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.

Monday Moaning

 

Christmas is just about here, and Santa needs to get busy...But he always has time to not only give, but sometimes, he likes to receive as well...And the Beeze has been busy too...I've been trying my best to get into the Christmas spirit...And once the world didn't end Friday, I was forced to...The Mrs. and I had done no Christmas shopping at all...So Friday I did a little after a hellish day at work...Saturday morning she did a bunch...Then Saturday afternoon I went out and finished...

But I still wasn't super Christmasy...So I dug in and did some blogging...I posted my top 15 Christmas movies HERE...and my top Christmas songs HERE...

Sunday lead to spending more money on groceries for our annual family Christmas Eve party...It's become a tradition at our house, that my oldest daughter won't let die...I hope to one day have a bigger house and add friends to the mix, but right now it's just family...Mostly my side...The menu isn't fancy...We'll have a ham...Hanky Pankies...(ground meet, sausage, cheese, oregano, garlic, all mixed together and baked on party rye's)...Buffalo Chicken Dip...Shrimp Cocktail...My Holiday Balls...(Meat balls, thrown in a crock pot with chili sauce and grape jelly...Shockingly awesome!)...Beer, wine, soda, and my holiday punch...(Raspberry sherbet, ginger ale, strawberries, and vodka)...

So my Sunday was full getting that stuff together, and getting the kids out of the house so, my wife could get all the kids stuff wrapped, and hidden...Once again the kids and I went skating...The boy is getting better each time...

I watched a little of the Browns game...They looked like dirt, stinkin' ass...Bunch of guys got hurt..Who cares...After the game Josh Cribbs started firing off tweets at fans who are finally seeing what I've seen...The guy has become useless...Way to botch a punt return...Returns are all this guy did really well, now he sucks at those too...He's talking about leaving, and let me be the first to say, goodbye!    Fucking waste of a roster spot!

The Indians signed Nick Swisher to a $56 million contract for 5 years...He's 32...WHY!?! So he can strike out a lot like the other guys they picked up this off-season...Oh, and lets not how he faded out last year with the Yankees...What is he going to finish the season strong with the Indians now...Surrounded by a weaker lineup, and out of the playoff hunt...People are excited about this move...Not this Cleveland pessimist...I think it's another mistake, in a long line of front office mistakes...

See people, this is why I was digging into Christmas hard...Because Cleveland sports make me sick...So, I'm announcing my baseball fandom is going to test the free agency market...I'll decide on which team I'm gonna get on board with in April, and for how long...As the NFL rolls into the playoffs, I'm all in with the Patriots...But I'll be rooting for the Seahawks in the NFC...Shit, I love how gritty that team is...Did you see them just blow up the 49ers Sunday night...42-13...WOW!

Next week, I'll have more sports for you...The College Bowl madness will be in full swing, and I'll be getting geared up for Notre Dame vs. Alabama...Can't wait!

With that all said, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas...Or Happy whatever the fuck you celebrate...Just be sure to enjoy it, and enjoy it with the ones you love...

I'll leave you with a song from a group called Savatage...They did "Metal Operas" back in the day...Eventually a couple of them started Trans-Siberian-Orchestra...I always break this album out around Christmas, because the story takes place at Christmas time...The famous TSO "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo)" was originally on this disc...This is the closing song, and I still love it...(Thanks Chorba)





Merry Christmas..Have a week...

The Beeze.

The Beeze's Top Christmas Songs

So last night I broke out my favorite Christmas movies...So of course now it's time to take a look at my top Christmas tunes...Again, not going with the normal numbers...This time I'm stopping at 11...

1.  "Father Christmas"  -The Kinks...The poor kids anthem...Classic Kinks riff...




(Bad video quality but good sound) 

2. "Christmas is a Time to Say I Love You"  -Billy Squier...From the good ole days when MTV played music...To me this has always been an underrated Christmas tune...




3. "2000 Miles"  -The Pretenders...I just love this song...I would call this the best Pretenders song...




4. "Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)"  -Pearl Jam...Back in the early '90s none of us expected  these guys to do a Christmas song, but they did, and it's excellent...




5.  "Blue Christmas"  This one is an old standard...It always makes me think of those I wish were still with us...I'm sure there are plenty of people feeling this year...I don't like Elvis...And since my favorite band did it a couple years ago, I'll go with them...Our Lady Peace...




6.  "Since Santa Ain't Coming"  -Daniel Mustard...For being an anti-Christmas song it's good...But it falls under the scope of Christmas songs, and I like it...




