Ojo Rojo

I think I might get a job as a vendor at NRG and then just quiet quit before kickoff and watch the game.

1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Alabama Four best teams.

I'm not a clean freak, but I do much prefer cleanliness and order, for practical reasons. Filth is unhealthy and unsightly; clutter is also unsightly and makes it hard to find shit when you need it. Any space that I control - my closet, my workbench, the countertop in my bathroom - all well organized, clean and free of clutter. My wife, OTOH, is....not like me in this way. She doesn't mind clutter. Every space she controls is packed to the brim with trash and bullshit. Her countertop in the bathroom looks like a CVS after a tornado. Unfortunately, she also controls the kids' spaces so all of their shit is FUBAR. We have a mud room and each of the three of our kids have a cabinet, ostensibly for their essential school shit. You can't even open the fucking doors without papers and shit falling out. My wife's car looks like a homeless person stole it and lived in it for weeks. Bits of food and crumbs completely covering the floorboards, wrappers and trash literally everywhere. Glove box, console, cup holders all full of detritus among a few actually useful things that you'd never be able to find. My wife knows that all of this shit makes me ragey. I have tried telling her nicely that it really bothers me. I have tried telling her that her life would actually be better if she was more organized and cleaned shit up. I have tried being an asshole about it. I have brought it up in therapy. She does nothing. By this point, I am mostly resigned. I told my wife about a month ago that I wanted to get rid of a bunch of shit in anticipation of Christmas. The kids are going to get a bunch of new shit and there is hardly anywhere left to put anything because of my wife's lack of organizational skills. We went through all of their clothes a couple of weeks ago and filled up two garbage bags of stuff to give away. We put the bags in the hallway. I told her that I wanted to take them to Goodwill, like right then. She told me that she wanted to "go through it first." WTF? Didn't we just do that? Apparently there were some items she thought she could sell on FB marketplace or whatever. Fine, just please do it sooner rather than later. I also made it clear that over the Thanksgiving long weekend I wanted to clear some stuff out of the garage, including larger kids toys that I wanted to give away. She has a bunch of shit from her car - shopping bags, floor mats, mats that go under car seats we don't use anymore, yoga mats, - draped all over the toys the kids don't use anymore that I want to give away. I asked her to do something with that shit so that I could get the toys out. It was clearly a Step 1, Step 2 situation. Pan to Sunday, last day of the long weekend. The two garbage bags of clothes are still in the hallway, untouched. All of the shit in the garage - untouched. I did some things with the kids and then a few small projects around the house in the morning. Then I laid on the couch and watched some of the Texans' game and scrolled on my phone. It's late afternoon. My goal of having this shit gone by the end of the weekend has not been met. I waited long enough; I gave her plenty of time to do what she needed to do. So I told her that I was taking the clothes to Goodwill, throwing away all of the unused mats and shit in the garage and taking all of the toys to a friend who has a grandchild who can use them. Of course, she gets all pissed off at me for "being an asshole." She tells me she can't be comfortable or "feel safe" or "be herself" in our house. She also accused me of being "unproductive" because I laid on the couch for a couple of hours. She whirlwinded angrily for 15 minutes or so, put the bags of clothes by the front door that someone came and got and threw away all of the shit in the garage (including some actual useful shit that I fished out of the trash can). We haven't spoken since.

Don't trade him. Get his value for next season while the window is more open than it will be the season after that. He will walk. It will hurt. Some dumb team is going to way overpay him. That won't be the Astros.

Except current rankings, but point taken. Washington beating Oregon would not be chalk.

True. I don't look at the lines because those are not dictated by the logic of who is favored to win, but by the movement of money bet on one team or the other.

