A Specfuckingtacular Coincidence

A quick blog on a crazy coincidence two years ago. My buddy, Tom Wyatt are hiking around lake Tahoe. We come down early after nearly starting an enormous forest fire. Over the next 12 hours we lose hundreds of dollars taking the Oklahoma Sooners over Oregon despite the fact they are giving 27 points (OU 31, Oregon 7). This is when I began hating Oregon (see http://www.voidgame.com). We also win hundreds of dollars betting on Bernard Hopkins to knock out De La Hoya in the 9th.

Hopkins crushed De La Hoya with a liver punch.

from ESPN:

To assess the effect of a liver punch, we called on that “Human Punching Bag,” Randall “Tex” Cobb who said that a liver punch thrown in a sparring session with Greg Page was the only punch that had ever hurt him. According to Cobb, “Page hit me in the liver and I just stood there, frozen, mouth open. (Trainer) Georgie Benton called out “Time’ and asked if I was ‘okay.’ All I could say was ‘aaaaargh.’”

Anyway, we woke up the next day and headed to the Sacramento airport. I felt as if I had taken the liver punch. Hiking, drinking, cigars, gambling…..

On the way to airport, I discovered a great song by Snow Patrol called, “How to be dead” on his iPOD. We played it repeatedly.

I got back and googled “how to be dead.mp3.” I skipped the first hundred results as they would inevitably be file sharing sites. One site then stood out, www.specfuckingtacular.com. I went there, downloaded the mp3 and surfed a little. I clicked on his photos and there was a link titled, “1412 W. Argyle” midway down the page.

Here is where it gets weird: I lived at 1412 W. Argyle in 1998. 1412 W. Argyle is a 6 unit apartment in Chicago’s still up and coming Andersonville area. I clicked the link and saw the same apartment I had resided in about 6 years earlier - still dilapidated - still with huge water stains under the dishwasher. It was very unsettling.

I told my wife. She didn’t care. I told my bud Tom. He didn’t believe me (or he didn’t care). I emailed the specfucky guy. He either didn’t care, or thought I was a stalker.

I took it as a sign from God. The odds are astronomical. Much greater than a Hopkins KO in the ninth.