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Who ignored you? He answered your question. There are MULTIPLE THREADS in here that go into GREAT DETAIL on how to properly install uniforms and stadiums and cyberfaces and rosters and total season conversion mods, etc, etc, etc, etc. All you need to do is search for them. They are there. Trust me.

It's 70 dollars! No thanks. Too rich for my blood.

That is one hell of a program. I've had that for years now.

Updated to 8-9 ...I know that the Blue Jays are one of the Yankees rivals but I was happy to see them knock around the Royals last weekend in Toronto. Kansas City gets one little whiff of success and it goes right to their heads. ...I can not stand buying software when they only give you a license that is only good for one year. ...Pete Rose spent Wednesday in Beverly Hills taking a lie-detector test as another attempt to show new commissioner Rob Manfred that he is on the up-and-up and deserves a second chance. The results of the test were not made public as they were only mailed to Manfred but a source says that Rose got so mixed up with some of the questions that he broke the machine. ...It must be nice being Kylie Jenner because all I ever see her do is stand in front of a mirror and take pictures of herself. ...I almost feel bad for the Miami Marlins players because it seems every off season Jeffery Loria builds that team up only to tear it apart. And I am sure to this day people in Montreal would like to kill him. ...All of a sudden the Yankees forgot how to hit just when they needed it the most. Pitiful. ...And honestly, how stupid are the Yankees? Wait, don't tell me. I already know. Every time they trade with the Seattle Mariners they always seem to get a Seattle player with a hidden injury and they keep coming back for more. Three years ago they got Michael Pineda who soon needed shoulder surgery and was lost to them for quite some time. He's just now beginning to prove his worth to the team although we won't be seeing him until September. Seems as if he still can't escape his Mariner habits of getting hurt for long periods of time. Five years ago they screwed the Yankees over on the Cliff Lee trade because of ridiculous demands and now Dustin Ackley. This stupid SOB plays a few games for the Yankees and then as you can guess he went on the disabled list for a herniated disk last Tuesday. That is something that takes its time to heal and the Mariners must be having a good laugh right now knowing they got rid of this waste. ...When a little nine-year-old boy who had such a love for baseball and had so much joy being a team's batboy dies only because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time it kind of makes you question the meaning of things at times. There are so many bad people still walking around today doing terrible things to other people that it makes you wonder why this little boy is not with us any longer. When things like this happen religious leaders are compelled to tell us that there is a "purpose" in what happened. God's will. Sometimes I think they really believe this and sometimes I think they are just saying it. God's will is something that takes place that you do not quite understand and we are not smart enough to understand why. That really sums up what happened last Sunday. All I do understand is that a little kid who loved this game is gone now and the player that accidentally hit him in the head with his bat is never going to be the same. ...This is good. Now an NFL supervisor of officials has come out and said that footballs are subject to losing air because they're "man-made products." How do you like that? It took them awhile but the Patriots finally found someone they could bribe just so they could plant doubt in people's minds or at least all the people that do not live in Boston. They've already believed Tom Brady's story anyway. In a way you really got to give them credit. When Boston cheats they go all the way and hold nothing back. ...Go West Young Man, Dept: A five-hundred-sixty pound man is so determined to lose weight that he is attempting to bike across the United States in order to do it. I give the guy credit right there for even attempting this. He started his trip in Massachusetts and so far has made it to Rhode Island, ninety miles from where his trip began but he has been stuck there since last week because of a bent rim on his bike. I wonder how that happened? A bicycle company sponsoring this guy has been busy making a new bike for him that can withstand his weight. My guess is that it will be so heavy that if anyone tries to steal it they had better bring help. The only advice I would give this guy is to try and avoid Pennsylvania at all costs. There's a lot of hills in that state. I didn't like driving there let alone riding a bike there. Best of luck! ...How stupid are people, really? Just last month a guy blew his head off by lighting a firework off it and another guy jumped into a lake that was full of alligators and before he knew what happened he became a quick snack. Now a man from San Diego was recently released from the hospital because he was trying to take a selfie with a rattlesnake. Well, at the time it seemed like a good idea to him. The bite from the rattler was nothing compared to the bite he received when he was given his hospital bill when he was discharged. For his up close and personal moment with the snake he was charged over $153,000 in services from the hospital including over $83,000 for a pharmacy charge because his treatment depleted the anti-venom supplies at two local hospitals. His insurance covered nothing from his hospital visit and he has to foot this bill all out of his own pocket. I bet when he first got a look at that bill he probably wished he were an illegal alien. ...Cops in Minnesota pulled over a kid who was driving his truck with three people soaking in a makeshift pool in the bed of his pickup. Damn, give the kid a break. How long does summer last in Minnesota, two weeks? Let them enjoy themselves. Swimming in a pool does make a lot more sense in every way possible and it's safer than driving around in a mobile pool but knowing how to have fun in the sun is not something that people from that part of the country are known for. Now if you ask them about how to ice fish they'll know what to do. ...I would like to commend those three Chechen women for conning $3,300 from Islamic State recruiters although I don't know how wise it really was to do something like that. It's like poking a hornet's nest with a stick. What they did was illegal and they are currently under investigation for fraud because the ISIS boys were expecting them to travel from Chechnya to Syria to help make dinner for them. I don't know if they will actually be charged for anything because I wouldn't expect ISIS to send someone to collect on the money they were scammed out of although if I were them I'd do the sensible thing and move out of town. ...There's competition in everything, Dept: Believe it or not there is a bar in Huntley, Illinois that has been having a Turkey Testicle Festival for thirty-two years now that is held in November right around Thanksgiving. Apparently their is a lot more testicles to go around because now another town is having their own Testicle Festival. Try to say that without laughing. The town organizers in East Dundee are having it on the exact same day as the old pros in Huntley are having theirs and are calling it the same thing. One of the officials in East Dundee said their event is going to be "family-oriented." I'd like to see how the hell they are going to pull that off. Come on honey, tell the kids to get their coats on. We're going to go eat some turkey balls. As if Thanksgiving wasn't bad enough for the turkey population. ...I read last week that the Dodgers are paying 87.5 million dollars to players who are not even playing for them this year. That is more money than the Marlins, Astros, Rays, A's and Indians were paying on their season-opening rosters back in April. And people gave the Yankees crap all these years. ...Law enforcement officials in Massachusetts are trying a new approach to the war on drugs as they are attempting to reach out to drug dealers who want to eliminate their competition. On their Facebook page they have set up a a fill-in-the-blank form that provides them the person's name, address, phone number, what drugs they're selling and where they are being sold. There's other information that they are asking too like when is the best time to catch them at their job and what is their favorite corner to work out of. I'm not sure if this is going to work but if it does everybody in Boston will be turning each other in. ...Maybe you'd want to blame it on the summer time. Kids have all this free time and they tend to get bored and they have to go find things to do. Or maybe that had nothing to do with it and this kid was simply sick in the head. I can't think of any other excuse for an eleven-year-old Detroit boy to swipe a loaded pistol from his father's closet and sneak it outside. If you haven't heard what happened you can probably figure out the rest. He got the gun and aimed it at small boy and shot him to death maliciously and with intent. This toddler had no chance as he was dead on arrival when he got to the hospital. The kid has been charged with manslaughter and because of his age he probably won't see the inside of a jail until he gets older and shoots a few more people. People are giving the boy's father a lot of grief for having the gun hidden in his closet but they forget this is Detroit and one can assume the man has to use it three or four times a week just so he can go outside to see if the mail came. Yeah, he should have had it locked up but no one made that kid go there to get it. ...That was one hell of a move by the Cleveland Indians to get rid of a serviceable Michael Bourn and a useless Nick Swisher to the Atlanta Braves. They'll never miss Swisher. The guy is so bad that the Yankees were not even willing to re-sign him after the 2012 season and as long as you have a pulse those guys will re-sign anybody. Swisher's true worth was mugging for the cameras and giving good interviews but as far as driving in runs, hitting for average and carrying his weight in the post-season the guy had no value at all. ...What the hell is going on with the violence in our movie theaters now? Not too long ago all I had to worry about when I went there was how much they raised the price of popcorn to and if people around me would keep quiet when the movie was being played. How did these places become an attraction for the crazies in this country? I can envision people patting you down before you walk in the movies in the future and that's not going to help me at all because in the winter time when I go to see a movie I run to Walgreens first because they sell movie candy for less there. They give me a pat-down they're going to find my stash.

