Random randomness

I like getting chances to get away for a while with peeps. I don't like when most of the peeps can't or don't join in.

For the ones of you that may be wondering why I haven't done any football picks lately, it's because football is dead to me. It will be even deader once Vanderbilt has its way next weekend. At least I have Weir to fall back, oh that's right, they've been struggling a bit lately. Yeah, they've won their last two, but a big game this coming Friday could mean playoffs or no playoffs. And playoffs without Weir is like this blog with readers. (bizarro)

Finally got some TV watching done. The Office rules, which is a known fact. My Name Is Earl still produces some moments.

Heroes. 'Nuff said.

SVU came out of the gate swinging. I would go to Munch's bar. The new ADA needs to let her hair down. Mariska Hargitay is still hot.

Haven't watched the CBS dramas yet, so I don't know who blowed up on Criminal Minds, how Mac escaped or what the heck is happening in Vegas.

The state fair is in town. And I haven't been yet.

I wish I could golf more often.

There's going to be a Wings Stop downtown, not too far from work. If they are open late, like the one in Ridgeland, I might say screw it and forget brown bagging it and spend what little money I have.

I'll skip the "why I'm still single" rant.

Back to your lives.

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Let's get this out of the way

Football.

First, let's get the skull-f^H^H^Heasy games out of the way. Tennessee, Alabama, Ole Miss and LSU win easily.

Middle Tennessee at Kentucky

The only reason I list this game here, is because it might not be that easy for Kensucky. Then again, I though Louisville would beat them.

Future MSU opponent - 17
Future MSU opponent - 21

Rice at Vanderbilt

If ever a time we needed Vandy to not be Vandy ...

Grain - 14
Brain - 24

Arkansas at Texas

Winner: Ike.

Georgia at South Carolina

This was supposed to be a big showdown, but since the AKC lost to Vandy, this one got a little less interesting. Still, don't count out the AKC.

Counting the yards Moreno gains - 38
Watching Moreno gain those yards - 27

Auburn at Mississippi State

The Blog came up with this interesting stat:

Statistical oddity: Here’s a statistical oddity that bodes well for State, which beat Auburn 19-14 last year: Teams haven’t flip-flopped wins and losses in back-to-back years since 1961-63.

Since that time, Auburn had winning streaks of 11, 2, 9, 4 and 6. State had three winning streaks of 2 and one of four.

What does this mean? Not a damn thing.

Fluke! - 24
Fluke? - 23.9

Weir at Durant

This game is close enough that I could drive up to see it. That means I'd have be be in Durant. No thanks.

Rolling to Jackson - 47
Could visit Jackson - 14

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I hate Thursday football

Weir plays Edinburg tonight. It's at Weir. For those keeping score at home, that means victory.

Weir - 36
Edinburg - 7

One SEC game tonight. South Carolina at Vanderbilt. I want to pick Vandy for the upset, but I just can't.

AKC - 24
Vandy - 21

Every other SEC team wins their games this weekend. I hope.

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Football!!11!!one

w00t~

The first games have kicked off, the 2 Daves^H^H^HOne Dave is back, Weir kicks off Friday night and all is right with the world. Well, almost. I'm still at work. Shi^H^H^HDarn. (family show)

And since an SEC game has kicked off, let's get a quick prognostication out of the way now.

NC State at South Carolina

The score was 0-0 early in the first before I started this, so it still counts.

NCS - 17
AKC - 28

Vandy at Miami (OH)

This would be as bad as MSU traveling to Ruston, but it's Vandy. No one really cares.

Smrat - 21
MAC-tastic - 24

Hawaii at Florida

Ouch.

Paradise - 14
Jorts paradise - 56

Georgia Southern at Georgia

Ouch x2.

Fodder - 7
Hunker - 59

Appy State at LSU

Ou^H^H^H ... Well ... Nah.

It was Michigan - 14
Not Michigan - 49

Western Illinois at sasnakrA

Scrimmagee - 7
Scrimmager - 38

Tennessee at UCLA

Skippy vs. Phat Phil. This could be epic. Or not.

Rotund - 38
Pretty - 24

Alabama at Clemson

This could be a real good game.

Houndstooth - 21
Howard's Rock - 34

Kentucky at Louisville

UK is missing half of last year's team. Not good.

Basketball - 24
Basketball - 28

LA-Monroe at Auburn

LA-M shocked Bama last year. Keyword: Bama.

