(Image credit: Whit Bazemore, 2017 MotoGP @ Circuit of Americas)
I love this picture. I’ve asked how to buy it, after seeing it on AutoExtremist. Peter M says he has no idea if there’s a print.
So, I deep copied it just to save it.
His eyes.
Perhaps Cal’s a bargain at that price.
However, when I look at the budget presentation here, I see a $2.2 Billion budget for the University of Kentucky (slide 5). Calipari’s $4,375,000 per year is right at 0.2% of the total budget. A pittance? Again, perhaps.
However, when we flip over to slide 11, notice a budget slashed to meet declining revenue projections, with 188 positions eliminated.
It makes me sick to my stomach to read the last slide, Dr. Todd’s valediction to those whose education become unaffordable, and those staff who lost their jobs:
Too long for a tweet, to short for proper blog. Here goes:
On Gillespie
Yes, you woke up the next day, and Billy Clyde Gillespie is really gone. He’s trying to “win” the breakup, showing the world his smiling public face, but make no mistake–you hurt him. You took him right off the turnip truck, threw him in front of the most rabid fan base this side of Notre Dame football, and now he’ll be laughing all the way to the bank as he deposits $6 million. I’m no lawyer, but I think that’s what that “Memorandum of Understanding” implies.
(Yes, they whipped Belfrey. Again. On the Road. Muhahaha)
Story about my uncle and his three sons
Once again, the Breathitt County Bobcats find themselves in the championship game, this time with All-State running back Channing Fugate.
I don’t think they have any shot of winning, since they’re essentially one-dimensional (GIVE CHANNING THE BALL!)
Brrrrrrrrring
“This is Harold”
“Hey, Honey! Listen, where would you and Joey like to sit at the Legends Opening Day Game tonight?”
Blink. Blink.
“WHaaa…?”
“I’m getting you guys tickets to the game. Where would you like sit?”
* * *
Yes, I have the best wife in the world. Don’t know how she knew, but it was great.
The team this year is so-so. Well, so-so…so far. The starting pitcher made it into the 5th inning, but the middle relief guy (Koons) got tagged early and often, including a classic “throw it to first but brain some guy in the stands” error that lead to a score 1 play later. Fielding was uneven, with two more errors leading to scores or extra bases.
Yeah, you knew it had to happen…I like football. Why not indulge in that national passion–Fantasy Football.
My team’s called the ‘Madden 09 Wannabees’, and we had our draft at Bufallo Wild Wings on Todd’s road:
Anywho, Here’s the linueup I got (picked #8 in a serpentine draft):
Starters:
RB - Brian Wetbrook - Philly
RB - Willis McGahee - Balt’more
QB - Vince Young - Ten
After jerry-rigging my 7 1/2 foot antenna atop my entertainment center, I watched the national title game last night.
Wow, did OSU look like a bad team: Flat, underprepared, with no answer to any of Florida’s plays. The game was pretty-much over when Tressel went for it on 4th & 1 FROM HIS OWN 30 YARD LINE! This is boneheaded along the lines of Rick Pitino not guarding Grant Hill’s inbound pass in 1992.
I’m still shaking my head over this one. My quote at 11am today:
Man, I just hope we don’t embarrass ourselves.
After watching a well-coached, well-played game from the UK Wildcats, I still can’t believe that’s the same team that played LSU just a few months ago. They had a stellar opening drive, adjusted their game-plan against the Clemson pass-rush, then just lit-up the stadium for 21 unanswered points. As my pall Jeff says, the game really wasn’t as close as the 28-20 score would indictate–we owned Clemson today.
I’m sports-obsessed this weekend…namely because football’s back!! Yep, the 22-man skirmish played out on an artificial battlefield is back, and it’s great.
So, some predictions:
Eli’s Giants will beat Peyton’s Colts. On the Giants’ home field, they’re showing defense and a RUNNING GAME. Is Peyton the better QB? Yes. Does it matter? No.
