NFL Predictions

NFC NORTH
1. BEARS
2. PACKERS
3. LIONS
4. VIKINGS

NFC SOUTH
1. FALCONS
2. SAINTS
3. PANTHERS
4. BUCS

NFC WEST
1. 49ERS
2. SEAHAWKS
3. CARDINALS
4. RAMS

NFC EAST
1. COWBOYS
2. EAGLES
3. GIANTS
4. REDSKINS

AFC EAST
1. PATRIOTS
2. JETS
3. BILLS
4. DOLPHINS

AFC NORTH
1. RAVENS
2. STEELERS
3. BENGALS
4. BROWNS

AFC SOUTH
1. TEXANS
2. TITANS
3. COLTS
4. JAGUARS

AFC WEST
1. CHIEFS
2. BRONCOS
3. CHARGERS
4. RAIDERS.

PLAYOFFS   1ST ROUND
SAINTS VS 49ERS.                                            WINNER SAINTS
COWBOYS VS PACKERS                                 WINNER PACKERS
BRONCOS VS TEXANS                                    WINNER TEXANS
STEELERS VS CHIEFS                                      WINNER CHIEFS


2ND ROUND
BEARS VS SAINTS                                          WINNER BEARS
PACKERS VS FALCONS                                 WINNER FALCONS
PATRIOTS VS TEXANS                                   WINNER PATRIOTS
RAVENS VS CHIEFS                                        WINNER RAVENS

3RD ROUND
BEARS VS FALCONS                                      WINNER BEARS
PATRIOTS VS RAVENS                                  WINNER RAVENS

SUPERBOWL
BEARS VS RAVENS                                        WINNER RAVENS



MVP                                                                 TOM BRADY
RUSHING CHAMP                                         L.   MCCOY
RECEIVING                                                    B. MARSHALL
DEFENSIVE MVP                                          D. WARE.

Birthdays

Since my last post we have had 3 birthdays

Madison turned 6

McKenna turned 4

And the Big Guy turned 32

I was at a charity auction last weekend, and I was bidding on a autographed Rod Carew bat. It was going to be a birthday present to myself. The bat went too high and I didn't get it. Tracy got me this bat instead as a gag gift. It's signed by Rod Karoo.

Why Kevin McHale sucks

If you didn't know, I'm a Twolves fan and have recently been getting back into the NBA after a long time off. As a Wolves fan it has seems like its been an eternity since they have make any noise.

I started to think about it and the same person always comes to my mind. Kevin McHale. I've hated this guy since 1996 when he traded Ray Allen away. I know everyone is thinking that I'm being hard on a guy that brought us Kevin Garnett and Kevin Love, he had some luck with guys named Kevin, but here are the facts.

He took over the Wolves in 95 and his first major move was drafting KG. It was a huge risk at the time, drafting a high school player, but this had to be the move that solidified his run as a GM for so long. Lets look at just the drafts that he had as a GM

1995

Kevin Garnett A

Mchale drafted him 5th overall. Which was a huge risk at the time. Nobody drafted HS players back then. I guess Mchale was a pioneer.

1996

Ray Allen B

He would of been great with KG. Wait if he would of moved up in the 99 draft and selected Pierce he would of had the big 3. But he traded the smooth shooting guard from UCONN for Stephon Marbury. Not a bad trade at the time. Steph had some good years and lots more potential then Ray did, but Steph ran his way out of Minnesota and the league.

1997

Paul Grant F

Who the hell is this clown. I think I remember him with is warm ups on during one game. What a horrible pick. Here are some players selected after him. Not Allstars but good role players and one the twolves overpaid for.

Bobby Jackson

J. Vaughn

Stephen Jackson

Alvin Williams

Marc Blount

Troy Hudson

Damon Jones

Mikki Moore

1998

Rasho Neterovic C

He was a contributor. Not a bad pick but not great. Here are some players taken after him and a few that the twolves overpaid or traded too much for.

