As a National League fan, the Giants' win last night was a plus. But I don't get how they can rough up a guy like Verlander that easily. The guy throws smoke, and usually looks un-hittable. The old adage that the guys in The Show can always hit the heater rings true again.
I see where the great minds at the University of North Carolina have elected to take the term "freshman" out of the campus vernacular. Its an offensive term, of course. How do we get passed the similarly offensive terms "female" and "woman"? I mean, you can't have a masculine reference/syllable in a word that is supposed to describe the non-man gender. I think the challenge for our linguistic experts could be unending.
The NBA has got into the act a little now with their decision to do away with the positions "center" and "forwards" in the league's All-Star balloting. They now will be referred to as "front court" and "guards". (If they want to use "front court", why not go all in and use "back court" as well? But I digress.) They cite Tim Duncan as the most obvious reason for this change. Duncan has long been listed as a center, but has usually played more of a forward's game. Whatever. At least this change wasn't for PC reasons. For a basketball guy, getting away from the numbers for the positions may not happen. Just sayin'.
Speaking of political correctness, the Left has their undies knotted this AM in response to Sarah Palin's comment on Facebook of The O's "shuck n' jive" moves on the Libya mess. Is there no colloquialism that can't be called racist against this President? What if she used the phrase "rope-a-dope"? Equally descriptive, I think, of the White House's effort to dodge any responsibility on the matter. Does the fact that that art was perfected by Muhammad Ali, who happens to be Black, make it a racist term?
Oklahoma by 10? Seems like a lot. Is Norman that big of a home field advantage? Hmmm. The Sooners lose to K-State...at home...and K-State barely gets by the Clones in Ames. But they did kill Texas.
Not that ND necessarily scares anyone from an offensive standpoint. As of today though, I'd take ND and the points.
The 2013 TdF route was announced yesterday. Will there be any "clean" riders available? They start out with a couple of stages on the island of Corsica. Interesting. The are also doing Le Alpe d'Huez twice in the same day with the finish at the top of the second time around. Let's add some spice to the route. eh? And they'll finish at night time on the Champs Elysees. At this point, I'm having a hard time getting very excited about cycling.
Our local cycling club's annual dinner is next Friday (when I will be in San Antonio), and the scheduled guest speaker is Christian Vandevelde. He's an American racer who has competed in Europe many years, and he was a teammate of Lance's for a few years. He's one of the guys who rolled over on Armstrong to the USADA and is currently serving a 6 month ban from cycling. I'll be interested to hear whether he in fact shows for this engagement, and if so, whether he comments on the scandal. I'll be taking the Under on that commenting possibility.
OK. All for now.
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UPDATE....David Stern has announced his retirement as Commish of the NBA in early 2014. They have already named the current #2 guy as his successor. Stern has been widely regarded as a huge success for the NBA. For what will be 30 years. That's a career. He tends to be a bit arrogant for me, but its hard to argue with his results. If the new guy performs as well as Goodell has done in the switcheroo in the NFL, then the NBA will be fine in the post-Stern era. Not that I really care that much about the NBA.
I'm doing this update in the waiting room as I get an oil change on the Buick. I chose the dealership (the old Keady-Dawson place) close to the office after a good result here last time. The second time wasn't much of a charm. Two other filters to the basic oil change charge. Like it must be in the DNA of guys in the oil change business.
There's definitely some disconnect between Blogger on the laptop or desktop, and Blogger on the iPad. The app that I originally downloaded to the iPad for Blogger seems to work only on original entries from the iPad, and editing an original entry made from the desktop on the iPad, like I'm doing here, is a bit schitzo. (Another racist comment, I'm sure.) And I've never been able to add a photo from the iPad.
The Over/Under on OU - ND is 48. Hmmm. ND won't score that much. Can their D keep the Sooners in check? If the number was 50, I'd take the Under. I'll have to think about the bet on 48.
BCOT
I'm doing this update in the waiting room as I get an oil change on the Buick. I chose the dealership (the old Keady-Dawson place) close to the office after a good result here last time. The second time wasn't much of a charm. Two other filters to the basic oil change charge. Like it must be in the DNA of guys in the oil change business.
There's definitely some disconnect between Blogger on the laptop or desktop, and Blogger on the iPad. The app that I originally downloaded to the iPad for Blogger seems to work only on original entries from the iPad, and editing an original entry made from the desktop on the iPad, like I'm doing here, is a bit schitzo. (Another racist comment, I'm sure.) And I've never been able to add a photo from the iPad.
The Over/Under on OU - ND is 48. Hmmm. ND won't score that much. Can their D keep the Sooners in check? If the number was 50, I'd take the Under. I'll have to think about the bet on 48.
BCOT
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