7. "Christmas Song"  -Sleeves...Here's an odd one...A little known one...But it's catchy...




8. "Memory"  -Savatage...Long before you heard of TSO, some of those guys were in a group called Savatage that loved to write Metal Operas...This is from one called "Dead Winter Dead"...It's also where that famous TSO "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) came from...




9. "Let It Snow"  -Dean Martin...Another old standard...You gotta love how Dean could lay it down...And I have to say, the Rat Pack Christmas album is awesome...




10. "Silent Night"  I'm going with the Sarah McLachlan version...But there are so many great versions, it's hard to screw up...If you really want to get depressed check out the Lisa Hannigan version...Uhgg





11. "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"  -Tom Waits...It's a beautiful song about, just what the title says...There is also a great remake by Neko Case...





That's my list...What's yours like...

The Beeze.

The Beeze's Top 15 Christmas Movies

 

 

I have seen few articles on the best Christmas Movies...And some make me crazy, and some remind me of movies I forgot about...So I thought I would take the time to rattle off my top 15 Christmas movies...Everyone one does top 10, 20, and 25 lists...So screw it, I'm doing 15...I'm not going to get long winded about each one...Most are classics, and I doubt you need a recap of the film...Also this list won't include the old animated hour long TV flicks...If it did, I would have "The Year Without Santa Claus" in here without a doubt...

1. "A Christmas Story"   -How could it not be?  Not just because I'm from Cleveland and there was a bunch of the movie shot here...It's just a great flick that seems so relatable...No matter what age or generation...My kids love it as much as I do...And I love it as much as my Dad does...It takes us back to a better time...Where things seemed more pure and innocent...Even if they weren't we didn't have 24 hour coverage of everything, with instant everything...

2. "It's a Wonderful Life"  -Again, a classic, that takes us back to a better time...Also a movie that brought in some religion...I'm not the most religious guy, but these days most TV shows and movies are afraid to mix in any type of religious views...Plus Donna Reed was in my childhood spank bank!

3. "Scrooged"   -The 1988 "modern" version of the story of Scrooge...Bill Murray plays a TV exec that needs a holiday wake up call...This has always been one of my favorites ever since my oldest brother turned me on to it...Watching this on Christmas Eve while wrapping presents is still a tradition he upholds...

4. "Die Hard"   -Once the action gets going, people always forget that this is a Christmas movie...John McClane is visiting his wife at her company Christmas party when all hell breaks loose...And then we get to see the greatest American action hero, take care of business...

5. "Christmas in Connecticut"  Honestly, I don't know why I love this movie, but do...My mom turned me onto it on year when I was kid...My brothers were older and out for the evening..My Dad was working...It was just us decorating the tree, eating Chinese food, and she popped this flick on...Another old, black and white film, taking us back in time...Comedy and romance and Christmas...

It's rarely on TV...Normally once or twice during the season, and at least one of those is a odd time slot...It's on my DVR, and the wife bought me a copy a couple years ago...

6.  "Home Alone"   -Maybe this is too high, but it's still fun to watch...The kids love it, and always find time to watch it throughout the year...Not just Christmas time...We all had the little bit inside of us that wished we could get left home alone, and do just what we wanted...Let alone take down a couple of bad guys...

7. "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"   -Without a doubt my favorite of the "Vacation" movies...Chevy Chase at his best, being the family man that we all hope were not, but wish we had a little bit more of his heart in us....So many great lines in this!

8. "Miracle on 34th Street" (the original)  -Again we journey back in time...Maybe I'm an old soul, because I love these old black and white classics...The movie telling us to believe long before the "Polar Express."

9.  "The Santa Clause"   -Who knew Tim Allen would make such great Santa...Honestly, it's not greatest movie, but it's one that the kids love for us all to watch together...So I'm holding on to those times as long as I can...

10.  "A Christmas Carol"  (the George C. Scott one)  The classic Dickens tale, done perfectly...

11.  "Elf "   - When this came out, I didn't expect to like it...I was a little burned out on the whole wacky Will Ferrell thing...But shit he was funny...Lots of laughs, and lots of Christmas spirit...And lots of spaghetti with maple syrup!

12.  "The Family Man"    -Nicholas Cage in a "It's a Wonderful Life" reversal of sorts...Douchebag Cage gets a taste of the life he could have had, had his choices not taken him down another path...And now what life does he want?  Plus Tea Leoni is sexy!

13. "Bad Santa"  -Yeah, of course this makes my list...This movie just increase my wanting to be a mall Santa...Billy Bob just being a drunk, horn dog, foul mouthed crook is good enough...But then he gets hit with some real Christmas spirit too...Gotta be on  my list...