Way to go - 10
Not Bama x6 - 49

Memphis at Ole Miss

Ah, the beginning of the Houston Nutt/Jeaven Snead era. Championships galore!

Tiger High - 17
Oxford High - 18

Miss. State at Louisiana Tech

Nope, not a typo. Traveling to Ruston. I'll be there. Oh boy.

Thanks LT - 24
LT - 10

Weir at South Leake

The road to Jackson begins in ... in ... wherever this is in Leake County.

Mighty Lions - 47
Somethings - 15

FOOTBALL!

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Since it's closer to football season

Why not get a football post out of the way now?

Finally got the new NCAA '09 game last week. If it's any indication, then MSU is in for a rough few years and last season was a fluke. In reality, I don't think this coming season will be that bad. I'd like to think another winning season and bowl game is forthcoming, but we MSU fans have thought that a number of times before only to have our hopes and dreams smashed.

The Mighty Weir Lions prepare for year 2 in the south state division. Last season saw a run through the playoffs stopped short of Jackson by defending champ Puckett. Then Puckett goes and lays an egg in Jackson to Ray Brooks? Good gosh.

This coming season will be interesting for me. Both of my teams have expectations. MSU has to prove last year wasn't a fluke and Weir has to do what Weir expects to do, win the state championship.

In the words of a football legend: Let's rock.

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Time for a roundup post

Another week is done. Another project finished at work. I can't link to it yet, but I'll let the outdoors guru tell you himself.

Outside of that, it's been a pretty unproductive week. I had been hoping to take a day or two off to do some golfing and goofing off. Rain and work stopped that. But nothing will stop me next week.

So in the meantime, here's some various, insignificant items that I've done lately.

Doubt you can notice, but I edited the HTML of the blog template today. The middle column wasn't wide enough to hold YouTube videos. So I bumped it up a few pixels and now things look like they fit.

Speaking of the blog, I decided to check out all the reports generated by SiteMeter (located in the right column) and Google. The number of hits is low, which is expected because no one clicks here. Some of the referring pages was interesting. Here's a sampling.

- shortcuts.com: This is a coupon site. I'll say that it's not the greatest thing, but if they offered more coupons, it would be awesome. I talked about it here.

- joe gant ms football: Coach Gant was my football coach back at Weir. He's now the offensive coordinator, after sitting out a few years of retirement. Look up 'MS high school football winner' in the dictionary, and his picture is there. He took tiny Weir (a small 1A school) to the state championship game at least 7 times and won 5 of them. Flat out, the man could coach and win with a bunch of small-town boys. Where does he fit in my blog? Oh, I don't know.

- at&t roadside: Oh boy, what a night that was.

- tmbg widget: Linked to my They Might Be Giants concert report.

- There were a number of Google image links to this post about Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. ("Open it.")

I gotta give a special shoutout to one reader. Mariann, thank you for the tens of clicks. :)

Now if I can just get the Topiary back.

Speaking of getting stuff back, I'm trying to figure out why I can't post photos from my cell phone anymore. I took a couple recently and now, have no way of displaying them. This sucks.

I haven't posted about how much I'm glad my TV shows are back. Law and Order: SVU is ruling, as always. CSI:NY is kicking serious hind end. The Office, the greatest. Even Earl is picking things up. 30 Rock still rocks. And I still can't miss CSI: and Criminal Minds. Good stuff going on.

I'll end this here. I got some important stuff to get to. That PlayStation isn't going to play itself. Oh, be on the lookout for a post about JubileeJAM! coming Monday.

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Hats off to Puckett

13 - 12

From the description my dad gave me, Weir's quarterback threw three perfect passes early in the game. Problem was that they were all to the same player for Puckett.

Puckett got the early lead on a touchdown drive. Weir got their two scores as a result of fumbles from Puckett deep in their own territory. Late in the game, Weir was stopped on a drive, punted and Puckett drove to score and take the lead. They stopped Weir's next drive and held on to run out the clock.

Well, that's what you do when you're the #1 team in the state. If you can't blow the opposition's doors off, you grind it out and prevail in the end.

It looks like Puckett vs. Ray Brooks for the title next weekend. I'll go ahead and say Puckett takes another title home.

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Can't believe I'm not there

Where? Exactly.

I had hoped to be at the game tonight, doing some live blogging and such. But the schedule said no way. So I'll just have to get a score and a recap from my dad later tonight, worse case tomorrow.

Guess I'll just have to wait and watch them play next weekend here in Jackson.

