Monday, May 14, 2007
The Black Thumb
My wife has a black thumb. Not in the sense that you are thinking of, she doesn't kill the plants. We went hiking in the Andes Mountains, and it became frost bitten. She now has trouble opening the mail.
The Land of The Lost
I can't seem to post a blog unless I ripping somebody or something, and this one will be no different, but I am aware that it seems like I am an angry person.
My eyes were opened to a very sad reality that some people live in. I found a blog hosted by blogspot, in fact, that "released" info on episodes of ABC's show "Lost". Now I must admit that I watch the show pretty regularly, but I am growing tired of it. I'll get into that later. On this website it showed who was going to die on the season finale'. There must have 200 comments of people arguing back and forth. I thought I watched the show. They were arguing about people I have never heard of. Supposedly there are two women going to die and they hadn't released who it was. Who is this Penelope'? I don't know her. Then they were all in a frenzy to figure out which year Ben was born. The guy that hosted this website I guess had friends who worked on the set and would tell him things. This guy is a good a friend. Hey tell me something that I can tell everybody that nobody is supposed to know. Oh yeah if you get caught you'll get fired. Thanks man. They refer to the people of Lost as Losties, and the others as the others, but there are other others. Speaking of lost, I am lost. These people eat, breathe, drink, and sleep Lost. It was scary. They posted a press release saying that the Dharma shark was coming back but they didn't call it the Dharma shark, they called it something something Sharkington. I don't remember the rest. One other thing the writers of the show were talking about how they had answered so many questions that you might have had from season 1 & 2. Like when they said Desmond crashed the plane (I by the way must have missed that episode because I did not know that). However, when they revealed that Desmond crashed the plane they answered the question with another question. You now know when, where, and who, but you still have the questions of how and why. All I want to know is what dragged the pilot out of the cockpit in the very episode and what was shoving down the trees the first night they were there. That's all I want. I have resided to the fact that Wednesday will be the final time I watch the show (unless they answer questions with answers and not more questions). The reason is that I just don't care what happens anymore; just tell me how it ends. Why are they there, how are they there, who's running the show, etc.. Tell me that. I'll be good. (I have resided in the fact that they will never explain the dinosaur or whatever that killed the pilot and was pushing over trees the first night.) You see, the writers had no story in mind when they started writing it. So stuff from the first season that did not make sense will never get answered because they are trying to throw us for loop in the next episode. It's probably one of the worst planned tv shows ever to hit the airways. I think that they started writing it with the idea that they were all in purgatory, and after the second season, everyone had figured it out, and they had to change horses in mid-stream and it just keeps getting wilder. There will be no logical explanation to it (unless its a dream or purgatory, but in that case those fans that I wrote about earlier will burn ABC to the ground.) It will have to be an alternate reality, aliens, or something. Another thing is that the show - I believe this is the end of the third season - has signed on for a fourth, fifth, and sixth season. AND, and I might add, that the next episode of Lost after this Wednesday's will not air until February next year. Sorry, I feel like ABC has taken a relatively good thing and milked it for everything it was worth. I feel taken advantage of, that they think I will put up with this. I will find something else to do. For those of you that live vicariously through Lost, I find it sad, or maybe I am sad, because I live vicariously through people who live vicariously through Lost.
