This is my weekly recap of the Monday Night Raw wrestling show. For those who don't watch you may want to take a powder on this one, but it is kind of funny even if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about _______________________________________________________________________________________ - Opening number 1 - Highlights of Raw from last week, HHH "accidentally" hitting Shane with a sledgehammer. - In a turn of events that Ray Charles saw coming, even at this point in his life - Vince ACTING - Vince now on screen, talks about last week - He says Shane has a mild concussion - Of course, at one time doctors also said that Houdini just "had a stomachache" - Which is a lesson for everyone out there, never listen to doctors - This column brought to you by the Christian Scientist Association of America - And their slogan "There's Not a Doctor in the House" - Anyway, back to the talking, and as Vince talks there is a poster of HBK kissing his bare ass and his shirtless cover photo for some muscle mag. - Why didn't they just go all the way and put superimpose his face in a photo with Heath Ledger? - Vince sez HHH will apologize tonight, or vengeance will be felt. - I can only assume Vengeance is the next PPV - They all kind of run together outside of the big 3 - Opening number 2 - 2 for 1 Raw openings, only at Giant Eagle! - Live from Las Vegas - This is the first show I can remember ever emanating from Vegas, and I can't say I fault them staying away - If only because how will the lower-tier wrestlers get anywhere when they blow their gas money on blackjack and hookers? - Or black hookers and Jack, whichever they prefer - You can't have 2 hours of McMahon and HHH, no matter how much they may like it - Something-or-other covered in a red cloth is in the ring - Foley out - In a suit - Looking dapper, in a Big and Tall kind of way - If they're gonna go all the way with the Foley change they need to change the music - He talks about how he's actually a nice guy, and from all accounts he actually is in real life. - Says it's not great to be in Vegas - And really, unless you normally just give your money to huge corporations for nothing then is it ever great to be in Vegas - Unless you like Celine Dion - Slingo machine? - Didn't monkey scientists invent that the help sling their crap? - Heh, monkey scientists - Foley brings out Edge, w/ Lita's breasts - And the rest of her too I suppose - She's looking a tad ragged in the face tonight, or more than normal anyway - Foley sez the reason he brought out Edge to give him a (the?) Hardcore championship belt - Cuz he's cardhore - Weak "You suck" chant by the crowd - Edge says he can't accept the belt - Cuz he's got the hottest girl in Vegas coming home with him tonight - If that's true then Vegas is vastly overrated - Edge talks about how Mick had to toil in bingo halls and such for ECW, so he deserves the belt more - Foley rips on Flair - Whooooo!..... the hell cares - Foley calls for another match with Edge tonight to decide who's the real hardcore champ - Edge has a better idea - He goes over and whispers something in Lillan Ringannouncer's ear - She announces them as co-hardcore champions - See, compromise works - As they celebrate, ECW music starts - Paul Heyman out - Crowd seems slightly more than apathetic, may not be a good sign for the new brand - Okay, now they're more into it, maybe the crowd mics weren't working right at first - Heyman calls Foley a prostitute - Says Foley gave sweat blood and tears "for each and every one of these people" when in fact maybe 2 people ever saw him in ECW. - Heyman asks Foley what it's like to look in the mirror and see a shell of his former self - Ironic no? - Mick plugs his book that hasn't even been written yet - Now that's hardcore - Foley calls Heyman a failure - Non-ironic - Heyman says there's gonna be another "One Night Stand" - "Two Night Stand"? - Challenges Foley and Edge to a fight against 2 mystery opponents - Foley sez no - Heyman laughing - Says Lita's the only one with any nuts - Edge goes nuts, (haha) - Edge goes after Heyman - Tommy Dreamer and Terry Funk make the save - So who's older at this point? Flair or Funk? - Well I guess the oldest one would always be older, but you know what I mean - Crowd seems, eh, okay with the whole thing - Again, maybe it's just a mic problem - Commercials - 3 Fast 3 Furious - Lame - ANOTHER Diva search? - I'm all for hot chicks and all, but haven't the last 2 been train wrecks that led to HHH and Stephanie divorcing? Connect the dots if you don't know what I'm talking about. - No Steph wasn't the unfaithful one (allegedly) - RVD out - Benjamin is his opponent, for the IC title no less - RVD messes up 2 kicks - See, this is why he can't be the top guy. You can't have the top guy in matches higher than "The Dude" Lebowski - Or have him get caught with pot in his duffel bag going through airport security - Commercials - "Date Movie" on DVD - Not a big Allison Hannigan fan normally. But she looked super-hot in that movie - I suspect ILM is behind it somehow - Well, I guess that's only if they got Nicole Ritchie to look good - Back to action - Or whatever action there may be - Cuz there ain't much of it, especially considering the participants - Very sloppy work by both guys - Ref is hit - Benji goes for IC belt - RVD kicks it into his face, thus earning the DQ, somehow-or-other. - Not sure how that's supposed to work - 5 Star for Benji anyway, which RVD aptly messes up - Oh well, it's only in front of 10,000,000 or so people - Vince backstage with one of the guys from ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons) and Paul Young(?) - Vince brings Candace over to give them boners - From the neck up, average - From Torso to waist, faker than the wrestling in the ring - Commercials - The only reason to remake the Omen is to have it open on 6/6/06. So I can forgive this one remake, if only because the timing is too good - Vince is out - Overdoing the arm flailing thing just a tad - Michael J Fox has more control of his arms apparently - Vince is bringing out HHH to apologize - He waits - "You suck" chant starts - Waits some more - Okay, now he's coming - HHH has a new Titan-tron video package - I think - Vince talks about making HBK's life a living hell - Says he'll do the same to HHH - Vince says he wants to hear "those two words" - HHH says he has two words for him - Very very weak "Suck it" from the crowd - "I'm sorry" says HHH - Vince asks HHH to crack open HBK's head with a sledgehammer, that's the only way the apology will be accepted - HHH obliges - Commercials - Jack Black's decent into lameness is sad to see - Kane's movie clips are shown. - A guy who looks a little too much like the director of the movie talks about how scary it is - I was all ready to make fun of the movies box-office ($5.6 million approx.), but it actually had a pretty damn good per-screen average. Better than MI:3 in it's what 2nd week? - Okay 3rd, but still not bad for a by all accounts horrible movie - Really, if you saw the movie, you're a loser. I'm sorry - Kane says May 19th is the day his family was killed in a fire - Continuity is at least present in his storyline - Masters out - Cena's his opponent - "Cena" chant - Vegas loves Cena - Hmmm, wonder why. - No seriously, I have no idea - Stuff happens, Masterlock is blocked, Masters taps out to a submission move - Quick and dirty - RVD out - What would I rather listen to? Cena rap or RVD talk? - Tough call - Basically, it'll be RVD vs. Cena at "One Night Stand" - Quicker and dirtier - er - Nose to nose - Slap by RVD - Punch by Cena - Masters fails again - RVD fucks up ANOTHER kick - Geezus can't they just test at the site? - Great, they're trying to make RVD the good guy by putting him up against Cena, and they start in the only place in the last year that's overwhelmingly cheered Cena - Judgment Day encore - Undertaker lost, so there are a bunch of old fat goth women who're upset this week - And now you know why - Carlito backstage with Maria - Maria's tongue should be ripped out - Well, except for certain things - Like licking stamps, hell if I'm doing it myself - They run into Snitsky who's all excited because he has a date with a showgirl - If it's not a dude in drag I'll hit myself in the crotch with a fungo bat - Ding ding, not just a guy, it's Goldust - Who has at least 2 chins now - So Maria's with Carlito now? Why? - Whatever - HBK yells at HHH - HHH yells back - Commercials - Do these anti-tobacco ads stop anyone from smoking? - In fact, I'm smoking right now, just for spite - Redneck guy in the ring as we come back, making fun of Kane - We can skip ahead about 10 mins cuz we all know what's gonna happen here - Kane beats him in like 2 seconds - The most intriguing part of that whole thing is that Kane's belly button is going from "innie" to "outie" before our eyes - After 2 more chokeslams Kane's old mask appears on the Titan-tron and says some barely audible stuff - Commercials - Comcast commercial. Is there any reason that cable companies and satellite companies go after each other so nastily? - There are political campaigns that aren't as harsh - This Week in Wrestling History - Scott Hall appears on Monday Nitro for the first time, thus sparking the NWO angle - Yes, it's been 10 years. Feel old yet? - Boy that was such a great angle in the beginning - Torrie out - W/ puppy - I remember when she first appeared in WCW I thought "There can't be a hotter woman alive" - She's still not bad - To say the least - Title match against Mickie - If she and Mick Foley were a tag team they could be "The Micks" - Come down dressed as leprechauns, the whole get-up - Hey, wouldn't be any worse than "The Fighting Irish" - Mickie wins - Crowd remains underwhelmed - Trish out - She can't act - My distain for women's wrestling remains - Can't the all just look pretty and escort the men to the ring as God intended? - Commercials - As much as I distain women's wrestling, I love Burger King's commercials anymore - Viscera in the ring as we come back - He says he has big news - So wait, we just get thrown into the whole Vis/Lillian relationship with no buildup - Cuban guy interrupts, thank Allah - Brings out Ungawa to face Vis - Oh, my mistake. Just a setup for a feud - If one person buys the next PPV just for this match I'll stroll naked across the Clemente Bridge to the MLB All-Star Game in July - Kane's fellow wrestlers talk about his movie - A less easily impressed bunch of people I've never seen - Spirit Squad backstage - Threaten HHH, who I'm sure'll make a gay joke in a couple of minutes - Oh well, wrong for the first time tonite - Commercials - One Night Stand - Miami Vice: The Movie - Featuring "The Guy Who Likes Naked Basketball" and "The Dude Who's Probably Getting Laid Right Now" - Spirit Squad out - HBK too - 5 on 1 match - Vince out - Sez there will be no ref - Spirit Squad kicks HBK's ass - Oh smart, they have the names on the back of the Spirit Squad guys now - Unfortunately it does not say "20 Year Old Kenny" on Kenny's shirt - Big-time beatdown - HBK fights back - But not for long - HBK must be taking a vacation soon. Cuz they're pretty much setting up a knee injury angle - Vince calls out HHH - HHH to the ring - Gee, wonder what he'll do - Kenny wants to hit him with the sledgehammer first - HHH beats ass - Pedigree to one of the guys - McMahon doesna look too happy as.. - ....the show ends

This is just basically a random thoughts column, but I didn't want to call it that. Kind of like putting a new coat of paint on an '85 Ford Escort. Anyway, some of these are sports related, most aren't Can someone explain to me.... .....why most baseball managers coddle veterans and call out the young guys? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Granted I'm only going by the last 3 Pirate managers, and as an ass-backward organization I'm sure they aren't the best gauge as to what everyone else does .......the appeal of Paris Hilton? Now don't get me wrong I'm not like most people and hate her cuz she's a boring, spoiled idiot who's famous mostly for being famous. After all, who amongst us wouldn't like to be like that? At least the famous part. My big problem with her is she's just not that attractive. She's way too skinny, which by itself isn't all that bad. However, from the neck up she looks like Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wearing a blonde wig. And to the ladies, what makes her an appealing role model? Is it the goal of every woman to basically be a living blow-up doll? Actually, that may not be such a bad thing in some cases, so maybe I'll be quiet. ...the physics of the "Keg Stand". You know, the frat party staple where the keg-standee is held upside-down while drinking straight from the keg. People say it makes the beer go down faster, but if you're upside-down the beer has to go up the esophagus.I would think the "fastest" way to make beer go down would be to just, you know, stand normally. If it's possible it makes keg parties look even more retarded. .......why big mega-corporations even bother making commercials anymore? Especially whizzing millions upon millions of dollars for Super Bowl commercials. Even if some rube doesn't see a commercial for McDonalds for a year, but sees it every time he goes to work or other such places will he say to himself "Gee, I haven't seen a McDonalds commercial in a long time. I wonder if they went out of business". No. Of course exceptions can be made for when "Lemon-Cherry-Lime-Chocolate Coke" comes out and you want people to know. They would save countless millions of dollars and put it back into more important things, like bigger golden parachutes for CEOs. Lastly, when you're established but make a commercial you risk making commercials so bad that they actually keep people from using your product, as happened recently with me. If you listen to the radio you may've heard a commercial for Coors light where they attempt a kind of Irish drinking song. Now, I'm not sure what sound Barbaro made after his leg snapped in 3 places, but it couldn't sound much worse than the singing in that commercial. So no more Coors for me. .....whose bright idea it was to put little rickshaw type things for babies for the backs of bicycles? "You know, not enough people get hit by cars riding bikes. Let's make something so that idiots can get their kids injured along with them!"

