Yawn. Apparently the wife is tired of having withdrawal headaches when she doesn\u2019t have caffeine, so she\u2019s switched to the half-caffeine type of coffee. So here I am at 10:00 already breaking into the Diet Coke. Guess I\u2019m addicted.<\/p>\n
Basketball season arrived Friday night, yet I\u2019m strangely still interested in football. The Dallas Cowboys are 5-1 and in first place in the NFC East. The Kansas Jayhawks are 5-2 and tied for first in the Big 12 North. Maybe the potential Cubs-Red Sox World Series wasn\u2019t the sign of the apocalypse I should have been worried about. Dallas plays at Tampa Sunday, KU at Kansas State Saturday. We\u2019ll have a much clearer picture of each team this time next week.<\/p>\n
Sports Illustrated has some wacky stats on their college football section, and somehow list Texas Tech has averaging 74 points a game. They\u2019re actually averaging a still impressive 47 ppg. I thought it ironic that if they really were scoring 74 points each Saturday, they would have a higher octane offense than Bobby Knight has each winter in Lubbock.<\/p>\n
Speaking of basketball, I will attempt some kind of Big 8+4 coverage again this year. Being away from the area will affect my analysis a little, but I figure I can find time to read all the conference summaries, catch a couple games each week, and post something. All that will come on a separate site. I\u2019m in the process of setting it up and will make an announcement when it\u2019s available, as well as link to it on the right side.<\/p>\n
Am I the only one who was shocked to hear Juan Pierre of the Florida Marlins accent be pure Cajun? I figured he was from the Dominican Republic, or with a last name like Pierre, maybe the rare MLB player from Haiti.<\/p>\n
New Listening Post entry to come this afternoon (pending time to transfer it from hand writing to electronic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yawn. Apparently the wife is tired of having withdrawal headaches when she doesn\u2019t have caffeine, so she\u2019s switched to the half-caffeine type of coffee. So here I am at 10:00 already breaking into the Diet Coke. Guess I\u2019m addicted. Basketball season arrived Friday night, yet I\u2019m strangely still interested in football. The Dallas Cowboys are 5-1 and in first place in the NFC East. The Kansas Jayhawks are 5-2 and tied for first in the Big 12 North. Maybe the potential Cubs-Red Sox World Series wasn\u2019t the sign of the apocalypse I should have been worried about. Dallas plays at Tampa Sunday, KU at Kansas State Saturday. We\u2019ll have a much clearer picture of each team this time next week. Sports Illustrated has some wacky stats on their college football section, and somehow list Texas Tech has averaging 74 points a game. They\u2019re actually averaging a still impressive 47 ppg. I thought it ironic that if they really were scoring 74 points each Saturday, they would have a higher octane offense than Bobby Knight has each winter in Lubbock. Speaking of basketball, I will attempt some kind of Big 8+4 coverage again this year. Being away from the area will affect my analysis a little, but I figure I can find time to read all the conference summaries, catch a couple games each week, and post something. All that will come on a separate site. I\u2019m in the process of setting it up and will make an announcement when it\u2019s available, as well as link to it on the right side. Am I the only one who was shocked to hear Juan Pierre of the Florida Marlins accent be pure Cajun? I figured he was from the Dominican Republic, or with a last name like Pierre, maybe the rare MLB player from Haiti. New Listening Post entry to come this afternoon (pending time to transfer it from hand writing to electronic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15736,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/15736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}