Morning thoughts…

AimBotKris · 2025-03-11T14:41:45+00:00

Two songs that would probably work while reading this: Ian - lunch Break Freestyle Drake – Die Trying Feels like now is a good time to bring back some morning thoughts and little notes… Max Riley committed yesterday, and it matters. Obviously, you want to win in-state battles and keep those kids as Buckeyes if they’re good enough—or at least on the fringe of good enough. Max is that. A few people I’ve talked to have shared with me that Bowen is going to recruit aggressively, and closer to a skill-guy focus (if that makes sense). He probably isn’t the developer that Justin is, but he’s going to go out and get dudes. I’m not sure if landing the Ohio kid proves that, but it’s a really positive start. This needs to be a big class, and what I can say for sure is that the net will be cast wider. I can feel myself becoming a baseball brother dad day by day… My little brother’s first sport is boxing, but there isn’t really a team element to it. We just go to the gym, he throws punches for an hour, and that’s it. It’s really fun, and he enjoys it, but there is a lonely element to it. This will be his first year playing baseball, and it’s funny because all I want him to do is have fun. I told him that, and casually, he said, “I have more fun when I’m good at things.” So now all he wants to do is hit? Downside is… he’s gonna be a horrible outfielder. Watching little humans grow is weird but really cool. I always thought it was exaggerated when we were kids and heard parents talk about it. Art is so funny. Right now, it feels like two different worlds. One side mimics and pulls from things that were remembered as cool then. The other half is pushing to be “cool” and create “cool art” so that they become the inspiration later on. While that cycle seems endless, it’s always the weirdest of the weird that gets mimicked later and remembered as cool. Every now and then, something comes along that’s so unique—without trying to be cool—that it sticks around long enough to be recognized as genius. Only then does their work finally get the recognition it deserves while they’re still making it. All that to say… I miss Mike Leach. I got asked about my three favorite sodas on another podcast I do with my boy Tyler. I made sure to put Sprite up there, but not just any Sprite—McDonald’s Sprite, which is simply the crispest beverage in human existence and the only soda that somehow feels healthy when I drink it. (Tried Orange Cream Coke last week—very elite and wildly underrated.) Quick Fire Takes: • Yes, I’m a Jets fan now. • If the Giants draft Jaxson Dart, I’ll root for both. IDGAF. • Bonnie Blue is in Cancun, and she’s up 20 on Lilly. • Electric guitars on hip-hop songs are underrated. • If Drake performs at the World Cup, he wins. • If Kim K’s sex tape didn’t leak, IG models nba players fly out would look very different today. • Aaron Judge is the best player in baseball—no debate until that one dude is an ace again. • LeBron’s extended dominance, in the long run, is bad for the NBA.