Friday, November 21, 2008
RANDOM STUFF AND NFL PICKS, WEEK 12
Sad day in Blogdom: Fire Joe Morgan is no more. That deserves a "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Question to Donovan McNabb: What exactly did you think the "T" stood for that's right next to the "W"s and the "L"s in the standings?
Well, looky what we have here: Britney Spears is hot again. When did that happen?
And let's see here. Two weeks ago the Rams were down 40-0 and kicked a field goal. Last week the 49ers were beating them 35-3 in the third quarter, and they kicked a field goal. And last night, Cincinnati kicked a field goal with under seven minutes left while trailing 20-7. Hmmmm...can we figure out why these teams are losing all the time? They have coaches who are idiots.
NFL Picks, Week 12: I didn't get a pick in for last night's Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game, so we're down to 15 games.
SUNDAY MORNING: (team listed first is the pick, home team in caps)
Question to Donovan McNabb: What exactly did you think the "T" stood for that's right next to the "W"s and the "L"s in the standings?
Well, looky what we have here: Britney Spears is hot again. When did that happen?
And let's see here. Two weeks ago the Rams were down 40-0 and kicked a field goal. Last week the 49ers were beating them 35-3 in the third quarter, and they kicked a field goal. And last night, Cincinnati kicked a field goal with under seven minutes left while trailing 20-7. Hmmmm...can we figure out why these teams are losing all the time? They have coaches who are idiots.
NFL Picks, Week 12: I didn't get a pick in for last night's Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game, so we're down to 15 games.
SUNDAY MORNING: (team listed first is the pick, home team in caps)
CLEVELAND (-3) over Houston. As bad as the Browns are, they can handle the Texans, who aren't so hot themselves.SUNDAY AFTERNOON:
KANSAS CITY (+3) over Buffalo. It's the legend of Thiggy!
TENNESSEE (-5) over N.Y. Jets. The Titans are no fluke. And Kerry Collins must be considered in the MVP race.
New England (pick) over MIAMI. Did you know that Chad Pennington has the second-highest all-time completion percentage? Neither did I.
DALLAS (-10.5) over San Francisco. Got to enjoy one last week when my 49ers destroyed the Rams. Now, it's back to reality.
Tampa Bay (-8) over DETROIT. God, the Lions are horrendous.
BALTIMORE (-1) over Philadelphia. The Eagles are severely underperforming.
Chicago (-8) over ST. LOUIS. Teams that kick field goals when down 40-0 and 35-3 can't get support from me.
Minnesota (+3) over JACKSONVILLE. Don't tell anyone, but I had the Jaguars winning the Super Bowl.
DENVER (-10) over Oakland. Did you see that Sarah Palin video with the turkey killer? Something similar is going to happen in Colorado on Sunday.SUNDAY NIGHT:
Carolina (+1) over ATLANTA. Is there a slump in the Falcons' future?
Washington (-3.5) over SEATTLE. Seems like an easy call, anyway.
ARIZONA (+3.5) over N.Y. Giants. The Cards are for reals, y'all. And Plaxico might be out.
Indianapolis (+3) over SAN DIEGO. The Chargers can't possibly be favored. They stink.MONDAY NIGHT:
Green Bay (+3) over NEW ORLEANS. If only because I want my Aaron Rodgers autographed football to increase in value.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
THINGS I LEARNED RECENTLY
Football teams still punt from the opposition's 36-yard line.
Football teams, when trailing 40-0, will kick a worthless field goal to make it 40-3.
Your friends will wonder how you can be upset when someone on your fantasy football team scores a touchdown to give his actual team a late lead against your own favorite actual football team. ("But dude, you have Boldin! He just scored! You got points!" "Dude...he scored against my 49ers and now my 49ers are losing late in the game!")
And the country that elected a black man to be president is the same country in which people will elect to strip a minority group of certain civil rights.
I try not to be political on this blog; there are other forums for me to do so. But this something I learned a week ago, and this I can not ignore: The passing of Proposition 8, voted on last week in California, shows that Americans, on the very same day they elect someone who is not white to be president, can still somehow be evil.
That's right: If you voted to pass Proposition 8, you are evil. You are twisted. You are backwards. You are selfish.
Do not talk to me about "protecting traditional marriage." BULLSHIT!!!! There is no need to protect "traditional marriage" because there is nothing threatening it. There is nothing changing it. There is nothing skewing it. There is no "agenda" being thrust upon it. You are simply selfish. And you are evil.
Selfishness is not always a bad thing. We all do things for ourselves that are selfish: We work for money, we engage in recreational activities that give us pleasure, we buy things that when we possess them make us feel fortunate or happy.
But the passing of Porp 8 is the epitome of bad selfishness. Nobody who voted to pass it had anything to lose. Got that, Yes on 8 voters? You had nothing to lose. The folks you decide to see as perverted, or sick, or simply inferior (take your pick, and it is at least one of those three, and if you are honest with yourself, you will acknowledge that to be true) are the ones with something to lose. And they lost it. Because you took it away, with no gain for you either in the present or in the future.
