The Great Wall of information

So at what point did Michael Strahan's cell phone start ringing today? The gap-toothed one played at a high level last year without the benefit of training camp, no reason to think he couldn't do it again this year.

You just know Carl Pavano will pitch just well enough to convince Brian Cashman to throw another $20 million for 2 years at him.

There literally isn't one rhythmic gymnasts in the top 10 who is not part of the old Soviet Bloc. Maybe Putin's real goal is to make sure the Ruskies sweep in London in 2012?

I'm sure this won't be the manliest statement I've ever made but an Olympic event I never would have thought I would like was synchronized swimming. This is like Cirque de Soleil in the water although watching 6 different teams was a bit much. I would like to see a synchronized eating event. A bunch of biker dudes tossing pork bellies over a grass hedge and catching it blindfolded with their mouths


Saw a restaurant today on Bleeker called New York HotDog’s and Coffee. This is the kind of combination I’m into. Who doesn’t like to wash down a chili cheese dog with a double mocha cappuccino?

Now I'm a huge fan of lesbians especially ones who don't like to wear brassiers but is there any chance Lindsay Lohan could at least help my fantasies by dating a chick who is at least slightly attractive?

Enough of not complaining.. now it is time for some complaining
Had this conversation with the Lad yesterday, tapas with a big crowd might be the worst idea ever.. First of all you wind up spending $50 a person and you find yourself at the pizzeria down the street 20 minutes after you walk out of the restaurant. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that each individual tapa costs about $16 that you are under the false belief that two of these things should fill you up.

But more importantly you wind up sharing everything, which is the biggest issue I have with this. Everybody loves the idea of trying many different things but because everybody wants diversity nobody winds up doubling up on any specific item. This basically leads to a table filled with a ton of items that nobody is really into. So the bad news for you is that you get on small piece of the spicy strip-steak you ordered but the good news is that you can try to fill up between the bland potato cakes and the tomato and sardine mix. Three quarters of the items on the menu seem to have been added solely so you can have some inane dinner conversation about how interesting the combination of green peppers and turkey ham sounds. The food comes out and everybody dives into the garlic shrimp while the bowl of broccoli with Velveeda cheese sits there getting about as much attention as Evan Bayh will get for the rest of his life. Because you feel bad for hammering any of the individual items, you very quickly recognize that along with heartburn you will be left completely unsatisfied.


Of course I was the clown who suggested we all go for Tapas in the first place.

Joe Bayhdin

The AP breaks the Biden story at 11:52pm, probably a good 12 hours before those text messages were supposed to go out and I'm left to wonder if Evan Bayh's kids even recognize him anymore.

Watching MSNBC as they stalked Biden's house for him to come out of it to NOT make a statement. There must have been 500 Delawarians standing in front of his house in tapered jeans or shuffleboard shorts and Nascar shirts.. This is apparantly the constituency that Biden can bring to the ticket??


what the hell is wrong with people?

BEIJING - A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification.
Matos was winning 3-2, with 1:02 in the second round, when he fell to the mat after being hit by his opponent, Kazakhstan’s Arman Chilmanov. He was sitting there, awaiting medical attention, when he was disqualified for taking too much injury time. Fighters get one minute, and Matos was disqualified when his time ran out.

Send this dipsh*t back to Cuba in a raft from some port in Beijing.



BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian threw down his greco-roman bronze medal in protest on Thursday after his bid for Olympic gold was ended by a decision denounced by the Swedish coach as “politics.”
Abrahamian took the bronze from around his neck during the medal ceremony, stepped from the podium and dropped it in the middle of the wrestling mat then walked off.
“I don’t care about this medal. I wanted gold,” he said.
A bitter Abrahamian, silver medalist at Athens 2004 who had high hopes of top honors in the 84kg competition in Beijing, announced he was quitting the sport.
“This will be my last match. I wanted to take gold, so I consider this Olympics a failure,” he said.
The Swedish wrestler had to be restrained by teammates earlier when a row erupted with judges over the decision in a semifinal bout at the Chinese Agricultural University Gym with Andrea Minguzzi of Italy, who went on the take gold.
Abrahamian shouted at the referee and judges then went over to their seats to speak to them up close. He angrily threw off the restraining arm of a team official then turned and left.

