a guy with total class...

Scott Carroll,of the Chicago White Sox,won his Major League Baseball debut with a 9-2 win,Sunday,over the Tampa Bay Rays... big deal,for the 29 year old rookie,right??? after the game,he asked Adam Dunn,for a place to go eat,with his family... Dunn said,"let me make some calls",and left... he did make one call,to Timmy O'Toole's,a great restaurant,in the Windy City... Carroll got to the restaurant,with 35 family members,and-surprise-Dunn picked up the tab for the family meal... a nice touch,no doubt...

commentary...

my opinion of (now banned for life,by the NBA) NBA owner Donald Sterling has been in the sewer for awhile... what bothers me about this is that Sterling has had trouble with race relations in the past(having the DOJ filing a lawsuit over not allowing blacks and Latinos in his apartment housing),and people are now are pissed about his comments on race,when he was secretly being a scumbag,and have those feelings about race,in the past... where were you holier than thou bandwagon jumpers in the past when Sterling had a lawsuit filed,against him by the DOJ,or is it all right to have a person,like Sterling be an owner of a NBA team??? shame on you,NBA,FOR allowing that person to be a NBA owner for years... as for Sterling,JUST LEAVE,AND GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!

blog statement...

i have been off a couple days,and still need time to decompress,but i will blog today...

blog statement...

unless breaking news happens tomorrow,like the Packers beats the Bears tomorrow(laughing),i am taking a few days off... i can wish for a game,can't i???

commentary...

i do wish that NFL football was starting,today... it has been a very long and boring off-season... i am bored hearing,and talking,about draft picks,and very little else,for the last two plus(almost three)months... it is very boring to do it,period... SNOREFEST!!!!!!!!!!!!

commentary...

the NFL is discussing in May whether to expand the playoff field,to an extra team... it will happen,most likely,in the 2015 NFL season,and now they are floating a trial balloon on extending the NFL Draft from the current three days to a fourth day,with the same seven rounds... they moved the draft from April to May this year,boring the fans who watch NFL Network... the pundits have been talking about who will go in the first round,and the overall draft,basically from the day after the Super Bowl... the network has had a "Seahawks week" that stretched into two weeks,celebrating the Seattle Seahawks clobbering the Denver Broncos,43-8... they basically ordained the Seahawks as the best team ever(not even close on that stupidity)... they have droned on about the draft even since,and they are not going to stop until the draft is over... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

commentary...

sometimes,i put music that makes me absolutely cry... that is the case right now,because Stevie Wonder is simply great... it is very odd that i do not listen to him too often,because he is one of my all-time favorite musicians... "Songs in the Key of Life" is my favorite album of his,period... i used to have a very rare cassette tape of his early music that i played so often that i ruined the cassette... it has been one of those days that i will never forget,because i am strangely happy,not smiling too much,but very serene,which does not happen too often... this year has had its ups and downs,but i strangely am just peaceful right now... if an atomic bomb were to drop right now,i would say,"what a beautiful mushroom cloud",simply smile,and laugh myself silly... i am tapping the table to the rhythm of the music,and do not care a whit,about what people would think if they were to see me right now... folks,just having fun!!!!! some of these songs remind me of family and i see their faces in my mind,as i type... there i go,tears again!!!!! who cares... i love this music... to my memories,they are flooding back like a waterfall into my mind... this is one of those memorable days... sometimes,i need them...