Month: October 2020

So… I sat down and watched a full college football game for the first time this season.

Holy shit…Holy Mother of Shit!!!

I was worried Chris Jackson would jump off the ledge at least six times coming down the stretch. He called and told me had to stop watching for awhile and took Perk for a walk in Washington Park in downtown Denver. That was a good decision on his part. They have a great OU alum bar in Denver called Shoney’s. It should be a very happy place just about now. If you’re an OU fan … you have to watch an OU game there at least once in your life.

Chris had a great week…his mens’ league team over at the Denver University rink won their league title 6-5 in the championship game. Two assists.

I guess ‘we’ get Perkins and LaMondre back at TCU. This won’t be a season of hoping to get to the Final Four, but at least OU kept their Big 12 title hopes alive.

I thought the O-line and overall defense were much better. Liked what I saw from Woody Washington in the secondary. Nick Bonitto is going to be a stud hoss once Ronnie Perkins gets back next game. The pass rush should be one of the best in the league. Good to see the D-backs hang on to some oskies.

Rambo needs to toughen up. Otherwise the backs and receivers were solid today.

Obviously they can’t lose again to win the Big 12, but you gotta think Spencer Rattler after what he went through today won’t have anymore late game issues with nerves and the moment being too big.

I still plan on watching a ton of Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, and Clemson games. But this was a step for OU to win another league title and get ready to make a run next year. I would say to Lincoln Riley…more tall defensive backs with physicality should be the recruiting mantra.

If OU had lost this game they’d be in hell right now, but they survived and I don’t think Spencer Rattler will be pulled again in his OU career. Don’t scoff…that kid has Patrick Mahomes in his skill set once his head gets right as far as not trying to do everything in one play.

It’s about winning and OU found a way today.

Not so fast…my Mullet King friend in Stillwater, Okie where Trump Nation beats a very strong pulse with Mullet King flashing his Breitbart wardrobe like a 2-13 Bedlam peacock. I wouldn’t hang a 2020 Big 12 banner just yet. Not so fast, my now mulletless friend. Holder is trying to house train you, but we both know where the Mullet King resides.

I’m at eight so far on my top Van Halen songs. Sixty-five…that’s too young. Is there anyway the Big Skipper in the Sky would let us trade Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham to allow us to have Eddie back with us a while longer?

This has always been my favorite Van Halen song. I’d probably go… 2 Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love, 3 Panama, 4 Why Can’t This Be Love, 5 Teacher is Hot (video), 6 Jump, 7 Running With the Devil, 8 Dance the Night Away.

Anyway…this is my favorite Van Halen song. Video is very applicable to the current times we find ourselves in unfortunately.

Hope you enjoy the Van Halen songs.

Tell my dad hello for me if you see him, Eddie. Tell him he doesn’t have to watch the OU-Texas game. I fear he and Chris Jackson will on a ledge in around three hours from now. I was the always the calm Libra who talked both them off the ledge.

What a great basketball game! I hope some people watched it because the television ratings for the NBA in the Bubble haven’t been good. To the point Ted Cruz has been trolling Mark Cuban with GoWokeGoBroke in a twitter war of sorts.

What Ted Cruz didn’t mention was the NHL just had their worst ever Stanley Cup ratings and they didn’t wear Black Lives Matter on their jerseys. I would guess major league baseball ratings will be abysmal as well given people like me aren’t going to watch this season after the Houston Astros bullshit.

But this was a great basketball game. You have to give Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley credit—they compete. Their players compete.

Jimmy Butler as in Game 3 put his team on his back with another triple double. But for me it was the Duncan Robinson night. The skinny white kid from Michigan finally broke loose in this series and went off like Mike Miller did in 2012 against the Thunder. Duncan went 7-13 shooting threes and scored 26 points all told.

Tyler Herro was okay, but this game was about Jimmy Butler and Duncan Robinson.

Still no Goran Dragic, but Spoelstra went with Kendrick Nunn and didn’t put either Kelly Olynyk or Meyers Leonard in this game. He went with seven players and it worked.

LeBron scored forty points and Anthony Davis was decent, but the rest of the Laker roster went awol in this classic Game 5 which was won by the Heat 111-108.

So we now have a Game 6 on Sunday night and we still haven’t had a game where Duncan Robinson and Tyler Herro go off on the same night. That’s something I can’t ignore…what happens if these two white dude three point gunners both go off on the same night.

Plus…it appears Anthony Davis might have hurt his heel. We’ll see. I’m happy. I want to see more basketball on the biggest stage even if its in a bubble.

