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Here we are again....Monday's seem to come some quickly...We really need to go to a four day work week, because Saturday and Sunday just aren't enough time...Especially if you have a lady like Rosie Jones (above) in your bed...
But this Monday is different...After more than a few years, sadly, I have to say goodbye to my Monday blog partner, B-Dub...If you didn't know, he has excepted an opportunity to do more writing and social media work for a Carolina Panthers site...They've offered him a 100% raise from what he makes at the Gab...Congrats partner!
Many years back at Sporting News, B-Dub was one of the first guys to welcome and support me there...When I took heat for the times I got off the sports topic, he pointed me to Blogspot, where he also had a blog....Then after TSN was going to hell in a hand basket...After much poking, he convinced me to join The Gab...The rest is history...Through blogging, and social media, and phone calls, we've gotten to know each other pretty well...Brad is great guy, and a great friend, and I'd do anything for him...I wish him all the best...The Gab will miss him...
Now, on with the show...
-This past week started out shitty, as far as news goes...Especially on CNN! The whole Steubenville case is disgusting, and the way the media handled it, made it even worse...Then there was more awful news Friday...News that really makes me question our society...My first thought was WHAT_THE_FUCK!
-Besides that, there was some sports news that pissed me off...Local sports news...Cleveland Browns fans were upset when return specialist Josh Cribbs left when the free agent frenzy started...Me, I'm happy to see him go...Way too much money was spent on a guy who had a few years as an elite return man...He was also a top kick coverage man...but both those parts of his game started to slip...And as a WR he has been a work in progress...With little progress...
Then kicker Phil Dawson left for the City by the Bay...Let me say this...Thank God they didn't use the Franchise tag on their kicker, again! Yes, he is an excellent kicker, but if losing your return man and kicker is going to devastate your fan-base, let alone your team...Then your team has problems...Serious problems...
-Now I know this week people have been fired up and all into "March Madness"...Me, not so much...But I have been following some NCAA action....This past weekend the college hockey's conference tournaments were played, helping to setup their 16 team tourney...
In the Final CCHA tournament The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame beat Ohio State 3-1 Saturday, pitting the Irish against rival Michigan for the last ever CCHA Championship....The Irish continued their hot streak, beating Michigan 3-1, and clinching one of the top 4 seeds in NCAA Tournament...This is how the NCAA Hockey Tourney has setup...
Providence
Dunkin Donuts Center
Saturday, 5:30 and 9 p.m. (ET), Sunday, 6:30 p.m.
1. Quinnipiac vs. 16. Canisius
6. Boston College vs. 12. Union
Grand Rapids
Van Andel Arena
Friday, 2 and 5:30 p.m. (ET), Saturday, 4 p.m.
2. Minnesota vs. 15. Yale
8. North Dakota vs. 10. Niagara
Manchester
Verizon Wireless Center
Friday, 4:30 and 8 p.m. (ET), Saturday, 6:30 p.m.
3. Mass.-Lowell vs. 14. Wisconsin
7. New Hampshire vs. 9. Denver
Toledo
Huntington Center
Saturday, 1:30 and 5 p.m. (ET), Sunday, 4 p.m.
4. Notre Dame vs. 13. St. Cloud State
5. Miami vs. 11. Minnesota State
-Things here are still crazy...More crap has come up with the in-laws issues...It seems like every time where making head-way, something else goes wrong...Hopefully we can get it all resolved soon...It's been tough on the kids with my wife making so many trips to Erie...Hell, it's been tough on me...2 parents, 3 kids...Zone defense can be tough, but it's even harder when it's just one of you...But there was a moment Saturday that was just great, that made us forget about all the crap for a few minutes...
Molly had been upset all week because the nail polish my mother put on her toes had worn away/washed off...She kept telling me "Toes not happy" with an adorable pouty face...So when my wife got home Saturday evening, I ordered some food, the kids got ready to watch the Kids Choice Awards, and my wife painted Molly's toe nails...Afterwards she shouted, "Yay, toes happy!" She showed each of us, and told us, "Toes Happy!" She won't even let us cover her toes with a blanket while she's sleeping...Sh e kicks them free, because "Toes happy!"
It kind of put everything into perspective for me...
Have a week...
The Beeze.
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I don't know about you, but I could use a vacation right now...I'm betting I wouldn't be able to come back after a vacation with her...
So things here in Beezeland went from bad, to worse...After all those family issues I addressed in the past couple weeks I thought we were getting back on track...But late last Sunday night we got a call...Late night phone calls are never good...My father-in-law had a stroke at some restaurant...He snuck out...Took the car we just helped my mother-in-law get...Wouldn't leave the place when they were trying to close...Wasn't making sense...Wouldn't show ID...The police were called...he had a stroke....FUCK!
