Random Thoughts

My one problem with this video is I don't like how the Gladiators kiss his ass after this move. That's not what being an American Gladiator is all about. If this dude pulled this stunt on Nitro he'd end up in the 2nd row after it was all said and done. Rule #1 of American Gladiators. You don't show up the Gladiators. Still, it's a pretty sweet move.

Thanks to Eric for the clip...

I was getting hammered at David Wells' perfect game.

It was a Sunday, one week before my college graduation. The next day our Senior Week started, five days of drinking and debauchery, immorality and immaturity. Pretty much a continuation of the previous four years.

Some of my Yankees fan friends (Chris, now MSDW's most ardent Barry Bonds fan, doesn't count as a Yankees fan since at the time he didn't know who Kevin Maas was) suggested making the trip to the Bronx for the game. This was May 1998. By the day of the game, the Yankees were 28-9 and 3.5 games up on the Sox. The Yankees were clearly the class of major league baseball. The Sox would win 92 games that season and finish 22 games out. Getting tickets the day of the game was easy; no Yankees fans were going early in the season because everyone knew that the real games wouldn't start until October. We ended up with seats in one of the last rows of the tier reserved.

This is what I remember about the first six innings of that game: Nothing. I pretty much concentrated on drinking Miller Lites and trying to explain to my Yankees fan friends why Nomar Garciaparra was clearly superior to Derek Jeter.

It wasn't until after the sixth inning that we all had a collective "Holy Shit" moment. And then we did four things the rest of the game:

1. Stood and cheered
2. Held it in
3. Called our friends that had passed up the chance to come to the game and made sure that they realized that they were missing out on the 15th perfect game in major league history.
4. Kept on calling our friends that had passed up the chance to come to the game just to be certain that they truly realized what they were missing. We were considerate like that.

When you're a college senior and your college life is on its last legs, you always wonder how you can go out in style. Most of the standard answers are potentially life-threatening or against the Geneva Convention.

But kicking off the final week of college by watching the 15th perfect game in major league history- both legal and historic. One week later, I would sitting at graduation, trash bag in my pocket because I was pretty sure that I was going to throw-up after a week of "excitement," dreaming about a career in the poorly paid biweekly newspaper/blog industry. Remember kids, dreams do come true.

Britney Spears posted this cryptic letter on her official website this morning;

The reason for this letter is to let everyone know that their prayers have truly helped me. I am so blessed that you care enough about me to be concerned and will continue to live in this brighter state with all of you by my side during this trying time. We are all lights of the world and we all need to continuously inspire others and look to the higher power. You are all in my prayers.

Godspeed.
Love, Britney

To be honest, I’ve read this 16 times and I still can’t tell whether this is a suicide letter or a happy letter.  Regardless, I’ve got to give Britney props for using “Godspeed” at the end of it.   I don’t know why but that’s one of my favorite ways to sign a letter.   I’m going to use it on all my emails for the rest of the month.  

Godspeed

El Pres

UB says no, even though the thought of Rocky VI created nightmares, and it was great...Here are the latest photos from the film expected to be out around the holidays:

This is the funniest thing UB has seen in a long time. Marine Sgt. Harvey E. Walden, IV is one of the judges on Celebrity Fit Club and according to this video he doesn't like getting punked by has-been child stars. The best part of this is when Screech tries to blow him off with a comment about setting up a UFC fight, which makes Walden literally turn into the Hulk

Boston.com - Remember in June '04, when Ken Casey and the Dropkick Murphys played "Tessie" at Fenway? It be came something of a Bosox anthem, and the team went on to win its first World Series in 86 years. Hyde Park's Louie Bello is hoping his tune, "We Can't Lose," becomes the "Tessie" of '07. "We gave the song to Big Papi, and we're told he likes it," said Billy Dufresne, Bello's mana ger. The song, whose chorus is "On fire feel the heat from the bat/ On fire Big Papi is back / En Fuego, Prendelo Prendelo/ We can't lose," is on iTunes and Bello's MySpace page.

I am absolutely mystified how this blurb actually made it on Boston.com.    It must be a real slow news day over there ,which may explain why Dan Shaughnessy has time to call back his hate mail   Regardless, let’s rate Louie Bello’s “We Can’t Lose”.    Just click on his myspace page and it starts playing automatically.   (I'm sure there is a way for me to post the song directly on the blog, but I don't know how) Anyway, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this will NOT become the next Red Sox anthem played at Fenway Park. 

Thanks to Ratty for the story...

Major league baseball, NFL, college football, NBA, college hoops, NHL, college hockey, soccer, NASCAR, Olympics, tennis, cheerleading, competitive eating, UFC, boxing, local high school sports, golf and the occasional dog fight.

Do I really have room for arena football?

ESPN wants me to. The worldwide leader is Arena Football crazy. It may have something to do with the fact that the channel now shows AFL games but that's probably just a coincidence. But at least the people down in Bristol got free AFL gear to quiet their consciences.

Now the Globe is hopping on the arena football bandwagon with a piece about the New England Surge of the Continental Indoor Football League.

Really? Do I really need to start driving to Worcester for Surge games? Do I need to start paying attention to second-rate indoor football leagues? Arena football seems fun but I also feel like I'm watching the DII hoops championship during Final Four weekend. You know that the guys playing are better than you are but you're also very much aware that they're not even close to being good enough to play at the highest level of the sport. It's like off-Broadway sports.

But the Surge's best season ticket package- six home games- goes for $165 so I can't fault anyone for taking the kids to see some top-notch, second-rate sports action.

The saddest part of the Globe's story- that former Patriot Harold Shaw is playing for the Surge. I don't know much about Shaw's story but I can tell you this- if I had played in the NFL, there isn't a chance in hell I'm ever suiting up for the Continental Indoor Football League. If the choice is CIFL or jumping off the Tobin, I'm filling my pockets with rocks and taking the leap.

