Hell yes, I know! You missed the Bear, who has not blogged for some two weeks due to a major problem associated with what is known as an allorgy attack which almost put the Bear away for good. Will not bore you with the details but am now ready to once again talk turkey about a variety of subjects which are dear to your hearts.
While I was away, the campaign continues and there is good news today. My man, my candidate for the top spot, who dropped out of the race some time ago and is now sporting a sporting beard, the great Guv of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, today endorsed Barack for President and maybe, just maybe sealed the case for his being the choice for VP if Barack goes all the way! It would be a natural pairing, a Senator with a Governor, a Black/White with a Latino, a midwesterner with a westerner and a somewhat weak on foreign affairs with a giant in the international field. Sounds good to me! Will it happen?
There is a lull in this race as we prepare for the Pennsylvania primary and Hillary has been doing a good job marshalling her forces, keeping the pressure on Barack Hussein and enjoying all the commotion concerning the ReverendWright's irreverant comments about the US! So you want to blame Barack for this? Why? There are so many loco ministers, priests, bishops, archbishops and probably Cardinals out there today that we should not come undone when one of these guys or gals makes a controversial statement! Oh yea, the press just loves it! By the way, I wish Chris Matthewswould just chill out! What a panderer. I know, I'll still watch "Hardball" but common Chris, just "shut up for awhile!" MSNBC is undoubtedly for Barack Obama! Fox is for anything to the right! CNN and Wolfie are so great and my condolences on their recent tornado in Atlanta that hammered their HQ!
Meanwhile the "old one" continues his campaign to keep us in Iraq for another 100 Years and is accompanied on his "fact finding mission" (What a farce) by the world's worst, Joe Lieberman and his South Carolina Gamecock Lindsey Graham, as he tromps thru various safe havens as Iraquis continue to depart their country and many blow up each other! We really got it under control with the surge! Oh yea!
Special kuddos to the Chief of the Federal Reserve Ben Vernacke, who has stepped up to the plate to try to do something about the problems relating to interest rates. We are in one hellova mess here and its going to be awhile before the economy can come back. I have a major question:
Who the hell would want to be President after this bozo has screwed things up so badly and promises to continue his miserable administration all the way up to Jan 20 2009?
Spring Training is well on its way to its finale and the Baseball world is agog with predictions and so many sore arms. What the hell is wrong today that so many of our pitchers are always getting MRI's and ending up on the cutting table. If you go five innings you get a standing ovation! Are we sickos? The Bear is urgently preparing for the upcoming fantasy draft of April 5th in the infamous Boys Night Out Fantasy Baseball League, which has some of the most shrewd of baseball minds, matched by the Bear each spring! What a day it is for us fantasy nuts. Pleayers are bidded on starting at 9 AM and continuing thru the day until 12 teams have 23 players each with a limit of $260 for your team and its a blast, especially when you get down to the $1 bids and players. The Blue Darts, the Bear's team have a good nucleus coming back led by Alfonso Soriano, Brandon Phillips,
Shane Victorino and Eric Byrnes plus some good young savers! The Darts will be ready!
The St. Louis Blues are a major disappointment after a promising start but there is hope. This is a young team and we hockey adicts will not give up on the future of this team. They will return next season and prediction: They will make the playoffs. Eric Johnson is some rookie and more are coming! This team for some reason is not jelling. Coach Murray is aok with me but what has happend here is a mystery. Remember the movie: Mystery Alaska. Get it today if you haven't seen it.
Am currently reading two books, one which should interest everyone is:"Water For Elephants."
Don't quiz me on it! Its among the tops in the NY Times Paper Back ratings and rightfully so!
A totally different book! Author is Sara Gruen. Also reading a History rendition of Ben Franklinin Paris during the Revolutionary period. What a great leader he was and by the way, if you haven't been watching "John Adams" woe is you. This HBO feature which kicked off last Sunday with two episodes and surely will be repeated might be the greatest ever narrative in TV history. (I'm in the minority on this) Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, along with Tom Wilkenson are magnificent. I must admit to being a Revolutionary War historian, so I am prejudiced but once when I stood on the bridge to Lexington and Concord in the Boston area, I almost lost it! What a time and what a country! Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, "little Jemmy" Madison, Burr (baby its cold outside), all these greats were the real McCoy, and the 13 states that started it deserve our utmost congrats. SEE THIS HBO SPECIAL, PART THREE SUNDAY AT 7 CENTRAL TIME!
Amidst all this comes March Madness and the Bear has already filled out two brackets, and picked UCLA in one and Memphis in another. Today what a game with Western Kentucky and Drake in an overtime, Western Kentucky wins with a wild three pointer at the buzzer. Is it March Madness?
You bet! Good luck to all those fine teams!
St. Louis is presently host to the Collegate Wrestling NCAA Championships and grapplers from all over the US are here in town, little fleas weighing 95 lbs and big guys in the heavier weight divisions. and there are no more dedicated sportsmen than these athletes who hit the mats and are absolutely the zenith in their devotion to their sport. As a young coach, I had to learn of their special needs and prepartion and it blew me away. We shall watch with much interest and are honored to have the great college wrestlers in our community for the weekend. Most restauranters are hoping not too many of them are making weight and not eating but then there is mom and dad. Hats off to St. Louis and this event.
Enough already: The floods are upon us, maybe the worst ever and motorists are routing and rerouting around town trying to get where their going. It will be a devestating weekend as the water in the Meremac and other tributaries around town crests so be careful out there.
Life is good, believe me, respect it and enjoy! As I blog today, it is Good Friday and as many of you can remember, it is supposed to be the bleakest of days. Not so today, March21, 2008. Played golf this morning, had a great breakfast and visited the New Cathedral. Guess what? Church be totally dark, crosses are covered, statues too, lights out, on this holy of holy days.
But soon, about 48 hours from now, just across the river at Our Lady of Snows, an early morning
mass will announce: "HE IS RISEN!"
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Coach - New England had a similar effect on me when I visited my cousins and their family there for the first time almost 35 years ago. As my uncle would drive me from place to place on sightseeing trips - I could actually "see" Patriots and their militia's behind the stone walls and among the dense trees along the road. My imagination swept me away to that incredible time in our Nation's history. The John Adams special on HBO has been terrific!
Bill: Glad you are watching John Adams. He was one of the best but has not received his due. In fact, there is no statute in Washington D.C. honoring this great leader of the Revolutionary period. Abagail Adams was no doubt out it, the greatest first lady and early day feminine leader and being a Laura Linney fan, I love having her play the role. The correspondence of these two makes for great reading, even if you are not a history buff. She was amazing in her courage and their son John Quincy Adams was probably the most precocious young men ever. He was ambassador to Russia I believe before he reached 20 and was so well schooled. Now the bad part: John and John Quincy were alike in that they were haughty and not people persons. They were brilliant no doubt but their relations with their tendency to look down on their inferior minds they dealt with was not handled well. Despite this problem, both were great Americans.
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