Happy St. Patricks day, hope you're wearing some green today, just not drinking any green beer. Leave that to the amateurs. Started my day off by taking the kid for donuts at an amazing local shop called Blackline Donuts. Really great shop with great donuts, kolaches (really klobasnik but it's Texas ya'll) and Scones. Instead of grabbing coffee at this shop, I made my own at home using beans from local Houston roaster Tenfold. I really enjoy this roaster. Their shop is amazing, great food and coffee options. They also have a space set aside for having educational classes which I think is really cool and wish more places would do it. As for this particular set of beans, I made my usual pour over. This is their everyday blend (literally and figuratively), medium roasted silky smooth, low acidity, sweet fruits. Delicious and great paired with the pick up from Blackline. Good way to start the morning, powered by sugar and caffeine! Onto my more typical Sunday musings, Liverpool and F1.
Formula 1
It's an off week with no racing as they take a week away to relocate from the Middle East to Australia for next Sunday's Grand Prix. However that doesn't mean there isn't news. The paddock may be a bigger source of excitement this season than the track as it look like another run away title from Red Bull and Verstappen. But that doesn't mean there isn't any drama. Red Bull, the predictable champions are the source of the greatest amount of drama. The Christian Horner saga shows no sign of letting up. For the uninitiated, team principal Horner was accused of misconduct right before the season started. In about an opaque of an investigation as you can have Red Bull hired an independent investigator who cleared Horner of all charges. However that hasn't stopped F1 pundits of all shapes and sizes from predicting gloom and doom for the Racing Bulls, insisting that Horner will soon be removed, or Verstappen will leave the Austrian race unit. Personally, I just don't see this happening. Horner is the longest running principal in F1, and is one of the most successful. He has been there since the beginning of Red Bull and has brought them multiple constructor Cups and individual championships with Vettel and Verstappen. If he is truly cleared why would they replace him? Who would be able to come in and do what he has done? Verstappen has been with RB and under Christian since the beginning of his career. He has thrived under Horner, and that car. There is no other place that he can go that give him a car like this. It just doesn't make sense to me. But it is F1 and strange things happen when ego's get involved (plus his father doesn't seem to be able to get out of his own way being the source of a lot of drama). I think the other thing driving a lot of drama is the amount of drivers that become free agents at the end of the season. 12 out of the 20 drivers have their contracts end in 2024. That is crazy and I can't remember a season where that has happened. So there could be a total remake of the grid for 2025. We already know Sainz is out and Hamilton is in at Ferrari. Perez's contract is over at RB next season and I can see him not being there in 2025. I think all of those contracts ending is causing a lot of drama, as well as a ton of speculation from the pundits who are driving clicks to their sites. I think there may be more drama on the track than others. While P1 may be locked up, I think P2-5 is going to be great to watch both on the driver side and constructors side. Should be a fun season if you can get over the predictability of the winner.
Liverpool
No Premiere league matches this week, but that doesn't mean Liverpool was resting. They had a mid week Europa League match against Czech club Sparta Praha in their second leg to move on in the second tier European league. As they did in the first leg, Liverpool absolutely dominated beating them 5-1. And honestly it wasn't even that close. In just a few minutes Liverpool kicks off an FA Cup match against their hated rivals the obnoxious Manchester United. ManU continues to be in disarray so I have confidence that Liverpool pulls out an away win and continues on to the semifinals of the premiere British tournament. That keeps them on the path to potentially capture 3 more titles in addition to the already captured Carabou Cup. The are still on track for the EPL title, Europa League Title, and FA Cup championship. What a season this could be to celebrate all that Klopp has done for the Reds.
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