O - Look at that, its a full moon tonight
A - Bah the moon is a gentleman
Tahoe was a success. Well a success in that I didn't need to go to the emergency room. Sometime ask me about the stories that I am not going to put in writing. There is one good one in particular. It all culminated in me staying up all night to catch the limo at 3:30 and then sitting in the airport "with" Lou Holtz, Vinny Testaverde and Emmitt Smith.
In some sad news, the Honda Accord is no more. A curse on all fat dumpy chicks who look like 14 year olds who can't drive.
O - Which day is actually Terry's birthday?
A - its both...its terry...his birth lasted two days
A lot has happened in the sports world since last I wrote. July is usually the slowest month of the year but this July will be known as a particularly scandalous one: First you have the ongoing Barry Bonds escapade. Did he knowingly take steroids etc...
Not to be out done Tim Donaghy surfaced in the NBA as a ref who was betting on NBA games, including ones that he was working. Most people agree that if there is one thing that can take down a league it is gambling, however, many sports have survived through gambling scandals: College Basketball (CCNY; Stevin Smith; Northwestern), MLB (Pete Rose), NBA (Jack Molinas). In all these occasions the governing bodies labeled it as one bad egg, and they moved on. And following the "There is no such thing as bad press" maxim, I bet the leagues didn't mind too much after the initial backlash. Even as I write this the Donaghy scandal is over a week old, has lost momentum and the NBA has taken the opportunity to pull off one of the biggest trades in its history. I firmly believe David Stern urged and oversaw the deliberations.
The Trump Card was then played by Michael Vick who was indicted on charges of participating/funding/running a dog fighting operation. Now I think that dog fighting is the lowest of the low, but it has been around for a while, and no one ever made a big deal of stopping it until it became associated with a high profile celebrity. I'm just saying....
Post Script: Mike Vick is now the owner of two fantastic nicknames that I'm sure he wants no part of. Ron Mexico and Ookie.
Last but not least, the Tour de Farce (you see what I did there? You like that?) If there is even a Tour de France three years from now I will be surprised. People were getting picked off for steroid issues faster than Mar can excite Evelyn by holding up a Barpie in the bed room. Even the bearer of the Yellow Jersey was suspended mid tour for shady reasons after being surrounded by steroid rumors. What a joke. It got so the media was suggesting that the Tour allow the use of PEDs so that everyone would be equal.
O - Elk 2007 is just footage of Daryl mowing Gerry Oswald's lawn with Steve Elkington's putter up his ass
I love the simplicity of Rhode Island. The following are all names of places. Wake up and you can head over to "Breakfast in a Barn," which is just that. Then you can spend a summer day looking at the "Tall Ships" in Newport. Then head over to Warren to have lunch at "Restaurant and Cafe." Then you can have dessert at "The Ice Cream Place."
Speaking of Rhode Island, Saturday Tara and I celebrated our One-Year Anniversary by going to Block Island. Unlike Rhode Island, Block Island is an actually Island in the Atlantic. (It's a very old-fashioned place, untouched by corporate America) So we get aboard the ferry and as I am walking up the stairs to the upper deck, I hit my head on the door frame and my sunglasses flew off of my head and I proceeded to punch them into the ocean. Mind you I got these sunglasses for free in Tahoe last year so you can imagine my surprise when we went to the "Sunglasses Store" and I saw my sunglasses on sale for $180. I wish I had money like Mar or Jim$.
ESPN just concluded their Arena Football season and this weekend they also began their NASCAR season. Both of these properties just left NBC last season, so a lot of ratings talk is on the way. A 1.0 rating represents 1% of all households with that service. Since there are people who don't have cable, a 1.0 rating for a network station represents more people than a 1.0 for a cable station. But you never hear about this. When converted to the network universe the AFL went from .8 ratings to .3 ratings, NASCAR also saw a big drop this weekend, but since the cable rating is higher, that's the one you will probably see more often. From a ratings stand point it seems like a bad choice for leagues to take their product off of the network platform, but the one advantage ESPN does have is a gratuitous amount of promotional space. Ever since acquiring these properties, the two of them have become an intricate part of almost every ESPN show. Is it worth it? I'm not sure.
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
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