Monday, December 31, 2012

Monday Moaning ( a 2012 Recap)


 
 
It's New Year's Eve...2012 is coming to an end...What will we remember this 2012 for?  A year with crazy weather...Intense heat waves...Wild fires and droughts...Extreme tornadoes...Epic storms...Yep, that all happened in 2012...What else?  The world didn't end right before Christmas, as many thought the Mayans predicted...Though there were many lives lost just before Christmas...The mall shooting in Oregon...The horrific massacre at Sandy Hook changed so many lives, and as an outsider looking in, it really shook me up...

But the shooting didn't stop there...Another nut-job randomly opened fire in PA shortly after...followed by an asshole who set a house on fire Christmas Eve, in NY just to open fire on the fire fighters...But in that time from December 14th up to Christmas, there were over 60 people shot in Chicago, and the media seems to ignore that...Mental health and gun control debates were sparked because these events along with the Colorado movie theater shooting...Maybe we'll be able to remember 2013 for being the year that there was some serious change to prevent these acts from being some common...

In 2012 we saw the legacy of  Joe Paterno shattered...And we saw the monster know as Jerry Sandusky locked up after years of abusing and raping kids, and years of Penn State officials and Paterno covering it up, and letting it continued...And while the media was so proud to cover this story, they turned a blind eye to THIS horrible story...ESPN didn't say shit about it until more than a month after I did...Speaking of ESPN...After trying to act like the PSU watch dog, they turned around and aired every PSU football game this year...Scumbags!

In 2012 Ron Santo was finally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...Too bad it was two years after he died...That place can burn...I'm sure Santo was happy, but he deserved to deliver that speech himself...



What else happened? The Hostess Company went in the tank...No more Twinkies...Who the hell saw that coming?

Art Modell died, and people in Cleveland still hate him, and really lack a clue about how important he was to the NFL...I tried to set them straight HERE...

Speaking of death...in 2012 we saw the LA Kings win the Stanley Cup...And since then, we've been watching the NHL kill itself...

From the looks of it, in 2013 we'll see a number of NFL teams with new head coaches...Including the Browns...

We found out Lance Armstrong was full of SHIT or PEDS...

I started fighting my fight for DADS to start getting some credit...

We saw a big hype about getting that Kony guy...Where are you #Kony2012 people...Fucking guy is still out there...You haven't done shit have you? 

At least the Occupy people lasted a little longer...They showed some conviction...But then they gave up too...Hard to have movement bring any real change, if your movement lacks leadership and direction...And when the media only shows the wack-job wannabe hippies, no one takes you seriously...



In 2012 my kids turned 11, 8, and 2...Holy crap time flies...But it's been fun...They have been the biggest part of my life this year...Going ice skating with them during Browns games may have been the smartest thing I've done...And this weekend, with all the snow we got, we mixed in some sledding too...




Watch him at the bottom of the hill in this next one...




I love hearing my wife in the background, laughing as she says she's "gonna kill him"...We're the best parents!

2012 has had a lot of ups, and probably even more downs...I've seen people wishing the year away...I can't do that...Try to learn from the bad spots, and cherish the great stuff...And one of those great things I'll hold onto is Notre Dame going undefeated in 2012...And hopefully next week, they'll start 2013 with a win...Fuck Sports Illustrated and their prediction...Fuck the haters...Notre Dame is going to make Alabama earn every point they get...And all you Alabama/SEC people, and ND haters are going to be surprised when the Irish win it all...

My prediction is 2013 is going to be a good year...

Have a week...

The Beeze.

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