Thursday, August 21, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Best Olympian Ever or Beneficiary of Circumstances?

Okay, I get it. Mike Phelps is a great swimmer. Probably the best in the world right now. But with the breaking of Mark Spitz’s record there’s the claim that Phelps is the best Olympian ever. He might be…but what are we basing that on? I’m not even 100% sure what that means. Does it mean that Phelps is the best athlete that’s ever competed in the Olympics? I mean if the Olympics are the hallmark athletic event and you’re being dubbed the best Olympian ever I guess that means you’re the best athlete right?
Its clear that Phelps is a freak of nature and has completely bent his sport over and had his way with it. However, if I was an athlete either competing in this Olympics or in the past I’d be friggin’ livid about dubbing Phelps the best Olympian ever. Lets see, Phelps has a record 8 gold medals which means he’s had at least 8 chances (actually he swam 17 times so he had 17 chances!) to medal. What if you make the Olympics as a soccer, hockey or baseball player? Last time I checked you only win one medal for winning those events.
I’m not all that well versed in the arts of swimming but I get that for Phelps to win 8 medals he has to use different skill sets in each race. But isn’t baseball a five tool sport? Don’t all sports require a variety of athletic ability? You don’t also get a gold for most home runs hit or most bases stolen. If you did it might level out the playing field if you’re basing the title Best Olympian Ever solely on medal count.
I guess we should just give Phelps the limelight for the next 5 days. After all what’s really out there for him when he comes home? Being the spokesperson for USA swimming? Baseball, football and basketball are so big in this country the NHL can barely keep its head above water so I don’t think swimming has a chance in hell of getting a piece of the pie. Also, how often are we really going to talk about Phelp’s accomplishment…..2 weeks? A month…. maybe? How often did you hear Mark Spitz’s name until a week before the Olympics?
So in closing well done Mike Phelps. You definitely killed it this Olympics. I’m not ready to give you the title of Best Olympian Ever BUT I hope you can leverage this performance into getting some poon so you can stop slobbering all over your gross sisters and mom. I’ll look forward to watching highlights of your performance every four years.
Orlando
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Finally….Somebody Gets It!
If you haven’t heard yet Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, Ara Abrahamian, pulled a classic hissy fit after winning bronze today. During the award ceremony, after he was given the bronze medal, he packed up his marbles, stormed off and threw his medal to the ground. I first came across this story while getting pretty lit in an airport bar so I didn’t get any sound. At first glance I thought this was the first act of protest, during the games, against the current situation in
However! After further review it turns out this pud was just pissed he didn’t win gold. I don’t blame him. I play to win too. Some people would say just medaling in the Olympics is a symbol of a lifelong achievement. We have a name for those people where I come from. Losers. He’s claiming the judges screwed him and he may have a point. The three judges were from
In his only comments post match he said “This will be my last match. I wanted to take gold, so I consider this Olympics a failure”. Personally I like his style. I’ve been living my life by a new rule for the past 6 months. If you can’t win just quit. So kudos to you Ara. Well played good sir. Let that be a lesson for all you kids out there. If something doesn’t work out just quit, sulk and have a Swedish meatball.
Busily,
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Even Air Jordan Did it Twice
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Monday, December 31, 2007
I'm Just Saying
For all intents and purposes Hill was a much nicer guy. He spent a ton of time and a good chunk of his paycheck to help rebuild New Orleans after Katrina. After being drafted in 2004 Hill spent the bulk of his time in the off-season at his alma mater, LSU, where he trained and mentored current LSU players. If you do any type of research you’ll be hard up to find anyone say anything negative about him.
Taylor, on the other hand, had his bouts with good decision making. I won’t get into all the dumb sh*t he did at University of Miami in light of keeping this post brief. But during his rookie season (among other things) Taylor was fined $25,000 for walking out on a mandatory rookie symposium. He was fined 7 times that year for late hits, uniform violations and unsportsman-like penalties culminating in a $17,000 fine for spitting in the face of TJ Houshmandzadeh. Evidently 17k ‘aint no thang’ to Taylor because this retard did the same thing the following year when he was ejected from a game for spitting at Michael Pittman (of which he was fined 17k……again).
Other than the fact that Taylor’s fines were financing the NFL’s operation budget in 2005 Taylor was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and a felony and misdemeanor battery charge. All this was because of a dispute over two ATVs. For real.
So after looking at both resumes I’m surprised the NFL hasn’t at least memorialized both players equally instead of saying absolutely NOTHING about Hill. Don’t get me wrong, I think what happened to Sean Taylor is a tragedy and he should be remembered for the good things he brought into this world but it seems to me that the NFL would want to highlight a player like Hill. He’s stand-up guy, gave back to his community and helped out younger players as they aspired to be in the NFL. Is it because Goodell simply doesn’t like Belichick and the Pats? Is it only because Hill died before the season started?
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Suds Returns to Nashville....Live Updates Dec 29th-Jan1st

