As a real man who lives in godforsaken stupid Oklahoma….I guess at this point I’ll have to live vicariously through other real men who live in different regions of our country.
I will admit….I’ve given up on Oklahoma. When I observe back to back governors like Mary Fallin and Kevin Stitt, when I see two U.S. senators like the gutless James Lankford and the cagefighter Markwayne Mullin, and when I see an education czar like Ryan Walters… I pretty much know it’s time to piss on the fire and call in the dogs.
See Mike J pissing on the fire in Oklahoma. How sad for a state with so much potential.
So….thank you Steve Kerr for stating the obvious in your seven minute DNC speech. You stole the show, buddy.
Thanks also to Pop in San Antonio for all the things of which he’s had the courage to say as well…no less in a red state like Texas. My two favorite real men in the NBA.
Which brings me to Russell Westbrook who is now a bench piece hybrid guard for the Denver Nuggets. Thank you as well Russell for being the one member of the gutless OKC Thunder organization who had the balls to say some things about Donald Trump. I love that in you, Wild Thing. Just do me this one favor though this NBA season…when you’re tempted to jack an ill advised three…please don’t. Do that for MJ and he’ll have your back.
I promise I will.
Hope, faith, love, and God. If only the fake Trump Christians would ever implement these qualities into their daily lives.
We scheduled our Saturday afternoon in Seattle around the USA’s gold medal game versus France. With the game being played in Paris it seemed fairly likely this game would be a fairybook type of game…and it was.
It was absolute must see basketball for both the rabid and casual hoops fan.
STEPH IS THE GREATEST SHOOTER IN THE HISTORY OF BASKETBALL. PERIOD.
I hate to write this, but I genuinely wonder if Kevin Durant would have won an NBA championship if he hadn’t had Steph Curry as his point guard. I know Kevin won both of those NBA Finals MVPs, but my basketball gut feeling is that Kevin never would have won an NBA championship ring without Steph. Add to that…Steph has won two of his four rings without Kevin. Add to that… Steph would have won a fifth ring if his idiot teammate Draymond Green hadn’t kicked LeBron in the balls in the 2016 NBA Finals turning the whole series upside down.
Let me blog this emphatically…Draymond Green will be in my crosshairs the first time this season he begins his bullshit. His behavior these past two NBA seasons is simply not acceptable and I was very disappointed TNT’s Ernie Johnson allowed Draymond to be on the TNT panel during their NBA Playoff coverage. Selfish stupidity should not be rewarded. No way. I know Ernie is one of my cancer mentors, but that was extremely weak.
I’m excited about the Warriors. They’ve added Buddy Hield and Kyle Anderson, and Klay is now a Dallas Maverick. I still think the Warriors at some point might need to unload Andrew Wiggins, but we’ll see if he can find some consistency in his game which has been sorely missing since the Warriors’ most recent NBA championship two years ago.
Johnny Kuminga it’s time to become a star, buddy. You need to fill the role of the second leading scorer beside Steph EVERY GAME.
My first blogging piece when we get back from blue-purple Denver will be to write about Klay’s move to the Dallas Mavericks.
My powder blue Jamal Murray jersey is packed and ready to go for the trips to Bonnie Brae and Washington parks where El Prez can hang with other passionate Denver Nugget fans this coming week. Who knows….Jeff Green actually lived in Bonnie Brae when he won his ‘ship with theNuggets…maybe Russell and his family will buy a home in family oriented Bonnie Brae as well.
The NBA season kicks off with the much hyped OKC Thunder at the Denver Nuggets on October 24th. MJ is already hyped about that game and maybe who knows….maybe my son will take me to that game as a birthday present for my 67th birthday. Hint…hint.
We just had a fantastic one week trip with my older sister in Seattle. It was superb in every regard. We did the Bainbridge Ferry trip the very first day and that pretty much set the tone.
Going from godforsaken uber Trump fake Christian Oklahoma to a blue city like Seattle where you know people actually read books and such was like going to a European city like Geneva or maybe Amsterdam.
I mean as soon as we got back to godforsaken Oklahoma there’s the State Super of Schools one Ryan Walters showing everyone why Oklahoma is indeed tied with Mississippi for the most wretched educational system in America. Good choice there Kevin Stitt along with the state turning down $50 million in federal dollars which would have provided school lunches for those not attending a Ryan Walters charter school.
Ttuly amazing. TRULY. Stitt will take $13 billion from the feds to rebuild bridges and highways, but not really interested in helping kids who didn’t win the birthright lottery.
But enough of that. We will be heading to Denver which isn’t as blue as Seattle in a few days… and they read books there as well and don’t elect former cage fighters to the United States Senate.
