A Bleep on PBS

Yes I was watching the Antique Roadshow the other night, and as always it is interesting to see what people find and have as heirlooms, and it makes you wonder if you ever come across anything that might be worth any money.

So this Lady had a painting that she wanted appraised. It was her Mother’s and it really did not look like it was something you would hang in a Art museum, couple of Boats on the Ocean, I could paint the same honestly, but probably won’t achieve the same amount of money then this painting did.

Anyway, the appraiser was telling her this was this Artists early work, he just had started out, because his paint strokes and stuff have not been refined, and since he turned out to be a great Artist later on, his Rookie Picture is worth about $100,000 to $115,000.

And there came the Bleep. It was so funny, it was not a long Bleep, it was a normal Bleep to cover up probably 1 word which was if I would guess Shit. She continued to sit calmy in the chair and shook her head and smiled.

Now I had to start laughing to myself, which frankly I do quit often, and pictured myself finding out I have a great piece of art there and it is worth a large sum of money.  Well there would be bleeps for about 5 minutes straight, and I would not just sit there and look at the thing. I would be giving high-fives to the audience, hugs, and celebrate. I’d be clutching the Painting or whatever it is , and not let it out my sight and would make sure that everyone in that room knows that I got the money.

What I am looking forward too is the Episode that they will have on in January, of the person that just had something appraised at $1.4 million. I just read that online, it is the largest appraisel this show has ever done. I would like to see what he did when he heard the amount. Pass out?

My tribute

I am not going to re-hash everything that has been said and written about Michael Jackson. All I know is that I respect this man for his artistic Performance, who has brought Millions of Millions of people together to fight Hunger, to care and to enjoy music and dance like it was meant to be.

Generations after Generations have enjoyed his music and that even includes my Kids. My Son who is fortunate enough to be in the Michigan State Marching Band, had the pleasure of performing a Michael Jackson song at one of the Halftime shows in November of 2008.  He said that this was one of the best shows that this Stadium enjoyed and he is proud to have been part of it. The Band performed Thriller, and I know by now it has been over played everywhere, but this is not the usual performance. This is 300 Band members coming together and making it happen.

Thank you Michael for letting us have your gift, your Talent to enjoy, rest in peace and don’t stop till you had enough.

You all know I had to go there!

Draft – Lions – Matthew Stafford – $41.7 millions  quaranteed for 7 years. Oh that fries me. That just fries me to the up most degree.

First off, this kid is barely out of diapers, who yes was a Starter at Georgia for 3 years, but has not touched a football yet in the NFL to be able to deserve $41.7 million, which I add, might go as high as what $80 million? So if this kid gets hurt in practice, and can’t play for the season, he gets paid. If he can’t get the ball to a receiver and gets benched, he gets paid. And unless Dante Culpepper drops dead this season, which I hope he doesn’t, this kid won’t start, he gets paid. If he starts crying out on the field and has to leave, because Lion fans are known to get angry at non performance players, he gets paid. This sounds familiar, like certain CEO’s running big Companies to the ground but get paid Millions to do it…which brings me too…

Bravo!! Lions organization, heck Bravo again to the Ford family of making such a great decision. By the way Ford’s, how are we doing in trying to keep factories open and jobs alive? Those $41.7 million could save a lot of jobs. Have you people looked around downtown Detroit lately? I was there over Thanksgiving and it looked ugly. Should tell you right there something is wrong. It sure didn’t look like then, that there were a lot of people that could afford the tickets for a Lions game, and it has not gotten any better since then with all these job losses. But what do I know. I am just a little pee-on that is trying to survive day by day, and would never in her life know or experience how it would feel to have $41.7 million to spend. But I am glad the just barely out of his Diapers new Quarterback knows how it feels to have money, why should he worry…which brings me too…

Why did we not pick up any other depth players sitting on those benches that the Lions needed badly? A new quarterback will not (did I mention, he was barely out of his diapers) bring you a winning season, if you have no supporting players that can catch, run or block for the quarterback, then you might as well just take the kid with his $41.7 million and call it a day. I feel like this is another Joey Harrington repeat.  He may wish he was back in College when the 2 lonely fans at Ford field start booing…which brings me too…

Education. I have a hard time understanding the audacity of recruiting this kid and promising and paying him that kind of money, when Schools are trying to stay open, scrapping every penny they can find to make a budget.  Right now our Public School here is asking for $12.5 million for us to vote yes for, so they can improve Schools and upgrade the classrooms, so our kids have a chance in competing with the rest of the world. Yearly budgets are being cut more and more and State assistant funding is getting sparce year by year. But yet we have big Corporations and Sports Organizations that are throwing money at these Athletes, without any quarantee that this Person will perform to his full potential. We all have seen it, the hype only to be disappointed in the long run, not because just of the lag of performance on the field or on the court, but also in the lag of morals and scruples while collecting all that money, bonuses and endorsements. But once again what do I know. I don’t get paid millions to make such million dollars decisions.

Just to make sure that you guys all know, I do not have anyting personal against this kid that just barely got out of his diapers and landed this gig. I am sure he is a great person and worked hard the past years to accomplish what he did, and I am sure his family did a great job raising him. I just have a problem with the decision making of a Organization and the squandering of money, that we all know could help a whole lot of people right now. This whole system needs to be looked at. Let’s make it like a regular job. You get a raise with a good performance review and a cut of wages with a poor review, that might wake the sports world up, and we might see a different level of play on and of the field.