What a freaking cowinkydink.

Got a couple other things on my mind this morning so this will be short.

Brewers won THE BULLPEN OF THE WEEK award from  . . . somebody in some article that does this every week.  Nuff said about that prestigious award.

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School board meeting at 7:00 tonight
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I see the robins made it through hell week.  On Facebook one woman said "GOOD LORD that have survived for 10 thousand years".  Well, as a friend said . . . "so did dinosaurs."

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The NFL schedule came out and everybody is talking about the most useless meaningless statistic ever - strength of schedule.  A league where half the teams that make the playoffs miss the playoffs the next year and everybody assumes a team will mirror it's record from the previous year . . just does not make sense.

In baseball if you want to see how a player will do look NOT at his last year stats but look at the year BEFORE last year.

But in football if you want to predict what a team will do, look at Pythagorean wins which is based on points scored (PS) and points allowed (PA) rather than win-loss record.  ((PS*PS) / ((PS*PS)+(PA*PA))).

Looking at Green Bay WIN-wise they have the hardest schedule in the NFL.  Yet if you use Pythagorean wins they have the only 7th hardest.

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There is a game near the top of the best board game list (30,000 board games) called POWER GRID that looks REALLY interesting

Energy Czar Anthon adjusting someones bill

"The objective of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someone's network gains a predetermined size. In this new edition, players mark pre-existing routes between cities for connection, and then bid against each other to purchase the power plants that they use to power their cities.

However, as plants are purchased, newer, more efficient plants become available, so by merely purchasing, you're potentially allowing others access to superior equipment.

Additionally, players must acquire the raw materials (coal, oil, garbage, and uranium) needed to power said plants (except for the 'renewable' windfarm/ solar plants, which require no fuel), making it a constant struggle to upgrade your plants for maximum efficiency while still retaining enough wealth to quickly expand your network to get the cheapest routes."

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The GOP tax breaks are working out GREAT for banks - JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America all have an extra $3.68 BILLION in there profit margins and the average CEO got a $186,000 bonus!

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That Waffel House shooting - yea - the guy had issues before but the police gave the guns back (after attacking the White House) to his dad so his dad could give the guns back to the kid.  I believe anybody that gives a gun to a killer must ALSO go to jail.

And the shooting in Tennessee - the guy purchased guns off the internet.  I've seen guns for sale on the Fall River Columbus Facebook page.  ANYBODY can buy a gun on Facebook.  What could possible go wrong.

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It was my moms birthday yesterday - miss ya mom.

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Don't look now but extended forecasts have "70" in the predictions in the future, a week away. The REAL good news is that there is not a lot of cold air north of us FINALLY.  Canada is all warmer the average so we are good to go! 

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OH - those wines that I blogged about Friday?  I posted the blog and 2 hours later I logged on to Facebook . . . and those exact wines are in an advertisement from Wines.com.  What a freaking cowinkydink.

Have a great day!! 

Rod