Do I at least get to be on the fake finalist list again this time?

This blog is mainly for whomever, or whomevers (if that is indeed a word), will be judging this blog for consideration into the NGS finals. The rest of you can click back unless you just want to read stuff you've already read before. Or if you haven't read it before, feel free. Now, should my blog be in the final 16? Good question. I believe I'm one of the 16 best on here, but I'm obviously biased. So I'm going to show some examples of my best stuff and discuss my qualifications, and just talk about myself in general. It's something I normally abhor doing but I figured what the heck, nothing to lose really, think of it as an application. But this is going to be kind of long, but it'll be worth it. My areas of expertise in regard to the sports world are the NFL , college football, MLB, college basketball, and to a lesser extent the NHL. I know the NBA as well as a guy who doesn't have a team to root for can. Lastly I know soccer at least a little better than most people here, which is to say not all that well but I know who Theirry Henry and Roberto Carlos are at least. I feel that my biggest strength as a writer is that I can be equal parts funny and insightful, and even informative at times. A lot of "funny" sports writers are either not funny or don't know enough about sports, or both. That's not me, I know the subtle nuances of a 3-4 defense as opposed to a 4-3 as well as I know that the word "underpants" is funnier than the word "underwear". Also, I'm a passionate sports fan (which doesn't necessarily make me any different than anyone else here), but I'm also very logical and objective. I'm not going to pounce on A-Rod and Kobe just because it's the cool thing to do. However I'm also not going to go all "Skip Bayless" and just go against the grain to get attention, I'm an honest guy, and I'm going to tell what I really think. The only weakness I'll acknowledge (even though I'm sure there are more obvious ones) is that I can be a bit crude at times. Rest assured however that I'm well aware that if I'm going to be in the Final 16 I'll have to tone it down. And I can do it without hurting the overall product. The following are some samples of my writing with links to the entire blogs they come from, if you have the time to read them all. If I had to pick one for you to read over the others however (to save some time) it would be the final one (the Barry Bonds one). But please make an attempt to at least peruse the others. ________________________________________________________________________ This first writing sample is from Jan 1st, a few weeks earlier I decided to pick the winners for every single college bowl game and reason why. Some were serious analysis, some were just trying to be funny. This however was from my column going over said picks and either taking full credit for being right or making excuses for why I was wrong. Here are a few of them, because the whole thing would be too long to put here. : GMAC Bowl : UTEP v. Toledo: : What I said then: :: This marks the return of Mike Price to Alabama, so hide his ATM cards. Jordan Palmer (Carson's brother) helms the UTEP, and if he falters they can always turn to backup Jimmy Roethlisberger. Toledo comes in after not making it to the MAC title game for the first time in a long time. They boast future NFL backup Bruce Gradkowski and guys who were either a little too short, a little too slow, or a little too unknown to play in a BCS conference. That is not to say they aren't a good team, and they are indeed the pick for this game. Pick: Toledo Winner: Toledo 45-13 What I say now : Gradkowski had his expected game, 298 yards and 5 touchdowns. For this game UTEP stands for: Unpleasant Time Earns Pity Hawaii Bowl Central Florida vs. Nevada What I said then: Central Florida lost the Conference USA title game to Tulsa. They get to go to Hawaii in the middle of December. Tulsa gets to go to Memphis at the end of December. Shouldn't C-USA address this problem so that teams actually try to win their title game? Nevada gets to leave northern Nevada in the middle of winter. Winner: Both teams Actual Winner: Nevada 49-48 in overtime : What I say now :: A joke answer that actually turned somewhat prophetic. Considering the game went into overtime and was decided by a missed extra point. Who's to say had the guy not missed the extra point that they wouldn't have gone to so many overtimes that the refs just said "Okay you both win"? Huh? Huh? Peach Bowl Miami vs. LSU What I said