My eyes were opened to a very sad reality that some people live in. I found a blog hosted by blogspot, in fact, that "released" info on episodes of ABC's show "Lost". Now I must admit that I watch the show pretty regularly, but I am growing tired of it. I'll get into that later. On this website it showed who was going to die on the season finale'. There must have 200 comments of people arguing back and forth. I thought I watched the show. They were arguing about people I have never heard of. Supposedly there are two women going to die and they hadn't released who it was. Who is this Penelope'? I don't know her. Then they were all in a frenzy to figure out which year Ben was born. The guy that hosted this website I guess had friends who worked on the set and would tell him things. This guy is a good a friend. Hey tell me something that I can tell everybody that nobody is supposed to know. Oh yeah if you get caught you'll get fired. Thanks man. They refer to the people of Lost as Losties, and the others as the others, but there are other others. Speaking of lost, I am lost. These people eat, breathe, drink, and sleep Lost. It was scary. They posted a press release saying that the Dharma shark was coming back but they didn't call it the Dharma shark, they called it something something Sharkington. I don't remember the rest. One other thing the writers of the show were talking about how they had answered so many questions that you might have had from season 1 & 2. Like when they said Desmond crashed the plane (I by the way must have missed that episode because I did not know that). However, when they revealed that Desmond crashed the plane they answered the question with another question. You now know when, where, and who, but you still have the questions of how and why. All I want to know is what dragged the pilot out of the cockpit in the very episode and what was shoving down the trees the first night they were there. That's all I want. I have resided to the fact that Wednesday will be the final time I watch the show (unless they answer questions with answers and not more questions). The reason is that I just don't care what happens anymore; just tell me how it ends. Why are they there, how are they there, who's running the show, etc.. Tell me that. I'll be good. (I have resided in the fact that they will never explain the dinosaur or whatever that killed the pilot and was pushing over trees the first night.) You see, the writers had no story in mind when they started writing it. So stuff from the first season that did not make sense will never get answered because they are trying to throw us for loop in the next episode. It's probably one of the worst planned tv shows ever to hit the airways. I think that they started writing it with the idea that they were all in purgatory, and after the second season, everyone had figured it out, and they had to change horses in mid-stream and it just keeps getting wilder. There will be no logical explanation to it (unless its a dream or purgatory, but in that case those fans that I wrote about earlier will burn ABC to the ground.) It will have to be an alternate reality, aliens, or something. Another thing is that the show - I believe this is the end of the third season - has signed on for a fourth, fifth, and sixth season. AND, and I might add, that the next episode of Lost after this Wednesday's will not air until February next year. Sorry, I feel like ABC has taken a relatively good thing and milked it for everything it was worth. I feel taken advantage of, that they think I will put up with this. I will find something else to do. For those of you that live vicariously through Lost, I find it sad, or maybe I am sad, because I live vicariously through people who live vicariously through Lost.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
University of Oklahoma Football Season Forecast
First off I want to correct a mistake I made in my last blog. A&M went 5-3 in Big Twelve play. OK now that that is out of way onto the blog. I was listening to the experts today on the radio. FOX Sports Southwest is having a south football preview and the guy that is doing the show was breaking down some of the teams. When OU came he said they had reloaded well and that they will be even better than they were last year. I saw another website that had OU ranked #7 nationally preseason. Are these people looking at the same team I am looking at? Gone is Adrian Peterson, replaced by Allan Patrick, probably. The best thing OU has going for it is the offensive line, all of them improved a bunch last year and ended the season looking very impressive. I think I could be the starting running and be pretty successful. Gone is Paul Thompson, replaced by Joey Halzle, I mean Sam Bradford, I mean Keith Nichol, well whoever it is one thing is for sure they will have never taken a snap in a game in division 1 A. Joey Halzle will probably be the starter. Look at the schedule second game of the season they play Miami. I am not impressed with Miami they stunk last year....on offense. They had an impressive defense. You put a little a discipline and structure on that team and will it be ugly in Norman. If you are an OU fan you better hope their offense is as anemic as it was last year. If they can move the ball its over. OU's defense was pretty dang good last year in games 4 thru 13. Oregon posted over 500 yards of offense. And they complained about the brutal, brutal call OU got against Oregon. Well OU was a blown call away from losing (maybe) to UAB at home (Reggie Smith's fumbled punt). The secondary got burned repeatedly in big games (Oregon, Texas, and Boise State). Is it getting any better next year. I'm not seeing it. They had trouble tackeling when the run game got into the secondary. Reggie Smith has to play corner. When they put him at safety to compensate for the mediocre corners they might as well be making him play with handcuffs. His big play ability is seriously hampered playing that far back from the action. Gone is Rufus Alexander, replaced by I don't, whoever it is he ain't Rufus Alexander. Gone are Larry Birdine, Calvin Thibidoux and C. J. Ah You, replaced by I don't know on this one either, but thats a pretty good pedigree of de's to replace. Now I will grant you that a lot of the rest of country lost a lot (Florida, Ohio State, LSU, Notre Dame), but how can you pick OU to be seventh preseason, or to win the big twelve. Right it down, chisel it in stone, OU will not win the south. Its Texas's to lose. I think that quite frankly its not even close. A&M will finish higher than OU and you can take that to the bank. The last time OU had this many question marks it got beat by TCU at home on the season opener. One reason this might be a successful season is the coaching staff. Its the best in the country. If anybody could pull it off its Bob Stoops, but I ain't seeing it. You don't lose that many key elements to the team and compete for the National Championship. Its Texas in the South plain and simple.
