.....Special athletes are prob'ly somewhere in between bein' born and bein' made..I mean, I imagine there wuzza time in Earl Woods life that he jus' knew that hiz kid wuz gonna be sumpthin' special and he prob'ly hadda mental picture of that time ensconced in hiz head..(ensconced?!?!?)...Sumpthin' like this:
I mean, ya gotta figger byda time Eldrick made hiz appearance onda Mike Douglas Show and dazzled the audience with his putting acumen..The old-man pretty much knew da deal on hiz creation and guided young Tiger onda proper path to allow hiz potential to flourish..
...Those special moments inna parents life are probably akin to an epiphany to a parent...which brings us to Fred and Debbie Phelps, the parents of record Gold Medal guy, Michael and the following iz an actual snapshot ofda exact moment Mr. and Mrs. Phelps hadda pretty educated idea that young Michael wuz destined fer greatness:
There's always controversy 'bout whether or not golfer's or bowler's should be considered athletes and according to The Merriam-Webster Dictionary: ath-leten. fr. 1. to contend for a prize, by definition, I s'pose you could call'em that. I thank that I've come up with a way to give 'em less consideration, tho' and here's da deal:
If you can engage in smoking cigarettes (Daly, Cabrerra, etal.) and still participate in a contest without it affecting yer performance, how athletic can that be?...I mean, Gawd knowz bowlers smoke and drink...partada uniform, I think...ainnit?...So much fer Texas Hold'em, az well...
Anyway....after dat commercial break...To da New Haven, Conn. Youth Baseball League:
.....Doya ever wonder why most successful managers in baseball are rarely superstar types?....In fact, the vast majority of successful managers range in these types of categories as major league caliber, ie., below average, marginal, average and mebbe a few above average....
.....Sure, there are a handful of legendary, great and even mythical guys that gave managing a shot...Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Rogers Hornsby, Tris Speaker...to name a few but, keep in mind that even 4 outta those 5 mentioned were player/managers and Speaker and Hornsby are the only ones that lead their teams to World Series victories...1 each...
.....Mosta yer successful managers...guys like, Casey Stengel, Alvin Dark, Billy Martin, #### Williams, Walter Alston, Tommy Lasorda, Leo Durocher, #### Howser and...say...Bruce Bochy and Billy Cox were anything but superstars...in the below average to average range, at best...
....'Course...there are yer Dusty Baker's, Don Baylor's and Joe Torre's who were and are successful managers that were definately above average, good ballplayers, with outta doubt..but not superstar material...
...OK, so here's da deal:
Da Stevo figgerz that the reason that the successful managers ain't superstars iz cuz they had to be students ofda game...In order to even stay inda major-leagues...whereas, guys like, Musial, Mays, Aaron, Mantle, Mays, Jackson and say...Ruth were gifted with natural talents...
and....az everbody knowz....Ya can't teach, or coach...
..Ok...I give Greenspire a hard time about askin' Trivia questions onda net...We all know that playin' Trivia without the Internet izza far cry from doin' it onda Net...Any accomplished Net surfer can usually find the answer thru research...The only way to play it and make it challenging iz to ask the question differently than you would if you were engaged inna reg'lar game of Trivial Pursuit...Ya hafta approach it differently...
One time...Mike ask a question 'bout when the 4-pt field goal was changed to a 3-point field-goal in football...All I did was copy and paste his exact question in to "Google" and voila!...The answer was first on the board...I figgered that if Mike got the question from the net...then it was only fair that I could get the answer by usin' it...I was jus' playin' by da same rules and same playin' field...
Widdat outta way..I want ya'll to understand that this blog is not in any way designed to belittle one of Fox Sports finest, as Mike is..,Bloggers play games like this allda time...It's meant in fun...It's just hard to play it onda Net...cuzya cheat...
Soooo..........I gotta a Trivia Question that I'm gonna ask you guyz...and I'm gonna try to ask the question in a way that might make it tuff onya...Internet or not...Feel free to use the Net to answer this question...but, I ain't gonna giveya a lot of hints for obvious reasons...the more hints I giveya...the better yer success margin fer findin' the answer thru technology...
Who iz this guy?
"I was a quarterback in High School...You might have seen or read about my school, or schools in my area in the book or the movie "Friday Night Lights" 'bout High School football in West Texas....I got a scholarship and became a receiver for a college and contributed one of the touchdowns in a massacre of another college football team where we scored triple digits against them...."