14.  "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas"  -I just loved this so much as a little kid...I can't take it off my list...Just fond memories of these little muppets...Maybe because music was big in our house...

 

 

 

15.  "Love Actually"   -Total chick flick I know...I never would have seen it, had it not been for my wife...But guess what?  It's good...It's funny...It's sad...It's happy...It's Christmas...Seriously, I'm surprised at how much I actually can tolerate it, let alone like it...




That's the list...What's yours like?

Merry Christmas, The Beeze.

Monday Moaning

When ever there is a horrible tragedy, people say we need to get back to normal...We need to continue on...Yes, we need to continue on, but getting back to normal?  I think normal was throw out the window Friday morning...The idea of getting back to normal, I think that means, try to forget...Well, right now I can't forget...Now that families are releasing pictures of their children they lost, it's too hard to forget...And besides that, we shouldn't forget...We need to keep this fresh in our heads and hearts, so we can figure out how to stop this from ever happening again...

My full, emotional thoughts are HERE...But my emotions were elevated when I saw late Saturday night, that the Westboro Baptist Church fully intends to protest at Sandy Hook, and in Newtown...Their reasoning: this happened because gay marriage...I'm not even joking...These bastards are truly nuts...So I was happy to find out the group Anonymous has decided to ATTACK...I wouldn't say I'm a supporter of these Anonymous guys, but maybe now I should be...

Then, during Sunday night's vigil for the victims, When the President got up to speak, NBC flipped the Patriots/49ers gave over to NBC Sports and cut away to the President....The Twitterverse exploded with even more stupidity and hate...How dare the President speaking interrupt football....Again, I'm not joking..SEE for yourself...

First, if football means that much to you, be pissed at the network...Second, if football means that much to you, make sure you have all the necessary sports channels...Third, if football means that much to you, your life is empty...Fourth, you're assholes!

I have tried to keep things normal with the kids this weekend...Besides having to discuss what happened with the kids...And trying to explain how this could happen...I trying to tell them what they should do if something like this was to happen at their school...They don't put that shit in the parents handbook....

We set up our outdoor Christmas lights Saturday...Something you should know about my Molls...She loves snowmen...She has a old stuffed "Snowy" that she takes everywhere...But for some reason she refers to them all as "Yo-Yo"...I have no idea why, but that's her thing...He she is with my families Frosty...Now known as "Yo-Yo"...

That guy has been in our family since before I was born...And for the past few years he has guarded our front door...And Molls loves him...

Sunday morning I was in the car, going to get a haircut, and hit the store...I was listening to the Browns pregame hype fest...Holy shit, 3 wins in a row really gets Clevelanders cocky...They were all so sure the Browns were going to smoke the Redskins...Especially with RG3 not playing...And then it happened...The 'skins kicked them around like the Browns I know and don't love...And Browns fans, I hope your love affair with Josh Cribbs is over now...The guy has lost his return ability...He never could hack it at WR...Sad considering the stiffs that have been here with stone hands...Yeah, that means you too Little...Please Browns fans, don't beg for this guy to get a new contract...

And I did my part to try and help the winning streak...I stayed away from the game...I guess it wasn't me taking the kids ice skating during games that got those wins...

The bright spot in sports...At least for me...Because it was really the only bit of sports I paid attention to this week...Friday night Mount Union won the D-3 National Title, after beating St. Thomas (Minn) in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, 28-10...

The victory gave head coach Larry Kehres his 11th national title in 16 appearances in the Stagg Bowl...All have been in the past 20 years...In 27 seasons, his record is 332-24-3...Had Mount Union lost, it would have been the fourth Stagg Bowl loss in a row, and the Senior class would have been the first in 20 years without a Title...

Way to go Purple Raiders!

 

 

 

That's it for now...Have a week...

The Beeze.

What Have We Become?

In this spot, I normally write about college football...That won't be happening this week...Friday, 12-14-12, I had planned on writing a little piece on my daughter Molly...It was her second birthday, and I had all this great stuff to say about her...But after hearing what happened at Sandy Hook School Friday, I just wanted to get to my kids, and just be with them...

Work was crazy, busy last week, and this week will be more of the same...I didn't find out what had happened until 2:30 PM...That was the first chance I had to catch my breath and take a look at my phone...My wife texted me the little she knew...When I left work an hour later I was getting more details from the radio...I was sick to my stomach...I got the kids...We went home, ordered pizza and waited for mom to get home...We didn't talk about what happened for awhile...I just wanted us all to be...

