnel after the Cincy game and told her how much she reminds me of the Sooners legend Mookie Blalock off that Sooner 1988 national runnerup team. She just kind of smiled. I’m not sure if she knows who Mookie Blalock was or she just thought I was some crazy older guy talking nonsensical shit.

But last night after the buzzer, I ran into her again since I was sitting on the floor minus the fake ESPN hoodie, wearing my best Sooner hoops longsleeve pullover instead. We caught each other’s eye and I gave her a thumbs up the victory smile. She smiled back.

Just so we are clear…in 1988 Mookie Blaylock set the all-time NCAA Tournament record with 45 steals in the tournament.

Next up for the Sooners is Bedlam where I’m certain Lexey will be booed as a traitor. It it what it is. Play tough, Lexey.

Somewhere in the postgame celebration, I lost my driver’s license… I think I’ll go sun a bit and then work out before I get my new driver’s license later today.

Maybe I should write something about the Thunder tomorrow since we’re at the mid-point of their season and they’re in second place in the Northwest Division just like I said they would be. I’m proud of the Thunder. They’re now maybe my third or fourth NBA team….so I need to start giving them a littl love on here from time to time. If the Texas Rangers can win a World Series and the Las Vegas Golden Knights can win a Stanley Cup…who knows. Maybe the Thunder are on a miracle collision course of some sort if they improve thir roster just a bit at the trade deadline.

Life is good.

MJ

Sooners Notch Must Win in Manhattan, 73-53

This was a huge win for OU after back to back disappointing second half home performances against Texas and Texas Tech This is one Porter Moser’s group needed in a big, big way on the road. The stench of that blown second half lead versus the Red Raiders needed to be redirected in a hurry.

Two words….mission accomplished.

This was about as ugly a basketball game imagineable, and OU’s free throw shooting was once again atrocious (20-34), but what I loved about the Sooners in this game was the mental toughness and resilency which was absent last week in Norman.

The Sooners simply found a way in one of college basketball’s toughest arenas to notch a road win. This is one the Sooners had to have to get back on the right side of Joe Lunardi’s bracket curve come March Madness.

OU’s leading scorer, Javian McCullum… got his swagger back and scored the basketball. Rapidly ascending Jalen Moore played like the Sooners’ version of the Warriors’ new Johnny Kuminga and from my view was the best player on the floor. Not just the best athlete, the best player. Jalen Moore…this is who you need to be every game moving forward.

Sam Godwin played much better..although his free throw shooting was pathetic for a guy with a decent stroke, and Renaldo Soares has steadily become in my mind someone who could be the Sooners’ modest version of JDub because of his versatility and all the little things he can do to make the Sooners a tournament team. In short…as an over the top OU super fan…I now have total trust in Renaldo to be on the floor in any given game situation.

Porter’s postgame presser was interesting in that only one question was asked. Question answered…and see you guys down the road was the impression I got. Porter is very direct. I’ve been there behind his bench sevral times during a game. He is not at all shy about telling his players and reporters what he thinks…which is one of the reasons I think he’s a very good basketball coach.

Next up…on the road again on Saturday versus a UCF team which upset the Kansas Jayhawks in Orlando earlier this season.

The Sooners need to make their free throws and not be like that Abe Lemons dog who strays into the street too often.

I’m heading off to the women Sooner’s game versus No. 2 Kansas State in a couple of hours. I love being retired. Life is great…every day it seems is like Game Day for me.

Boomer.

MJ

Ted Cruz Revisited, 2016

What a beautiful day in Oklahoma!!!! No way would I risk pissing it away by writing anything about Donald Trump.

In fact, on this blog from now thru the South Carolina GOP primary…I’m going to allow GOP stalwarts to share their honest thoughts in relation to POTUS 45.

Chest beatdown time …. time for telling RINO peckerheads like Mike Jackson the Truth and nothing but the truth.

Surely…no one from MAGA or the far right would have any problem whatsoever with that kind of open-handed fair coverage on my blog.

Here’s Magnificent Ted Cruz, not Lyin’ Ted Cruz telling all you MAGAs out there what he really thinks of POTUS 45.

This is what you people have become who continue to defend this bullshit.

Truth hurts…really bad somtimes.

Really bad.

Have a beautiful evening.

MJ

Chiefs, Niners Advance to Super Bowl

What a great sports week-end for me. So great in fact, I’m glad I didn’t diminish my own blog writing something about Cari Lake or whatever her name is out there in the great electoral state of Arizona. maybe I’ll do that at a later time down the road after Mr. Pillow, Markwayne Mullin and Mo Brooks have been eliminated as possible Trump running mates for Donald Trump.

