I'm getting dressed to go out partying on New Year's Eve, you know, like I do every year. I've tentatively picked out an open-to-the-naval white shirt and my pimp suit pants. what do you think?
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
31-14.
Taking nothing away from PSU, the expanded college tackle football playoffs have been an absolute DUD. It never occurred to ME today that a playoff game was tonight. And the reason is, 12 schools is too many. Boise as a top seed? Tell that to Penn State. The games have been lop-sided: 38-24, 42-17, 38-10, 27-17 (It was like 27-3 late in the 4Q). Now the "Quarterfinal", 31-14. BORING!
PSU 24 Boizzee 14, 7:45 4Q
Boizzee has:
-never led
-fumbled twice, turnover once
-missed two field goals, the first on the opening possession of the game; the second a few minutes ago that would have made it a one score game
-has thrown an interception
OVERRATED!
HT PSU 17 Boizee 7
PSU's D has forced "Broncos" Heisman runner-up Ashton Jeanty into two fumbles, one that they recovered, and limited him to 39 yards on 13 carries.
"It's good to be talked about. Even better to be wanted, though. Remember that."
"It's a good question. Who knows? I don't. But right now, I'm here. So, I'm going to make the most of it. I am going to compete, and I am going to win. And that's all that I've got. It's a lot of talk. And it is a lot of noise, which I'm cool with. It doesn't bother me at all. I love that. I thrive in that. But it keeps all y'all wondering. It does. It keeps the world wondering, to where you've got to keep coming back and asking me about something. I like it. It's good to be talked about. Even better to be wanted, though. Remember that."
Jimmy Butler's long answer to the question, "Do you want to be in Miami?"
Didn't even know there was professorial tackle football today
Paterno-Sandusky 7 Boise St 0, 4:56 1Q (College Football Playoff) PSU a 11.5 point favorite.
FT Meeshagan 19 Bama (11) 13 (RateQuest Bowl).
FT Illinoise (20) 21 cocks (15) 17 (Cheez-It Bowl).
FT Looisville 35 Wershington 34 (Tony the Tiger Bowl).
FT ElleEsseEw 44 Baylor 31 (Kinder's Texas Bowl).
FT USA 30 UM (Malawi) 23 (Salute to Veterans Bowl).
Little Sleeping Beauty
She is the most beautiful, the most amazing creature. I cannot believe that I got her as a stray.
"Never ever never."
"I'll never ever tell him or anybody anything again never anything again. Never ever never." (182)
"Never, never tell them."
"Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again."
The Garden of Eden (181)
US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year
More than 5,000 fewer homicides have been recorded this year compared to 2023.
Cleveland is not Clevelanding
The "Cavaliers" wasted Golden State by the Bay last night 113-95, their 7W. They are an unfathomable 28-4.
Proposition: Trump is a transformational president. Agree or disagree?
Email me your answer if you wish: publocc@gmail.com.
I agree that Trump fits the definition of a transformational president. As Franklin D. Rosevelt and Ronald Reagan did in opposite ways, Trump transformed his party and transformed the American electorate.
Why?
Kamala Harris tried to ride the feel good vibe to the exclusion of policy proposals except on abortion into the White House. I thought at the time that it was a brilliant strategy that would work, like Jimmy Carter's did in 1976.
Kamala was criticized in her disastrous 2020 campaign for being "a messenger in search of a message". Thwt was, among, her problems this time, too.
She also played identity politics ineptly.
She gave voters no reason to vote for her except that she was not Donald Trump and, eventually not Joe Biden. Aside from identity, i.e. on policy, it was never clear how she was different from President Biden. There was no, or little, there there on policy. Fitting that she is from Oakland, about which that phrase originated.
I disavow nothing in toto that I have said in previous iterations of this post. Donald Trump is a uniquely dangerous elderly, dissipated man with a narcissistic personality. Kamala Harris was the starkly clear choice. Trump won principly because he played identity politics which appealed to over half of the voting public, an appeal rooted in America's ancient racism and sexism.
