Been readin' a lotta blogs, post's and comments lately regardin' censorship in this forum and I gotta few takes onnit...

I'm notta huge fan of censorship.  I think what's "One Man's Trash, is another man's Treasure", ifya will...Ifya don't like whatyer seein' or readin'..Hitda remote or burnda book..unless it's my remote or my book.  Like it or not, this is Fox Sports book and layin' da blame on Fox, might be a li'l harsh since their advertisers are the ones that payda bills and if it comes down to you or me in survival when it comes to censorship and makin' some dollars...It wuz nice knowin' ya..

Forums like this ain't a democracy, nor should they be...It's a bizness, plain and simple.  Advertiser's patronize Fox, and vice-verse because both endorse each other's ideals and demographic for mutual benefit and rules are invoked before the marriage in order to make it work and much like yer own marriage, the only thang that should really count are you and your partner's mutual success.  It's your system.

My favorite movie of all-time has always been "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"  and Jack Nicholson's role of RP McMurphy was nuthin' short of classic. Strangely enough, I also see parallel's between that story and some bloggers issues in here.  To wit:

McMurphy wuzza fun luvin' rebel who's only option after a questionable statutory-rape conviction was to do time inna mental facility.  His main foe in this system was a dame that ran the show in this nest named Nurse Ratched.  "Two peas inna pod", they weren't and common ground wasn't even an option...It was her way orda highway and if there wuzza common ground, McMurphy had the same philosophy about himself az she did when it came to control over his own set of rules and these twain's weren't meetin'...

Ifya haven't seen the movie (livin' underra rock), quit readin' this NOW.., cuz in order to make my point, I'm movin' forward...lol

Thruout the movie, McMurphy rallies the other "crazies" around him to change the Nurse's system...an ideological war, ifya will and succeeds in more cases than not...in doin' so, he also exposes his fellow inmates to different ways of thinking and, infact, a case could be made that his system seemed to be workin' a whole lot better than hers...

In the end, the inmates literally took over the asylum inna drunken orgy of debauchery and hedonism (not that there's anythang wrong widdat) and this could not be tolerated by anyone that looked after the asylum's interest.  It had to be stopped at any cost and the source of that problem had to be eliminated..

...Enter a lobotomy:

BEFORE   AFTER

A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "cut/slice") is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "cut/slice"). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes and possible mental disabilities. Lobotomies were used in the 20th century to treat a wide range of severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders, as well as people who were considered a nuisance by demonstrating behavior characterized as, for example, "moodiness" or "youthful defiance". After the introduction of the antipsychotic Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), lobotomies fell out of common use[1] and the procedure has since been characterized "as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine".[2]

BAMMM!!... McMurphy....outtahere!!!

Moral: Ya can't beatda system. Oh...there's a few that come to mind like..I dunno..Willie Nelson, Hugh Hefner...certainly not OJ Simpson.  Usually, you can beat it ferra while but I can promise ya this much:

You gotta join it first orya ain't gotta prayer.....

'Course...this might makeya feel a li'l better/worse about the system azza whole:

Nurse Ratched was placed fifth on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 all-time greatest movie villains, behind only The Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lechter, Psycho's Norman Bates, Star Wars' Darth Vader and The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West.

  I doubt if anybody feels too sorry fer "Da Juice" after his recent conviction.  I know I don't.  I'm not real sure 'bout any real "justice" bein' served here az most pundits claim and I'll hold a rush to judgement on that 'til after the sentencing phase.

I'm no lawyer, but on the surface, this outcome does appear to be nothing less than payback fer OJ's ridiculous "Not Guilty" verdict of 13 years ago.  As inane as that verdict was, his sentencing in this trial might turn out to be inda same ballpark.  I don't think he oughtta receive all that harsh a penalty and I'll try to explain why.

Like it or not, in the eyes of da law, This dude should be look on as clean.  Never did anything wrong.  Matterafack, according to the law, he was just as an upstanding citizen az any of us...clean slate.  What part of "Not Guilty" do we have a misunderstanding with?

In my calculations and logic, that makes Orenthal, a first time offender in anything.  In this particular case, Da Stevo thinks he oughtta be given a pretty light sentence...if not probation.  What he did was stoopid, no doubt.  But in light ofda fact that he was and always has been livin' byda rules...The law might wanna take that into consideration before they lock him away.

I mean...If YOUR law abiding resume' was legally "clean"...wouldn't YOU expect that to be taken into consideration?