then: This is kind of similar to the Alamo Bowl because it is a bowl lucky enough to have the two participants fall in their lap. The only downside is Miami supposedly doesn't travel well, even if it is only one state north. These are teams with great defenses and inconsistent, and sometimes downright bad, offenses. LSU choked like a groupie backstage at a 50 Cent concert in the SEC championship game. Usually the teams who lose their conference championship games lose their bowl games, so I'm going with that logic here Pick: Miami Winner: LSU 40-3 (?!?!) What I say now : Oh right, like you saw it coming? The Rest of That Blog ________________________________________________________________________ My first attempt at serious pre-game analysis was for Super Bowl XL, which admittedly a lot of other people did also. But I feel mine was well thought out, insightful, and downright accurate as it turns out, here's a sample (article in italics) From Feb. 1st Seattle Passing attack (13th overall in the NFL) vs. Steelers pass defense (16th overall) Potential problem for the Steelers The biggest key to Seattle making the Super Bowl this year as opposed to being one and done like last year is this year their wide receivers actually, um, receive. On the other hand they don't scare you deep. Darrell Jackson is probably their best deep threat, but he's no Chad Johnson, and he's no Marvin Harrison, both of whom were non-factors in the playoffs. However, the question is, do you match up Ike Taylor (who has quietly become one of the best CBs in the NFL) on Darrell Jackson one on one to wipe him out? If you do you leave 6'6" inch Joe Jurivicious with 5'9" Deshea Townsend. Or if you switch you'll have Deshea covering Darrell Jackson, and like I said in a previous blog, Deshea is vulnerable against deep threat receivers. See: last year's AFC Championship game, or even the first play against Cinci in the playoffs this year. Of course, the Steelers are a mostly zone coverage team, so that point may be moot anyway. Outside of Jackson, the Seattle WRs are okay, but old and slow. Jurivicious and Engram were playing for Penn State when JoePa was still "The new guy", or so it seems. Matt Hasselbeck will have to be very on his game with the dink-dunk stuff for the passing game to succeed. Jeramy Stevens has talent, but hasn't used it much outside of the last game. That combined with his pseudo-bulletin board material this week makes him a veritable Fast Freddie Mitchell in the making. Joey Porter tends to disappear when matched up against the elite tackles, like John Ogden. But he did very well against Pro-Bowler Tarik Glenn of the Colts, but Walter Jones is better than he is. The other pass rushers are less explosive, but more consistent than Porter. Polomalu is everywhere. If you remember back to the game the Steelers did have a bit of trouble against the Seattle passing game early in the game. And Joey Porter may as well have been me (all 6'0 170 lbs) pass-rushing against Walter Jones. Finally Jeramy Stevens did, outside of his TD, "Fast-Freddie it" so to speak. The Entire Article This Segment is From ________________________________________________________________________ The majority of my writing recently has been of the opinionated variety, about a variety of subjects, mostly all in the same blog. One of the segments I liked the most was a piece I wrote in response to an article written by foxsports.com writers bashing the XFL on its 5 anniversary. From Feb 15th Reuniting with your XFL They ran an article on here talking about how lame the XFL was, which ironically enough is pretty lame in itself. Well I'm here to tell you, the XFL very easily could have worked, they just made 2 big (and extremely easily avoidable) mistakes. But first, why it could have worked For one thing, and people forget this, there was a tremendous positive buzz for the XFL before it began. Sure there were a few scoffers in the media asking if the players would wear Mexican wrestling masks during game, but they sold out every opening game and had a record Saturday night TV audience. Vince McMahon may not be an honest man, or a humble man, or even a good business man, but he is a tremendous marketer. He knows how to get people to watch something. Whether or not it's something worth watching, weelll, that's another story. They were way ahead of the curve on production values. You see ideas the XFL came up with (i.e. the overhead camera, other camera tricks, et al) in the NFL today. The "promoting the individual" aspect of the league could have