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May 09, 2008

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Ah, the Big Fella. So much fun. Such a force back in the day. When he was coming up, his raw power made guys want to be more like Shaq than Mike. 

But there's a downside, a big downside, to being Shaq, all seven feet, three hundred plus of him.  The biggest factor being that he's allergic to staying in shape. Shaq thirty years from now is not a pretty site, folks which is why the Big Guy deserves some of your pity, especially if he doesn't have a retirement plan.

7. Going to baseball games *I feel boxed and bunched in when I sit in a baseball stadium seat, (unless there's no one on either side of me or in front of me or behind me), and I'm barely six feet tall and a buck eighty. Imagine being Shaq's size and trying to squeeze your knees in between that six inches of leg room. Now that would bite!

Continue reading "7 reasons (because you never see a Top 7 list) why you should feel sorry for Shaquille O'Neal"

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May 08, 2008

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One group of people that I have no respect for is: frontrunners. Can't stand 'em. I've lived in Southern California my entire life, minus half of my second grade year spent in rainy Salem, Oregon, when my dad took a job with Bell Potato Chips, and have been a dedicated fan of the Big 3 LA teams: Dodgers, Lakers and SC football all of those years. Loyal. Always rooting for them. Loving the glory days of Lasorda's Dodgers, Riley and Phil's Lakers, and Robinson and Carrol's Trojans.  But also enduring and rooting for my teams (even harder it seemed) during the down times: the last twenty years of Dodger playoff dudness, the Randy Pfund-Del Harris-Magic Johnson-Rudy Tomjanovich & Frank Hamblin coached Laker squads, and the Ted Tollner-Larry Smith-Robinson part two-Paul Hackett led Trojan teams. Down years are part of being a fan. Like life, you gotta ride out the lows to thoroughly enjoy the highs.

Continue reading "Laker Flags - If you weren't flying 'em in December, don't fly 'em now"

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May 02, 2008

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Where have you gone Todd Zeile? Never thought I'd utter those words but the lack of long balls (ones hit by Dodgers) landing in the All-You-Can-Eat seats is making me yearn for the long lost days of stiff, white power guys in the Dodger lineup. Watching Shawn Green do a Garret Anderson impersonation each night in right field is something I don't miss, but his 42 jacks are something we haven't seen much of since he and Sheff have parted ways. We have no power. Rafael's our power guy. There's something wrong with this picture. We're L.A.  This ain't Cleveland. This ain't Milwaukee. This ain't Arizona. 40 something Jeff Kent should not be our HR and RBI leader each year.  It's time, it's time to deal. And don't give me the the "that's why we got Andruw Jones" excuse. We al

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