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Herewith, our quick and dirty guide to the new season. Take these predictions to the bank, baby; even the ones that don't quite agree. After all, in baseball, as in life, a little ambiguity is the lagniappe that holds the ole cowhide together. See y'all in October...
...claim to always be right, but I've got a good feeling about my selections this year. One more thing--watch out for Illinois, Iowa State, Ole Miss, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, and Kansas. And keep your eye on Georgia, Missouri, Utah State, Cincinnati, BYU, Wisconsin, and Georgetown. And Oklahoma State and Iowa. And Creighton...
...have a baby daughter - and because our media salaries don't afford many hours of baby-sitting - our social lives have taken a turn to the stay-at-home direction. But being chez nous on Saturday nights has it compensations, like being able to watch the "Grand Ole Opry" on TNN. And last Saturday, following the Opry, it provided a special treat in the form of a repeat episode of "The George Jones Show," the Possum's attempt at being a talk-show host, which had a short life on TNN in 1998 and 1999. (In those days I couldn...
...particularly important in one aspect of "Someone's Watching Over You": a spoken middle eight. If you're like me, you look forward to most of these sappy soliloquies just about as much as seeing the bottom line on your 1040 form (or getting another peek at "Grand Ole Opry" emcee "Whispering" Bill Anderson's overdone face-lift). But George carries it off with aplomb - adding just the right touch of disbelief to the dollops of sincerity...
...charming revisit to the more innocent days of country music, and must surely have given Jones great pleasure. After all, he grew up listening to the clear band of WSM in Nashville (the home of the Grand Ole Opry) and such stars as Tennessee's Roy Acuff and Kentucky's Bill Monroe, the latter, of course, the inventor of bluegrass...