And keep this in mind…Mike J might be the least lit woke human in America… and yet ‘these’ people in Oklahoma still have me blogging this bullshit.
Are you people kidding me?
And, oh…it would appear Donald Trump’s fake religous epiphany after his near death gunshot wound is just as fake as the Oklahoma fake Christians. It’s like watching Dennis the Menace on steroids.
I took my fourth Pet Scan as soon as we got back and it was clean for the third straight time. But there is still challenging work ahead on the Stage 4 cancer journey. But I’m ready. MJ has seen the sword and will keep the hope, the faith, and the love of God on his shoulders. Dr. Showalter and I fist pumped and nodded. Let’s go.
Looks like the Golden State Warriors have made yet another move to bolster Steph this season. BTW…Steph was brilliant in the last two games for Team USA as they won the gold medal in Paris.
When we get back from Denver I’d very much like to get started covering the NBA on my underground Thunder blog because this season is going to be an exceptional one in the Western Conference.
After my Seattle sendoff workout this afternoon, I did what I usually do after a Wednesday workout. That being, I drove over to the Integris Cancer Center and found my prayer spot. Dr. Showalter would be proud of me if he ever read my blog. I know he would. He would shake his head in disbelief, but I know he would be proud of me.
There’s a beautiful little spot on the second floor between the Infusion Area and the physical therapy gym. Outside the window it’s landscaped with thick green fescue grass and a mixture of Japanese Maple, Colorado Blue Spruce, and Atlas Cedars. A quaint little rock-lined stream flows through the middle of the trees. It has become one of my favorite meditation and prayer spots.
Just being there with other humans who are on the same journey as myself always forges me. Always reminds me of what a blessed life I’ve already lived and how much I still have to live for.
My father joined AA when I was 28 years of age. AA is basically a god-first program. My experience with him as he went through AA has been incredibly valuable to me on my Stage 4 cancer journey.
God first. That never changes. Ever. Your faith in god has to be absolute and your faith in yourself needs to be strong as well.
Just slow things down. One day at a time. One week at a time. One month at a time. Live every day to the fullest and never fail to appreciate the sunsets. Become a sunset savant.
My thoughtful friend in Tulsa, Bill Davis, sent me a very simple little book on trusting God, staying calm, and finding your faith.
I’d like to post my favorite page from the book before I head off to Seattle.
2 Peter 1:5-7
Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perserverance; and to perserverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
So simple. Just keep it simple.
I can’t wait to get back after our trip in Seattle and blog about our beautiful trip in Seattle with my older sister.
And I didn’t write fake Trump Christians one time.
My last workout before we head to Seattle for eight days in the epicenter of the radical left Antifa extreme Deep State.
Ya…MJ, as a former voter who cast votes for Gerald Ford, John Anderson, Ronald Reagan, Bush 41, and Bob Dole…. one would think MJ’s current soft RHINO narratives would fit in there snuggly with the Kamala Harris radical left who actually believed it would be wrong to publicly hang Mike Pence and Mitt Romney on Jan. 6th.
Do your best, Oklahoma.
First one in Oklahoma to read a book today…sign in and MJ will pay for the book.
Obviously this won’t happen in Oklahoma with political cowards like James Lankford, Tom Cole, and Stephanie Bice….just to name three. But across the nation in states with aggregate reading levels above the average sixth grader… Republicans with a set of balls and integrity are beginning to do the right thing.
Finally.
It’s stunning its taken this long given the GOP at one time considered itself the party of Christian moral values, but finally its happening one week preceeding the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
REAL MEN…and I mean REAL MEN who have any sense of value for American democracy, the rule of law, and a basic sense of Level 1 human compassion will not consider voting for Donald Trump this third time around.
The notion that the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D Eisenhower, and Bush 41 would nominate Donald Trump as their presidenial candidate three presidential cycles in a row in a sense basically shows everyone else in the country how abysmal the GOP has become as a political party.
I cannot beleieve any man with a wife, a girlfriend, a daughter, a grand daughter, a sister, a niece, or a MOTHER could cast a vote for this piece of human debris dog shit.
You people are a historical generational disgrace.
The above video contains a summation from the very conservative mayor of Mesa, Arizona on why he agrees with Mike J pretty much verbatim.
What a shame our little GOP sham major David Holt in OKC can’t summon the same type of hubris and gravitas because I know privately he is as repulsed by Donald Trump as much as I am.
Come on, man you bring Mick Cornett along with you and you two guys do the right thing. Come on, guys.
In closing…I cannot believe any REAL MAN could vote for Donald Trump.
MJ has walked through the shadow of death. He has stared darkness and the sword in the face.