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Pretty Boy To Fight In MMA??

“Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather is indeed pondering involvement in MMA. The interest was spawned when Mayweather began to establish a relationship with Mark Cuban while both being contestants on this years “Dancing With The Stars”. Evidently the two are smitten with each other because Cuban carried two of Mayweather’s championship belts to the ring before the Hatton fight. The two were also seen in Vegas together last week. Also, an insider here at The Win spotted the two leaving Cuddles and Bubbles hand and hand conveniently gnawing on each others tongues.
Anyways, although Mayweather hasn’t come out and confirmed he is thinking about fighting in MMA, both he and Cuban have confirmed that Mayweather will definitely be involved in some way, shape or form with Cuban’s HDNet Fights which airs MMA bouts regularly.
Historically speaking there have only been two fighters, Ray Mercer and Frans Botha, that have made the switch from boxing to MMA and both were abysmal. At first, I didn’t like Mayweather. I thought he was a cocky, smug, self-involved punk. After watching him for the past 2+ years I’ve been completely won over. The guy talks more trash than anybody but the thing is he can back it up….completely. I think he’s great for boxing because other than the two fights Mayweather was in this year basically no one is watching it.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
SI's Best Decision Since The Swimsuit Issue
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Home Grown Talent






Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you Boston's best undiscovered talent: Lily Holbrook. This chick possesses so many phenomenal qualities its almost hard to figure out where to begin. Norman P. was so lovestruck by her last night that he couldn't even watch her sexily strum her guitar in the Park Street T station. He was flushed, breathing quickly, and could barely control himself. She's that f*cking hot.
This gem can be found busking around Boston. I've seen her in Harvard Square and Park Street, and it made me LITERALLY not want to get on the train. She has a super sexy voice, plays a solid piece of guitar, and is gorgeous. Which all begs the question... what in the sweet name of all that is holy is she doing playing in the subway?!?!
Check her out at http://www.lilyholbrookmusic.com/ but be careful... Norman has called dibs, and he's pretty serious about the girl. That being said, I'm completely willing to fight him to the death for her.
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Maybe There Is Something To Be Learned From The French
Anyways they ended up getting back together for Sarkozy’s final push for the presidency. And now, not even a full year into his first year they are getting a divorce evidently because Cecilia can’t keep her gross roast beef curtains in her pants. So what does Sarkozy do? What any one of us would LOVE to do if found in the same position. He gets a former supermodel that is half the age and about three times as hot as his ex. You think he’s sleeping better at night? I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s a bit more enjoyable having perky little apples bounce in your face as opposed to saggy, flabby titties that resemble plastic bags full of vanilla yogurt.
In conclusion well done Nicolas! We should all take a page out of your book.
Orlando
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Oops They Did It Again !

