Three Almost Entirely Random Thoughts, One of Which is Relevant to SEC Football
by T Kyle King on Jan 8, 2010 9:15 AM EST
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PrintSleep is not my strong suit. For me, sleep is all about inertia: when my body is at rest, it tends to remain at rest, but, when my body is in motion, it tends to remain in motion. If I'm awake, I have a hard time getting to sleep, no matter how tired I am, which causes any number of scattered thoughts to pop into my head in the wee hours of the morning.
These are three of the thoughts that dawned on me while I was trying to get to sleep after the national championship game:
2. Depending upon whether you choose to view the glass as half-full or half-empty, Corey Smith is either the watered-down version of the Drive-By Truckers or the hard-core version of Brad Paisley. I tend to lean towards the latter assessment, because "Let Me Love You on a Back Road" is the R-rated version of "Ticks," in essentially the same way that "Porky's" was the R-rated version of "American Graffiti."
3. The SEC has produced four consecutive national champions but has not produced a repeat national champion since Bear Bryant. If that trend continues, we can rule out Alabama for 2010, so the question then becomes which SEC team will rise up to take the Tide's place next year. Les Miles's clock management against Ole Miss restored the previous conventional wisdom that he is nothing more than a lucky dufus; the kinder, gentler Urban Meyer is unlikely to have the killer instinct to overcome the Gators' considerable personnel losses; and no one outside of Knoxville is impressed by the way Lane Kiffin transformed Tennessee from a program that recruited well, played good defense, and lost seven games in 2008 into a program that recruited well, played good defense, and lost six games in 2009. Unless next year is the "next year" South Carolina fans have been anticipating since 1892, the 30th anniversary of the Bulldogs' last national championship may mark the occasion of their next one.
Relax; I said "may."
Go 'Dawgs!
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all trends end...
the most likely scenario is Alabama wins the SEC. The East is a bit of a slug fest, but Florida finds a way to win in Jacksonville (speaking of trends). Alabama loses the Championship game to Ohio State in a shock result.
Thanks, mdhenshaw
For a second there, I almost entertained a moment of hope. I am much obliged to you for talking me down from that crazy notion. :)
Go 'Dawgs!
point 2
You almost had it. Corey Smith is a watered-down Brad Paisley. He’s a wannabe who never got his big-label contract so now he pretends to ‘hate the system’. No thanks.
Hey, he's a loyal Georgia guy . . .
. . . and he couldn’t be more right about that sawed-off Jimmy Buffett wannabe Kenny Chesney.
Trying to distinguish between “country” music stars like Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, and Toby Keith is like trying to differentiate between recent Alabama quarterbacks. They’re all the same guy. Stick ’em in a teleportation booth together like Vincent Price and the fly, so we can be annoyed by one hack instead of three.
Go 'Dawgs!
If you haven't already
Check out The Derailers. It’s a little Buck Owens, a little Roy Orbison. It’s definitely a bit on the pop end of things, based on song structure, but it’s pretty hardcore traditional honky-tonk stuff with a modern sensibility in the lyrics. I especially like, “I See My Baby”, due to the shocking darkness that sneaks up in the last verse after it lulled you into the feeling of a traditional heartbreak song.
Each day I wake, and I’m alone.
I wonder, “What did I do wrong?”
And every night, I go to bed,
Thoughts of her that fill my head.
I turn my face to the wall
And hoping I’ll fall
Into dreams of the life I once had.
I see my baby, I see my baby, I see my baby
Coming back.
I take a walk out in the rain
I think I hear her call my name
A flashing smile, a glimpse of hair,
I swear I see her everywhere.
And it seems so real to me
That it makes me believe
What I see in my mind through the crack,
I see my baby, I see my baby, I see my baby
Coming back.
I thought our love would last forever,
Then there came the day when she went away.
I pour a drink and cry alone,
I know that she’s not coming home.
It’s over now. I’m well aware.
As I step into the air,
I feel my throat closing tight,
Tears burn my eyes,
And now as my world turns black,
I see my baby, I see my baby, I see my baby
Coming back.
shudder
On a lighter note, “She’s Someone Else’s Problem” is a bit more on the fun side.
Comparing Corey Smith to the DBTs...
is like comparing Lane Kiffin to Nick Saban. If you need to see why, I’d like to share with you this line from “The Dirty South,” in honor of Bama’s win last night:
“Don’t piss off the boys from Alabama,
You know they won’t let it slide –
They might find you in the Tennessee River,
or they might not find you at all.”
Haha . . .
actually listening to “The Boys From Alabama” (recorded live at the Visulite Theater in Charlotte) as we speak. I thought briefly about posting the first Free Form Friday of the offseason today and making that the musical selection.
Personally, I'm up for a little Nickelback
Animals.
Think we can get the pep band to play that to help motivate our team?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
I was not so bold
as to put Georgia in the BCS Title game, but I do see a BCS bid for them next season.
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The quintessential Big Ten smoking room.
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