In the spirit of the Holiday season perhaps people will read the truth and understand why the O.J. Jury had no other choice than to render the verdict they did. I been waiting to write this one for a long time in the hopes that we get enough distance from pure emotions, racial bias (on both sides) and talk about something that is very important to the subject of our freedom. And that is a fair trial. Guilty within the framework of what our law is supposed to mean.

Had I of sat on the O.J. Jury I would have voted as they did. Not that I think he's innocent but because there was a greater issue there. Like most, I would agree that "the rich and famous" get off more often that you or I would.  Remeber these words. I think I can pull it together for the unbiased, intelligent person. Here's why I would have been forced to vote not guilty.

POLICE MISCONDUCT:

We All Know that the law requires a search warrant to come onto the property beyond a locked gate unless there is a "hot pursuit" by the police of a supect. The LAPD went over that fence (Mark Furman was the one who scaled the wall) and opened the gate.  Later they claimed they were "worried that someone who had killed Nicole and Ron was after O.J." That violated the hot pursuit exception and is absurd without exception.

A Detective carried the blood vial of O.J.'s blood around in his pocket for half a day in warm tempatures. A 28 year detective knows better than this. His excuse? I forgot. Not only could that sample been contiminated, they laid off a certain amount of minute missing blood to "evaporation"  despite their claim that the vial had been air sealed so there could not be any possible contamination. You can't have it both ways. If it couldn't have been contaminated due to being air sealed it wouldn't evaporate.

After the blood vial was carried around and after six previous blood tests on the O.J. Bronco there was a "minute" blood residue found in the Bronco alongside the console.

After the blood vial was carried around and after three previous tests for blood on the back gate at Nicole's condo complex, there was a single "minute" six month old blood drop found on the back gate despite having been exposed to weather for this six months period of time.

Two of the most amazing coincidences I have ever heard of in my 60 years of being a crime buff.

The Glove was found between the property fence and the guest complex behind the O.J. house. This narrow strip was perhaps 3 feet wide (or less) and covered with leaves. It was found by, you guessed it,  Mark Furman.  He called other cops to verify the glove and photos were taken before it was retrieved. None of the leaves were broken or disturbed around the glove or in any part of the walkway including at either end. Amazingly the jurors were asked to believe that O.J. had tossed the glove in there for some reason and never was in the walkway himself. Just simply beyond belief. I find it far easier to believe Furman had tossed it in there himself.  And of course Furman had been at Nicole's prior to going to O.J.'s to figure so heavily in this case. This would be the same Mark Furman who would later be discovered to be the detective who had tried to date Nicole and who had used the word #### over 300 times while tape recording with a writer as a crime expert.

SUMMARY:

NOTHING AT ALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED IN THE TRIAL CONCERNING BLOOD IN THE BRONCO OR ON THE GATE OR THE GLOVE OR ANY OTHER SUPPOSED EVIDENCE IN OR ON THE OJ PROPERTY BECAUSE  RULES OF LAW WERE BROKEN BY THE DETECTIVES INVOLVED. THAT'S JUST PURE AND SIMPLE FACT. NOW BEFORE YOU SAY YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN BECAUSE O.J. WAS GUILTY ANYHOW  JUST HOLD YOUR WATER AND LET'S GO ON FOR PART TWO.

 THE DNA AND BLOOD TESTIMONY:

Let's move quickly to the heart of the matter in deciding whether the jury made the only call they could honestly make here or not.  It's not a matter of what was testified to at that time except to say was the DNA FBI testimony and DR Lee the blood expert credible. As I sat and watched that trial I thought back to all the garbage, all the lies, all the framing of people that the FBI had been involved with clear back to their participation of getting Bruno Richard Hauptman convicted and executed in the Lindberg Baby Kidnapping trial and the same with Julias and Ethel Rosenberg in the spying for the Soviets case and executed and in both cases today virtually every crime expert in the country says they were framed by the FBI. The FBI in my mind is about as credible as the guy on the street telling you if you will give him five dollars so he can get some gas and milk for his baby that he will mail you the money back next week. I'm sure many on that jury felt as I do about the FBI's credibility and even if not certainly one would. And Dr Lee the celebrated blood specialist of over 2,000 trials in which he never once had testified for the defense, sat there explaining blood splatters and types of cuts and angles and this and that and the thought crossed my mind that even if he were to be trusted to be more than just a "celebrity witness", what the hell was he saying that even in the slightest proved that OJ had anything to do with what he was talking about? It was at best, testimony to make the crime gruesome in the juries mind and nothing more.

SUMMARY:  Less than a year after the OJ verdict  it came out that  21 cases of DNA FBI testimony on DNA testing done at the same FBI lab during the same time frame that OJ's blood was tested, that there had been misconduct in terms of contaminated blood in 11 of those cases, in an anstounding 7 of those cases the blood was simply went missing between the time the FBI made their report and a defense asked for independent testing, and if you can believe this, in 3 other cases they had to admit they had mislabeled the blood of a defendant with some other blood not related to the case and it was done on purpose by a technician who admitted to doing so because "too many people get off and the police in his opinion, did not make mistakes so he had switched blood samples to match the type blood needed and falsified results to ensure guilty people didn't get off." Off course the FBI claimed that they had had no such problems with the OJ case and stood by their testimony in this case. Are you kidding me? If this doesn't raise at the very least reasonable doubt concerning every single word uttered by the FBI DNA testimony, I don't know what would.