My wife spent the week there in Erie, PA...Her sisters came in from Boston...They spent the week dealing with the family's screwed up financial situation...My father-in-law's Alzheimer's screwed stuff up bad...They were back and forth to the banks, hospital, checking out assisted living places, talking to lawyers...Non-stop headaches, while also trying to keep their mother calm, and worrying about their father's health...
My wife came home Friday wiped out, and knowing she'll have to be heading back within the next couple weeks to finish dealing with this stuff, and cleaning out the house ...They have my in-laws getting setup to go into an assisted living home...The rest of what is going on I won't get into...So much crap, and so many details...
The kids were thrilled to have her home, and so was I...Molly welcomed her with an overloaded, shit filled diaper...As soon as my wife was done cleaning her up, and before she could get a new diaper on...Molly stood up, and pissed on the carpet, right at her feet...'Welcome home Mom! Think about that next time you leave!' I had to laugh....She's been very clingy to mom all weekend...
You would think that this is where I would get into the sports talk...I'll try...
The only bit of sports I saw this past week was the Notre Dame/Western Michigan hockey game Friday night...The Irish lost the 3-3 battle in the 6th round of a shootout...But the game goes in the national standing as a tie...The Irish play in the CCHA right now...The only conference that goes to a shootout...But the CCHA will be gone after this year...The Big Ten will have their own Hockey conference ripping Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, from the CCHA, and Minnesota and Wisconsin from the WCHA...They will all be joined but Penn State's young program...
6 WCHA teams, Colorado College, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, and St. Cloud State, along with Miami (Ohio) and Western Michigan will form the NCHC (National Collegiate Hockey Conference)...
The WCHA will stay alive with Alaska-Anchorage, Bemidji State, Michigan Tech, and Minnesota State...They'll add CCHA teams, Alaska, (that never made sense anyways) Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Northern Michigan, and Bowling Green...
Notre Dame will be heading to the college hockey power house conference, Hockey East...
Are you asleep yet!?!
I have to say, what I've paid a lot of attention to, besides my kids has been this whole Pope stepping down thing...I had watched the HBO documentary MEA_MAXIMA_CULPA...It's all about the Catholic Church's sex scandal, and how a group of deaf guys really blew the story up and got it out there...It also shows how the Pope and the guy before him need to be held accountable...
This pic should have been a warning sign that this guy was no good!
I've been going to religion classes with my two oldest kids for 6 months while they go through the Rite of Catholic Intiation...When we had our oldest, many churches wouldn't baptize her because we didn't get married in the church...So we blew it off until this year when they started at Catholic school...The Pastor there is cool, and has been helpful...During the Easter Vigil Mass they'll be Baptized, make their first confession, and first Communion...
I'm not a real pro-church guy, but the Catholic education I got was good...And their's has been great so far...And I like the idea of having some help giving them their moral compass...They don't have to buy into it all if they don't want...I didn't...we just want to give them a start...
But from all that I have seen, and been reading, the Church is a lot like our government...It's broken at the top...and upper management...and middle management...While it's little parishes, and small church groups that are doing the right things, and the heavy lifting...If any of this interests you, seriously, watch that documentary...It's great, and horrifying, eye-opening, and excellent.
If you aren't interested in any of this...Sorry...It's what I got this week...Told ya I need a vacation! Maybe check THIS out...It just won the Oscar for best Documentary!
Have a week...
The Beeze.
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Well, I hope everyone had a good Valentine's weekend...I'm sure it wasn't as much fun as it would have been with these two! But hey, we can dream...
Sunday was billed as Hockey Day in America...They've been trying to hype this for a few years now, and I'm glad...Hockey, not just the NHL does not get the coverage and respect it deserves in the media...And while NBC aired 3 games and talked about the true spirit of Hockey, and the love of pond hockey, it was college hockey that got the closest to pond hockey...
Sunday #12 Notre Dame and #3 Miami (Ohio) squared off at Soldier field for some nice cold, outdoor hockey in the "Hockey City Classic"...
Now we've gotten use to the NHL's Winter Classic, which was lost this year...In these out door games, ice is always an issue...But of all the games, this one seemed to have some real pond hockey ice...The ice rough, slow, and snowy...All that favored Notre Dame, as Miami is a team that relies on their excellent team speed and stretch passing...Notre Dame pulled out a 2-1 victory...
But the Hockey wasn't done there...After the Irish victory, rivals Wisconsin and Minnesota laced them up, as the "Hockey City Classic" was a double-header...
The 18th ranked Badgers topped the 2nd ranked Gophers 3-2...I know I'm in a minority here, but if you're not following college hockey, you're missing out on some great hockey, and a great atmosphere...We often talk and hear about the atmosphere around college football and basketball...That same great atmosphere surrounds hockey as well.