Game 6 on Sunday night. Ted Cruz won’t be watching even though his state of Texas has three NBA franchises. Go Woke Go Broke or whatever, for those of us who love hoops we have a Game 6 and if Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson both go off we could have a Game 7.

Ted Cruz won’t be watching. He’ll be licking Donald Trump’s balls even after what Trump said about this wife in 2016. Adam Silver will have to deal with this as the new NBA economic model emerges beyond the presidential election. How does Adam Silver keep the league solvent without Ted Cruz?

Answer…he gets past the coronavirus and fills up his stands with humans again. Just like in hockey, baseball, and football.

Tyler, Duncan…shoot the ball. Shoot the damn ball.

Ted Cruz followers basically put this naked pic of the FLOTUS Escort in an attack ad in 2016. I’m almost certain the Slovenian tits have been modified since this pic. Trump then called Heidi Cruz a fat ugly pig. Cruz then whined liked the complete bitch he truly is as a ‘man’. Cruz eventually got down on his knees, took Donald Trump in his mouth….and we all know what happened after that. Both he and Lindsey Graham then went to Moscow with Trump and the POTUS urinated on both of them in a Moscow hotel room. That was for Dan Jenkins up in heaven. I love you, dude.

Whew… I don’t know if I could be a Christian evangelical. It must be exhausting.

We lost a great one this week. Maybe on Sunday morning I’ll do my Top 10 Val Halen songs. Eddie—you were a stud hoss, dude. Panama clearly will be in my top three Van Halen songs. Be at peace, my friend.

The idiot acorn doesn’t fall from the tree does it?

So I guess this is in Panama City, Florida in a closed conference room with little ventilation with people not wearing masks. I’m not sure I would call this a massive rally though. The lines at Chick-fil-A are longer than this.

Sigh.

Little Trump Jr. says his grifter daddy doesn’t have anyone out there in the media campaigning for him. I’m to assume he never heard of Vladamir Putin, Fox News Network, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or Laura Ingram.

I guess he never was told about the Wikileak dump either or what Comey did a week before the election. In the movie Caddyshack this is where the Rodney Dangerfield character suggests most animals should be eating their young.

So in a gesture of fairness to Junior and the evangelicals– I’m going to run an ad on here for Donald Trump and his braindead son.

I’m a very fair guy at the end of the day. Always have been. I’m a Libra. We’re that way.

This is how the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Bush 41 became the party of a pussy grabbing grifter by the name of Donald Trump on August 15th, 2016.

Mike Pence didn’t talk about the part where he didn’t return Trump’s phone calls for a 48 hour period. This is why I could never teach history in Oklahoma.

Pence and Harris had one of the best rated VP debates of all-time. I mean..right there and then the Holy savior Mike Pence could have talked about this 48 hour period of United States history. Go figure.

Musta been doing some heavy breathing with Karen Pence is all I can surmise, eh. That was sarcasm.

My father was a lieutenant in the United States Navy. He was second in command on a mine sweeper which was commanded by a colorful character by the name of Captain Zook.

This is why I was born in San Diego in 1957. It’s why my heart is always with Navy in the annual Army-Navy game.

My dad went on to become a lawyer and a judge after honorably serving in the Navy. This kind of sucked because I would have loved to have lived in San Diego as much as possible. With my dark skin I would have been a much easier cultural fit in San Diego versus Oklahoma. But it is what it is.

My father was a very non-political person… pretty much like I am. He was a registered Democrat and in 1976– I registered as a Republican. He never once lectured me on this until he saw the street where my wife and I built the house in Deer Creek. He said a few things then.

In 2000… I left the Republican Party and have been a registered Independent ever since. Just so we’re clear…Barack Obama is the president who along with John McCain are the two politicans who have shaped me the most as I’ve grown older and hopefully become wiser as the years have passed.

I’ve always loved the spirit of John McCain and have read several of his books.

I’ve come to love and respect Cindy McCain as well. From my prism of perspective it would appear to me she gets it. She understands what it means to be an American. What price has to be paid.

John McCain wasn’t perfect..none of us are. But in the end he more than any of us understood what it means to be free and an American.

Freedom doesn’t come free. Freedom doesn’t come from cowering from duty because of imaginary bone spurs.

God bless, Cindy McCain.

The wife tells me she wants to hike the Appalachian Trail. I say why don’t we go do the little Mount Scott hike first to see what that’s like before we go hike two thousand miles or so.

