Why do women have smaller feet than men? It's one of those "evolutionary things" that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.

Okay, this is my update for Cooter. She has to be the only one that checks my blog. I don't even check it anymore. I bet not even 2 people post on the message board in the next week because no one checks anymore. I knew my blog was getting real popular when I posted a trivia question with a "who's who" picture and not one person even attempted it. It reminded me of Bob Eukar in Major League saying, "yes sir, they love their team here in Cleveland"...(followed by dead silence)  I knew it was only a matter of time before the whole blog thing went stale or took a backseat to something newer (mySpace). Prediction: 6 months from now, no one will check their mySpace accounts anymore. Myspace will be as dead as the National League in baseball. (Note: speaking of the National League being sorry, they just blew a lead in the 9th inning to the American League). Yes, the AL dominates baseball!!  The AL hasn't lost an All-Star game to the NL since I was a freshman in college, and that was a long time ago................anyway, I don't have much else to say. I guess I'll give a few shout-outs!

Congratulations on the engagement Stalls!

Steve, you owe me a box!!

 Forest Home softball team of late......

Late,

J-dizzle

That's my cat Rocky everytime I turn the radio on K97

Quote of the day, in honor of Steve Gibson's blog: "I get up at 6:30 every morning no matter what time it is"

I finally made my first trip to the new so called "mall" the other day. Lets just say I wasn't impressed. I give it a smooth F minus. It's like one big long crammed hallway. It reminded me of a few things. First off, it reminded me of an airport. Second, it reminded me of 1st academic at MacArthur Junior High. Third, it reminded me of the long indoor walkway at St. Bernards Hospital that connects the hospital. I guess St. Bernards could just add stores on both sides of the walkway, and call it a mall.  I had read where the mall had a "Finish Line" store, which is my favorite athletic store. They are always real big and have lots of athletic shoes. However, I walk in the one at Turtle S___t Creek Mall and its about a third of the size of a regular store. I walked in the store "Lids" and saw the worst hat selection I've ever seen in my life. I didn't stay more than 5 seconds in there. I didn't know you could mess up a Lids store, but apparently you can.  They should have made the mall a lot wider, and worked in a little horizontal action. Yep, I miss the ol' Indain mall already. In fact, if we bring back Wyatt's cafeteria and Willet's Shoe Store(where the robotic clown does flips in the front display), I'll never go to the new mall again. 

  Here's a good look at the inside of the new mall!

QUIZ TIME

The Hogs basketball team just got a committment from Chicago guard Patrick Beverly......in the picture below, you see Beverly handling the rock. The sixty-four thousand dollar question is "who is that guy guarding him"?

I'm out like a cubscout!

Here are some facts about NCAA brackets that could help those win their office pool. I used these last year, and if Illinois had beaten UNC in the finals, Michael Johnson and I would have won some major bucks in this huge pool we got in. Here they are:

1) 13 of the last 15 champions have been either a #1 seed or a #2 seed

2) At least #1 seed has made the final four the last 23 years

3) At least one #3 or higher seed has made the Final Four in 26 of the past 27 years

4) Only once in the last 12 years has the combined sum of the four seed-numbers in the final four exceeded 11.

5) In the past six NCAA tourneys, once conference has placed two teams in the Final four each year.

6) In four of the last five NCAA tourneys, one conference has placed three teams in the Elite 8.

7) In eight of the last 10 tournaments, once conference has placed four teams in the Sweet 16.

8) Only once in the last 20 years have at least (2) #12 or higher seeds FAILED to advance to the 2nd round. The majority of the time, at least (3) #12 or higher seeds advance to the 2nd round.

9) Only one time in the past 20 years has a double digit seed not made it to the Sweet 16.

10) Twelve #10 seeds have made the Sweet 16 since 1997

11) One #12 seed has made the Sweet 16 in four of the last six tournaments.

12) #10 seeds make the Sweet 16 more often then the #7, #8, and #9 seeds combined.

