Ms. Jackson if you’re nasty…

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

On the clock.  Another evening rant due to the fact I work 65 hours a week.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1)       To be honest, it has not been the most exciting 24 hours in sports.  My Rant Squad is quiet, stories are limited, but I still have a churning head that will get on a roll.

2)      I HATE to do this, but it is what it is.  Human behavior.  Become a star, and no matter how shy or humble you are, you feel the need to voice your opinion on certain things.  I hate to call out my brother’s boy, Mike Trout, but I am going to.  He simply has had some of the best starting seasons in the history of the sport.  Point blank.  He came out yesterday saying all first time PED users should be banned from baseball.  That is great, Mike.  I get your point.  When I was in high school, I wrote a mock court bill talking about drug dealers getting the death penalty.  Listen, you are ONE person who should just let your amazing stats speak for themselves.  We have come a long way with PED’s, and I think because players can learn AND mistakes can be made in testing, 50 games is good for the first penalty.  I will give you 100 games, so it is the majority of the season.  But the death penalty right off the bat (no pun intended) is too harsh for me no matter WHAT our end objective is.  I bet we are approaching the point where players rat out other players possibly if one is starting over the other.  Everyone on all sides wants a clean game.  Just do your thing.  Talking about you, other teams are PRAYING that the bad Pujols and Hamilton contracts make it impossible for L.A. to shell out ridiculous money for you.  You have the high pro glow right now (80’s reference).  Let it ride.  Play ball. Your superstardom outside of baseball junkies is VERY, VERY soon.

3)      Even gangsters hold up the tough image of hockey.  Whitey Bulger is a notorious criminal from back in the day.  After being busted for 19 murders and the government finding $822k in his wall, the only thing he wants back is a Stanley Cup ring that he claims was given to at one point.  That is a hockey fan.  They can’t wear rings in prison, right?  It must be for a gift, because not sure what a guy in jail for the rest of his life (already 83 years old) wants a ring for.  Does he get to leave prison while fighting this battle?  THAT must be it.

4)      Jamaal Charles getting hurt this week makes Chiefs fans worried and me more clear in my thoughts.  Not sure how he has been on my fantasy team 2 of the last 3 years.  By the way, I might be off a year or two, but I believe we are on the fifth consecutive year where the Chiefs are that AFC “dark horse” that might be dangerous.

5)      Lindsey has on Catfish.  Do I think the show is dumb because I never was into the whole meet thing online, because it is on MTV and they haven’t played a video in like 20 years, or because I didn’t think of the idea?

6)      The Texas Longhorns topped the merchandise selling list again this year.  They sure have a lot of money down there for clothes, because they haven’t really won much or been good much lately.  If someone can explain to me how Rick Barnes still has a job, please drop me a line.  Mack Brown got one.  He is ok to continue to keep coaching.

7)      Hey, we are back with NFL headlines.  Yay.  It is August, and RGIII is already making sure we know that him and Shanahan get along just dandy.

8)      Speaking of the Skins, if you call to try and bet on the Steelers-Skins “glorified practice” Monday, Scott, I will not answer.

9)      I can’t win a door prize to save my life and spend my summers cracking on preseason football.  So what does Lindsey win?  Free Broncos tickets for the last “game.”  Nine rows up, so of course we will go, but I feel accidentally hypocritical.  By the way, if you are Denver based, we won that prize at Sliceworks, which has AMAZING pizza.  Right around Colfax and Pearl.  Upstairs seating that is great for dates also, and alcohol is served behind a full bar.  This place also taught me that potatoes on pizza is nasty.  GOOD nasty.  Like Phat.  Gangsta.  Dope.  NASTY.

10)   Lindsey just made me chicken with alfredo that would also be classified as nasty in this context.

11)   I walked by an restaurant on the way to the gym today.  They had a daily special called the Hierloom Salad.  Yes.  Old items.  Like when people knew how to spell when there weren’t computers to autocorrect them.

12)   I made regionals in a grade school spelling bee.  I can talk smack about it.

13)   LeBron has decided he won’t run for the head players gig.  We are ALL thankful that both him putting his hat in the ring AND him taking it out were both press covered.  I thought you were GOOD at “decisions” these days.  Maybe you should have made this decision on TV.

14)   Lindsey had South Park on earlier tonight.  I think it rivals Family Guy in humor and plots, but I truly just think the voices drive me nuts.  Family Guy is abrasive humor with more relaxing voices.

15)   Rangers P Yu Darvish flirted with a no-no the other night.  Gems across the ocean are also rooting for his success.  They have another badass coming over soon (in ESPN Mag two issues ago) to be signed for a lot of money, and Darvish being this successful makes some important people that all those pitchers aren’t wastes.

16)   Thoughts and prayers to the family of the guy who fell to his death watching the team he was a fan of.  85 foot drop in Turner stadium.  Not good.

17)   A.P. says that any PED talk is a compliment to him.  I think that is funny.  I support that.  Dude is a stud, and outspoken enough I believe he never has cheated.  He was huge as a freshman in COLLEGE.  It is not like his face got bigger like Bonds magically in a year.

18)   No one likes “moving day.”  Gym rats LOVE moving day.  Mine was today.  For no apparent reason except for hard work, all of my sets went up a rep or two.

19)   The PGA is discussing taking over the Euro Tour.  Do it up and unify.  I am confused what foreign guys do when not playing the PGA Tour.  I want Angel Cabrera to stop being in hiding when not giving every Major a run.

20)   Sidney Crosby better be working on a DMV commercial right about now.  It is meant to be.  Or pull a Mark Cuban, and go work there for a day.

21)   That is it.  I am over this laptop after being at work from 6:03 to 5:00 and still having to clean up work emails after this.  Hope you enjoyed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.  Peace.