What do you expect out of sport where the referee's back is always turned when Bobby the Brain comes in with a metal chair.

Who is the Athlete?

Now we come to this.. How the hell is equestrian jumping an Olympic sport?

Yeah I read all about how this is a very dangerous sport and their are more deaths per race than in stock-car racing but really any competition where the dude sits on a horse wearing a silly black helmet and corduroys and jumping over some trimmed bushes is not Olympic medal worthy.

More importantly who gets the medal? The jockey or the horse?

If they claim it's the Jockey than how do you explain horse racing where they say the horse is the athlete (see ESPN ranking Secretariat in the top 25 athletes of all time). Maybe the Equestrian Jumping community tries to hedge their bests and award both the medal? Even if this was the case I still would have a major issue with this as an Olympic jar because how the hell does the horse prove its citizenship?

What is next, they bring the dogs to the Olympics to have them run their little obstacle course?

Coolest Olympic moment was surprisingly one that didn't have Michael Phelps or not in a swimming event but when some 321 pound Magnús Ver Magnússon looking weight lifter put 569 pounds over his head to win gold and then broke down in tears. It was awesome to see somebody put that much weight over his head but what got you was when he was presented the gold medal he held it in his right hand and a picture of an young woman in his other. Picture was of his wife who died in a car crash last year.

By the way, saw that the Mets signed pitcher Al Reyes.
How many Reyes' can one team have? Maybe the name is like the Dominican version of Kim.

Is there a better name for the fastest man than Bolt?

Watched the Misty May and Other Chick beach volleyball yesterday, it is amazing with this new scoring how quickly those games finish. I'm not talking about the speed of the serves but about the length of the game. Not saying it is not a real sport but why do other serve and volley games that much longer?
Now I can appreciate any sport where two hot chicks stand around in bikinis but somehow I have to imagine that if you go to one of those matches and sit in the sun waiting for this thing to get started and it's over before you had a 2nd Miller Lite you'd be pissed. I think the gold medal match took all of 25 minutes including breaks and the scores were something like 21-18 and 21-18.

Would you rather be the fastest man or an 8 gold medal winner?

Ryan Express asked me this over the weekend...
Problem with being the fastest man is that your world record will fall fairly quickly while 8 golds should hold up for a few decades.

Watching the gymnastics, my buddy Zeke wondered if he accidentally turned on the MSG network.

How much does Shawn Johnson look like the Robot from Small Wonder?


I would be nervous to win the 100 meter dash if those crazy Chinese fans are gonna be hugging me. Apparently you can't protest but you can easily grope athletes.

They should check those beef patties for HGH after those results in the 100 meter dashes?

Gotta love that Romanian woman taking about 5 victory laps after running 26.2 miles. She looked like she was gonna die at mile 21 but after the race seemed to have the energy to run another 2 miles.

Training with a Cup on.

I've been training for the marathon and just finished a half marathon as part of the training, pretty proud of myself finishing it in till I ran into a girl I went to High School with who says..

"Yeah, I don't ever run but went out the other day completely hung over and ran 13 miles in 1:30.." That is like a 7 minute mile.

Now it is possible that she did it but really not that likely, I am sure she either ran it in 130 minutes or only ran like 9 miles.. I don't wanna make a scene about it but what a kick in the nuts.


Little weak to see how little people were on the side cheering on the Olympic marathon, with 1 billion people, you'd think the Chinese government could throw out a couple thousand political prisoners to at least make it look like people care

Michael Phelps only seems to have one downfall.. His mom's jackets.

I really hate that they run the 100 meter dash which is the quintessential Olympic event at about 9am on a Saturday especially when I'm hung over...

Forget the athletic ability it takes to swim the 1500 meters, I am most impressed by the athletes ability to count to 30.

I got a twist for the swimming relay medley. Each team can decide which swim to do when they want.. One team might go breast stroke, freestyle, butterfly and then backstroke.. But another team counters by going backstroke first, breast stroke next,doggy paddle and then butterfly.

I'd love to see a diver whose out of medal contention to say screw it and just do a cannonball.

I did notice the Italian women have a major disadvantage with that drag on the armpit hair.

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