Questions, Questions, Questions

Last week, the Schloss-Blog ranted. This week, the Schloss-Blog is asking...

• Did Mexico really say it would pay for the impeachment hearings and trial?
• Is anyone else tired of Mo-Tore in the Progressive commercials?
• Does anyone else miss Leverage?
• Does anyone else think Mitchell Trubisky is overrated? Underrated? Just right?
• Does anyone else want to go to Ukraine on vacation?
• Does anyone know why Dan LeBatard is AWOL on Highly Questionable, the funniest show on ESPN?
• Did Drew Brees make a mistake coming back a week too early, with the Saints' bye week to follow?
• Why do New York football teams suck? New York City, that is - the Bills are 5-2 with the Redskins on the schedule next.
• Why is Trump playing "Where's Waldo?" with U.S. troops in Syria? Iraq? Wherever?
• Why is Trump playing "Where's Waldo?" with his own address?
• Does anyone else binge-watch reruns of Chicago P.D., Law & Order and Law & Order: CI?
• Does anyone want to come out and help me cover my high school football games in Arizona? I need help when teams put up 60 and 70 points, which is common.
• If I fly to San Francisco on American and come back on United, should I park at American long-term when I get to the airport or at United long-term for when I get back? Either way, I've got a long schlep between those terminals at PHX.
• A female friend of mine has a crush on Pete Buttigieg. I told her to forget it, he's married. She said she doesn't care, she's going to make her play.
• Did Mexico say it would pay for the wall in Colorado? Or did Kansas?
• How is it that the Geico Gecko has never been run over in some city, somewhere?
• Accidently, that is?
• How did Rudy Giuliani go from "America's Mayor" to "America's Smear?"
• Coach of the Year in the NFL: Kyle Shanahan? Kliff Kingsbury? Frank Reich? Sean McDermott? Should it go to someone who gets a mediocre team to overachieve or to someone like - I don't know - Bill Belichick, who wins titles all the time?
• Which mall is bigger in terms of actual retail square-footage: Mall of America, Woodfield or King of Prussia? (Don't Google it - guess.)
• Is anyone still looking for Hillary Clinton's emails?
• If Baltimore is rat and vermin-infested, as Donald Trump contends, why is his son-in-law helping contribute to that image? Jared Kushner's realty company was just sued by the Maryland AG for having rat-and-vermin-infested apartment properties there.

Miss ya', Chicago. I'm coming home, soon. Meanwhile, listen to the Howard Hours on Sunday night on Radio Free Phoenix. You never know who's going to get a shout-out from yours truly.

The List

This week, the Schloss-Blog is focused on little things we hate.

People who don't signal when they change lanes (rampant in Arizona, especially people pushing carts in grocery store aisles).

People who drive real slow in front of you and then speed up and run a red light (that you miss - rampant in Arizona).

Announcers and play-by-play television analysts who don't point out obvious penalties that you and your mother both saw, and your mother has never been to a football game.

People who roll through stop signs (especially rampant in Arizona, where red lights and stop signs are considered "optional").

People in grocery stores who pause in an aisle and leave their carts in the middle, without enough room to get by on either side, and make believe they don't see you coming while they stare blindly at a bunch of soup cans, trying decide which one not to buy.

The people in the commercial who, driving around on vacation trying to entertain their bored pre-adolescent daughter, suddenly stop at a completely empty ocean beach and all jump in, to their little girl's delight, with no lifeguards or even any other people within miles. Sounds real safe.

Erin Andrews making believe she's a reporter.

The people who the producers of "Dancing With the Stars" consider to be stars.

People who don't think that "Hey Jude," "Layla," "One," "Stairway to Heaven" and "God Only Knows" were the five greatest rock 'n' roll songs of the previous century.

People who didn't believe in the University of Illinois Fighting Illini (Illinois 24, Wisconsin 23 - the Badgers were 31-and-a-half-point favorites).

People who can't believe that Matt Millen (Big 10 Network) and Mark Sanchez (ESPN) are paid football analysts. Or, maybe the people who can believe it.

People who didn't believe Joe Namath and the Jets could beat the Colts ("I guarantee it").

People who don't believe everything I say (my mother just rolled over).

People who don't read this blog (I don't - I just write it, is all).

Coaches who waste timeouts they wish they had later when they needed them to stop the clock and get the ball back.

People who don't believe in upsets and underdogs (they are the spice of sports).

People who don't watch Sports Center with Scott Van Pelt (so different from all their other Sports Center telecasts - worth it for the hysterical Bad Beats segment alone).