Puckett - 20
Weir - 28

Oh yeah, take that everyone else that's picking Puckett. Remember, they gotta come to our house. You don't just waltz into our house and expect to leave with a win. Oh no. Think you're going to use razzle-dazzle to seal a victory? Think again. Want to use a little smashmouth football? Bring it on.

Payback comes later tonight.

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Weir wins

Took them the second half to wake up and play, but they did what Weir is supposed to do. Shut down the other team and take care of business. Mount Olive has a couple of good players, but they got lucky on their two scores. In the third quarter, Weir dominated. Mount Olive had the ball for a grand total of three plays. Three plays total.

Next week, it's Puckett. Smash mouth football. I plan on being there. And this time, I'll record Weir's entrance to the field. It's awesome.

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Halftime

Halftime score 12 7 MO

22 McNair is pretty good. Weir needs to pick it up.

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Weir's intro

Weir comes out to 'In The Air Tonight'. Sweet. Wish I could have recorded it.

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Round 2 of 1A playoffs

Let's see how I did last week:

East Webster vs. Broad Street - East Webster
Calhoun City vs. Mound Bayou JFK - Calhoun City
Vardaman vs. Benoit Brooks - Benoit Brooks
Greenville St. Joe vs. Okolona - Okolona
Stringer vs. Weir - Weir, duh
Nanih Wayia vs. Mount Olive - Mount Olive
French Camp vs. Puckett - Puckett
Bogue Chitto vs. Durant - Durant

Missed MB JFK and St. Joe. So on to round 2:

Mound Bayou JFK at East Webster - East Webster
Benoit Brooks at Greenville St. Joe - Brooks
Mount Olive at Weir - I get to see Weir win in person
Durant at Puckett - Puckett

The south championship should just be called 'Prelude To A State Championship'.

Yes, since the game's at Weir, I'll be there. I hope my cell phone is ready for all the live blogging action.

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Playoff predictions

Tonight begins the class 1A football playoffs. Or as I like to call it, Weir's quest for another state championship.

You can view a bracket for 1A here.

Let's see if I can nail down predictions for all the games.

East Webster vs. Broad Street - East Webster
Calhoun City vs. Mound Bayou JFK - Calhoun City
Vardaman vs. Benoit Brooks - Benoit Brooks
Greenville St. Joe vs. Okolona - Okolona
Stringer vs. Weir - Weir, duh
Nanih Wayia vs. Mount Olive - Mount Olive
French Camp vs. Puckett - Puckett
Bogue Chitto vs. Durant - Durant

Second round potential match ups:

Forget the rest, Weir vs. Mount Olive would be dynamite.

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Small town, MS meets Big Sex

So I heard a while back that a national publication was doing a story on my hometown. Not the first time that's happened. Weir's got some pub in the past few years thanks mostly to Roy Oswalt.

This time, it was the same theme: small town, big sports. But the publication was a little different.

For more info on this, read this article and find out what the uproar is about.

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Weir's season finale

Tonight (Thursday) was the season finale for Weir. They played Noxapater. Well, "played" may not be the proper term. According to my sources, "killing" was the verb used to describe the halftime score.

Playoffs start next week. This will be Weir's first foray into the southern half of the state 1A playoffs.

Peace be with you, south 1A schools.

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Weekly predictions

MSU is off this week. Still gotta predict the others, so sit back and enjoy. Remember, there is a money-back guarantee.

Weir vs. French Camp

One of the C-L writers tried to make it sound like Weir needs to be wary of French Camp. That would be like a Bear Bryant Alabama team worrying about Mississippi State.

What? MSU did beat Bear once. Doesn't matter. French Camp got their one victory back during the dark days of the '86 boycott.

One win - 10
One more win - 58

It's patsy week in the SEC.



Troy at Georgia

Not quite a patsy - 14
Hunker! - 38

Northwestern La. at Ole Miss

La. Patsy - 0
Near patsy - 21

Tennesse Tech at Auburn

Super Patsy - 0
Ho Hum - 28

Louisiana-Lafayette at Tennessee

La. Patsy - 10
Pastry expert - 42

Now for the non-patsy games.

Vanderbilt at Florida

There is a scenario where all the SEC East teams could finish 4-4 and all would be tied for first place. That requires Vandy to beat Florida.

So close - 17
Too close - 28

South Carolina at Arkansas

Arkansas can be good and they can suck. I hope it alternates week by week and this is a suck weekend (ODL!).

