Nixon Had His Plumbers, Trump Has His Ukrainian Thugs

So sad for our country as we cope with the most corrupt presidency in our history as this unravels every day. Trump will clearly surpass Andrew Johnson, Harding, and Nixon as our most corrupt president when this entire story is revealed. As I’ve written on here multiple times, the Trump presidency is like watching Reservoir Dogs set in the Oval Office.

And yet in places like rural Oklahoma where there is no newspaper of substance the rural uneducated whites and evangelicals still cling to Trump as their savior.

Let’s be candid, the scariest demographic for America isn’t Isis, it’s the uneducated males and the evangelicals in this country who haven’t come to terms with LBJ and the civil rights legislation which he passed while he was in office. The Solid South for the GOP was created in this aftermath and Trump with the Birtherism aspect of his presidency has taken it to other parts of rural America.

Nixon was worried about a McGovern candidacy while Trump was concerned about a candidacy from the only viable moderate in the Dem 2020 field.

Oklahoma has no viable newspaper of any consequence to offset any of this. My guess is regardless of what is revealed the state will remain in the grip of the Trump bullshit pulpit.

This is why unchallenged ignorance in our own country is even scarier than Isis.

I’ll be very interested to see if Dem Kendra Horn will be able to hold her congressional seat in Oklahoma’s 5th District in 2020.

I need to make another sign to go with my PUTIN-trump 2020 sign:

IMPEACH and REMOVE.

Howie Kendrick Grand Slam Propels Washington Nationals to First Ever NLCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIqFAvzWlo

Veteran Howie Kendrick had this walk-off slam to beat the San Francisco Giants in a regular season game in 2017.

But that paled in comparison to his series clinching grand slam last night to beat the LA Dodgers and send the Washington Nationals to their first ever NLCS. This in fact is the Nationals first ever post season series win in their history.

So many sweet ironies for the Nationals. No Bryce Harper and his super stardom contract. I actually saw Bryce Harper play his last game as a National last season when the Rockies humiliated them 14-1 to close out a dismal season.

No one saw this coming even after the Nationals dramatic comeback in the wild card game to eliminate the Milwaukee Brewers.

Howie Kendrick called this his greatest moment as a professional baseball player. Teammate Ryan Zimmerman said the same after his Game 4 home run sent this series back to LA for Game 5.

There is clearly an underdog Rocky element to this Nationals team and this post season run.

There is nothing which would make me think they can’t beat the St’ Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series.The Nationals have two stellar starters in Steven Strasberg and Max Scherzer. Two hitters in Juan Soto and Anthony Rendon who can carry a team’s offense in post season.

Who saw the St. Louis Blues winning the Stanley Cup?

The St. Louis Cardinals and their fans better be prepared for a what I hope is an epic series.

So many ironies. Bryce Harper is gone. Howie Kendrick used to be an LA Dodger at one time. The slam was off reliever Joe Kelly who was one of Boston’s heroes on last season’s Red Sox championship team. And in most likelihood an ex-Dodger in Kendrick probably just ended Dave Robert’s run as the manager in LA.

How can any baseball fan not love these Washington Nationals. The baseball world is in love with these Nationals.

Steven Adams Makes a Three in Pre-Season Opener

Hard to get very excited about NBA pre-season games, but Steven Adams hit a three from the right corner in the Thunder’s 119-103 win over the Dallas Mavs in Tulsa on Tuesday night.

In his book Steven wrote that he had been working on this in workouts the past few years with then Thunder assistant coach Mark Bryant who is now with the Phoenix Suns.

It was a beautiful shot from the right baseline corner on the Thunder’s first possession of the game as Chris Paul assisted the monumental three. It was an interesting starting lineup as Billy Donovan went with his three point guards….Chris Paul, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Dennis Schroder.

If Steven Adams could become a contemporary big who could shoot the three what a difference it would make for him and the Thunder.

Anyway…good for Steven and I wish him well on his endeavor of becoming an NBA center who can score the three ball and help spread the floor for his guards.This didn’t happen over night. It’s been a process for Steven to take his offensive game to another level and add this dimension to his game. Steven was a late starter to play basketball in New Zealand and wasn’t really allowed to shoot much at all in his one college season at Pitt under head coach Jaime Dixon. I’m certain Mark Bryant sent a congrats text to his pupil.

Chris Paul Returns to Oklahoma City

How ironic.

Chris Paul won NBA Rookie of the Year that first year of NBA basketball in Oklahoma City when Hurricane Katrina started a chain of events which brought NBA hoops to an unlikely destination in a rogue red state where Charles Barkley thought it laughable an NBA team could reside.

The whole thing is such an oddity. The hurricane. The team’s relocation to a place where Donald Trump would eventually be revered even after being endorsed by David Duke. The two years in Oklahoma City. George Shinn the controversial owner. All of it. Surreal to be sure.

But I got to see the rookie from Wake Forest who was the fourth pick in the NBA draft win NBA Rookie of the Year honors.

He almost rented the house across the street from us in fact. That would have been cool.

You figured Chris Paul by this stage in his career would have a couple of championship rings. But unlike Russell Westbrook, who at least made it to that one NBA Finals in 2012 when James Harden played the point at times–Chris Paul has never played in an NBA Finals. Not with Oklahoma City, not with New Orleans, not with the LA Clippers, not with the same James Harden in Houston, and clearly not with Oklahoma City in 2019.

You could make the argument Sam Presti traded away the league’s worst contract in Westbrook’s for the league’s second worst contract in thirty-four year old Chris Paul.

He still has enough game to win a ring if placed with the right roster with a more limited restrained role.

So the question will be where and when Sam Presti can unload the contract for some assets as the Thunder start the arduous process of realizing precisely what it meant when Portland took Greg Oden and Durant fell to the Seattle Sonics as the second pick.

I got to watch Durant in person in both Norman and Stillwater during his one year stay at Texas with Rick Barnes where he won National Player of the Year as a freshman.

I’ve been genuinely blessed to witness all of this in person in a college market which became an NBA market solely because of Hurricane Katrina.

Before Katrina—the closest OKC could come to landing any major league franchise was when the city lost out to Columbus for the franchise which would become the NHL’s Bluejackets.

How would the NHL have done in minor league Oklahoma City? I don’t think very well because there isn’t all that much fighting like there is in minor league hockey and the beer isn’t cheap in NHL arenas. In fact, Oklahoma City currently has no professional hockey at any level after the AHL affiliation with Edmonton didn’t draw much interest.

I’d love to talk hockey with OKC mayors Mick Cornett (former) and (current) David Holt sometime– as to why Oklahoma City doesn’t have a pro hockey team at any level playing somewhere in Bricktown if Oklahoma City is indeed a major league city. By the way though… Seattle, New Orleans, and Houston don’t have major imprints of professional hockey as well.

So Chris Paul is back in Oklahoma City where there is no hockey except for OU’s club team. Durant, Westbrook, Harden, and Paul George all have moved on to cities with a ‘bit’ more diversity than Oklahoma City and Sam Presti has grown a really bad beard which reminds me of Paul Giamatti in Sideways.

Sideways–what an epic film on human dysfunction. And sideways is what it will be for Chris Paul this season until Sam Presti can unload his contract to a team which is in contention for more than a lottery draft pick this NBA season.

Here’s a Chris Paul video just to show what a baller he was back in the day at Wake Forest.

62nd Birthday Video

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.

Random Donald Trump Thoughts On My Birthday

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.

Trump Impeachment Polling Numbers






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.

Cleveland Browns Take Division Lead in Baltimore, 40-25



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.