Random Thoughts

I am on-call this weekend and I am also living out of a suitcase as I am now separated from my wife. Something about getting fed up with simply marking time versus living led to this decision. One of my relationship rules is that you can not simply mark time in a relationship for too long. If you are not living and growing in a relationship then it dies. I just simply had to call the time of death.

I have many bullet points to talk about as I am on-call and could get called out at any point along the way.

** OJ is now going to prison for at least nine years. He told the judge in his sentencing hearing that he was stupid and that he did not know what he was doing was illegal. So holding people up in a hotel room with a gun and not allowing people to leave the room in order to steal "your stuff" back so that the "gold diggers" won't get their hands on it. That can't be illegal. No, not in Vegas. Everything is legal in Vegas. Especially with all those security cameras around trying to stop "stupid" stuff from happening. OJ really thought that he could do anything in Vegas and have it stay there. Of course, he felt the same way about L.A., too. OJ, you are not stupid, you are a thug. Enjoy the meat that will be provided by a disgruntled offensive lineman in the shower in segregation.

** The Lions are on their way to a dream season. I believe that if they dream hard enough. Love themselves hard enough. Try hard enough. Achieve their dreams hard enough. That they can pull off the dream season of 0-16. The schedule is in their favor. Tomorrow they play against the Vikings who need a win to stay in the division hunt. They next go to Indianapolis who also needs to win for play-off considerations. The Saints come to Detroit the weekend before Christmas in order for Brees to throw for 600 yards. The last game of the season is at Green Bay who hopefully will need a win in order to make the play-offs. I am worried about the last two games. If the Packers and Saints are out of contention then their only motivation to win is to not to lose to Detroit (which may not be enough). The sad thing is that Coach Marinelli is a pretty good guy and it might be even a good coach...somewhere else. However, Coach, I want you to not look at any game film. Run the ball 100 straight times into an eight man front. Use your quarterback in the defensive backfield. If you go into overtime and win the toss, please select defending. Do whatever it takes to lose. You will be proud of your accomplishment. This is the worst team in history and you are in charge. Go for it!!! Don't choke and win a game just to win one game. There's no glory in that. The glory is losing all of them. You will make history. That is what it is all about. That and the fact that Detroit is a wasteland.


** Some guy named Plaxico who is a wide receiver in the NFL who never practices (he is in the AI hall of fame) shoots himself accidentally in the leg in a nightclub last weekend. Let's take a look at the logic of all of this. You are in the NYC. It is 2:00 am. Nothing good happens when you are out at that hour. You are carrying way too much cash on you. In NYC at 2 am twenty dollars is carrying too much cash. You have a gun. You have a loaded gun. In your pants. Near your man package. Now, that is OJ stupid. It is so sad when a such a logical mind like Plaxico's goes to waste. He is lucky that he did not blow off his man package and for being so rational he should get whatever he deserves.

** Speaking of AI, he missed a practice!! Shocker!! Call the dogs. He has his own Hall of Fame for missing practices. He told his team, the Detroit Pistons, that he would never do it again. Right. I believe that as much as I believe that Tom Brady will stay down for the rest of the season.

** I am proud of you, Tom. You have heeded my warning and stayed down since Thanksgiving. I really want you to come out into the light. Get out of the S&M chamber that you are being held "captive" in and stand on the sidelines as Matt Cassell takes your Evil Empire team to the play-offs. I am afraid that this might really happen. Can't we have one play-off without the Evil Empire? Please? Just one play-off run is all I ask. My warning still stands for you, Tom. Just stay down. Don't go to any soup kitchens with any cameras around. Don't get in front of any cameras. If you don't heed this warning then I will come right after you. Do you have a fascination with using lunch meat and fruit in your S&M chamber? What about small animals like a hamster or a gerbil? Do you have Richard Gere's number on speed dial?

** Does anyone else think that Nick Saban is the anti-Christ? One hopes that Florida wins this afternoon in the SEC Championship Game against Saban's Alabama team and promptly throws the whole BCS into chaos again. Florida is this year's Georgia from last year. At least in this case, the best team right now (Florida) will get a chance to play in the conference title in order to prove that they belong in the top two in the country. Let us also hope that USC and Oklahoma somehow loses which will make things a little simpler.

** It is sad that the only time that the NHL gets any press what so ever is if someone brutally attacks another player on the ice or if someone goes rogue and puts their foot in their mouth. Sean Avery, whose reputation is the same as Rasheed Wallace and Britney Spears on a bad day, was suspended for six games for making comments about "his sloppy seconds." The NHL is a great sport. On TV, it basically sucks. However, it is a great sport with great athletes who do amazing things. There is, in hockey, like in most sports "a code" that players must follow. I am not sure what the "code" is in the NFL where players shoot themselves in the leg and run pot across state lines and horde large cache of arms and commit murder for hire and gamble excessively on cat shows etc. etc. However, in the NHL, you can't talk about things on camera that though they might be true (you are naive if you think otherwise), but should be kept in the locker room. That breaks the "code." The locker room is like Vegas or Lindsey Lohan. What happens there. Stays there. What goes into Vegas and Lohan stays in Vegas and Lohan. Period. So, Avery crossed the "code" and he was punished deservedly so. I just hope that hockey can reach a level that what we hear on the sports radio shows is the great sport on the ice as opposed to thug rogue elements.