Cocky - 35
Confusing - 21

LSU at Alabama

This game could come down to Les Miles making another "balls for brains" type play. But then again, LSU is that good.

Balls - 27
Bears - 14

Bye vs. Mississippi State

Freshman sensation Wes Carroll continues his streak of consecutive passes without an INT by throwing no picks in no attempts.

Bye - 0
Buy - 1

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Something I know very little about

Also known as, football predictions.

On the SEC picking, I'm 44-19. For some stupid reason, I picked MSU to win a game or two. Plus, it's been a wacky season.


Miami (Ohio) at Vanderbilt

Why can't MState schedule games like this?

MAC-rifice - 17
SEC-ond best TN team - 35

Florida International at Arkansas

Why can't MState schedule games like this?

F_U - 10
Pig - 35

Florida at Georgia

The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party annual Florida-Georgia game is usually a good game. This one will be if UGA shows up.

Tebowing up - 38
Showing up - 39

Ole Miss at Auburn

Nah, no way two Magnolia teams win in Auburn.

Not getting 5 turnovers - 12
Not giving any turnovers - 27

South Carolina at Tennessee

Neither one of these teams should have lost last weekend. This is a goofy season.

Vandy? - 17
Bama? - 16

MSU at Kentucky

I go with my heart and pick a win, they lose. I go with my heart, pick a close loss, they get blown out. So here goes.

D00M3D - 0
BIG BLUE JUGGERNAUT - 70

Weir at Ethel

Well, at least I still can claim one winner.

Weir - 47
Ethel - 0

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Post #64

Why is #64 special? Well, it goes with the seasonal theme: football. You see, I was #64 in high school. No, I never scored four touchdowns in one game. But I did block for most of them.

So with that little bit of me trivia out of the way ...

Weir vs. _______

Don't know. Don't matter.

Mighty Lions - 48
Opponent - 14

Tennessee at Alabama

Ah, the third Saturday in October. Relegated to The Abe? Where has the magic gone? ($1)

Clean QB - 38
Clean plate at Dreamland - 27

Vanderbilt at South Carolina

Once aGAIN, Vandy is waiting until next year. The Ol' Ball Coach says waiting is for wusses.

Black and Gold - 14
Black Co^H^H^H - 35

Arkansas at Ole Miss

Woooooooooooooooooo fire Nutt! The cries get louder.

Crumbling foundation - 17
Replay this - 18

Florida at Kentucky

MARKEE VALYOU BAYBEE!!

HE15MAN - 50
H3ISMAN - 49

Auburn at LSU

Night + mad = XXX rated TV.

Victim - 10
Still #1 - 35

Mississippi State at West Virginia

Darn you, heart. Why must I listen to you?

What are mountains? - 28
What are morals? - 29

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Short and sweet football picks

Just in time, Weir beats Nanih Waiya.

In SEC play:

ALA at UM - Bama by a close margin.
LSU at UKY - Kentucky is a popular upset pick, but not this time.
USC at UNC - Cocks over Heels.
UGA at VAN - Georgia bounces back easily.
AUB at ARK - If Arkansas was a sane team, maybe. But no, Auburn wins.
TEN at MSU - Oh, I'm picking with my heart instead of my head. MSU wins 29-28.

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Time for the weekly no-comment post

Kentucky at South Carolina

Expect a lot of points and a few visor tosses.

Bigger Blue - 56
They're in first? - 49

Vanderbilt at Auburn

Welcome to the 2007 SEC season, Tubby.

Still waiting - 17
Fighting for second place - 34

La Tech at Ole Miss

Yawn.

Cajuns - 17
Cajun - 21

Houston at Alabama

Again, yawn.

Coogs - 13
F$U? - 35

Georgia at Tennessee

What is up with the SEC East this year?

Hunkering Dawgs - 28
Hunkering Donuts - 21

Tennessee-Chattanooga at Arkansas

Oh please.

Cupcake - 0
At least MState plays C-USA teams - 9345

Fl*rida at LSU

Thanks Urban. Your four-play playbook cost you the game against Auburn and a chance to make this the game o' the year.

Tiger Bait - 16
Gator Bait - 17

Alabama-Birmingham at Mississippi State

Both teams are down to their 3rd string quarterbacks. At least it will be a quick game.

Bama - 14
Bama Lite - 35

Sebastopol at Weir

Keyword: "at".

Next - 14
Who's Next? - 47

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