Only Five Hours to Go

First off, Dave Barry has some good nuggets about Jack's motivation.  Bank branch managers are not sufficient reasons to halt removing the President.  His bleeding ex-slampiece is.  Warrants mentioning.

 

1) I'm still reeling from Secy of State Devane doing that throat thing to Jack last week.  NOBODY does that to Jack.

 

2) And that's why, today, Devane is floating in some lake.

 

3) I've driven some roads in California, surely not all of them.  But the ones that I've been on, where there's a precipitous drop off into a lake/ocean/ravine are most definitely bordered by a pretty meaty guardrail.   Yet Devane finds a clear shot into the pond. 

 

4) So Henderson and Audrey are each being taken back to CTU.  Surely nothing can go wrong there. 

 

5) My new most hated character is this second in command guy from DHS.  What a freaking dweeb.  Chloe needs to bitchslap him before the season is over.

 

6) Who the hell are these guys that President Dipshit is answering to?  And I DO mean "answering to".  And why do they all need to wear Bluetooth devices in their ears?

 

7) So Aaron is gone, Mike is on the outside looking in...dammit, I need a good inside guy around my President and I do not have one. 

 

8) Prediction: First Lady Designing Woman is going to get all up in Logan's grill before this is over and bitchslap him.

 

9) Here's the thing, it wasn't even a concern whether or not Jack was going to get on the plane.  Of COURSE he was getting on.  That's the only problem with how awesome Jack is - you *know* it's going to work out for him.

 

10) Speaking of which, hasn't this been a relatively torture and pain-free day for Jack?  Sure, Michelle, Tony, and now Heller have all died, and that sucks, but what has Jack had to deal with today?  Audrey's blood splattering his shoes...Kim's whiny boyfriend...random DHS guy tasering him.  Me thinks the flight next week doesn't bode well for our hero.

 

11) Jack conveniently finds a way from cargo to first class and gets all up in some air marshall's grill.

Tournaments

I've heard just about enough about the Final Four, the MLB and NFL playoffs, Olympic Hockey, the WBC, and most every champion-crowning tournament in pro or college sports not necessarily identifying the best team. 

 

Really?  You mean the best team might not win a single-elimination tournament every time?  They might not win in a best-of-three/five/seven series?  You've got to be kidding me?  Right?

 

Uh, nope.  And there's NOTHING wrong with it either. 

 

Florida (not Duke) wins the NCAA Hoops tourney.  Good for them. 

Japan (not the US) wins the WBC.  Fine.

Pittsburgh, a six-seed, (not the Colts) wins the Super Bowl.  So what.

Someone (not Canada, Russia) won the Olympic Hockey tournament.  Who cares. 

 

Here is an interesting article about crowning the 'best' team vs. crowning a 'champion'.  Well done. 

Detroit Sold For Scrap

Not a terrible idea. Sometimes liquidation is the best option. Besides, who would really miss it?

OK, we can keep a few gems...the area immediately around the Fox. Keep the Joe. Maybe a casino. But just raze the rest of it. Why not?

Womens Hoopster

My son "A" is four years old. Here's our exchange this morning as I was watching SportsCenter, which was (endlessly) recapping the NCAA Div. I Women's Basketball Championship. A Maryland player was on the dais taking questions.

A: Dad, is that a boy or a girl?
D: That's a girl.

A: Dad, is she a hockey player?
D: I can see why you're asking that, but no, she's just a basketball player.

Thank God that ESPN's incessant coverage is over...but I will miss Stacey Dales-Schuman. Good GOOD looking woman.

Sandman

This might be the most ridiculous argument ever. Yankee fans are up in arms that Billy Wagner entered his first game as a Met to 'Enter Sandman' - the same song Mariano Rivera has used for the Yankees since 1997.

Only one problem: Wagner has used the song wherever he has been since 1996.

Chris Russo is up in arms about this. He says (paraphrasing) that you can't use that song in New York. It's Mariano's song. Uh, no, Chris. It's Metallica's song. That's it. You can end the argument there.

But I won't. Is Wagner supposed to defer to Rivera just because they play in the same city? Because the Mets play the Yankees six times this year? That's how often the Mets play the Pirates, Reds, Giants, etc., so should the Mets be on the lookout for any song overlaps there?

This is the Yankees' superiority complex in action, and it's total bullshit.

And David Wright is still God.