I'm a loser

[bill_schubert]

Not meaning Noom this time.  That project is kind of a wash this week...  plateau time.

No, as my wife and I were sitting watching the Djokovic match (I was rooting for him to win) she noted that we seemed to be onboard with a bunch of losing efforts.

Exhibit 1 — Austin FC.  They've lost every game but one since May 1.  And I've watched them all.  At this point I'm watching because I've seen every game they have ever played and am not ready to break the string.  And I'm interested to see the turnaround that will eventually happen.  Austin FC has one of the best fan bases in soccer and this city would go wild with a win streak.  But I'm thinking next year.

Exhibit 2 — Jacksonville Jaguars.  We lived in Jax for a long time and the team was formed the year before we got there.  So we've been a supporter from the beginning.  They have very occasionally been an OK team.  They've potentially got the best quarterback in the NFL in Trevor Lawrence.  He's the real deal (and only threw three interceptions last week #welcometotheNFL).  Last week was the first football game he ever lost.  They've potentially got one of the best coaches around in Urban Meyer who has won, a lot, at Ohio State and U of Florida but so far has lost 1 in the NFL.

Exhibit 3 — Leylah Fernandez who was beaten by the brit Raducanu, one year her junior at 18, pretty badly.  I'd been on the Fernandez band wagon from early in the tournament.  Maybe I should send her an apology.

Exhibit 4 — Djokovic.  Well, I wrote about him.

Nowhere to go but up after the past week or so.

Except for my weight.  

Weight down, teams up.  A mantra.

Comments

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

How does any of this make you a loser, Noom, where a loss is a win, notwithstanding?

[texasts.livejournal.com]

Dad was USN and we lived in Jacksonville thru my Jr High and High school years. Graduated in '76. Was probably in Texas by late '77 or early '78. Kinda blurry that far back. But I was gone out of Jax long before they got a football team. Think my Mom and her Hubs had season tickets at one point.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten you grew up there with Skynard and Molly Hatchet.

I did not get to Jax the first time until about 10 years after you left. A whole different city emerged within a year or two. When I got there they had a toll on the I95 bridge crossing the river and there was a perfume factory downtown. The place smelled pretty bad and was congested and not popular.

They tore down the tool, opened the huge bypass and moved the factory leaving only a coffee roasting plant behind. So Jax smelled, and still does, in the mornings like coffee which covers up much of the Georgia paper mill smell that comes down the water from the north.
The place has gotten even bigger since we left in 2005 but the Jags still suck.
Maybe this year.

[texasts.livejournal.com]

When I first moved to Texas, I settled in the east end in Houston. By the time I moved in it was all oldddd white folks and Latinos. Some black folks, but mostly brown. Semi industrial.

Lived right off Cullen blvd and Dallas street. There was an old ice house right on the northwest part of the intersection. Some crazy shit went in there.

Right near, you guessed it, the maxwell house refinery. Heh heh. It permeated everything.

I still don’t wanna drink maxwell house nuthin’.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I used to enjoy the smell of the Maxwell House roasting (worked in downtown Jax) but I think most people don't. It is a pretty pervasive smell.