really taken off, right along with the "pick your own nickname" angle. The fact that people still remember "He Hate Me" 5 years later proves that. Now, the mistakes: Perhaps the biggest, costliest, mistake was going straight into the regular season with the teams only having played a couple of scrimmages. Okay, think of our favorite team's first pre-season game, and think of how sloppy and un-watchable it was for the most part. Now imagine that there was a fantasy draft so that no one player on your team had ever played with another player on the team. Now imagine that instead of it being the first pre-season game it was the first regular season game. Not a very good way to introduce someone to something they've never seen before is it? These weren't the most skilled players to begin with, now add not being on the same page with anyone else and you have a big ol' mess. The games got better and better as the weeks went along, but by that time the damage had been done. The saying "You never get a second chance to make a first impression" applies here more than most situations. Especially when the aforementioned media members were poised and ready to denounce it at the first sign of crappiness Slightly less important, but nevertheless just as damaging in the long run, was the decision to play the games in prime-time. Had they played those first few crappy games on 3 PM on a Saturday or Sunday the "first impression" damage may not have been as severe. It could have been given less of a harsh spotlight and given more of a chance to gain an audience instead of giving it an audience it wasn't ready for right away. I for one liked the XFL, especially once the teams actually got acclimated and the games got better, maybe I'm a sucker. But sometimes in any business venture the smallest things you don't consider can come back to bite you big time. About 3 months later Ethan was drafter in the 7th round over established receivers like Martin Nance of Miami (OH) and Greg Lee of Pitt. Coincidence? Yeah probably ________________________________________________________________________ This last piece is the most well received thing I've done, and it's probably the best thing I've done thus-far. And, if you notice it's from only a few days ago so I'm rounding into form From May 16th I come to slander praise Barry Bonds, not to praise slander him. He is about to pass one of the most over-hyped greatest marks in all of sports. And he's done it hopped up on more HGH than your average pro-wrestler with a class that rivals a 2 year old in the candy aisle Henry Aaron and Winston Churchill combined. Who among us hasn't marveled at Barry's continuous need for bigger hats each year magnificent talent? I couldn't be more proud of the former Pirate who I'll always remember as the guy who couldn't throw out Sid F'n Bream won 2 (and it should have been 3) MVPs while a Pirate. He's certainly the cream and clear of the crop among all active players. This story has been beaten to death covered by the media to the point that I may throw up at the next utterance of the number 714 I can't wait to see what's next!! I mean, he's about to pass a guy who holds no significant records and has been dead for almost 60 years The Babe!! A player who didn't play against black players and went against pitchers who were always on about a day's rest transcends sports, even to this day. Why, if the Babe were alive today I'm sure he would ask where the nearest brothel was congratulate Barry and his achievements. As for Henry Aaron well, I have nothing bad to say about him he will always be one of the greats in baseball history, even if Barry eventually surpasses him. Which will happen when they invent the cure for "washed up". If Barry were to pass Aaron, I'm sure Hammerin' Hank would go up to Barry, take his neck hand, shake it, and say I hope you're really proud of how you did this a-hole well done sir. Because of the all-time great names involved the media is justified in just falling short of preempting the president's speech last night its subdued coverage. Please sir, can you rip my ear-drums out? can I have some more? As for Bonds apologists defenders, aren't they a delusional great bunch of guys? Obviously people are accusing Barry of steroid use because they have adequate vision and reasoning skills are racist! C'mon guys, people only gain 40 or so lbs. of muscle in their late 30s through needles in the hind-quarters a strenuous workout regimen. Of course Barry is fully responsible blameless for his attitudes and actions towards