- Way to do your thing, Scott Boras. Baseball’s most famous and arrogant agent is at it again, throwing his own little hissy fit because his top client, Alex Rodriguez, isn’t receiving the kind of interest from teams as Boras expected when A-Fraud opted out of his $25 million-a-year contract with the New York Yankees. Boras and A-Fraud decided to start the bidding for his services at $350 million for the total value of the contract and between $30-35 million annually. Problem is, that bidding war hasn’t taken place and now Boras is alleging collusion on the part of MLB owners as the reason. Boras refuses to believe that maybe, just maybe, no owner wants to make the same mistake that Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks made when he signed A-Fraud to that 10-year, $252 million deal several years ago before trading him to the Yankees. No does Boras want to believe that no team wants to try to buck the trend of no team that pays one player such an exorbitant salary has ever won a World Series. It’s true; no team paying one player as high a percentage of its total team salary as the salary A-Fraud wants would be has ever won a championship. So of course the owners must be colluding to hold down A-Fraud’s contract demands, because there couldn’t be any other explanation, right? Boras and his client need to check themselves and realize that no one agrees with them and their demands, not the owners, the fans or Major League Baseball. They’re making themselves look really bad and turning everyone against them. This is going to end poorly for A-Fraud and at this point, he deserves it.
- Congress and W. have been stuck in a repeating pattern for months now, Congress passing bills, many of them bills addressing actual problems and situations in a valid way, and W. acted like a petulant 2-year-old, vetoing them. Then W. would ask Congress for more money to fund his joke of a war in Iraq and Congress would balk at the request. It was a nice little cycle, but that cycle has been broken now that the House has finally gotten enough votes on a vetoed bill to override W.’s veto. Sadly, the veto doesn’t come on a bill ending the war, refusing war funding or finding a way to get W. out of office, but a veto is a veto and I’ll take it. The bill deals with water resources and it addresses pressing infrastructure needs across the country. The veto vote was 361-54, much more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto. By the way, Congress, the majority needed to impeach a president is…..aw, who am I kidding? No one has the guts to impeach this tool, we’re stuck with W. until the end of next year. Veto on, Congress, veto on….
- What were you thinking, MSNBC? Offering Rosie O’Donnell her own talk show on your network? That God she refused the offer after being unable to finalize a deal with the cable station. The prime-time show would have pitted O’Fat against the likes of Larry King wont happen, and according to O’Fat on her blog, it’s “just as well” that she won’t join MSNBC. Writing in her typical style evoking memories of how the test of us used to write in each other’s yearbooks in third grade, O’Fat wrote: “poof/my career as a pundit is over/b4 it began.” Good grammar, slob. Did your bff tell you to write that? Are you just 2 cool 2 be 4gotten? Look, I know that O’Fat is controversial because she talks like a truck driver, acts like a trailer park resident, has the intellectual capacity of a drunken chimp after a lobotomy and looks like a cross between an orca and a plastic surgery gone wrong, but controversy doesn’t make her a good candidate to host a show. Putting her in the 9 p.m. time slot would have been the worst thing to happen to TV since American Karaoke. Be glad the deal didn’t work out, promise to never do anything this stupid again and we’ll all agree to forget that this ever happened, MSNBC.
- Whatcha gonna do, brother, whatcha gonna do when a passenger in your car is critically injured when you’re illegally street racing? The answer for Nick Bollea, son of Terry Bollea, better known as wrestler Hulk Hogan, is turn yourself in to face the charges against you. The younger Bollea has been charged with reckless driving involving serious bodily injury for a car crash in Clearwater, Fla. in August. In the collision, Nick Bollea was racing his father’s 1998 Toyota Supra against a Dodge Viper when his car struck a curb, spun across two lanes of traffic and slammed read-end first into a palm tree. His passenger, John Graziano, was critically injured in the crash and now Bollea has turned himself in to face the charges against him. I have to say, this is a total stunner for me. I mean, who would have expected the son of a rich, famous athlete, a kid who’s grown up with wealth and privilege and clearly developed a sense of entitlement and a right to do what he wants when he wants to be involved in an illegal activity like street racing? Well, anyone other than people who watched even a few minutes of the Bollea/Hogan family’s reality series Hogan Knows Best on VH1, because anyone who watched that show knows what a total tool Nick Bollea is. Even for a 17-year-old guy, he’s a moron, which is really saying something. He’s as flaky and ditzy as any blonde you’ll ever see, female or male, and the fact that his most recent career aspiration was to follow his dad into pro wrestling and he couldn’t even stick with that doesn’t say anything good. So Nick, say your prayers, take your vitamins….and stop street racing and crashing cars into palm trees. That should really help improve your life, bro….
- No hard feelings for the protestors who demonstrated against your proposed constitutional reforms, eh Hugo Chavez? What happened to just considering denying them permits to assemble like you had threatened to do just a few days ago? Now, Chavez’s military is opening fire on thousands of students returning from an anti-Chavez rally, seriously injuring eight people. The protest was attended by about 80,000 people, all of them voicing their opposition to the despotic president of Venezuela expanding his power through the proposed reforms that will basically make him the country’s dictator/president for life. But I’m sure that the soldiers opening fire on these people as they returned from the protest was just coincidental and a big misunderstanding, right Hugo?
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