I heard Felger talking about this yesterday on his show, the Wisconsin Testicle Festival that 300 "nuts" turned out at over the weekend.

AP - - More than 300 people paid $5 for all-you-can-eat goat, lamb and bull testicles Saturday at the ninth annual Testicle Festival at Mama's Place Bar and Grill in Elderon in central Wisconsin.

"Once you get over the mental (aspect) of what you're eating, it's just like eating any other food, and it tastes good," said Buster Hoffman, 50, of Kronenwetter.Festival founder Nancy Fenske of Elderon said the festival grew out of her late husband Roger's birthday party 12 years ago. They decided to have "a nut fry" at Mama's Place after bringing back lamb fries from a trip to Montana. The gathering grew every year, and now they fry up to 100 pounds of testicles for the festival, she said.

"What else can you do in a small town?" Fenske said, adding later in the evening after the music starts, "It gets nuts here." Butch Joubert, 58, of Kronenwetter, likes the parts sandwiched between bread with tartar sauce. They're not so different from regular meatballs also served at the festival, he said. "After a few beers, you can't really tell the difference," Joubert said.

Now UB can appreciate that at some point along the way a poor farmer was trying to feed his family and had already used all the other parts of his bull to and just said, "Fuck it" and fried up the thing's nuts. That UB can understand. What's confusing to me is why people are eating them now. The guy says "They're not so different from regular meatballs...After a few beers, you can't really tell the difference." So then why not eat some damn meatballs? Sick, sick, sick.

Inside Track - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and Jessica Biel were bringing SexyBack to Manchester, England this week when the pop star and actress met for a late-night makeout session. “They were kissing and holding hands,” a spy dished to Us Weekly. The two had their PDA following Timberlake’s show in a hotel bar then repaired to the presidential suite. Timberlake and Biel have been linked since the 26-year-old singer split from longtime girlfriend Cameron Diaz last fall. But a pal of the “The Illusionist” star insists their relationship is nothing more than a fling. “Jessica has said there is nothing romantic,” the friend said.

Ok, so let me make sure I understand this correctly.    Both Timberlake and Biel admit that they are hooking up, but both say it’s nothing romantic.   So in other words they’re just fuck buddies.  

I admit it. I totally sweat Justin Timberlake.

I think if I had to pick my two favorite jobs it would be prank monkey and fortune cookie writer. But there are a million good ones.

Thanks to Southside Mike for the link...

This is a continuation of the Dan Shaughnessy thing from yesterday. If you didn't read yesterday's reader emails than click here to catch up. In a nutshell a reader sent Dan Shaughnessy an email with the above picture attached which prompted Dan to call the kid on the phone and yell at him. We posted the entire story. Now Dan has apparently gone one step further...

Reader Email

Dear Dan Shaughnessy,

You are a douche.  After speaking with you on the phone yesterday, I had a little respect for you for actually calling me out.  That is all gone today as you have proved yourself to be a scumbag of the highest order.  Thanks for calling my boss and sending all those emails alerting them my involvement in the posts on Barstool Sports today (do you know what it is now?).  You have shown my employer how questionable my morals and ethics are, but more importantly, showed exactly how batshit crazy you are.  Do you want my parents home address so you can go chat with them about the terrible job they did raising me?  Just to recap;

YOU CALLED MY BOSS AND TOLD ON ME!!!  HOW OLD ARE YOU???

Matt

If this is true and I have no reason to believe it’s not this is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard in my life.   Dan Shaughnessy calling a kid’s boss who writes something mean about him?   Are you serious?   Is Shaughnessy that insane?    I mean this is like Crazy Joe Davola nuts.  I may have to stop writing bad things about him from now on because I don’t want a maniac like this on my ass.  The Stool may need to hire personal bodyguards for Chisholm so Crazy Dan Shaughnessy doesn’t put the kibosh on him.

There are about 100,000 Price is Right clips on YouTube, but these ones really stood out:

Continue Reading

Who do you want to Wake Up to? Ub@barstoolsports.com

Former Everett High School star and current Oakland Raiders benchwarmer Omar Easy may be making a name for himself in another field- real estate.

In an email sent to Barstool, Easy and his mother Icylin Wright Gibbs are accused of being heartless slumlords. Anonymous emailer Jack Daniels [note to future anonymous emailers- avoid selecting aliases that are Tennessee whiskey-related] claims that Easy and his mom are turning a blind eye to about 500 different housing code violations at the building they own at 6-8 Edith Avenue in Everett.

Omar was kind enough to help his mother buy a house in Everett Mass. His mother (Icylnn) and the family are not kind enough to keep up with the place. It is a 3 family home and on the first floor are about 10-15 people living there (3 bedroom one floor apt). Section 8 pays the rent directly to the Easy family and the people on the first floor who originally rented the place have people pay them to stay there. Their gas has been shut off, they pee out the back windows, the front door is broken, there is a pipe leaking in the basement and the inside is a mess. When Omar Easy and his family was told about the terrible condition his mother said, "I don't care as long as I get paid". Meanwhile, before Omar's mother was the mother of a football star she had problems of her own. When living in Everett she had trouble paying her rent and bills. An Everett school took up a donation to help her out. This is how they are giving back to the community, by helping destroy it. Omar Easy pretends to be a hero while neglecting the people who really needs his help- his tenants...PLEASE HELP!

Some college kid in Allston just read this email and is seriously considering moving to Easy's slumtastic apartment building. Peeing out back windows, broken pipes and a broken front door- that's like $1500 for a two bedroom in L.A.

All this being said, let's talk seriously for a second. In your professional opinions, who looked more like a 45-year old man in high school- Omar Easy or Greg Oden? Such a tough call.