Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
It’s a cold morning in Bagwine. 21 degrees Fahrenheit. For all of you pretentious Celsius clowns out there that’s -6 degrees.
I start my new schedule today and will be working 11-4 today, so I’ll be shivering while delivering the suds and smokes.
For me, winter is officially here when I go into the beer cooler to warm up because it’s warmer in the cooler than it is outside.
Today is such a day, but I dig the new schedule. I work four days and then off for three…and unlike my days off in the old schedule, my days off are consecutive. Boo Yah!!
I like working 11-4 because it gets me up and gets me going and I get off early enough to still enjoy the Saturday. And today will be decent because although it will be cold, it is supposed to be sunny. I like that.
I know what you’re thinking…
“Damn Matt-Man, this post is fucking fascinating!!”
What can I say? Fascinating is my middle name. Well, it’s one of my middle names…My other one being, Asshole. But of course, what’s in a name?
Anyhoo…
That’s all I’ve got. That’s all there is. There isn’t anymore.
I’ll talk to Ryno later this morning and find out how his regular season debut on his High School JV basketball team went and report back.
One last thing…
Good Luck to the Wittenberg University Tigers. Wittenberg is a very good private school located here in Bagwine, and their football team is playing in the NCAA Division III quarterfinals today.
Go Tigers!!
Until later today, perhaps tomorrow, or well, whenever…
Cheers!!
Happy Saturday!!
I'm off to see Ryno for a few and then will be back to the digs to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor at Noon today.
This is exactly the type of football game that I enjoy watching because I don't care who wins and if they end up carting 15 players off the field from either and/or both sides, I just say, "Eh, what a fucking shame."
Other than my back hurting, my lung sounds clear and I feel pretty good today. So good in fact, that when I woke up this morning, I took a picture of one of the first things I did this morning...
Tar and Nicotine never tasted so damn good!! I'll add some beer and Rose to the mix later, and baby, we'll be partyin'!!
Have a wonderful Saturday all.
Cheers!!
If you are merely a casual College Football fan, or if you are one who resides in either Ohio or Michigan, you know what tomorrow is.
Tomorrow is the annual Ohio State Buckeyes/Michigan Wolverines football game.
Although I am a lifelong denizen of the Buckeye State, I unlike most Ohioans, really don’t give a crap who wins. I am one of the minority in these two states that loathes both teams.
Why, you ask? Well, let me ‘splain…
I’m not a fan of the Michigan Wolverine football team because number one…They are a yearly opponent and foe of my beloved yet hapless, Notre Dame Quasi-Fighting Irish.
But, my detest for Michigan runs much deeper than the shallowness of a football rivalry.
You see, from 1835-36 the State of Ohio nearly went to war with the Territory of Michigan in order to see which entity would control a strip of land that contained the City of Toledo.
Both sides assembled and readied militias…the bloodlust for war was waxing, and shots were periodically fired across the Maumee River. Fortunately…
The Federal government stepped in and settled the “war” before any lives were lost. The Territory of Michigan was granted statehood and the mineral rich and beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ohio?
Ohio was granted the strip of land that contains the City of Toledo. If you have ever been to Toledo, you know why Ohioans like myself, are to this day, totally pissed off about this ruling and still hate Michigan.
As for my disdain for the Ohio State Buckeyes? One reason, and two words…THEIR FANS.
Ohio State Buckeye football fans as my friend Jay put it the other day, are INSUFFERABLE.
They’re kooks…They’re uber-obnoxious. And…They believe that God put THE Ohio State University on this Earth in order to win the NCAA National Football Championship every fucking year.
Oh Dear God, They…Are…Horrid.
Take for instance this year…OSU fans are up in arms over the fact that the University of Cincinnati is ranked ahead of them in the polls. This fact rocks their world because as we all should know, there is only one college football team in Ohio.
It can be summed up by a quote I read in a Sports Illustrated piece that focused on the two fine QBs at the Univ. of Cincinnati. An OSU fan wrote in response to the article:
“If those two guys were really any good, OSU would have snatched them up out of High School.” Whatever.
Of course this year like every year, every local TV affiliate out of Columbus has the Countdown to Kickoff Clock at the bottom of the screen. All of the news anchors are dressed in Scarlet and Gray and they are donning necklaces made from buckeyes.
And of course every anchor and every OSU fan in Ohio refers to the football team as, “us.” Y’know, like they’re part of the team. 
Stop it…Just fucking stop it. Stupid and living vicariously through others is no way to go through life you obnoxious bastards!!
Anyhoo…
As I do every year, I will watch the game tomorrow. I will be rooting for Michigan, because here is how this event goes with me.
Michigan is 5-6 and Ohio State is 9-2. In this game, I always root for the team that will hurt the other in terms of success. If the records were reversed I would root for OSU.
There is an added benefit of seeing OSU losing tomorrow to Michigan.
If the Buckeyes lose, I can turn on the Six O’clock News out of Columbus and I will see every anchor on every station crying their eyes out and screaming, “Oh, The Humanity!! How Could This Happen!?”
If you have never experienced this sight…You are missing one of the funniest things in both football and TV journalism.
I do love it so.
Cheers!!
Ahhhhh, the first day of September, and Labor Day Weekend is just a couple of days away.
It’s an extended weekend for many Americans, including myself. I am off Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and guess what I shall be doing…
Drinking mass quantities of potent potables and watching College Football!! Damn Straight!! The 2009 NCAA Football season begins Thursday night, and the initial week of games continues right on through Monday.
Oh dear God, I do love it so.
There are a couple of really good match-ups taking place…Oregon vs. Boise State, Georgia vs. Oklahoma State, Alabama vs. Virginia Tech, and of course Saturday afternoon…
The Wolfpack of The University of Nevada invades South Bend to take on my beloved Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
I have no doubt that ND will suck, break my heart, and leave me spewing expletives from my mouth and steam from my big ears.
I have suffered through the Davie years, lost hope through the Willingham years, and now, I throw things at the TV through the Charlie Weis years.
Charlie “I Helped to Coach 18,000 Super Bowl Champions” Weis, has consistently put a defense on the field that operates under what I call, “The Croquet Wicket System” because ND opponents have no trouble rolling right through it.
He has done a decent job developing current Cleveland Browns and former ND QB Brady Quinn as well as current Irish QB Jimmy Claussen. Quinn and Claussen have become decent players because of Weis’ genius.
The success of those two has been in large part due to the fact Weis is incapable of developing an effective running game even if his upcoming opponent is, The University of Blind Thalidomide Babies.
When a team can’t run the ball, and as a result has to throw it often, a QB can get pretty good at passing and getting up off of his ass after taking a bone crushing, blind side hit from a 325 pound defensive end.
Oh Charlie…How you make us Notre Dame fans proud. In fact, you make the entire Irish race proud, because when seeing a couple of Irish guys like Quinn and Claussen never failing to get up after another pounding on national TV, it proves how tough we Irish truly are.
God Bless Ya, Charlie.
On a sad note…We suffered a death in the Bagwine Family over the weekend. The remote to our cable box, whom I have loved, adored, and long ago named, hANNd Margret, died from natural causes.
My sexy siren who offered me a world of entertainment, ease of channel surfing, and a feeling of omnipotence, could give no more.
As a result of her passing, I must trot down to our local Time Warner Cable office sometime this morning, and pick up a new channel girl...
For this weekend, I have beer to drink, a Charlie Weis Voodoo Doll to construct, and dozens of college football games between which I must be able to flip back and forth.
Cheers!!
I’ll talk to Ryno later this morning and find out how his regular season debut on his High School JV basketball team went and report back.
