There's still hope

Well the Cats dropped a tough one in Cheney last week. Poor tackling to end the second quarter and again on a limp wristed screen play in the third cost them two touchdowns and the game. Don't listen to what the football morons at Bobcat Nation are saying that we lost this because our kicker was out with the flu. That's a bunch of bullshit. Poor tackling and soft underneath pass coverage lost this game. Again.

This week the hapless and winless Bengals of Idaho State come to the chilly slopes of the Bridger Mountains. I can see this as a trap game. ISU is hungry for a win and are hoping to catch the Cats in an emotional state of mind similar to Glen Close in Fatal Attraction where she is sitting on the floor just turning the lights on and off but I don't think they will get that lucky.

Even though the defense isn't up to MSU's usual standards, it is still decent and the offense is really coming together. 592 total yards last week. That is two weeks in a row where we led the conference in total yards. Beware of the Bengals? I'm not throwing anyone under the bus, but I like our chances this weekend. 51 degrees and a light drizzle is the forecast for Saturday. Looks like I'll be drinking beer with my gloves on. Que the jokes about my beer drinking gloves now....

As a part of my continuing effort to bring some culture to you and as a friendly gesture to the fans of ISU, here is a William Blake's The Tyger. I'm here to help.

Meanwhile, in Missoula.....................................

The griz play the Wildcats of Weber State. Weber is coming into Missoula angry at having lost to the Cats in Ogden and not having forgotten giving the griz a playoff victory in Missoula last December. In that game WSU wet themselves, er, turned the ball over to the griz twice inside the WSU 40. Merry Christmas. The griz are playing great in the second half. They are 142-20 at home since they built the Homerdome that is Washington/grizzly Stadium since 1986. That's impressive. Of course when you have home town officials who haven't reffed a game above the peewee level and are on the take, that makes it even harder for opponents to win. Don't believe me? How's this for proof? Nuff said. It finally made news but has been going on for years. Weber is good and has been playing well but beating the griz at home is a tall task. Look for a big second half for the liberal arts/Pizza Hut delivery majors. They take Weber 31-21.

Malta hosts Columbus in the first round of Class B playoff action. The 3-M Company is coming off a 47-0 victory over Wolf Point. Look for Malta to survive the first round but struggle after that. Everyone is playing for second place anyway. Huntley Project is 8-0 and have outscored their opponents 371-31 this season having only been scored on in three games. Their average margin of victory is 43 points. Um, I think they are pretty solid.

Notre Dame backed into yet another victory last weekend. That makes them 5-2 for the season. They could easily be 2-5 but have been able to pull games out of their asses. This isn't the sign of a good football team but with the rest of their pitiful schedule they should go 10-2. They will make a BCS game and be totally dominated. I guess that's something to look forward to. They aren't even worth talking about until the bowl games but that won't stop me. The Bobcats could go 3-2 against whats left for the Irish. Their schedule is that easy. Honestly, if you root for Notre Dame, how do you look yourself in the mirror every day and think that this program is somehow still relevant? If they played a full fledged Big 10 schedule they wouldn't go 7-4. Yeah, this is a program to be proud of.

I wonder if Brady Quinn sold his house yet.

GO CATS!!

Random thoughts #14 and one year of nothing

Things I thought of while wondering what goes through a dog's mind.

Wow. What a difference a year makes. I started this mindless drivel a year ago. Somehow I was found on the ol' blogosphere and now here we are.

This thing was started so I could post about Bobcat football for the faithful here in Bozeman and now I'm being read by over 20 people nation wide. Lookout Deadspin and The Onion, you are in my sights.

I would love to do this full time but I'm not wealthy and my job gets in the way, despite this I'm still having fun.

I still like watching cartoons. Family Guy, King of the Hill, The Simpsons. They are just funny.

Hank,"I bought this whetstone the day Bobby was born. I can't believe he is ready to sharpen his first mower blade."

Too many good quotes from the episode entitled "An officer and a gentleboy". "That boy ain't right"

Peggy "I don't know how Bobby gets his cape so wrinkled."

My beautiful dog is getting old. She's 14 but still going as hard as she can. When we used to walk, she would have the 30 feet of rope tight and go like hell. Now she's behind me most to the time. She sniffs things a lot longer than she used to. Makes you wonder about the old saying with the roses.

God I hope the Yankees win the World Series.

It's fall here in Montana. Leaves are falling, frost in the morning and snow coming soon. That means snowmobiling isn't far behind. I can't hardly wait.

I'm starting to like texting. It has its place and I'm fine with it.

"You know what us ultra liberals say when it come to children and drugs, lies are OK". That was either Harry Reid or a guy on South Park. Either way its spot on.

