Tale of the Tape

My friend and colleague Bearcat has few equals when it comes to heckling.  For the last three months he has turned his attention to ripping Santonio Holmes whenever the former Steelers’ wide receiver tweets out on his Twitter account.  What started out as frustration with Santonio’s time in Pittsburgh has quickly devolved into a relentless attack about his love of marijuana.  Bearcat has been so persistent and ruthless that Holmes has recently blocked him.  That might stop an amateur, but Bearcat is a professional.

I felt these were too funny not to share with our readers…

@santonio10: Late for workouts but its coo! Its not about how you start the race But how you finish
@billybearcat: Dumbass. This is why you were traded.

@santonio10: Happy Birthday MOM!
@billybearcat: I would visit but after the recent iPod/plane thing I’m on the Fed’s No Fly List. Sorry. 😦

@santonio10: I think I’m going to LOVE living in the NY/NJ area for the next 10yrs!
@billybearcat: Your career might last 3 if you stay off weed.

@santonio10: U gain something to lose something,
@billybearcat: I found a 40 in the back of the Escalade but lost my stash of buds… Unhappy face.

@santonio10: Watching UNDATEABLE MARATHON. Hilarious!!!
@billybearcat: After hitting your 10 foot bong…

@santonio10: I’m not convinced that I should trade my 2009 Range Rover in for the new 2010 Rover
@billybearcat: If you do; clean out all the weed first.

@santonio10: Sweet!
@billybearcat: I totally thought that was going to be a picture of a bong… Really I did.

@santonio10: Up, up, and Away!!!
@billybearcat: He is high as a kite!!! He really loves weed.

@santonio10: Why am I in Popeye’s in NJ and I see the woman with a mustache!
@billybearcat: Potheads love Popeye’s…

@santonio10: Lol I apologize people this iPhone types what it wants sometime.
@billybearcat: No you’re just high sometimes…

@santonio10: Why did my son just pass gas and can’t stop laughing!
@billybearcat: OMG your son is high too? Does he have a kid’s size bong?

@santonio10: Having an amazing time rite now laughing with my kids!
@billybearcat: Must be the “brownies”

@santonio10: Men lie, women lie, NUMBERS don’t!
@billybearcat: Weed sometimes lies. Sometimes you buy “good shit” that’s sticky but it’s oregano & honey.

@santonio10: Just finish lunch at Applebees with the boys. Headed home for a much needed nap!
@billybearcat: Smoking and the munchies make Tone tired…

@santonio10: Work out finish, now off to Toys R for Us
@billybearcat: I’m going to make a bong out of Legos!!!

@santonio10: Rainy day in Jersey, cause for dad and the boys to stay in and watch a funny movie tonight
@billybearcat: Half Baked while fully baked!

@santonio10: Thinking about how I’m going to takeover the world today! Ha Ha
@billybearcat: And you people think I’m joking when I say he’s always high.

@santonio10: I think the #10 is the best number to wear in sports. Anyone agree?
@billybearcat: It’s like wearing the # for a dime bag!

@santonio10: In bed watching the Lakers vs Celtics game 4!
@billybearcat: Nothing like cuddling up in bed with a joint and funions.

@santonio10: Peep my swagg ma don’t I walk like a ball playa!
@billybearcat: Weed. It makes you tweet shit like this

@usatoday_nfl: Ex-Titans, Seahawks RB LenDale White admits to smoking marijuana while in the NFL
@billybearcat: Was it with @santonio10?

@santonio10: Got the iphone app for vuvuzela and its great but I want a real one to have!
@billybearcat: Turn it into a huge bong!

@santonio10: That Maybach is one amazing car. It’s has the craziest features ever.
@billybearcat: Lots of compartments for hiding the stash from the 5-0.

@santonio10: Getting a new tattoo rite now!
@billybearcat: I got a pic of his new tat…in a word: Classy.

@santonio10: The big round cheeze-it commercial with the doctor in it is too funny!
@billybearcat: Just when I think you can’t sound any more stoned…

@santonio10 @DougzInBoston say it aint so?
@billybearcat: I can only assume that A: Dougz is his weed hook up and B: Dougz is all tapped out…

Thanks for coming and suckling Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Max Power

Reactions to the USA – Algeria World Cup Match

After Landon Donovan scored the winning goal in the U.S.’s thrilling World Cup game yesterday with Algeria, DSB thought it would be a great idea to reach out to some prominent sportswriters, bloggers, and broadcasters for their reactions. But then I got sucked into the never ending fifth set of the John Isner-Nicolas Mahut tennis match and I never got around to it. So instead, I just made everything up. It turned out to be a lot less work on my end which is always a good thing.

