I hate the Big Ten Network

Those that are not Big Ten football fans are probably oblivious to this whole thing, but there has been a battle raging between the Big Ten and cable companies. There are faults on both sides, but as is typical in these types of things, it is the consumer that suffers. The Big Ten claims it is doing all of these things FOR the fans, and that is just completely false. The fact is that I was able to watch every single Buckeyes game last year on TV from home, with the lone exception being the ESPNU game, which is just a whole other issue. Basically, the situation now is that I will have to go to a bar somewhere to watch up to 4 games this year that will be on the Big Ten Network. Last year I subscribed to gameplan at a significant cost to myself to make that happen. The fact is that I didn't care because I wanted to watch those games. People who want to watch them will pay for them.. what is happening though is that the Big Ten wants EVERYONE to pay for it, whether they want it or not. The reason is because it would pay out a LOT of money... The O-Zone has a great article about the whole situation and I can't really do it to justice.. but if you are interested, check it out. Either way, I have a definite feeling that I am getting screwed out of being able to watch several games that I otherwise would have been able to see this year. I am not cool with this. It isn't enough for me to get Direct TV, the thing is that I honestly agree more with the cable operators argument over this one. People shouldn't have to pay for a channel they don't want.. and this really would include having to pay for the OTHER things that exist in the sports tier that the cable companies want me to pay for. I would only get it for football games and immediately cancel it the rest of the year. I don't want to watch women's or Olympic sports, or any of the other shit the big ten network is trying to force on me. I just want to watch the freaking buckeyes game.. that's is..

Fall Practice is FINALLY here

After one of the longest and slowest summers of my entire life.. The darkest days in American professional sports history (The Mike Vick stuff, Bonds, an NBA ref on the take and the biggest positive story of the summer is an Englishman coming to play soccer in LA) are hopefully ending and it is finally football season again. Time to start anew, and well... people in buckeyeland are once again pumped. Losing pretty much every skill position from the offense is pretty rough, but people are still optimistic. The reason for that is most definitely the fact that they have Chris Wells... Looking at the picture you can see why... He is reportedly up to 240... which makes him a fast 6'1 240 pound ball of devastation... He is being touted as a possible Heisman candidate... I think he is still a year away from that, but the fact is that this is easily the most anticipated season for a running back since Eddie's senior year. (Ignoring the non season that was Clarett's sophomore year of course) People are all set for him to EXPLODE this year.. provided he can hang onto the ball and not get hurt, I don't see why he won't either.. sweet...

Taking Care of Business....

IN A FLASH!!! more on that later... but last night I happened to be running the scoreboard at a 40 and over league. Usually pretty boring stuff, but last night was much much different. for one thing, one of the teams broke 100.. final score 102-52... just silly.. must have made about 20-25 threes. But the real story was one of the refs. Dude comes in giddy.. and I mean nearly coming out of his skin... He could barely get his name down on the sign in sheet. We're like what the hell is with you man? and he says, "Man, Kenny Chesney's comin', I'm ready to rock! I'm so excited... This generations Elvis!!! WOOOO!!" I lost it. And I do mean I lost it. This guy was serious though, but once that wore off and things calmed down, he says, "Man, I'm just kiddin'. Ain't nobody ever gonna replace Elvis." and he rolls up his sleeve to reveal the TCB symbol.. for those that don't know what this is, I have an example picture above... This is the slogan and logo that Elvis invented way back when meaning taking care of business in a flash... yeah, lame I know, but Elvis fans LOVE it. anyway... showing me that tattoo.. I lost it AGAIN!! I can't believe someone would EVER get that permanently stuck to their body. Are you freaking kidding me??

It's Over

Well, we had to do it. We put Luna down Monday. I will spare any further details, but it is just terrible. I hated having to do it, but it was just a nowin situation. It is hard at home right now without her there. I know things will get better, we will eventually also get another dog, but it might be a while before that happens. It just wouldn't be good yet. We will probably wait until we have moved to a new house, but we will see what happens. I am just really glad it is al over with and we don't have to think about it anymore. We just have to deal with the repercussions at this point, and that can only really get better from this point on.