Look at that Booty

Brooks Bollinger got cut today and that means your boy JD Booty made the team. We don't know if this is a good or a bad thing. We saw about twenty minutes of Vikings football this pre-season and we haven't been this unprepared for football season since we were trying to run the wishbone-option offense back at good old Paynesville High School. The Vikings should be good this year. That's what we keep hearing. We have no idea if its true, but we can't wait for the real games to start.

Twins still hanging tough.

The Twins are in California this weekend and so is Cold Omaha. However, we are up the coast about 250 miles north of LA right now and we won't be able to take in any of the Angels/Twins series.

We thought the Twins would be four games out of first place by the time we got back to Minnesota and we could then focus on the Vikings. But...it looks like the Twins are going to continue to make us watch them to see if they really can make the playoffs with that bullpen.

Brett Favre is a Jet.

Whew.

Let's celebrate.

Brett Favre is going to be a Viking.

I know. It sucks. I hate the idea of Brett Favre playing in purple. But, it’s all but a done deal. Favre met with Mike McCarthy, Packer head coach, last night and it didn’t go well.

This from Favre today, according to Chris Mortensen:
"We're at a stalemate," Favre said. "Mike and I both agreed last night that me being out there is a distraction and will continue to be a distraction. We all know the reason I'm here is because the commissioner reinstated me so we have a lot of things to figure out. It's simple and complicated, both at the same time…they want to know if I'm committed but I want to know if they're 100 percent committed. The problem is that there's been a lot of damage done and I can't forget it. Stuff has been said, stories planted, that just aren't true. Can I get over all that? I doubt it… so they can say they welcome me back but, come on, the way they've treated me tells you the truth. They don't want me back, so let's move on. I don't know where it's headed. We'll see."

The idea of Brett Favre playing for the Vikings is incomprehensible to me. I don’t want this to happen. Not at all. I’ve avoided even thinking about it because the thought makes me ill. How do you cheer for someone you hate? How do you cheer for a guy like Brett Favre? How do I not cheer for the Vikings this year? Do I hate the Packers or do I hate Brett Favre? I have never really believed in the old joke that you are just “cheering for laundry” when you cheer for a sports team, but if I have to cheer for Brett Favre as a Viking, I guess I will believe it.

Worst case scenario – we will win the Super Bowl, Brett Favre will be our quarterback, and it won’t feel like “we” really won anything at all. We will win with the Packers quarterback. Who wants that?

Not me.

Hold on for one more day.

Wilson Phillips also did a song called "Release Me." If this were still 1991 and if we were going to give Brett Favre a mix tape, we would start here.

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I know there's pain
Why do lock yourself up in these chains?
No one can change your life except for you
Don't ever let anyone step all over you

Just open your heart and your mind
Is it really fair to feel this way inside?

Some day somebody's gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye
Until then baby are you going to let them hold you down and make you cry
Don't you know? Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
Can you hold on for one more day
Things'll go your way
Hold on for one more day

You could sustain
Or are you comfortable with the pain?
You've got no one to blame for your unhappiness
You got yourself into your own mess
Lettin' your worries pass you by
Don't you think it's worth your time to change your mind?

I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and break free the chains
Yeah I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and you break free, break from the chains

Some day somebody's gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye
Until then baby are you going to let them hold you down and make you cry
Don't you know? Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way if you hold on for one more day yeah
If you hold on

Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
If you hold on
Can you hold on hold on baby won't you tell me now
Hold on for one more day
'Cause it's gonna go your way

Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
Can't you change it this time
Make up your mind
Hold on Hold on baby hold on