So in the last year I met a woman. She's from Butte. Pretty proud of that she is. I refer to her as Butte Girl or BG. She doesn't put up with my shit, thinks I'm obnoxious and won't let her dad read my blog ("he likes you, I don't know if he will if he reads it. It's like your alter ego"). I like her anyway.

Conversation between BG and me this Sunday going to pick up my sister.

Me "blah blah blah, I should put that in my blog."

BG "Your blog is kind of, uh, aggressive. Especially when it comes to the President"

Me "That's because he's a dipshit."

Silence

Me "Is that what you mean?"

BG looking at me like I am a dipshit. Point taken.

While we're on the subject. The health care plan is great. I only have one question: how are we going to pay for it. The CBO says that we can't. Montana's own Senator Assmunch, er Baucus, says that we'll tax insurance companies. Great fucking plan Max! One question, when the insurance companies and all their employees go out of business, where are we going to get the money? Waiting. Waiting. What's that Max, then we'll tax everyone? I'm all for it. Let's tax everyone including the poor which is in your bill. Hey, if they can afford two packs of Camels and a six pack of Old Mil Light a day, they can afford insurance. I'm in.

Cap and trade is up next. Let's tax the companies that provide millions of jobs right out of the U.S. They can move their plants to Mexico, Canada and Brazil. We'll all see the price of EVERTHING go up at least 20 percent, never be able to give our children the life we have and saddle them with at least a 50 percent tax increase. I'm all for that to. I have enough money to move to Ireland and live like a king until I'm 60. Then, I'll move back to America and as a citizen get all the health care and retirement that these stupid lazy asses can give me. Again, I'm in.

Maybe the last two paragraphs are what BG means when she says I'm "aggressive".

I'm going to Malta next weekend to shoot a deer for BG and hunt with my brothers. If the deer are farther away then 100 yards from the truck and we can't drive to it, the deer will live another day.

I need to learn how to post a youtube video. BG won't help me. Doesn't want to contribute to the aggressiveness. "It"ll be fun" I say. Maybe she'll come around. To quote Luke Skywalker "there's good in you, I can feel it." She'll really like that. Like she liked it when I said I wanted to download "Darth Vader's theme" for her ring tone. Maybe I bring this on myself. Maybe. Nah, its not me.

Senator Lieberman has said he won't vote for the "public option" (read gov't plan) and the Dem's are already mounting a campaign against him. Hmmm, lets see. Olympia Snow voted for the bullshit Baucus bill and was given keys to heaven as a sign of bipartisanship. Joe says no way and he's cast aside as a traitor. Every republican amendment was voted down in committee. One was even ruled "out of order" and the puke from Nevada says that Republicans won't come to the table. Tell the former boxer Harry Reid I'll fight him anytime, anywhere. Bipartisanship does not exist because liberals, ie democrats, only have one objective, their way or the highway. What losers.

Was that aggressive?

Tug McGraw, Phillies pitcher, on his $75,000 salary:
“Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women, and Irish Whiskey. The other 10 percent I’ll probably waste.”
SI, April 21, 1975….

Its been a fun year for my small but loyal following. If work didn't get in the way, I'd post much more.

To all of you, thanks for reading. Every comment makes my day. I never thought it would be this much fun.

I'll try to do better.

MRM aka Chip

Tuesday Tunes 10/27/09

Wow, another post within a week of the last one? I know what you're thinking, "MRM, you're blogging to much, take some time for yourself, don't over do it." Don't worry trusted readers, I'm going to ease into posting more blogs. I won't get carried away.

So, I think it was Friday night, I started making a youtube list of oldies for Ralph and the boys and before you know it "Shazaam!" I have a playlist. You see, when you're as good as I am, sometimes finding something to post just falls in your lap. This is one of those times.

I really, really want to post about our political situation as Barry and his henchmen are doing everything in their power to destroy the U.S. from within but just can't bring myself to bitch about it. Well, maybe I can. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, enjoy this collection of some of my favorites from sunny slopes of long ago. "one thing led to another, we were young" that's a great lyric right there. Enjoy.

If you like the first track, here is a great video of Phil lip syncing "live". You just don't see guys playing the tambourine like that anymore. Its a lost art. On a sad note, Phil Seymour passed away in 1993 from lymphoma. Kym and Pam probably already know he was from Tulsa. RIP Phil.

The worst blog in the universe

This is the worst blog going. Nine posts this month is all? Pathetic. I've got some good stuff roughed out but just haven't put it in cyber space yet. Pitiful effort for October especially since the one year anniversary of this crappy site is coming up. I'll have to do a montage. Well, I guess a montage without all the pictures and videos anyway.

No pregame this week. Cats haven't won in Cheney since 1990. I would hate to jinx them now.