As For Dr. Lee, he was trapped within three years after the OJ trial when he testified as an expert witness to some so called "evidence" that he had "appraised" and the prosecution had given him by mistake the blood evidence of an entirely differnent case and he sat right there and talked for 3 hours in a death penalty case making angles of cuts fit the height of the defendant and volumes about something he knew absolutely nothing about. He, within days, announced his retirement and is no longer testifying as a blood expert.

THE LOCATION OF THE TRIAL:

 The murders took place in the affluent West side of Los Angeles. O.J. lived in the same area. Why would they move the trial to  Central L.A. where they would get lesser educated, certainly more minorites inclined to support O.J. and people with a lessor understanding of how the law works. The answer lies in the latter. They knew, had to know, that those on a jury on the west side would know about the basic premise of law concerning things we have already discussed and others to come. They went with the central district for one reason. Hoping to pull the wool over the eyes of people under a microscope as the OJ Jury was to be and deceive them with the testimony of absolutely nothing relevant to the case at hand. They were racist from the jump in assuming the minorites would be too stupid to figure out they had no case without using tainted, and irrelevant but inflamatory  evidence.

THE PROSECUTORS:

The only capitol crimes (murder) high profile prosecutor available at that time was a woman working out of the South Bay area and was widely considered to be a person whose political ambitions and unwillingness to prosecture weak cases was about as large as they could be. What District Attorney Ira Reiner came up with was Marsha Clark who was totally incompetent and who spent hours and day and weeks upon hours, days and weeks whining,complaining and making hereself and the prosecutors looking even more inept than they even were if that was possible.  Her trying to "bond" with the jury as a single working mother was never ending as was her attempting to make the case as much about her and Chris Darden be "people like the jury".

Chris Darden was yet another example of the District Attorney's attempt at playing their own race card. Bearded, moody, prone to wild gestures of contempt for O.J. and his defense, this was a rather transparant attempt to convince the urban jury that he, not O.J. was the "real black man" involved and because he was on the side of the prosecution they should empathize with him more so than O.J.. Something along the lines of what we now know as the card "I'm blacker that you are". All of which said to me once again, they got no real case.

DELIBERATING AS A JUROR: 

Let me cut to the chase here. I don't know why the jury came back with a not guilty verdict. Whether I think O.J. did or not (and I do) is totally irrelevant to the verdict in this particular case. In my view every single day in America a poor person is railraoded by prosecutors and cops with made up evidence, inflamatory evidence irrelevant to guilt or innocent (how brutally a murder is has nothing at all to do with guilt or innocence of a particular person). In the O.J. Case I felt the FBI to be suspect at best with their DNA testing. I felt Dr.Lee was "performing" every single minute he was testifying and that not one single bit of his testimony was relevant to whether O.J. had done it or not.

I felt the police put the blood drop on the gate and in the bronco after the fact based on direct testimony. Based on testimony concerning Mark Furman's going over the wall, his finding the glove by himself while other detectives "searched elsewhere without a warrant" and his later discovery as to having a personal dislike for O.J. and blacks in general left at least reasonable doubt as to whether Furman himself had put the glove there.

I felt that from the start to throughout the trial that the police, labs and the prosecution had at least in some cases fabricated evidence, and may well have done quite a lot of it.

What this said to me and says to me today is that we all deserve a fair trial. Daily as I just stated poor people are convicted on fabricated evidence. The rich get a fair trial and the poor don't.  That's the bottom line. But I think in this case and in others since the "Justice system" has clearly shown that they are willing to do this sort of thing regardless of how much money or competent defense attorneys the defendant may have. We all deserve the same justice system but we all don't deserve the same justice system as the poor gets and when you will turn a blind eye to the amount of criminal actions by this system when someone like O.J. who has the very best defenders possible and if you will STILL allow them to get away with it then what you are doing is saying to those police and prosecutors "there is simply no end to what you can get away with in prosecuting someone". And at that point ALL of our rights to even a semblence of a fair trial has ended. You might as well be being tried before an Islamic court. Or in the USSR. Or in a court of ####.

As much as I personally think O.J. did it I would have voted not guilty had I been on that jury because in a democracy with a bill of rights such as we are supposed to have, you cannot allow the greater crime of police and justice system people to not be held accountable to the rule of law concerning us all. And anyone accused is one of us ALL.  Concerning all the shoddy police work, all the violations of OUR civil rights, All the lies, all the things that came to light behind the trial, they got it right regardless of why they think they came back with not guilty. Take out what should not have been there and "I know he did it" is virtually all that was left to consider. And that's not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

I was raised to believe that "it is better to allow 100 guilty people to go free than to imprison a single innocent man". I still believe that in a free society that in order for us to continue to be free that this statement must continue to be true. I would have liked to see Simpson be forced to pay for his crime, but unfortunately a greater issue  was on trial here.  OUR FREEDOM FROM A POLICE STATE.

"Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, looking for love in all the wrong faces"

Dear Allen,

It's me your old buddy Davy Crockett. Come on down to the Alamo we got a street fight here. You might even be able to take them out considering all the warring you done in Philly. But ya know Allen, this may be the first time I ever saw a warrior carry himself out on his own shield.

