I'm on vacation this week. I picked this week to venture over to Boston for the Saints-Patriots battle of the undefeateds tilt. Oh, wait. The Pats have a loss now. But still.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get anybody to make the trek. So no Cheers, Marathon finish line or Red Sox playoff game for me. Just my TV and my few plans.
This is what I've done so far. Be jealous.
Monday: I finally brought my malfunctioning lawnmower into the shop for repair. Guy said 6 to 10 days. Yeah, we'll see about that.
I cut my grass with Tina's lawnmower.
I rejoined the Apple Dunpling Game softball team for a Monday league. After one week, Joe is line for the Cy Young. We won easily, but the two teams who played after us looked like a step up in competition.
I had dinner at Theo's with Bob, Chuck and Joe. Kind of like old times. We didn't make a newspaper or anything, but it was nice to catch up.
Tuesday: I watched the fifth installment of Die Hard. I wished I hadn't. What the shit was that shit. Die Hard is not a franchise. It's two movies. That's it.
I did some Saints research for two hours on the woeful running game. Hopefully, it appears in Jeff Duncan's column later this week. I uncovered two interesting stats. I then rewatched the Bears game.
I divided up my Pelicans tickets -- even though they haven't been mailed yet -- with Joe, Bert and Paul. Can't wait to chant let's go Pels and shop at the Pelicans' Beak.
If anyone is interested, I'm selling my own 5-game ticket packages. Two tickets to five games for 50 bucks. That's five bucks a ticket. You can mostly pick your games. Holla if you interested.
THE TINA CURSING CORNER
My mom had a long day in her yard. "I filled up six bags of fucking trash."
Mom didn't like a change Gmail made to her settings. "What a fucking mess. Why they got to change it? It's bullshit."
There is a new place in the strip mall down the street from mom's house. "That fitness center next to the Dollar General, you should see the fucking people that go in there."
Mom's favorite show is Sons of Anarchy. She notes that the creator had the character he plays die. "He finally killed himself off the show. He was always getting fucked up the ass."
SEVEN SAINTLY SIGHTINGS
1. Possibly my favorite technological advancement is taping a show from a cell phone. I forgot to tape the Saints-Bears game Sunday, but I set it to record from the Fox & Hound using a Cox app. I am still blown away by the fact I was able to do this.
2. I started the Jimmy Graham for MVP runner-up a few weeks ago in this space. The rest of the national media caught up this week. The problem still is that if a team doubles him the whole game, the Saints need a second receiver to emerge. And who is that going to be?
3. The Saints faced eight fourth-and-1s or fourth-and-2s Sunday. They had 10 possessions. That was very frustrating. Graham just about refused to stick the ball out across the first-down marker. Maybe he was worried about getting stripped, but another yard a few more times and the game would have never been close.
4. Chris Carr, who replaced Patrick Robinson, is the worst defender on the team. He is beat downfield at least once a game. For a cornerback, he's just not good at covering receivers.
5. On Pierre Thomas' screen pass TD at the end of the half, there was only one fully successful block. That was by WR Kenny Stills. There were three offensive lineman out in front to block, but two of them only threw a defender slightly off balance.
There wasn't really a real block there. Pierre just weaved through the defendes. And center Brian de la Puente just ran downfield ahead of Pierre and found nobody to block. That's not a knock. The play just worked so well that only a few defenders had a shot at Pierre.
The screen play is back!
6. Even though it wasn't a blowout of the Bears, it sure felt like it. The Saints were in control the whole way, and it never felt like the Bears were threatening. It was closer to being a four-score spread than it was to becoming tied.
7. My boy Bobby Meachem was about to catch his second TD of the season until he was interfered with by an evil Bears defender in the end zone. But that would have led to him finding a Saints fan in the crowd and tossing him a pink October football.
Like so.
PARTING SHOT
Kelly went to Jenna's birthday party and met a newish friend of Jenna's. I've never met this girl. Kelly tells me about their convo.
"Yeah, I told her you were an asshole."
Me: Thanks?
Kelly: "And that you have Asspergers."
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