Augie

You are forgiven for the distraction. The drama concerning whether Dawson and Baker were truly separated at birth was making me anxious. I can’t wait to see how the poll comes out, but we probably need DNA samples, right? I mean, to make things official and all….. 😊 I will say, I did liked Baker’s talent in the draft and he seems to have grown up a bit since then.

This is the Lizzie Borden house from Fall River, a must see. .

WHOA! You can’t leave us hanging like that! Clearly, you were one of the survivors, but I’m sure we’d all like the rest of the details. Did Mom bring flowers and meatloaf, or is your wife going 15-20 for offing the new girl?

….and, he’s a year (or two with a Tag) away from the opportunity to see what the open market looks like. He doesn’t have the leverage to go into full bluster mode, IMO. Work lout a fair deal, stay healthy and win a ring. It’s really just as simple as that. 😊

I’d love to see Cook waiting until his AARP card arrived to get an extension from Jerruh, but he will be at the top of the market!

I wish I could go back and properly thank all those people. I tried, but when we finally got in the ambulance it was a blur. Even the employees were sincere in wanting to help, but complete strangers trying so hard to help strangers makes me feel better about this world. .

Shortly after the upside down car incident a local kid made the news. His parents had gotten him out of two DUI’s, but on the third one he killed a cop. There is no coming back from that. Not that it matters, but I pray this wasn’t the same kid I didn’t rat out (even though I figured it out after the cops had left and with morning light). Maybe that’s why that sticks with me in the back of my mind.

My wife and I took my then 94 year old mother to lunch a few years ago. She was on a cane at the time, got sloppy and fell, breaking her pelvis in two places we later learned. She’s in obvious agony. I’m on the curb with my mother while my wife is on the phone with 911…..who puts her on hold. Repeatedly. Other people are watching this, and I bet a half dozen called 911, but no ambulance even 20 inures later. A guy having lunch with his wife is watching all this from his table inside the window and finally comes outside. More time goes by and he gets so frustrated he takes off running to a fire department he knows of nearby. He showed up with a fire truck just as the ambulance arrived. That might sound like I’m complaining about 911, but that’s not really the case. Yes, that was disappointing, but the people around us who rallied and tried to help was very heartening. I mean, a total stranger ran almost a half mile to get help. It was almost like being in WNY for a blizzard. How can I help?

Umm, it’s not just you. It’s almost like they didn’t want to bother, but had to come up with something. Anything. I did book reports like that in elementary school.

I had to call when I heard a crash outside my front door once. A car was going too fast in front of the house where a small island divided the curvy road. It should be about 15 mph to be safe on that stretch in this residential area, but a teenage boy was going much faster. His front right tire went up a berm and his right headlight hit a palm tree. This flipped the car over and it skidded across the road and came to rest, upside down, on the mailbox of the people across the street. I got outside as the babysitter comes out with the portable phone to call the homeowners. The kid crawls out of the car window, takes the phone away from the babysitter and calls his mother. The first words I hear are “Mom, I did it again!” 😳 Really??? I noticed the front passenger window was open (on the upside down car) on a chilly night. That wasn’t right, so I pieced it together. He was driving along the tricky stretch when he lowered the passenger window to toss a couple empty Budweiser bottles into my front yard. THAT is when he hit the berm and flipped. I didn’t rat him out when the cops arrived (I was slow to put it together), but part of me worries that he needed to face the music lest he do it yet again, and maybe somebody gets hurt.

We dodged a bullet with Hairston and his knee scare, and Shakir at least has time to rest before he needs two healthy ankles. I’d be much more upset if he were hurt a week or two (or three) from now. The list is long, but I’m sure most of these injuries are just being treated cautiously. All things considered, if we don’t add to the list significantly I’ll be happy with how we survived the worst part of “football season”, the part that doesn’t count. .

For every Doggy Downer we need a Puppy Upper!

Just yesterday my wife brought up a butcher shop in Buckhead that is supposed to have a great reputation. We went there before a dinner party a few years ago to get boneless beef short ribs. The guy gave me a funny look, like I asked for a T-Rex tenderloin or something and said they could not accommodate me. He acted like it was impossible, but I knew I had prepared them before….and I knew where I got them from. While standing right in front of him I called Whole Foods and made arrangements to pick up a boatload of boneless beef short ribs in 10-15 minutes. I never understood why I got such a strange reaction……instead of boneless short ribs. 🤷‍♂️ .

Tre was playing well (finally) post-ACL right before he tore his Achilles. I hope he can approach being the player he used to be again, he just doesn’t get there quickly. I take nothing from last year, and I’m encouraged by the camp reports.

I almost had to call once, around 5th grade. I was upstairs playing chess with a buddy, and I hear my sister screaming from down in the kitchen. I run downstairs to find she has started a grease fire trying to make popcorn. (This is before microwaves or Jiffy Pop, for the younger crowd.) The flames are leaping up, but I don’t panic. I run into the dining room and open the sliding glass door and use pot holders to carry this bucket of fire to the dining room and toss it into the back yard. Unfortunately, the screen door was still closed on the slider, and the fire just bounced right back at me and landed on the dining room carpet. OOPS! 😱 🔥 I opened the screen and kicked the pot-o-fire onto the back patio. The good news is it had landed on a remnant of carpet used to wipe our feet, so the doormat was ruined but the carpet was saved.

So, we’ll put you down as not since high school.

…and he never missed a flight!

That sounds like Bishop last year. It’s Deja Vu…..

There is a small post office near the food court at the mall by us. What a great find! There’s usually no more than one other customer in there, and the employees are friendly and helpful like an Ace Hardware store! Plus, it’s near the endless chicken-on-a-toothpick samples if you keep circling the food court. I don’t think there is a point where they cut you off. 🤷‍♂️

An important part of “the process” is knowing who to blame. If we can’t point a finger at somebody the whole thing is much less satisfying.

Not to mention, about the only things remaining from “this franchise” (that ruined the QB’s) are the uniform and the city where they play home games. The ownership, GM and coaching have all changed since Losman and Edwards. We are allowed to start over now with new and more timely complaints, and I’m sure we will.

I think I can speak for all when I say we grieve for your terrible hardship. 😊

I don’t think it’s reasonable for you to expect a lesser pour! If that’s what that means…

Good for you! You’ll be in Jamaica while I’m in Nashville for the bye week, which happens to be my BDay weekend. My son has to be there for a wedding, but my babysitter/wife rented a house for a week and we have friends joining us. We used to spend a lot of time there and we still love it. Great bye week timing!

The question is, do we have to add one, or let one develop? How about the names you listed above? How many were “the final piece” added at a premium in terms of acquisition cost and contract, and how many became that guy in time? I’m not saying don’t add talent, I’m just wondering at what cost? That’s always the difficult question.