Al Harrington

Ricky Davis

Nazr Muhommed

Rashard Lewis

Brad Miller

Mike James

1999

Wally Szcerbiak B-

Wally had a few good years with the wolves and was a great sidekick to KG. He was eventually traded to the Celtics for Ricky Davis. Oh yeah, Mchale also had to give the Celtics a 1st round pick to make it happen. Was Ricky that much better then Wally?? I don't think so. Here are some players taken after Wally. If they would of taken Andre Miller or Jason Terry they wouldn't of spent so much money on PG's after Billups left.

Rip Hamilton

Andre Miller

S Marion

J Terry

C Maggette

William Avery D

The only reason I give him a D and not an F is that William had some potential coming out of college. He basically amounted to nothing. Here are some players drafted after both Wally and William

R Artest

James Posey

Andrei Kirilenko

Manu Ginobili

Raja Bell

2000

No pick. You re probably thinking that it was traded away or something like that. No, it was Kevin under that table contract with Joe Smith. Fucking Joe Smith. How average of a player can you be. I mean it wasn't Shaq or Duncan. It was Joe Smith. The penalty was a franchise killer. Bunch of 1st round picks had to be forfeited.

2001

See above

2002

See above

2003

Ndubi Ebi F

This might of possibly been the draft that killed the Wolves and KG leaving. It was overlooked because Mchale brought in Cassell and Spreewell that year. Here are some very good players drafted after Ebi that could of helped that year or helped built the wolves for some years.

Josh Howard

Leanardo Barbosa

J Kapono

Luke Walton

Steve Blake

Zaza Pachulia

Keith Bogans

Matt Bonner

Mo Williams

Kyle Korver

Jose Calderon

Kendrik Perkins

2004

Forfeited

2005

Rashard Mccants C

Had a couple decent years. Nothing special, because he was crap on a crap team, but look at all of these players they had a shot at.

Danny Granger

Nate Robinson

Jarrett Jack

David Lee

Monta Ellis

Amir Johnson

Gortat

Lou Williams

Some of these guys are very good NBA players. Where is Mccants now????

2006

Brandon Roy B

He was traded for Randy Foye. Brandon Roy could of been something really special in this league and it's too bad injuries got the best of him. The only reason I'm giving him a B is because Foye was traded to Washington for there 1st round pick that was used on Ricky Rubio, which Mchale had no part in drafting.

2007

Corey Brewer C

Had some decent years with the Wolves. But you have to think that the Wolves were probably the worst or second worst team in the league at the time and he couldn't succeed?? He was eventually traded and the team got Anthony Randolph. Who I think is a good player and will eventually find the floor and play well. Here are some good players drafted after Brewer.

Noah

Stuckey

Nick Young

Marc Gasol

2008

OJ Mayo B+

Traded him for Kevin Love. What can I say. Kevin Love is the face of the franchise right now. He also drafted Pekovic in the second round. Some very good players but it was too late.

He also draft Mario Chalmers that year in the second, but in a typical Mchale move. Traded him away for nothing.

Well there are the drafts he had part of. I'm not saying that every GM can hit a jackpot every year, but if you throw out 3 drafts out of 14. He didn't do shit.

Now for transactions. I can't remember them all but there are a few that stick in my mind.

First.

Trading Stephon Marbury for Terrell Brandon. I don't know any other GM that would of traded an early 20 year old all star point guard for a 30 year old past all star point guard, that hindered the resigning of Billups. One good point is that Brandon's huge contract was traded to get Latrell Sprewell.

Second

Not resigning Chauncey Billups. What a big mistake. Can you imagine Billups with Ray Allen and KG in the early 2000's??? Would of been something special. Even with Billups and KG, it would of saved the wolves a ton of money in the future.

Third

Trading Wally and a 1st rd for Ricky Davis. The wolves got the 1st rounder back with the KG trade, but what a bad trade.

Fourth.

