This is the Statt Mann Baby!! Time to Scatt a little bit.

Hype Mongers! That’s what they are: Hype Mongers passing for analysts and journalists. They’ve completely lost their way if not their minds.

This week we heard all the blather about Jacksonville beating New England or Indy would do in San Diego by as many as two touchdowns.

I even heard some say my Buckeyes would beat LSU and we all know how that worked out!

I hate to keep beating this horse but someone needs to point out the virtue of “thinking for ourselves.” And if it’s fallen to me, Well!…

Remember the racing people who said NASCAR would grow forever? What about the ones who promised a fifth championship for Jeff Gordon last year. Or Mike Skinner was a shoe-in for a truck title!

What about those national sponsors who were standing in long lines for the chance to sponsor Cup teams? And my favorite: “The 75 million NASCAR fans would support anything including $100 and $200 seats for Cup races.”

Please people, think about what we’re hearing. Better yet, have an original thought, something we figured out for ourselves. Watching reality is often more dramatic than the hype.

Aren’t you glad we didn’t believe the analysts who argued that those ruffian terrorists in 1776 would never overthrow the most powerful fighting machine ever assembled in human history?

Peace.