I couldn't stand you for years Allen.  i wanted so bad to play pro ball...any ball..that I damn near killed myself and did get declared legally dead in Barcelona running with the bulls in 74 (well ok it was trotting with a midget and two basset hounds in Bakersfield but I did get a T-shirt)  I'm your size Allen. And over the years the hate turned to dislike to grudging admiration for you being so small and getting in there but then it started to hit me Allen. You blew it buddy.

You have talent in places most people don't even have toilet paper. But I started noticing things like "AI is the toughest little #### in the world...yep dislocated shoulder last night... out twelve years...NOPE BACK AND RUN 55 TONIGHT....and I mean everytime we turned around it was some overblown hype about AI. People don't lose an arm and their #### and play the next night and why would a team go to that great lengths to even bother to try and promote someone that way. That knawing feeling came back Allen. He won't practice, he's won't stop doing things to embarass himself and his team. Nobody wants to play with him.

I am within my own little mini version of the clump of dirt on a elephants back..a bit of an Allen iverson myself. I couldn't stay out of trouble if trouble shot gunned me and left town on a Concorde while I was unconcious so I know you Allen. Difference is man you have TALENT.

And you #### me off. Remember last last season when you went #### #### and actually played point guard like they drafted you to do all those years ago? You averaged like 17 assists over ten games or something and 25 points and shot like 54%??? I was here at the Alamo trying to tell Jim Bowie I had to go make a Pizza delivery when you did that. And I remember getting this warm feeling and think to myself  "he's 30...his mind has FINALLY caught up to his talent holy #### we got something here FINALLY.

Now here we are. Both of us seeing the hordes of gengis khan coming right down our faces. Once again the difference is Allen, I'm not at the Alamo. I'm just pretending to be. YOU GOT YOUR HALL OF FAME, YOUR LEGACY AND YOUR GOD DAMN "THUG EGO" AT STAKE HERE SON.

You can go out as a gunner who wouldn't team ball, who was selfish, who was damn near #### SSI retarded with nothing but god given talent between him and SSI, who was a cancer greater than his talent.  Are you bright enough to understand this Allen?  I hope to God so.

Carmelo Anthony is the man on that team suspension or not. JR is suprisingly coming into his own. You got something right there you never had in Philly. AND you got Camby still not in the ER (Knock on wood) and you got some guys. Matter of fact you got EASILY THREE times anything you ever played with in the NBA. The  choice for you Allen is the same the choice it's been since the day you were drafted to be the Sixers point guard. If you go troublemaking and want to play SG again you are dumber than a frigging :LLama trying to hump  a sweater. Your body is starting to break down. You got maybe 4 decent years left. Carnelo keeps them honest on the low side right and left sometimes. He's drive or go up. JR is high right and they know that sucker is shooting.  You got high left. They can't sag on you, you got tons more daylight in the trees than you ever had,  they drop you got left and right kick out and you got camby or someone ALWAY sliding down that right side baseline     for the tear drop alley oop. Be the point guard god made you to be Allen. You can get 15 assists a night and shoot 20 times and still score what you did cause you got quality shots.

They, the Nuggets will not #### with your #### Allen.  They don't have to. They got youth and they didn't give up that much for you. That may be what your shell shocked about.  Nobody was selling Candy to raise money to get you Allen. You're damn lucky to ended up where you did.

This the best and last shot you will ever get Allen. Blow it and they're saving a spot for you on the wall at the Alamo. I traded a guy my #### skin cap for a shetland pony and told everyone I had to see a man about a dog. You can be a fool and go down in history as  someone who was a big gun but never got it done. Or you  have everyone thinking you're dead and talking about what might have been while you're actually at Rosarita beach with a honey telling her you're Billy the kid. Think about. it

 LOL late breaking news: I just can't wipe the grin off myface...one his way out the door Allen took one last shot  (until he gets the phone working the plane of course) at  Philly and said he didn't  ask for a trade/.  All he asked them to do was get their head out of their #### and stop playing out of control. HAHAHAHAHAHAA  I'd good money  for a copy of that conversation between AI and the owner.  Damn  Allen.  Could't let your skirttails get out of town before you had to do  one last hoodrat drive by diss right? LOLOLOLOL

There are writers on this blog that I just sit in awe of.  I think by now they know who they are. There are people I have serious issues with about their "politics" if you will.  There are people that I just flat out don't like and am reasonably sure I never will within the frame work of this blog. 

But there are four guys that back when I first started blogging who I had run in with that I owe an apology to. And the reason I owe them an apology is because the run in was my fault.

I'm not going to sit here and give my version of what happened.  If they read this and want to respond with a public airing of what they think I did that's their right and I won't dispute their versions (unless of course they claim it had anything to do with sheep,burros or LLamas in which case I will categoricaly deny it. I wasn't even the one who put the calf in the tutu.)

But what I will tell you is this. After the run in we had they didn't spend their time harboring a public grudge. They let it die and gave me some breathing space and and that's not something that most of us get from those in our lives today with whom we have conflict.  It almost seems like in these times that every conflict is a lifetime war of words. But not with these men. They were bigger men than I and I can't find anyway to not see myself in the mirror on this one.

Miracle, Flying Pig, Shooter B, SoCalFan.......I seriously do aplogize for my behaviour towards you that time and would like to have a chance to regain your respect. (but you're not getting my bud light.)

