Tuesday, March 20, 2007

It is hard out here

It all get down to the get down is what it get down to, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers

Scary dumb
There are several studies that reveal that exercise makes you smarter. That is scary. How stupid would the nine repeatedly arrested Cincinnati Bengals be if they didn’t work out?  

Maybe it was just me
Did you see President Bush’s speech trying to promote the Iraqi war? Why did I get an image of the Ford Theater owner trying to sell tickets the night after Lincoln got shot?

Somebody hose that guy down
At a zoo in Louisiana a female chimpanzee recently got pregnant even though all the male chimps had been fixed. That New England Patriot QB Tom Brady is relentless.

Who? Good question
At a concert in Tampa Bay, the lead singer for “The Who”, Roger Daltry just walked off stage after the first song. Yeah, he was singing “Who Are You?” and he is so old he couldn’t remember.

Not again
In the NCAA tournament, Louisville failed to make the sweet sixteen losing to Texas A&M 72-69 after guard Edgar Sosa missed a three point shot. Not only that, it was later discovered that Sosa tried to cork the ball.

Speaking of Sosa
After a year out of baseball due to being tainted with the steroid scandal, Sammy Sosa has made a spot on the Texas Rangers starting lineup. I’m not sure what that spot with the Rangers is, but I am pretty sure it is not the public address announcer or the spokesperson.

To paraphrase Ricky Ricardo, if Sosa’s English gets any worse, he’d be mute.    

Not good
The NCAA tournament is down to the final sweet sixteen teams. But it does not look good for USC. Not because they aren’t good enough to win, but because the flight to their next game is booked on Jet Blue.

Since you asked:
Just saw the recording of Paula Abdul with Dave and there just is something there that ain’t right. She has that talk of somebody who is trying to pull it together but just ain’t doing it. Just when she gets a string of lucidity she slips and slurs. You know how the drunk who is trying really hard not to sound drunk sounds? Like that.

Near the end of their careers, Chicago Bear running back greats Walter Payton and Gayle Sayers could still have moments where you saw the flash of their old brilliance. But there were also times when you saw that they wanted to break a run and it just couldn’t happen; both times, it broke my heart. You just knew something wasn’t right and it wasn’t ever going to be right again.

That is what is going on with Paula Abdul. She looks good, at times she sounds fairly normal and then she just slip slides away, slip sliding away, you know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip sliding away.

(Polite applause and kudos to Paul Simon on the assist)