ENTHUSIASM CURBED

I didn't even get a chance to post my prediction for the World Series before the damn thing was over! For the record, I was going to pick the Rockies in seven, so I'm glad I didn't go on the record with that one. Oh...wait a minute...

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The CSI: Miami Zen Quote of the Day

"It is what it is, it ain't what it ain't, but that don't make it what it isn't."
--line actually uttered by the character Frank (Rex Linn) on this week's episode

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15 Things I Sometimes Wonder About, But Never Bring Up In Conversation

1. If a car can have a "bra", can it also have a codpiece?

2. TV executives are scared to death of a future where everyone owns either Tivo or a DVR. Wouldn't the perfect response to this be TV commercials that just have one still image for thirty seconds, so that fast forwarding through it wouldn't stop you from seeing what the product is?

3. Paul Newman (age 82), Sean Connery (77) and Clint Eastwood (77) have all declared their retirement from on-screen acting. Yet William Shatner (76) is more ubiquitous than ever. Why?

4. Is there anyone left in the United States who doesn't know that Jerry Seinfeld has an animated picture called BEE MOVIE coming out in the next month?

5. I still can't believe that pi is an infinite number that never repeats any digits in sequence. A world that has pi must have a God. If the universe has pi and God, then why can't science and faith coexist more peacefully?

6. The Southern California wildfires are a great tragedy and a horrible loss of property and quality of life, but fifty years ago almost no one would be in the path of the fires because Southern California wasn't so overbuilt and overpopulated. Maybe the answer isn't more water but better management of the environment.

7. Eminem and Three Six Mafia still each have as many Academy Awards as Martin Scorsese.

8. Currently, the state of Massachusetts has the best pro football team (the New England Patriots), the best baseball team (the Red Sox), the second best college football team (Boston College) and an expected NBA Finals contender (Boston Celtics). If the Boston Bruins make the Stanley Cup Finals, it may officially be a sign of the apocalypse.

9. Michael Jackson looks way worse at age 49 than Smokey Robinson does at age 67.

10. Nostradamus predicted that the world (as we know it) will end in December of 2012 and the Mayan calendar ends at about the same time. Does that mean I should up the withholding percentage on my 401k?

11. Almost any fruit or vegetable can be fermented into an alcoholic beverage, but I've never heard of mango wine. Maybe that's a good thing.

12. If a person, no matter how cute they are, licked itself, made constant noise, pooped in the dirt, jumped on your bed in the middle of the night and scratched you for no reason, you'd call it insane and send it packing. Create a creature that's about 12 pounds and covered in fur and have it do the exact same things and we'll call it a cat, give it a name and treat it like it's one of our children. In all things in nature, it helps to be cute.

13. If all the world's computers crashed tomorrow and all financial and bank records were lost, there is only enough real "paper" cash in the world's financial institutions to cover about 1 percent of what would be lost. That makes me nervous.

14. Juneau, the capital of Alaska, and the westernmost point of the Aleutian Islands are in the same state but over 2200 miles apart. This is further than the distance between Los Angeles and Chicago. For some reason, this fascinates me.

15. Andy Rooney gets paid millions of dollars to do the same s**t I just did in this blog for free. Somewhere in my past, I've made a wrong turn.

Coming soon in Reg's Sportsapalooza: the NBA Season Preview. Maybe. If I feel like it.
On this blog: more weird stuff before the end of the week, I promise.

Peace...