Random Thoughts: Mommy, I'm Bored
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Peter Tom Willis:
Yesterday broke whatever consecutive streak that I had for posting blogs. I can't remember the last time I took a day off, but I'm pretty sure it was last February or something. I make no apologies. With college football over until the bowl games, my NFL season over, the baseball winter meetings over and NASCAR in the garage for awhile, there isn't a whole lot. And for newcomers, we ignore the NBA here because we just don't care. As for college basketball, I"m not in the mood yet. So, today starts a new streak. Yesterday, I went by the old adage if you have nothing to say, say nothing. I think most people would prefer that I used that old adage a lot more.- Tim Tebow wins the Heisman. Yeah, that's a Chicago election. I don't think anyone was more valuable to their teams than either Colt Brennan or Chase Daniel. But because they play for teams that were under the radar until the very end of the year, Tebow gets all the love. The Heisman is not really what it should be, which is the D-1 MVP trophy. In fact, Florida had a better year last year with Chris Leak running the show than they did this year with Tebow. Here's a humorous take on it from Sports Frog.
- There are still people that think that the Bears have a chance to get to the playoffs, despite their loss on Thursday night to the Redskins. Those are the same people that think there is a chance that Ted Williams can be thawed out to play left field for the White Sox year (of course, even frozen, he's still better than what they currently have.)
- Sorry, Salukis, maybe next year. I was hoping my alma mater would capture their first championship since 1983. The miracle of this season for SIU is that Jerry Kill remains in good health. After his health crisis in 2005 (where he had a seizure on the sideline and had a cancerous tumor removed from a kidney, you wondered if you would see him on the sidelines again, let alone playing in the national semi-finals. And now, it looks like he's ready to move on to a mid-level program D-1 program which I hope is Colorado State and not NIU.
- In signing Eric Gagne, the Milwaukee Brewers now have the two goofiest looking relief pitchers in the majors: Gagne and Derrick Turnbow. In fact, they make the racing sausages seem human. Meanwhile, Solomon Torres is not happy about being traded to the Brewers, Dude, Milwaukee is a much better place to play than Pittsburgh. In fact, I may know of a house you can buy really cheap.
- Let the games begin as Fukudomepalooza begins in earnest. I don't think the White Sox, who lost out on Torii Hunter and won't pony up for Aaron Rowand have a chance at signing him, even though it's Kenny's last shot at saving what could be a last place season for the Sox.
- Does Polynesian count as a minority? If it does, Navy just made the liberals happy.
- Southern Miss is about to hire Larry Fedora, Mike Gundy's offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State. In checking Larry's background, we find that he's a man, he's forty-five. Both Wil Muschamp of Auburn and Tyrone Nix of South Carolina have withdrawn their names, most likely because they found out what the pay in C-USA is. They are better off being assistants where they are then taking over USM and actually losing money.
- Phillip Fulmer rode the tailwind of a five game winning streak and an appearance in the SEC title game t o garner a contract extension as the critics in Knoxville howl. Meanwhile, Mike Gundy gets extended until he's a man and forty-six.
- It fascinates me that you have people like Chan Gailey, Coach Fran and Bill Callahan available and yet the first guy you want to talk to is Karl Dorrell. Perhaps their is a cost issue associated with this.
- Here's the reason Major League Baseball lets steroid cheats run rampant, but sends security personnel after managers who wear pullovers: $. Plain and simple. MLB has an exclusive agreement on uni tops with Majestic Athletic, but the pullovers come from Nike or Addias or somebody else. So, Majestic Athletic simply bitches to MLB about their rights being infringed upon and their deal being devalued. This is how baseball makes it go away. The bottom line is the bottom line.
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