I’m from Ohio. I don’t hate Ohio State (though I do prefer Akron and Cincinnati). I do hate when people where Ohio State gear around Akron’s campus. Anyway.

Ohio State is ranked the tenth best team in the country before the polls are released today.  And quite frankly I am not sure why.

OSU has done nothing to claim one of the top spots in the country. In their games against ranked opponents, they have a 1-5 record. The victory came against Michigan. While that is an impressive win, they are rivals and they were at home. You are supposed to beat your rival at home right?

Ohio State has a 17-6 record, they lost to Illinois by 19 earlier in the year.

They really have one good two good player on their team, Aaron Craft and Deshun Thomas.  They just do not have enough for me to get excited over them. After loosing twice to teams that are ranked one and three this week, chances are they will fall slightly.

At this point I would not mind seeing them fall all the way down into the 20′s.

The Cincinnati Bengals Drain Fans, Bloggers

It is about 15 minutes after the Matt Schaub took his knee to end the Bengals season, and I come before you a battered, tired fan.

I am a Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati Bengals fan. I have been since the day I was born, and–barring anything extreme happening in the future, will be one till the day I die. And it is painful to think that I may have 60-80 more years of this junk.

My childhood was plague with bad sports teams. Cincinnati was one of the bigger jokes of sports fans everywhere. While the race-riots were going on in the city, the teams were in their own race. The Bengals raced to the NFL draft where they would pick consistently in the top ten, and the Reds raced to vacations in October after finishing seemingly hundreds of games behind first place.

It was an accepted part of life. You were always cheering for the underdog, and you were likely going to lose at the end of the day. And then Carson Palmer came, and life got really, really hard.

Cincinnati sports teams are just good enough to break your heart as a fan. You want to get behind your boys so much throughout the season, you plead with them to take your passion and excitement. However, they give you no return on your investment. Another one and done playoff series, wild card round.

It’s disheartening, and whats worse is that you know as soon as another Cincinnati team show any sign of life (like a Reds player picking up a bat or a football being found at Paul Brown Stadium), you are sucked back in and throwing your allegiance towards the organization.  Take my time, take my money…take my happiness. ?

It’s only been 25 minutes after a tough Bengals lost that saw Andy Dalton throw for an amazing -6 yards in the first half. I probably should not be spewing these emotions now. However I know that they won’t go away for a really long time anytime. Might as well air them out now.

And you know what is really tough on the psyche? Knowing that I, as a Cincinnati sports fan, can no longer see making the playoffs as a successful season for these talented teams. I may never be happy again!

I am going to end my rant now. Maybe I will have some real content up tomorrow over the first two games of the playoffs.

Enjoy the night my friends.

Speaker Boehner Will Retain His Power

After dividing his troops, getting beat over the head by the president, and conceding  tax hikes that will damage the economy for years to come the speaker of the house will most likely keep his position.

John Boehner, a man who lives all of thirty minutes from my address, has demonstrated exactly how not to go about negotiating such serious legislation.

As the results came through Tuesday, November 6th, Speaker Boehner started figuring out ways he could give in. Instead of laying out a viable, conservative plan with clear arguments as to why it would be best for the nation to not severely tax the rich and decrease regulation.

Instead we got plan B. Which was always plan A. And a plan that was willing to go to the the extreme middle right that would allow the president to get just about everything he was after while giving up little.

Perhaps the reason for it is because he could not tell you why it would be best. Perhaps Boehner truly has no clue what he is doing. He has made a career at trying to blend in. Going to toe to toe with one of the more dynamic presidents in the nation’s history clearly was an unfair position to put him in. He needs to leave, and I am pretty sure any clear thinking conservative would agree. But he’s not. He is going to stay.

And with a ton of dangerous legislation that is bound to be in the national spotlight in the coming years–which includes gun control– we need someone better. Someone that will fire up the conservative base and not look for things to concede.

It’s tough being a conservative.  We can not paint a perfect picture of what things could be if the mean rich men would allow it. We have to try to convince the population that things are the way they are, but can be better with strategic reforms that include lessening government while promoting small business and the private sector.

