Do Performance Enhancing Drugs make a difference?

This era of baseball is just embarrassing, plain and simple. Professional baseball players are now walking on egg shells and they are scared to take anything for fear they will test positive in a random drug test for PED’s. My question is simple, do PED’s make a difference?

When all is said and done, you still need to have the natural ability to play the game. Baseball sounds like a simple game, you hit the ball, you catch the ball and you throw the ball. However, in it’s simplicity lies the difficulty. There will always be someone who can do it better and faster.

The most difficult thing to do in sports is hit a baseball. To hit a round ball with a round bat is very difficult. Now throw in the fact that the ball is coming at speeds above 90mph and is also moving like crazy. I don’t care how strong you are, it takes skill and practice to do this.

You may look at someone like Mark McGuire and say that PED’s helped him. Maybe they did, but what is the difference if a ball is hit 400 feet or 450 feet, it’s still a homerun. Then some may argue that the advantage comes in to effect when a homerun is just barely hit over the fence. If the player had not been taking the PED’s, would this have been a homerun? Who really knows.

I do think that there should be a level playing field and there should be no use of PED’s in any sport. However, there are teams that spend alot of money in sports medicine. There are trainers who are better than others and can get more out of an athlete. There are team doctors who have better treatments that heal athletes faster. Is this fair?

We could argue the points of this forever, but the bottom line is that I want baseball to shine again and not have this black cloud over it. I want to be able to take my son to a game and not have him ask me if any of the players are on PED’s. I want my son to also understand that there are no shortcuts in anything and that hard work is always necessary.

I would like to see a study done on an athlete that has taken PED’s and see what the results are. Show me that and I will guarantee you that that person will not b any better at his sport.

This is Madonna……Now?

What has become of the “Material Girl”? It certainly looks like she needs an IV drip or some kind of nourishment. I think it may be time for Madonna to cover up a bit until she gains some weight or is this sympathy weight loss so she doesn’t feel ashamed for stealing 3rd world country children.

Either way……NASTY!!

Gosselin + Lohan = WTF!!

This just can’t be good! This is wrong in so many ways!

I must admit, when hearing of Jon Gosselin divorce Kate Gosselin, I was glad. Glad to see that he would no longer be a beaten man and have is spirit broken by the psycho hose beast (and her hair). However, I feel like he has abandoned his kids for the party life with a drugged out 22 year old whore, a “reporter” from STAR magazine and now with Michael Lohan?

When it rains it pours!

Hey Jon! A bit of advice. Michael Lohan’s kids don’t want anything to do with him. Why would you even associate yourself with him. You have 8 kids to care for……..Oh Wait. I get it, 8 kids can be a pain in the ass. I see what he’s doing.

Well played Mr Gosselin! You’re still an asshole, but well done!

Meanwhile, somewhere in the great state of Pennsylvania, Kate is lying in bed while the nannies attend to her kids……..and I thought my family was dysfunctional.

Erin Andrews……The New Hotness!

So the hottest woman EVER was video taped through a peep hole in a hotel room and it made it on the internet. Have I seen said video…..NO! Do I want to see it….YES! What makes me want to see it is the fact that Erin Andrews is a beautiful woman who loves sports and knows more about sports than I do. As a man I do not feel threatened by this. Picture if you will, a gathering amongst friends and you stroll in with Erin Andrews on your arm. That in itself would be enough for most people…..However, when the subject of sports comes up and she literally wipes the floor with said friends…..BONUS!!!

What man hasn’t dreamed of a woman who actually wants to watch sports more than he does.

Anyway, ESPN and the attorneys for Erin Andrews are fiercely battling to find out how this happened and to ensure the video is not posted all over the web. This makes her even HOTTER!!! In an age where the sex tape is king, here is a woman with morals and who actually cares if strangers see her naked.

Thank you Ms. Andrews for having morals and not letting yourself turn into a Kim Kardashian (who settled for a large sum of money when her sex tape was out).

However, my morals are in question, because I would give my first born to see Erin Andrews naked!!!! Sorry, but testosterone wins this battle. See picture above…..Nuff Said!!

The Simpsons take on Apple

Here’s a funny spoof by the Simpsons on the Apple store. Pretty accurate if you ask me, as I write this on my MacBook.

Jon Gosselin is RIDICULOUS!!

I was a Kate Gosselin hater. I watched Jon & Kate plus 8 here and there and each time I watched, I would see Kate just verbally abuse Jon Gosselin and beat him down to a pulp. He would simply take it and you could see how much of a beaten man he was. Now that they are officially on the divorce trail, I guess they are free to do what they want. I do not know the circumstances of their divorce nor will I speculate. However, he’s got 8 kids!!!!! I have 2 of my own and it’s hard to keep up with them. I can not even fathom having 8 children.