"My fame did not come in the arena of sports...I elected to perform on another stage..."
Ok..I dunno how well this'll werk...but I figger it's werth a shot to word the question differently and see what happens...giveya a little bit...and leave a bit out...
...Dunno how many of ya know this but Sunday, they retired Craig Biggio's number "7" at Minute-Maid Park...Great honor ferra helluva ballplayer...Ol' Craig wuz also prob'ly the master at cliche' driven responses to reporters, ie.:
"Well...We'll just go out there and givva 110% and see what happens..."
"....But....that's baseball...ya never know..."
"...Having the fans acknowledge you...is...nice..."
...and so on and so on....
...There ain't a whole lotta compelling or witty responses yer gonna git outta jocks...ever now 'n then ya git sumpthin' worthwhile tho'...
...Ya'll 'member Duane Thomas ofda Cowboys inda 70's before an upcoming Super Bowl?
Reporter: Duane?...How does it feel to be playing in the ultimate game...?'
Duane: "If it's the ultimate game...why do they play it next year..?"
..To da Stevo...that's good stuff...but the best I ever heard wuzza question asked to Ty Cobb inda late 60's,prob'ly 30 years after he hung 'em up:
Reporter: "Ty?...If you were playin' ball today...what wouldya hit...?"
...Time to upchuck that goulash you thought wuz fine cuisine..
...This ones fer you...bloggers..Ten thangz that make Da Stevo wanna barffff...(no particular order...)
1)...The blogger that tellzya how stoopid ya are, but yet keeps comin' back fer more...
2)...The blogger that drops high profile bloggers names in his/her conversations/comments or arguments and thinks that it makes them their allies when all it's really doin' iz s--kin' as-s...
3)...The blogger that thinks the above malady (s--kin' as-s) iz really gittin' 'em somewhere...
4)...The blogger that takesANY of dis #### personally...
5)...The blogger that calls people derogatory names and means it...
6)...The blogger who makes it a point to monopolize a category with banal crrraappp, thus knockin' someone down a notch or two in those categories who might be worth while...and deserves more exposure...
7)...The blogger who thinks that bloggin' is gonna make him/her a house-hold name all over America and da World...
8)...Any blogger who has anythang less than FUN with this stuff...
9)...Bloggerz who let some #### really bother 'em when chances are, they never even met 'em anywhere but onna blogspot...
10..."Comment Guy"...you know...the guy that has 50 comments and 46 uvvem are hiz...
Now.... keep in mind, that da Stevo could damn-well be a violator of some of these disgustin' thangz hisself (doubt it) and if that's da case, feel free in pukin' up all overda place az I would...But...inda meantime...
....Anybody hadda chance to read Jeff Pearlman's offering 'bout da Dallas Cowboys? It's called "Boys Will Be Boys"and it centers 'round da Cowboy's lifestyles and partying ways during their '90's Super Bowl season's....and 'specially....this guy:
(Charles Haley)
I dunno what Fox's policy iz on talkin' bout newz of dis nature, so I'll leave it up to your discretion to click on dat up there...you know...assumin' yer up ferrit...
WARNING!!!!
( This blog requires that you be over the age of 18 to enter it...even tho' mostaya that are younger prob'ly spend a lotta yer time doin' it...)
Ya know?...We all do stoopid thangz...and it's pretty hard to criticize people unlessya walked a mile in their shoes...Some thangz are just blatantly stoopid, tho'...
These a-holes, relatively speakin', got more money than any uvvus ever thought about havin'...Why izzit so hard to...you know...call a cab, shove a few bux somebody's way to drive ya home, hell...take a limo...do it in style...I wouldn't be surprised iffa fan would be happy to drive ya home fer nuthin'...
Ya got options andya got more than most reg'lar people ever thought about....Ever consider...you know...like...mebbe sumpthin' like.... usin' 'em..?
Ya jus' might save someone elses life, not ta menshun yours...and you could really get blastedknowin' that ya didn't hafta drive home later...Party-on... dumb-####...
This li'l primer iz fer all you disgusting people that entertain da notion that Brett Favre iz "The Greatest QB of all-time.."...I thank it's fair to say that the Super Bowl iz considered the "World Championship of Professional Football"...I also believe that it is the QB's job to take what ever tools he has, in any fashion it takes, by whatever means necessary to lead his team to the pinnacle of his arena...and, since every play iz set in motion and directed by his lead, it makes no difference how many yards he throws for...those yards mean absolutely zilch unless he gets his team into the end zone or in position to score via field goal...and do it more times and better than his opposing QB does...
