Tim Tebow & Taylor Swift

Good afternoon and Happy Texas Independence Day everyone.  I've got another ramble for you today, but we're getting closer and closer to the point where we'll have predictions on Fridays once again, at least for a little while.  Sports will be mixed in with today's ramble as a consolation prize though, as I'm going to hit you with a few funny things from my fantasy baseball magazine.  I have been playing fantasy baseball for close to 15 years now (I'm not EXACTLY SURE which year was my first), and throughout my 'playing career' I have purchased the Athlon Sports baseball magazine.  I like the magazine because the layout isn't "busy" (their stats aren't arranged in some bizarre matrix that is intended to give their readers migrane headaches) and they include every team's schedule.  In this year's 2012 edition, the magazine did a 'Calendar of the Weird' from which I will share a few events which made me smile.  In April of last year, Ryan Braun attempted to contact a fan who had proposed marriage to him, but he wasn't able to get a hold of her because she included her phone number on the sign that she used at the ballpark and received a TON of phone calls...  :)  In a game last May, the Kansas City Royals used two pinch-runners in the ninth inning of a tie game who BOTH managed to get picked off of first base...  :)  In early October a 97 year-old man in Milwaukee called '911' because he wanted to watch the Brewers and Arizona Diamondbacks playoff game but he couldn't find his TV's remote control.  The BEST PART is that the police responded to the call and found the remote...  :)  Oh, and if you did join my fantasy baseball league, don't be drafting all of the Phillies just because I predicted that they will be in the World Series this year...  :)  So I was browsing through the Yahoo! headlines a little while ago, and happened upon one suggesting that Tim Tebow and Taylor Swift might be an item...  And you were wondering how Tebow was going to keep his name in the media during the offseason...  :)  In the little poker story blog that I found at AllVegasPoker, I read about something which I never really thought about doing in Vegas as a sports fan, but that it might be a fun idea for a football junkie.  This fan was mentioning how he went to one of the casinos to watch the NFL Draft.  It looks like they have a lot of fun doing that in New York City, and if you could get the casino packed with football fans, that definitely seems like it would be a good way to spend the day.  On the DYING TO MOVE BACK to Vegas front, I received some potential good news from a friend of mine.  It seems that he might be needing a house and dog-sitter and the end of August and start of September.  If you have been following my blog for any length of time, you know the thought that ran through my mind...  'Looking after the house, taking care of the dogs, and studying football FERVENTLY with the fast-approaching football season coming...'  Yep, I'm available...  :)  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE San Marcos, America, but the ability to play poker and/or make sports bets at the drop of hat (or a 'Benjamin')...  As I look through the poker stories as the AllVegas site, it seems that there a lot more 'Aces-Cracked', 'High-Hand' promotions, and 'Freeroll' tournaments for poker players in Vegas as the poker rooms compete for business.  Oh, and more tournaments with assorted buy-ins.  When I dealt poker in Vegas five years ago, brand new poker rooms were still being opened in the casinos as 'Texas Hold-Em' was exploding onto the scene.  The blog has now been viewed over 4,300 times for those of you tracking if I'll reach my predicted 20,000 views by the end of the year.  I'm so close now I can TASTE IT...  ;)  Okay, make sure that you start doing your scouting during the coming week for your NCAA Tourney Brackets if you haven't been doing so already - 'Selection Sunday' is now nine days away...  :)  Have a great weekend and we'll see you again on Monday!