behind the dugout

Well, I suppose the title about says it all. Leaving a little after midnight on Sunday morning we arrived back in Texas Monday morning. The house was in worse shape then one could have hoped for and it took the Air Force less then 12-hours to piss us off. Seriously a phone call at 4:45 pm to remind me to wear blues to work tonight?

Overall I guess the week wasn’t that bad. Her siblings weren’t anywhere near as annoying as they have been in the past and well the fact that Dougie B was able to spent some cash this time deffiently helped matters, epically considering our non-existent bank account.

One thing that was sure to inject some more anger towards the Air Force would be the upcoming December schedule. It didn’t let down. While I only have to work three days in a row to start the week I now work Saturday, have two days off and work Thursday-Sunday the 7th. Not that bad really but it’s all down hill from there. I told Carrie on the phone, she hung up on me, and now I’m writing this post. Tuesday-Saturday the following week and then 12 hour shifts on the 18th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 27th and 28th before having an 8 day off stretch followed by a 12 hour day on the 6th of January. I realize that is a lot of dates there and don’t expect anyone to understand. Carrie yelled at me for having to work on Saturday’s which is understandable considering I work on 3 of them.

I’ll give Carrie another call later but don’t know if things will improve. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 days of leave I suppose I could use. Of course they could counter that by making me work every weekend until I get out and obviously I don’t have enough days off to do that.

Apparently taking a three game lead in our NFL Weekly Picks was too tough for me. So after 12 weeks we are tied at 111-65.

In terms of sports I guess a good deal of things happened. Jon Garland was finally traded by the Chicago White Sox and we won’t have to listen to a winter full of rumors regarding which team the right hander will throw for when spring comes.

Reggie Sanders talked about retiring if no one wants him and Mike Piazza is talking about heading to Japan. Considering Piazza’s inability to play a position and depleated bat one could make an arguement that things should be the other way around.

Doug Brocail is headed back to the Astros, The Yankees appear set to land Johan Sanata, Braves “pitcher” Mike Hampton hurt himself, and Kerry Wood is staying in Chicago. Honestly I am not suprised by any of this and you shouldn’t have been either.

David Caar still sucks but recently he made a misguided joke about his inability to preform.

“David Carr heard the fans yelling for backup quarterback Matt Moore. How could you not? In a dozen years of watching games at Bank of America Stadium, I’ve never heard a chant louder than the one that kept springing up Sunday.

“We want Moore! We want Moore!”

Said Carr shortly after New Orleans blasted Carolina 31-6 on Sunday: “They were chanting `Moore.’ I thought they wanted more points, so we were trying to give it to them.”

And to think I thought it was just his gloves. Apparently Carr has tried no gloves, white gloves and Michael Jackson gloves this season with little success. For those of you who are curious here are his stats.

Without Gloves WK 5 @ New Orleans 10/17 119 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT

With Gloves WK 9 @ Tennessee 15/27 107 yards 1 TD, 1 INT

Black Gloves WK 12 New Orleans 10/22 95 yards 0 TD, 2 INT

I don’t know what color or if Caar wore gloves when he played against Indianpolis in Week 8 but for laughs here are his stats.
16/25 103 yards 0 TD, 0 INT

Joe Kennedy, 28, died following a collapse while at at the in-laws. The cause of death is not expected to be known for 6-to-8 weeks. Kennedy struggled with consistency thoughout his career and bounced from the rotation and the bullpen on a regular bases. Early reports speculate that the 252 pounder may have suffered a heart attack. Kennedy was set to be a free agent this year. No word if his agent is still trying to paw the left handers services off to anyone.

Of course as some things change, others seem to stay the same. The Patriots keep winning, the Dolphins keep losing and Tony Romo changes girlfriends as much as Peyton Manning audibles.