Prediction for this week's rankings: 1. Georgia 2. Michigan 3. Washington 4. Florida State 5. Ohio State 6. Texas 7. Oregon 8. Alabama Texas jumps Oregon because our resume is simply better. We beat the common opponent much worse than they did. Texas final busted out and put up big points in a blowout win. Prediction for CFP: FSU loses to Louisville. FSU, like us, has played evenly against mid-grade and poor teams. They beat an okay LSU team first game of the season. Only other win against a ranked team was #16 Duke. They lost their starting QB. Chalk the rest of the way. 1. Georgia 2. Michigan 3. Washington 4. Texas

I'm saying if I was on the committee then my criteria would be who would win head to head. I believe Texas' resume is currently better than FSU's even with one loss. I also think Texas would beat FSU today, especially without their starting QB. I think Texas is the better team than FSU, but no one seems to question them getting in if they are undefeated. That logic simply ignores the fact that some one-loss teams could be better than some undefeated teams. It's like if you are a Power 5 undefeated that is a golden ticket. I think that's bullshit. I think the whole thing is bullshit. I'm so glad for the expanded playoff finally.

I don't agree with an undefeated team being a given over a 1-loss team. It's always been that way, but I don't agree with it. Being undefeated is a sacred cow and overrated. If you are undefeated because you played a shit schedule, is that really better than a team that played superior competition and only lost one game? What I'm thinking of here specifically is the argument between Texas and FSU if both win out. Or even FSU v. Oregon if Oregon wins the Pac12. I think it is really dumb that we determine the football champion by a committee vote to make a four team playoff. But, if it was my decision, it would be a simple question of "If Team A played Team B today, who would win?" I would use resume' heavily in answering that question. I think Texas would beat FSU today, so they should get in over FSU if it comes down to one or the other.

The fact that it is 2023 and we don't have a playoff for more than 4 teams is real dumb.

Make 'em eat shit, Auburn.

You have to be kidding me.

Fuck these refs. Jesus.

FUCK THESE COCKSUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

"We will get our way, all of it, or we will destroy the country." I say we let them do it. FAFO, bigtime. When government employees stop getting paid, SS checks stop going out, etc. and the GOP is absolutely the reason why, let's see what that does to their political fortunes.

When are LMJ and Garcia projected to come back? ASB? Looks like we are three relievers short right now. Rather than give up prospects or a major leaguer to get those or sign anyone decent for big dollars, I'd probably start the season with who we have, wait on LMJ and Garcia to come back so we can move starters to the pen, hope Montero turns back into a carriage from a pumpkin and see if any of the other guys are going to be better than they have been. If we need bullpen arms at the deadline, get them then.

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I got news for them. It ain't going to make a shit.

I'm surprised Leipold isn't getting more run. Dude has done something in CFB that is very, very hard to do - win at Kansas.

This has been me all day:

The fridge at our bayhouse gave out a couple of times...with bags of bait shrimp in the freezer. You haven't lived until you have smelled two-week old rotten bait shrimp baking in the summer heat. Once when this happened the fridge was full of beer and other drinks. The frozen shrimp had thawed and the juice ran down into the fridge. I refused to let it go. Tried to wash all the bottles and cans and clean the fridge. Putrid orange liquid full of maggots. I can still smell it. Never could get the stench off the beer cans either. I tried to drink them, I really did. Every time you'd take a sip you'd get the faintest whiff of bleach and rotten shrimp. Couldn't do it.

Maybe the thing my wife does that pisses me off the most is not flushing our bathroom toilet after she pees. When I go to use the toilet hours or days later I get the waft of rotten piss and I absolutely hate it. After a while it seems to permeate the toilet so it stinks even after flushing. I used to tell her how much I hated it and I asked her nicely to flush the toilet after she pisses. She ignored me and I stopped saying anything. Yesterday evening she tells me, "Our bathroom stinks. I think the toilet is leaking or something." She's implying that I need to look into it. I wanted to tell her, "Yeah, I know it stinks. It's because you never flush the fucking toilet you disgusting, ignorant bitch." But I didn't. I just nodded and walked away.