- This blog is getting ragged. At what point do I start posting the handwritten stuff?
- I’ve been experiencing serious insomnia. Strangely it only happens the nights I’m alone.
- When I started this Some thoughts section I patterned it off of 10 things I think I think by Peter King. I read that website again today for the first time in months and was reminded that I do not like the majority of sports reporters. Jenny Vrentas is case and point. The former Biochem major is a solid writer but lacks the ethos to really say all the stuff she does about athletes, how they should behave, and how they should respond to the pressure they are under. Her latest article, a rant against Odell Beckham, amounted to little more than shit talk by someone who has no idea what it feels like to be an athlete under the competitive pressure of college and beyond. Lets not even get into how it feels to be an athlete in NYC. Instead she, like many others, focused on how he makes himself a target of harassment by, well, living a life outside of his job and participating in social media while he does it. At least she takes a moment to point out that his trip to Miami with his teammates isn’t why he dropped balls. The fact that he’s never played in conditions like he experienced in Lambeau played itself out on the field and the Giants lost because of it. Next year won’t be like that.
- I’m back to teaching come tuesday.