I hadn’t been here since I was young man. I’m no longer a young man with young knees. So…I say why don’t we do the descent and pass on the ascent.

What a beautiful descent which overlooks the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. If you haven’t done Mount Scott it’s a must if you want to get the feel of Oklahoma.

Then we headed over to nearby Lake Lawtonka which holds the state record for the largest smallmouth bass ever caught in Oklahoma.

I’d never been to this lake before. My mistake. It’s breathtakingly beautiful. It’s stocked with smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, walleye, sandbass, and channel catfish. I only fished for an hour and caught two small bass. But this was more of me talking with locals on where to fish when I come back in November to fish the nearby trout stream in Medicine Park.

Medicine Park…wow. I loved it. Such a rustic charming place with a trout stream which meanders through the middle of the town. We had intended to eat at Meers when we planned the trip, but we stumbled upon the Riverside Cafe which hangs over the trout stream and has a Colorado-like view to kill for.

What a great place! I had the catfish Po’ Boy sandwich with fried okra and two ice cold Shinerbocks. Tell me I’m not a southern boy. The Appalachian girl hiker I was with had the chicken dinner which looked pretty good as well. I was so overcome by the experience I smoked my first cigar since the Trump pandemic crippled our country.

Medicine Creek is awesome. The cafe reminded me of Garlic Mike’s which overlooks the Gunnison River in Crested Butte. Which BTW is my favorite Italian restaurant which is run by New York mafia types in the foothills of the Rockies. If you love Italian food… go there before you move on to the next stop of the human spiritual journey. Trust me.

So…since we no longer have Power 5 football in Oklahoma…this will be a different autumn for me and the Appalacian girl hiker. Next up maybe the White River in Arkansas and a trip to the best Italian restaurant in Arkansas over in Eureka Springs.

Kid you not…my White River trout fishing guide used to be Bill Clinton’s barber back in the day when Bill was governor of Arkansas. I tell you there’s nothing like flaoting the White River, catching trout, drinking cold beer, smoking cigars, and hearing Bill Clinton sex stories. The guy never quits talking. It’s like trout fishing with Howard Stern. The Trump evangelicals would love this guy.

Since the Arkansas Razorbacks beat Mike Leach’s Mississippi State Bulldogs last week in SEC West play…maybe it’s time for me to move on to the SEC West as a college football purist. Or seriously follow the Appalachian Girl’s Auburn Tigers who got ass-whipped by the Georgia Bulldogs last week in SEC crossover play. War Eagle!

I’m thinking Gus Malzahn is not in a good place right now. Auburn isn’t O State. Auburn alums won’t do the Mike Gundy Mullet King thing and wait twenty years to win another SEC championship. Beating TCU and Iowa State doesn’t mean anything to them. They want to beat Alabama in the Iron Bowl. Lincoln Riley loses to Texas… he and Gus M. might become soulmates this college football season. Just sayin’.

You can’t allow Trump’s pandemic to define your life. You have to move on with ‘Life Its Ownself’. Couldn’t help throwing in a little Dan Jenkins right there. Just be smarter than the clueless dumbfuck living in the White House with the upper tier Slovenian escort with the fake tits who polices bullying on the internet. Who could make this up?

Not even Dan Jenkins in literary dead solid perfect Hall of Fame Heaven could make this shit up. Not a chance.

Live hard, live kind, and live smart.

This is more of what I was expecting from AD in Game 3 as per the Shining Moment comments. But like I wrote…the Lakers have lost one game in every round of these NBA Playoffs. I think its hard for both LeBron and Anthony to completely be focused every game when they know they’re the best combo in the game as of this writing.

This play with Rondo pretty much for me is symbolic of this Laker team. LeBron deferred and Rajon perfectly set up Anthony in his comfort zone for the dagger. This is what a championship point guard does and why unfortunately Russell Westbrook will never win a ring unless he changes. I like Russell, but the Wild Thing ain’t winning shit unless he changes.

This is why LeBron would take a guy like Rondo over Russell any day of the week.

Miami played hard and gave what they’re capable of giving right now. Nothing for Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra to be ashamed of.

Obviously…missing Dragic hurts, but the Lakers were still going to win this series.

The Heat might very well win another game and at the least be the only team to win two games in a series against these Lakers.

But most of all this is about Anthony Davis for me as a fan of the game. I’m happy for him. He had to force his way out of New Orleans for this to happen in his NBA career. This never would have happened for him in New Orleans.

I can’t help but think of Kevin Durant right now. Hopefully… his exit from Oklahoma after he fulfilled his contract to the letter in a state which adores the racist Birther Donald Trump doesn’t follow him much longer.

