Tiger and Von, not a well kept secret, World Baseball Classic, NCAA Tournament in this weeks edition of…
Man this overtime at work is draining my batteries.
Working flat mail that has to be manually sorted and my eyes are hurting.
So Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are an item. Woods posted the following on Facebook:
``This season has been great so far and I'm happy with my wins at Torrey and Doral. Something nice that's happened off the course was meeting Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey and I have been friends for some time, but over the last few months we have become very close and are now dating.''
On Vonn’s Facebook page she stated”
``I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods. Our relationship evolved from a friendship into something more over these past few months and it has made me very happy.''
All they wanted to do was make the public aware that they were dating and that everything else is private between the two. I don't think it worked.
It is a disgrace that the United States did not even make it to the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic. There is just too much talent. I know the $$$’s that ballplayers make, make the decision hard as to avoid injury.
Changes need to be made to the classic.
I must of missed something in my geography class back in the day when I went to school. Can someone explain how San Jose, California is part of the East Regional. I could understand if I lived in Alaska that maybe that would work, because its East of where I live. Here is more stupidity: How about Philadelphia, Pa. in the South? Austin, Texas in the East? Dayton, Ohio in the West? Be real, the NCAA college basketball selection committee had to smoking some funny stuff.
Got to give props to the Miami Heat. They were getting beat pretty bad by the Cavaliers. Down by 27 points the Heat pulled it out.
It will be a long season for the New York Yankees. There pitching better hold up, otherwise a long season will become even longer. They have the chance to finish last in the Division. Its been a long time since that happened.
Do the Houston Astros really have a chance? Nah.
I think the Tampa Bay Rays need to think about relocating to another City or State. They have a good team but no fan support.
Nothing would please me more than to see the Los Angeles Dodgers not make the playoffs. $$$ can't by happiness.
It's New Year's Eve...2012 is coming to an end...What will we remember this 2012 for? A year with crazy weather...Intense heat waves...Wild fires and droughts...Extreme tornadoes...Epic storms...Yep, that all happened in 2012...What else? The world didn't end right before Christmas, as many thought the Mayans predicted...Though there were many lives lost just before Christmas...The mall shooting in Oregon...The horrific massacre at Sandy Hook changed so many lives, and as an outsider looking in, it really shook me up...
But the shooting didn't stop there...Another nut-job randomly opened fire in PA shortly after...followed by an asshole who set a house on fire Christmas Eve, in NY just to open fire on the fire fighters...But in that time from December 14th up to Christmas, there were over 60 people shot in Chicago, and the media seems to ignore that...Mental health and gun control debates were sparked because these events along with the Colorado movie theater shooting...Maybe we'll be able to remember 2013 for being the year that there was some serious change to prevent these acts from being some common...
In 2012 we saw the legacy of Joe Paterno shattered...And we saw the monster know as Jerry Sandusky locked up after years of abusing and raping kids, and years of Penn State officials and Paterno covering it up, and letting it continued...And while the media was so proud to cover this story, they turned a blind eye to THIS horrible story...ESPN didn't say shit about it until more than a month after I did...Speaking of ESPN...After trying to act like the PSU watch dog, they turned around and aired every PSU football game this year...Scumbags!
In 2012 Ron Santo was finally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...Too bad it was two years after he died...That place can burn...I'm sure Santo was happy, but he deserved to deliver that speech himself...
What else happened? The Hostess Company went in the tank...No more Twinkies...Who the hell saw that coming?
Art Modell died, and people in Cleveland still hate him, and really lack a clue about how important he was to the NFL...I tried to set them straight HERE...
Speaking of death...in 2012 we saw the LA Kings win the Stanley Cup...And since then, we've been watching the NHL kill itself...
From the looks of it, in 2013 we'll see a number of NFL teams with new head coaches...Including the Browns...
We found out Lance Armstrong was full of SHIT or PEDS...
I started fighting my fight for DADS to start getting some credit...
We saw a big hype about getting that Kony guy...Where are you #Kony2012 people...Fucking guy is still out there...You haven't done shit have you?
At least the Occupy people lasted a little longer...They showed some conviction...But then they gave up too...Hard to have movement bring any real change, if your movement lacks leadership and direction...And when the media only shows the wack-job wannabe hippies, no one takes you seriously...