I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT A LOT!

I LIKE IT, I LOVE IT, I WANT SOME MORE OF IT!

You just can't beat this time of year for hoops fans. It just doesn't get any better. I'm heading off to Nashville Thursday morning (if my ticket gets here tomorrow like its supposed to) for the SEC tournament. I figure I will at least stay through Friday night, which would give me 8 games to watch in 2 days, and more than likely at least 2 Razorback games. I will stay as long as the Hogs keep winning. However, if the Hogs lose to Florida Friday night, I'll probably head out early Saturday morning and start the drive to Little Rock to catch the 94' rematch state title game! Maybe I need to work a Grizzlies game in in Memphis this weekend too, you know, just so I can go for the hat trick (NBA, college, high school). Why not?!?

THE SEC Tournament & "The Goon"

Not real excited about Arkansas having to play Florida in the 2nd round. They are probably the team I would  least like to play in the SEC right now, even though they aren't red hot. They just have the most talent in my opinion. I would much rather play Kentucky, even LSU or Tennessee. Florida is going to be a hard game. I predict that the winner of the Arkansas/Florida game wins the whole tournament. The 1st round matchup the Hogs play with Georgia ought to be a cakewalk. A rough cakewalk that is! I'm predicting a fight in this game! I'm dead serious! These teams played the other day, and Dave Bliss of Georgia was throwing cheap shots and elbows the whole game. You can believe Bliss will be doing more of that Thursday night. Bliss is that "roid freak" that probably drinks before his games, and then goes out to the local laid-back pickup game and takes someone's legs out from under then on a fast-break layup. I predict in the 2nd half a fight breaks out between Bliss and Vincent Hunter. It will probably be Georgia's last game of the year, so Bliss figures he has nothing to lose, and will plant a few cheapshots in before the game is over.  I think one game, Bliss got 5 fouls in 5 minutes of action. They only put him in for one reason! ......as John Cheaney of Temple did last year, he pointed down to his big guy at the end of the bench and said, "bring in the goon"! The goon came in and fouled a guy real hard, and ended that guys career!  

AAAAA STATE FINALS - JHS vs LR Parkview

I've got mixed emotions about this one. When the team I was on won state back in 94' it was in Little Rock and it was against Parkview. The situations between the two teams are a lot alike! This team also lost late in the regular season like the 94 team did, and this team caught fire in the state tournament just like the 94' team, blowing everyone out on their path to the finals. JHS hasn't been back to the state title game since, and I don't even think they have played Parkview since (Parkview pulled a John Calaperi & quit scheduling JHS after we beat them 3 out of 4 over a 2 year period). I know if I end up driving over to the game Saturday, I will no doubt be rooting hard for JHS. It's impossible to pull for LR Parkview....afterall, they are an art school and get to recruit players/students(yeah right, they use it to get players), and they were a national powerhouse for way too long. They think they are bad cause they have the Globetrotter look going in there red, white, & blue uniforms with stars on the shorts. Let any high school get to recruit the best talent from a city of 300,000 and I bet they can come up with a good squad too..................on the flip side, if this JHS team wins. The 94' team will have been forgotten. We will be "a bunch of has beens".  Our championship team picture that hangs in the lobby of the gym, will get taken down, and probably moved into one of the Vo-Tech rooms where it sits on the ground in the corner of a classroom facing the chalkboard.  You know this team will get sweeter championship rings. You know Dr. Garner's gonna throw some extra jack in there to make sure their rings are sweeter and bigger than the Steelers Super Bowl rings! It's gonna make are 94' rings look like they came fresh out the bottom of the Cookie Crisp Cereal Box.  I wouldn't even be suprised that if JHS wins, and a week later I turn on the T.V. and see Matt Garner in a "I"m going to Disney" commercial! Wouldn't suprise me at all!...............so if JHS does lose, it won't be all that bad! HAHA!!

