So it was in Hopkins where our boys basketball team played another highly-touted team, Blake. Both teams are among the top five ranked. The Tigers performed superbly and put away Blake by a margin of ten points, 84-74. The game was part of the Tip-off Classic.
We held down the Bears of Blake after halftime quite well. We took care of the ball: just five turnovers in the game. We're 5-0 now and ranked fourth in AA, a super place to be going into the heart of holidaytime. Blake's loss was its first.
Blake held a one-point lead at halftime. After that, our precise ball control helped make the difference. Jackson Loge just keeps rolling on, amassing stats and stoking success. The story for Jackson Saturday included 25 points on 8 of 16 shooting. Four of his mates scored in double figures too: Thomas Tiernan (19), Durgin Decker (12), Cole Wente (10) and Brandon Jergenson (10). Tyler Berlinger put in six points and Sam Kleinwolterink two.
Our team shooting numbers were 28-for-56, right on the nose 50 percent. I can do that arithmetic myself! We put up 3-pointers pretty often. Nine of these shots succeeded in 23 attempts, 39 percent. Tiernan was three of six, Decker two of two and Jergenson two of four. Berlinger and Wente each made one long-ranger.
Loge went to the freethrow line for eleven shots and made nine. Our team numbers were 19 of 25, 76 percent. The rebounding story: here we see Loge with 13 total rebounds, five offensive. Decker was second-best with six rebounds, two offensive. The team numbers were 32 total, ten offensive. We had 18 assists of which Loge led with six. Tiernan had two steals. I don't see any blocked shots in the stat report.
"Cracking an egg"
I am thankful sitting here working on a blog post instead of consuming the news about the Jan. 6 committee. But it is so discouraging to observe how plodding this committee's work has been. It has plodded in the face of dogged maneuvers by those who have something to hide.
Our legal system is designed so that you can "crack an egg" in these situations. A smaller fish finally decides he has to tell on a bigger fish. The smaller fish does that of course to save his own behind. Self-interest rules, or ought to. Trump appointed lots of judges who probably will not grease the skids for the 1/6 committee. Our systems need to come through anyway.
Liz Cheney is a key person leading the charge. Another Republican at the fore, this Kinzinger fellow. These two have been incredibly brave. One day of news about all this stuff just leads into the next. And the next. The Russia investigation was like this too. Trump has always been able to pull enough strings to gum up the works. A lot of this is through simple "delay." Our legal system needs some patching up, undoubtedly.
What many of us are waiting for rather desperately now, is for the "dam to break." Remember the movie "Force 10 From Navarone?" The good guys knew that once the first small cracks appeared, after a blast, complete breakdown was coming. So as I sit here now on this mid-December day, I ponder: can sensible and wise people everywhere feel confident that those first few cracks have appeared within the Trump defenses? Are people willing to go to prison to support Donald Trump? Herman Cain was willing to die for Trump the grifter, the charlatan, the flim-flam man.
Chris Christie says he definitely got covid because of Mark Meadows failing to advise him that Trump had tested positive. Ol' Fatso had a difficult hospitalization. And after all that, couldn't Christie just turn on that whole mob, to call them out for what they were? Instead he became measured. Or as they say, "nuanced."
John Dean caused the dam to break with Watergate. The reason is simple: he saw that the Nixon people were planning on making him a scapegoat. See? Cracking an egg.
Right now, don't you want the whole Jan. 6 thing to just be over, a year after it happened, and for the public to have virtually all the facts? Will Meadows finally have to turn on Trump? How would an arrest of Trump be executed? I'll bet lots of extra security would be required, maybe even a military presence. What a spectacle.
If Republicans hadn't thrown up so many roadblocks, we might be at resolution now. We could work on more pressing priorities like our defense vs. covid. Inflation? Worried about that? There is one solution. Don't you understand? The Federal Reserve will have to jack up interest rates. Worried about your stock investments? I guarantee you, you'd be more worried about going to the grocery store and seeing a loaf of bread costing $30.
We should all be embarrassed that we elected Michelle Fischbach as our congressperson. She isn't even articulate or attractive.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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