Bruce Froemming is RETIRING!...and kinda porky

That's pretty much all I got about him, pretty old and pointless news. It looks like he is going to eat this microphone, though. Anyway, in an occupation such as his own, one should be careful not to inflate, simply due to the fact that each bad call he makes will be blamed on his flab. Ed Hochuli has it right. Froemming is retiring after this season; so good riddance, fatty.

The "Who's Now" segment on ESPN has gone far enough. We have become so celebrity-driven in our society that we are now voting on who is the "cooooooooooolest athlete around?" What are we, eight? A recent matchup in the Ali Bracket pitted Super Bowl Champion Peyton Manning against swimmer Amanda Beard. He slaughtered her. Her only chance was that she posed for Playboy, and men like nudity. A forthcoming thriller has slated A-Rod vs. seven seeded Terrell Owens. If this was at all based upon what ESPN thought, TO would be a one seed and breeze through the field. This is just so stupid. Making it worse, though, is the personalities telling us who to vote for. What???????? This should be nothing more than an ongoing Page 2 poll.

Andrew Bogut, we all remember, is Woo's bitch. However, Bogut had some pretty choice words for his NBA counterparts, saying that the fans were right and they only cared about money and possessions, in so many words. Yeah. Thanks Andrew. What next, they're crybabies too? Here's my problem with this; it's really not even my problem. If any player took offense to this, which many may, he will get punched in the balls first time down the floor by each one of them. Why say this? leave it alone. Everyone knows this; just don't say anything.

Everyone remember Brook Lopez? She sounds hot, right? Well he is a center for Stanford's basketball team. If anyone watched the UL-Stanford game in tournament, you would realize how ridiculous it would be for him to be the overall number one pick in next year's draft. Not Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News. I don't know anything about evaluating talent; but if he goes number one, I would be completely shocked. He looked so bad against UL, I can't believe he would even get drafted. But DeCourcy knows more than I, and I guess he has a huge upside or whatever.

One final tidbit. The eight year olds from Germantown (my old team) banged out forty hits on their way to slipping past Rockford Lane in a barn-burner, 31-0. I mean, they published this in the Courier. Rockford Lane had better pitching when I was younger.

Sorry about the Froemming thing. I just wanted to see what it was like to post a picture.

From my Parent's Basement...literally

Not only has this week brought on new employees at my work, and consequently new struggles at the time clock, but also a fair amount of annoyances from the big, fat, whiny world of sports.

First off, Eric Crawford sure is bitchy. For those who don't know, Crawford is the relatively new, menopausal columnist at Louisville's Courier-Journal. He does deserve his due, however, as he is far better than his colleague, Rick Bozich; he stuns me week in and week out with his weak takes and weaker vernacular. Weak. Ok, back to him shortly. A recent Crawford article takes aim at UK's Billy Gillispie, or as the d-bags on the message boards call him, BCG, and his continuous recruiting of players from the class of '09 and '10. For starters, he is not the first coach to do this; and, more importantly, this is a very sly way of snagging young talent away from the competition. Think back to when you were sixteen; how impressionable were you? I commend Gillispie for taking advantage of these teens (stop it) and getting them to sign early. It's better than UK's previous recruiting methods, which apparently comprised of Tubby taking prospects to Rafferty's (they have large portions), and preaching to them the joys and beauty of a functioning ball-line defense. In most cases, this process will likely end up as a success story for both parties. Sure there are risks involved as this practice has often ended with the player opting out of his scholarship. However, if all of the promises are kept from the coaching staff to the prospect (and it appears that they will be), then there should be no problem. Of course no one truly knows what will happen in the coming years, but more often than not this will prove beneficial for both the player and the program. Thus, sir Crawford, I truly understand the difficulties of being a columnist in a non-baseball town during the heat of summer (we all read the "back in time" piece), I just ask that your views not always depend on attacking.

Ok, let's continue my attack on Courier-Journal columnists. I truly do not want to sound like a jealous loser, but I want these people's jobs. So, yeah, I'm a little jealous. But seriously, the Barry Bonds article?! Right off, who gives a shit if Rick Bozich doesn't watch the all-star game? I know Bud Selig doesn't. Secondly, you're just wrong. You're always wrong. You are just a wrong person. Always. Anyway, there is absolutely every reason that Barry Bonds should start in the all-star game. I'll give you one easy one. IT'S IN HIS HOME BALLPARK!!!!!!!!!! When was the last time the home team didn't have a starter. Do you remember Jason Bay? Also, despite the glaring evidence to the contrary, Barry Bonds has not been proven guilty of anything. If he had, he wouldn't be able to play at all. His numbers are not that bad, but he's about to break the most important record in baseball; let him get his cheers; God knows he get his boos.

Listen, I'm no Bonds apologist. I don't want to see him break this record as much as anyone else. But let's be real; the guy can't sit the game out in his hometown. That's just ridiculous.

Alright, I'm going to try and come stronger tomorrow with my theories on how in God's name Bruce Froemming got so fat--and kept his job umpiring.