AA State Title: BIC vs Altheimer

That's right, BIC is playing Altheimer. I always knew there was an Arkansas school for the deaf, but I didn't know there was one for the kids with Alzheimers. Aight, just kidding!! Anway, I just wanted to mention BIC and Brooks Taylor because Steve Gibson loves his BIC basketball and his Brooks Taylor.

Is that Rod Smart or Brooks Taylor??!?!

STEVE IS SCHEDULED TO WORK SATURDAY

This is driving him nuts! He's hasn't missed a JHS game all year, and now they make the state finals and he has to work...... and he can't ask anybody to fill in for him because he already did that a few times last week so that he could drive to the state tournament and watch JHS play....... he had to beg another to cover his Saturday shift for him.  Why do I have the feeling, Steve is going to get desperate come Saturday morning and be "that guy" that calls in with the worst lie and most "I'm obviously lying" excuse ever invented. Surely, he won't use that "lets make up a dead family member" excuse!!!............on 2nd thought?!

"That restaurant is so crowded, no one goes there anymore!"

Okay, only Dan will probably catch the title for this post, but I couldn't resist.......and I took a shot at Steve's blog by opening this post up with a quote. Anyway, huge game for  the Hogs tomorrow night. A "must win" game, a loss at home and you can forget the NCAA bid. Personally, Bama doesn't scare me, and I think we win by 15 to 20 points...........& I don't care what the Walrus, Robby, ASU fans, or Ramona Heath says!! 

"LETS GET IT ON!!"

THE BEST NEW SHOW 

Knight School started last night on ESPN. Finally, a good reality TV show. It's live footage of a walk-on tryout at Texas Tech Univ. To summarize: they practice hard,and then scrimmage while Knight yells and embarasses them. Then Knight and his assistant coaches meet privately and narrow the roster down by cutting a few players. Currently down to 12 players. It's really good, plus you can pick up some coaching pointers from Bob Knight.  Plus, when I watch it, it reminds me of Arkansas whipping up on Texas Tech in the SWC days.

WHOOO WHOOOO!!

SPECTRUM 70                MIRACLE 62

Ballgame! Case closed! Maybe next year Steve. I don't want to hear any lip Steve!  Shhhhhh!...... Zip it!......www.shhhhh.com

Steve has been talking trash since the Paragoud basketball schedule was released back in December about how my team was going to get beat by 'the Miracle'. To let you know how worried I am about this game, I'm going to give you a walk-through of how I will be preparing for that game on Thursday. But before I do that, lets start off with a joke: there was this little boy who had been mistreated and who had a rough home life. To top it off, his parents were now getting a divorce. While the parents were at court fighting over the custody of the child, the judge asked the boy if he would like to live with his father? The boy said "no, he beats me"! The judge then asked if he would like to live with his mother? The boy said, "no, she beats me too!" The judge then said, "well if you don't want to live with your father nor your mother, who do you want to live with?" The little boy said, "I want to live with 'the Miracle' basketball team because they can't beat anybody!!!"  HAHAHA!!

Thursday, February 2nd (game-day)

12:00am - normally I would have already been sound asleep because I usually go to bed at about 11:00pm......but hey, sleep isn't that big of a deal on this night because we have a cupcake game against 'the Miracle' tomorrow. Who needs their legs? So I go ahead and stay up.

1:30am - I'm actually fixing to turn off the lights and go to sleep, but the movie "Pure Country" comes on TBS and although I hate country music, this movie always "sucks" me in. I end up staying up until 4:00am to watch this movie, and I have no idea why.

6:30am - I'm up and getting ready for work.

6:40am - I skip breakfast. Who needs energy today? I'll have my breakfast later that night on the court.

6:50am - As I grab my frozen "Stouffer's Monterey Chicken" (best frozen meal ever invented) dinner out of the freezer on my way to work, I can't help but notice my basketball schedule on the fridge. After all of our games, I mark either a "W" or an "L" on the schedule by the team we just played depending on whether we won or lost. But on this morning, I go ahead and grab the Sharpie and write a nice big "W" on the schedule 14 hours before the game even starts.