I agree. The problem is when you quote and include the pictures in your quote. Just take them out.

Updated to 8-2 ...Positively shocking. That was my reaction to what the Yankees did last week during trade time. I realize that these guys are linked to every player that's on the market every year but for them not to bite and get a starting pitcher? Ivan Nova's got a tired arm or some kind of crap going on with him, Michael Pineda's on the fifteen-day disabled list but that doesn't seem to be serious and C.C. Sabathia is still going out there every fifth day and making the opposing teams very happy by doing so. I expected the Yankees to get a pitcher but I was glad that they didn't. Texas gave Philadelphia a bag of balls for Cole Hamels but if the Yankees had been able to pry him away from the Phillies they would have had to give up some real players. It would have been interesting to see David Price in a Yankee uniform and now all I can hope for is that the players that Detroit got from Toronto never pan out and it takes them twenty years to play .500 baseball again. Johnny Cueto and Adrolis Chapman were too rich for the Yankees but then the Reds managed to turn a blind eye when the Royals inquired about Cueto. But they could not go the entire week without making some kind of deal and that's probably why they acquired Dustin Ackley from Seattle. The guy's never done anything in the past so there is every reason to believe he will continue doing the same thing. I'm happy for what Brian Cashman did last week because when other teams come to trade with the Yankees they demand more than what they ask for from anyone else in baseball. We've got some pretty good prospects down in the minors. I'd rather see them play in New York than someplace else. ...I was just thinking the other day, whatever happened to that speed-up-the-game talk that they were talking about over spring training? Has anyone watched David Ortiz at the plate lately? He steps out so much and for so long that he has time to go make a sandwich between pitches. ...Last week an alligator was discovered by grounds crew workers and players in the visitor's dugout of the Port Charlotte Stone Crabs, the class A Advanced team of the Tampa Bay Rays. They had no idea how long the ten-foot gator got into the stadium or into the dugout. It was probably hungry and was waiting for the concession stands to open. Now here's the funny part to me. The team called someone from the county to get the alligator out of the dugout and members of the grounds crew drove it to the pond behind the parking lot and let it go. You don't think he's going to find his way back in the stadium at some point? Maybe next time you won't spot him although if they had let it stay right where it was there would be a brand new meaning to home field advantage. ...The Detroit chapter of the Satanic Temple unveiled a bronze Baphomet sculpture at an industrial building near the Detroit River last week before hundreds of supporters last week. The nine-foot-tall monument weighing one ton was hidden away until the last moment because of fears that pesky Christians would find out where the ceremony was going to be held at and ruin their fun. These people picked the right city for revealing this statue because Detroit has already gone to hell anyway. It kind of makes me wonder what else they could do to involve themselves in the Detroit community even more after this... 1. The Satanic Temple could sponsor Little League teams and supply all red uniforms with the devil looking terrifying and breathing fire. 2. Scholarships will be given out to the kid who commits the most heinous crime during the school year. 3. They could rent ad space at all the major sports venues in Detroit telling everyone to come on down and have a look around and bring a friend. 4. To make some extra cash they could rent out their venue to the Muslims because that's the only religion that gets what Satanism is all about. 5. They could hire Iron Maiden to make a special recording of Shout at the Devil and have them rename it Shout at a Christian. ...I can see one of these atrocities being erected in Boston. Talk about being made for each other. ...Speaking of Boston, they were the United States' selection in the bidding process for the 2014 Summer Olympics but Boston mayor Marty Walsh withdrew their bid because he expressed concerns about a provision which requires the host city to cover any cost overruns and if that happened it could be financially burdensome to Boston for years to come. And he has a hell of a point. Beijing, China had to fork over forty-three billion in 2008 and in Sochi, Russia for the Winter Games it cost them a cool fifty-one billion last year. So while Mr. Walsh may not be mayor in nine years he did everyone there and whomever the mayor is in 2024 a huge favor. ...It took five weeks for him to mull over it but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension that Tom Brady received for his part in deflating the footballs against the Colts in the AFC Championship game back in January. The thing that Goodell could not get past or even remotely understand is why Brady had to destroy his cell phone as soon as he found out that the investigator on this case wanted to see it. That made him look just as guilty as someone who runs to the bathroom and starts flushing stuff down the toilet because they saw D.E.A. people running up his driveway preparing to knock the front door in. So because of that four games he was given and four games he is going to get. The only people who are going to believe him from now on will be the people living in the greater Boston area and to say that those people are a terrible judge of character would be an understatement. ...If a ballplayer could get an Emmy I'd give one to Shane Victorino, formally of the Red Sox and now of the Angels. He cried at just the right moments and said just the right things as he was heading west out of Boston last week. Thanking those fans who have been on his case since the 2014 season? And he said it so sincerely too. Straight to Hollywood as soon as his career is done. This guy's got potential. ...Who wants to bet that the patients from that Minnesota dentist that shot that lion are going to go elsewhere from now on? ...A man in Milwaukee shot and injured a pit bull last Thursday because he mistook it for a lion that people have reported seeing lately around the city. I can understand his concerns because I wouldn't want to see any lion if it wasn't in its cage but how the hell could you not tell the difference between a dog and a lion? This is what happens when idiots own guns. ...What the hell was it with the lions last week? ...Although I have not seen it around here yet funeral parlors across America are branching out to host weddings, receptions, community banquets and even proms during the times when their main business slows down a bit. Part of the reason for that is the cost of a funeral has been skyrocketing and more people are choosing to be cremated instead of buried. I can see why they are trying to expand their business a little but I don't know if I would have been comfortable getting married in a funeral home although after you get married you are dead anyways so you may as well do it in the right place. ...I guarantee you no woman will like that joke. ...After watching that video about the Florida gun owner who declared his gun supply shop a "Muslim-free zone" I take back a lot of the things that I have said about Florida in the past. Or maybe the guy is not even from Florida which is probably the case. The guy decided to do this because of what happened in Chattanooga and predictably there are complaints about this especially from an organization called CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) who are complaining that Muslims are being targeted here because of who they are. No kidding? The guy's going straight to the source. And it's about time. ...There was a theft of twenty-eight thousand pounds of packaged nuts recently in suburban Detroit and while they steal everything there this one was kind of odd. The police even had a little fun with it as they posted a mug shot of a squirrel on their Facebook page as a possible culprit. Maybe so, but my money is on Miley Cyrus. With the set of choppers she has I wouldn't put this past her. ...There is a Michigan AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) basketball team named the Motor City Muslims. No kidding. Not even I could come up with something like that. It's a team made up of all young Muslim players and while they may not have a lot of what it takes to be a successful basketball team, height, ball control, defense, etc. other teams are wary to play against them because they don't know what will happen to them after the game if they win. Each cheerleader for the Motor City Muslims wields her own machete and the fans are armed with rocks to shoot at the opponents at a moments notice. With support like that they'll never lose a game. ...I have an even better reason not to shell out money to get HBO now because the network just signed Bill Simmons to do a weekly talk show beginning in October. It's supposed to feature stories and guests from across the world of sports but the way this guy is it means the sports world from one end of Boston to the other. If it's not the four major teams from that city then he won't have anything to do with it. The next time I want to hear about this guy is when HBO sends him packing. ...It seems that the people who are in the Jurassic Park movies never seem to learn because they keep on making new dinosaurs and then act surprised when one of them turns around and steps on them or eats them whole because in 2018 a sequel to Jurassic World is coming out and all I can say about that is thank God for that. Because if they are dumb enough to keep on making a Tyrannosaurus Rex and believe they can control it like it was a dog, then I'll be glad to watch them run around and scream. ...Have you heard about what San Francisco has done? They have a problem with public urination in some places so now they have nine public walls covered with a repellant paint that makes pee spray back on the person's shoes and pants. I hope this doesn't catch on to other cities though. Can you imagine if Boston did this? More than half of the city would be walking around smelling like a dirty restroom. ...Taking it a step farther how did they know when that paint was ready to be used? What the hell did they do, get some volunteers and ask them to go over there and piss on the wall and see what happens? ...What a shock it was to find out that Roddy Piper died last Friday in his sleep from a heart attack. He was from the era when I actually watched wrestling every week when the USA Network used to air WWF news and matches on Monday nights. Piper was hilarious as the bad guy and I did my best never to miss a segment of Piper's Pit. The best one was when he smashed a coconut over the head of crybaby Jimmy Snuka and smeared a banana in his face. Sounds like fun? I got the video link for you. Piper was a wrestling genius. And he's gone too soon. R.I.P. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKXpSyjfIik God dammit the video does not show up. WHAT THE HELL???

