Time again for the Friday Five and your escape from the boring and monotonous... or just an excuse to step away from work for a few minutes.

1. Group Sex

Having talked a bit about Client 9 last week, we return to the topic of disgraced Governor’s with the story that a male ex-aide to former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey claims to have engaged in a 3-ways with him and his wife before McGreevey came to office. 

I know we are G-t-W and not TMZ, but this stuff is priceless in an unintentional comedy sort of way. Wonder what the wife thought when she realized the second guy was for her husband's benefit and not hers...

2. Slowballs

Orlando Hernandez threw an 80-pitch, four inning simulated game down in Mets training camp this week, and exited with all his body parts still intact, no fractured bones, painful hangnails or the onset of a heart attack.  His top fastball was clocked at 81 mph, (seriously) leading one astounded Mets fan to write: “81 mph? I drive faster than that.”

3. Just Win, Baby!

ESPN wrote an article this week in which they said that “By making many expensive moves this offseason, Al Davis has made it clear that he's tired of losing.”  G-t-W finds this ironically comical, seeing as Davis was the main reason for all that losing by the Raiders in the first place. I liked this sequence of events (overpaying for has-been / overrated talent) better when it was called the Washington Redskins.

4. Idol

Amanda Overmeyer was eliminated from American Idol this week, leading the question… How did Beetlejuice get through the audition process?

5. Madenning Madness

And finally, the NCAA hoops tourney kicked off this week, and I truly believe I am the only person in the US that could not care less.  But good luck to all you ‘bracketologists” out there and so as to not spoil the fun for you, here is a pic of the only part of March Madness that I am aware of every year, Kentucky superfan Ashley Judd:

Now to wrap up the weekend before the first gate opens, a quick yet meaningful Top 5:

NFL Playoffs – Giants, Redskins, Jaguars and Titans.  Long live the underdogs.

Mass Effect – My wife came through and ME was waiting under the tree on the 25th, and I can’t recommend it enough.  Keep your overhyped PS’s and childlish Wii’s.  For quality over quantity, give me Xbox any day.

January 7th Bowl – I can’t believe a two-loss team coached by Les Miles is on the cusp on winning the 1/7/08 Bowl (I refuse to acknowledge the BCS system as any short of championship system).

Sudden Death – I believe I’m not the only one who is convinced we will see a nationally televised heart attack sometime in the near future during a Kansas football game.

Shot of the Week – After our pathetich attempts at multiple predictions backfired, we are starting the year of small and focusing only on one Shot of the Week.  The only subjective rule is that it cannot be an overwhelming favorite or champion, unless he/she is going against at least one more horse of similar stature.  For example, we are not allowed to pick Defensora in PR’s Clasico de Hostos nor Wait a While in the San Gorgonio (watch them both lose now).  So having set the stage for our failure, G-t-W selects Thorn Song in today’s Canadian Turf Handicap at Gulfstream Park. Never worse than second since moving to the turf, except to see the gray in front once more at the end.

Finally, G-t-W will today debut Off Topic Friday’s new weekly article, the Denise Milani pic of the week.  Why? Again we ask, why not?