Aaron Rodgers does not own Robbie Gould.

Honestly, game for game that may have been the greatest weekend of playoff football... period?
Each game coming down to the last second.
Like in Green Bay, where the guy Ryan Pace ejected from the Bears won it for the Niners?
Yeah, Robbie Gould knows how to kick in freezing, snowy weather. 
I guess I was trying to not let the "I own you" thing from Aaron Rodgers bother me.
When he said it, it was simply true, so... so what?
But the extra good feeling I got from Gould's kick made me realize old Mr. Rodgers got under my skin.

What about baseball?
I can't imagine an actual strike.
When that happened the last time, even my brother took a pass on baseball and became a NASCAR fan.
Took him YEARS to come back.
I imagine there may be more people who feel that way now. 
A strike would be a colossal disaster. 
I think they'll reach some kind of agreement with very little time left and it's gonna be the Scramble of the Century with each team trying to sign (or trade, dfa, non tender, blah blah blah) players and get ready for the season.
Airports will be jammed with baseball people trying to get to their respective camps.
It'll be nuts.

Also, I'm sorry.
There's been a lot of personal stuff. 
I'll post when I can, and of course more when baseball starts up.

In the meantime, here are more paintings and one story. 
First, a late Happy New Year:

Current events:

Pet paintings I did for commission:


And the story:

I cracked a wisdom tooth on a nut.
Had to quickly get in to see the dentist.
I pulled some jeans out of the dryer, got in the car.
Of course I got drilled, so the novocaine shot and all that.
Then, "Well, it looks like you're going to have to get that pulled."
I have all my wisdom teeth.
I had a buddy get all his pulled in college.
He couldn't eat, right?
So in his dreams, he would be eating a delicious steak, but then wake up and realize he was chewing on the gauze.
Disgusting and horrifying.
Okay so then I left, walking across the parking lot. 
Looked down and there's a dryer sheet sticking out the bottom of my pants leg.
Remember Sniglets?
Where they made up names for things that didn't have one?
If you had toilet paper stuck to your shoe, it was called a "tile comet".
That's what it looked like.
Then I'm driving home, on the road I take all the time.
I know where the speed camera is, and yet still when I get there two bright flashes.
I'll get the ticket in a couple weeks.
Everything is hilarious!

Comments

[Bud]

Hmmm - NASCAR???

Why not? I remember the 1994 strike and what it did to baseball fandom (me included). Like your brother, it took me years to even want to attend another MLB game. Another protracted strike/lockout combined with what our Cubs did to blow up our team last year would again take me years to recover from .

And I don't have that many years...

[Rich Beckman]

Old Lang Sign!!!! HA!!

"There's been a lot of personal stuff." Including dental work, it seems. Whatever it is, I hope all works out to the good.

My last straw with Rogers was the whole vacination BS. I went on record then that I'd rather the Packers lose without him than win with him. Then they go an lose with him. I would much perfer he is not a Packer next year. I would feel that way even if they had managed to win the Super Bowl.

I may have to endure a few losses to the Bears, but not for the first time.

That was a great four games!!

Good on Andy Reid to say that he was glad to be on the right side of it, but that the OT rules become absurd in a playoff game.

I'm a Cubs fan. I cannot imagine circumstances that would stop me from being a Cubs fan. Whenever the season starts, I'll be paying close attention to and rooting for the Cubs. Strike or no strike, a team of no names or of stars, I'll be paying close attention to and rooting for the Cubs.

I like the Rogers painting. There's the mantra that one should visulize the result and then attain it! Look like a bum, become one.

[Tim@Cubby Blue]

Hey Bud! I'm in your club too!
Rich! Yeah Rodgers turned out to be kind of a sneak, and I wasn't expecting that. And trust me, I HOPE HE'S NOT A PACKER NEXT YEAR TOO!
I didn't stop being a fan the last time they had a strike, and I doubt I would this time should it happen. But it sure is boneheaded.

[Bud]

Three levels of "fandom":
1. I'm a fan.
2. I'm NOT a fan.
3 I'm a pissed off and disappointed fan.

Lot's of us are going to be #3's next year. I'm likely one of them.