I would just love to see them back in the series.

What do you care? You the forum police now?

Check the standings.

But you should not be penalized for what you say in private and especially when you do not know you are being recorded. Even though we all can say yeah, that wasn't the smartest thing to say or even the right thing to say it was said behind closed doors. That guy that owned the Clippers was in the same situation with that gold digger he was seeing. I've said worse about those killers and will continue to. I have no respect for people who cut off their prisoners heads or set people on fire.

He's on vacation.

Look good though.

The next time you score 47 runs do it against the Red Sox.

I never considered that one simply because I never heard of it. If I get a chance I will watch it. Yes, this will be hard for him to come back from. No doubt. The thing is we don't know how he really feels. You want to know how someone really feels about things you get to know them. People now are easily offended and quick to jump on anyone. Let's speculate here for a minute, shall we? Pretend that someone has a device that can access all the conversations you have had in let's say the past ten years. These would be private ones in your home, over friends and families houses and in public. Sounds crazy but let's just say for the sake of argument that it can be done. Would you be 100% secure in the knowledge that you've never said anything that would make the PC people frown down at you? You couldn't, I couldn't and no one can. Hell, I write in this thread every week and my goal is to try to keep things interesting so people read each week. What if I were a public figure? The things I say about Muslims would get a lot of fingers wagging at me. Hogan said all that stuff. It wasn't meant for anyone to hear. He should not be penalized like he is. You my friend got lucky. I am glad you had a good time there. It really is a wonderful place to visit.