Trading Sam Cassell and a 1st round pick for Marco Jaric. WTF. I believe Kevin then decided to overpay Marco after that to make his trade look not the bad. 6 year/40 million. Wow

Fifth

Signing Troy Hudson to a 6 year/ 36 million dollar contract couples years after letting Chauncey Billups go for 6/ 33 million dollar contract to the pistons.

Sixth

Trading KG away. What do the Wolves have today because of this. Well a couple of draft picks from Utah for Big Al, couple of picks from the Rockets for Jonny Flynn, and Martell Webster. Horseshit for a guy that was in his prime and MVP caliber. Hopefully the picks can work out.

Seventh

Joe Smith controversy. What the fuck was he thinking. Everyone forgets this because the wolves were competitive during the stretch when the picks were taken away. All I can say is that is it killed this franchise.

Eight

Mike James four-year contract with the Wolves worth $23.5 million. Even 3 years after Billups leaving Twolves overpaying for PG.

Now a lot of people are talking trash about Kahn, but he did give Love an extension and got Rubio to sign and come abroad. But there is definitely some excitement in the air and I like it.

PS. I still think Jonny Flynn can play. I also liked the Malik Sealy and Eddie Grffin signings from Mchale. It's too bad they passed away.

I'm back.

Well, a lot has happened since my last post.

Madison was in track this summer. She started Kindergarten, lost her first tooth, started to read, and has made a bunch of new friends at school.

McKenna has gotten bigger and started a new pre-school. She wants to be like her big sister, but can't. She holds a grudge for that reason but she is working on it.

As for Tracy and I. We welcomed a new addition to the family. Her name is Nala and she is a puppy. Half king charles and llapa apos. I don't know how to spell it. She is very laid back and is really good with the girls.

I spent 5 weeks in KC over the past year becoming an engineer. It was 20 weeks of training and I just got done in January.

Anyways, I'm sure theres a bunch of stuff I'm missing since it's been almost a year. I'm going to make a better effort on this.

Later

Secret Movie Trailer from "Mall Cop 2, Paul Blart needs a day off"

Spring 2011

Hello.

Well Madison turned 5 couple weeks ago. I can't believe how big she is getting. We signed her up for school last month and she is very excited. Here's a picture of her in her new school t-shirt.

Mackey turns 3 next week and she is getting pumped about it. She got new bunkbeds in her room and thinks they're pretty cool. She is also turning into a good counter. She loves counting and calling out colors on different things. Also she is officially off the passeys. She had about 3 days of withdrawls, but she's clean now and on the wagon.

Tracy and I are heading to Milwaukee in a few weeks to see Zac and Jordan. Should be a good time. A little vacation for me and momma.

Later

J! E! T! S! Jets, Jets, Jets (can't believe it)

Jets vs Steelers

God damn it. How did Rex and the boys pull that off. Now they play the Steelers. I really hate the Jets, but I might just hate Hines Ward more. He just annoys the crap out of me. His million dollar fake smile doesn't fool me. Hines number one asset might be his ability to piss off the opposing team. I wish someone would just lay him out. I like Tomlin, Vikes should of kept him, Mendenhall, Ben, Troy, and pretty much the rest of there team minus James Harrison. So why does Hines bother me so much? I used to like the guy. He worked his way up the depth chart and played his butt off. It seems like after he won the first Super Bowl a switch flipped.


Anyways I can't stand Rex Ryan either but he just coaches. The Jets looked pretty solid last week against the Patriots. I didn't see any real weakness. I think Mark will have to have a 3 td passing performance to win this week.

Prediction Steelers 27 Jets 34

Steelers self-destruct early and can't pull off another comeback win.


Packers vs Bears.

Well like I said last week, Jay Cutler has a 3 int game. I don't think he's ready for this stage yet. But Rodgers is. The Pack are looking solid. Woodson and Williams have a field day picking off Cutler, while Rodgers throws for 2 scores and runs one in.

Packers 31 Bears 17

New Computer = New Blogger

Man, I've been out of commission for awhile. Early October my laptop took a dump on me and I kind of forgot about blogging. Well the Anal is back, with a new netbook and same old attitude.