Ever have one of those days you planned to sleep in,  get up and laze around giving your best effort to do absolutely nothing?

And someone come barging in who regularly barges in and you pretty much think " yeah whatever, don't talk to me....I'm in offical don't care status"?

The of course a Vampire drops in (in my case named Buffy) and you pretty much know that this not going to be a cruise control sort of a day since the biggest irritant person you know is homesteading in your home before noon?

You get yourself a big ole pitcher of ice tea and you slide out to the best patio recliner you got and turn on the little TV hoping they won't notice you're gone? And then your son and half a million of his friends show up and you can't say a damn thing since you spent the last two years ragging on him for.....never showing up.  Next thing you know there's ping pong tournament going on (like a 10 person double elimination tournament is needed?")

They're inside your house, theres people outside your house and you could pass a polygraph with no problem swearing  you didn't invite a single one of them?

Then out of nowhere it happens. Someone starts it and someone  gets all wound up and it's like a frigging contagious disease.. There are gainfully employed people? College degree people? White people? Black People? Latino people? And Arab for God's sake.......I'm sure you know more. But they spent a good hour on it.....to wit.....

Spanking The ####..... Choking the Chicken......  .Whipping The Wire....Pounding the Pud

Too Broke To Pay....Stroodling The Noodle....Loping The Mule....Training the Toad

Petting the Pole......Watering The Sheets....Dating Martha Thumb and the Finger sisters,

Flooding The Basement.....Pole Vaulting.....Milking The Snake.......Practicing......Going Long

Taking Him Down For The Count.....Puttin The Twins On Overtime.....Walking The Weasel

Hand to Hand To Combat.....Making Sure Everything Is in Working Order....Lubeing the Joint

Tillin The Tail .......... Beatin The Meat........Workin' The Soul Pole..........Waxin' The Periscope

Waltzing The #### ........Playin The Skin Flute.........Makin' Gravy........Beatin the Bush

And finally "Give All the Wives A Night Off" (Frigging Arabs. Just another reason they need to go home)

And there were dozens more. I must getting old. In my day guys didn't even admit they did it and women sure as hell didn't stand around contributing to the laughter.

And then you discover your 5 year old granddaughter who is almost certainly going to turn out  to be an extortioniost, has been sitting behind a chair getting low next to a potted plant and taping everyone. Cost me 5.00 to get that tape before her mother did.

One of those days

A LOOK AT THE NBA AFTER ROUGHLY 25% OF THE REGULAR SEASON:

THE WILD WILD WEST

Let's start with my Lakers. They are better than most thought including myself. And considering that they just got 2 out of 3  in their first tour thru Texas and the one they lost was without Lamar, not too shabby. However at the same time this is a killer with Odom going down now. I got hopes they can hold the fort till he gets back but I'm a Laker fan so who knows? Damn what a lousy break.

The suprise of the NBA has to be the Utah Jazz. What else is there to say about them? Boozer is playing like an all star and assuming they stay healthy I don't see any reason they can't keep this up. (Althought 5-5 in the last 10 isn't exactly what I expected. You?)

The Suns have jelled.Amare is back with a vengance and they got role player stacked on role players. 12 in  a row as I write this. I picked them to win the West IF Amare was OK and I don;t see any reason here to be waffling yet at this point.

The Mavs are on their own roll but I have problems believing with the Mavs because they got so many guys who have missed so much in the past with injuries. It's Dirk's team and we'll see how Avery keeps them patched together around them.

The Spurs are the Spurs. Anyone who counts them in or out at this point would be a fool in my estimation. So much can be said for their bench solidfying behind the big 3 but I got my doubts over 82 games. Everything depends on the big 3 staying healthy. But who knows? The Spurs are traditionally the best 2nd half team in the NBA since Duncan came around.

I predicted the Clippers would fall apart. That Cassel's back and age would catch up to him, that Tim Thomas is a cancer, that Mobley and Maggs would be their usual errratic selves. On top of that Kamen is looking very VERY ordinary. Clippers may turn this around but I would be suprised if they do. Last 20 games of last season they tried to choke their way out of the playoffs and this ain't even that team.  I'm betting against them.

Rockets are screwed.Yao has come into his own but T-Mac is done for looks like. Likely be in and out all season with that back and this early in the season with Spasms again? Damn shame really.

Kings are better than I thought they would be. A playoff berth depends on Miller holding up. Out once already, without him they don't go anywhere beyond the first round if they can make that.

What to think about Denver? I have no clue about Denver.  I think George Karl is a nut case. I think Camby will get hurt again at the worst possible time. Is J.R. for real? Seems he might be but what are they going to do for bigs down the stretch and into the playoffs? I just don't know what to think here.

Everyone else? Forget it. Enjoy the stars here and there, enjoy the big games here and there but none of them are going to do anything this season.

THE EMBARASSING EAST:

This will be brief. A true embarassment. The Pistons just based on experience and their top 4 likelyl win the east unless somehow Riley can bring Shaq back under 400 lbs in time to both make the playoffs and then do something with it. And who knows? Maybe he'll snag AI and somehow make it work.  Seems like a pipe dream to me at this point but I been wrong before.

The Cavs simply don't have the horses or the balls. Whatever Lebron does it won't be enough. They aren't going to the finals.

The Magic are a nice young team. Keyword being young. They don't have enough experience to go to the finals.