P. S. I wanted to write about the North today but that idiot on the radio got me too worked up.
P. S. I wanted to write about the North today but that idiot on the radio got me too worked up.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Big Twelve South Football
In my first blog about college football I went through the schedules and picked games and talked about some of the matchups. Not any more. That took way to long and I don't have that much time. So with out further ado the big twelve south.
6. Baylor Bears: After improving some the last couple of years it seems the Bears program is improving. Baby steps if you are Guy Morris. Two years ago they edged out OSU for fifth place in the South the first time since the inception of the big twelve they finished better than sixth. Last year they tied with OSU for fifth. They are still pretty bad though. If they were in say the Sunbelt Conference they would battle for the Division title not in the big twelve though. There offense will not be that bad with average talent at quarterback and running back. But there defense is terrible. Looked for it get scorched early and often. If your looking for a team to finish in the cellar in the south start your search here.
5. Oklahoma State: OSU put together a pretty decent year last year considering the year before that. But if you look at the schedule and see how the games ended up 10 and 2 was a realistic outcome and given that I would call last year a massive failure. No impressive wins and if they did have one (Alabama) they almost blew it in the fourth quarter. But next year we begin again. The schedule maker should be ashamed with road games at Georgia and Troy State. 7 and 5 would be great season and Mike Gundy better hope for better than 6 and 6. Because the next year T-Bone will be expecting to challenge for the Big Twelve South title and rightfully so.
4. Oklahoma: Heres a shocker. Not really though. How could pick OU finish higher. Will they finish higher probably but look at what left Norman last year. Their linebackers, a pretty good quarterback, and oh yeah their all-american tailback. They have some decent replacements for the tailback, quarterback is a big question mark, and linebackers are unproven. They boast an excellent secondary that got burned in big games and had trouble tackling in the running game. I watched some of the spring scrimmage and they said that OU lost 2 starter on defense. I don't by it. C. J. Ah You is gone, Calvin Thibidoux is gone, Larry Birdine is gone, Rufus Alexander is gone, the only defensive lineman I remember from last year that is returning is DeMarcus Granger. OU will start the season off against North Texas and expect a patented OU slow start. The line on that game will probably 21 points, I say take North Texas and the points. It seems like Mack Brown just has Bob Stoops number if he could ever beat Texas he could challenge for the national title. OU heartbreak in Big D, Texas rolls bigtime.
3. Texas Tech: I am giving 95% of Texans a reason to sneer in the face of Oklahomans by picking the 3 major colleges ahead of all Oklahoma colleges. Oh wait Texans already sneer in the face of Oklahomans. Tech had a down year last year and yet had a nice win against A&M. They took OU to the wire. I expect Tech to be much improved and more consistent this year they could give A&M a run for their money. They have OU at Lubbock and the refs have already asured the Lubbock faithful a win. They have to go to Stillwater and Texas though, places where they usually struggle. A&M at Lubbock is a must win.
2. Texas A&M: I expect big things from A&M this year. Well actually I expect the same as last 6 and 2 in big twelve play. They have Texas and OSU at home On the road at Tech and OU, and Baylor stinks. Thats about all I got. They have a good quarterback, a good tailback, and a pretty good secondary. Status Quo in College Station.
1. Texas: Heres a no brainer. Texas is clearly the best team in the big twelve. Experienced quarterback, tailback, offensive line and receivers, I expect them to be a juggernaut averaging over 48 points a game. A defense that will get the job done. I don't see any reason why they can't run table and play for the National Title in New Orleans. Toughest test at A&M, and maybe Nebraska at Austin. They would be seeking revenge for tough loss to Texas last year.
