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Friday, July 24, 2009

bringin back the hate

        i know its july....     i know we just had the all star break...   but ive had all i can stand and i cant stand anymore...     its time to talk some football....

        lets get straight down to business....
        fla
floridas back... theyre as good as ever...   they bring back the whole defense alot of the offense and tim effin tebow... i hate fla...   moving on...
outlook:  13-1   nc birth

     tennessee
the vols are not back.....   yet.        a good recruiting class and a defense that was strong last year should anchor the vols bowl hopes...   look for ut not give up as many first downs on 3rd and long yardage... former d coordinator for all his strengths tended to back the defense off trying not get burnt and let teams pick us apart on 3rd down...   the offense has to be better... ut will probably run the ball considerably more with addition of big recruits and the inconsistency likely to be shown in the passing game....
outlook:    8-4

   uga
      the dawgs are my dark horse this year....   they should play better as a team this year knowing they cant just let staff or moreno try do something to win the game... big time play maker aj green will be a thorn in alot of defensive sides this year and look for the drops to decrease with 5th year sr joe cox's soft touch....   cox is much better than anyone realizes and hungry to prove that hes not just good at holding clipboards...   uga's biggest hurdle is once again scheduling....   starting the season at oklahoma st and then back home for carolina, a much improved arkansas on the road then back home for arizona st. and lsu then back on the road for a two for in the state of tennessee with the vols and vandy....   no cupcake games and no week off....   thats right    ok st, usc, ark, az st., lsu, and ut... the first six weeks of the season...    im gonna be honest...   i didnt know uga was scheduled that way until i pulled it up just now....        somebody has it in for the dawgs and i just cant see em coming through unscathed... uga will turn another good season out though as mark richt puts another great team out between the hedges....
outlook sec #2 10-3 maybe 11-2...



       carolina....
         lets go over some numbers....     phillip fulmer lost 50 games in his tenure at ut, 21 in the last four years... its the last four years that really got him fired...   usc savior steve spurrier...   hes lost 22 in the same four years...     a program that claims one conference title... 40 years ago... in the acc... a program thats won ten games once. since 1945. apparently the usc site i was on didnt have any records before 1945 because thats when they were really bad...     theyve been shut out more than 160 times... they lost the first game they ever played...   to furman...  losing has long been a carolina tradition...    this team doesnt look to change history...
outlook 7-5 at best...   that would be with back to back wins over an improved arkansas and a rebuilding ut...    probably 6-6

     thats about it for now...
               ill try to cover more when i get a lil more time...      maybe even get to the sec west and the rest of the country...

joe d.

10:41 PM

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Monday, July 06, 2009

ocean avenue

                   back by popular demand...
                              or at least i think the one guy who asked me why i quit writing may have once been popular in his life...

              im back....

            so its been a bit of a weird ride since you last heard from me...

          but lets make like a strawberry blonde and climb right out of my past and back to reality....
        its been hotter than balls for quite some time now...   and how hot are balls you might say...   walk outside and realize when we give thanks for life and food and family and the hope we have in our hearts God smiles and thinks "yeah yeah yeah, you summbitches would really be lost without central air"   so theres that...

          theyre, their, there...     NOT THE SAME.

    quotes from the weekend

               "youre french and italian??   your family aint never won a damn war"

             "this is just the kind of stupid ive been lookin for"

               i dont know what to tell yall... im kinda of at a loss for words...   i havent wrote in a while cuz ive been busy as hell and because of that my mind hasnt been able to wander like it should and normally does...   and i know what youre thinkin... a mind as small as mine shouldnt be left alone to wander... but its the moments when youre left alone to wander and screw up on your own that your learn...   so what am i saying? should you let your own children roam free to wander the augusta area and learn what they may??   hell no. im not a fan of kids and dont like em runnin free... now as long as theyre not gonna be in my way...   sure...     kidding...   i totally believe the children are the future....   i also pray to die young....

     its been dull lately, and exciting, and great and shitty and everything else.....     and because of that i cant seem to ramble on the way i normally seem to be able to...

       so im gonna leave you with some of the greatest things ive ever heard said....    just remember im not responsible for any of this....

              i love women, i have all their albums.... you know i knew one day that would come back to bite me in the ass but i assumed it wouldnt be in the same conversation....       i may not go down in history, but i will go down on your sister...        I’ve been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I’ve come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains...              If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi."                  The only way i figure they could improve on coca cola is to put rum or bourbon in it.....           Well, you should’ve called. I wouldn’t have answered, but you coulda left a message, which I would’ve quickly erased...                 if soccer is supposedly the most popular sport in the world then they dont need me to watch it...               I've got two grand in my pocket that's itchin' to turn into twelve bucks and a hangover.....           The women, the drinking... you look at me and think it's easy. What you don't see is the years of dedication that have made me the boozing ass wrangler I am today.....         You don't get the virgin to the volcano by telling her you're gonna push her in....        youre only as young as the women you feel...                and last but certainly not least......    (as the man puts on a baseball helmet) "im gonna walk in drunk and shes gonna say why the fuck are you wearing a helmet and ill say because i came home to tell you to get the fuck out of my house, and i figured youd throw things."

      joe d.