Here’s what Kevin’s mistake was..his mistake was in not saying, “I want to win a championship. I’ll never win a championship with Russell. Sam Presti won’t reel him in. I want to win a championship. I’d like to play in a different city.”

My son did this when he quit at Devon and took his dream job in Denver. Should I boo him? I don’t think so. I actually admire him for having the balls to do it.

This will be LeBron’s fourth ring. For Rajon Rondo he will become the first player in the collective bargaining era to win a ring with both the Celtics and the Lakers.

Danny Green will win his third ring with three different franchises… Spurs, Raptors, and Lakers. It shows the value of a GM placing key vet role players who fit seamlessly on his roster.

Markieff Morris… God bless his heart, will win his first ring and has played beautifully in these Finals for LeBron. Billy Donovan got nothing out of Markieff last year in OKC’s first round exit to Portland.

I still to date haven’t read a public comment from either Sam Presti or Clay Bennett on the racist Birther Donald Trump.

I would guess Trump will win the state with a plurality of around sixty-eight per cent. But again…you’re on all those lists where you don’t want to be last place bottom dwellers.

How sad. Why bring in an NBA franchise if you don’t have the balls to say something truthful and meaningful once in a while? Same thing in Utah with the Jazz. I guess Mitt Romney used up all his political courage at the impeachment trial.

A serious learning moment missed for a city and a state which both desperately need one.

Game 5 on Friday inside the Bubble.

It clearly wasn’t a Shining Moment for Anthony Davis in Game 3, but it was for Jimmy Butler. Butler was fabulous in every regard as he put his Heat team on his back and carried them to a must win in Game 3 to put some interest back into these NBA Finals.

Butler tripled doubled and got just enough help from Tyler Herro, Kelly Olynck, Duncan Robinson, Jae Crowder, and others to help the Heat ‘maybe’ get back into this series.

I thought both Lebron and AD were horrible. They didn’t come out engaged and we’ll see if they have some fire in Game 4. In each round of these playoffs the Lakers have had one bad game. Maybe Game 3 was that game in this final round.

God…I love Tyler Herro. If Klay Thompson isn’t careful Tyler is going to become my new favorite NBA player and poster child for my NBA metric system of TSN. His Toughness, his Snarl, his Nasty…are you kidding me?

If Tyler Herro could skate he’d be a fifty goal a season guy in the NHL. I hope Klay has his knee healed because if he isn’t careful Tyler is going to become my new NBA hero. He has Russell Westbrook’s snarl only with a basketball brain to go along with it.

The thought Pat Riley was going to trade this kid to Oklahoma City is laughable in hindsight. What Pat Riley should do is go get Lou Dort and bring him to Miami to go along with Tyler. Just a thought.

Anyway…Game 4 tonight. We’ll see if we have a series on our hands.

My Amy Adams buddy over at Daily Thunder sent me a CCR song for my birthday. Nice song, but I like this one you sent some time earlier. It’s become one of my favorite songs.

We no longer have Power 5 level football in Oklahoma or Texas. On the evening of my 63rd birthday…Iowa State beat OU in Ames for the first time since 1960. This marks the first time since John Blake’s last season in Norman in which the Sooners have started the conference season going 0-2. It marks the first time since since 1931 in which the Sooners lost to Kansas State and Iowa State in the same season.

OU and Texas have some serious thinking to do about their college football futures. They need to smarten up and get out of the Big 12 and join the SEC so they can start recruiting nationally elite defensive players again.

OU is a perfect fit for the SEC West both culturally and politically. David Boren got it all completely wrong.

Anyway…this is the greatest Southern rock song of all-time in my view. This is for me on the day after my 63rd birthday. This video was in 1977. I was nineteen years of age.

Don’t wanna sound like Forrest Gump or Ferris Bueller, but life goes by fast. You better ride it hard while you can.

What a great song!

My buddy…Michael Smerconish was brilliant this past Saturday. I would not be overconfidant with the thought this election is over with a month to go.

As Michael pointed out…on October 7th, 2016 three things happened which shaped the world we now live in. On that day the Hollywood Access video went public, the FBI released a statement the Russians were meddling in the U.S. election, and the Wikileaks email dump took place.

I think what most pollsters still fail to realize is the complete and utter level of dysfuntion which resides in what was once referred to on geopolitical maps as the United States of America.

One month to the finish line.

I still think it’s pick ’em.

Morphine…God—I need morphine.