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Oh, the randomness, recklessness, and rambunctiousness that was 2024.
The roars and bores and allures of 2024, those who soared, those who got more, and those who were shown the door.
A year to reflect upon right now. Because we can. Isn’t that a gift?
Wake Forest football won four and lost eight which wasn’t great. But truckloads of International Monetary Fund greenbacks are pouring into Winston-Salem so we may field a better team next Fall, and if that translates to wins we will all feel better because winning satiates.
Algorithms, which seem like people but less empathetic, know better than we do what we like and we got sucked deeper into our own YouTube personalized funnels and online vortexes in my case Rick Rubin interviews, Scott Galloway trade show speeches, and a gaggle of guys from Silicon Valley who invented ChatGPT and keep saying they don’t know how what they invented does what it does but, oh well, it’s going to upend everything in our lives forever.
An endless feed of YouTube videos I ingested and took occasional mental breaks from the techno-madness to listen to Dave Clawson say he only likes half his job, coaching players, and doesn’t like negotiating with them to stay on his team by offering more money and offering other guys on other teams money to join his team. I wish he liked everything about his job but I’m not him. I wish he would just win more so my Wake Forest friends could get together and party.
So much money. So much mayhem.
College football is lost.
This was the year of losing ourselves in podcasts. Everyone in the world now has a podcast except me and that’s just not important when you consider I’m buddies with Spoog again and Rhett Butler now reads Sammy Sportface blogs which I figured he would be too aloof to bother with being the pool shark that he is.
Podcaster Tim Ferris gave me the best dieting advice: don’t drink calories and don’t eat anything white.
Podcaster Joe Rogan interviewed Rick Rubin and it was a highlight of my year. Just listen to Rick Rubin and you’ll understand exactly what I mean.
Rudy’s still my best friend and always will be so we should all be comforted by that.
Belichick will be chugging into Winston-Salem next Fall and won’t we all want to watch that spectacle? I bet Wake Forest wins because Demond Claiborne just announced he’s back for another year and he will run back a kickoff the winning touchdown because Belichick won’t give any money to anyone on his kick coverage team because he’ll throw it all at skill position players who start on offense or defense who he paid off from the SEC.
It’s Caitlin Clark’s off-season training workout season and we need to focus on that. The form on her shot should be used in all basketball training videos. I think she wants to dominate the WNBA in her second year like no one ever has and that will be the highlight of 2025 as far as any of us are concerned — along with a win over Belichick.
The key question looking towards 2025 is whether The Joker (Nikola Jokic) will carry his team to the NBA title. He needs a second Larry O’Brien Trophy to cement his legacy as the greatest basketball player who has ever lived. Better than Bird. Better than MJ. Better than LeBron. Better than Sportface.
If he gets his second Larry O, he’ll be regarded as the best until 15 years from now when Caitlin Clark Kent climbs to the top of the hoops ladder all time, man or woman. When that happens, Sportface will post a blog about it.
Where is this going? I’m not here to answer questions. There are not many answers anyway if you really ponder it.
This is about reflections and misdirections and randomness and all sorts of things that aren’t cohesive because if there’s one thing 2024 was about it was incohesiveness so consider this symbolic: an incohesive blog emblematic of an incohesive year in an incohesive world.
Our culture is incohesive. Our values are incohesive. Our behaviors are incohesive. Our technologies are incohesive. Our noses are incohesive.
Our blogs are incohesive.
Rudy is incohesive. Naves is incohesive. Oceans and countries and continents and methods of operation are incohesive. The whole damn world is incohesive.
The only thing that made this year more cohesive was the splash made by Crash Adams, a new pop band that inspired me because their mission is to elevate peoples’ vibrations which matches the mission of the Baby Boomer Brotherhood.
Want to elevate your vibrations?
Listen to Crash’s song titled “Give Me and Kiss” and you’ll vibrate in ways you never have before and carry those sensations into 2025.
Being fully alive.
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