Kentucky football sucks. What else is new?
Brett Favre will be benched by midseason. Home opener shutout? Yikes. Retire and let us remember your 90’s glory!
After a morning of sleeping-in, procuring some coffee at Kroger, and gassing-up the Intrigue, we headed to Beattyville, leaving at 2 and arriving around 5 (!)
The news:
- Dad bought a truck. It’s the same truck as his last truck, but it has the advantage of 97k fewer miles and a higher differential ratio (3.43 v 3.73)
- Used the air tools to rotate the tires on the intrigue.
Randomness:
- Kentucky lost in a worthy effort. Joey woke-up from his nap in time to half-watch the game w/10 mins to go in the 2nd. Not a great game, but a great performance from a mediocre team. Once Morris fouled-out, I knew we were done, but Sparks almost pulled it out.
- Yesterday was yard-work day, as Joey and I went out and honey-did: Put down pre-emergent, fertilizer, covered Whitney’s flowers against the frost, pruned the rat’s-nest of our pear trees, and swept the front porch. Not warm enough to do much else, but Spring is a-coming.
Yes, it was risky. Yes, it was youthful exhuberance. Yes, she fell within walking distance of the finish witha 140 foot lead on her nearest competitor.
But FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S HOLY, she didn’t deserve the vitriolic montage on NBC’s coverage after her fall. “Dewey defeats Truman”? It’s a sport, and a new one at that! Sport is about competition, yes, but when it comes right down to it, it’s about showing that you’re better than someone at something, for your own glory.
So, on last night’s Monday Night Football…er…Superbowl telecast we saw:
A boring 1st half
A broadcast team who phoned-in their performance
A sectegenarian rock band who phoned-in their performance
A network so scared of controversy it rejected any commercial hinting at sex (i.e. the good ones
Just on the football, we saw a game that Seattle lost more than Pittsburgh won. If they hadn’t mismanaged the clock, Seattle could’ve easily had 14 more points. The Steelers weren’t THAT stellar, especially with Big Ben was nervous in the 1st half.
I miss hockey.
I really miss being able to watch hockey LIVE, when the Thoroughblades were in Lexington.
America responded to the NHL lockout with a collective shrugh of the shoulders, but I CARE, darn it! Hockey is a wonderful sport: Grace, power, speed, action, and violence in one package.
Sadly, it’s awful on Television, and unlike basketball or football, you don’t grow-up playing pickup games of hockey in Florida, Texas, or California.
Can it be possible that BOSTON will pull it out against the yankees?
As I type this, it’s the top of the 9th, one out, and runners at the corners for Boston, with the Sox aheadd 9-3. Aside from a slip in the 7th by Pedro Martinez, Boston has been flawless.
Can it be?
“Damn you Hal Mumme!”
This is the attack I caught as moving through my presets on the AM band on the way home tonight. The cause? Kentucky’s catastrophic loss last weekend to Louisville in the “Battle for the Governor’s Cup”, 28-0.
28-nothing
28-ZIP.
Basically, the announcer’s assertion after his tirade was that Hal Mumme made the Kentucky fanbase believe that anything that was problematic needed a microwavable, need-it-yesterday solution.
Kentucky’s fanbase is fickle and pompus, with a superiority complex that needn’t be bothered by 5 losses in the last 6 to the Louisville Cardinals.
The second day of olympics coverage and an interesting conversation with my beloved kept me up WAY past my bedtime, and caused me to be very tardy to work today–9:45.
The olympics coverage has been excellent, though for once, I wish I had cable (MSNBC, CNBC, and Bravo) so that I could watch some of the other events. I’d really like to see some of the equestrian stuff, and I’ve heard good things about fencing this year. Matt Fagenbush (sp?), one of my autocross buddies, is a competitive fencer, and after he explained the sport to me (3 blades–foil, epée, and saber), seems like it’d be amazing to watch.
