Ugggghhhh...Monday Night Thoughts

 Good morning, I guess. It's 1:07am right now as I'm typing this, and I have plenty of Coke Zero Sugar in my system, so I may as well get some writing done, and humor you with some random thoughts.

The "No Kings" march was a resounding success nationwide. Seven million participants and only two arrests that we are aware of. Pretty good for the so-called "violent left." No, they're not violent President Trump, they (like me) just don't like your ass. 

Speaking of Trump, you know that "peace deal" he brokered between Gaza and Israel? The media led you to believe it was the single greatest accomplishment in either of his two terms as president. Well, so much for that. But hey, at least if he isn't allegedly tearing up our republic, he is tearing up the White House. 😬 

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Tonight felt off for some reason. The Bucs crapped the bed against the Lions. I mean, it was kinda expected since the Lions got jobbed last Sunday night at Kansas City (they had to please Taylor Swift I guess) and were pretty pissed online, but I thought the Bucs would have a little better effort. Oh, and to add injury to insult, Mike Evans broke his collarbone and may be done for the season. I think me breaking out the Doug Martin jersey had something to do with it. RIP Muscle Hamster.

Remember back in March when I said the Dodgers would cake walk through MLB and win the World Series? Well, they're four wins away from successfully repeating, much to the chagrin of everyone not rooting for them. Their opponent? The Toronto Blue Jays. A surprise from the American League in what has been a season full of surprises. Heck, look what I wrote for my picks this year:

AL East: Orioles
AL Central: Guardians
AL West: Rangers
WC 1: Yankees
WC 2: Astros
WC 3: Royals
Pennant: Rangers

NL East: Mets
NL Central: Cubs*
NL West: Dodgers

WC 1: Phillies*
WC 2: Barves
WC 3: Padres

Pennant: Dodgers

Outside of the Yankees and Guardians, I completely whiffed on the American League, and the Guardians only won the division thanks to an unbelievable comeback (and a generational collapse by the Tigers). In the National League, I got the Dodgers and Padres sort of right since they captured a Wild Card spot. The Phillies won the division, and the Cubs won a wild card spot. I thought the Rays would finish 83-79; they wound up below .500. Oh well...

Anyway, back to the Blue Jays, congratulations to them and their fans (except one who can't keep to its own business on social media). And to Don Mattingly, who finally gets to go to a World Series after forty-two years in baseball...

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One thing that I dislike about my life is that I can't go out at nighttime. Seriously, because my sisters will have major anxiety if I do and that they're elderly. The three of us have to stick together because that's all that's left in our family. And we're surviving so far. 

Speaking of which, the mother of my daughter followed me on TikTok. I don't post much on there; I just repost mainly underreported news and sometimes humorous cat videos. But interesting that she's following me all of a sudden. 

80s music hits different when you haven't heard it in a while, and especially after you've heard snippets of the 6, 7 songs that are popular these days. See what I did there?

Call me cynical, but I don't have a bunch of high hopes for the Lightning this year. Vasilevskiy just isn't the same netminder that he was five or six years ago, and the defensive core is suspect and aging. I think the time for a franchise rebuild may be sooner than all of us thought.

You know, flipping the bird at the numerous commercials for Morgan & Morgan as well as the number of Trump stories I have to hear on Fox 13 gets exhausting after a while, but that's my protest. Which begs the question: Why didn't I go to the No Kings March? Well, I saw on Facebook that there was a decent turnout in Brooksville, but as for Spring Hill I can only guesstimate what it was like here. In fact, here's what I thought it looked like:

Seriously, with as many Trump bootlickers that live around where I do, I wouldn't be surprised if the "No Kings" march in Spring Hill was actually a counterprotest in support of MAGA. Yuck.

I have to go get some sleep. I have a VA Appointment tomorrow then lunch with the sisters. I hope to have more later this week. Until then, have a good one.

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