I'll be honest, the news put me in a pretty dark place...I had the feeling that maybe all this talk of the world ending next week was for a reason...Maybe the world is sick of us humans...Maybe we don't deserve it...Within a week, two mass shootings...Let alone the non-stop violence that goes every day, that we don't hear about on the news...We've just excepted that their is going to be another shooting on the Chicago streets tonight...Oh, and a guy slashed 22 kids in China with a knife the same day...Maybe the world deserves better...

Then as my wife and I, and our oldest daughter watched the news, my wife in tears...Me holding them back...I was saddened more, when my daughter was able to talk about it all so calmly...She is a smart, sweet, sensitive kid...And when things bother her, she'll talk them out...I realized her entire life has been in a time where there has been 24 hour, non-stop coverage, instant everything, and a time when mass shootings have become a common occurrence...My God, are our children becoming desensitized to awful shit like this?

This shooting has really thrown me for a loop...20 kids...6 and 7 year olds...Gunned down....Why? What could drive anyone to do such a thing? I just can't wrap my head around it...I'm not a super religious person, but if there is such a place as Heaven...These 20 little kids, and the 6 adults who died trying to save them, and who save many others, deserve to be in such a place...

And since I brought up religion, I'd like to take issue with the people online, and in the media, who have made comments such as 'This happened because prayer/God was taken out of schools.' We are a nation of many faiths...Not just yours...Public Schools are not the place for religion...You want your kids to get religion/God in school, do what we did...Knuckle up and pay for Private/Catholic school...Don't give me crap about it costing too much...If my broke ass can do it, you can...You know where I started?  I sold my most valuable guitars...We made sacrifices...That's what you do when you care about something, or you feel important...

I've also seen and heard many people complaining about pundits talking about gun control, and gun owners' rights...Yes, I'm sick of pundits talking...I want to see some real leaders talking, and debating...Yes, actually debating...That would be nice...People say it's too soon to bring this debate up...2 mass shootings in 1 week...2 small communities, that never thought it would happen there...20, six and seven year olds gunned down but some fuck-stain...This is exactly the time for a real debate to happen....Why is the First Amendment attacked so harshly by those defending the Second Amendment?  I don't know what the answer is...I don't know if we can fix the problem...But I know it needs to be talked about...Ideas need to be shared...Days like 12/14/12 need to never happen again...

Charlotte Bacon, 6;
Daniel Barden, 7;
Rachel Davino, 29;
Olivia Engel, 6;
Josephine Gay, 7;
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6;
Dylan Hockley, 6;
Dawn Hocksprung, 47;
Madeline F. Hsu, 6;
Catherine V Hubbard, 6;
Chase Kowalski, 7;
Jesse Lewis, 6;
James Mattioli, 6;
Grace McDonnell, 7;
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Emile Parker, 6;
Jack Pinto, 6;
Noah Pozner, 6;
Caroline Previdi, 6;
Jessica Rekos, 6;
Avielle Richman, 6;
Lauren Russeau, 30;
Mary Sherlach, 56;
Victoria Soto, 27;
Benjamin Wheeler, 6;
Allison N. Wyatt, 6

If there is a Heaven...It is far too crowded after Friday...






The Beeze.

Monday Moaning

 

 

 That right there is the most festive thing I've seen, that I like...I'm normally pretty into the Christmas season, but Sunday I woke up wanting nothing to do with it...We planned on doing the Christmas decorating Sunday, but I was feeling like crap...The wife was feeling worse...We had just had people over Saturday for our daughters joint birthday party...

Molls loves frosting!

All I wanted to do Sunday was be a lazy, lump of shit...But the wife, was having no part of it...

So after I had a cup of coffee while taking a dump...she hates when I take food and drink and the laptop in with me...A clear sign, I'll be awhile...I trudged downstairs and dug out the Christmas tree...I was always a real tree guy, but some of  Little Beeze's allergies, and then having a baby, made us go with the fake for the time being...So I start setting up the tree...Half the lights are out...And then it's spotted...A dead, decaying mouse...In the spring, we had spotted a mouse...I put a couple of quality, instant kill traps out...Two in the kitchen, one in the basement...And I stashed some poison in a couple spots where I thought the little fuckers may have gotten in....First day, Mickey was crushed in a kitchen trap...I reset it, and waited...It has yet to go off...Hell I even forgot it was there until today...Today, when I found Minnie in the tree...