Having said all that, I will add this. After their usual dismal start, the Bulls may just make fools of everyone except the die hard Bulls fans.

Everyone else is a joke. Shame Shame Shame

As a UCLA alumni I am going to admit to a certain amount of bias right here and now. And since they've only played 8 games so far I admit that doesn't mean much.

The question is this. They appear to be back on track for another run at the final four. What is your view? Do they make it or not? I, of course say they do.

AS I GET OLDER IT SEEMS MORE AND MORE TO ME THAT THE DEFINATION OF A 'WINNER" AMONG MOST FANS BOILS DOWN TO 1.) IS HE FROM THAT FAN'S FAVORITE TEAM AND 2.) HOW MANY TITLES HAS HE WON?

While sitting around writing my memoirs "True autobiography of a Pathalogical Liar" I quickly  jotted down the following pairings. The one with asterick * is the guy with at least one Superbowl Title.

Earl .Morall*    

Dan Foutts

Fran Tarkington

Doug Williams*

Billy Kilmer*

Jim Kelly

Jim McMahon*

Archie Manning

Joe Namath*

Warren Moon

Based on the response to the intro virtually no one was sitting around glued to their computer waiting for this but since  I nothing better to do at the moment, it's your bad luck. Try and stay focused here would you? There is an allegory going on (I think) and there will be a test in the unlikely even t that I ever ffigure out how to make this work.

GOTHAM CITY: STATELY MANSION OF MULTI-MILLIONAIRE BRUCE WAYNE"

"I'm sorry Master Wayne I simply cannot do it.  Even young master #### was searching for a more appropriate look when the Zorro mask he was trying out slipped and he was momentairly blinded and impaled himself on his sword....or perhaps he was just unable to bring himself to being seen in public in yellow tights any longer. The day of the Village People is over Master Wayne.  I'm not wearing yellow tights sir. I'm 97 years old"

"I'm afraid you must Alfred. Gotham City is depending on Batman and Robin. I'm Batman, I can't be Robin at the same time. I can't let Carmen be Robin because she's already Battygirl. It must be you Alfred. No one will notice."

"Sir my hair is white. I'm an  African American.  I don't spend my free time in bath houses. I am not wearing Master ####'s Robin costume and yellow tights.  Furthermore.................

LOOK ALFRED!!!!!!!!! IT'S THE BAT SIGNAL....TO THE BAT POLES...THIS WILL WARM YOU RIGHT UP IN THAT PLACE WHERE VIAGRA DOES BUT IT DOES IT A LOT FASTER TRUST ME....................

(GROAN)

COMMISSIONER STERN GORDON: "Batman I apologize for firing up the Bat Signal after all these years. But this is an emergency. For the past thirty seven years this gang of cutthroats have stolen every dime they could lay their hands on, they've even collected welfare fraudently. SSI, there is no end to what they are willing to take without conscience.  I just didn't know what else to do besides call you.

"You were right to call Commissioner. I must say with all candor however I have wondered for a very long time why you didn't call before.  May I borrow your phone Commissioner?"

"Something wrong with the Bat phone?

"A penny saved is a penny earned....Commissioner......Hello, is that you? Excellent. I need your  to come to Gotham City immediately. I'm restore order  here and I have an assignment for you.  "

(cue cliffhanger music)

WHO IS BATMAN?

WHAT IS HIS TASK?

WHO DID HE CALL?

I'm going to be writing this off and on all day because of prior commitments to the wife and doing my own research to try and refresh my memory.

My views are my views and anytime you try to narrow thousands and thousands of players down to just 10 players it is an exercise in futility since you can easily forget or overlook a certain player.

What I have done is try and take each player during his 5 year best prime play and adjust for rule changes, travel, number of teams at that time etc.. What may suprise you is that I am 60 years old and only one person comes from prior to the 70's.

Point Guard:  This is a particularly tough category but I'm going to go with Magic Johnson and Jason Kidd. While the case can certainly be made for both John Stockton and Oscar Robertson I think Magic's ability to lead to titles and Kidd's triple double capabilities slip by the other two.

Shooting Guard: For me, in all my years of watching the NBA there has never been two shooting guards with so complete o####ame as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. What records Jordan doesn't own Bryant does and in the end they will likely own every SG record for a long long time to come.

Power Forward:  This was not a tough category for me. Tim Duncan and Karl Malone. There have been many other greats at the PF position but these two are forever emblazed in my mind for excellence.

Small Forward: This must be a suprise coming from a Laker fan. However, the best two small forwards of all time in terms of impact and toughness along with just being the best are Larry Bird and John Havlicek of the Boston Celtics.

Center: Not a tough one here for me either once everything was taken into consideration. Hakeem Owlwajun and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. The Dream could do anything and did. And Karem is simply the greatest scorer of all time. Nuff said.

As one of the few bloggers to have actually seen Wilt Chamberlain play during his prime years when he set all the records I am here to tell you I am sick to death of stat hounds and moronic idiots who see highlight film games and worship at the Altar of The Wilt Chamberlain big lie.

First off under the rules of today Wilt Chamberlain would foul out of every single game he played in. With the exception of the games in which he would be ejected for unsportmanlike play and flagrant fouls.

I don't even know where to start with this, I am so fed up with the #### sucking up to Chamberlain.

Let me say this and then try to break it down for you.

