Day: March 26, 2015

It is still so hard to talk about sports. As a former Cyclone I wretched at the one point loss in the first round of the tourney. It hurt. That particular Cyclone ball team had the best set of match ups to get to the round of 8 and even further. Instead the team seemingly overlooked a defensive-minded UAB team whose matchup zone defense was built to defeat versatile offenses like that of ISU. What state didn’t have was a true #1 scorer who could take the weight of the game himself, and that is what beat them. Now there are 16 teams left dancing and Kentucky still looks as strong as ever.

Back to football: Rex Ryan feels like Buffalo is his last shot at being a head coach. He may be right. If he doesn’t do well then he is done. Maybe he can be DC for the Jets… Still, I don’t think it happens. I’m still waiting for an RGIII draft day trade.

Truthfully professional sports have taken a backseat to the youth sports my kids play. In fact I get to see my son play tackle for the first time in a week or so. I’m stoked to see him perform at his peak and I hope he does well. I think it is more fun to watch him and the other kids play, because there is more purity in the game at that level–from fans and from players. There is no threat of a ‘dark stain’ on the career of a player for bad behaviors or TV worthy scandals to excite.

 

Some Thoughts:

1. For whatever reason, 1777 got stuck in the drafts folder. I published it out of order. Messy.

The following posts were written and collected from Wednesday through Monday while I was in or traveling to NYC. Despite the Emerald City’s massive wireless state, I was very mobile and unable to access the internet stably enough to post. That’s on me, but it doesn’t mean I stopped writing… Here is Wednesday:

I debated about talking about my trip. The internet is pretty clear about not announcing you’ve left your place of residence for fear of being robbed. Fortunately, I left folks behind to tend to that, so I can talk about this: US Air is the worst airline on the planet. I’m saying this knowing that Malaysia air lost multiple planes over the course of a single year. They are still better than US Air.

The airline in questions is a cheaper solution to flying across the country. Whenever possible I use Southwest. I occasionally fly with Allegiant, but in so far as customer service and flight readiness goes, Southwest is king, and usually cheap, but not when it comes to flying to New York. I started my journey at 8:20 in the morning, preparing to board for a 8:58 flight that was scheduled to land at 4:54 Eastern time. The flight was cancelled. The airline claimed a runway at JFK had been shut down and as a result our little plane wouldn’t be able to land at JFK 5 hrs later. It was a half truth. Indeed the runway was being maintained, but there were other options the airline could’ve applied.

Here’s what they tried to do: Push everyone to a flight to Ohio that was leaving 6 hrs after our original time and from there wait six more hours in Ohio for a flight that would arrive in the city at 7 the next morning. I opted for the faster and equally circuitous route to charlotte and into Newark.

The result is 13 hrs of travel and a very worn out talislegger. More talks from the road will follow.