Pepper McSausage Picks

A pick a day until my mom comes back to life.

A bit of a good news/bad news situation here. The bad news? Ja’Marr Chase didn’t score a TD (boooo). The good news? Based on recent trends, today’s pick is guaranteed to hit (yayyyy)!

I write this from my bathroom (the only place of solitude when I go back home to visit my mom and brother, especially now without my mom). I love my brother to death, but the man is very needy. His mental impairments have a lot to do with it, but the man is an emotionally volatile motormouth. It’s day one, and I’m in good spirits, but this trip is going to be all over the place from a writing perspective. He’s always keeping tabs on what I’m up to when I’m not in the room with him (and since I’m not here frequently, he demands my presence always unless I’m taking a sh** or sleeping), and when I’m in the room with him, he doesn’t allow me to think, he’s just perpetually yapping. Eventually I disassociate for my own self preservation. But god forbid I asked a question about something that he has already mentioned during an avalanche of spoken thought, while I was disassociating, he’ll berate me for not remembering or making him reiterate lmao. In a sense, I’ve enjoyed these trips home cuz it harkens me back to simpler times. Like I know my role here and there’s not much expected of me outside of my presence, being a sounding board for him to bounce his thoughts off of, and to drive him places. But at some point, I lose my sense of self here. And while my own thoughts are exhausting, this place reminds me that I’m glad I have them because they make me who I am.

Anyways… I’ve already been here too long. My legs are going numb. And all of this build up is unnecessary considering we already know this bet is going to hit. It’s written in the stars!

Today’s pick: BRANDON INGRAM OVER 20.5 POINTS

“Trust me bro”. If I’m in this bathroom any longer, I’m gonna become Shelley Duvall in The Shining.

Good luck and I’ll see y’all on the other side!

Pick record: 8-11 (no thank you Ja’Marr)