Bill Simmons (ESPN) – After the third time the refs tried to screw the U.S., I remembered something that Bish and JackO say when we’re on a heater in Vegas and the pit boss starts warming up Mariano Rivera in the Asian Gaming Room. Our three rules that we live by are “to never get less than twelve hours sleep, never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city, and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Stick to that and everything else is cream cheese.” Sure, we stole it from Teen Wolf but I think its life lessons we should all live by. So, just as I am telling my friend Jimmy this piece of advice, Landon Donovan comes out of nowhere like Larry Legend stealing that Isiah Thomas’ inbounds pass and knocks in the game winner. Finally, I’m rooting for a winner.

bermanChris Berman (ESPN) – Did you see that outlet pass by Tim “Opie” Howard? And then whoop-whoop-whoop…there goes Landon “Sunshine Superman” Donovan not feeling so “Mellow Yellow” bumbling and stumbling down the field and he could…go…all the way. But he pushes it to Jozy “and the Pussycats” Altidore who takes a shot on goal and then Donovan is there to bang the deflection home. From California to the New York Island, from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters…this Landon was made for you and me.

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Dan Shanoff (The Sporting Blog) – Without a doubt, that was the greatest goal scored in the greatest game in U.S. soccer history. This team’s resolve is the stuff of legends and Landon Donovan’s goal is easily the greatest moment in the history of all U.S. sports. Did I say sports? I should have said it was the greatest moment in the history of the United States and possibly of all mankind.

 

buzz_bissinger_insane_phixrBuzz Bissinger (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) – Fuck Algeria. It’s a country full of douche juices. What do they know about soccer? They’re too busy selling us oil at outrageous prices to know what the hell soccer is. They’re all fucktwat douche juices. Fuck ’em all. Maybe it’s just my third white wine spritzer talking, but any country that hasn’t read the great sportswriter W.C. Heinz is just a bunch of douch juices.

Peter King (SI) – Last year when I walked around with Landon Donovan feeding the homeless and rescuing stray puppies in his hometown of Ontario, California, he said something that remains with me until this day. He said “Peter, never order the venti size at Starbucks…it’s the same as a grande but with more hot water.” And oh boy, was he right. That’s just another prime example why Landon Donovan leads this team in Seinfeld-like observations. Speaking of Jerry, I stopped by my daughter Mary Beth’s old field hockey coach from Montclair last week and she was watching the classic “Bubble Boy” episode. Does it get any better than that? “Moops!!!”

stephen-a-smithStephen A. Smith (Philadelphia Inquirer) – What a remarkable comeback. I’m sure the fine folks at General Mills are already producing Wheaties’ boxes with Landon Donovan on the front. But it should be my man, Jozy Altidore. Earlier in the game, Donovan purposefully kicked the ball away from Altidore before he could score on an open net thus preventing Altidore from being the true hero of this game. How could they keep a brother down like that? And in the homeland, no less. Do I think Donovan is a racist? Watch the footage and I’ll quite frankly let his actions speak for themselves.

Rick Reilly (ESPN) – The alternative music band Weezer should be careful of their standing with the U.S. men’s team. They have a song that was written for and adopted by the team as a theme song, but after yesterday’s results the team may want to fly Lionel Richie into South Africa as the U.S. contingency will surely be partying “All Night Long”. For most of the game, the Algerian goaltender had been as impenetranable as a teenage Ann-Margret before Elvis got his hands on her, but then Donovan saw his opportunity and the goal openend up as wide as the gap in David Letterman’s teeth.

Drew Magary (Kissing Suzy Kolber, Deadspin) – I call this story “The Poop Heard ’round the World”. All hope looked lost in the U.S. match when I decided to go weigh myself again, but I thought before I do that why don’t I go pinch off a loaf in an attempt to make myself lighter since my record dump is 2.5 pounds. It also let me get some peace from those insufferable little fuckstains that are my kids and gave me time to rub one out while I was thinking about the local soccer moms in my spank bank. So I finish up and go to tweet my weight out when I see that Twitter is exploding with the news of Landycakes scoring the game-winning goal. And damn if I didn’t miss it because I was flushing my colon of those Jack Link’s Flamin’ Buffalo Chicken Nuggets.

Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) – People I know, people I respect love the beautiful game of soccer. Me? I could never get into it. I would rather have been holed up in my bedroom, reading Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The meaning of life can be found in true art like that. But I worry for our future when kids would rather play soccer and sit in front of video games all day.

 

matt-sebek-jsf1Matt Sebek (Joe Sports Fan) – I find it very difficult to root for anyone on this team because there is not one good mustache to be found on anyone on this team. Sure…some of the guys are sporting beards, but it’s not like the epic playoff beards Chris Mason and Roman Polak grew for this year’s annual Blues’ playoff collapse. But I can still see how Landon Donovan will be hugely popular back here in the States when this team returns. Much like that one episode of Saved by the Bell when Zack Morris returned to Bayside after rigging the chess championship in favor of Screech, I fully expect Kelly Kapowski to be waiting for Donovan with open arms.

Skip Bayless (ESPN) – I don’t understand why everyone is celebrating this win. It should have easily been 4-0 before that moment. Clint Dempsey, Jozy Altidore, and the now golden child, Landon Donovan, all had chances they should have converted long before the extra time. The U.S. team should be disgraced by this performance. I just got off the phone with Ghana’s assistant equipment manager and he told me that they saw something that will give them the edge in the next game. I’m going with Ghana 7, the U.S. 0.

 

Jason Whitlock (Fox Sports, Kansas City Star) – For the first 90 minutes of the game, the U.S. men’s team couldn’t capitalize on their opportunities. I was all set to recommend my old teammate Jeff George would be perfect to fix the scoring woes of this team. Because no matter how many teams he played with and no matter how many times he was labeled a “cancer”, he can still command a huddle and lead scoring drives with that laser for a right arm. But then Landon Donovan scored and sent the U.S. fans into a party that I’m sure is still going on. If I was Donovan, not only would I have scored on the pitch but I’d spend the next two days getting my “Becky” on with half the population of Johannesburg.

Andy Rooney (CBS’ 60 Minutes) – If they call it football why are the goalies allowed to use their hands? Back when I was young and I could get into the Polo Grounds for a nickel and we could see all different kinds of sporting events. I once saw Jesse Owens outrun a horse and Joe Louis knockout a kangaroo in a boxing match. Do you ever wonder how it would feel to be carried around in a kangaroo pouch all day? I bet it’s wonderful. That’s probably why Winnie the Pooh’s friend Roo is always in a good mood. I’d be in a good mood too if I could only find a tasty honeydew melon. In my life, I’ve probably bought a thousand honeydew melons and only three of them have ever been ripe.

Thanks for coming and suckling Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Max Power

Jerk Store: Thomas Kinkade

Kitsch…thy name is Kinkade

Why he is a jerk:
Thomas Kinkade created an empire based on Christmas and phony outdoors scenes of folksy kitsch. He dubbed himself the Painter of Light (/pukes). This empire was built on suburban mall “galleries” that told buyers that they were investing in art. The multi-million dollar art empire was nothing more than mass produced rubbish signed by an a man more con than artist.

Over the last several years the empire has crumbled under Kinkade’s increasingly bizarre behavior and a faltering market for his oil and pastel dribble. In 2006, Kinkade was a drunken mess and started heckling Siegfried and Roy in Las Vegas for wearing cod pieces. Normally, wearing a cod piece means open season for ridicule, but what did the painter expect when he bought tickets to see that dynamic duo?  Kinkade has a propensity for sexual harassment and was accused of publicly groping a colleague’s wife after falling off a bar stool during a Kinkade event in Indiana. On another occasion he relieved himself on a Winnie the Pooh statue in a Disney Hotel. But hey…who has not wanted to go R Kelly on a Disney character? Did I forget to mention that Kinkade reportedly said “This one’s for you, Walt.” while he was urinating on that innocent childhood figurine?

Now gallery owners have levied a multi-million dollar lawsuit, he has declared bankruptcy with creditors owed over six million and QVC is even looking to stop hawking his snowy cottage fecal matter on canvas.  Ultimately, we all should have seen this meltdown coming. A quick read of Kinkade’s 2001 60 Minutes appearance shows that the man had illusions of grandeur that would make Benito Mussolini blush.