10:10 PM

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

sayin goodbye...

        were movin out...

             i knew this day was coming but i fought it to the bitter end....    the place my dale jr-esque roomate and i have called home for a year and a month is quickly becoming the past...

     just wanted to take a minute and say goodbye to the old girl...   i had alot of fun here in the past 13 months... suffered some heartache and more than once stumbled home through the red light just thinkin 200 yards and were good... just 200 yards...

lane turned out to be alot of fun and i can honestly say im gonna miss the ol boy... we had our trying moments but football season can do that to men on different sides of the line... but i did enjoy the fact that more than once hed laugh when i came home a lil drunk w a bag of krystals and head straight to the couch... course those roles were reversed many a time...

so as we head off in our different directions i wanna say goobye to my beloved 297....   you also were more fun than i thought youd be... and hopefully the next people that live here will enjoy the ol girl the way we did...

         i never thought id find it again but for 13 months i was home....

joe d.

10:12 PM

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Monday, April 06, 2009

for tommy

    i was informed that yesterdays effort was weak....   ok.

         so its opening day or week or whatever you wanna call it for baseball...   the yankees again have a payroll that could afford them a small country like...   russia...     the braves made some moves in the off season trying to convince the atl fans that theyre not just out to make a dollar but to win a championship....   the bravo's could stand to make a run this season if youth comes through...
      things shouldnt differ much from what theyve been the last few years...   baseball seems to have just enough parity to make an argument that theyre doing things right while the rich just seem to get richer....
    my winners for the year...
          al red sox rays cleveland la angels...
nl phillies braves cubs dodgers
            alcs      rays over angels
nlcs    dodgers over phillies
   world series rays over dodgers    thats right i said it... the rays are winning it all....

masters...
   tigers back... so what... its augusta... hes always here... look for stewart cink to be hanging around the top ten on the weekend and maybe a late charge by paul casey who has been playing well as of late.... mickelson missed the cut last week in houston which let him get to the 30909 a little early... dont think this time was wasted... and keep your eyes open for fred couples and greg norman, they also will be back in the field.... tuesday should deliver the weeks usual cold snap but things should be a bit warmer by the time the cameras turn torwards wednesdays par 3..... you might wanna bring an extra umbrella if you make the trip on friday as theyre callin for scattered showers but i find really the best place to watch the tournament is behind a big plate of cheese fries in front a flat screen...    no umbrella required....        i have no idea whos gonna win this year but if the wind keeps up i think it might take someone fearless like anthony kim....   course theres always a certain cablanasian....

      college football
    the vols
       the vols have opened spring parctice as many schools have and from the sound of things the offense looks better.... after pushing the vols into a top ten nationally ranked recruiting class highly touted recruits david oku and bryce brown havent seen the field yet but word has it that the offense has gashed what was one of last seasons top ranked defenses....   the orange white game is scheduled for april 18 and will probably end up on css tape delayed schedule...

     the dawgs
    richts boys posted another stellar recruiting season with two elite eleven qb prospects and playmakers on both sides of the ball... the spring game is slated for an espn broadcast this saturday at 1pm... uga has big shoes to fill with the departure of sure to be first rounders stafford and moreno.... senior joe cox is the probable starter under center but look for freshman aaron murray to get some snaps and dont forget last years mr all everywhere blake barnes...

   south carolina
ha... yeah right...

      so thats all for now...
                you happy t-cat??

joe d

10:17 PM

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Sunday, April 05, 2009

is this augusta?

     so i was gone again this weekend if you didnt notice....   and judging by the the shortage of phone calls... ya didnt... its okay...
ive been a lil under the radar lately... i understand...

     spent a few days under the covers last week contemplating the slow death that seemed to be creeping into my veins.... but just when all seemed to be lost our fearless joe d. fought his way back to the usual level of semi-decent health... not sure really what was wrong with me...   witnesses are saying it was the flu....

    played the "Golf Club of South Ga" this weekend in tifton... didnt play well... at all...   all day...   and i climbed off a bridge and into a creek because of a titleist that seemed to be mocking me... that also didnt turn out well...    but i got a nickname and a quote of the week...

       so because of the creek debacle i end up playing a few holes barefoot yesterday and was quickly dubbed shoeless joe....   so im fixing to tee off on number 16 staring straight into the sunset when i hear nathan and yale behind me...
         nathan "is this heaven?"
          yale   "no, its tifton."

   oh yeah... sunday before masters...
         no driving for me this year...   back on the party circuit... yall look for me....

joe d.