6:51am - as I get ready to get in my vehicle, I see a couple of notes on the window of my car. They don't say who they are from, but I'm pretty sure they are from Steve....anyway, the first notes says "YOUR DEAD! ITS ON! OOOHHH !!  ITS ON!" .........the second note says, "I know what you did last summer!"

9:30am - Brad, who plays on my team, calls me on my cell phone to remind me that Brian, Derek, & Scott won't be there because they are on a ski trip in Colorado. He asks me if we need to pick up some extra players to make sure we have enough. I think it over and say, "well we've got me.....and you......and, well that's two players right there. That should be enough against this team." Brad laughs, and then says "yeah, you're probably right! Heck, I may not even show up for this one!".......(we both start laughing).

11:17am - I check my blog.......Steve has posted "ITS ON ! YOUR DEAD! ITS ON!" (NOTE: Actually, he spelled most of those words incorrectly, but that is what he meant to say.)

11:56am - I go eat my frozen dinner for lunch. Mmm mmm! This stuff is off the hook! This stuff is the bomb! Outback Steakhouse, what you got on my Stouffer's Monterey Chicken dinner?!?! Huh huh?!?!  That's what I thought!

4:42pm - I'm off work, and normally I would go ahead and go home to rest since I have a game that night. But since we play 'the Miracle', I go ahead and go the gym and do a lot of heavy lifting.

5:30pm - normally about the time I would eat for an 8:30pm game. But I don't.

7:26pm - I call Dan up and we go to 'China Buffet' here in Paragould to eat. I eat like 7 full plates, plus some Ice Cream, and 13 fortune cookies. Dan thinks I'm crazy for eating all of that right before a game........I told Dan I wanted to eat a lot, so that I would get full and slow my body down. That way I know what its like to move at the pace of Worm & Steve during the game!

7:56pm - I'm getting dressed. I'm getting ready to put on my basketball shoes, when I actually consider the thought of just playing tonight in my flip-flops. I squash the idea, and settle for a pair of Doc Martins.

8:28pm - I get to the gym, and none of the Miracle players will talk to me after reading my blog. Nate threatens to give me one of those Vickie Tennison black eyes.

8:43pm - only 4 minutes into the game, Steve gets tired and says he has to come out. He claims to everyone that he has been sick all week. Baker yells from the stands, "you're lying! You're just a wuss!"............NOTE: these Miracle fans are rough!

8:46pm - Eric Timmons' wife yells for Steve to get his lazy butt back in the game. She then tells Steve, "and when you take your worthless hide back in, tell them to run 'motion'...I'm tired of seeing y'all stand around on offense!"

9:01pm - Halftime.........the score reads  SPECTRUM 26     MIRACLE  17

9:02pm - during halftime, Worm gets a phone call on his cell phone. It appears his new puppy has flooded the kitchen with pee while he was gone. Worm has to leave the game immediately.

9:14pm - its in the 2nd half..........Lonna Baker (sitting in the stands) gets frustrated with the Miracle team, and actually walks down and sits on the bench with the Spectrum team.  Similar to the crowd in Rocky IV, switching from cheering for Ivan to Rocky right in the middle of the fight.

9:16pm - I send Lonna in the game, and give her an easy assignment of guarding Steve.

9:17pm - commish Debra, says "no girls", and Lonna has to come back out.

9:22pm - Opie goes up for layup and gets hit on the hand while shooting.......however, the ref doesn't call anything. Do they ever call anything? Do their whistles work? Personally, I don't think they do.

9:23pm - while Opie is running back down the court, out of nowhere he goes Latrell Sprewell and starts choking the ref!  

9:24pm - after we pull Opie off the ref, he makes a mad dash for the stands Ron Artest style.

9:28pm - game resumes as Spectrum knocks down 6 technical foul free throws and puts it out of reach.

