TERRY MOSHER
Okay, I’ll never get to sleep tonight if I don’t go back to the Boneyard right now and get some of these swirling thoughts in my mind off my mind – if you don’t mind
First of all, Matt Lauer upset me tonight on the forum he hosted when he failed to get The Donald to answer specific questions. Instead, he allowed the man with a silk tongue and an evil mind to attack his opponent and the sitting president of the United States without so much as raising an eyebrow.
The Donald is like a slippery eel or a boxer like Floyd Mayweather Jr. He slips and dodges and makes up things that come quickly from his evil mind and because he has a smooth and confident delivery can tell lies that told enough times begin to convince the people who are gullible and have not done research.
He’s the drunken uncle at a family Thanksgiving dinner that is so obnoxious and so full of it that he drives the rest of the family to hide when he arrives at the door. This drunken uncle doesn’t drink, but instead is drunk on himself to the extent that he is the biggest narcissus that has ever walked on this planet. He’s never done anything wrong and always wins, at least in his own twisted mind.
How he became a presidential candidate for the highest elected office in the world will be a subject of required reading for college credit for the next 100 years or so. Future college professors will wonder what were the American people thinking? How could they have let this man get this far?
But here we are, two months from the most important election maybe in our history and we have a dangerous man that is the biggest liar in political history and he’s on the cusp of the White House. What did we think, indeed?
I was working out at the YMCA today as I usually do and I heard a couple guys talking about the Seahawks. They were predicting what the Seahawks final record would be. Their guesses were 12-4 and 11-5 and I’m silently thinking how can you say that?
C’mon, it’s difficult to win in the No Fun League. No matter what the bookies think in Las Vegas, the Seahawks still have to play the games, and they have to do it with a rebuilt offensive line that those who are closest to the team are extremely nervous about.
If you want to play make believe, you have to at least factor in some injuries to key people if you play the silly prediction game. And if Russell Wilson goes down, the Seahawks are toast because backup quarterback Trevone Boyken did not impress me during the exhibition season. Boyken is far from ready to be an NFL starter. He does not make good decisions and his accuracy is questionable.
So, given all of that, it’s not possible to give a good read on the 16-game regular season. I just looked for the first time at their schedule and if things go right and Wilson is able to play the full 16 games, I could see 11 wins.
But if I’m a realist – and I am – they could also lose all 16 games. I will go with 11 victories, however, and that should allow them to squeeze into the playoffs. Just don’t take my word and bet the mortgage on it.
I wrote earlier that if the Mariners got on a little roll they had a good chance to make the playoffs and they did indeed get on a roll. Or more precisely, they rolled over. They are right now as of this writing, six games back of the American League second wild card spot and only a miracle like all the teams above them forfeiting the rest of the season would sent them into the playoffs. So forget it. They are done. Of well, there is always next year.
The local high schools got the football season underway last Friday and as expected it doesn’t generally look good for our fighting 11s. North Kitsap romped and won as expected, but the Vikings may be the only bright spot this season on the local gridiron.
What has shocked me, and that shock started last season, is how far South Kitsap has fallen. When I first arrived to write sports here in 1970, South Kitsap football was awful and had been awful for a long time. They were the biggest school in the state and had two junior highs feeding it and it wasn’t pretty on Friday nights.
Then Ed Fisher showed up in 1974 and within a few years, SK football became a perennial state power year after year, winning a state title in 1994. When Fisher left in 1996 to return to Spokane where he grew up, the Wolves continued to be a threat, although not as sharp as they were under Fisher.
Last year, under new coach Gavin Kralik the promise of continued success seemed possible. Instead, the Wolves fell like a stone in deep water. And the Wolves started this season last Friday by giving up 69 points in a 31-point loss to Graham-Kapowsin.
So what gives? Why can’t the biggest school in the state that is now fed by three middle schools be the state power you would expect it to be? You figure that one out, call me.
That’s it for now. I’m outta here. I’m going to watch American Pickers, a show on the home and garden network. Those guys buy junk and turn a neat profit. I wish they would come to my house. I got a lot of junk I could sell them.
Be well pal.
Be careful out there.
Have a good day.
You are loved.