Updated to 7-26 ...With all due respect to the drama and excitement we see each year with October baseball, this upcoming week will be just as tense and nerve-wracking. The trade deadline expires this Friday at 4:00 p.m. eastern time and that gives each team a lot of time to get rid of some big contracts to try and improve their team or dismantle it so they can begin again. I don't care what their reasons are I can't stand this week and I never have. Brian Cashman has already gone on record saying that there is a good chance that the Yankees will stand pat as July 31st approaches but I hold as much faith in that as I do in someone who tells you that the check is in the mail. ...Barry Bonds had a hell of a week. The U.S. Department of Justice decided to drop what was left of its criminal case against him. It took them over a decade to decide this and after they spent six million dollars on his initial trial. And that does not count the cost of what the appeal process involved. There's no way of knowing what the actual dollar and cents amount of this was unless the government decides to release that figure and I don't see them doing that any time soon. One thing I never understood was why they got involved with this in the first place. Why did they care if an athlete did or did not do PED's? Bonds may be off the hook here but his Hall of Fame chances seem as closed as this case now is. Thank God for that. ...Trump again. This guy keeps on saying the most outrageous and insulting things about people but the funny thing is that as many people who are upset at what he has been saying there is just as many people who are supporting him. I'm no fan of John McCain and I would not have voted for him for president back in 2008 even if someone on his campaign staff would have quietly written me a check. Trump said he wasn't a fan of McCain's because he spent five and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison and he says he's only a war hero because he was captured and that he liked people who weren't captured. Um, come again? That comment wasn't just below the belt it was below the ankles. And yet there were people who nodded their heads and agreed with him. I respect what McCain did during his time in Vietnam because that's something I know I wouldn't be able to do. Five and one half years? I wouldn't be able to stay captive for the length of a movie. I read that he has a net worth of about ten billion dollars. When you are that rich it is hard to keep track of the exact dollar amount because calculators don't go up that high. But whatever it may be, ten, eleven or twelve billion he has more than enough to buy a presidency. That right there should worry us all unless you are one of those who think McCain was a slacker. ...Just checking, Dept: There is a pub over in Scotland that is known for its traditional atmosphere and because of that the male employees who work there wear kilts as part of the pub's theme. At least they used to. Because of repeated harassment from female patrons who lift their kilts just to check if they are "true Scotsmen" the employees now are abandoning the kilts and will be wearing pants from now on. Oh yeah, I mean sure, I can see the harassment right there. Right. ...Mark, wherever you are I'd love your opinion on this. ...A woman in Tennessee was arrested last week for trying to pass counterfeit money at a gas station and when the police arrested her for it she told them not to worry about it because President Obama said it was legal. Since he's been in office I have seen him be blamed for everything but this one has to be at the top of the list. The five dollar bill that she gave to the clerk was printed out on a home printer with the two sides of the bill glued together. In her purse the police found a fake one hundred dollar bill that was printed in black and white and the back of the bill was upside down. Frank Bourassa she is not. ...I am all for eating and drinking more responsibly and being aware of what you are eating too. I have been trying to do that for long time now and I feel a lot better for it. But when Oreo introduces a thin version of their cookie that's when things are going too far. ...I'm sorry but Amy Schumer is just not funny. ...In what could be the best radio interview that I have ever heard, a twenty-two-year-old woman went on an Atlanta radio show to complain about her terrible luck in meeting her senior year college tuition. Her grandparents created a college fund for her worth $90,000 and she managed to blow through it with no way to cover her remaining $20,000 tuition balance for her final year. According to her it wasn't her fault that she got herself in this mess. It was her parents fault because they didn't teach her to budget. She used a lot of the money for school clothes and college break money. This airhead didn't go to Florida like a lot of college kids do. She went to Europe and she tried to justify that as something that was "part of her education." She's mad at her parents because they said there was nothing they could do for her and she thinks they are lying to her when they said they didn't have any money because she knows they have a retirement account. She was serious. She has no idea how fortunate she was to have that much money to attend college but God has a way of watching over idiots like this so it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out she lands on her feet here. Welcome to the selfish generation. Entitled, ungrateful, and wasteful. ...Nice try, Dept: A woman was arrested in Bogota, Columbia last week after it was discovered that she was carrying 1.5 kg (or 3.3 lbs) of liquid cocaine in her breast implants. She was attempting to travel to Spain but security officials noticed that she was getting very nervous while waiting in