My brothers have been blogging about sports predictions and it got me thinking that I should start posting some thoughts about sports. I mean if I told you the Chiefs were going to win the AFC west this fall, like I predicted, people would of laughed. That brings me to my preseason Superbowl picks. Packers vs Ravens. It still could happen, but unlikely. I like the Packers chances because the NFC is weak, but the Ravens have a rougher road to the Superbowl, so if they make it Joe Flacco will have to channel his inner Tom Brady.

Here are my NFL playoff predictions.

Ravens vs Steelers.

Wow, this is the game I'm looking forward to the most. Very similar teams. Both have a great young RB, great defenses, veteran safeties that could change the game, and tall QB's that came from smaller colleges. The difference is Mike Wallace. I don't think anyone on the Ravens is fast enough to cover this guy.

Prediction. Steelers 24 Ravens 17. Big Ben finds Wallace for 2 big gains throughout the afternoon and that will be the difference.

Packers vs Falcons.

Not a big fan of either of these teams. Probably because of nickname "Matty Ice" or maybe the Dirty Birds beating the Vikes in 98 and Packer fans still wearing those stupid cheese heads from the 90's.

Prediction. Packers 31 Falcons 14. With the Packers finding a running game, they have been missing all year, last week. I think they pull of the upset and "Matty Ice" melts down in his first important game of the season.

Jets vs Patriots

Man I hate Rex Ryan. I mean how class B can you be. Especially with a name like Rex. How old are you? I can just see him now in 2nd grade. The big fat kid who tries to make everyone laugh, then picks a fight with you if you don't. What a loser. Go eat some M&M's with John Daly. On the other hand, I really like what the Pat's have on defense. They are so young and talented. There defense should be able to keep them as contenders for the next decade.

Prediction Pats 21 Jets 10. Mark Sanchez has a terrible day. Rex Ryan has some pathetic post game press conference about it being personal and Tom Brady moves on.

Bears vs Seahawks

This one I thought was a closed case with Bears blowing out the Seahawks, but then I starting thinking about Jay Cutler and how much rides on his shoulders. Also the Seahawks looked like a one seed playing the Saints last weeks. Did you see Lynch's run? It might go down as one the best of all-time. Given the situation.

Bears 30 Seahawks 17. Matt Forte and the Bears defense pull it together. Jay Cutler puts up decent numbers, but his mental breakdown will happen next week. Seahawks magic runs out and Matt Hasselbeck plays in his last game as a Seahawk.

There are my predictions for this week. I'll post more after the weekend games.

Anal out

Summer's gone

Summer went by so fast. Should of updated this a few times. Here's a recap of the summer.

1. Went to the lake a bunch of times

2. Tornado came thru the lake. Trees everywhere

3. Worked up in GF for about 2 months this summer.

4. Andy moved to town.

5. Madison and Kenna are learning to swim.

6. Tracy is as beautiful as ever.

7. Was able to play tennis/golf more

8. Worked my butt off, yet had just about every weekend off.

9. Went to Zorbaz (couple times)

10. Can't believe the summer's over.


Pics

I watched this video this morning. I can't get enough. I will update my page soon but this was just too good to not share.
*****WARNING*** THERE IS A LOT OF SWEARING


ANAL

Summer is almost here

We had a few teaser days last month. Got up to almost 80 degrees. It's been awful here the last two weeks. Cold, windy, and rain. Yuck.

As indicated in my last post, we did go to the circus and the girls had a blast. McKenna kept saying wow, and Madison kept wanting to dance with Grandma for some reason. We only stayed for the first half, which was 2 hours long, then we went home.

We also went to Minneapolis 2 weeks ago and met up the Zac and Jordan. We had some good food and maybe a little too much good beer. Tom and Bruner also met up with us that Saturday. It was good seeing those guys. It's been a while.

Last week, Andy and Becca came over for a visit. We met Claire for the first time. She's such a good baby. The Bakkes have a good one there.

