the record.

And now, batting clean up for the san francisco giants, standing at 5'9" 220 pounds and a size 8 1/2 head, Trent Mano!

I assume that would be my measurements if I juiced. But it's not likely that I would bat clean up for the Giants. While I believe that it is indisbutable that Bonds is a user of steriods, I think it's not in question of his actual talent. If I took all the steriods in the world, corked my bat and had my runner on second base (who used to be a pitcher for the opposing team) steal signs for me, I still wouldn't be able to hit a Major League fastball, curveball, splitter, changeup, slowball, or moneyball. So Bonds does have something going for him. He is an exceptionally talented player, regardless of the cheating that he has done.

But I still don't like him. Notice I didn't say hate. I've said that I hate him previously. Chances are I'll say it again sometime in the future. But any man that gets respect from Hank Aaron like that gets a couple points in my books. He has exhibited some class, showing a tender moment in his respect for his father, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. He shared his moment with his family, which was nice.

But at the end of the day he's a still cheater. Bonds himself said that "the record is not tainted". But it is. I beat Contra on Nintendo a million times by using up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, a, b, start, but i never felt good about it until I did it without the code. Bud Selig said that breaking the record required longevity. But so did beating contra with the konami code. The only thing was that my longevity came artificially, as did Bonds'.

So sports fans are left waiting for A-Rod to break sports most prestigious record and unasterisk the "untainted record".

BYU Sports and Worthiness: Do Your Part!

Last year the 2006 BYU Football team went 11-2 and won their first Las Vegas Bowl. BYU basketball won the Mountain West and even made an appearance at the Big Dance. Huge year for BYU Sports. This obviously means one thing. BYU sports received power from on high because of the faithful living of the student body. If you look at last years season the only losses that BYU students suffered were in September. BYU students often fall victim to mistakes during the summer months as they are removed from the spiritual powerhouse that is the BYU campus. Without the constant reminders and faculty pressure, BYU students typically fail when they are given excesses of agency. This means that bishop's offices are packed during September as students disgorge their mistakes and transgressions. This does not just effect the student body individually but this disobedience spills into every BYU institution; especially the athletic program (this does not even account for the obvious honor code infringements made by the Football team. Thanks a lot Tonga). Once the students got their sins off their chest and began to live according to the sacred document known as the Honor Code things got a lot better. This became evident as General Conference approaced. The Sunday before conference LDS students are often instructed to focus more on their spirituality in preparation for Conference weekend. Students takes this advice to heart and their worthiness tpically peaks in these weeks. Well what happened? BYU had their biggest win of the season by knocking off the #15 TCU and completely destroying SDSU the following week. One cannot simply chalk this up to coincidence. I could go on and talk about how the high levels of faith experienced during the Christmas season led to the Vegas Bowl victory or how University of Utah's lack of church endorsement and shortage of faithful students resulted in a huge football loss and two losses on the hardwood to their spiritually superior rival, but I think I can rest my case. The point now is to ask yourself "Are my choices helping or hurting the athletic program this summer?" We should be thinking about this every day that we are at the beach checking out babes in bikinis and letting our thoughts drift. We should be thinking about this as midnight approaches and you find yourself watching a movie and cuddling with a "non-Lord's Univeristy" girl or boy and there are no roommates there to remind you of the papers you signed when you first came to this school. As summer is winding down and relationships are soaring we need to remember that our actions do not just effect ourselves, but are directly correlated with the outcome of our many sports programs. And with our teams being such missionary tools your actions right now are either going to help to build the kingdom or impede the progess in these last days. Please make the right choices this summer, our future depends on it.

The worst 2 months for sports in my whole life.

June/July 2007 will go down as the worst 2 months in sports in my life time. Never have I felt such a negative vibe like you feel on the regular world/nation/local news as I have in this month. Let's start by recapping june.

June 2007
- The worst NBA finals ever. We've all heard the comparison of the eastern and western conference as varsity and jv and we all saw that play out in 4 short boring games.
- The only brightspot of June was the NBA draft. The deepest draft since 2003 featured 3 francise players. Yes Oden. Yes Durant. And yes Conley Jr. This kid is going to be good. Perennial all-star good.
- Pacman Jones, Tank Johnson and the entire Cincinnati Bengals squad dominate the news for complete idiocy. Is there a dumber person in professional sports than Pacman Jones?
- NHL finals probably happened. Who knows. I know that the Anaheim Might Ducks of Los Angeles of Orange County of Disneyland of Emelio Estevez won, but who cares? I only know one person that calls himself a hockey fan, but I bet he couldn't name any more players than that Crosby fellow. Cosby? I don't even know.
- MLB. Eh. It doesn't matter until post all-star break. One of the two intruiging preseason stories has died (what happened media star child Dice-K? Why hasn't the gyro ball carried you?) and the other story (Bonds "breaking" Hank Aaron's record) just sucks. More on this in a second.

July 2007. Even worse than June? Yes.
Controversy!
MLB: Barry Bonds. Obviously has juiced. There's the visual evidence. There's the evidence in his performance. There's his alleged foot and head growth. So I hate him. I hate when records get broken by people I don't like. I hated it when Emmitt Smith broke Walter Payton's rushing record. And he did it legitimately. But Barry. You're a cheater. The only condolence I have is that A-Rod is going to break the record in no less than 6 years.
NFL: Mike Vick. Another Idiot. Dog fighting. Eh... I don't want to write anything about this. The league should ban him for not becoming a slot back. I'm sick of seeing him out of position. Vick. You are not a quarterback! You were the 21st leading rusher in the league as a quarterback. Get out of here and don't come back until you are not under center.
NBA: "How much are they paying you ref?" Turns out the they is the mafia. Or vegas. Donaghy. Idiot. There's nothing I hate more than when conspiracy theorists are validated. In other news, the white house has also confirmed that we in fact have never been to the moon and they were behind 911 to create a reason to invade Iraq.
MLS: The only person in the world that could bring any attention to the MLS is here. Unfortunately he's 5 years past his prime and his body is not allowing him to play. Keep waiting soccer fans. Your day will come.