BREAKING NEWS: 16-YEAR OLD JAMIE LYNN SPEARS IS PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Paranormal State

Wow. Just finished watching my first episode of "Paranormal State" on A&E. I'm not much of a TV guy, but this show is riveting! Now, Wimpy may or may not be a little afraid of ghosts... or a lot... I'll never tell. But this show had me pinned to the back of my seat. The fact that I live in an old rectory that was built over a hundred years ago and makes more noises on a nightly basis than Sudsy getting to the bottom of a carton of lo mein probably added a bit of tension to watching this thing, but still. Great stuff. I'm afraid to get off the couch. Please don't tell anyone.
I do, however, have enough courage to go remove the mezuzah from my doorpost to stay in good graces with my invisible Catholic roommates. Shalom means peace, Father! Peace!
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'Oldest human being' dies at 116

BBC - Hryhoriy Nestor, a bachelor who was thought in his lifetime to be the oldest person in the world, has died at the age of 116 in Ukraine. Mr Nestor died in his sleep on Friday night in the village of Stary Yarychev, in the eastern region of Lviv, the Kiev newspaper Segodnya reports.
Born, according to family documents, on 15 March 1891, Mr Nestor, a former farm labourer, put his long life down to the fact that he never married.
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You gotta love this. This old geezer probably drank and smoked enough throughout his life to satisfy an entire fleet of sailors, and was able to stay one step ahead of father time because he never got hitched. What, a nagging hag harping at your ear every day for the vast majority of your life isn't good for you? What a revelation.
No word on whether Nestor was a fan of The Win Column. Something tells me he coulda been our "Blue."
As an aside, his relative provided further explanation: "He didn't find himself a mate because he was a short man and never had money," Oksana believes.
Gee, thanks for your glowing assessment, Oksana... for Nestor's sake, I hope you break an ankle on your next triple-lutz, you kinda hot weird looking chick who I'm not sure if I'm attracted to or not.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mouse

(AP) Scientists at Tokyo University say they have used genetic engineering to successfully switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats — showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through experience, as commonly believed.
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Wow. Can they turn off my fear of gentiles?
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It's the Holiday Season... Make Yourself Useful

Hey, you miserable pricks. Given that it's Christmas and all, and the fact that you're most likely doing more harm than good throughout the year, here's a chance to do something decent for a change. Check out www.modestneeds.org. Apparently you can donate to different people who are in a tight spot... the company vets these people and runs checks on them to make sure their requests are legit, and since the donations don't go to the actual people (the site pays the debt directly), you can rest assured that your hard earned cash isn't being spent on hookers and booze (which is a nice change for some of you). Some of these people should just suck it up and get a second job, but if you browse around a little bit you can find some people who are really fucked.
So there you go... don't ever say I never did anything for you.
Saving souls one jerk at a time,
Wimpy
By the way, the kid on the left in the picture above got into hardcore porn when he grew up. You believe that shit?!?
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Hippies Don't Know Their Ass From Their Elbow

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Arthur Blank Must Have Been A Real D-Bag In A Previous Life
Blank tried to make a power move to hire a new and upcoming coach in Bobby “two pump chump” Petrino to turn the franchise around. 13 weeks into the season Petrino poops out of his 3 year contract to sign with Arkansas. This nimrod signed contracts that add up to 14 years of service in a year and a half at three different places. Would you hire this guy? The players are pissed, Blank’s pissed, the fans are pissed and worst of all they still stink. Hopefully the players will band together and come out and kick some ass for the rest of the season just on general principle.
I’m not sure who you pissed off Art, or what type of heinous acts you committed in a previous life, but it must have been pretty awful to have this string of bad luck. Sorry dude. I feel bad for you. I really do.
P.S. On a complete side note, I think the comments Blank made during this weeks MNF game are completely fine. Give the guy a friggin break for christ’s sake.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Kimbo Slice is a Bad Man
A good friend of mine introduced me to Kimbo Slice tonight. I had never heard of this guy....but holy sh*t....he's known as the new king of street fighting. He's a power puncher that doesn't get phased by anyone's punches and throws absolute hay makers and a crushing uppercut. I did find one fight on the internet where he loses to a huge guy....but this 9 minute video is out of hand. If this doesn't get your pulse racing and make you want to punch the next person that orders 67 coffees in front of you at Dunkin Donuts, then you are either high on drugs, or you're wearing tighty whities with skid marks on em.
Kimbo Slice is a baaaaaaad man. I'll whip your head boyyyyyyyyy.
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Third Time is a Charm....or Not
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May God Bless My Genes and Future Offspring