All you had to do was make the reasonable, rational decision to leave gays alone. Just let them live in their pursuit of happiness. But you just couldn't do it, could you? You had to inject--nay, infect--your state's constitution with your brand of bigotry. I'm sorry, but isn't this the United States of America? The "land of the free"? If gays all got secretly married, you wouldn't know it, and you wouldn't think anything was wrong.
But no, it's your way or no way, right? Well, I hope you're happy. You erroneously thought you were salvaging your own self-worth at the expense of others. That wasn't the case. Your self-worth comes from what you have and who you are and what you think about yourself, not from what you deny others. Or at least that's what I thought the "self" meant in "self-worth".
I suspect that Prop 8 will soon be overturned by the California State Supreme Court and that someday, one day, this useless bigotry will end for good. Or maybe I just have too much faith in the rest of us; the good people.
Football teams, when trailing 40-0, will kick a worthless field goal to make it 40-3.
Your friends will wonder how you can be upset when someone on your fantasy football team scores a touchdown to give his actual team a late lead against your own favorite actual football team. ("But dude, you have Boldin! He just scored! You got points!" "Dude...he scored against my 49ers and now my 49ers are losing late in the game!")
And the country that elected a black man to be president is the same country in which people will elect to strip a minority group of certain civil rights.
I try not to be political on this blog; there are other forums for me to do so. But this something I learned a week ago, and this I can not ignore: The passing of Proposition 8, voted on last week in California, shows that Americans, on the very same day they elect someone who is not white to be president, can still somehow be evil.
That's right: If you voted to pass Proposition 8, you are evil. You are twisted. You are backwards. You are selfish.
Do not talk to me about "protecting traditional marriage." BULLSHIT!!!! There is no need to protect "traditional marriage" because there is nothing threatening it. There is nothing changing it. There is nothing skewing it. There is no "agenda" being thrust upon it. You are simply selfish. And you are evil.
Selfishness is not always a bad thing. We all do things for ourselves that are selfish: We work for money, we engage in recreational activities that give us pleasure, we buy things that when we possess them make us feel fortunate or happy.
But the passing of Porp 8 is the epitome of bad selfishness. Nobody who voted to pass it had anything to lose. Got that, Yes on 8 voters? You had nothing to lose. The folks you decide to see as perverted, or sick, or simply inferior (take your pick, and it is at least one of those three, and if you are honest with yourself, you will acknowledge that to be true) are the ones with something to lose. And they lost it. Because you took it away, with no gain for you either in the present or in the future.
All you had to do was make the reasonable, rational decision to leave gays alone. Just let them live in their pursuit of happiness. But you just couldn't do it, could you? You had to inject--nay, infect--your state's constitution with your brand of bigotry. I'm sorry, but isn't this the United States of America? The "land of the free"? If gays all got secretly married, you wouldn't know it, and you wouldn't think anything was wrong.
But no, it's your way or no way, right? Well, I hope you're happy. You erroneously thought you were salvaging your own self-worth at the expense of others. That wasn't the case. Your self-worth comes from what you have and who you are and what you think about yourself, not from what you deny others. Or at least that's what I thought the "self" meant in "self-worth".
I suspect that Prop 8 will soon be overturned by the California State Supreme Court and that someday, one day, this useless bigotry will end for good. Or maybe I just have too much faith in the rest of us; the good people.
Friday, November 7, 2008
SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE A BLAZER FAN
Yeah, we've been suffering a little bit here in Portland for the last few years. Even when things started looking up, we lost Greg Oden for another month or so. But last night's clutch shot by Brandon Roy, well, it just made me really happy. Yippy, Blazers!
Here's another clip worth watching. Some guy, I have no idea who he is, created a really cool four-part a cappella song about Star Wars using melodies from several films that John Williams has scored, including the Indiana Jones movies, E.T., and Close Encounters. This couldn't have been easy to do:
NFL Picks, Week 10: Haven't done this in a while. I want to try it again. I haven't done all that well this year. Don't go to Vegas with any information you see here. And yes, I forgot to do this before yesterday, so obviously the Denver-Cleveland game isn't going to be on here.
SUNDAY MORNING: (team listed first is the pick, home team in caps)
DETROIT (+7) over JacksonvilleSUNDAY AFTERNOON:
CHICAGO (+3) over Tennessee
NEW ENGLAND (-4) over Buffalo
ATLANTA (-1) over New Orleans
N.Y. JETS (-9) over St. Louis
Seattle (+8.5) over MIAMI
Green Bay (+2) over MINNESOTA
Baltimore (-1) over HOUSTON
Carolina (-10) over OAKLANDSUNDAY NIGHT:
Kansas City (+15) over SAN DIEGO
Indianapolis (pick) over PITTSBURGH
N.Y. Giants (+3) over PHILADELPHIAMONDAY NIGHT:
(And I don't know how the 49ers managed to hijack a Monday night, but here they are!) ARIZONA (-9.5) over San Francisco