Sound outrageous toya?  No more than anybody thinkin' that selectin' an all-white jury, in this case,  iz any vindication of any racial issues that were spawned outta his first trial...It just excacerbates the prejudice and racism that's alive and kickin' right here inda good 'ol USofA...

...annit ain't goin' nowhere fast....

..One more thang...

The mere fact that they sentence him excessively, indicates a prejudice...regardless of the dude's persuasion....maybe...they oughtta call that....

...."juicetice" n.1 the administration of what is just (juiced)..ie., having it's roots stemming from a previous oversight in judgement and juicetifying it by making whatever amendments are necessary to apply to current situation and alleviate guilt on any party responsible for initial f-k-up, in turn, lynchin' the Ba*stard by any means necessary making it all acceptable...I might be onta sumpthin' here....

 What's inna name?  Evidently alot or venues like Hollywood and Entertainment wouldn't take the time to change folks' God-Given monikers from the likes of Marion Michael Morrison to John Wayne or...

...Norma Jean Baker to Marilyn Monroe.  As Andre Agassi use to pitch: "Image is everything" and names carry alotta weight in that department.

Some birth-names jus' don't look right onna marquee so, they gotta be altered a bit to fit the image agents and producers want to project...

Betty Jean Perske wouldn't uv done Lauran Bacall any favors...James Byron would've made James Dean less uvva Giant...Thomas Mapother IV (thnx, Lisa!) would've been Risky Business fer Tom Cruise....

  Not only was George Panayiotou too Greek to most of us, It was for George Michael, az well and he elected to give himself not one, but two first names in order to put more Faith in his career..

...and Shania Twain made Eileen Edwards...well..."Feel Like a Woman"...

....'Course, she somehow managed to marry and divorce a dude named....Mutt...

Ok, widdat outta daway...Let's talk football...Some football players are born with perfect names to ply their trade.  Everybody out there has their fav'rits and I wanna know what they are...I'm gonna giveya my top three and you can give me your top three az well...

3) Colt McCoy, QB University of Texas...With a name like that, ya got no choice but to become a gunslinger...Western-Hero's are named that. Cat coulda faced off with Liberty Valance or walked alongside of Coop in "High Noon" or Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster (Doc and Wyatt) in "Gunfight at the OK Corral"...or, if you prefer, Val Kilmer and Kevin Costner in their respective roles...Colt McCoy has to settle ferra aptly named "Red River Shoot-out"  which is right around da corner...Sooner...the better...

2) Joe Montana, Hall of Fame QB SF 49ers...Much like McCoy..this name reeks of an Eastwood-type of cool, silent but deadly presence that when he's on stage...you know you got yer work cut out ferya...God might not be a capable safety-net against this cat...

annnnddd...Da Stevo's number one name ferra football player, especially a Quarterback:

1) Sonny Sixkiller QB Washington Huskies inda early '70's...Dude was onda cover of Sports Illustrated in '71...hadda tryout withda LA Rams, went on to play in CFL and also hadda bit-part in the original "The Longest Yard"...Sonny-frickin' SIX-Killer, fer crissakes!!!...A real-genuine American Indian outta Oklahoma...Too bad he never played ferda Washington Redskins....sorry, couldn't resist...

Hey...I rekkin' it'sa pretty good go to be blessed witha charismatic name...I majun allda Elmer's, Herberts, Mortimers, Wilhelmina's and such wish they coulda been az fortunate...

Then again, ya might wanna ask somebody like D*i*c*k Trickle of NASCAR hiz take on all of this.....

Any ofya ever been scratched or bitten by a cat?...I can tellya that it ain't normal to be cool 'bout it cuz them summiches can inflict mucho p-a-i-n-n-n...and I can tellya that da Stevo don't deal widdat to well and when one uv them a-holez sinks its' teeth or claws in me, I been knownta react with an uppercut within about a milli-second of li'l Tabby's infliction...Bein' kind todat li'l kitty-cat ain't an option...fuhgeddaboudit..

The above pic is of one Joe Petcka, an ex NY Met farmhand and bit-player in Sex in the City.  Seems like Ol' Joe took offense to a gnashing administered by li'l Norman, his ex-girlfriends li'l declawed kitty and went into Kimbo Slice mode...It also appears that alot of his anger on his girlfriend mighta surfaced and was transferred toda cat, whom Joe surmised was his romantic rival...

I think most people might just react when bitten or clawed by a cat, in fact, I would think that a defensive reaction might be kinda normal...Anytime that's ever happened to me (rarely) that one smack wuz generally all it took ferda cat to gitda message...'course so did I and  I don't particularly consider that cat my friend after that...but I ain't killin' the worthless bas*tard...