In 2012 my kids turned 11, 8, and 2...Holy crap time flies...But it's been fun...They have been the biggest part of my life this year...Going ice skating with them during Browns games may have been the smartest thing I've done...And this weekend, with all the snow we got, we mixed in some sledding too...
Watch him at the bottom of the hill in this next one...
I love hearing my wife in the background, laughing as she says she's "gonna kill him"...We're the best parents!
2012 has had a lot of ups, and probably even more downs...I've seen people wishing the year away...I can't do that...Try to learn from the bad spots, and cherish the great stuff...And one of those great things I'll hold onto is Notre Dame going undefeated in 2012...And hopefully next week, they'll start 2013 with a win...Fuck Sports Illustrated and their prediction...Fuck the haters...Notre Dame is going to make Alabama earn every point they get...And all you Alabama/SEC people, and ND haters are going to be surprised when the Irish win it all...
My prediction is 2013 is going to be a good year...
Yeah, that's the best thing you're going to see at a Arizona State game this year!
So this is my predictions for how the conferences will shake out this season in college football...This is based entirely on my own opinions, from my years of sitting on my ass and watching football, as well as sitting on the toilet and reading up on as much college football news as I can...
Let's start with the Big-Ten...
No, it won't be Ohio State and Michigan...Ohio State isn't even eligible for the Big-Ten Championship...Penn State is also ineligible...First we'll start with the "Leaders" division...Yes, the Big-Ten named their divisions, "Leaders" and "Legends"...I had no idea Twats and Douchebags was already taken...
Leaders 1. Wisconsin 2. Ohio State 3. Illinois 4. Penn State 5. Purdue 6. Indiana
Wisconsin has the most talent, right now and their division is weak...Ohio State will do okay, but will still be adjusting to Urban Meyer football, which is a lot different from Jim Tressel ball...Well, except for the criminals, and cheating parts!
I have to say this...I can't wait for Saturday, to watch the Ohio University Bobcats beat up Penn State in not-so-"Happy Valley!"
Seriously, why are they still playing football at Minnesota? That program is a joke...The most important game on the schedule is Michigan at Nebraska on October 27th...The winner of that game will take the division, and I'm putting my money on the 'Huskers...And I'll take Nebraska over Wisconsin in the conference Championship game...
Okay, this conference is in a sad state...This is the year B.J. Daniels and USF put it all together...Louisville heads to Rutgers the last week of the season...That will decide 2nd place, and I'm taking Rutgers D over Louisville's QB Teddy Bridgewater, who is getting a bit of hype...Syracuse will be up slightly, while Pitt slides...Temple, UConn, stick to Basketball.
Moving from the Big lEast, will go next to the slightly better, ACC...
Atlantic 1. Clemson 2. Florida State 3. Wake Forest 4. NC State 5. Maryland 6. Boston College
Yep, I'm taking Clemson over the over-hyped FSU...Clemson is loaded at the skill positions, and has a solid defense...Wake Forest will be up this year...Boston College is clearly focusing solely on Hockey...
Coastal 1. Virginia Tech 2. Georgia Tech 3. North Carolina 4. Miami 5. Virginia 6. Duke
No surprise here...VT is always in it...UNC has some good talent, but they're still learning about football there...Duke, still hasn't figured it out! Tech will take the conference Championship game, well, since Clemson never seems to win a big game.
Well, now we should get to the most loved, and hated conference out there...
The SEC...
Oh, were looking for some Southern Fried Hottie...Sorry about that...I just thought in this world of hyped QB's, people should get use to seeing AJ McCarron...McCarron will be leading Alabama to the SEC Championship game...There's no doubt the West will be a battle between 'Bama and LSU...The Tide have the better all-around team, and the better QB...It's theirs to lose...
West 1. Alabama 2. LSU 3. Arkansas 4. Auburn 5. Miss State 6. Texas A&M 7. Ole Miss
East 1. Georgia 2. South Carolina 3. Missouri 4. Florida 5. Tennessee 6. Vanderbilt 7. Kentucky
Georgia is loaded, and there toughest competition is South Carolina, which they'll take care of, because Spurrier seems to find ways to lose...Mizzou, Florida, Tenn, and Vandy are in a log jam...Kentucky...Another Basketball school still trying to figure out this pesky Football...I'll take Alabama over Georgia in the Conference Championship game.