line so they stopped her and questioned her. When they had her step in the X-Ray machine they discovered that there was recent surgery done on her breasts and that's when she confessed they were filled with cocaine. Damn, if she was carrying around more than three pounds worth she must have been worth a bundle. I'm sure that they had to pat her down two or three times for "safety measures." I know one thing, this incident gives a bust a whole new meaning. ...Today is induction day down in Cooperstown, New York and although it is a reasonable four hour drive from my house it may as well only be a forty minute drive because I know from personal experience that even though this is the biggest weekend of the year for that wonderful little village it is also the same weekend to make plans to do something else. Try to picture fitting twenty thousand people together on a baseball infield without having them bump into each other. It's not going to happen. I found that out in 2000 when my wife and I took an unplanned trip to Cooperstown only to discover that thousands of people had the same idea and beat us there and took all the parking spaces too. It may be a small town but they know how to price gouge with the best of them especially with all those people around. On one hand it was nice to walk around and get a glimpse of some of the Hall of Famers. I can still recall seeing Willie Stargell sitting behind a table on the sidewalk signing autographs for people and some of the real women ballplayers who played baseball during World War II were signing too not too far away from him. That's the good part of induction weekend. But if you are traveling a longer distance to get there you're going to want to be able to walk around and see what Cooperstown has to offer. And as for getting into the actual museum? Forget it. There's a line longer than home plate to second base of people wanting to get in and that line always looked like it was stuck because it wasn't going anywhere. The only time you moved forward was when someone ahead of you got out of line because they didn't want to wait anymore. So I hope it is a good day for all the inductees except for Pedro Martinez but I'll be watching this on TV. ...Even though there are signs all over the place at Yellowstone National Park warning visitors that it is dangerous to approach the wildlife a female guest last week thought that sign was for everyone else but her. The woman from Mississippi, which probably explains a lot, went up to a bison and tried to snap a selfie photo next to the park's most famous inhabitants. Unfortunately she did not know that bisons are extremely camera shy and while she was preparing to take the picture he ran up behind her, gored her and tossed her in the air. Luckily for her she only had minor injuries. If this is what it takes for all these people from taking endless selfies, so be it. ...I am not sure if I am going to go and see that new Southpaw movie. It's hard to watch a boxing movie without Sylvester Stallone in it. ...If you know of any country-music fans you may want to check on them because a lot of those people are really taking it hard with the news of Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton's divorce. Most of them weren't even invited to their wedding but they're still crying anyway. Half of the people are saying it is Shelton's fault because he drank to much and the other half are saying Shelton couldn't take listening to his wife's voice anymore, singing or talking. ...Similar to what he has done to many of his opponents in the ring, Hulk Hogan was taken down fast and hard last Friday with no chance to get up and no chance to recover all because of an unauthorized recording of something he said about his daughter eight years ago. I have not heard the tape and I am not interested in listening to it either. The media has conveniently posted the key transcripts of it to make Hogan look as bad as possible. Hogan was caught talking about the dating life of his daughter, Brooke and was worried that she may have went to bed with a black man. Naturally the famous "N" word was brought up and if you don't know what word I mean just listen to the first rap song you come across. They'll say it at least sixty times a minute. That's all it took for the WWE to remove all content about Hogan from their website including his place in their Hall of Fame. In other words they are pretending that he never existed like a group of children giving the cold shoulder to another kid. "Hey," the WWE is saying "we know he's been with us for over thirty years but that means nothing." I am not defending or supporting what Hogan said. All I am saying is why does this guy have to pay the price for something he said in private eight years ago? The statutes of limitations for many crimes don't even last that long. And if this sounds like I am a big Hulk Hogan fan and was into all that Hulkamania nonsense then you're wrong. My favorites were Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff before he turned into a good guy. What I do not like is this guy or anyone for that matter forced to pay for something like this because of what other people may think. How many times have we all said something in private that we would rather not have a lot of people know about? Was it yesterday? Last week? Last month? Last year? Doesn't matter. What if there is a recording of you on someone else's phone with you saying something that will come back and bite you hard? That's what is happening with Hogan right now. The guy gets his privacy invaded, an unauthorized tape of him is made and because people have this sick pleasure of tearing down celebrities and ruining their lives. I don't give a damn what this guy says in private. And it shouldn't be anyone's business either.