WILT CHAMBERLAIN WAS THE DIRTIEST PLAYER IN THE HISTORY OF THE NBA.

1.) He was allowed to block shots by hitting people not just on the head but damn near just ball up his fist and cold #### people. I would assume that not only Shaq but almost every good center in between could block shots like Wilt if they were allowed to do this. How many times do we hear "the block was clean but he got him with the hip/body below the shoulder. ####. Wilt got people with his shoulder, his body, his arms, his legs and seldom called for fouls. Wilts idea of defense was "I'm bigger than you, nastier than you and I'm gonna mug your #### and nobody is gonna say #### about it". And he was right.

2.) Wilt rebounded by simply going up, and again, no "over the top" in those days. He was simply taller than anyone else and once he got his hands on the ball he started swinging razor sharp elbows. Deke Mutumbo has been called hundreds of times for his elbows and he does nothing compared to what Wilt did. And Chamberlain didn't just clear out. He put people on the floor. People bleeding. Again he intentionally tried to hurt people. That was his personality. Anyone big man today allowed to do what he did could average 20 rebounds a game.

3.) He used his elbows on offense as well. Imagine I were 5-7 inches taller than you and 50-100 lbs heavier than you and back in on you on the post and suddenly and intentionally ripped my arm around and drove my elbow into your face. You'd go down and if you didn't you'd backpedal out of bounds and be temporaily blinded. Then he'd just dunk or if he was being double teamed he'd simply then back into the other defender and hand the ball off to a teammate strolling unguarded into the lane. This is why he got double digit assists in his glory years. Never has anyone ever gotten credit for so many cheap assists.

4.)  As for his scoring what a joke. He took balls off the rim, he intercepted fellow players shots, all for dunks.  For you stat hounds compare this one.

Chamberlain 48 minutes 36 of 63 field goals, 28 of 32 free throws.(that season Chamberlain was allowed to leap from the free throw line and dunk free throws.The rule ws changed the following season and he quickly became one of the worst free throwers in history)

Kobe Bryant 42 minutes 28 of 46  field goals, 18 of 20 free throws.

In 6 minutes less bryant took 17 shots less and 12 free throws less than Chamberlain and finished 19 points less. Based on %'s had Bryant shot as much and had as many FT's as Wilt, Bryant would have scored about 115 pts. And Wilt was never double teamed without the ball, played with a foot narrower lane and all the aforementioned other advantages.

The facts are that Wilt Chamberlain won one championship during his prime years with all the possible advantages that he could have. He was selfish far beyond any other player in NBA history, he was Arrogant beyond any other player in NBA history and if he played to day with the same rules that everyone has to play with today he'd be nothing more than a larger version of Danny Fortsen with the same ejections and fouls.

You can hate on me till the cows come home but the reality is Wilt Chamberlain is the most overrated player in the History of the NBA. And I was there to see it. Were you?

Terrel Owens is a product of our time. When things are going bad he complains and ####es and whines and fingerpoints. It's always someone elses fault.  He's never responsible for his own actions much less anyone else's. There is no T.O. in the word team.

The problem with T. O. is the way he acts when times are bad is the best he acts. When things are going good he becomes even louder, even more rude, even more arrogant, even more dismissive of those peons he must suffer around him in order to be in the limelight.

Stop and think about it. You have a co worker or a neighbor or went to school with more than one just like T.0. An Insuffurable egomaniac blabbermouth taking ALL the credit when he's involved with the slightest bit of success

And an inssuferable complaining troublemaker blabbermouth assigining ALL the blame when he's involved with the slightest bit of challenge to overcome.

T;O.'s success as a football player is more in spite of himself than because of himself.

Shortly after my 29 year old, but looked 25 at the time current wife and I married one evening she and her 26 year old best girlfriend burst thru the door with their arms fully of Laker girl costumes and their heads full of pie in the sky. Yep, you guessed. These two aspiring actresses , one of who can act a little and it ain't Buffy let me tell you had a new plan for success in the Land of the Looney Tunes.  I only mention Buffy the Vampire as I can't seem to stop thinking of her as being that because for as long as I have known the two of them,  Carmen has gotten the hostess jobs and Buffy got in on her coattails. If Carmen got a small acting role, there was Buffy somewhere in the extra's pretending to be an actress.  When Carmen went to a well known acting school she somehow wrangled a second tution for half price and guess paid the full amount and who slid in the door on the discount? That and Carmen asked me to stop calling her Buffy the Leech.

So when they announced they were going to be Laker girls and they had joined a well known dance school (why must they all be "well known?" Can't you learn to act and dance and stuff without someone being "well known?" As far as I can tell after years and years of living here, well known simply means overpriced.) and for the next few months before tryouts Our house was full of the sound of "sweating with the hotties" music. Not that I minded of course. Even your own wife looks hot in spandex and when she's got a buddy...well never mind. I knew they wouldn't make it. I'm an expert at not making it. But I didn't say nothing, just tried my best to encourage them and keep Carmen's expectations from setting herself up for a big fall. Boy do I know about big falls.

As you may recall my trying out for the Dallas Cowboys was somewhat less that a spectacular success.  Not than much more than a total embarassment  if you must know the truth. All high school sports stars think they are special. Everyone tells us we are. Hot chicks like you if you are.  In 1965 it was no different than today. Only tougher. Same for 69, 72 and so on. For ever athlete who makes it to the pros and sticks for even a year there are 100,000 guys around America who honestly believe they have what it takes, I was no different. So the Cowboy fiasco driving home to me that I was neither good enough, or tough enough was an embarassment. To myself.