It takes a lot of charisma to get this point across.

Something that Boehner completely lacks.

To Mr. Ryan: Say yes to PED

http://espn.go.com/videohub/video/clip?id=8774625&categoryid=2378529

Mr. Bob Ryan, noted columnist and TV personality, took to the airwaves Sunday morning and used his platform to implore Baseball Hall of Fame voters to say no to who he coined “The Toxic Trio” (Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa).

As Ryan, and many voters like him, seeks to keep the Hall of Fame free from steroid era players, they continue to forget the fans that have kept baseball alive–my generation.

I was seven years old when I witnessed one of the greatest races in the history of sport. McGuire and Sosa’s race to 62 captivated the country and the world. But more importantly, it captivated me.

Those two players took a boy, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and forced him to pledge his loyalty to the sport of baseball.

Like Harry Winston and his jewelry, Sosa and McGuire made off with millions of fans.

These fans are now twenty-something year olds, and should be upset to see current sports writers continue to try to protect their childhood heroes, by taking ours away.

They are attempting to hide our heroes like a businessman hides a receipt from an infamous escort service.

I am apart of the generation that has given baseball a second chance (an opportunity that the league has taken and ran with very well might I add).  I am apart of the generation that saw a sport that was dying and gave it the gift of life.

Baseball would be the way of hockey without us, and we are owed to have our childhood enshrined just like the rest of them.

Ryan admitted that it was not the writers place to seek revenge on players. He admitted that it was impossible to catch everyone.

And now, with all due respect, it’s time to practice what you preach.

God and Newton Conn.

Mike Hucabee ladies and gentalmen.

Old Rugged Cross

 

 

Tearful Obama Speaks to the Nation

President Obama stood in front of the nation for nearly six minutes, wiping away tears.

27 people, including 18 who are under ten years old, were killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut Friday.

“The majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little kids between the ages of five to ten years old.” said the president from the White House.

Explaining that he has already spoke to Connecticut governor Dan Malloy, the president promised to give as much aid and resources to the community that experienced the tragedy.

The president told the nation that he and his wife, like every American parent, will hug their children a little tighter tonight.

Reports are starting to come out that the killer, 20 year old Adam Lanza, main target was his mother who was a teacher at the school.

New reports say that she was killed at her home, along with Lanza’s father who was killed at his home.

He then traveled to the school and attacked his mother’s kindergarten class.

Lanza brother, 24 year old Ryan Lanza, is believed to be in custody after waiting in the woods adjacent to the school. He was wearing camouflage.

The president also listed the many massacre that have taken place. He said that now was not the time, but promised to work towards protecting people from further danger.

 

Is Jerry Sandusky Trying to Get Murdered?

Original Story 

According to CBS Sports, Sandusky’s lawyer has motioned the court to order his client released from an intense security sentience.

Karl Rominger has even gone as far to ask to be released into the general population. That is something unheard of when it comes to child molester and predators.

Rominger said that Sandusky felt that he would be safe among the other inmates, and that his current sentence is too harsh.

Per the orginal story

Rominger said Sandusky, 68, rates as a Level 2 inmate on a five-level security classification but is being kept under much more severe Level 5 conditions. He said Sandusky is alone in his cell for 23 hours a day during the week and around the clock on weekends.

That’s a life that is not worth living. With his world crumbled, and a life that involves nothingness, Sandusky may be on the brink of suicide.

I really can’t blame him.

If Sandusky is released to the general population, there is (I don’t believe what he or his lawyer say) a great chance that he will be beaten/killed within a month. And that may be exactly what Sandusky is aiming for.

He is an old man that still has years to serve if untampered with. This move seems like he is trying to tamper with it.

How long do you really think he is going to survive? Not long. The reasons are that not only because he is a child rapist, but also because he is one of the most hated child rapist of all time.

I am going to go out on the limb and say that Sandusky has a plan that would involve a quick (maybe a little painful) murder that would allow him to escape prison.

Even if that escape involves a body bag.