9:34pm - GAME OVER

9:34pm - Scoreboard reads       SPECTRUM 65         MIRACLE WHIP    50

NOTE: If we lose this game, this post will be taken down immediately. I will also withdrawal from the basketball league and quit attending Forest Home Church. I've jut put a lot of pressure on myself by making that post. But that's okay, because basketball is one of the few things in life where I don't mind the pressure. It just makes it more fun!! BRING IT!!

Don't have anything specific to write about, so I'll grab some letters out of my mailbox from the past week:

Q: JJ, who do you think will win the Miracle/Spectrum game next Thursday? I kind of hope Spectrum wins; we have been having a little trouble lately out of those buttholes from the Miracle team. Good luck. All elbows are welcome vs these guys.

 --Debrah, Commish of Paragould Basketball League

JJ: I hear you Debrah. I thought going into the season, the Miracle were a bunch of good guys just looking to have a good time and get a little exercise in. At least that's what they told me. I had heard from someone that Timmons was just going to come down the court and pull up and shoot from wherever he wanted just messing around. I had figured Steve would just be there to scout the walking track up above for girls. I figured Worm would wear his reading glasses while playing, and hand out business cards as he ran up and down the court. I was picturing Opie over on the bench with his little boy in his lap while he explains the game to him. Two spots over on the bench I was picturing Dave U sitting there smiling and having a good time while he blows on his duck call..... MAN WAS I WRONG!  It appears after a little 2 game winning streak, the Miracle have gotten a little cocky and are going " 1989 Detroit Pistons Bad Boys"...........there's constant complaining going on about certain members shooting too much. So much that even Paul Stallings hears about and mentions it to me while eating dinner a few weeks ago (I'm serious). Then you've got them complaining and fighting so much during a game the other night, that the refs actually stopped the game and threatened to call it. Yep, Opie had gone Ron Artest and was getting ready to fight with some guy from the other team. After that, Opie was probably headed for the stands to hit someone else, but luckily they resumed the game. Plus, when I've watched, Utley always looks pissed off at the other team and looks like he's dying to exchange blows, and Timmons' wife is always in the stands yelling at y'all and talking the team down. It's just not a very good atmosphere of late. I'll be watching my back next Thursday the full 40 minutes, and that's for sure!

Q: Dude, did you like it when I aimed that roll of toilet paper at your head the other night during the movie? How about when I dumped a whole bag of rice on your head 1 minute before the movie ended when it was obvious I did it just to get rid of it before the movie was over, & to do it just to piss you off?

-- one of the many Freaks @ the Rocky Horror Picture Show

JJ: Freak, you're a tool!  What was the point in that? BTW, Amber & Dan, what was the point in me even going in the first place? There wasn't 10 normal people in the whole theatre. 2 Hours of a movie about Alien Transvestites...........horrible! Should be called the Rocky Horrible Picture Show!

Q: I saw where Arkansas beat Ole Miss last night in basketball.........maybe you're right! Maybe Ole Miss does suck at everything! Toodlz!!

--Britt, Jonesboro

JJ: It's about time you came around Britt..........by the way, remember, lets not say "Toodlz" anymore.

Q: JJ, I didn't get what was so funny when you & Dan were laughing at this conversation the other week while eating at Wings To Go. Could you please repeat what was said?

--Jerrica, Alumni of Mount St. Mattress high school

JJ: Sure, here is how it went (we were talking about Christmas presents):  JJ says, "Jerrica did your shirt I get you for Christmas fit?"  Jerrica: "yes it did..thanks"......JJ: " by the way, what did I get you for Christmas last year, I can't remember?".....Jerrica: " I can't remember either, maybe you got Dan and I a joint gift (as in just one present for them to share).......Dan: "a joint gift? No, that was probably from Mitchell!" ....... Hahahaha!! I still can't stop laughing when I think about that! Dan was so quick on that one too.