But it wasn't the only one. As a 17 year old second baseman I had led the league in hitting at .604. Lead off switch hitter, I also led the league in  stolen bases with nearly 50 stolen bases in 25 games. Caught once. Was on the all star team that journeyed down to San Diego to play a little exhibition game against the San Diego triple A team of the time. This was supposedly so some big league scouts could take a look at  us against some guys who could possible also be going to the big show one day.  I was ready. I was going to the big leagues. No doubt about it.

Lead off the game. Fast ball blew by me and i never saw it. DAMN!!...Curve ball looked about 4 feet outside until it broke so cleanly across the plate I almost joined the umpire in yelling STREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIKK########
####EEEEEEEE. "FOCUS DUSTY" I thought.

I had to guess fastball cause if i was looking for a curve and it was a fastball I'd be struck out in three pitches. It was a fastball and somehow or the other I got the bat around just well enough to poke the ball over the shortstops head. You know what that means when a left handed batter pokes a fast ball over the shortstops head right? The batter is about as Late as late can get without actually striking out. But never mind. There I was on first base and I went into my act. And what an act it was. I took my walking lead, pickoff throw. HOLY #### HE ALMOST GOT ME.!!!!!!  For the next ten minutes I dove in the dirt getting back and got rewarded with the first baseman slapping the ball in his glove on  my shoulder , my back....I was so bruised that they could have put me on SSI on the spot. But they didn't and I was damned if I was gonna shorten that lead.

Finally the Pitcher went home. Pitchout. My mother only raised one fool and that was my brother. I took a quick look at our third base coach and he was busy looking to see if his fly was open which meant the green light I had all season was still on. He wasn't interested in giving me a break and having me park it.  This went on for another good 10 minutes again. Pickoff throws,  couple of times i broke and the batter fouled it off.  A time out conference. I was starting to get cocky. I had them right where I wanted them. Triple A my ####. Whose your daddy?

FINALLY!!!!!!  Pitcher went home, battter didn't foul it off, I had a good solid foot longer lead that my normal lead and I was OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I launched myself headfirst  in my patented dust cloud raising, shortstop blinding, slide away from the glove hand and reached for the bag. And was tagged out an knew it before I even came within spitting distance  from the bag. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!

And that was the highlight of my day that day. Sad to say my coach told me it was just a matter of a perfect throw and even sadder to say next at bat I got another stick the bat out there and maybe it will hit something blooper and with the coaches words ringing in my ear I set out to avenge myself. And got thrown out a second time only this time they already had a card table set up at second base and were playing texas holdem with only 3 left at the final table. Walked next time at bat. Now you think I'm gonna say I was stupid enough to try it a third time aren't you? Nope. Parked my butt right there.

Couple of batters later the guy lines one into right and I was gone with two outs at the pitch. Picked up the third base coach waving me around and never broke stride digging for third. And got thrown out on the fly by the right fielder before I even went into my slide.

Sometimes Ya just gotta smile when they tell you they're gonna be Laker Girls. Why should I tell them? Let em suffer.

So you think you got jokes? I don' t think so. LOL.  Life is too serious and as you get older you hear lots less new jokes than you used to hear. So here's what we're going to do. With only a few weeks left before the Annual "Fox Sports Blog Dustie Awards" we gotta decide on who has the best jokes.  Enter as often as you like but only one joke per entry. If you add more than one joke at a time those jokes will not be considered  for a Dustie Award nor will they be included in the "Dustie Award Winning joke book" that will follow.

Let's kick it off with an old musty joke from my child hood.

Little Johnny was sitting in his first day at school when the teacher was explaining the alphabet. Now she said, what word begins with the letter A.

Johnny's hand shot up and she called on him......."####" was his response.

After the class has been calmed down and everyone who had fallen off their seat laughing was back at their desk properly,  she proceeded to ask what word began with the Letter B.

Not a soul raised their hand......except for Johnny. She decided to take a chance but admonished him in advance not to say a dirty word....and he responded....####.

Order was once again restored in due time, tissues passed out for those giggling so hard they were crying and the teacher proceeded through the alphabet and every single letter she asked for a word no one raised their had......except forJohnny....who she ignored and gave her own example word.

She came to the letter R and again only Johnny's hand was  in the air.  She thought carefully and came to the quick conclusion that she couldn't think of a single curse word that began with the letter R so she broke down and called him but stated "I do not want to hear a word with the letter R that is a curse word Johnny do you understand me".

He assured her that he was a team player and had received the message loud and clear.

The teacher said "fine Johnny what word begins with the letter R?" And he replied.

RAT!!! A BIG #### RAT WITH A 12 INCH ####.

Now I know that was pretty bad. LOLOLOLOL I loved that joke. But I set the bar low on purpose. I can't win my own awards so why try that hard right?= LOLOLOL I  love that joke.