So welcome Mr. Kinkade…you are the official artist of the DSB Jerk Store.

Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat

Sports News the DSB way…

Max Power’s Favorite Coach Reacts To KC Getting the All-Star Game

George Brett is really excited to tell everyone about KC getting the 2012 All-Star Game…

Bud Selig officially announced that Kansas City will be hosting the 2012 All-Star game. DSB reached up to former Royal coach Hal McRae for his thoughts on the honor. We even got video of his reaction… although I am not sure he understood the question.

Hard Hits and Bong Hits

LenDale traded his shirt for a dime bag…

Former Tennessee Titan and Seattle Seahawk LenDale admitted to smoking the reefer (Surprise!) and is currently looking for work due to his drug usage and a pending four game suspension. LenWhale told a Nashville newspaper “I smoked marijuana; that is all I have ever done. That’s all I do, that’s it. I smoke. I don’t care about any other drugs, but it’s marijuana. But I have changed. I am a good man. Unfortunately the stuff that I did in my recent past caught up to me in the present and it’s affecting my future.” Incase you were wondering the “recent past” he was referring to was about three hours ago.

Rigged Even By NBA Standards

The Lakers and the Celtics (two of sports most storied franchises according to ESPN/ABC) will meet in an epic game 7 to decide who is the NBA Champion. The two biggest teams in two of the largest TV markets with the largest fan bases will play a game 7. In a league that is hemorrhaging cash, that desperately needed a huge series that would payoff for TV and in a league that has had more bad press on fixing games than any other doesn’t this just seem too good to be true? The NBA is basically studio wrestling at this point right?

They Were Made For Each Other

Keep them together… if there is any justice in this world they should be forced to live together.

Albert Haynesworth is unhappy with the Redskins and specifically Mike Shanahan who is looking to implement a 3-4 defense for the upcoming season. Haynesworth wants to play in a 4-3. Haynesworth who has collect over 32 million dollars of this 104 million dollar contract (41 of it guaranteed) is sitting out of practice and whining about wanting out of Washington. This is where Goodell should step in for “good of the NFL shield” and force Haynesworth to remain in DC. Dan Snyder deserves to be stuck with this ridiculous contract and Haynesworth should be forced to put up with the orangeman’s shit. Make Haynesworth into a nine figure janitor if you have to but force Snyder to pay him and force Haynesworth to be unhappy in DC (if that is possible with that much money).  It is only fair.

Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat

Entertainment News the DSB way…

No One Wants To See How Its Made

Television Host, Country Music Singer and Sausage King Jimmy Dean died at the age of 81 on Sunday. DSB has reached out to the Dean family for comment regarding the upcoming services to which we were informed that Jimmy will be interred within a human sized tube of sausage in accordance with his wishes.

Doctor Death
A judge on Monday ruled that Dr. Conrad Murray (Wacko Jacko’s personal drug dealer physician) may keep his California medical license while defending himself against manslaughter charges.  So if you were hoping for an appointment with Jack Kevorkian but found his schedule a little tight for your assisted suicide just call up Dr. Murray but hurry because his manslaughter trial will begin later this summer.

More Jackson News!
Joe Jackson StrokeWacko Jacko clan patriarch Joe Jackson gave an interview to the British rag newspaper News of the World claiming that he urged Katherine (Michael’s mother) to confront Michael about his prescription drug addiction.  Joe went further and even blamed his wife for the King of Pop’s death. DSB contacted Katherine Jackson for comment to which her publicist stated that Katherine blamed Joe for being a controlling and abusive father that most likely could be connected to Michael’s strange sexual proclivities.

Gay Update:
Sunday night CBS aired the 64th Tony Awards.  There were lots of winner but none more than DSB editor Max Power who cuddled up on the couch and made jazz hands at the TV for four hours. (He really, really likes Broadway musicals.)

Corrections:
Last week during the DSB Entertainment News update we incorrectly identified that Gary Coleman would be interred within a Coleman cooler. This was not only incorrect but also a insensitive slight at Coleman’s small stature. We are above that joke. On Monday, a Utah judge ruled that Colman’s remains would be cremated within 48 hours.  DSB followed up on a lead close to the Coleman camp and determined that Gary will in fact be cremated within a Coleman hibachi grill and his ashes will be placed within an appropriate containment unit.

Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat

Sports News the DSB way…

If It’s In The Game…

DOUBLE BOGEY… I mean… MY NECK… OHFUCK, MY NECK!!!

EA Sports released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 yesterday. EA’s Tiger Woods franchise is the largest selling golf video game of all time. This year in order to make the game more like the real life player on the box’s cover, gamers will only be able to play in Majors and Tour events that carry a major sponsor of Tiger Woods.  Also if the player is in danger of missing a cut or clearly out of contention the player can quit and blame it on a bulging disk without any negative repercussions.

Travel from Revis Island: Delayed

Darrelle Revis doing his best Wolverine impersonation…

Jets All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis returned to practice on Tuesday.  When DSB asked Rex Ryan if Revis had been sitting out voluntary summer practice sessions due to a contract dispute, Sexy Rexy responded, “Darrelle wanted to attend practice but he was unable to leave Revis Island due to travel restrictions connected to the Icelandic volcano spewing ash thereby grounding his plane.”

 

Oliver Twist The Truth
Oliver Pérez MetsFollowing a brief investigation, MLB has cleared the Oliver Perez injury which placed him on the 15 day DL. Perez, who’s copious pitching problems have been begging for a break and rehab stint in the minors, was placed on the 15 day list just in time for Elmer Dessens to move into his locker. Perez was diagnosed with patella tendinitis. Tendinitis is basically impossible to deny. It is like being placed on the DL for depression. MLB is feckless and impotent.

Probably, Maybe, In All Likelihood

ClassyPhillyThe Philadelphia Phillies are trying to get ahead of what is some pretty bad video.  Deadspin and other sites posted video of a young kid taking a swig from a bottle during this weekend’s Phillies game.  The Phillies are stating that they “can’t track down the young boy” and that the bottle is “probably empty.”  Probably no one believes this. Probably.

Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy‘s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat

Entertainment News the DSB way…

Dianetics 2: Electric Boogaloo

L.Ron foretold of Les Grossman in his prophetic Dianetics

Tom Cruise reprised his role as Les Grossman (NSFW) from Tropic Thunder last night during Jennifer Lopez’s hip-hop performance.  Why these two were on stage together makes absolutely zero sense to me but maybe I am just getting too old.  DSB reached out to Katie Holmes for reaction to her husband’s booty shaking performance as a Jewish Hollywood mogul and we were told that Katie “loved it” but was unable to comment further as she was working with Suri Baby L. Ron to study for her stress test and to explain how daddy was doing a dance to increase his thetan quota.

Coleman Grilled

Gary Coleman’s Casket

The ex-wife of the late Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman is going to court seeking control of his estate.  Apparently Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price believes that she is about to come into a great deal of money from Gary’s camping empire. Ms. Price is expecting to hit it big with Coleman lanterns and coolers. Needless to say Gary never told her he made his money on 80’s TV, not Coleman Fuel.

Surprise! Douche Bags Like Douche Bag Things

Jersey Shore “stars” Pauly D and Vinny announced during yesterday’s MTV Movie Awards that they were big fans of the Twilight movie franchise and they had “mad respect for Team Edward, Team Jacob and everybody in between.”  DSB followed up with an off camera question of what else the Jersey Shore crew had “mad respect” for…here is the list:
Ed Hardy
Affliction
Cubic Zirconium
Zima
Axe Body Spray
Fake Tanner
H2 Hummers
Bud Light Lime
Bench Pressing
White Shoes
Those Really Huge Cans of Red Bull
The Color Teal
A Wide Stance
Bros Icing Bros
Herpes (A must read link)

Plastic Surgery Repossession

This picture is not photoshopped… At least not by DSB. I know it looks photoshopped, but that is just how she looks.

Keeping it in New Jersey… The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice finally broke her silence after reports surfaced that she and her husband had filed for bankruptcy while being $8.7M in debt. Currently, the couple’s massive debt is four times their liquidated net worth. The trash reality TV star blamed the downward economy and said that despite her husband’s hard work their real estate ventures died. Ms. Giudice said that she and her family were looking forward to the “fresh start” that bankruptcy could provide. And a fresh start it will be since they have filed for Chapter 7 which provides for the liquidation of assets in order to pay debts. I wonder if the bank will be able to repossess any of that plastic surgery work she had done?

Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat

Jerk Store: Floyd Landis

This is Floyd Landis and his book which has more bullshit than A Million Little Pieces…

Why he is a jerk:
Floyd Landis used drugs to make him both a better cyclist and a Tour de France champion.  So what. Cycling is the dirtiest game in sports. The Russian weightlifters during the cold war Olympiads had cleaner wins than anyone in cycling. Using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) does not put Landis in the Jerk Store. There are too many dirty sports figures these days for Landis to be the singled out for Jerk Store selection on that basis alone.

Landis gets entry for what he did after getting caught.  It was not the lies, of which there were many.  It was the fact that he took money from people, people right here in his home of Lancaster County, to fuel a bullshit legal defense for his use of PEDs.  That is utterly indefensible. Floyd took their money and held fundraisers all over Central PA (especially Lancaster) to pay for lawyers to deal with his cheating.  He claimed innocence at no end and needed their money to further his lies and to fight the truth.

Landis is a con man. He perpetrated a fraud on friends by telling them that the charges were false and that he needed money to defend his character. A character that they trusted so much that they handed over their hard earned dollars to help defend. I don’t recall Mark McGwire hitting up Cardinals fans for cash so as to defend his inability to talk about the past before Congress.  Jose Canseco has sold his dignity in order to pay his bills; which puts his character several rungs above that of Landis.

What kind of rationalization must Landis have discussed inside his head that would have caused him to shun his Mennonite upbringing and toss it all aside so as to not only dope his way to the finish line but to then go and commit fraud against the people that loved him most?  His parents had to visit a neighbor to watch their son compete because they don’t own a TV!  This has to be horribly embarrassing to them.

Some sports columnist have reached back into the over-used-column-ideas-well to say that “America’s a forgiving country.”  They believe that since he has admitted to not only taking PEDs but that he did it for an edge that people will forgive. That maybe true but what can not be forgiven is the fraud, and this is fraud, that he perpetrated on those that believed him and gave him money.  For that, there should be no forgiveness.

So Floyd…enjoy begging for money in the Jerk Store.

Thanks for coming and suckling Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat

Jerk Store: Aki Iwamura

Do the honorable thing, Aki, and just end it.... please, Pirate Fans everywhere just want it over

Do the honorable thing, Aki, and just end it…. please, Pirate Fans everywhere just want it over


Why he is a jerk:
Aki Iwamura should consider the dishonor that he has brought upon himself, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city of Pittsburgh and his homeland of Japan.   It is time for him to commit Seppuku (ritual suicide). If he has any respect for bushido (the samurai warrior code of honor and discipline) he will break a bat over his knee and drive the sharp splintered pine into his belly. Hara-kiri which literally means “stomach cutting” should be an option for Russell, Huntington and Nutting at this point as well.

How can Aki collect his $4.8 million dollar salary? By the way, he is the highest paid player in the Pirates’ clubhouse. It is actually criminal what he is doing out there.  First is his batting average which has risen to .173 from what should have been a terminal low of .149.  The fact that Russell kept trotting him out there as he floundered in a 1 for 43 stretch at one point this season should be grounds for institutionalization of a manager. The man has only nine RBIs…and that includes the two homeruns he hit this season.

Then there was the report that management was working with Aki on his double play pivot. The fact that a 31-year old second baseman, who is making nearly five million, needs to work on his double play move had me ready to drive to Pittsburgh with gasoline, matches and directions to PNC Park.  I don’t care about his knee surgery or his knee brace.

It only took until this past weekend for Pirates’ management to realize that they were playing with eight players in the lineup instead of the more traditional nine.  Once they figured that out, Russell benched Aki in favor of hometown prospect and first round draft pick Neil Walker.

Word was that Aki did not take the demotion well and was said to be “upset.”  Iwamura, who has the infielder range of a 400 pound woman in a Hoveround, was regularly booed while giving up on routine ground balls hit within reaching distance of his left and right hands.  What right does he have to be upset? Apparently, apathy does not get upset until you bench it.

So, Aki, do the right thing and instead of collecting your paycheck as part of a dishonorable death on the bench, calmly disembowel yourself in silence.  It is the honorable thing to do.

Otherwise live in disgrace in the Jerk Store.

Thanks for coming and suckling on Daddy’s Sugar Ball…
Bearcat