Anyways, update of the girls. McKenna is starting to say sentences and pronouncing her words more clearly. Its good, because now she can tell us why she is screaming. Madison is all about telling people she is going to kindergarden. It's still a year away, but she's pretty excited.

Birthdays

Since my last post. Madison turned 4, Mackey turned 2, and I turn 30 tomorrow. Madison had a little birthday party here on her birthday, then the next weekend we went to GF and celebrated again. We went to Spacealiens. She had alot of fun.

Mackey had a little party here couple of days ago. She actually blew out the candles. Surprised me. We are going to GF tomorrow and going to the circus for another little Mackey bday celebration.

I turn 30 tomorrow. Yuck. But I can honestly say that I have the best wife ever. This is the best birthday I have had. I got a new flat screen TV for our room, my parents are buying me a new tennis racket, and today I got a new car. We were supposed to trade in Tracy's Touareg for a Murano. But Tracy decided that we really need a pickup and surprised me when she wanted to buy a Titan. It was the best birthday surprise I ever had. Here are some pics for the birthdays.

Anyways, I'll post an update on the circus.

Just a little rant.

I saw someone walking around with a blue tooth ear piece last night and god those people bother the sh@t out of me. Why do they have to talk so load on those things?? Are you trying in impress me? Cause you look like an uneducated fool, you hillbilly. People who just talk on cell phones don't stick out. But you with your blue LED light flashing on the side of your head sure does. Are your hands so tied up that you can't use your phone like a normal person. Oh yeah I forgot, you had a carton of USA Golds in one hand and diapers in the other. Jesus.

Another thing that bothers me are people that drive like a bad ass. Like a 35 yr old pealing out in the parking lot. What the F. Real cool in a 90 pontiac 6000. Why don't you buy something that deserves to peel out, then maybe I would understand. Oh yeah, you probably spent all your extra money on that bluetooth headset and the 8 nascar bumper stickers on the back.

One last thing. I really can't stand hour long tv shows that spend the first 15 minutes recapping the previous episode and the last 10 minutes previewing the next one. Just cut it down to 30 minutes. Thank god for Tivo.

One thing I did like was the movie Gran Torino. If you haven't seen it I would recommend it. Best movie I've seen since The Wrestler.

Well...

Well I've been back to work now for 2 weeks and it officially sucks again. The RR is so short of men they called me 5 times last night to work on my day off. Now my day is shot because I got no sleep. You think that after a year of being so short of men they would have called back 20 or 30 more guys. I guess not.

Macky delivered her first b*tch slap. We were at the mall and we had rented a 2 seater stroller for the girls. Well lets just say that Madison was sort of egging on Macky. So Macky wound up and slapped Madison right across the face. Our jaws dropped. It was kind of funny.

I got Madison's room done downstairs and I'm starting to finish Macky's now. Our plan is to finish that room off and put our house up for sale. We are thinking about moving to Moorhead possibly.

Here's some pics. The one is of Macky passing out after a long day with a graham cracker in her bed with the lights still on.

I'm back

After 3 weeks of being laidoff. I got called back to work this week. I officially go back this Monday. It has been nice not worrying about the phone ringing at any time to go to work and staying home with the girls. Anyways it was a nice little vacation.

I also forgot to mention that I won the Lunak fantasy football league this year. 2 years in a row. Looking for some new blood next year if anyone wants to join. Its fun and you don't need to know much to play.

I also dusted off the old racket stringer last weekend and strung up one of my old rackets. It had broken string in there since 2001. But it's as good as new now. I also am asking for a new racket for my b-day coming up in April. Getting ready for the old doubles partner to get to town. I'm also thinking that Madison is going to start learning soon and I should have a racket ready.

Later

I'm off the Facebook

Well I officially quit Facebook this week. Hopefully I can start posting here more often now. Got lazy.

Well the Lunaks had a good xmas. Madison and Macky got some good gifts. I'll post some pics. I got a new camera, which I really wanted. We spent a weekend in GF before xmas and spent xmas eve and xmas at Tracy's parents on Ottertail. It was really nice to have the time off.