So the tree got pitched...Then we had to go out and pick out a new one...The old one had white lights...The kids were dead set on getting colored lights...The wife was on their side...Fine, colored lights it is...Lowes was out of stock on every tree we would have bought...No sir, I don't want a 9 ft. tree for $389...For some reason that won't fit under my 8 ft. ceilings...Assholes!

So we landed at Walmart and grabbed 7 ft. tree with colored lights, for $98 dollars...Some how we also left with 3 ft. tree for the kids playroom, and some light up candy canes for the front yard...Oh, it's getting Holly Jolly now...as the day went on I just kept getting pissed...Nothing seemed to work out right...We stopped home, saw the Browns were winning, I went Ice Skating...This is the third week in a row where I have ignored the Browns, and gone ice skating with the kids...Third week in a row, that the Browns won...Guess who's ice skating every Sunday while the Browns are on, from now on....THIS GUY!

If not watching the Browns, and not seeing them win, is what it takes...Then for the sake of all Clevelanders, I'll do what I have to do...

After skating, we ordered Chinese food, and started decorating the tree...This is an issue for me...Because kids suck at decorating trees...Let me pull back the curtain...There are certain things that I'm very OCD about...Lots of little things, that shouldn't matter much, but make my head exploded....Like how to load a dishwasher...dumb shit...Well, a biggie is Christmas Tree decorating...I'll spend the next few nights, after everyone else is asleep, moving ornaments around, and getting rid of their clusters of ornaments...I'm not joking, this shit is maddening to me...

Saturday was fun...The kids had fun...I made my famous chicken chili...Some mac-n-cheese...Hot dogs...Ordered a couple pizzas....Everyone ate well...The girls each had their own cakes...Molly's was Dora...My oldest, had a clarinet, and musical notes on it, along with roses...She started playing this year, and costing us an extra chunk of change, but she loves it...So I stopped renting her one, and traded in one of my guitars to get her a clarinet....FUCK those things are expensive!

The kids all left, and most of the adults...But my brothers like to linger...So I took the kids skating, which got everyone to leave...When we got back it was time for me to focus on the limited college football that went on Saturday, including Johnny Manziel winning the Heisman...You can read about it all HERE.

That's all I have people...Yeah, this was more of a journal update, then a sports blog, but sometimes sports just isn't bouncing around in my head, like everything else...

Here, I'll leave you with what would be called an anti-Christmas song...It's not Holly Jolly, but it's good...It's by Daniel Mustard, a homeless guy that was discovered by Opie and Anthony when he did THIS....Well Opie got some backing and help for him, and he's made an album soon to be out there...here's a SAMPLE.

So here is "Since Santa Ain't Coming"




Have a week...

The Beeze.

The Beeze's College Football Wrap Up

 

 

And the winner is............

Johnny Manziel from Texas A&M....Kid has a decent Heisman pose, ain't that right Alabama?

Manziel, made history Saturday night, as he was the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy....Now it won't come as a shock that I was rooting for Notre Dame's Manti Te'o...But it wasn't just because he plays at Notre Dame...It's because I'd really love to see defense start getting some credit these days...Te'o lead a defense that only allowed 10 TD's this season...But it's always been clear, no matter what kind of defensive numbers get put up, the Heisman is all about offense...

And that said, Manziel definitely put up some big offensive numbers...43 total TD's...19 rushing, and 24 passing...Rushing for 1,181, and passing for 3,419 yards...And while I wanted to see Te'o buck the system for all defensive players...It was good to see a Freshman buck the system...There had been so much talk against Manziel, just because he's a freshman...If he earns it, who cares...This isn't an award based a players career...It's  for each season...

One thing was clear about each of the three finalists...If it isn't for them, their teams aren't sitting where they are...ND doesn't go undefeated without Te'o...Kansas State doesn't lose just 1 game, and wins the Big-12 without Collin Klein...And Texas A&M doesn't walk into the SEC and finish with a 10-2 record, including going to Alabama and rolling the Tide, without Manziel...All 3 deserved the trip to New York...I really wouldn't have been upset about any of these guys winning...And it was great to see a few guys in New York, that no one was expecting to see there....(Well, except for me picking Klein as my dark horse this pre-season)

Te'o did win the Maxwell Award, the Bednarik Award, and the Walter Camp Foundation Player of the Year Award...

-Saturday we also had the Army/Navy game...Pride, and tradition in all of it's glory...Two teams full of young men, who won't be moving on to the NFL...Instead, they'll be moving on to serve our country...Every year my Dad bets Army, since that's the branch he served in...It's the only bet he'll ever make with his heart...And he was hoping to see Army turn things around...Army was looking to break a streak of 10 loses in a row, and were lead by Senior QB, Trent Steelman....