And since I'm talking about hockey...If you aren't paying attention to the NHL, you're missing out on something impressive...So far, in this shortened season, where every game is going to matter so much more then ever before, the Chicago Blackhawks have a 12-0-3 record...They haven't lost a game in regulation...They've earned at least a point in the standings, every game...They've done it in both ends...Lots of offensive skill, but also rock solid defense, and excellent goaltending...This is the team to beat...if you can...
In the News of Useless People, Shitty Country singer Mindy McCready killed herself Sunday...McCready had one successful album...But became more well known for having an affair with Roger Clemens, that started when she was 15...Struggling with drug abuse, and depression, she attempted suicide multiple times, including while pregnant with both of her kids...She finally got it right this time...Hard up for money/attention she released a video of her banging some dude and talking about banging Clemens...She also did a stint on Dr. Drew's celebrity rehab....Boy does that guy suck...At least half the people on that show relapse, or die...
I'm talking about this because it's the last thing I saw before I started writing...Saw it on a facebook link from Buzzfeed...I felt the need to drop my two cents in...
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Of course, people didn't like this, and how judgemental I am, and decided to inform me that I was the awful person, not this shitty junkie...One women wrote this to me...
"that's a lot of judgement from a person who gets all there info about a person from the news. Do you know anything about celebrity or the public eye? Harsh words and full of judgment. Not nice. People like you are who probably fed her drug abuse and led her to such pain. I would only say this, not nice. Truly a gross statement. Look in the mirror ..................perfect?"
So I came back with this...
"No, I'm not perfect...But I'm not a junkie either...Nor have tried to kill myself multiple times...Mindy however did....Don't try and blame me because this gash couldn't handle celebrity...She put herself in the spotlight, not me...I didn
Then a women named Carrie Parker called me an "asshole" and a "pile of shit"...
So I said,
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Then I was called "ignorant, insensitive, unenlightened, dense...fool!" who sickens people, while Mindy McCready was called a "poor tortured soul."
So I said, "
There were a couple people on my side...One woman saying, "If you can't handle life, don't create life twice." Damn right!
The thing is, we spend way too much time giving a shit about celebrities...It's stupid...But even worse is giving a shit about the ones who weren't good people...Weren't much of a celebrity...And didn't even want to live...I feel like an asshole giving this much time to this twat who didn't give a damn about her kids or herself...But maybe it will help us see that we just waste too much time on these ass-hats!
That's it for now...Have a week...
The Beeze.
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I'm not a fan of Sports Illustrated, but I don't mind their cover girl!
Let me start this week by saying, I try not t o hold back when I write...My personal feelings and life are always front and center in my blogs...But I'll be honest...I've been holding some things back for awhile...Since around Thanksgiving my wife has been dealing with a bacterial infection called C._diff...It was brought on by of all things, an antibiotic...She had been on this medicine for about 20 days to get rid of an infection in a tooth that needed work...When she got a serious rash, and then the horrible stomach issues, she remembered reading the info from the pharmacy, and how it could cause such things, including death...Wow, just the drug I want to take...
There were too many tests, and too much waiting....And too much reading about C.diff...Like THIS...The idea of a fecal transplant grossed out my wife, but being the good guy that I am, I offered to shit down her throat!
Finally late in January, it was confirmed and she was prescribed medicine that often fixes the problem...If not totally, it can manage it...She just finished the meds, and things seem to be okay...Within two days of being on the medicine, the shit-fest had stopped...So that is looking better now...Just in time for family troubles...As if the stress of work, and kids, and dealing with that wasn't enough, her father who has been dealing with dementia, and Alzheimer's, has gotten really bad...Last time we were there, he was asking where Molly came from...Has no recollection of her...My wife's mother is slowly losing some things upstairs too...The stress of dealing with my father in law has been wearing on her too...And then her brother had a car wreck, which lead to us finding out that he had a bit of a legal issue...
We spent too much time this week figuring out what was going on, and cleaning up his mess...She spent Saturday in PA. dealing with things, while I stayed home with the kids...Next she has to get with her sisters and figure out the next move for what to do about their folks...It's been a real pain in the ass...
Plus my cracked up ribs are still killing me...And I clearly wrenched something in my back during my spill, because I've been having muscle spasms that hurt like a bitch...So things have sucked lately...I'm only writing about it now, because I needed to get it off my chest, and I feel like I've been distant and distracted when it comes to writing...I can't bitch to my wife...This is all 10 times harder on her...
Okay...So, there was a positive in the sports world...Notre Dame swept Michigan in hockey this weekend...Sweeping Michigan in anything, is always good!