Updated to 7-19 ...Random All-Star views, Dept: Baseball showed again that they have the best All-Star Game around last Tuesday night and to have the American League win it was extra special, not that it will do the Yankees any good... Now if they can just get rid of that dumb rule that Bud Selig threw in a few years back about the winning league getting home field advantage in the World Series everything will be fine...Although Mike Trout won the MVP a good case could have been made for Prince Fielder of the Rangers...Those All-Star practice jerseys and game hats looked great this year. Someone did a good job there...It was nice seeing Sandy Koufax again during the pre-game festivities but not Pete Rose. Considering how I feel about him I would have cheered if Ray Fosse had showed up and bowled him over like Rose did to him forty-five years ago...Good to see Bryce Harper fall on his face. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...After listening to Joe Buck and Harold Reynolds for a few innings I am convinced that the powers-that-be at FOX hate baseball. Why else would they throw Reynolds in the booth? So, you're happy that Tim McCarver's gone? Ok, let's see how you like this guy... Not a lot of people watched this game on FOX as it drew a record-low television rating. I did my part though...The sad realization when this game was all over? The season is half done. ...Now we all play the who is going to get traded game until July 31st and a big part of that game is watching what the Yankees do until the trade deadline is over. Yankee haters laugh at how much they over-react during July's trade time. Yankee fans laugh too but for a different reason. There are rumors that the Yankees could be looking at Cincinnati's Johnny Cueto and I hope that this is all that it turns out to be even though the Yankees and Reds have a history of trading at this time of year. To get this guy, who experienced elbow stiffness at the end of May, would cost the Yankees a lot in young talent and it would be a huge risk. That being said don't be shocked if you see Cueto get a haircut soon and wear pinstripes. Another guy I want to see stick around is Rob Refsnyder. At least this guy deserves a chance. He had a nice debut in Boston one week ago and then he was charged with two errors in the ninth inning that got the game a little closer than the Yankees wanted. Who knows if they use that as an excuse to trade him? I don't trust their logic anymore. ...Really, do I need any more reasons to hate David Ortiz? No, but while I was occupied elsewhere he gave me a few more. Ortiz is being questioned for missing the final game before the break last Sunday against the Yankees because he said he was sick. Some Boston media people do not believe he was and that he made up a phony illness as soon as he found out the Red Sox wanted him to play first base in the final game of the Yankee series. In fact the guy had his bags packed on Saturday and was ready to hop on a plane back to the Dominican on Sunday morning just as soon as the Red Sox doctors caved in and told everyone that he was indeed sick and the only way he will get better is to leave the country and spend time with his family. Some players get bonuses for making the All-Star team. These doctors got bonuses for saying Ortiz was sick. He wasn't done though. Before he got the plane back to the Dominican he questioned the 502-foot home run that Ted Williams hit in 1946 as an out-and-out lie. I don't know why Ortiz had to bring this up now. Maybe it's because Williams is still a more-beloved Red Sox player than he ever will be. Who knows? Ortiz said he did not believe that Williams or anyone else hit a ball that far at Fenway Park because one time he went up there and sat in the seat and he decided right then and there that it was too far from home plate for anyone to reach it. Sure it was. It was 502 feet and someone who didn't relay on steroids hit it. That was his entire argument. If he couldn't hit it there there was no way anyone else could. Like I said, if I needed any more justification to dislike this guy. ...Lazy Robinson Cano does nothing all year except for yesterday when he hit two home runs at Yankee Stadium to lead Seattle to victory. He'll probably need the day off in today's 1:00 p.m. finale for the two times he jogged around the bases. ...With the aid of other inmates, prison guards, his cousin the warden and people on the outside, world-famous drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped a maximum security prison in Mexico last week. This isn't the first time he's done this and when he finally retires up to his bungalow high in the mountains this guy ought to write a book on how he did it. U.S. and Mexican officials (well, not really the Mexicans) are hot on his trail but he has not been found yet. One rumor has it that he is headed to New York to work on the Donald Trump presidential election campaign. ...I can not believe how much uproar over Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee's new book that was released last Tuesday caused. Set twenty years in the future after the events that made up the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, the lawyer played by Gregory Peck in the movie is a different person in this book than readers remember him by. Some people are refusing to read the book because -you guessed it- they're offended by it. It's a fictional book and people are getting this upset? It won't be long now until a good old fashion book burning party takes place. ...After a jury ordered him to pay five million dollars in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, rapper 50 Cent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to help him avoid paying the hefty fine. This guy has one hell of a history and is a hero to rap fans everywhere. He is an admitted former crack dealer and has been shot nine times to prove it. At least he has a skill to fall back on if his rap career goes to pieces. And now he's bankrupt. 50 Cent. His name was so prophetic. ...July 15 came and went and I managed to purchase nothing from that great Amazon Prime sale that was going on that day. I would have but there was nothing I really needed. From what I gathered a lot of people did not like the deals that Amazon had but I thought they were ok. The price for the Amazon Fire was great but I'd never use it. I got a Nook and I only use that once a month or so. ...A Connecticut man who had a habit of purchasing two twenty dollar lottery tickets at the convenient store he goes to is now thirty thousand dollars richer all because he forgot his glasses. The guy usually buys his tickets from the store clerk but because there was a long line at the time he was there he decided to buy a ticket from a lottery vending machine. Since he couldn't see straight he mistakenly bought a thirty dollar ticket instead of his usual twenty dollar ones. When he got home his glasses were right on the kitchen table where he left them and that is where he passed out after finding out how much he won. Needless to say you can bet he didn't see that coming. ...Maybe that's why I haven't won the lottery yet. I never forget my glasses when I go out. ...Well, that didn't take long. Universal Studios announced last Wednesday that the DVD and blu-ray release of Jurassic World in the United Kingdom will be on October 19th. The movie's only been out for a little more than a week and already they announce this. Not that it will do any of us that live in the states any good because our release date hasn't been given out yet. ...It's really something how much the world has changed. Children from all over the country have been running lemonade stands for generations now and the only real problems that any of them faced was not running out of ice cubes. I recall when I was a kid there was one of these stands near the fields and the kid who ran it made close to ten dollars a day. In those days that was pretty good. Anyway, two young girls in Overton, Texas decided to have a lemonade stand for themselves but the police there shut it down because they lacked a permit. That little town must be the safest place in all of America if the police had enough time to tell these kids to pack up their lemons and head on home. Today it's lemonade. Tomorrow it could be bagels and pastries. Someone's got to keep the streets safe down there! ...There are a lot of questions as to why another young low-life degenerate Muslim man -someone described by people who knew him as likeable and "Americanized as anyone else"- to open fire on two U.S. military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before he was shot and killed by Chattanooga police he killed four Marines and one Navy man and injured a handful of others. From all accounts he was the typical boy-next-door but in this case the kid next door was a Muslim and that means you keep the doors locked and a suspicious eye on them at all all times. If that sounds harsh or unreasonable, too bad. They've painted themselves in that light. The military needs to step up too and answer one very important and obvious question. How come none of the Marines were armed? If they were he never would have made it to that second military site. Only the policeman from the town of Chattanooga were armed and that was a good thing because those were the guys who eventually took him down. But of course the damage was already done. So what happens to make a seemingly happy and normal young Muslim male wake up one day and decide to do something like this? Beats me, but try to compare it to this analogy. What makes an animal snap at its owner after being with him for so many years? Rottweilers and pit bulls are known for this. One day they are your friend and the next day you are learning to write left-handed. It's in their DNA. Same for these maniacs. ...Party by proxy, Dept: Yesterday around here the thermometer was over ninety degrees with the humidity even higher than that and I was invited to a graduation party for a kid that I have not seen in years and if I stood next to him in line at 7-11 I would not be the wiser. When you have central air in your house you need a much better reason to leave it than for something like this. So, I provided what they were really after when I got my invitation when I put a twenty-dollar bill in an envelope and gave it to someone who was actually going and who could not think of a good excuse to get out of it. The kid wouldn't have known I was there anyway so I figured why bother showing up? ...Sarah Palin's subscriber-based online channel, where she had membership rates of $9.95 a month or $99.95 annually is shutting down. She started the site so she could connect directly to viewers without a media filter. The problem was not a lot of people signed up for the monthly or yearly plan outside of her immediate family and ever since her daughter Bristol announced she was pregnant again all people have been asking her was if she knew who the father was and if they could come to the baby shower.

