Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• On March 29th, I made the very specific prediction that Yu Darvish would finish second in the Cy Young voting. Yesterday that came true. Never doubt my sportz geniusness. 
• Former Cowboy Sam Hurd received 15 years in prison instead of life for being a wannabe drug runner. Even that sentence is ridiculous. And the amount of tax dollars used to set him up was ridiculous.
• The case kind of reminds me of the FBI tracking down a dumb Muslim kid online and setting him up to do a fake terrorist act that he would never have been able to pull off if he had just been left alone. 
• Another Earthquake around Eagle Mountain Lake last night. What's going on? I go all my life without hearing about one in the area and now we have four or five a week. 
• I watched a documentary last night on PBS about how cautious Walter Cronkite was before he would officially announce on TV that Kennedy was dead. I didn't know that CBS radio had already announced the death before Cronkite finally made his famous announcement. And look at his words: "From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago. Vice President Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded; presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th President of the United States." Using the words "apparently" and "presumably" gave him some wiggle room just in case he was wrong.
• Back then there were three TV news organizations. If you were wrong on a major story, you were done. 
• We had a reverse "And Another" (meaning it was a male teacher and not female) sentence yesterday in Tarrant County were the guy received the maximum of 20 years in prison. Then again, if you have sexual relations with five students, that's going to happen. 
• Baylor's coach Art Briles got a contract extension last night making it a ten year deal with a reported $5 million buyout. That's no guarantee he won't leave along the way but it guarantees he won't be going to Texas if Mac Brown is fired after this season (which seems less and less possible anyway.)
• "Why would you do that, daddy?" - Briles oldest daughter when he was contemplating taking the Baylor job. I thought the same thing at the time. 
• Not surprising to me that so few people have signed up for Obamacare months before the deadline. There aren't many who file tax returns in January either.
• Word broke yesterday that Florida State's star quarterback and Heisman favorite Jameis Winston is a suspect in an almost year old sexual assault. The victim described "the suspect in the sexual assault case as being between 5-foot-9 and 5-11. Winston is listed by Florida State at 6-4." I don't think he has much to worry about. 
• I love the tie in the Paradise school board race between Bill Mundy and Ben Sanders. They could agree to settle it by "casting lots" like a coin flip or drawing straws.  They need to come up with a similar concept but which is fantastically creative and get then get the metroplex news crews involved. It'd be great publicity for Paradise.