The Blogenant.

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…

No need to be on the clock but I will be.  Not an airplane cast.  Sunday afternoon rant.  Semi-speed version.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutation, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  Semi-speed means I don’t restrict myself to one sentence, but I have other stuff to do, with it already being a productive day (need to clear out the eve for my boys).  Let’s move.
2. JJ.  No real pops.  A couple at lunch.  Nothing to be excited about.  
3. Guy on the right.  One of my favorite people, y’all.
4. I could listen to that Christmas commercial with Stevie Wonder and what’s her name all day.
5. I plan on finishing this and getting all Christmas shopping done online so when I wake up, I am done except for the sending part.
6. Mom, we double bought for you…miscommunication in these walls. Don’t complain.
7. Lots of other baseball pieces to fall into place, but Cueto is a major moving part of this mess.  
8. The good news about Muschamp taking over for the Ole’ Ball Coach is that interviews and sidelines will be just as interesting.  
9. We got the four teams we expected and wanted for the College Football Playoff, but still confused whether I had to take off time last year to see a freaking playoff game in the afternoon.
10. I guess I might be more pissed if out East, as their NYE plans are either football or NOT football.
11. I have to help save seats for the early OU game for my lady at Stoney’s, the local OU watch bar.
12. We looked at Orange Bowl travel pricing.  Not in our budget I don’t think.
13. Someone needs to help with my sanity. How am I able to watch the Pats game DURING the Broncos game when for the last ten years the other channel is blacked out during Broncos games?
14. Lindsey says otherwise, but I am learning very slowly to just simply say “Babe, you are right.”
15. The Bama-UF game went as expected, but the turning points were a couple of penalties AND a couple ridiculously hard to catch long Bama balls.  
16. LOVE CBS playing a Weiland song or two coming back from commercial.  
17. I think my boy (Kyle) had a coed baby shower that maybe I should have attended. This is another reminder that I don’t pay attention to Facebook.  Sorry, bud.
18. Told you Clemson-UNC would end in a semi-heart attack for Clemson. I think Lost Lettermen/ now Jim Weber said it best.  
19. The Iowa loss to Michigan State was the most positive loss by a team in contention I remember.
20. Hence their #5 final ranking. Take THAT, Stanford and Ohio State.
21. Before Creed, I got to watch the long commercials for Concussion and The Revenant. Man, The Revenant looks really, really good and could be Leonardo’s first acting solo Oscar (I think-not checking).  I might give it to him just by watching the long preview.
22. Lindsey has two good friends who don’t have cable, like wine, and had a wine tasting competition/ party DURING the three games at night last night. I made due, and even put my two cents into the wine tasting competition.  The scary thing is I used to be a bartender and SELL and describe wine.  I am shallow.  
23. I went because I love those two. They are rock stars, wine or no sports or not.  Here they are.  
24. I had a conversation with Stacy about the word “almost.” It is a very powerful word.  It can mean you got stopped in doing something you would regret or tried something but didn’t succeed something very, very cool.  I have almost done a TON of things.
25. Here are the remnants of the cheese plate I felt like I had a right to eat once I had some wine and contributed.  
26. Another day in our lives, and another day the Warriors are undefeated. They beat Toronto IN Toronto, and that is not a bad squad, people.  
27. I drop Dorial Green-Beckham from my fantasy squad and NOW he has a game.
28. I have winning records in both leagues (first in one), but I am getting ROCKED in fantasy this week in both-do some crazy stuff, Brady.
29. But, it is like John McEnroe may or may not have said (been quoting this for years), if you are going to miss, miss BIG.  
30. Not sure why Lindsey had Back to the Future Part II on last night before bed, but realized I need to see it again as I didn’t remember much of it.
31. If you live anywhere near Uptown in Denver, you need to make three times a week stops at Marzcyk’s and at least check out the soup.  If Lindsey doesn’t eat the tomato-jalapeno in the fridge by tonight, that is GONE.
32. Speaking of them, I have a block of Havarti cheese I need to hit up in a second.
33. When I DO get a new ride (probably will be stranded by Eleanor before that happens), I might have a get together like the Nissan commercial where the dude crushes it at a junkyard.  
34. So, I get the feeling from my friends that this presently first place wedding band is too loud? It is different from anything I have ever seen for a wedding band.  Thoughts?  I like blue.  Maybe a thinner blue band in the middle?  One of my buds, Cerk, said he likes his because it is undercover and barely noticeable.  Don’t I WANT it to be noticeable?  
35. As I break in my new Steelers hat, am I the ONLY person who knows that running a hat through the dishwasher tightens it up?
36. Weiland in the background at the Pats game too.
37. My cat, TyRion/ Jackson balances his demonic times with cute times so perfectly, I think he is planning our demise.
38. Plus, I am not used to anyone or anything following me around and liking me this much.
39. He still fetches. Rolled up yellow legal pad paper.  
40. The Bills-Texans and Dolphins-Ravens games were perfect examples of teams trying to figure out their identity and whether they are good, bad, or mediocre.  
41. The Bengals won decisively, but what does it really mean to beat the Browns these days?
42. I didn’t see the whole game, but looks like Jay Cutler is trying to be the new Jeff George.   Waste.  Of.  Talent.  
43. The Titans and Jaguars sure put on a show between teams who can’t beat anyone except maybe the Browns right now.
44. Jets.  Giants.  Bipolar.
45. Thanks for showing up today, Vikings, and REALLY making us think you are a player in the whole Super Bowl conversation.
46. In my office pool, let the record show I picked the Saints over the Panthers.  Not saying they will win, but I thought they would give them a game.
47. The Bucs can lose to anyone and beat anyone right now.
48. The Cardinals are really JUST getting started, people. They are pretty damn good even with losing CJ1K.
49. Feeling pretty good about the Steelers tonight at home vs. Colts. Should be a decisive victory.
50. Stanford-Iowa is going to be a fantastic football game.
51. I hope FSU doesn’t say “we are just playing Houston,” because that truck will run over them if they are not careful.
52. I just realized that although I didn’t want to write a book today, I still am.
53. They are probably both bitter being left out overall, but Notre Dame-Ohio State is a GREAT matchup of perennially good teams.
54. Speaking of “almost,” OSU vs. Ole Miss.
55. Let’s all raise your drink for a Northwestern squad that again surpassed expectations from a very smart school. I hope UVA gets back to that level of football soon, so we can have smart parties with Stanford and Northwestern.
56. I made a mistake in saying the Chargers-Broncos game was a “trap game” evidently.
57. I was unaware of new technology and sure as HELL am not working out with a phone on me, so my new Shuffle arrives this week as they haven’t discontinued it and I might be the last person to buy one I guess.
58. Breaking ANY records by Barry Sanders is extraordinary, and what that McCaffrey kid did this year better get him a trip to New York at least.
59. That’s it for today. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.