Now it's time for the Big-12...
1. Oklahoma 2. Kansas State 3. Texas 4. TCU 5. West Virginia 6. Oklahoma State 7. Baylor 8. Texas Tech 9. Kansas 10. Iowa State
To me, Oklahoma is a no-brainer...Just a loaded team...2nd and 3rd will be decided December 1st when Texas visits K-State...Texas' defense will keep them in the hunt this year, but I'm gambling on Collin Klein and Kansas State to shake things up...West Virginia will realize they're not in the Big East anymore...
Now, we'll end with the Pac-12...
North 1. Oregon 2. Washington 3. Stanford 4. Washington State 5. California 6. Oregon State
You can't go against Oregon and their high-octane attack...They're loaded with talent on both sides of the ball...Washington is going to compete, and scare some people...Washington State is going to surprise people, and if they get a bit of luck, they could pull out an upset or two...
Yeah, I hate USC, but you gotta except that they're a powerhouse...The rest of the division, flip a coin...It's just a bunch of average, with the exception the steaming pile of crap known as Colorado...Sad what has happened to that program...
The Pac-12 is a two team race, and it looks to be the same two teams for awhile...Oregon and USC just keep reloading, and the rest of the conference can't keep up...As good as I know USC is, I'm going to put my money on Oregon, in the conference championship game...Hopefully Notre Dame LB, Manti Te'o will take Matt Barkley out on November 24th, to help out the Ducks...
I know the smaller conference fans will give me shit if I don't give them love, so real quick here...Boise State takes the Mountain West...Fresno State, and Wyoming will push them, and we'll see major improvement from Colorado State...
Ohio will take the MAC East, while Bowling Green gives them a good push...Toledo will take the MAC West in a tight battle with Western Michigan...The OU Bobcats will beat the Rockets in the Championship game...
Houston will take the Conference USA Championship after beating UCF...Tulsa is the only other team with a shot, except they have to deal with Houston's non-stop offense...And we'll give the Sunbelt to Arkansas State...Does anyone follow the Sunbelt?
Now that looks like a Summer Vacation I could be down with!
Yes, this week Monday Moaning is on the road...Coming to you from Erie Pennsyltucky! We headed in Friday, to my in laws...Where my wife's sister, her son, and my wife's two cousins, and their kids, were waiting for us...We spent Friday night shooting the shit and just hanging out...I had just had a long, hot day at work, so I didn't feel like doing much but sleeping anyways...
My sister-in-law has a son the same age as Little Beeze, so it was great that he had a buddy, but we knew sooner or later there would be a meltdown...Well, the meltdown climaxed with my son throwing a handful of Lego's' that drilled my nephew in the head...Earlier they had disagreement about whether if some toy existed or not...So that had my little Irish boy hot under the collar...It was just a typical 7 year old boy dick swinging contest, and then some Lego's were taken, and some "Dude, I was using that!" Then some got thrown down, and then some more got thrown down, but just into a head....Great times ahead!
The next morning Little Beeze was messing with his big sister and second cousin...He ended up getting hit in the face with a toy...It hurt him a bit, so he went all out, and threw a hair brush...So after injuring 2 people in less then 24 hours, he was in my dog-house big time...
Just a little while later we all went to Waldameer Amusement Park...I not a fan of places like this, but you know...It's all about the kids...I gladly took baby duty...There's limited rides for kids her age, but Molly was happy just cruising around in the little boats...Plus, we always seem to hit places like this, right when she needs a nap...After a hour and change, she crashed in the stroller...When 3:00 PM hit, I was just trying to get out of there...The rain was holding off all day, and it wasn't going to last much longer...Plus I just wanted to check-in to our hotel, and relax a bit...I mentioned the rain a second ago...Very odd how we've been having a hot as hell Summer with no rain...Then we show up to Erie, and it's cold and rainy...I was just waiting for some snow to blow in Sunday!
Saturday night, we finally got the kids to sleep...I watched the 4x100 relay, because track is about the only Summer Olympic stuff I'll watch...The U.S. came out strong, and had the lead, but Jamaica came on during the 3rd leg...And the anchor finished them off...Yep, Usain Bolt again lived up to all the hype...Normally I couldn't stand a guy that loves himself as much as Bolt...But shit, he's the fastest man alive...Dude may be a dick, but he's the dick you want on your team...