After 3 quarters Army was ahead 13-10...But young Navy QB, Keenan Reynolds drove his team down field late, and scored the go ahead TD...There was under 5 minutes left...Steelman started his team on a 70 yard drive...With time winding down, at the Navy 14 yard line, a hand-off to fullback Larry Dixon, some how, somewhere, went wrong...Dixon fumbled it...Navy recovered it...11 Navy wins in a row...And Steelman took it hard...He was inconsolable after the game...

Honestly, it was hard to watch how broken up this young man was...Even the announcers seemed uncomfortable...

But it was great to see Army in the game...So many in the past few years have been one sided...

-The Cincinnati Bearcats have a new head coach...Tommy Tuberville has left Texas Tech to become the new man in Cincy...Tuberville leaves the Big-12 to go to the Big East?  Or where ever Cincy ends up, because the Big East is just about dead...This should be good for Cincy, since it's been a jumping off point for a number of coaches...Now they have an established guy, who should stick around awhile...This of course was made possible, when Tennessee hired Cincinnati coach Butch Jones...

-The Mount Union Purple Raiders (14-0) are headed to their 8th straight D-3 Championship game...Looking to win their 11th National Championship, they'll face St. Thomas (Minn) Friday, in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl...Seriously people, this is one of the finest football programs in the country, year in and year out...Support the small divisions that do it right, with a playoff...Watch this game!

That's it...See ya Monday...

The Beeze.

 

Fucking Gas-bags!

Yes, fucking Bob Costas...You can always count on this smug little douche to get all high and mighty...And he has pissed off plenty of people after his commentary Sunday night...Costas felt the need to make Javon Belcher murdering Kassandra Perkins, and then killing himself, into a political statement about control laws...

In his little smarmy voice, he quoted sportswriter Jason Whitlock, "If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kassandra Perkins would both be alive today."

Okay, so Whitlock is gas-bag #2...Are these two dopes shitting me?  Listen, I'm not Johnny Fucking Gun Collector...I'd have no problem if we tightened up the gun laws...But do these ass-clowns really believe that Kassandra Perkins would really still be alive is this fuck-stain Belcher didn't have a gun!?!  He shot her 9 times...9 fucking times...If you shoot some one 9 times, you're pissed...You're trying to make a point...Like I want you fucking dead...

So if Asshole Belcher didn't have a gun, he still would have fucked her up....He would have choked her out...Or beaten her to death, or both...The dude was huge compared to her...Believe me, he could take her out, without using a gun...Dude was in a rage for some reason...You don't shoot some one 9 times when you're just joking around...You don't shoot some one 9 times, and storm out the door saying 'dinner better be ready when I get back!'   No! You shoot some one 9 times to kill them...Gun or no gun, she didn't stand a chance...

As for him...If his reaction to shooting and killing her was to off himself...It's most likely he would have felt the same way, had he choked her out, or bashed her head through the granite counter tops...Whitlock and Costas' point here is just fucking stupid...I use to like Whitlock, but over the last few years, he's become a real fucking dolt...Costas...He's always been an asshole...He can't help it...He's just an obnoxious, arrogant twat...It's gotta be tough for  a fucker that short, to always be climbing up on that high horse...(yes he really is short as hell...I saw him in a Cleveland restaurant in  '97...and he was a dick)

All networks let their star gas-bags get on the air and spew bullshit from time to time...But NBC, this was a major mistake...Costas looked like a fool...And no one likes it when a 3 month old with two dead parents gets politicized...

There was another gas-bag this week that pissed me off...Cleveland Browns left tackle, Joe Thomas...After a year has past, he has finally decided it was okay to come out a bash former Browns running back, Peyton Hillis...This has become a big trend in sports...Everyone protects the team asshole...Coaches, GM's. players...Everyone...Then, after he's gone, the blast him in the media...It's nothing new, but I'm sick of it...

If Thomas would have said the shit last year, that he said this week about Hillis, I would have respected him...Thomas called Hillis "toxic" to the team...He blasted Hillis for how he handled his contract dispute with the team...Thomas basically said Hillis faked injuries....Easy for the guy who got a $84 million extension...

The thing is, most Browns fans were pushing for Hillis to get a new deal...The fans were behind him, and vocal about it, for the first half of the season...But the fans noticed a lot of the things Thomas brought up...But maybe if Thomas would have spoken up publicly last year, the fans would have backed off their support of Hillis sooner...Maybe a teammate, and team leader blasting Hillis publicly, would have made him re-think how he was acting...