GOTHAM CITY: STATELY MANSION OF MULTI-MILLIONAIRE BRUCE WAYNE"

"I'm sorry Master Wayne I simply cannot do it.  Even young master #### was searching for a more appropriate look when the Zorro mask he was trying out slipped and he was momentairly blinded and impaled himself on his sword....or perhaps he was just unable to bring himself to being seen in public in yellow tights any longer. The day of the Village People is over Master Wayne.  I'm not wearing yellow tights sir. I'm 97 years old"

"I'm afraid you must Alfred. Gotham City is depending on Batman and Robin. I'm Batman, I can't be Robin at the same time. I can't let Carmen be Robin because she's already Battygirl. It must be you Alfred. No one will notice."

"Sir my hair is white. I'm an  African American.  I don't spend my free time in bath houses. I am not wearing Master ####'s Robin costume and yellow tights.  Furthermore.................

LOOK ALFRED!!!!!!!!! IT'S THE BAT SIGNAL....TO THE BAT POLES...THIS WILL WARM YOU RIGHT UP IN THAT PLACE WHERE VIAGRA DOES BUT IT DOES IT A LOT FASTER TRUST ME....................

(GROAN)

(to be continued)

If there is more than one way to skin a cat I'd like to know what they are since everytime I try I just wind up with clawed balls.

Why is it the hot chicks that say they want to be friends and the fat ugly ones drag you in off the sidewalk with a pitchfork?

Has anyone ever verified that graveyards don't actually mess up at least half the time and put headstones at the end of  dead people's feet?

Why is it that #### guys won't work for minmum wage but they will go to prison for thirteen cents an hour?

Why is it that when you're single you couldn't get laid by Janet Reno but the minute you get married women that look Shakira and Britney can't keep their hands off you?

Why is it called ham-burger meat when it's beef?

Am I the only one who can see #### Cheney's lips move when Bush talks?

Why can't we get Bush to go hunting with Cheney? Is he brighter than we thought?

Am I the only one who can see that the only kind of person who could get all the religous warring to stop in Iraq is Saddam?

Just how high in the sky could a fly fly if a fly could fly sky high?

Why do people keep asking how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? For the last time. 3 maybe 4 if he hustles.

If there is no global warming who is stealing all the damn ice in the Artic? Is someone selling ice to the Eskimos?

Why do ex wives talk so bad about you after being married to you for 20 years? Don't that make them look sort of stupid for taking that long to figure out you're  worthless?

Why did it take songwriters 200 years to figure out you can write the lyrics "I got ####es, I got hoes, I got bling bling, you ain't #### but a punk #### yo" is all you have to write and change the beat and the guy saying it and you can sell 20 million raps every year?

Why did oil prices go up when we took over a country that wasn't selling to us before and we're stealing all theirs now?

Why did people get so upset because Clinton lied about ####s? Would you have the nerve to admit you been cheating to Hilary?

How can you prove to the IRS that you didn't make any money when they say you did? Isn't it impossible to prove that nothing exists?

Why are there #### bath houses with hundreds of men wandering around having sex with total strangers but I can't find one with hundreds of hot women wandering around having sex with total strangers?

Why is all of a sudden the word midgets defamatory but the words little people isn't?

Why are guys so threatened by #### guys? Seems to me if every other guy was either #### or into real fat chicks I'd be getting me some serious hotties.

Why did Britney end up with Kevin Federline but would have me arrested for stalking her if I tried to date her? I'm better looking, more talented (ok who isn't but still), wouldn't spend all her money and wouldn't put sharks in the swimming pool.

Who are those 300 people at the KFed concert? Did they fly in all his relatives from Fresno?

Why did they have no moshing signs everywhere and search you three times at the Bob Dylan concert.  When's the last time you saw 60 year old white gang####ers moshing and strapped?

Am I the only one that can see Tom Cruise is shrinking?

Why does Hollywood claim there are no good scripts but they send your script back unopened because they didn't ask you to send it to them?

Why are there no country music rappers?

Why doesn't the govt give tax deductions for not having kids since the world is so overpopulated?

Why are half the young black guys I see are being supported by obese women but my son keeps borrowing money from me to take out hotties?

Why does my 4 year old granddaughter know how to read, program a cel phone and still stands in the back yard yelling at the sensor ducks on the walkway who go quack quack when you  go past them...why does she stand there for an hour yelling back AFLAC?

And why does my wife have those damn sensor ducks  when she thought my idea of sesnor Lakers was stupid?

Why is it when a family member dies people you never heard of before show up at your house to hug you and say what a great loss you've suffered then proceed to eat all your food and drink your liquor cabinet dry?

Why is it the minute you retire your wife starts wanting to have sex like every 20 minutes? Is she trying to kill me for the insurance?

Why is it that 2 out of every 3 guys on a bicyle over the age of 21 is Snoops cousin and wants to borrow a dollar and a cigarette?

Why is it that every single time in my life that i have flown alone on an airplane i have been put between 2 400 lb people?

Why is it that everytime I have flown on a plane with my wife (or ex wife) in my life some 8 year old from 20 rows back zeros in on us to talk nonstop about his stinking sister, his little league career and how he doesn't wet the bed anymore. for five hours in a row. And why do my wives talk to them? And why don't parents miss them in 5 hours?  And why don't we get paid for babysitting?

Why do airlines get all hostile and threaten to bump you if you don't check in 2 hours before the flight but the plane is always two hours or more late taking off?

Why is it that all I have to do is dress in leather jacket  and black shirt and everywhere I go I'm asked by some white person if I'm some famous black star.  Do we really all look alike?