Please come soon pro and college football season. Us sports fan need something to drown out these past two awful months.

Who's now?

It took me a while to figure out why espn spent so much freaking time on the who's now segment, but I finally realized that it's because there is nothing happening in sports. Baseball. That's it. Baseball is the only sport of the 4 majors that doesn't overlap with anything else.

Stupid epiphany aside, I voted for the first time in the who's now, because I felt a moral obligation to vote against nascar. The fact that the south and a bunch of hicks have turned the most boring sport in the world into a legitimate threat in the who's now contest was reason enough for me to vote. Plus, Peyton has appeared in 2,678 different commericals. I mean, 2,678x30 seconds= over 22 hours. Ridiculous. You know what else made me vote? Jessica Biel. Wow. Hot. I've thought she was very over rated until now. But... wow. But wait... I just looked for a picture of her to post on the blog, but couldn't find one that I liked. I'm over her.

When all is said and done, Tiger Woods is going to be victorious.

NFL Preview

K, Jake. Here's something a little closer for you. A little NFL preview.

Guaranteed here's the division winners:

AFC
EAST: Patriots. Look for Randy Moss to have his first 75 reception season since 2003 when he had 111. Brady will get those 30 year old legs working.
WEST: Denver. Almost everything I have in me is saying that the Chargers will win the west again, except for two things. 1) the departure of Marty Schottenheimer and 2) Jay Cutler.
NORTH: Baltimore. The least sexy pick in the AFC.
SOUTH: Colts. You should not be allowed to own a television, computer, newspaper or magazine if you feel otherwise.

NFC
EAST: Dallas. I don't know if I hate them or the Packers more for causing me adolescent anguish for 49ers loses, but Romo is the real deal.
WEST: The most wide open of the divisions. No team sticks out as the class of the division. Seattle, last year's division leaders with 9 wins, remains grossly overrated in my opinion. Who do the Rams even have anymore? Is Kurt Warner even still alive? Leinart still needs another 2 years to become average. So, when in doubt, be a homer. Alex Smith is going to have a break out year. 49ers.
NORTH: Chicago. Defense wins conference championships. Rex Grossman loses super bowls.
SOUTH: New Orleans. Reggie Bush will run for 20 TDS, have 20 TD receptions, return 20 punts and kickoffs and will also return 1 interception while playing safety in a prevent defense of a hail mary in week 17. 61 touchdowns this season. You heard it here first.

Excellent topic. I think the next one should be on the 2010 World Cup Favorites. First of all, there is no way that Baron Davis starts in the all-star game. But what was more shocking to me was that you said it has nothing to with your bias and more to do with the nation falling in love with him. He had a great series vs. Dallas, but the nation quickly forgot about him after Derron Williams and the Jazz made short work of them in five games. Trust me the nation will not remember that series when they look down at the All-Star ballot and have the choice of voting for Steve Nash from the first place Suns or Baron Davis from the barely over .500 Warriors. No way Nash doesn't get the vote. You have to remember that the majority of NBA fans are middle-class white guys who think Davis is a "thug" and have wet dreams over Nash. You also have to factor in that Baron Davis was left naked and beaten in a Utah hotel room after a game of strip poker, which by the 2007 All-Star weekend I hope to make common knowledge. So, yeah, Davis is out Nash is in. Obviously Duncan makes it, but Kobe might not. He's already lost a huge chunk of fans with his trade demands. Yao makes it because the Chinese government will coerce the population to vote for him even though they have never even seen a basketball game. I'd like to see Durant make it, but I don't see him getting voted in over McGrady. A billion of the votes come from China and he's the only other player they recognize. It's basically a package deal with Yao and McGrady. I don't care enough about the East to respond. If Araujo was in the East he'd probably make the team.
So here's my West starting line-up
PG- Steve Nash
SG- Allen Iverson (Even LA fans don't like Kobe right now, and Iverson always gets voted in)
SF- Tracy McGrady
PF- Tim Duncan
C- Yao Ming
Same as last year because the fans don't know anything about the league and only vote for guys they see in commercials. Here's my DESERVING starting line-up:
PG- Derron Williams (He'll be the best PG next year, no way Nash can guard him)
SG- Kobe (As much as I hate him, he's still the most talented player in the league)
SF-Shawn Marion (I'd rather have Marion on my team over McGrady)
F- Dirk Nowitzki
C- Yao Ming (Even without the Communist voter influence he's still the best center in the west)

Your 2008 All Stars.

The 2008 NBA all star game, is a full 6 months and 5 days away, but why write about anything that anyone else is writing about. So here it is, your 2008 NBA all star starters, before NBA line ups are even set

Western Conference

PG - Baron Davis *
SG - Kobe Bryant (he WILL be representing the Lakers)
SF - Kevin Durant *
PF - Tim Duncan
C - Yao Ming

Eastern Conference
PG - Gilbert Arenas
SG - Dwayne Wade
SF - LeBron James
PF - Dwight Howard *
C - Shaquille O'Neal

* first time all star starter

Please understand that while I am incredibly biased towards any player coming from a Bay Area team, the Baron Davis pick has less to do with my biases and more to do with the nation falling in love with the Warriors in their recent playoff run.