He is not scared of the sword. Quite the contrary…MJ has said, ” Fuck the sword.” MJ is not concerned of the sword.
The sword is in MJ’s rear view mirror.
Light. Goodness. Kindness. Decency. Human empathy. You know… all the things one would never witness at a Donald Trump fake Christian racist rally are in front of MJ at this point in the race.
The Oklahoma Trump fake Christian rabble cannot take away from MJ’s journey to the light.
‘They knoweth not of what they are doing.’
They have sold their moral compass to the human junk bond grifter. There is so much more to the journey beyond individual or corporate net worth.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle rather than a Donald Trump zombie to ascend to the heavens.
MJ will pray for their souls….if they still have one.
The clarion call of the trumpet pins MJ’s ears back even further. The championship DNA in his heart pounds as he obliterates the limitations of his own mortality.
We are in the dog days of August here in Deer Creek, Oklahoma, but it won’t be long before NBA teams begin reporting to camp. This should be a tremendous NBA basketball season for this underground blogger.
These numbers above are the Vegas projected regular season win totals for Boston, OKC, and Denver. Obviously, with me living in Deer Creek and Denver….this portends for me a very special NBA basketball season.
Just today I wore my 2023 Denver Nugget ‘Ship ball cap to the gym. And it was a special day for me at the basketball court in that this was the first time since my Stage 4 diagnosis I was able to get on a court with the hoop set at the regulation ten foot mark and MAKE SHOTS!!!! It was joyous. See the Secretariat video coming.
Somehow…I’ve made it through two NBA seasons and one NBA Championship parade in Denver since my problem was diagnosed. I feel blessed, but you know, you get a little selfish and a little hubris and cancer gravitas going and MJ think there’s a chance he could possibly make it through another NBA season.
And what a dream season this could be for me. If it comes down to Denver and OKC…I’ll be for Denver. Denver in my heart is now my home city and my feelings for Jamal are pretty clear. Add to those facts one Russell Westbrook is now the Sixth Man in Denver.
I actually think Russell and Coach Mike Malone will be a nice fit. What Russell needs to be is what he was at UCLA…a smart defensive player who creates in transition and knows when not to chuck a bad three.
For me it would be the ultimate ending for Russell to be hoisting the O’Brien Cup in Denver. The perfect ending to Russell’s NBA Greek Tragedy….and for me as well if that’s what is in the cards for me.
Russell and I will be Kamala soulmates. One thing I always loved about Russell was the fact he hates Donald Trump even more than I do. You play that card in rural Oklahoma and there’s a good chance you’ll get shot this coming November. MJ don’t plan on too many rural Oklahoma caravans beyond November 6th.
And as for the Thunder…. with the additions of Caruso and Hartenstein they should be legit contenders. I do think though for this Hartenstein move to be a difference maker he needs to have a career season rebounding the basketball. Somewhere around 9.5 to 10 rebounds a game.
I have nothing but respect and admiration for Shai and his teammates. They are total class. Good luck to Josh in Chicago. Plus, Buddy Hield and Kyle Anderson are now at Golden State as well….and that’s kinda cool as well.
I thought this was an excellent Nugget podcast. These guys have a good feel. Saric and Russ are basically the bench come playoff time. Plus, Christian Braun has to elevate his game as a starter now that KCP is an Orlando Magic. Throw this into the mix as well… the player Russell probably hates the most in the NBA is the whiney bitch minimalist aka Reggie Jackson. I think Russell will be really, really motivated to fill the Bruce Brown role in Denver.
Uh…Russ, since I’m not on the payroll of the Trump fake Christian Thunder…let me help you with the elaboration part of what we both think of Donald Trump.
Real men, secure men, successful men, don’t vote for racists, convicted felons, pathological liars, sociopaths, Birthers, and pussy grabbers. I love you, bruh. I feel honored MJ could fill in the elaboration part for you on my blog.
A wonderful week-end for me. The celebration of life ceremony for my cousin, my friend, and my brother was lovely. If he’s at much at peace as I am … then I would say all is good in my orbit.
When you’re going thru the Stage 4 journey….you cannot allow things beyond your control to derail you. It’s the same tomorrow as its been from Day 1….one day at a time. Be the best version of yourself every day. Don’t waste a day. Embrace the little things. Be kind.
I put the song up here for any Trump fake Christians who have perhaps inadvertently stumbled onto my underground blog page.
What I’m saying is….MJ is trying to reach out to you. Let’s put the labels and the anger aside.
We don’t need to be hanging one another if our candidate loses an election.
Collectively….we’re going to work through all of this angst and come to terms with your pent up, repressed racism.