On Saturday…I attended the OU -Texas Tech men’s basketball game and it was a barn burner as the Red Raiders prevailed 85-84 in a game which was like a second round NCAA Tournament game.

OU had their chances and quite simply didn’t get it done. When you go 15-24 at home from the free throwline in a game like this that usually doesn’t bode well. That can’t happen for a team which has post season goal acheiving aspirations.

I think it was Abe Lemons who once said, ‘Teams which don’t make their free throws are like dogs who play in the street; They don’t last very long.’

You not only don’t get the bonus free throws, but on the misses you allow the other team to get out in transition in a hurry before the other team can get set defensively. Anotherwords, it can conceivably be a four or five swing on a missed first free throw in the bonus. That would be a metric I would actually consider in college basketball.

I wore my black fake ESPN pullover, my black Denver Nugget 2023 NBA Championship cap, and I fit in perfectly on the third row behind the Texas Tech bench. There was great Tech road turnout for this game. I told ’em I was doing some leg work for Fran, but that I was an OU fan. We had a great time and I even got some invites to visit them in Lubbock next year for a game even though OU’s SEC bound.

Life is good.

Now for metrics. Dan Campbell of the Detroit Lions…please stop being so metric driven, dude…because, my friend while I love your ‘Balls to the Walls’ mantra…you cost your team a chance to advance to the Super Bowl with three really boneheaded metric driven decisions in the NFC Chamspionship Game.

Dude, there are places, scores, situations, and times to make a metric driven situation, and you botched that axiom to the max against the Niners on Sunday. I wanted your team to win since my Packers were out, but you need to grow a little bit as game day manager next season.

Here’s my very simple take on the Super Bowl…as long as Patrick Mahomes is reasonably healthy and as long as has the time to throw to a reasonably healthy Travis Kelce….I’m picking the Kansas City Chiefs on a neutral field to beat any current team in the NFL in a big game.

The end.

As far as Taylor Swift. I think it’s great she and Travis have found true love and I can’t believe this is causing any real NFL fan to be upset. Get a life. I think it’s adorable. Good for them.

The OU men are on the road this week. They better at the least win one of these games is my only comment. Javian McCullum needs needs to step it up in a big, big, big way is my first thought beyond missed free throws.

But on Wednesday evening the red-hot women Sooners host the No. ranked K-State Wildcats in a game I feel like I have to attend.

This warm weather is great. Enjoy the sunshine.

MJ

Cari Lake on Smerconish This Morning

I watched Michael this morning and he had Cari Lake on his show. I’m in a hurry right now and need to get down to Norman to watch two basketball games and eat at the best Mexiacan restaurant in Oklahoma between games.

Plus…I plan on playing country music all the way taking my back route to the arena.

So…I don’t want to ruin my Saturday. But I’ll get back on here tomorrow and do a Sunday Smerconish before the AFC and NFC Championship games.

Damn….I can’t get Parker’s voice out of my head right now.

I need to get on a country road and clear my head.

Later

MJ

Friday Karaoke Song

Big three day week-end for me. I do my monthly thing with Dr. Showalter at the Integris Cancer Center today. Did my blood labs on Wednesday. I have a talk about those results today and then get two shots in my stomach in the Infusion Room afterwards.

It’s always an eye opener sitting in the spacious lounge by the Infusion Center. The cancer dog is there sometimes. The coffee is good. And I always meet someone new who inspires me with there individual story. The truth is, I’ve sat there several times even when I didn’t have an appointment just to refocus myself and remind myself how blessed I’ve truly been through all of this.

I don’t see Trump or Joe Biden people there….I just see good humans there just like me who are doing the best they can given the situation and trying to make sure we’re all getting to the right place spiritually.

Saturday…I’m going to see the OU men play Texas Tech. Then go eat at at the Mexican cafe on Porter Blvd…then get back to the arena for the women’s game versus Kansas. Shout out to the women for their great win over Texas.

The OU men really struggled the second half versus Texas. I thought it was their worst half of basketball this season. The crowd was great. I was proud of the fans.

You can’t take anything for granted in the rugged Big 12 and not be locked in mentally. This is a huge game for OU Saturday. They can’t allow that second half to define them in any way. This clearly needs to be a bounce back game for Porter and his guys.

I need a song today to get Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Lindsey Graham, and Tim Scott off my mind when I’m riding that bike today to start my workout.

Be good and look for the best in others.

MJ