Damn I missed this guy.

Kumala, Pehea `oe?

Updated to 7-12 ...On occasion I may stretch the truth in here when I am talking about something to try and get a laugh but never when I am writing about stupid people because there is no reason to do it there because they do all the work for you. Every year on the Fourth of July someone gets killed or injured badly because they forget that drinking and fireworks don't mix and never will. There were a few injuries last week but nothing like what happened to a twenty-two-year-old man in Maine who spent the holiday knocking off beer cans and then thought it would be a hell of a good idea to launch a firework off the top of his head. Within seconds his hat size went from a size seven to a size zero because the firework blew his head off, killing him instantly. People described this guy as someone who would not do something stupid but would only pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh and that is why they can't understand why he did what he did. What's to understand? He drank a cooler full of beer by himself. That's why he did it. ...The Royals have four starters for the All-Star Game on Tuesday? The hell with that. Maybe for the first time ever I will be rooting for a National League win. ...Congratulations Brett Gardner. You deserve this All-Star nominee. Although you only got in because a Royal got hurt, but that's ok. ...Tim McCarver is back doing occasional television work on the Cardinals broadcasting network. That's fine, let St. Louis have him. I'm just glad he is not the FOX analyst anymore because he would have ruined another mid-season classic for everyone. ...Even though he was found guilty and sentenced to death less than three weeks ago Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a motion for a new trial based on what his lawyers are saying is "in the interest of justice." Whatever that means. He admitted his guilt, apologized for it, was found guilty and was given a death sentence. Bring on the next case. This guy has as much of a chance to win this case as someone in a poker game playing with a marked deck of cards that they aren't aware of. ...That time of year again, Dept: Just a quick glance at the sports calendar tells me that it's almost time for the NFL training camps to open up because the NFL players are starting to make headlines again in the only way they know how to. Green Bay Packers receiver Andrew Quarless was arrested in Miami after firing a semi-automatic handgun into the air two times in a parking garage after arguing with a woman. Quarless invited the woman to come up to Wisconsin with him for the summer and she refused because there is nothing to do in Green Bay. She's got a point. People who live in Green Bay don't want to be in Green Bay. So, after she said no three or four times he got mad and fired his gun in the air. No one got hit but he did knock down a bird's nest. ...If the Packers cut him he can always go to the Patriots since they are always on the lookout for a few good wanna-be felons. ...Even the college players are getting into it although what happened to freshman quarterback De'Andre Johnson is still a little sketchy. Florida State dismissed Johnson from the team the same day after prosecutors released a video of him punching a woman in a bar. The video that I have here from Youtube is over a minute long and has no sound to it. Johnson is claiming that the woman hurled racial insults at him when he accidentally made contact with her when he was walking up to the bar. So, who knows? Since he is only nineteen he still has a chance to get back on the team. Provided he stays out of bars. ...To agree or disagree with Donald Trump about his comments on Mexicans is one thing but you have to admit what he is doing especially in this day and age of claiming that you are misquoted or offering tear-filled apologies for something you said takes a lot of guts. Even with all the backlash he's been getting Trump is saying to everyone that yes, he did say it and yes, he meant it when he said that a lot of Mexicans who come to the United States are criminals, drug dealers and rapists. He had chances to offer rebuttals but chose not to. You just don't see that a lot these days. Too bad it came from someone I don't admire. ..I have to confess that I am not familiar with one song Kid Rock sings and all I know about him is that he was once married to Pamela Anderson and that the guy never seems to wash his hair. But I like what he told all the champions of the politically correct movement when they were protesting that he still displays the Confederate Flag at his concerts even after it has been removed in many places around the country. "Kiss my ass." he told the protesters. I support anyone that doesn't follow blindly behind the PC crowd. ...Usually the Hallmark Channel is a pretty good station to watch because they have a lot of mystery movies on there including reruns of Matlock, Diagnosis Murder and Columbo if you into those sort of shows. But last week I didn't watch a second of it because for some reason they are pushing Christmas on us wether we want it or not. Starting on July 3rd and ending today they are playing all Christmas movies every day. Why?? Christmas will be here before we know it. Why push it on everyone? Why can't they let us enjoy the summer? ...About seven hundred McDonald's restaurants will be closing in the U.S. this year nationwide and while they have not said which ones were going to get the ax they did say the ones that will be shut down are the locations which are "under performing." That means just about every inner-city McDonald's will be going bye-bye pretty soon and a whole bunch of unemployable teenage kids will be losing their job. ...I was driving around last Thursday morning and suddenly I noticed the person in front of me had two stickers on the back of their car. The one on