...Whassup guyz?...Been awhile...Sixteen (16) days without power...no running water...no AC...No HD TV...No computer...candles anna flashlight or two fer light...5" screen battery operated black and white TV that only got two channels wertha damn...Propane BBQ pit to cook on...Bathing outta buckets of water...Lotsa sandwiches...Ice and water to drink whenya could find it...Lotsa Radio...actually read the newspaper ferra change anna few books...Lost 12 lbs (good deal)...

Found out 'bout Paul Newman a day or two days after da fact....Sports results were slow in comin' in...Most media outlets were Hurricane Ike allda time...Cell-phones were iffy and ya couldnt charge 'em up...Bought a power-inverter ('bout 10 days into it) thatya hook-up to yer car battery and it werked on my fan, li'l TV anna li'l lamp in increments...saved on batteries which were in demand and hard to find..etc...etc...

Fortunately, everybody in our neighborhood got power back after 4 days, cept fer 'bout a handful uvvus and my in-laws acrossda street were included in that lucky group...so...we got to shower and git some ice and I caught the Texans-Titans on my sister-in-laws HD TV...Titans are better w/o Vince...fer now...and I bet he has electricity...

All-in-all, it wuzza hassle and it jacked with our comfort-level and usual routines and I gotta admit that yesterday (Sunday) when I saw the Centerpoint trucks come in to our neighborhood, much like a cavalry toda rescue..It wuz better'n any Christmas we ever had..

Az with anythang...ya learn alot whenya experience a mess like this...Here's a few in no particular order:

1) Stockin' up with beer iz paramount...

2) Somebody always hazzit more werser than you...

3) You can acshully live widdout da Internet and HDTV..(don't wanna tho'...)

4) Washin' machines, dishwashers, microwaves and AC are some damn fine inventions..

5) Snuffy, my dog, loves da hell outta us...

6) I gotda right woman in my life...knew that all along but this kinda stuff endorses it...

7) H-Town hazza pretty damn good mayor (Bill White)...

8) Price-gougers are lower than whale-feces...

9) When they tellya to evacuate...split.."Ridin' outda Storm", whenya have other options and ample warning iz like playin' Russian Roulette...

 10)..I got no desire to go campin'...

11)...and doin' the little thangz, sans running water, weren't no bedda roses, I might share withya az well....

Those are justa few....inda end..we weathered "IKE"...consider ourselves lucky...ain't complainin'...'preciate allda thangz most uvvus take fer granted...sixteen frickin' dayzzz...

..It's all partada trip....GREAT to be back, yaw'll..!!

 Astros-Cubs postponed thru Saturday and Texans-Ravens still up in the air (bad choice of words) and Texas-Arkansas postponed ferra later date...annnndd...

....Tina Turner tickets on sale and "IKE" looks like he's gonna bi_ch-slap da hell outta all uvvus....

Do not be concerned, my fellow bloggerz and constituents...We are fully stocked with beer...I repeat...We are fully stocked with beer....

 ...Carry on.......

(Just found out... Houston vs. Ravens moved to Monday Night...7:30pm))

.....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:

They jus' knew...dammit...they jus' knew...

.

..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...

This is jus' a test....

"...go ferrit...!...Do yer prospectin'...!"

...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...?"

Cobb: "Awww...Hell...I dunno...prob'ly .270.....280..."

Reporter: "Ya mean pitchin' is THAT much BETTER?!?!"

Cobb: "HELL NO...BOY...I'M 72 GODDAM YEARS OLD!!!"

...Ifya got one better'n dat....put it on me....

(thnx to HawaiiHotAir fer his post..check it out..)

...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 takes ANY 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...

YOU DISGUSTING PEOPLE MAKE ME WANNA BARRRFFFF!!!

....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'...

Houston Rocket point guard Rafer Alston got popped down here in H-Town ferra DUI...nbd, happens allda time with pro sports guyz...donnit?

WHY?!?!?!

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 blasted knowin' that ya didn't hafta drive home later...Party-on... dumb-####...

 It's time to flasssshhhh....

   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...!

Ok...I'm done with Brett.....fer now...lol

....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...

Heaven help us ALLLLLLLLL.....!

 ....Ever wanna be a baseball announcer?...Lotsa good ones out there...Take f'rinstance this guy.....PLEEAAZZZE....

...Da Stevo figgered he'd take a Favre-break....