people, it's all not his fault he's a jackass to most people moody guy. And of course no one is saying anything about Mark McGwire being on steroids because he's been retired for 5 years you morons white. When McGwire testified before congress with his quivery lip and crocodile tears the media raked him over the coals, you really don't remember? It was only a year ago completely ignored it because they were burning crosses on poor Barry's lawn. It is because of baseball's stupidity..... okay stupidity that this whole steroid issue has even grown to this proportion. And of course even if he did take steroids after the 1998 season, you all know who the greatest player in baseball was before that right? You guessed it, Frank Stallone, er um, Ken Griffey Jr. Barry Bonds So when the dust settles and Barry has finally hit number 714 *vomit* you can rest assured that I'll be right there watching Beavis and Butthead on DVD it and cheering ________________________________________________________________________ My favorite thing I've done was something I reposted about a week ago, so I don't want to beat a dead horse. But here's a link if you'd like to see it Raw Stuff ________________________________________________________________________ Okay, like I said that was long. But hopefully you were able to bear with me on it. Thanks for your consideration

I come to slander praise Barry Bonds, not to praise slander him. He is about to pass one of the most over-hyped greatest marks in all of sports. And he's done it hopped up on more HGH than your average pro-wrestler with a class that rivals a 2 year old in the candy aisle Henry Aaron and Winston Churchill combined. Who among us hasn't marveled at Barry's continuous need for bigger hats each year magnificent talent? I couldn't be more proud of the former Pirate who I'll always remember as the guy who couldn't throw out Sid F'n Bream won 2 (and it should have been 3) MVPs while a Pirate. He's certainly the cream and clear of the crop among all active players. This story has been beaten to death covered by the media to the point that I may throw up at the next utterance of the number 714 I can't wait to see what's next!! I mean, he's about to pass a guy who holds no significant records and has been dead for almost 60 years The Babe!! A player who didn't play against black players and went against pitchers who were always on about a day's rest transcends sports, even to this day. Why, if the Babe were alive today I'm sure he would ask where the nearest brothel was congratulate Barry on his achievements. As for Henry Aaron well, I have nothing bad to say about him he will always be one of the greats in baseball history, even if Barry eventually surpasses him. Which will happen when they invent the cure for "washed up". If Barry were to pass Aaron, I'm sure Hammerin' Hank would go up to Barry, take his neck hand, shake it, and say I hope you're really proud of how you did this a-hole well done sir. Because of the all-time great names involved the media is justified in just falling short of preempting the president's speech last night its subdued coverage. Please sir, can you rip my ear-drums out? can I have some more? As for Bonds apologists defenders, aren't they a delusional great bunch of guys? Obviously people are accusing Barry of steroid use because they have adequate vision and reasoning skills are racist! C'mon guys, people only gain 40 or so lbs. of muscle in their late 30s through needles in the hind-quarters a strenuous workout regimen. Of course Barry is fully responsible blameless for his attitudes and actions towards people, it's all not his fault he's a jackass to most people moody guy. And of course no one is saying anything about Mark McGwire being on steroids because he's been retired for 5 years you morons white. When McGwire testified before congress with his quivery lip and crocodile tears the media raked him over the coals, you really don't remember? It was only a year ago completely ignored it because they were burning crosses on poor Barry's lawn. It is because of baseball's own stupidity..... okay stupidity that this whole steroid issue has even grown to this proportion. And of course even if he did take steroids after the 1998 season, you all know who the greatest player in baseball was before that right? You guessed it, Frank Stallone, er um, Ken Griffey Jr. Barry Bonds So when the dust settles and Barry has finally hit number 714 *vomit* you can rest assured that I'll be right there watching Beavis and Butthead on DVD it and cheering