One could argue I'm a talentless hack. Sure, I'm a good guy, and I like to think I work hard, but when push comes to shove I'm just another douchebag in a tie, caught up in the rat-race of life. So fuck me, man. And fuck Billy Ray Cyrus, too. Aside from having a few false teeth (presumably he's got 'em, given the red on his neck), we also share the fact that we're both just a couple of douchebags living in a douchebag world. While he's had his 15 minutes, and mine likely will never come, Billy and I are old chums in the douchebag department. But Billy's got one up on me (and the rest of you). His goddamn daughter.
You may have heard of this broad (maybe when Norman jumped the gun and posted about her pregnancy... which by the end of that day turned out to be only a false rumor... oops). I'm not even going to bother looking up her real name, but she plays "Hannah Montana" on what I assume is a show on Nickelodeon. The girl is like 15 or something (again, I ain't looking her up), and apparently wildly popular with the teeny-bopper scene (and with Sudsy after a couple). So anyway, I won't bother you with the rest of the gory details but will instead cut to the chase... sales of her merchandise this year totaled over $26 BILLION! BILLION! So let's say she's getting a modest 10% cut. That's 2.6 Million, right? No, I mean 26. Or 260? No, dummy, it's $2.6 BILLION dollars. My god, man. I can only pray my kid has the means to stick my decrepit ass in a half-way decent nursing home when I start smelling weird, let alone make this kind of cheese before they've got a license to drive (Oh, Mercedes Lane, how I love thee!). Fuck me man, I guarantee I'm already doing something wrong and I ain't even got a kid yet.
May God help us all.
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Crack Is Making A Comeback!

That’s right folks, our good ole friend crack cocaine is making a comeback and you heard it here first. Some nitwits down at the U.S. Sentencing Commission thought that all those “criminals’ who got busted for crack were actually really nice people with good hearts and decided to take a look at the law again. So this week they’re meeting to discuss/vote on the possibility of easing of crack cocaine punishment guidelines. Lets just say for the sake of this post that they actually do change the law and make the mandatory minimum sentencing much less drastic. Not only will they change the law moving forward, these retards are making the decision retro-active, so all the crackheads from New Jack City will reap the benefits. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seems to be spearheading the movement….maybe she was in the holiday spirit with Chanukah and all.
Either way, just think in a few short months the flood gates will open and the onslaught will begin. Sorry to all of you guys who bought property in ‘new and upcoming’ neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods have recently been down-graded to ‘shit out of luck, spiraling downward rapidly’ neighborhoods.
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Mayweather v. Hatton: Quick Reaction

