Monthly Archives: February 2008

Another reason Herm Edwards sucks

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Via kottke comes this fantastic study done by the folks at Gelf Magazine, who used a football game analyzing software to rank the NFL coaches by who called the worst plays.

Guess what? Herm Edwards was near the bottom of the barrel. Now, granted, the New York Giants were ranked #31 on the list, but there’s only one thing that needs to be said here and I’m sorely lacking of my uppercase red letters like Tony, but I’ll try:

Herm Edwards must go.

The study found that the Chiefs lost 1.02 games because of poor play-calling. There will be people out there who will blame it on Mike Solari, but he is a scapegoat for Herm Edwards’ failures. It also found that during critical times during the game, the times when the head coach should be most involved, that the Chiefs were wrong ALMOST 62 PERCENT OF THE TIME.

We would be better off just allowing Brodie Croyle to call plays in critical situations. a 2/3 failure rate by our head coach is completely unacceptable.

Still, I can’t wait for the NFL draft.

I am now the proud owner of a cow

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Rather, WE (me and you, my readership) are the owners of a cow. I apologize for the delay. It took about a week to process some of the payments on PayPal for some reason. As more details arrive, I’ll share them, but I wanted to make sure that you all knew that I’ve gone forward and bought the cow. Now if I could just get the milk for free…

Payment Method: CREDIT

The following summarizes your order:

Name Description Quantity Price Total
Heifer Give an Udderly Original Gift
Heifer: Full Heifer		 1 $500.00 $500.00

Total: $500.00
ID: 75592991

Thanks again to all of you that donated. You guys are awesome. It’s only 3 1/2 long months until I can eat red meat again. Man, this is going to suck.

I love my wife

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Holding Hands

People who have a jaded view of love and marriage make me sad.

I’m so fortunate to have married my best friend – the person that I want to spend all my time with. I’ve never been a huge fan of this manufactured holiday. I don’t think that people should need a special day every year to tell those they love how much they mean to them. That’s something you should do every day.

I love you Alli.

I got my watch back

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I’m not sure exactly how long I’ve had this watch, but I know that since I’ve been without it after we returned from Italy, my wrist hasn’t felt right.

My watch

I’ve had many watches over my lifetime, but I never could really find one that fit my sensibility. I wanted something that looked classy, but didn’t have a metal band since I have hairy arms and that hurts. I wanted a watch I could wear everyday so it would have to go with work stuff as well as jeans and a t-shirt.

After years of searching for the right watch, Alli found it for me. It was that moment where you see something and you love it and you just hope that it looks right on you. After I tried it on, I knew that I would never want another watch.

And I don’t.

That’s why when the band broke several months ago, I was devastated. I could have very easily replaced the band, even with one straight from Diesel, but I couldn’t be certain that it would be the same band that the watch came with. The band is such an important part of the watch to me…it’s really its defining feature…I couldn’t risk it.

Then I lost my watch. OK, I didn’t lose it. I misplaced it under the mountain of paperwork that had piled up in my home office. (You’d think that with the custom desk, I wouldn’t lose stuff or have troubles staying organized, but you’d be wrong.)

Without a watch, I struggled. I went to Target and got a $20 Mossimo watch. While for a $20 watch, it was pretty cool, it just wasn’t the same. Then I cleaned my office a couple weeks ago and found my watch. On a department lunch outing, I passed a shoe repair shop and stopped in to see if they’d be able to mend my broken band. I had my doubts considering this particular repair shop in Fairway seemed to not use their heating on this absolutely freezing day. But for $10, it was worth a shot.

After a weekend of painful waiting, my watch has returned to its rightful place on my wrist. My arm feels whole again. My wrist looks cool again. It’s a good day.

Now we can re-sign him

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Trent Green has been cut by the Dolphins.

All-around nice guy quarterback Trent Green has been sacked by the Miami Dolphins as a part of Tony “Little Tuna” Soprano’s new rebuilding plan. This leaves the door wide open for King Carl to re-sign Trent Green and allow him to retire as a Chief. I loved Trent Green when he was in Kansas City and I thought it was tough to watch him go the way he did. But football is a business and I couldn’t see his place with the team anymore. It was hard to argue with the trade, although I wish that it would have been handled by the Chiefs’ front office better (yeah right).

Trent Green is a class act, but it would be difficult for him to get over the way he was treated by the Chiefs during the Miami debacle. If Carl were gone, it would be really cool to bring him back to KC as a quarterbacks assistant coach to help Brodie Croyle along as a pro. The likelihood of that happening is about the same as TKC’s likelihood to have a date on Valentine’s Day.

But as Chiefs fans, what do we have left to cling to but these whims? It’s not like our team is any good…

Writers’ Strike May Be Over

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The reports are out on most of the major news sources that the Writers Guild of America and the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) have reached a tentative agreement and could return to work as soon as Monday.

This is fantastic news because it takes a rather large bargaining chip out of Donald Trump’s hands. The Celebrity Apprentice is by far the worst iteration of Trump and (Survivor creator) Mark Burnett’s reality series. I’ve watched The Apprentice every season, but I’ve found this season so horrible and the celebrities so…um…lame, that it’s been a struggle to watch that stinker of a show.

The obvious flaw with the previous paragraph is if anyone were to ask the question: So why watch it? The answer is: there’s nothing else on. Sure, I could read a book. The book I’m reading right now is terrific, but most nights, it’s tough for me to inspire myself to read instead of sitting comfortably on the couch and vegging out.

The return of the writers means that one of my favorite new shows will hopefully return soon, The Big Bang Theory. I’m really looking forward to new episodes of all my favorites, but I’m particularly looking forward to the return of Sheldon.

Really? Huckabee?

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The state of Kansas chose Mike Huckabee as its Republican candidate of choice today. I didn’t make it out to the caucus because my preferred candidate on the Republican side is now out of the race.

I don’t get these people that like Mike Huckabee. I’m guessing that they just want something different out of Washington or they like his big cheeks. I don’t trust him. He seems like a guy who is trying to be clever. I just don’t see him that way. For a minister, he just seems entirely too slick. Too much like that dude who sells the holy spring water (isn’t his name Piper?).

Huckabee’s win in Kansas signals one of two things: either the state is (like I said above) very tired of politics as usual (which was evidenced by Obama’s overwhelming win here on Tuesday) or there are WAY more evangelical voters in the state than I thought.

It’s Friday!

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Man, have I ever had a week.

I’m really looking forward to kicking back this weekend…oh wait, I can’t really. I have 3 freelance projects to work on and I still have to figure out why my downstairs toilet is leaking. Plus, I’m speaking next weekend outside of Topeka, so there’s that.

Just when I thought I’d be able to breathe…

However, I’ve committed to tonight of just hanging with Alli and the dog. It’s going to be a fantastic night of pizza, soda, and catching up on our recorded shows. I think we’ve got about 6+ hours of TV to watch. Thank goodness for skipping commercials!

What are you up to this weekend?