Augie

But we get……ESPN. OK, I’ll quit for a while.

Do I have to pay $20 EXTRA to get rid of ESPN?

We were in Nashville a few weeks ago and friends came to join us. They arrived a night late and we all went to Ryman Auditorium. The original home of the Grand ‘OL Opry downtown. It was a great show, but the night before they missed The Listening Room where the songwriters do their own stuff together. They tell the stories behind each song, and they all join in with the others when appropriate. I will highly recommend it as long as nobody else tries to go there.

We all show what’s important to us at that moment by what we are willing to pay. I loved the packed stadium concert in my day, but this is a new day. Now? We prefer small venues, the smaller the better.

I’m sorry you’ve given up already, but you be you. I’m pretty sure the season is still ongoing. Time will tell. I don’t tolerate Divas and whiners very well. He made sure there was no way to keep him, just like his exit from the Vikings. I’m happier without him and his BS, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks of that. Period.

Here’s the funny thing…..I don’t care. He was well over the line and I’d cut bait too.

I don’t know if you were paying attention or not, but I’m here to say I won’t be buying your book. I think you just want to fire someone. He didn’t want to be here, and he was playing Diva until he got out. We need to replace his production, not his unacceptable attitude.

I think he’s still the same guy, but we sometimes forget that these are real people with real %^$& in their lives. Just like the rest of us. I don’t need to know what happened at home the night before the Bengals game, if anything, but stuff like that can actually get in the way at times.

Yeah, I obviously know all that. I’m mostly kidding, but the optics are not great right now.

Well, Josh is spending more time in front of a camera than his wife the actress, so why not? I (half) kid, but he’s on commercials non-stop these days! I love the guy, but it’s not a great look right now.

I’m guessing he was your Designated Drunk Driver? I met a kid who held that self-appointed title. He was in rehab at the time. He said “I had no idea why it’s so hard for them to drive drunk.” Practice, practice, practice!

I foolishly expected a bunch of laugh emojis. Like I just fell off of the damn turnip truck!

It was more rhetorical, actually. It just seems like something that would happen to us.

I guess we should leave Art Schlichter out of this? Very sad, and an age old reminder.

….and all the donuts disappeared! We all saw that coming, for sure.

Does anyone else have a sick feeling that he will have a comeback game for the ages against us? 😂

Yeah, until someone offers you $250k/year more. Then you pack your bags and go on to the next school. Xavier used to brag about graduating every player who used all of their eligibility. Now? It’s more like a series of pickup games at an open gym with the best players going to the highest bidder. For better or worse, that’s the “game” now. I’m hoping if I step back and ignore how the sausage is made that I can enjoy the season, even if I’ve become a quasi-Xavier hoops fan. I used to record every game, go to Cincinnati annually for a home game, attend any road game within a couple hour drive and follow them (to decent locales) in the Tournament if they were in the SE. Not any more. I hope they do well, and I hope to enjoy some of it, but it seems nothing is what it used to be….and it’s not all better. EDIT: I used to enjoy the high school recruiting and watching the young guys develop. You might get 4-6 years of following a committed HS player, maybe a redshirt and then his eligibility. Now I only get a few months to get to know the kids, and now it’s just not worth it for me that to try that hard. .

No, Xavier is in the same boat. We lost Sean Miller to Texas right after we played them in the last NCAA tournament. We previously lost him to Arizona until he got in trouble there and came back to the only place that would have him. And then he left AGAIN. Whatever, I couldn’t name 2 players on the current roster anyway with all the portal and NIL stuff. I no longer send my meager contribution to the sports program at a time when they are asking for more. It’s a mess. As I said, you have to be in the top handful of schools to be safe. Mark Few is one of my favorite people in sports because he knows he’s got a great situation, and he doesn’t have to try to climb the ladder. Good for him. I’d become a Gonzaga fan, but that would surely jinx them.

I wouldn’t get too excited over this particular victory. DePaul was 0-20 last year in the Big East, and 3-29 overall. They are horrible at basketball and the embarrassment of the Big East. Having said that, I’d love it if UB could have a good program for a while. It’s only for a while mind you, because as soon as your coaching is doing well he gets to step up in level of play and salary. Unless you are a blue blood like Kansas, Duke or UNC, you are always on the verge of having your coach poached for the $$$.

Some people might call it so-so Italian at best, but I went to Chefs for the first time in my life the week of the opener this year with my wife. My parents went there almost weekly, and apparently it was the place to go to get away from me! We enjoyed it and the restaurant was much bigger than I expected, but I’m sure there is better Italian food in town. To me, Chef’s is iconic like the Anchor Bar, even if they don’t have the best of what they are known for.

So, the OC that some people think will be a HC next year should be fired for incompetence this year. Clear as mud, I tell you. In the world we live in a defensive coordinator will not likely get poached. With an offensive minded HC we’d be safe from the annual question about our offense going forward. A good OC with a defensive HC will get taken, sooner than later. A good DC is far less likely to get elevated to a HC job, so you have more stability. As is, our offense is lacking. If you fix it and things are humming, you need to look for a new OC in an offensive league. That’s an issue, even for me. . .

I’ll go ahead and say it, the current kickoffs are an ugly thing to watch. It’s even more pronounced in the stadium when the ugly baby isn’t masked by the television coverage not showing much of the kicker back there by himself looking like the Maytag Repairman. It’s not directly about safety, it’s all about not having to fork over more money in lawsuits. I prefer the college and high school kickoffs, and I’m starting to lean more toward their games overall.

For his sake, I hope so.

I’d rather be downtown than have a dome, honestly. But I’m happy with the new facility. Getting what we wanted was going to cost BILLIONS more. Where was that going to come from? People are already complaining about the cost of the “cheap version.” They are going to remain in WNY for many years to come. I’ll take it.

California Sober is very popular among the pescatarian crowd. And they are lovers of Hostess Ho Hos as well.