Tree's Trip of Thoughts

I decided on a weekly post about my friend Joe's pictures and words about his kick A$$ job as a vital crew member for ESPN College Game Day. He informed me of his elated disbelief on last Friday of making both the USA today and Mac Gs World in the same day.

To recap that makes: Gannett Corporation 1, Poor blogger with a drinking/sports habit 1, BRING IT FISHWRAP!

Here is his rant about MLB playoffs and Husker football. I would email him for his take on Norman last week but he is in Lexington, KY right now setting up for tomorrow. First trip ever to UK for Gameday. He did run into Tim Couch last night and he was accompanied by some serious eye candy. Awesome.

While half the country wonders when Colorado got a baseball team.....What a story the 2007 Colorado Rockies are. Just to close out the regular season on that streak wasn't enough, how about the Monday night game against the Padres to get into the playoffs? Knocking off Jake Peavy and then Trevor Hoffman? Going 7-0 the first two rounds sweeping the Phillies and now the Diamondbacks.

And Kaz Matsui. KAZ MATSIU!!! This guy came to the Mets and looked like he had never played baseball before. He couldn't hit or field any position. Now, he's played a pivotal role for the Rockies on their run to the Series. I don't even think the Rockies were selling out games a month ago. Now, the middle of October, the Broncos suck and the Rockies are going to the World Series.

Everyone in Colorado will now tell you they've always been a die hard Rockies fan and even remember the three games Todd Helton started in '94 for the Tennessee Volunteers or Matt Holliday calling the signals for Oklahoma St. Maybe the worst thing that could of happened to the Rockies was sweeping the NLCS.

Now they have 8 days off before the Series Starts! They can kill a team's momentum. Can you imagine Cleveland/Colorado in the Word Series? All the snowed out games? Maybe the series gets over before pitchers/catchers report.

Just like the Oakland Raiders, the Nebraska Cornhuskers and finally, it's fans and boosters have quit on Bill Callahan. Looking at the remaining schedule, the Huskers probably won't win another game this year. How's this gonna look for recruiting? Probably the only thing to save Nebraska football will be T.O. They need his name more than ever.

Osborne is Nebraska. He is the typical Nebraska personality, work ethic, and attitude. I know he retired because he had a great and long career and wanted to ride out in the sunset and be able to spend more time with his family.

He'll come back to help, but not full time. He cares about Nebraska and it's people too much. I'm sure he doesn't want to go back to working 18 hour days, seven days a week. He'll restore the order. It's a tough task, right now, there are many more football programs more dominant than Nebraska.

Thanks Steve Pederson and Bill Callahan for totally screwing up the best program in college football.

GET OUT!!!!!!

Speaking of Nebraska, I heard that at Boondocker's they give free shots out for Hukser Touchdowns. Now they started giving them out for field goals!


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Peace OUT!

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My Boy Tree makes the USA Today

I try not to talk about my personal life here on Mac G's World but when of my boys makes the pages of the USA today, it is time to give him an official shout out. Joe Andreasen has the rough job of working for the ESPN gameday crew and getting to travel to all these college towns, aka, POON Meccas!

When he is not blasting me with text messages about how "the SEC is the best" or "Joe Torre has ruined the Yankees," he does seem to work his A$$ for Corso, Fowler, Herbstreet and company. I am jealous of his ability to be close to the best poon water fountains in America.

He recaps his experiences in a weekly email and I should start posting them on here. They are pretty classic and hilarious. Here a snippet from last week's trip to Baton Rouge.

Also, don't stand in one place. Louisianna has these pests called fire ants. Holy Sh%&!! However, LSU does bring it when it comes to tailgating. These guys have 4 foot gators on the grill. And I can't think of a more beautiful sight than women's keg stand tournaments!

Maybe 4 hot chicks wearing purple and gold sundresses with purple and gold high heels walking down the street each with a case of beer! They tore up Baton Rouge Saturday night after that thriller. Freakin Crazyyyyyy!!!!!!! The biggest surprise? That the town did not run out of alcohol.
Some gameday signs that come to mind....Tebow wears Jorts......Dont tase me bro.....Seperated at birth? (A pix of Lou Holtz and Sylvester the Cat.)

His nickname is Tree Rat and here is his blurb in today's USA today.

Playing head games with Corso

Each Saturday, Joe Andreasen makes one of the highest-profile handoffs in college football.

Technically, it's more of a head-on: Andreasen, crouching under flamboyant Lee Corso's desk on the set of ESPN's College GameDay, plops a school mascot head on Corso to signify his big-game prediction.

Yes, they actually practice. They first tried to get their timing down on turning Corso into the Southern California Trojan, complete with sword and breastplate.

With each school's heads stashed in ESPN production trailers, says Andreasen, Corso "will take me aside when he's getting makeup for the Friday SportsCenter report to practice.

"He takes it so seriously. He wants to go through it so we don't get heads on backwards." Says Corso: "This is serious business for me."

Andreasen, a freelancer who does other errands for the show and also works on ESPN's college basketball GameDay, almost had a busted play this season when Corso was trying to put on an Alabama elephant head — "it was almost life-size and barely fit in a 40-gallon trash bag" — and it wouldn't go on. "It just got stuck for two seconds, but it seemed like five minutes."

Saturday's show is at Oklahoma, where the Sooners will host Missouri. Andreasen expects to call an audible: "I'm almost sure he'll pick Oklahoma, but they don't have a head. There, we've ended up picking a goofy hat from the crowd."

Here are some pictures from his trips so far this season and Tree, if you are reading this, BRING THE CAMERA TO NORMAN!







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