But no....Thomas waits until the nest year...The week that the Browns are going to play Hillis and his new team, the Chiefs...One, way to try and motivate the guy now that he's playing for some one else...Two, shut up you pussy!  If you had any real balls, you would have bashed him last year...I hate the contract disputes in sports...But you know what pisses me off more?  In this fucking era of   "I gotta get mine"...These fuckers only care about getting theirs, and fuck my teammates if they're trying to get theirs...And then I'll shit on them in the press when they're long gone...

Fuck Joe Thomas!  I hope former Browns coach Romeo Crennel runs Hillis all day, and he gets 200 yards...While former Browns QB, Brady Quinn finally has that career day, that he couldn't get here, because the O-line sucked balls, and he had no receivers...

Fucking Gas-bags!


Later, The Beeze.

Monday Moaning (A Day Late and a Dollar Short)

Yes, I took a personal day...Needed a Monday Moaning breather...But here I am, back for more...Back with more to say...And since I took that breather, let me give you all just a little extra of the good stuff...

Now that I've taken care of the sexy, I am happy to say that Notre Dame will be playing in the BCS Championship game against Alabama...I think I made my thoughts clear HERE...There isn't a doubt in my mind that ND can beat Alabama...I'm not calling a blowout...But they can win...It should be a close game...

The Bowl game that most people seem excited about is the Fiesta Bowl...Kansas State vs. Oregon...A Championship game many wanted to see, before both teams lost...It should be a fun one...

But the Bowl causing all the controversy is the Orange Bowl, which has Northern Illinois taking on Florida State...The 12-1 Huskies did everything required of them to earn an at large bid for a BCS bowl...All the other conferences knew about this rule...ESPN knew about it...It was many of their talking heads that kept raising a stink about the likes of past Boise State, TCU, Utah, and Nevada teams not getting a fair shot at BCS bowls...

So now, a MAC school does it, and everyone is pissed...They keep screaming Oklahoma should be there...WHY?  Because they're a big name...So what...They lost to Notre Dame, and Kansas State...They win both those games, they're playing for it all...They win one of those games, and maybe they win their conference and get the automatic bid...College Football has always been clear...You have to win...Win...There's no playoff (yet) so you have to be perfect, or nearly perfect to go anywhere...Otherwise, go fuck yourself...So stop with this Oklahoma, Georgia, LSU, should be there instead of NIU...

NIU is 12-1...You're not...NIU won their conference...You didn't...NIU finished in the top 15...They hit the requirements...NIU's QB is better then yours...NIU is giving their students 1 free ticket each to the Orange Bowl...Your school isn't/wouldn't....I'll take the Huskies over you crying cunts!

-Sunday, my NFL viewing options were the Lions and Colts and Packers vs the Vikings...I could care less about these teams...The Lions have been a bust...The Colts are rebuilding...I don't care about Andrew Luck and his come backs...The Packers have been overrated, or underachieving, or both...And the Vikings are trying to get their shit together...I just don't care...The NFL just really bores me...So the kids and I went ice skating...We've been going twice a week for a few weeks now...Maybe I'll start getting my ass back in shape...

When we got home, the Browns game versus the Raiders was on...Guess what?  I didn't fucking watch it...Two of the worst teams in the NFL going head to head in the battle of who could care less...No thanks...I made meatloaf, mash potatoes and corn instead... (the Browns won)

-The big story this week in the NFL was Chiefs LB Javon Belcher shooting and killing his girlfriend and mother of their 3 month old daughter...Then he went to the Chiefs facilities, and killed himself in front of his coach and GM...It's an awful story, and while many have touched on it, no one has said something that needs to be said...I don't care if you were his friend of a family member of his, and you're reading this...FUCK JAVON BELCHER!  Anything good he ever did in his life was voided Saturday...He got off easy taking his chicken shit way out...Fuck this fucking fuck...His daughter has no parents...And one day she'll learn about what happened, and what will that do for her?  Break her heart...Fill her with anger...God knows what else...Javon Belcher is/was a piece of shit....That's all his head stone should say...

- And since I'm already angry...I'm sure everyone has heard about the homeless guy who had no shoes...So a NYC cop bought him a pair of water resistant boots and some socks...The picture of it all has become huge...

Well once again, this guy has no shoes...When he was seen without the boots, barefoot again, he was asked about it...His story..."They're hiding." He feels that they are expensive, and could get stolen...

Well kids, I'm calling bullshit!  You're fucking homeless...Where the fuck are they hiding?  I hate to be cynical, but am...I don't believe this shit one bit...This fucker sold those boots for some drugs or booze...This cop did a great thing...I have to wonder how he feels about this...Probably gonna think twice before he thinks about reaching into his pocket for some one again...

