Congrats to a former prospect. Well wishes to another.

I don’t care what Red Sox fans say, all the sarcastic “Why can’t we get those guys?” crap. This is awesome. And the Marlins are awesome, too. A team that has come from the depths of the cellar and now are two games back of the Wild Card? I know who I am rooting for for the rest of the year. They are and bunch of kids just playing ball, they aren’t worried about overzealous media attacking and scrutinizing every little nuance of the team. All this excitement for 15 million? Thats a deal.

That is one excited Venezuelan. 

Our (“our” being all people who care about people at all) thoughts are with Jon Lester as he begins chemotherapy on Friday for cancer in his lymph system. Lester was out due back pain when an MRI showed something was a lot more serious than just a tweaked back. The kid is tough though, he is hoping to be back by the time spring training comes along. Of course, he can take all the time he wants.

Football is back; all is not well in Conway.

Some words that come to mind when I think about Coastal’s loss to the Phoenix of Elon: Fuck. Shit. Balls.
Yea, we had a chance to drive for a field goal to tie the game, and yea it was the first game of the year, but this was an inexusable performance. Something like seven trips to the endzone and we have 1 touchdown to show for it. ONE. We shot ourselves in the feet multiple times, and let Elon pull a play they saw on TV Thursday night for a touchdown.

Thats all I can really muster right now. I am still sick from Saturday.

Sorry DJ, your sack ended up meaning nothing Saturday.

That being said, the rest of the weekend did me right. Football is a uniter. Even if it unites people in one room to fight about meaningless things like the strength of a receiving core, or how one team can get better athletes because they have lower academic standards. Its beautiful, really.

South Carolina won, so my 1-A team won. Two teams I hate were unimpressive (I don’t care about your defenses Miami and F.S.U., that was sad). Texas elevated their ranking to #2 to set Saturday’s game up to be even more epic than it already was set to be. It was just good stuff all around.

Succop, player of the game and SEC special teams player of the week.

That being said. Give me some well paid ballers (well, legally well paid ballers) on the field, stat. I need some of that pro pigskin.

We are looking for you too, Chad.