12/28 9:45 am:
Below ate the bullet points of a post I drafted on Nov. 6 at 5:51 pm. For reasons apparent I did not put meat to these bones. However, as with all normal beings who do their best thinking in the shower, for reasons known only to the creator of my species, I wish to add this bullet to the previous points:
-I don't know the answer to this question: Was Kamala Harris delegitimized to some extent by her undemocratic ascension? Chuck Schumer and Jim Clyburn wanted a mini-primary or some imprimatur of democratic legitimacy. Hillary Clinton suffered from "heir apparent" status although she competed in and won the democratic primaries and the nomination. Still, Americans gave the side eye to undemocratic super delegates who were ballast to her campaign. Jeb Bush had the same strike against him. On the one hand, democratic theory is that only democracy confers legitimacy on a leader. On the other, I don't know about you, but I personally have never considered my fellow Americans to be particularly theoretical types know what I mean? And on the other Kamala shot out of the gates like a rocket and Americans swooned at the shock and awe. She had a lead in the polls after the convention that, were they accurate, probably would have been enough to complete her ascension to the presidency. But on the first hand Americans don't like a Jamaican Black Southeast Asian woman being shoved down their throats; an old white guy they can swallow. It is for this last reason that, seeing my previous first bullet point (I haven't read the rest), I think racism and sexism was decisive.
Nov. 6, 5:51 pm
-Racism and sexism.
-Being in the out-crowd, wanting to be in the in-crowd.
-Gresham's Law. The Big Lie, repeated endlessly.
-non-stop campaigning vs Biden governing, not campaigning.
-structurally: failing to obey the political laws of the Trump era. For the third consecutive presidential election, the polls underestimated the Trump vote. The hidden Trump voter lives. To overcome the hidden Trump voter the Democrat must win (or lead in the polls) the national vote by 3-4 percent. Kamala never had that lead except briefly after she became the nominee. trumpie eating away at that lead until it became vanishingly small. I saw this, I wrote two weeks before the election that Kamala's lead had dropped beneath that line and that the race was "over", that trumpie would win. And then I convinced myself that it wasn't there, that her microscopic leads in the swing state polls were the numbers to see. I saw a "hidden hand" at work, Kamala's superior ground game, that would amplify those microscopic polling leads. It didn't settle with me. Saturday and Sunday I emptied my mind of all but football, tackle and short pants. When I thought about the election I didn't feel my pronouncements that Kamala would win in my gut. By late Monday afternoon my gut told me "trumpie will win", you're seeing things otherwise, and texted a friend and my (second) ex-wife asking them to make a predictions for the next day. "Trump", my friend texted back. "trump" I replied. To his "??" I responded, "trumpie will win". I then drove to get some pizza pie and convinced myself that Josh Shapiro would deliver Pennsylvania for Kamala (?). I texted my friend, "i changed my mind: I predict kamala will win."When the second unfortunate texted her prediction, "We will win" I responded, "i agree. kamala will win."
Monday, December 30, 2024
Sunday, December 29, 2024
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN COWTOWN!
T-Ro ejected
Amen Thompson ejected
Jalen Green ejected
Ime Udoka ejected
Ben Sullivan ejected
Herr-O ejected
That's SEVEN ejections counting Fleet VanFred's! I have never seen the like of this in a life of watching basketball...Well, Malice in the Palace.
TECHNICAL ON FLEET VANFRED TOO! HERR-O MAKES THE TECH, 99-94
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Great denial from Miami on the inbound from Houston
[That's Spo.]
Ends in a 5 second violation
Techs for VanVleet
Big turnaround for the Heat
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Cows FTO
Two of the best coaches in the game going at it tonight, Ime Udoka and, of course, Erik Spoelstra.
Cleveland's newspaper, the Plain-Dealer, is the WORST! They are clueless at how these two headlines, just today, come across:
With Browns draft position improving, can we trust this front office to pick the next quarterback?
Browns vs. Dolphins: Relive Week 17 as it happened
And then there's the fucking Man from Pluto. Does he have a brain cell in his cranium that triggers recognition that he has written this so many times that a Boomer on Miami Beach mocks him for it?
Browns fans, you deserve so much better than that.
No, he does not.
"The Dolphins could win every game and still somehow finish 8-8."
We will see coming up at the hour. The 7-8 "Dolphins" at the Cleveland Feces Color (3-12).
Now FORTY-nothing in Buffalo
Bulls putting in the subs. M. Trubisky with that last TD, 69-yard pass.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
HT Pigeons 61 Cold 45's 58
Starters:
D-Ro
Hi-Ho
Bam-O
Herr-O
JJJ
(most minutes played substitute Alec Burks for JJ)
HT Nebraska 13 BC Pigeons 2 Bad Boy Motors Bowl
I'm surprised at that. But you never know these days in college tackle football--a bunch of Pigeons may have flown the coop or sat out.
Also, UConn is tarring the "Heels" 27-7 in 4Q in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl.
What's gone wrong for Pep Guardiola after 499 Man City games
The question on millions of minds. Let's see what this guy, Bill Connelly, says.
...as he approaches his 500th match in charge at Manchester Cityon Sunday, Pep Guardiola is being confronted with so many problems that he hasn't faced since the very beginning of his tenure. ...