So, today I’m surfing the web and I see a story on People about Jon vacationing with his now girlfriend. This girlfriend is the daughter of the plastic surgeon who performed the tummy tuck on Kate Gosselin!!! What the Fuck!!

This is just Fucked Up! The divorce is not even final and he’s vacationing with another woman….Meanwhile Kate is at home with the 8 kids, granted she has some help, but still. How do you explain this to your kids when they get older and realize what the deal is. After hearing this story, I truly feel bad for Kate Gosselin.

Now on the flip side, this chick that Jon is dating is only with him for the spotlight. I cannot imagine any woman, who is single with no kids would want to date a man with 8 kids!!! I can pretty much guarantee you that she will disappear when he got the kids for the weekend.

8 Kids!!!! What time would you have to date let alone take a vacation.

Coming Soon!!! New Posts!!!

It’s been a while since I have posted to my blog. Now that I have some time to myself, I will pour my useless yet entertaining information on this blog.

From G’s to Gents……to Bullshit!!

There are programs and foundations in this world that serve great causes, Feed the Children, MS Society, The Lustgarten Foundation to name a few. As I watch TV today I flip passed MTV to see a show called “From G’s to Gents”. This shows concept is to take 16 “G’s” and turn them into gentlemen and if the change is successful the winner receives $100,000. Now, I have to take issue with this crock of MTV shit!

MTV is now parading 16 hopeless kids and trying to make reality TV out of it. These “G’s” off the street do not know any better. If you take a kid who has nothing but standing on a street corner selling rock, wearing suspect jewlery and getting drunk and high, this chance looks really good. To these guys getting a chance to be on TV means fame and with fame comes popularity and with that comes the ladies. That is all these guys are thinking about!!!

These “G’s” come to this show with their sob stories of how hard they have it and that they want to change. There are certain things that you do in your life that will guarantee that you will never get a job in the corporate world and that people will laugh at you.

1. Get a tatoo on your face or your neck
2. Wearing gold or “diamond” fronts in your mouth

Reality TV has really taken a turn for the worse with this pile of shit show. For the person who wins, I guarantee that they will go through that money within a few weeks. One watch, 3 chains and some rims later, all that money will be gone. For all the guys who get eliminated one by one, they will be back on the street up to no good. So, the bottom line is that MTV wants good ratings rather than really trying to help these guys.

Jason Mraz got robbed at the Grammy’s!!

I’m watching the Grammy’s and it’s a pretty decent show. They definitley have alot of performances this year. In my humble opinion, one of the albums that isn’t getting enough credit is “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things” by Jason Mraz. I liked a few songs that Mraz had in the past, “The Remedy”, “You and I Both”, “Geek in the Pink” just to name a few.

On his newest album, I gotta say that he definitley caught my attention. The song “I’m Yours” is really good and it’s one of those songs that sticks in your head all day.Hands down, the best song on the album is “Butterfly”. It is one of the raunchiest yes classiest songs I’ve heard. If you have not heard this song, it’s worth the $.99 cents on iTunes.

As I watch the Grammy’s, I see that he is 0 for 2. He lost for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. After his 2nd loss, the cameras were on him and you could see how pissed he was especially because on the Best Male Pop performance he lost to John Mayer for “Say”. This song probably has the most repeats of the same word EVER!!!!

I’d be pissed too!!! Jason Mraz is getting SCREWED!!

Verizon FiOS Speed Test

I decided to see if the FiOS service promises what you pay for. So far I am not dissapointed, the screen shot above is a test I did at 6pm (Easten) on 2/8/09. The server I chose was the Seattle, WA server. I am currently paying for the 20/5 mbps service. This is more bandwidth than I will probably ever use, but I am happy with my results so far.

I am also pretty sure that the speed of my service will not suffer simply bacuase all traffic for the FiOS service is transmitted through the router. It’s actually a very smart way of delivering the content. It’s easier to troubleshoot. Verizon provides you with an Actionet router for your service. They tell you it’s free and push that through their sales, but the bottom line is that the router is part of the infrastructure.

The router itself is pretty huge. If you have Cablevision’s OOL service it’s approximately 40% bigger than the Motorola modem they provide. Unfortunately you really have to use their router if you have all 3 services. Like I said, the router pushes all their traffic.

The router interface is actually very user friendly. It’s nicely laid out and has pretty much all the features that any normal Linksys or D-Link router has.

Overall the FiOS internet service is very good. The great thing about it is that I am losing speed at peak times when more people are on the internet. THIS IS GREAT!!