Second place, or less, only means that you failed to win it all and, like it or not, every team that competes, shares that same goal...to win it all and only one team and one QB can do that and the following izza list of those who were greater at doin' that than Jett Favre came close to matching or beating:
– Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh: 4
– Joe Montana, San Francisco: 4
– Troy Aikman, Dallas: 3
– Tom Brady, New England: 3
– Roger Staubach, Dallas: 2
– Bart Starr, Green Bay: 2
– Bob Griese, Miami: 2
– Jim Plunkett, Oakland: 2
– John Elway, Denver: 2
If yerra owner orra fan, ask yerself this question: "Wouldya rather have a QB that ledya to multiple championships or one who gotya one in 17 years but threw ferra gazillion yards...?"
.....Not only is Favre not the "greatest QB ever"...I submit to you that he's not even the "Greatest ever Green Bay Packer QB"....That would be one Bart Starr, who not only won 2 Super Bowl titles and 3 pre-SB World Championships...A total of 5...if yer countin'... so calling him even close to the "greatest" ever is... well.... stoopid...
....annnd....you disgusting people...make me wanna...BARF...!
.....All it takes izza cupla few pre-season games ferdat football smell to git inda air...I'm thankin' it's here...gotta few thoughts onda upcomin' season and I'll throw 'em out there...
First off...I'm figgerin' the popular picks to go toda bowl are the usual suspects, ie., New England,Indy,San Diego and Jacksonville inda AFC and Dallas, New York, Seattle and Tampa Bay inda NFC...and an outside shot with Browns, Vikings and mebbe the Titans...I got nuthin' real new to add to those picks, so ya ain't gonna find nuthin' real original here...I do think that the Texans could damn-well be a sleeper team to makeda play-offs...but, bein' a Texan fan prob'ly plays into that more than anything and if they do make the play offs, they prob'ly won't go deep...but, it sets 'em up for 2009, which iz the year I expect them to be a genuine contender...
The Jet Favre Show iz gonna generate loadz of interest, no doubt, and with their schedule, you'd think that they have a shot, 'specially with that new guy under center...I don't thank so, tho'...and the chances of Favre v Rodgers inda BIG GAME are miniscule, az made fer TV az that sounds...BTW, I AM SOOOOO pullin' fer Rodgers this year...LUV underdogz...Good-luck withda fans and media inda Apple, Brett...
Speakin' of made fer TV...
Widdat outtada way, and takin' into account all the injuries, luck, breaks, upsets and the fact that a lot can happen inna football season, my guess iz prob'ly just az good as yours...So, here it iz:
VS.
...C'mon....Ya KNOW ya wanna see it...and even ifya didn't, you can bet yer assssses you'd be watchin' and iffit's ever gonna happen, this is their best shot...
Annnnd...just in case yer tired of hearin' bout Favre all year, this'll giveya a break...these guys don't git 'nuff TV time az it iz...do they?...(heh-heh)...Oh well, it'll giveya sumpthin' to do until next year when Dallas and Houston meet inda first ALL-TEXAS Super Bowl...ya'll..
....Ifya thank this Favre story iz over now that he's been traded to New York...You gotta 'nother thank comin'...NEW YORK?!?!...c'mon guyz....This stuff iz jus' gittin' started...Matter-of-fact...ya ain't heard nuthin' yet....All eyes are gonna be on him thruout da season...Favre fans pullin' for him...Anti-Favre fans hopin' he fallz on his ####...Madden man-love...All Favre allda time...
Brett, btw....After a cupla losses...that NY media can be pretty brutal...
UPDATE: FAVRE TO TAMPA BAY...4:50 PM CST...(Heard on 610AM in H-Town)
This latest from Favre:
..."We're at a stalemate," Favre said. "Mike and I both agreed last night that me being out there is a distraction and will continue to be a distraction...."
"...They want to know if I'm committed but I want to know if they're 100 percent committed. The problem is that there's been a lot of damage done and I can't forget it. Stuff has been said, stories planted, that just aren't true. Can I get over all that? I doubt it...."
I'm a life-long native of the GREAT COUNTRY of TEXAS. Been a sports fan all my life. I can be serious, irreverent, humorous and sometimes foolish on a lotta my "takes". Never mean any malice to anyone and that's why I have an affinity for "blogging". Cuz, after all, yuh can't whack me upside the head if I change my mind....
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I drink beer.
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