Q: JJ, lets make a trade in fantasy baseball.....I heard Jose Reyes is not going to steal any bases this year, so you shouldn't want him. Why don't you trade him to me? I'll trade you Joe Randa for him. Also, I want you to throw in Brett Myers and Barry Bonds just to even it out a little.....annnnnddd, go ahead and throw your cat Max in there... as well as your vehicle too. Okay, that's my offer. Let me know something.

--Steve Gibson, San Dino, Mexico

JJ: Oh brother! It's just about that time of the year again where I start getting these crazy email trade offers from Stevie! Somebody shoot me!

Late,

JJ

21) Colts vs Panthers in Superbowl: It's a lock! I can't even think of any other remote possibillities.

20) There will be another baby in the Ryan family.....but it won't be mine, and it won't be Amber & Derek's......hmmm, who does that leave left? Will it be named Dannica?

19) Steve Gibson buys a pair of the old Reebok pumps....turns out the Reebok pumps are the color brown. Steve then declares that because the Reeboks are the color brown, they are considered dress shoes, and he starts wearing them to church every week.

18) The Blue Light Rapist makes a comeback, and again pulls over Hillary Clinton. Yes, he gives Hillary Clinton a second warning.

17) Paul Neil buys his first lottery ticket of his life and hits for big money. He flies out his whole FoHoYo Entourage for a week with him in Californ-I-A .  

16) ASU opens up the football season with a win over a 1-AA school; meanwhile, the Hogs lose a close home opener to Southern Cal. At ASU's next game, fans are seen holding up signs that say ASU is better than the Hogs because they have a better record.... JERKS!

15) 2006 College Basketball Final Four: Duke, UConn, Illinois, Michigan State. UAB almost makes it, as they make the Great 8. Watch out for UAB (Alabama Birmingham). Watch out for West Virginia too.

14) Cooter shows up at church with another black eye. Ten minutes into the service, the cops come in and cuff Dave Tennison and take him out of the building. Nate Stallings pats Dave on the back on the way out of the church and again says "good job Dave" (yes, Nate said that last time).  Later in the day, Dave is cleared of any wrongdoings and is allowed to come home. Turns out Dave was at Shooters playing pool the night Cooter fell and bumped her eye.

13)  We have to take my 2 year old nephew Jake to opening night of a new movie at the theatre. You assume its a disney cartoon movie right? Wrong......its Drumline part 2.

12) Arkansas basketball team ends the drought and makes the NCAA tournament this season. Turns out their 2nd round game is on the Saturday that Baker and Dave U. get married, thus causing Dave to put his foot in his mouth on the night before the wedding by saying " I can't believe the Hogs made the tournament and I'm not going to be able to watch the game. Dude this sucks! I wonder if we can move the wedding back another week!".......meantime, Baker hears this & goes nuts, and threatens to cancel the wedding all together for assuming that Dave thinks a basketball game is more important than her.  Dave later apoligizes ,and the wedding is back on as planned.  

11) Brett Walzer buys a new porshe with cash money..........when asked by his friends where he got the money, Brett says "I just traded in the thousands of video games that I borrowed from y'all over the years that I never gave back"

10) Diana Davis is bumped out as the anchor of KAIT by Yalanda Young. All of a sudden, all young guys including me make it a priority to catch the news everynight.  

9) Dan's new hamster Butterbean, eats his polmeranian dog Princess!! It grabs as much nationwide attention as the anaconda that exploded while trying to eat an alligator last year.

8) The Razorback football team is having a great offensive game in its 1st conference game next year under new offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn. Late in the 4th quarter on a crucial 3rd down & 8, Malzahn calls the play in from the pressbox at the top of the stadium. Next thing you know, Houston Nutt is seen shaking his head from left to right and signals in a play to the QB........the hogs then run a draw play and get stuffed for no gain. Malzahn is seen in the pressbox throwing his headphones. Broyles sees this happening and quietly nods at two guys dressed in all black wearing black leather gloves. After the game, Houston Nutt mysteriously dissapears and is never seen again.