-A year ago this past weekend, the comedy world lost a great...If you have a hour to kill, come back and click on this video, and listen to great interview with Patrice O'Neal...It's not just about comedy, it's a real, honest, and funny conversation that gave great insight into a hell of a comic...




That's it for now...Have a week...

The Beeze.

The Beeze's College Football Wrap Up

Well, the BCS Championship Game is set...How? Because the media said so...For a number of years the media has forced it down our throat that the SEC is the best conference in College Football...So they will always say that a one loss SEC team is better then a one loss team from any other conference...They will even tell us a one loss SEC team is better then certain undefeated teams...They refuse to acknowledge that half of the teams in the SEC are garbage...They refuse to look at the fact that these SEC powers often schedule weak non-conference games...Or that they don't travel anywhere out of the south...(with the rare exception that LSU made a couple years ago)

But the media has made it clear that whoever wins the SEC championship will be playing in the National Championship Game...A one loss Oregon team gets no mention...(They didn't win their conference, so maybe they don't deserve it)...No mention for a one loss Kansas State team...Why? Because they aren't sexy...They're not flashy...Ummm, but have you watched Alabama?  They aren't very flashy either, squeaking out wins against LSU and Georgia, and losing to Texas A&M at home...Although, those bouncing Alabama tits above are sexy!

So after 'Bama beat Georgia Saturday 32-28, the big game was set...Alabama will face Notre Dame for that big crystal football...And to all you people giving Notre Dame no chance...No expected them to get this far, did they?  I'll tell you this...Watch Alabama's games again...Watch ND's games again...I think we are all going to witness a really good game between these two teams...And I think the Irish are going to shock a whole lot of people...Yes, I know you ND haters...Just like I've grown to hate the SEC...So talk all your shit...But when your team loses, I don't want any bullshit excuses...Because if ND loses, I won't play that game...I'll take the shit you throw at me...And I'll rip them for playing like crap if they do so...Anyone who has read my blog knows, while I'm a loyal fan, that doesn't stop me from picking my teams apart...Win or lose, I'll be here...Will you?

As for the rest of this weekend of College Football, I'll be honest...I paid hardly any attention at all...I just didn't care...The kids and I went ice skating...Then we watched a high School hockey game with some friends...Then we went home for dinner, and then I realized there was some football going on...I watched the second half of the 'Bama/Georgia game...Then the Mrs. put on "It's a Wonderful Life"...At the commercials I jumped over to the K-State/Texas game...I paid no attention to the Florida State/ Georgia Tech game, because who really cares...And FSU, you should be ashamed of yourselves for only winning 21-15...

After the kids fell asleep, and the Mrs. went to bed, I put on the rest of the K-State/Texas game...Collin Klein and company back to where they were, beating Texas 42-24...Earlier in the day, Baylor, who has been playing pretty well late in the season, beat #23 Oklahoma State 41-34...

Friday night, for the second time in 2 weeks, UCLA and Stanford put on another good game as they played for the PAC-12 title...The Cardinal held on to a 27-24 win...

In the MAC, it took Northern Illinois 2 OT's to top Kent State 44-37...

And then...Saturday night, there was another game...I had no intention of watching any of it...The Big-10 Championship game...With their two stupid division names..."Leaders" and "Legends"...Wow, the BIG-10 ego is disgusting...Wisconsin vs Nebraska...I had flipped over during a commercial of the K-State game, and saw a Nebraska TD called back because I WR threw an awesome block, and they called the bullshit 'hitting a defenseless player' crap...

BOOM!

You know why this was a bullshit penalty?  Because #10 in red has an angle at making a tackle....80 in white is the reason a TD was scored...And the candy ass refs stole it....

That all said, it wasn't going to help Nebraska...From this point on...No one is allowed to talk fondly of Nebraska's "Black Shirt Defense"...I don't ever want to hear about the vaunted "Black Shirts" ever again...Fuck that bullshit...When you give up 216 yards on 9 carries to one running back...Along with giving up 202 yards on 21 carries to another running back...Along with giving up 109 yards on 15 carries to another running back, and a combined 8 rushing TD's....You don't ever get to hype your defense again....Every defensive coach on that staff should be fired...for life!

Wisconsin won the Big-10, 70-31, and it wasn't even that close...

That's all I have...Yes, this post is a bit uninspired...As am I.

The Beeze.

(Thanks to Big Lead Sports for the quality GIFs)