WARNING: If you're planning on watching the fight on replay and don't already know the results, don't read the below...
Wow. What a fight. Here's my first take (a few beers deep, of course).
Not necessarily an obsessive boxing fan, I decided to buy the fight tonight after reading about it all week on-line. After going for broke on the $54.99 Comcast purchase, I settled in to catch up with several back-to-back episodes of HBO's 24/7 fight promotion. Whoever is running the marketing over there, bravo... I was amped up after episode 1 for this fight. By the end of episode 3, I wanted to turn the clocks ahead to hurry up and skip the Manfredo fight (pathetic) to get to Michael Buffer's now-tired intro.
Heading into this thing, I was rooting for Hatton. The humble, affable, blue collar tough-guy from England, I wanted to see this limey stuff his Brit-mitt into Mayweather's shit-talking mouth... Even though I respect "Pretty Boy... AKA Money" Mayweather's skills, I wanted to see an understated guy work him. As I said to Slowstuff prior to the fight though, I like Mayweather a lot... I just wanted to see if he really was (if he hadn't proven it already) as good as he told me he was.
So out of the gate, Hatton came out flying... He almost knocked Mayweather down early-on (I believe in round two), which would have been a first -- and at this point let me digress and say that I texted Chieftain pre-fight predicting Hatton's victory by way of K.O. (to which he replied, "IMPOSSIBLE"). The crowd was incredible... the place had to have been more than 50% filled with Hatton's hooligan following... the match sounded like a World Cup game. The chants, the drunks... awesome. I thought we had a chance here. But true to form (and shit-talking), Mayweather proved to be too slick, too quick, and too good. Pretty Boy turned the fight and unapologetically worked Hatton like an illegal on Sunday. The dude is the real deal. He sat Hatton down in the 10th with a defensively thrown left-hook, and then the fight was stopped a few Mayweather dandies later. Wow. Game Over. Done deal.
What I love about Mayweather is that this dude has the biggest mouth in the world, but absolutely backs it up... how can you not respect that?!? He's like Anthony Smith... but the complete opposite. Money Mayweather can run his mouth until the end of time... or until Sudsy swears off the Bud Lights... whichever comes first.
Great fight. If you missed it, be sure to check out the replay on HBO in the days to come.
Happy Chanukah (yes, it's still going on). Shalom, fight fans.
- Wimpy
PS: Can we please start a collection to get Larry Merchant admitted to a nursing home -- or maybe to a loony bin? Jesus.
*** photo courtesy of espn.com ***
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
All Hail Brady

My mom typically emails me pretty bad jokes which fall into the "Corny Things Only Your Mom Would Think Are Funny" category, but this one was worthy of a post here...
God asks Peyton Manning first: "What do you believe?" Peyton thinks long and hard, looks God in the eye, and says, "I believe in hard work, and in staying true to family and friends. I believe in giving. I was lucky, but I always tried to do right by my fans." God can't help but see the essential goodness of Manning, and offers him a seat to his left. Then God turns to Tony Romo and says, "What do you believe?" Tony says,"I believe passion, discipline, courage and honor are the fundamentals of life. I, too, have been lucky, but win or lose, I've always tried to be a true sportsman, both on and off the playing fields." God is greatly moved by Tony's sincere eloquence, and he offers him a seat to his right. Finally, God turns to Tom Brady: "And you, Tom, what do you believe?" Tom replies, "I believe you're in my seat."
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A New Level Of Human Depravity

So this will give you an indication of how my Friday night has gone so far...
I'm 15 Miller Lites deep, and I just watched the 2 Girls 1 Cup video... and I'm here to tell you all about it. This video is famous for being the most disgusting video on the internet, and I'm gonna dispel all the f*cking mystery surrounding it. Blogs post reactions of people seeing the video for the first time, just for entertainment, that's how shocking it is (supposedly). If you're a masochist, the clip can be found at www.2girls1cup.com
So I watch the video, and it's pretty gross, but nowhere near as gross as I thought it would be. The clip opens with a white chick and an indian chick (dots not feathers) making out. The indian chick is pulling down the white chick's shirt and sucking on her titties; its hot, not bad at all.
Then they focus on a close up of the indian chick's ass, and she sh*ts out diarrhea into a pint glass. Then the two girls start tonguing it. It's sick. Then they focus in on the white chick, and she's actually eating the shit. She's moving the diarrhea in and out of her mouth, then she swallows it.
At this point I was convinced that things couldn't get worse... but apparently they could. The girls start puking on each other. And not just on each other, but in each other's mouths. It's horrendous.
The clip lasts about 15 seconds longer, and then shuts off. Any normal human being would stop at this point. But not me. Not Cornstarr. I'm on a mission to eradicate any semblance of innocence that I ever, EVER possessed. And this is how I found something that TRUMPS www.2girls1cup.com
Granted, its from the same people who brought you www.2girls1cup.com, but its worse. Way more fowl. I'm not going to tell you what happens in this video... you can judge for yourself. It can be found at:
www.2girls1finger.com
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