Headlines from Missoula about how the refs screwed Eastern Washington. Really? That's news? Cheese and rice!!! Do these dumbasses watch any games in Missoula? Was this the first one? There are at least two chickenshit calls against the opposition in Missoula every home game for the griz. The over/under on "how many homer calls" there will be in Washington/grizzly stadium on any given weekend is usually closer to six. The news isn't that EWU got homered. The news is that someone actually decided to say something about it.

In South Bend, Charlie Weiss aka The Touchdown Grimace, is waiting for the real Catholics from Boston College to come to town. I originally thought that BC would beat ND this weekend, but the superfrauds from Cape Cod will be lucky to stay withing two touchdowns. I noticed that the laminated sheet that Charlie Weiss carries on the sidelines is not a playsheet but is actually a menu from Wafflehouse. No wonder Jimmy Clausen looks confused. Its hard to exactly what a "XYZ triple stack with extra sausage" really means in football terms.

Malta will win, but I don't know who they are playing, Plentywood I think. No matter. I'll just look for the Mustangs on the winners side of the score sheet tomorrow.

Go Cats.

Separated at birth

Mongo, indestructible villain in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles

John Lackey, your game six starting pitcher for the California Angels.

Top Cheff week whatever

Are shitting me? Did you really expect me to blog about Top Chef when the Phillies were putting the beat down on the Dodgers? C'mon people!! Its the playoffs! Chef Troll will have an excellent post on the throw down tonight. As for me, well, I'm looking very much forward to a Yankees-Phillies World Series. It will be awesome. Yankees in seven. Or Phillies in seven. I'm a gambler I'm betting on the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Good night! Don't forget to tip your waitresses. The Duke is out.

Why I root against the Red Sox

I'll try to put this subject into some perspective. I have five true best friends from my childhood. To this day, we all stay in constant contact. Its why the LBOH was started. One of the guys is Ralph. You've all heard me talk about him on many occasions. I can hardly write about him, or any of the others, without being flooded by the thousands of memories we've all shared. They are all great men who I consider myself fortunate to be associated with. Yes, I have an English minor and ended that sentence with a preposition. I had a couple of Crowns with Eric so I don't give a rats ass.

I met Ralph when I was four years old. That's 42 years ago for those of you keeping score at home. I didn't like him then and don't like him now. That might be a lie. I'd step in front of a bullet for him. But we have this thing. We don't root for each other's teams. There are two exceptions. We both root for Malta (of course). And he likes to see the Bobcats win and I root for alma mater, Eastern Montana College and Country Club. You don't really have to go to class there, just pay your tuition. Okay that might be three exceptions but my point is that we root for our HS alma mater and each other's college team so lets not nit pick. That's not my style. Well, its my M.O. but I digress.

Anyway, we when were little shavers, we picked our baseball teams. I had been a Cincinnati Reds fan since the first grade and he had been a Red Sox fan. Things changed in 1975 for us and how we rooted for each other. That year, the Reds played the Sox in what was one of the greatest World Series of all time. The Reds prevailed in seven games. My team had won and the rivalry was on. The next year the Reds one again athis time against the Yankees and the Sox had stunk yet again. Then in 1990 another title for the Reds. In 1986, the Sox lost a pivotal game six. The Buckner game.The Mets won game seven and the Sox were losers yet again.



I'll say the Sox could always be competitive but a World Series threat they never were. My life's dream was to have Ralph go to his grave not seeing the Sox win a title. Those dreams were dashed in 2004.



The Sox came back from a 0-3 deficit against the Yankees in the ALCS and swept the Cardinals to win the title. I was happy for Ralph, kind of. You really have to be around us to get the dynamic of how we root against each other.



Sidebar, in 2001, I was in Billings for Ralph's birthday. His wife was out of town so the day and night was ours. "We need to do something crazy while Anjie is out of town" he said. Before I could stop myself, I said " Let's get tattoos." "That's a GREAT idea." Ralph replied. So the next morning we had ink done. Ralph with a Red Sox logo on his left ankle and me with a Reds logo in the exact same spot.



After the Sox won in 2004, Red Sox fans crawled out of the woodwork. There were so many fucking "B" hats in Bozeman I thought I was living on Cape Cod. You see, I never hated the Sox, I just rooted against them to watch Ralph be miserable. There was joy in that. He feels the same joy watching the Reds wallow. But now, there are all of these pseudo Sox fans out there. They chant "Yankees suck" at my pub when they are playing the fucking Blue Jays. Sox fans today are losers. They have no appreciation for the history of the rivalry that, except for 2004, the Yankees have dominated. If they don't win in 2004, the Cat-griz is a bigger rivalry, but they did so now they think they are great.



To all the Sox fans not name Ralph (or you 5wood, Bob or Tooey) kiss my ass. You are bandwagon dickheads. You don't know the first thing about the intricacies of baseball. Do me a favor and go play kickball on I-90. Fags. Just saying.