- Now that’s what I call bringing something to your new team, Jose Guillen. The temperamental slugger had no sooner signed a 3-year, $36 million contract with baseball’s most hapless team, the Kansas City Royals, than he got popped by Major League Baseball for violating the rules of its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment program. Guillen reportedly bought more than $19,000 worth of drugs from the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center, one of the now-infamous anti-aging clinics responsible for writing fraudulent prescriptions for HGH to professional athletes, between May 2002 and June 2005. He played for five teams during that span: the Diamondbacks, Reds, Athletics, Angels and Nationals. However, starting in January 2005, Major League Baseball officially banned HGH, meaning that when next season begins, the Royals will play their first 15 games without the highest-paid player on their roster, a guy they’re dishing out $12 per year to so he can add some much-needed punch to their lineup. Kinda hard to add punch to the lineup when you’re not even in uniform, though. Maybe the Royals need to find out if they can still get out of this deal, because what kind of precedent does it set when a guy starts his career with your team on suspension? Really, do you expect things to get better from there? What in Guillen’s checkered past, spanning eight teams in 11 seasons, makes you think he’s going to be anything other than a massive headache? For now, the team is saying the right things, but you know they have to be pissed behind closed doors. "We signed Jose knowing that was a possibility," Kansas City GM Dayton Moore said Thursday in regards to the suspension. "While my initial reaction is one of disappointment, I am thoroughly convinced that Jose will put this behind him.” Oh, he’ll put it behind him, D. He’ll put it behind him and move on to his next controversy when he gets into it with his new manager or one of his new teammates over some perceived sleight or other disagreement. He’ll put it behind him just like he’ll put Kansas City behind him when you follow suit with every team he’s played for previously and tire of his act to the point that, in spite of Hall-of-Fame talent, you trade him to a new team so he can ruin their team chemistry as well.
- Am I the only one that’s totally confused by this sudden trend of college football players, specifically players from schools in the state of Texas, committing felony burglaries? First it was Andre Jones and James Henry, two incoming freshman football players at the University of Texas who were suspended by coach Mack Brown before they even played a single down because of their arrests on burglary charges. Now, Texas A&M’s Yemi Babalola and teammate Brandon Joiner have been indefinitely suspended after their arrests a day earlier on felony robbery and drug counts. Babalola was charged with two aggravated robbery counts and one count of misdemeanor marijuana possession, according to a College Station police statement. Joiner was charged with three drug possession counts, one a felony. Babalola was free Thursday on bond totaling $52,000, but Joiner remained in jail with bond set at $16,000. According to the police statement, one resident suffered minor injuries in the home invasion on Nov. 29 at the Callaway Villas Apartments. Police said two men, allegedly Babalola and Joiner, entered the apartment, one of them carrying a semiautomatic pistol. The investigation led to the search of the suspects' homes on Wednesday, where drugs and other evidence was found, according to the statement. Again guys, I commend you both on building a rapport and doing things with your teammates. But can’t you find a better, non-criminal way to do that? Maybe go to a sporting event together, or mix in a movie or concert? Also, as I reminded Jones and Henry, look at where you are on the team and understand that unless you’re a star, you’re not getting away with crap like this. Babalola is a junior offensive lineman who only played in nine games this season, including six starts. Joiner, a freshman defensive end, took a redshirt season and didn't play. I’m sure new A&M coach Gary Darnell, who literally was just hired, appreciates having this dumped in his lap immediately after stepping on campus. Memo to Texas A&M players and all knucklehead, would-be burglars/college football players: stop stealing things, find legal ways to hang out together and stay out of jail…..
- Don’t you just hate in when a candidate for a local government office allegedly tries to fool people about their transgender status by running as a woman? Such is the plight of voters in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale. where a local judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Michelle Bruce, the transgender councilwoman in question (you always need to clarify these sorts of things, given how many transgender council members are out there), tried to fool voters by running as a woman on the ballot. The ruling clears the way for a runoff election in which Bruce can seek a second consecutive term on the City Council in Riverdale. Call me old fashioned, but I usually like my candidates for any office to have a definite sex, either male or female, and to stick to it. It’s the same reason I would never vote for Sen. Hank Clinton in thr 2008 presidential election….just kidding, Hank. There are lots of reasons I won't vote for you, I would never limit myself to just one…..
- I always thought those stories about excessively overprotective dads grilling and threatening prospective
dates/boyfriends for their daughters were TV creations. Y’know, those scenes on sitcoms where the dad pulls the guy aside and tells him that if he does anything to hurt his little girl, the dad will ______________ (insert chosen method of torture here). Well apparently one dad in Greece actually meant those threats, because the 47-year-old man will soon be on trial on charges of attempted murder and aggravated assault after allegedly using a sword to sever the hand of his 15-year-old daughter’s boyfriend. The unidentified psychopath/father (often times they’re one in the same when it comes to protecting their daughters) was arrested on the Aegean Sea island of Naxos this past weekend and is set to appear before a public prosecutor very soon. Now I could be wrong here, I’m no attorney, but the “psycho dad” defense isn’t actually a viable one in most courts. No matter how skeezy your daughter’s boyfriend is, severing his hand with a sword is a no-no. In the end, I think this case goes the way of the boy with the served hand, who now has to learn how to clap one-handed…..
- What embodies the spirit of the American political system better than cheating investors out of millions of dollars and funneling that money into the campaigns of political candidates you support? So why is a federal grand jury indicting Norman Hsu, a 56-year-old clothing-industry entrepreneur from New York, on charges of bilking investors out of at least $20 million and using much of that money for illegal donations to political candidates. Among those receiving money from Hsu is Sen. Hank Clinton, the dude I most fear as a potential president of this country. This isn’t just any indictment, either; it’s a 15-count whopper of an indictment that centers on Hsu using a massive Ponzi scheme to swindle investors nationwide. Personally, I don’t think we need to go indicting people like this. Make them vice presidential running mates for current presidential candidates, yes. Indict them, no. You’re telling me that all of the candidates out the for Congress and the presidency are totally above board with all of their fundraising? Besides, anyone dumb enough to get ripped off in a Ponzi scheme is going to get taken for their money sooner or later, so it’s just a matter of who rips them off first. Sorry for your troubles, Mr. Hsu, enjoy your stay in federal prison.
- Guess your “apology” wasn’t good enough, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. After issuing a mea culpa for ads that crossed the line in terms of appealing to kids and using cartoons to do so, R.J. Reynolds also promised to abstain from any print advertising for the next year, but that apology wasn’t enough for the attorneys general of at least eight states have declared their intentions to file lawsuits against the tobacco giant for violating the ban on using cartoons to sell cigarettes by producing ads placed in Rolling Stone that promoted rock music and tobacco use. Based on those ads, which appeared in the November issue of the magazine, the suits are just the latest black eye for the tobacco industry, which has rightfully been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism and many campaigns by anti-smoking advocates in recent years. Why do you do all of us a favor and just go away, tobacco companies? The world would be a better place without your death sticks, so just get lost…..
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