For those of you that were hoping the title of this post didn't refer to the post itself, I apologize.  It's been over a week since I've actually had the time to sit down and update my blog.  Over that time frame, I had about three or four good ideas to post about.  Unfortunately, after working 56 hours this week, I've forgotten each and every one of them.  I vaguely recall wanting to write about former Red Sox pitcher Paxton Crawford and his admission to using performance-enhancing drugs, but my feelings on that issue are fairly deep and complex, and expressing them would be better suited for a better-planned post, perhaps to be written sometime Monday.  For now, here is another example of an overworked/stressed/hung-over blogger's best friend: random musings and one-liners (or as Shooter calls it, the Random Crap Blog).

- I know this is technically sports-entertainment and not sports itself, but the new ECW absolutely SUCKS!  If I wanted to see a hastily-perpared, poorly-written, hour-long wrestling show I'd watch TNA.  i can't wait until this time two years from now, when ECW has failed and Kurt Angle returns to regular WWE programming.

- For the first time in my life, I've been watching the World Cup, and I've actually been enjoying it.  I watched the USA-Ghana game on Thursday on a portable TV at work.  When I went out to eat dinner tonight, I made sure I had a table where I could see the Argentina-Mexico overtime thriller.  (Ahh!  I just called a soccer game a thriller!)  How could I, a full-blooded, NASCAR-loving, beer-swilling American have turned into a soccer fan?  I have to blame this on one of my old college roommates.  Every Saturday morning he would wake up at 10:00, no matter how many Coors Lights (aka wussy beers) he drank the previous night, and order the Manchester United game on pay-per-view.  This overexposure to world-class soccer has now ruined me as an American sports fan.  It's no use.  I shouldn't even have the right to write a blog anymore.

- Not that I'm condoning Ozzie Guillen's insensitive comments, but my buddy's girlfriend swears that Jay Mariotti has his eyebrows professionally waxed and moisturizes.  Just thought I'd throw that out there.

- I once took a class with an individual that utilized a most unusual method to quit smoking.  First, he switched from cigarettes to chewing tobacco.  Switching from one cancer-causer to another seemed at first to be a lateral step, but when you tie in the next step, it starts to make sense.  From chewing tobacco, this person then switched to Big League Chew.  Yes, the stringy bubble gum in the paper pouch from our youth seriously helped somebody quit smoking.  We don't need any Federal money for stop-smoking programs, we need Federal subsidies of bubble gum that was meant to imitate the look of dip.  Hop on that bandwagon, Al Gore.

- I still maintain that, over time, the deal that sent Bronson Arroyo to the Reds for Wily Mo Pena will turn out to be a fair trade.  I also maintain that the earth is flat, the Cadbury Bunny craps out creme-filled eggs every Easter, and OJ will indeed be successful in his search for the real killer.  Besides, how can I go against a guy (Pena) that I once declared a hetero man-crush for?  It's not possible.

- I love it when NASCAR goes road course racing.  It provides one of the few annual chances to check out Boris Said's afro in full affect.  Said has the best looking white boy afro since Disco was king.  Sunday's race at Sonoma/Sears Point/Infineon is worth watching just to catch a glimpse of that groovy 'do.

- Finally, has anybody else ever noticed the similarities in the theme music for "MacGyver" and "Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers"?  It just occured to me the other day that the tunes are almost exactly the same.  Was Rescue Rangers meant to be a parody of MacGyver that flew right over the heads of a generation of 8-year olds?  Now I'll spend all day Sunday watching the two shows on DVD and compare and contrast episodes.  I may even call out of work Monday just to get a complete analysis.

And no, I'm not stoned right now.