In other sports news...The media was all buzzing about "The Paterno Report" that was released Sunday morning...I called bullshit right away...This report was paid for by the Paterno family...Done by people who were supporters of Paterno...2 were donors to PSU...This for the Paterno lovers, by the Paterno lovers...There is no way you can expect honesty in it...Nor should it have gotten any air time at all...Mrs. Paterno, maybe Joe never told you shit, but he knew Sandusky was a piece of shit, and he kept a lid on it, and let the child molesting and raping continue...Please lady, shut the fuck up...Your husband was an asshole....And all those still holding onto their blind loyalty to him are looking like assholes too...
There's a link to the stupid Paterno family site on the Q-o-t-D....
I watched the Grammy's Sunday night...There were some good performances, but I found it sad that most of the awards were given earlier...So many people not getting their time, while CBS couldn't stop showing us Taylor Swift singing and dancing to everyone who performed...And I'd love it if they actually put some performers on stage that we haven't seen countless times before...Sure the hipster, folksy guys get their time this year, but that will be that for awhile...But enough with Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Elton John...That old Queen at the piano reading the lyrics...Christ!
And acting like Justin Timberlake is the greatest musician ever, and we all have missed him so desperately while he's been acting...Yuck!
Jack White, please stop trying so hard to be the Johnny Depp of rock & roll...You're so fucking unique and cooler then everyone else...You're not! and Johnny Depp owned the Viper Room, hard to get cooler then that...And I can play average, loud distorted guitar, and chuck it at the end too...Not impressed!
This week, I leave you with this...
Have a week...
The Beeze.
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'You're fucking kidding me right?'
Seriously, Katie Couric had to be thinking those very words repeatedly as she interviewed the dope known as Manti Te'o...
I know people are sick of this topic...Shit, I'm tired of it too...But I've spent my life as a loyal Notre Dame fan...I was a huge Te'o supporter...Then this crazy story broke...If I'm going to write about the good things, and I'm going to pound on other people I feel are assholes, I have to do the same in this case, or I'm just being a tool...
The last week and change I've been tough on Te'o, and I felt he was in on this whole hoax thing...I couldn't believe that some one could get duped as bad as he says he did...Well during his interview that aired Thursday, he admitted to lying about meeting his fake girlfriend...He lied be cause he was embarrassed...He also admitted to continuing to talk about the story of his dead, fake girlfriend after he realized he was played for a fool...He felt the story of him battling through the heartache and pain of losing the love of his life "was an inspiration to many people", and he felt he was doing "good" by continuing with that...
Sure, it had nothing to do with all the media attention...The media attention that helped push a linebacker to finishing second for the Heisman...Let's be honest, if this whole, dead girlfriend just 6 hours after his grandmother died story didn't happen, he wouldn't have been in New York for the Heisman ceremonies...He still would have had a great season, but the media wouldn't have latched on to him and his story, and how the whole Notre Dame community rallied around him...
There were many things that bothered me about watching this interview...1. I watched it...2. I watched it a second time, just to try and wrap my head around it...3.There are just too many things that don't make sense, to how he couldn't have figured out he was being pranked...4. Notre Dame and loyal fans have always prided ourselves on the high academic standards, including those for athletes....So how is this kid so fucking stupid!?! If all of this was a hoax pulled on him, he's an idiot...Katie at multiple times just looked at Te'o in shock...And when they got to the part where his fake girlfriend woke up from her comma, on the phone with him, and then shortly after found out she had leukemia, Couric said, "You have to be the most naive person alive, or this is the most horrible story ever written."
She asked if this was all a plot to cover up him being gay...Which of course he responded intensely, proclaiming that there was no way he was gay...I thought he was about to say I get a different woman every night, I'll take you now.' But if he's such a man, why is he in love with a girl he's never seen, touched, or smelled, let alone finger-banged, dry-humped, or even penetrated...I'm not saying he's gay, but there is still a missing piece to this puzzle...Opie, from Opie and Anthony has offered $25000 to the first woman/girl who can prove she had sex with manti Te'o...That's how not convincing he was!
They played voice mails, that were supposedly a guy pretending to be a his girlfriend...Everyone was like, "that sounds like a girl." No it sounded like tranny doing his best girl voice...
Even if he wasn't directly involved in this hoax...In his own way, he played a role...he played along...He embellished the story of his love affair...He used it to his advantage to get more media attention...Not that a good Notre Dame football player really needs to push that hard for media attention...His father said Manti "isn't a liar, he's just a kid." Huh, that's odd, because in the interview, he admitted to lying to his father...And at 21 you're not a kid...Sorry, you're fucking adult...You can drink a beer, and you've been eligible to go to war for a few years at that point...Stop coddling your kid...And Manti, grow the fuck up, and screw a real woman...
I hate to say it...But I don't like anything about Te'o anymore...He seems shady, or really fucking dumb...I can do without both...I don't believe him....I'm not drinking what he's spilling...
But believe me people..There is still something more, and twisted about this whole idiotic story to come out...
The Beeze.
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