After that, I was laying in bed watching some show on Discovery proving that mermaids exist...I'll have to dig into that some more...I finally crash around midnight...Then some time just after 1:00 AM, the hotel's fire alarms start blasting...I grabbed the baby, wrapped her in a blanket, and covered her ears...I'm standing in the doorway looking back at the rest of my family...The boy, out cold...The oldest girl, awake but unaware...And my wife sitting on the bed saying, "What is that?"
Okay, it was the loudest fucking annoying sound I had ever heard...What the hell could it be...So I yelled, "It's the fucking fire alarm! Get the kids!" She came to, and get them up...The boy still not giving a shit...As she got closer, I told her to grab my glasses, and a key...She also grabbed her purse...Luckily since it had car keys in it, so we could keep the kids warm...About 20 minutes later the Calvary arrived...
Kind of sad that we had to wait 20 minutes...
Even more sad is that they broke out two fire houses for a little patch of mulch that caught fire outside, from a cigarette...It was right next to the elevator equipment, and some how gut sucked in...I could have pissed on it, and put it out...By 2:00AM we were allowed back in...
Sunday we were going to be headed to the Erie Zoo...So I went to target and got a sweat shirt for each of the kids...This cold and rainy shit is for the birds...We hit the Zoo...It's small, so it's great for kids...Okay, it use to be great for kids...But over the past few years they have had a number of the animals die...And then half of the ones we saw looked like they were going to die...The Ape, or chimp or whatever, had blood all over it's area...lots of blood...Then the Leopard sounded asthmatic, and kept puking...The one Black Bear looked like it was going to kill itself...None of the monkeys were doing any of that wacky monkey shit you always see them do...The kangaroos had a bit of hop left in them...Ha, get it!
I always thought zoo's were depressing and cruel places, and this joint validated that feeling...
Molly's favorite was the Penguins...
The were very friendly, and there was one that was very playful, even though their tank looked dirty and funky...And yes, Mom got her a stuffed Penguin at the gift shop...The gift shop which was very well kept, of course...
All of this wasn't necessary to Molly...She was fine stomping in a puddle in Grandma and Grandpa's driveway Saturday morning...
Yeah, I know, I barely said anything about sports, or the U.S. Swimming scandal I wrote about last week...Hey, tough shit! I'll be back into digging into that stuff Tuesday...Unlike the countless people in sports who say "family first," I mean it...Yeah, I spent this time bitching and shitting on Erie...But my kids had fun...My wife had fun and saw family...And I got a blog out of it...
Oh, one last thing...If you ever want really good Pizza and Wings, and you're near Edinboro PA...Go to this little dive JOHN'S_WILDWOOD_PIZZA...Fucking awesome! Just don't ask my wife for directions...You would think some one who attended Edinboro University for five years, would remember the way!
Since Beeze brought us the Tim Joyce investigative report on the Sex Abuse Scandal within the USA Olympic Swim team both of us have spent a good deal of time trying to get this story sent out to the very media Joyce calls out. We were up until nearly 4 am Monday morning; this is the time of day where newsrooms around the country and their producer’s are putting together the morning broadcasts and we got an unusual amount of traffic as we spent a good 90 minutes tweeting the link to both the Gab and WBAL sites for them to see exactly what it was that outraged us. At the end of the day you’ll be really surprised who picked up this story, a little online newspaper in Toronto Canada called “The People at Risk Daily”, and we thank Lisa A. McLeod for doing so, she clearly gets it, but CNN, ESPN, NBC, every news anchor and top gun reporter (and yes B.O.B., even Bill O’Reilly got one from me) could not have been less interested.
