Tuesday Morning Hangovers

A bad sport usually disappears once the season's over, a good sport writes articles complaining about it... 

Rave of the Week

This weekend, I was knocked out of the playoffs by “Chief Rocka.” I normally don’t like to credit the victor, but in this case, it’s unique as this marks the first time someone other than Limited Edition or Sons of Thunder have done that in the West since 2010. It’s progress. It’s momentum. It’s what I’ve loved about this league…the pursuit of being elite.

I began writing these weekly post under the title, “rants and raves” back in about 2008. It didn’t officially get its trademark name till several seasons later and there was no historical archive of them before our blog was created, twomentalk.blogspot.com. I didn’t consider myself a writer at all. In many ways, I wish I still had those early entries to illustrate how poorly I couldn’t write. However as I look back upon the last eight years: season after season, article after article, sentence after sentence…I became a very good writer. I will always be grateful for platform because it’s been the foundation of so many wonderful things.

Storytelling has become one of my biggest strengths in my personal, professional and play life. After TMH began, I started a blog. In fact, as I write this, I have to ask myself, “Would I have embarked upon Friday Night Live if I hadn’t built the subconscious confidence from writing on a weekly basis?” In my career, my primary role is to create a story and tell it to an audience and it’s all thanks to a weekly article called, “Tuesday Morning Hangovers.” I owe so much to a weekly seasonal habit that started simply from the practice of writing to ten people. Ten guys who play waivers. Ten people who set their lineup (no thanks to Julio Jones) and ten people who progress through high and low seasons because at the conclusion of the playoffs, it’s still the momentum of being one step closer. We don’t play this game for only the current season, we play it because the history of this season will last forever. As small as this article may be right now, it does represent one thing…one more step in becoming an elite writer and the history of my captured script progression will last forever, too.   

This is why you cannot give up in life; nothing we do in life is ever really small. The magnificent view we construct in our lives for the future is the fraction of what we can see in our life right now and that picture only expands based on our commitment to make it grow, today.

Rant of the Week      

Okay, now that the regular season is over, I can say it, I didn’t care for the IDP at all. Dare I say, I almost hated it? The concept was worth exploring and testing this season as all games should evolve over a decade. I certainly wouldn’t still be playing Madden 2001,* although it was a great game for its time (and IDP had its time, too). There will be a lot to digest this offseason, but I’m basically throwing up at the thought of having an IDP in the inside of my roster, again. An IDP is the metaphor for restaurants that make burgers, pizza and tacos…if you add too much to the menu, it’s not going to go well (see this season). I don’t want the name, “Elite” associated with a value store, simile-league whose scoring system represents the black Friday of detritus that has points available any and everywhere for a fractional rate.*

HBK

*Maybe Madden 2004…maybe…

*Now that’s what I call a RANT…