Brian Urlacher has his own blog?  Wowsers, I wonder if he'll respond to my comments... golly gee I sure hope so.

I was comforted to know, after seeing David Stern's interview on ESPN this morning, that the commish is satisfied with his investigation into the referee scandal.  Mr. Stern came to this enlightened state of nirvana while laying in bed one evening and thinking of all the CIA and FBI scandals that cost thousands of people their lives.  These spies, moles, and leaks at our highest level of American intelligence lent Stern the idea that having a cheater ref in "his" league was okay.  Luckily for us with all of the investigations, there is no proof that Tim Two Times altered the outcome of any game.  If you don't find this asinine...

Joe Torre and Donnie Baseball in Dodger Blue?  I furrow my brow at the thought.

If I broke the Girardi as a candidate for the Yankees managerial job in a blog before it was released in regular print media, do I get credit for the leak?

Do even the Colts fans think their team has a shot this week?

A-Rod to the Giants.

Barry to the A's.

Andruw to the Dodgers.

Lowell to the Phillies.

Rowand to the Braves.

That's it.

Ever since ESPN did its 50 greatest athletes special I've been giving serious thought to a specific topic: horses and humans.   I'm sure most of you remember the bit ESPN did when they counted down the fifty greatest athletes of all time and the equine species was included in this countdown of human athletes. Horses compared to humans in sports legendry?  Horses compared to humans in any manner? 

I tried to sweep this bothersome idea under the rug, but I'm unable to shake it.  Now on the front page of foxsports we come to find out that the legendary Barbaros valiant battle with a debilitating injury has ended in utter tragedy.  The legend is dead.  I suppose someone crunching numbers decided they had wasted enough millions of dollars on this prize, multimillion dollar horse to say enough is enough.  Could this money have been more well spent?  How are we legitimately able to give the term athlete to a horse and put them in the same sentence with legendary humans like Babe Ruth, Jackie Joyner Kersey, and Michael Jordan?  I certainly hope that athletes aren't being compared to animals because it is utterly foolish to compare animals to people.

Now I'm not a cold hearted person.  I have a dog, and I love her: If she got killed that would be terrible.  In fact I'd risk my own personal safety to keep her from harm.  Just the other day I ripped her away from a pit bull who had her by the throat.  Now that sounds pretty stupid, but I did it and I walked away unscathed, as did she other than a few minor scratches and a scar.  I did sacrfice my own personal safety for my dog, but I didn't go around bragging to all around that I'd done it, and I didn't spend my childs college fund doing it.  My wife saw it and now you people know it.  I'm certainly not proud I risked myself doing it, but my wife loves that dog. 

The point of that story is to say that I empathize with the loss of a very important animal.  Its terrible when you lose an animal so close to you it feels like you lost part of the family.  But, to raise an animals death to such noteworthiness as if we lost Roger Clemens or Hillary Clinton?  Seriously these animals are pumped with steroids, trained to no end, whipped and whipped and whipped somemore, taped up, muscled up, and pushed to the limits.  Then it brakes its leg and it is so unbelievable that it got hurt.  It must be euthanized, its a forgone conclusion.  Quite a sad story.  It stinks for the person who stood to make millions off of its exploitation.  Now another horse must be found to make up for lost revunue. 

Seriously, like minded thinkers.  Does this not bother anyone else?