6. Baylor Bears: After improving some the last couple of years it seems the Bears program is improving. Baby steps if you are Guy Morris. Two years ago they edged out OSU for fifth place in the South the first time since the inception of the big twelve they finished better than sixth. Last year they tied with OSU for fifth. They are still pretty bad though. If they were in say the Sunbelt Conference they would battle for the Division title not in the big twelve though. There offense will not be that bad with average talent at quarterback and running back. But there defense is terrible. Looked for it get scorched early and often. If your looking for a team to finish in the cellar in the south start your search here.
5. Oklahoma State: OSU put together a pretty decent year last year considering the year before that. But if you look at the schedule and see how the games ended up 10 and 2 was a realistic outcome and given that I would call last year a massive failure. No impressive wins and if they did have one (Alabama) they almost blew it in the fourth quarter. But next year we begin again. The schedule maker should be ashamed with road games at Georgia and Troy State. 7 and 5 would be great season and Mike Gundy better hope for better than 6 and 6. Because the next year T-Bone will be expecting to challenge for the Big Twelve South title and rightfully so.
4. Oklahoma: Heres a shocker. Not really though. How could pick OU finish higher. Will they finish higher probably but look at what left Norman last year. Their linebackers, a pretty good quarterback, and oh yeah their all-american tailback. They have some decent replacements for the tailback, quarterback is a big question mark, and linebackers are unproven. They boast an excellent secondary that got burned in big games and had trouble tackling in the running game. I watched some of the spring scrimmage and they said that OU lost 2 starter on defense. I don't by it. C. J. Ah You is gone, Calvin Thibidoux is gone, Larry Birdine is gone, Rufus Alexander is gone, the only defensive lineman I remember from last year that is returning is DeMarcus Granger. OU will start the season off against North Texas and expect a patented OU slow start. The line on that game will probably 21 points, I say take North Texas and the points. It seems like Mack Brown just has Bob Stoops number if he could ever beat Texas he could challenge for the national title. OU heartbreak in Big D, Texas rolls bigtime.
3. Texas Tech: I am giving 95% of Texans a reason to sneer in the face of Oklahomans by picking the 3 major colleges ahead of all Oklahoma colleges. Oh wait Texans already sneer in the face of Oklahomans. Tech had a down year last year and yet had a nice win against A&M. They took OU to the wire. I expect Tech to be much improved and more consistent this year they could give A&M a run for their money. They have OU at Lubbock and the refs have already asured the Lubbock faithful a win. They have to go to Stillwater and Texas though, places where they usually struggle. A&M at Lubbock is a must win.
2. Texas A&M: I expect big things from A&M this year. Well actually I expect the same as last 6 and 2 in big twelve play. They have Texas and OSU at home On the road at Tech and OU, and Baylor stinks. Thats about all I got. They have a good quarterback, a good tailback, and a pretty good secondary. Status Quo in College Station.
1. Texas: Heres a no brainer. Texas is clearly the best team in the big twelve. Experienced quarterback, tailback, offensive line and receivers, I expect them to be a juggernaut averaging over 48 points a game. A defense that will get the job done. I don't see any reason why they can't run table and play for the National Title in New Orleans. Toughest test at A&M, and maybe Nebraska at Austin. They would be seeking revenge for tough loss to Texas last year.
It's Thursday Again
Well its Thursday again and that means Grey's Anatomy is on. If it wasn't for that show I would probably never blog. I miss the Thursdays of yesteryear, when Seinfeld was on. Not this pointless garbage. I'll probably get ripped to shreds but Grey's Anatomy is so bad. If you search deep down I think that you'll be able to admit it to yourself. The bloodborne to airborne disease that knocked out the entire surgical staff. Thats when I said, "No more." ABC is letting it die a cruel death and letting it drag out as the viewers slowly slip away. One of these days you will turn to a friend and say, "Hey remember Grey's Anatomy. Whatever happened to that show?" Thats how it will die. A brutal plot and uninteresting characters thats a formula for success so far for it. You know I have to give it its due. The first year the idea was novel. Four young doctors that were friends working their residency together. After that it turned to crap. And my wife still watches it holding on to that glimmer of hope that it can return to the epic that so fascinated her that first season. She wastes her Thursday evenings away searching for what could have been. The drama offset is better than the drama on. Are they going to kick Isaiah Washington off. Better tune in to see. It is garbage. And I think if you search deep down inside you, you can admit it to yourself.
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