Boycott BP Gas

I am never, ever buying gas from a BP Gas station again. Gas here in Louisville is now $3.09 per gallon pretty much everywhere. I can live with that since all gas stations are charging that. We live in a free market economy, and the gas station will keep charging $3.09 per gallon as long as we keep buying gas.

My beef is with BP Oil. I was watching CNN tonight, and there was a BP Gas station in Atlanta charging $5.79 per gallon for gas. SHAME ON THEM. Mrs. Charlie Lee pointed out to me, and correctly so, that BP does not actually own the gas station. True - but BP decides who to sell their gas to, and to whom they issue francises, and to whom they will let carry the BP name.

I encourage EVERYONE to never buy gas again from any BP gas station.

College Football Predictions

Time for me to quit being a player hater and put my local college football predictions out on the line. Hear ya go:

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FIGHTING CARDINALS

I've already said that Petrino's boys will go 9-2. As a fan, I'm going to be rooting for 11-0 and having the Cardinals crash the Rose Bowl, but, I also don't live on fantasy island. They'll lose in Morgantown, and they'll lose one other game along the way that they shouldn't. That should still be more than enough to get them to a respectable bowl game that doesn't involve yet another late December trip to Memphis.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WILDCATS (aka LITTLE BROTHER)

Cats have absolutely no shot in 5 games - U of L, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Auburn. Of the 6 games left, they should beat Idaho State and Vandy. Of the other four games (Indiana, Carolina, Ole Miss and Miss St), those are all winnable. Those four games are also all losable. They'll split those games. Cats finish 4-7, Rich Brooks is fired before season is over (even though none of this is really his fault). If the Cats win those four games, they go 6-5, which in the SEC is good enough for a bowl game, and good enough for Rich Brooks to probably replace Ernie Fletcher as governor. As my buddy Computer Mike and I agree, UK football does not have to go 9-2 every year to be a success. 6-5 two out of every three years with and occasional 8-3 tossed in would be WONDERFUL. Why can't they do that in Lexington?

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Do they still have a varsity football team in Bloomington? I'll predict 3-8, just because that's about what they usually finish.

U of L vs. UK (3:30 Sunday on ESPN) - Cards roll in Lexington, 41-17. No knee.

UK Knock Knock Joke

Knock Knock

Who's there?

UK

UK who?

UK with us losing 11 games this football season?

NFL Preseason Football is Pointless

Right now there is an NFL Exhibition game on ESPN - Falcons vs. Jags in JAX. I love football, but I cannot get excited about the preseason. The don't run anything fancy because they don't want to tip the other teams in the league off. The NFL needs to cut back the Preseaon (and BTW, the NFL does not refer to these games as "Exhibition" games, and the TV announcers are specifically told not to use the word "Exhibition") to 2 games at the most, and then jump into the season.

I bet most NFL players would love that. They play 4 (or some teams 5) games because of $$$$$. The tickets cost the same for an Exhibition, excuse me..., Preseaon Game, and the hot dogs and water-downed beer costs the same, too.

Bring on Thursday, September 8 and the games that mean something.

Useless Trivia

I absolutely love useless trivia. Check out this web site if you like.

www.tk421.net/trivia/

In particular, I had no idea that Sputnik was launched on the same day that my favorite television show, Leave It to Beaver, debuted (October 4, 1957). What a busy day that must have been.

Geometry is important

Remember, without geometry, life is pointless.

U of L and UK have peace

Coach Rick Pitino of my UofL Fighting Cardinals is going to be enshrined in the University of Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in September. Looks like our little brother in Lexington want to play nice. I guess we'll accept the olive branch.

Wonder what color tie Rick is going to wear to the dinner when he enters the UK Hall of Fame? I suggest RED!!!!!!

Miscellaneous Sports Observations

It's summer - the weather has been nice, so I haven't written much lately. There is life outside of the computer.

Somebody tell Terrell Owens to shut the *$#&% up and just play football. What a prima donna.

Same goes for Raphael Palmero. What a joker. He didn't INTENTIONALLY take steriods. I guess the 'roids just accidentally "jumped" into his blood stream. I hate it when that happens. What a phony.

I am interested to see what goes on the next time the writers vote for the baseball Hall of Fame. This steroid scandal makes the numbers that Jim Rice and Dale Murphy put up in the 80's look so much better. I bet both those guys get a whole lot more votes the next time they vote in January.

Anybody else ready for some football????? My Bengals are going to go 10-6 and sneak into a playoff spot this year for the first time since 1991. Carson Palmer is the real deal, and he has 3 good receivers to play catch with. Here's the early Super Bowl pick - I like the Colts to break through this year, and I really, really like Carolina in the NFC. The Panthers will have a bounce back year in '05. Colts will win the Super Bowl.

And I like USC to win their third straight National Title. Texas A&M looks like they are going to be tough in the Big 12. Louisville goes 9-2 in their first year in the Big East. They lose at Morgantown (I hate writing that 3 Kick Dad), and they will lose one other conference game that they should win. Oh, and the Cards thump little brother in Lexington on Labor Day Weekend, 48-17.