the left displayed the Red Sox logo and over on the right side was a sticker that had the Yankee logo. When do you ever see that? It's like going around claiming you are a Democrat and then the next day telling people you are a Republican. It made no sense. ...If nowadays it is politically incorrect to find a woman attractive then there is absolutely no hope for me because I find myself guilty of this serious infraction every single day. And if I am really having a good day, more than a few times a day. The FIFA website is under criticism for a comment they made about Alex Morgan, a forward for the U.S. National team. They described her as a "talented goal scorer with a style that is very easy on the eye and good looks to match." I don't see what the problem was with that but when you are someone who spends their days looking for something to be offended by you'll take what you can get. I don't think there is any problem saying that a woman is good looking. The last I heard it was a compliment and I am sure Alex Morgan is not hiding out somewhere because she is all embarrassed. Men get the same thing but nothing's said about it. Listen to the next time Tom Brady's name is brought up. After they get done talking about what he did with those footballs they'll compliment him on his looks and how he has a supermodel for a wife. Derek Jeter was another example. Since he came up to the big leagues I can't recall how many times someone said that he had "matinee idol good looks." He didn't take offense. Would you? Saying someone is easy on the eye is not an insult and if it is we all should be insulted like that. ...Now Han Solo is going to get his own stand-alone movie? Who's next, Boba Fett? ...If you can believe this, the record amount of snow that the Boston area got this past winter is still not gone yet. Here it is the middle of July and if that last snow pile can manage to hang around for another four months it will be getting a lot more company. What a place to live. ...Last Tuesday the FBI searched the home of Subway spokesman Jared Fogle and confiscated electronic equipment belonging to an employee of his that worked on his foundation to eliminate childhood obesity. This employee was under investigation for child pornography. Even though Fogle cooperated with the FBI in every way and was never arrested because he was not the guy that they were looking for, Subway decided to suspend their relationship with him. It doesn't matter that the guy is innocent. Once you get your name within ten feet of child porn you've had it and it took Subway all of five seconds to tell him goodbye. America! Home of the free, land of the brave and to hell with the facts. If the public thinks you are guilty then you are. You know, like the 2006 Duke Lacrosse team. ...I don't know how Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush thinks people are going to react when in order to grow back the economy people should work longer hours. Let's see....that would be a no. Next candidate please. ...Poor Ariana Grande. She must be having a hard time making ends meet if she has to resort to licking donuts that don't belong to her. That's what happens when Miley Cyrus is out of town. Her tongue has a mind of its own. And I don't want to be lewd here but I am sure mostly every guy in America must have been thinking if she wants to lick something she can lick something else. Just saying. And as far as this pig saying she hates America and Americans, I don't understand that at all. She was born here. She only apologized because she was caught on video and her agent and lawyers told her to. ...Whoopi Goldberg is finding out first-hand what happens when you don't play nice and follow along with the crowd. People have been threatening her family because of her continued support of Bill Cosby. She has this crazy notion of him being innocent until proven guilty. Such old-fashioned values don't hold up anymore in this country because now you are tried on the pages of CNN and every other media outlet and if they say you are guilty then you are. End of story. The sooner Whoopi learns this the better she and her family will end up being. [/end sarcasm] ...I went to go see San Andreas on Friday afternoon and I really was surprised that it took me that long to see it because it was a fantastic movie. I thought it was just as good as Jurassic World and I really would have a hard time choosing what was the better movie. This is another one that I'll be grabbing on blu-ray even though nothing looks as good as it does on the big screen. After I was leaving the theater I could not help wondering to myself how much this movie made people from California nervous? ...Last week I wrote about the stupid redneck in Texas who jumped into a bayou despite a verbal warning from an employee there and who ignored a sign posted that said "No Swimming Alligators." Well, this guy ignored all that and one lucky alligator got a special dinner for the Fourth of July holiday. Unfortunately for the animal it was one of its last too because last Thursday a hunter spotted and trapped the four hundred pound, 11½-foot alligator and shot it in the head. No wonder why that guy who jumped in never had a chance. The man who shot the gator said he did it to protect his three kids and others who walk and swim near the bayou. Instead of being given a pat on the back and a handshake he was let off with a warning and will not be charged with shooting the alligator. That's what I don't get. These things are dangerous. More of them should be shot every day. What good do these animals do? The only time you hear about them is when they are taking someone's arm off or worse. Like what happened here. ...Happy Birthday Dylan Bradbury (in two days) wherever you are! Your schedules were invaluable for us Mvp users.

Right now I am working on Total Classics 2015.

I was wondering that myself.