7) Lindsey Bryam gets engaged, and its not to Ludacris.

6) Worm passes the CPA test, thus causing him to hit the sauce pretty hard later that night as he celebrates and rips off his shirt and does his infamous "Worm Dance"!

5) Britteny makes a big mistake and goes off to school at Ole Miss.......after two weeks, she drops out of school and moves back to Jonesboro to go to school. She admits to Steve & I that we were right about Ole Miss being a school full of losers.

4) Google (GOOG) stock soars over 20 pts on June 6th to put if over 600.00.........I become even more sick, and am put on suicide watch.

3) The Forest Home Softball team only has 3 players show for the 1st game of the year. I have to cover the whole outfield by myself. After the 3rd batter in the 1st inning, we get 7 automatic outs due to the 7 players that didn't show, meaning we don't even get to bat again for 3 more innings.

2) My buddy Walrus has another child, this time its a boy, and I guarantee he won't be named "Houston" or "Dale"..........my friends Matt & Crystal Bull have a baby boy, and the name "Ron" or "Ronnie" will be somewhere in his name.

1) Steve Gibson finally quits his job at Ritternet. He does it Jerry McGuire style by getting up in front of the office and blurting out "alright, who's coming with me?"  "Who's coming with me?"  "Alright, besides this goldfish right here, who else is coming with me?"

It could happen.

I'm still in disbelief that the words "ox and a$$" were in a church song the other Sunday. I mean I walk into church and try to focus, and then WHAM, that appears on the screen. Now all of a sudden I'm sitting in church thinking about the "Baby got Back" video..... How could the pickings for songs be that slim, especially around Christmas time? Just throw in some "Silent Night" or something. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that "ox and a$$" was the title of a song on one of my old Ice Cube tapes in junior high. Hey, if the church choir makes a CD with that song on it, does it come with a "Parental Advisory" sticker on the bottom cover of the CD?? If so, maybe that would be a good CD to also include Nate Stallz rap song he allegedly sang at church from back in his younger days. 

Looks like Dan is planning to give the NL fantasy baseball league a facelift. All kinds of rule changes are being considered. Looks like he will be cutting out the utility spots, changing the Team Salaries from $280 down to $260, each trade will be at least $10 per player (if not more), and many many more that I can't even think of right now. He's even considering not letting Cooter eat any cheeseball at the draft, and eliminating Cardinals & Braves hats in the living room while we are drafting. Its crazy!! He's gone mad!!

Looks like another shocking year in the NEA Tournament. You got BIC in the A/AA division so they can blow through the field like they do every year & Brooks Taylor can get his 50 every game, and then have Jonesboro and Blytheville in the championship game as usual in the 3A-5A division. Jonesboro could have a terrible team every year, and still easily make the championship game of the NEA every year, which is why Barry Pruitt loves playing in the NEA. My junior year, we were asked to play in the King Cotton Classic in Pine Bluff, at the time about the biggest tournament in the Nation, and he turned it down saying the NEA is tradition and it is a great tournament. Translation:he likes cupcakes, and that is why we were in the NEA tourney that year & that is why the Wendy's classic never has any great teams in it. They might as well change the JHS Wendy's classic to the "Hostess Cupcake Classic". The adds for the tournament could include Lindsey Byram & Ludacris holding a box of Ding Dongs. 

Christmas was good this year. It was the 1st Christmas ever without my grandma, but we still had a great time. The highlight had to be Jake, my 2 year old nephew, taking pictures with his new camera. He was getting ready to take a pic of my mom, so I slid inthere for a small group picture. All of a sudden he takes the camera away from his eye and says "Jay Jay, Move" while using his hand to shoo me away out of the picture. Appears he wanted a picture of his grandmother, and only his grandmother. I would expect something like that from Dan, but not from a 2 year old. Its way too early in his life to be busting on his uncle Jay.