9:57 PM

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Friday, March 27, 2009

ramblings and things that glitter

its weird the things that bother you through the day...
       im somewhere between greensboro and washington ga this afternoon when i heard dan seals died...   now a lot of you wont have a damn clue who dan seals is but he was a singer that was semi popular in the late 80's...   it just made think of some stuff that always comes up with his songs...

      is it like this for everybody...    ive always been near a radio in my life so i associate a lot of memories with music... just always has been my way...

could have just been the lack of cell phone service and the empty rainy road that made me a little sad at the news.

   either way ill always think of highway 44 or i-77 and a snowy january now when somebody mentions dan seals....

so everybody knows my long lost ties to the volunteer state...    and its now goin on 18 months since i walked the hallowed hills of my fore fathers and i sure could use a long ride on the chapman highway and catch the view of the stadium crossing over hainey st bridge...    these ol 65 hour weeks aint as fun as they used to be...   defdinitely feelin the i-40 blues...

         finally got to ride under the lights and sirens tuesday.... very cool...
          im movin again....
             my brackets busted....

             quote of the week
       "there's a light switch under that squirrels ass if you cant see what youre doin"

   joe d.

2:15 AM

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Friday, March 06, 2009

what the fuck....

     yeah i said it...

   what the fuck?
you struggle and you fight and youre makin headway and then somebody calls with news that kicks you in the balls like bob fuckin sagets doin a highlight reel of your day....

   so what the fuck...

this isnt even about me anymore... this is about somebody close to me fightin for another day... in and out of hospitals with all kinda complications and strugglin and comin out of it and showin the heart we all know theyve got and now this bullshit...

so heres to life and its twists and turns...   how it shows you exactly what you want then shoves you ass out into a hospital gown....    i give you this statement for fate and life and destiny....            fuck you

   fuck you for stealing the strength from those whove come before us...   for the man who looks into the eyes of himself and wonders why women now hold the door open for him and why he has to get up in the morning just to sit down the rest of the day....

      to the rest of you...   fight and scratch for every second youve got because time is the one thing we cant fight... we're all on borrowed time i guess... ive got a watch my dad give me...   it wasnt set for about 6 months...   it just ran like normal never once being the right time...   people used to ask me why that was... id tell em i like the watch... love my dad... have no use for time... i still dont...

     what the fuck...

joe d.

9:39 PM

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Monday, February 16, 2009

long long ago on a saturday night far far away.....

     what woulda happened if?       you ever play that game... its probably something better left on the side of the road like an old hat that blew off somebodys head...   but sometimes you just cant keep it out of your mind...   its not as hard to ignore when youre busy but when you find yourself alone on the road over a thousand miles a week your mind starts to wander...

    lifes not too bad right now...   just sometimes you wonder where youd be if youd said yes to this person and no to someone else... if youd taken a different job...   or if you hadnt gotten drunk and slid through a SLOW sign, two ski instructors and one of those orange plastic divider fences... actually that one was entirely worth it...

sometimes the phone rings and its 2001 calling... just kinda shakes your reality...    then the age old question always comes up... would you go back and change anything if you could...

i can honestly say... i have no idea... i couldve been married by now... at least once... but how would life have been for me maried... and honestly how would i have taken being divorced... cuz i honestly think if ida been married it prob wouldnt have worked... which is prob why im single...

i dont regret any of it... nah thats bullshit... there was a 3 year period from like 2001-2003 that i was a dumbass and shouldve cut bait and ran from somebody and shouldve spent more time with others...    screw it i guess...     the only thing i hate is that there was a time back then that i was really tight with a bunch of folks i dont talk to much anymore...   thats really what this whole thing was about...

        to my old crew...   i miss yall...   you probably wouldnt even recognize me now...   im on time to work every day and im not out every weekend like i used to be.... but i can still pull the old me out every now and then... thats when i miss yall most... hope yall are doin well and still remember how much fun we used to have...

thats all i got for now....

    also recieving votes...
      the eagles greatest hits...   overheating chrysler seabrings.. doctored cherry lime aides... 2001 mens ncaa championship game... i kinda like kentucky cuz of their colors... "awwe sad times"... community---..... "im sorry officer...   i swear it'll never happen again"
and of course....

   "i have no recollection of the alleged incidents of which you speak" .....

   jd

10:57 PM

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

things i hate

    u heard the good stuff...

             onto the rest....

           long work days....   oppressive heat...    bad news at a worse time...   the way the next two weeks are gonna drag out before i can ditch this hole...   mysteriously losing the ability to hit my driver in the middle of a round....    irish music...   shaving...   when my phone doesnt ring when i really need it to...   the times im hopin my roomates here and hes not....   how i can see the right decision and say it fuck it and go the other direction so easily...   (i kinda like that too though....)    knowing too much...
    you know what....    fuck it...
           im still my fathers son....
            remember this...   no matter what gets at you...   work family love money....   all that really matters is you hold your head up and swing from your heels and make em remeber u never backed down....
     i said a long time ago sometimes i get down and apologetic and i try to tell folks who ive done wrong how im sorry and then i said this...     "everything comes back around to normal and i can tell the whole fuckin world to stick it"     so for once in my life im gonna take my advice....
                  stick it....

   also recieving votes.....
        nobody....

jd

4:10 AM

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