Guardiola's first City team in 2016-17 was a bit of a mess. ...But the squad itself had been allowed to grow stale before Guardiola's arrival, ...
Now, after 499 matches, City's current problems seem awfully familiar. ...11 [players] are 29 or older, four are 22 or under and only four -- forward Erling Haaland, midfielders Phil Foden and Matheus Nunes and defender Rúben Dias -- are close to what you might call the prime age range. ...Injury and staleness have helped to derail a season that has seen some high notes and a 14-match unbeaten streak to start the season...
...
The 16,000-minute club
Eleven players have recorded more than 16,000 minutes for Guardiola at City.
- Éderson, GK: 31,177 minutes
- Bernardo Silva, MF/FW: 26,702 mins
- Kevin De Bruyne, MF: 26,367 mins
- Kyle Walker, DF: 25,626 mins
- Ilkay Gündogan, MF: 22,704 mins
- Raheem Sterling, FW: 22,072 mins
- Rodri, MF: 20,555 mins
- John Stones, DF: 20,036 mins
- Fernandinho, MF: 18,216 mins
- Phil Foden, MF/FW: 18,092 mins
- Rúben Dias, DF: 16,356 mins
Of these 11, nine (in bold) are still with the club. Five of these nine are at least 30 years old, three are at least 33, and six were added in just a 13-month span...
What I have thought from afar: staleness is a key culprit. There is much more to this amazing article, the vacuum at center-back post-Fernandinho and Rodri is the fulcrum of the trouble. Superb article by Connelly that explains a lot.
Personally, I think it would be a great idea, and I'm sure UMG would agree, that the Gardeners ought to have a permanent contractual obligation to appear in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. After all, the game,
...was first played in 1990 in Miami Gardens, Florida, before moving to Orlando in 2001. The game has tie-ins with the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Big 12 Conference. (Wiki)😂
Friday, December 27, 2024
This has always been 601 Biscayne bullshit
The Heat said Friday that Jimmy Butler will remain in Miami for the final two games of their road trip...the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday and...the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
The team is citing competition reconditioning as the reason for Butler's absence, the same explanation for why he missed its win over the Orlando Magic on Thursday.
...
Butler twisted an ankle in Miami's loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder last Friday. He missed the remainder of that game and the next two Heat games -- at the Magic on Saturday and against the Brooklyn Nets on Monday -- but with illness, not the ankle, cited as the reason.
First ankle, then illness for OKC game a week ago. Then "stomach illness" for Orlando Dec. 21 (didn't even travel with team) and Rust at home, Dec. 23; then "competition reconditioning" for Orlando Dec. 26. Query: how much reconditioning does a professional athlete need after said reconditioning already kept him out of one game? Apparently three games reconditioning is what the doctor, undoubtedly Dr. James Butler, ordered.
This is the truth: Jimmy is tilted and has become a distraction to the other players and the coaches. That's what Pat Riley wrote in his statement just yesterday. You don't miss five consecutive games with an ankle tweak, an upset tummy and the need for "competition reconditioning."
HT Manny Hatty 54-54 Disney
Orlando is an intriguing team. Lost their tyoo best players to the same injury, came back from 20-something down to beat us, then beat Beans. Then gave up a two-touchdown 1Q lead and lost to us the other night. Apples should win this one...don't tell me, let me guess the line, um Apples -4.5. 6.5. Not bad, don't play What's My Line in the Association.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Maybe there is but I doubt it.
Psychologists, even sports writers, observing and assessing Manchester City 24 hours a day. Steve Blass disease does not affect an entire team. This is sudden onset something, some team-wide paychological thing. City are one of the greatest soccer teams of all time. This just does not happen and nothing like it ever has happened previously, I am quite sure. It is a phenomenon that needs investigation.
Jimmy
Jimmy Butler did not travel with the Miami Heat to Orlando...
...
Butler, 35, is doubtful for Thursday’s game in Orlando because of what the team has listed as “return to competition reconditioning” after missing the previous two games with a stomach illness.
...nobody has denied that he is unhappy. Butler’s relationship with the team has become somewhat strained in recent months.
...
According to multiple sources, Butler has been disappointed with the Heat primarily because Miami declined to give him a two-year, $113 million contract extension this past summer, a deal that would have run through the 2026-27 season. ...
After the Heat did not quickly agree to an extension this past offseason, Butler decided to play out this season and exercise his option to become a free agent this upcoming summer. That remains his intention, sources said.
What happened a month and a half ago?
Football is about winning, scoring goals and not conceding, and always we've done it until the last month and a half. Now we're not able to do it."--Pep
It's like Steve Blass disease.
Ibid
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