People who don't listen to my radio show (you never know when you're going to get a shout-out on the Howard Hours on Radio Free Phoenix).

So listen in tonight (and sitting in for Joe Catanzaro 6-10 a.m. today, Arizona time), and goodnight, Mrs. Calabash.

For my reaction to all things Trump, hit up my Twitter account (@hschlossberg).

The Sinners

They support that there were "very fine people on both sides."

They're OK with farmers and automakers being tariffed into oblivion.

They don't mind that children were put in cages.

They pay no mind that he was sleeping with a porn star and a Playboy model.

It's OK that he boasts of sexually groping women of his choice.

And now, they are OK with his leaving the Kurds to die. As well as openly soliciting foreign governments for dirt on political opponents (like, Ukraine and China).

His nonexistent healthcare plan hinges on taking away your pre-existing condition coverage.

They are happy Shep Smith is leaving Fox News.

They are the evangelicals who stick with him because they hope he will strike down Roe v Wade and deny women control over their own bodies.

Not gonna' happen.

Evangelicals everywhere should be ashamed of themselves for backing a man who turns his back on our allies, leaves you without appropriate healthcare coverage and has no respect for women, women who he tells to go back to the countries they came from (New York and Michigan, among them).

Evangelicals who stick with Trump, almost two-thirds of them according to public opinion polls, will wind up as betrayed as the Kurds are now, their ultimate hope unfulfilled.

Hopefully, the House impeaches, soon, and Trump is forced to run as only the third president to ever be impeached. This will gall him to no end, bruise his fragile, child-like ego and leave him an enraged candidate who focuses on policy even less than he does now.

It's not Trump who is America's biggest sinner, but the evangelicals who support him. This is not a religious issue for me - it's a moral issue. And Trump is proven to be totally amoral.

Now, if only whoever gets the Democratic nomination is willing to call Trump by the name by which he is known around congressional halls in D.C. - "Spanky" (thank you, Stormy Daniels).

Unfortunately, I have to conclude by saying that the only person who should be in bigger trouble with evangelicals is Clayton Kershaw, because he's a fine person in the regular season but not in the postseason.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash (Google it). Shawn, Vianca, Dana, you are all on my shout-out list for tonight's show on Radio Free Phoenix.

Wondering about...

Schloss-Blog is wondering about a few things.

Like, how come Donald Trump continues to lie about the Ukraine thing and call for investigations of everybody but his own administration?

Like, are the Giants being brought back to Earth this week by Minnesota or are they for real? Not. Patriots next week. Better win today, Giants. I'll take the Giants with the points though (getting 5-and-a-half).

Anyone get up early and watch the Bears in London? No, wait, you didn't have to. The NFL is making it a night game in London so that it's a regularly slotted early game in the United States. When you're good, it matters as to what time you get to play.

It's a difficult time though to watch sports on TV, there's so much inventory. October is the only month all four major sports are in action. How much you wanna' bet though that regular-season NFL games draw as many if not more viewers as MLB playoff games?

Baseball is boring. Takes too long. Can order and consume a pizza between pitches. Baseball does nothing to address it except talk about it. Never enacted the late Steve Palermo's recommendations. Largely just gave them lip service. Pity.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, Trump wants to investigate and convict everyone who doesn't like him. Unfortunately, that's everyone.

Anyone watching the Sunday news talk shows this morning? If you saw a Republican, please leave a post on or DM me on Facebook or Twitter (@hschlossberg). It was hard to find a Republican who would step up and defend Trump's conversation with the president of Ukraine or the release of text messages with his Ukraine entourage, which greatly incriminate him. Unless you watch Fox News, and even there it was difficult.

And if the economy is so good, unemployment so good, wages so good, stock market so good, why are most Americans living paycheck to paycheck, living without sufficient funds for emergencies, with little to no savings for retirement and wondering if they'll get laid off tomorrow?

Why is every quarterback who plays for and has played for the University of Washington named "Jake?"

Why are any PAC-12 football teams ranked nationally? They all suck.

Why does Rutgers have a football team?

Why is Nebraska overrated? The football team too. Ever drive through there, all the way to Colorado? Try it.

Trump is discovering that even his fellow Republicans think he's a pig.

Sad note: frat brother and friend Mike Lyons passed away this week. R.I.P., Mike. R.I.P. Will pay tribute to him on my radiofreephoenix.com rock show tonight.

Good night Mrs. Calabash. Thank goodness I found a Nathan's hot dog stand at the game I covered Friday night in Peoria, Arizona. Long live Nathan's. I love Brooklyn!








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