Macky actually sleeps thru the night about 80% of the time now and her favorite word is "NO" Which is great. Can't wait for her to get out of this stage.

Madison is doing really well. She's like a little grown up. She'll tell you everyhing thats going on in her head. She will say stuff like "I think thats a good idea" and "you need to do this.....OK" She too smart for her age. Can't pull one by her anymore.

Tracy is good. Still at Food Service of America.

I'm currently laidoff, but I should be back to work soon. I'm currently a stay at home dad. Which is cool.

Here are some pics

Hello

Just in case anybody still checks this thing, I figured I would post some updates.

First. Tracy is pregant again. Just joking. She isn't.

Second. Madison is potty trained. Thumbs up.

Third. Macky still doesn't sleep thru the night. Thumbs down.

Fourth. Offically are the proud owners of my parents back lot at the lake.

Fifth. Tracy started a new job at Food Service of America. Accounting Manager

Sixth. Decided to stay at our current house until Madison starts school.

Seventh. BNSF still hasn't hired back most of the people at dilworth. I'm working all the time.

Eighth. Currently tied for 1st place in Fantasy Football.

Well thats all I got right now.

Here are some pics of the girls

New post

Not much in the new department at the Lunaks. Summer is going by way to fast. The girls spend a lot of time outside, so the nice weather is not going to waste. Here are some pics of them at the park. The other one is Madison after she got sent to her room. I can't remember what she was doing but she got in trouble, I told her to go to her room for a timeout and she freaked out and trashed her room. 15 minutes later I went in there to let her out and she passed out like that. I guess she was really tired.

Madison's whole potty training took a turn for the worse. She has no interest now in going on the toilet. So we have to come up with something she's getting too old.

Tracy starts a new job at Food Service of America this Monday. She's going to be in charge of there accounting dept. She's really pumped. My job is the same as it's been for the last 3 months. The called a few guys back that were laidoff. So things are slowly improving. Train traffic is starting to increase.

We have a lot and building plans picked out for a new house to build this spring, but we are hesistant to pull the trigger. The builder would buy our house from us to help the process but we are waiting for the economy to improve. We think it's starting to look better but you never know. It's a big investment.

Anyways later

Well we finally got our first family pictures taken couple weeks ago. They turned out pretty well. Things are starting to look up at my work. First time in about 6 months they are actually starting to add more jobs and call people back that were laid off.

The family made it out to Ottertail Lake last weekend to visit the Tamlyn's. We basically were on the lake all day. The girls love being outside. We also boated over to Zorbaz for dinner. They thought it was cool eating on the boat. Madison learned how to play candy land today and can't stop.

Somebody's crying
got to go

Ain't no cure for the summertime blues

Well it's been a weird summer so far. They have laid off so many guys at my work that I'm one of the bottom guys now. It sucks because system wide BNSF traffic is down like 20%, but in Dilworth we are running at about 6% less than a year ago. So management in Fort Worth decided to cut jobs everywhere, even in places that aren't down as much as others. So everybody that still has a job in Dilworth is working there butt off. Morale is really bad. So haven't had that much time to get the house ready to sell, but I'm glad to still have a job. Also work related, I applied for a management job in Bismarck. It's an office job with set hours and days off. I don't even know what that is anymore. So I hope that will come through. They are also laying people off at Tracy's work. She is really stressed out and worried. I don't think she has anything to worry about, but you never now.

We have been looking at alot of houses recently but are afraid to pull the trigger with our work situations right now. We found a smaller 2 story in West Fargo that we both really like. The back yard faces a greenway/park area and there are baseball fields,parks, and a school across the street. It would be exactly what we are looking for. It's just a great area. I'll post a pic.

Madison and Mac are both doing great. Mac can almost run right now. She's a busy bee like her sister. Madison is getting old. She know when people are lieing to her and always has something up her sleeve. They both love the lake. We have made it out there 2 weekends already this year.

Anyways, talk to you later



Oh yeah, I would like to mention that Roger Federer is officially "The Man"