In the last 48 hours I’ve been reeling over this, all the while I can scan the channels and see Olympic Coverage, Olympic Coverage, Olympic Coverage, Spoiler Alert, Gabby Douglas etc…USA Swim Scandal? Nada! The cowards Joyce speaks of in the mainstream media, you know the ones who have to answer to a higher authority before ever airing anything without the stamp of approval from the “Politcal Correctness Department” because it’s taboo to step on the toes of the likes of NBC and the billions they doled out for Olympic broadcast rights, or ESPN who can’t offend anything or anyone in sports until it’s obvious the rest of the planet will hang the offender out to dry too, i.e. Jerry Sandusky. Part of what’s wrong here very well could be Joyce’s timing of the story. Joyce’s story hit the web July 31st, the Games were underway and if you’re working on an Olympic story whether it’s a competitor fluff piece or a hard story like this you’d think timing shouldn’t matter, it’s about the USA Olympic Swim team, it talks about the very coaches who are now being investigated for said abuse but that’s not what Bob Costas is going to be allowed to talk about after interviewing Michael Phelps who just broke the Olympic medal record…just can’t have it. When Beeze posted the story at the Gab early Monday morning we weren’t even 24 hours into the shooting of the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, that got top bill and rightfully so, but my problem is why is a news organization like CNN or FOX News not able to cover more than one top story, they do it all the time and on a slow news day they still manage to fill their slots with plenty of crap to keep their anchors talking.
I started thinking; just maybe the reason isn’t the timing of the games as much as it is the story has “USA Swimming” in the title and not Penn State. It sure seemed pretty easy to point the finger at a school in a college town, say the administration and coaches covered it up, district attorney’s and police departments knew but basically looked the other way while Sandusky molested boys in the Nittany Lion locker room shower stalls, as I recall no one died, but Sandusky went to trial, was publicly humiliated, Paterno was forced out as head coach and into the grave. I’m not minimizing the abuse of Sandusky, personally I look forward to the day there’s breaking news he was found swinging in his cell, I’ll be more than okay with that sound bite. But when we’ve got numerous coaches, suicide, sexual abuse, cover-ups, a girl who got pregnant from a coach, there’s something seriously wrong when no one wants to ask the question - What the hell is going on with the USA Olympic Swim team and why hasn’t anyone appointed a special prosecutor from the US Attorney’s office? Why hasn’t a congressman asked why is this being swept under the rug? Oh yeah, it’s an election year, they have bigger fish to fry, their careers. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemons got more attention than this and that was for perjury about steroid abuse…(is this making sense to any of you yet)? Why, because they were multi-million dollar, high profile athletes that makes it okay? Where are our priorities? I’m sorry, when the safety of young girls (and most of you know I have a daughter so you know where my anger is coming from) are being compromised by the very coaches entrusted by parents to train them to represent our country and it’s covered up for the sake of the reputation of an organized sport and the ole boy network that oversees it I can’t fathom why this isn’t front and center and I’m not seeing headlines with coaches being escorted into police stations cuffed and jackets hiding their faces, just like Jerry Sandusky...this story mirrors Penn State in so many ways. The differences, it's on a much larger scale, over a longer period of time, involves not one but many coaches and children and 16 year Sarah Burt walked herself in front of a tractor trailer and committed suicide. Yeah, it makes you just scratch your head doesn't it?...or want to go out and hurt someone.
B.O.B I believe was who made the comment that when the games were over, the closing ceremonies have concluded and athletes, networks and reporter’s come home this might just rear its ugly head. I thought the same thing too. If that’s the case, I won’t be surprised, but I’ll have a lot of mixed emotions if I do see it. First, I’ll be extremely pissed off if I hear Erin Burnett, Kyra Phillips or Soledad O’Brien talking about this like they just found out about it, that I can assure you isn’t the case, they all got it the morning Beeze and I tweeted “talking heads” from here to the moon and back. If Bill O’Reilly talks about it I’ll be glad FOX covered it instead of pumping sunshine up Mitt Romney’s ass while we still listen to him and Harry Reid trade barbs over Mitt’s tax records, because in the grand scheme of things, this is what I really want to know about. Wrong! Sure, I’ll be glad to see this get the attention it deserves, but God help whoever it is that does so if they got this story originally from us, I’ll be calling them out for doing exactly what it is I believe they’re doing, lying in wait to pounce when the timing is just right - after the games. Which we all know is the wrong reason, it’s just the politically correct reason, and that’s horse shit.
Sarah Burt deserves better, her family deserves better. Tim Joyce deserves the same recognition for having the guts to break this story as Sarah Ganim got when breaking the Sandusky story, and we all know that story wasn’t really “breaking news” either, it was a story that resurfaced on the heels of one reporter who was just not going to take NO for an answer. I’m here to say, I’m not taking NO for an answer either.
Got to go now, I need to tweet the hell out of this to the same mainstream media that ignored the last story and I suggest you all do the same…don’t you take NO for an answer either.
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