Wednesday Randomness

Just a few things to get out there for today before I call it a week.

1) Some girl sitting next to me has been playing "We Are Family" on a loop all morning...nice.

2) Justin Feagin
Not sure if everyone is caught up on this story of the former MICH WR, but it's great. So the guy got booted off the team officially by DickRod this week for trying to sell coke on campus. Apparently, he stiffed some student who had given him $600 for some coke from a guy that Feagin knew down in FLA. It's just awesome that the guy threw away a MICH scholarship do deal a little coke on the side. In reading some of his quotes he still definitely wants his next step to be in the NFL, "he be done wit college, man." If that doesn't work out he's going to get into business and work with his uncle in a drug prevention center...yep, I had to read that about 3 times to make sure I understood. So the guy throws away a chance of a lifetime and admits to being a drug dealer for quite a while, but he still thinks his football dream is gonna happen - if not he'll go work to prevent drug use...WTF? This might be a great microcosm to the potentially short DickRod era in the Big House.

3) PICK DEADLINES
I just wanted to clarify, in case there was some confusion in the emails from Monday.

THE PICKS I SENT OUT ARE NOT DUE UNTIL THURSDAY 9/3 AT 12:00 NOON. I WILL SEND THEM AGAIN AS A REMINDER ON THAT MONDAY (8/31). Please let me know if anyone has questions and get me your $40 before then.

4) USC QB
So Aaron Corp might have a bit of an injury, which would open the door for Matt Barkley, a true Freshman, to be the starter this season at USC. On CFB LIVE yesterday they were talking about how big of a deal this could be and went back to the Matt Cassell / Matt Leinert situation. It was an open competition, just like this year, and Cassell suffered a mild injury and missed some time in preseason practice - Leinert only went on to win a Heisman and a couple of Nat'l Titles and be a 1st round pick and make tons of cash. While Cassell never played, still made the league, and is getting paid nicely now as well. So when people tell you that all the reports and info coming out of preseason practice is meaningless, tell them they are wrong. "We're talkin' about practice man...practice"

5) Lawrence Phillips
The comedy of former thug RB's continues. Phillips has been changed with 7, yes 7 felonies and will be heading to the other big house with his friend Mo Clarett. Wow, I guess if you're a dumb f*ck you really never do change. These guys have been morons their whole lives and had the world handed to them on a platter because they can run fast...but they threw it all away and ended up in prison. I'm glad to see it - now if we could just get some Hawkeyes in prison. Shonn Greene could fit this list, he's a moron who flunked out of school on his first try and didn't stay long enough to do it again after last season. I could see something dumb happening in his future.

6) B10 Network - Football Tour
This started up again this year last night at OHIOST. It's worth a watch for a while, especially when the Maroon and Gold are featured. It sounds like they will be in town on Aug 22nd, the day of the open scrimmage at TCF so it should be a good watch. I will be in the prestigious ROE/JOE Golf Tourney that day, but it is nice to know I'll be able to catch most of the scrimmage on TV later that week.

7) IT IS OVER - R.I.P. TWINS 2009 SEASON
Wow, last night was fun. I flip it on in the 3rd and we're down 8-1. I had only about a 10% interest in the team coming into this week, but I thought: we have KC and CLE coming for 6 games, 5-1 and we could claw back into it again. Then we get destroyed by the worst team in the AL. Time to find some pitching Mr. Smith. Blacky looked awful again, and dirty Frank gives us not much of a chance again tonight. It's done - time to look elsewhere. I don't think I'll be tuning in again this season.

Okay - that's it for today. I'm home finishing off the Rainbow Playset tomorrow with Greg, then off to the PGA for a couple of days. Looks like 90+ and humid on FRI, then very warm again on SAT...nice.

PJ takes us home with a kind of brutal but interesting song for a certain Twins P...

Dirty frank. A Dirty frank yeah
A Dirty frank ooh
A Dirty frank yea oh
Keeps it clean. a keeps it copaseptic
A little boys and girls their heads are all collected.
A not crazy. a per se
Just a little strange when he gets hungry.
City state your town he will continue.
A stadiums tiny clubs every venue.
A his bus. a your trust.
There goes another turned into crust.
Dirty frank a Dirty Frank yeah. A Dirty frank. oh a Dirty Frank.
Yeah, oh, watch it! now
Why that dirty Frank was a bad mother... Shut your mouth! Hey man, I'm just talking about dirty Frank.