If You're Still Bitter About Bonds I've Got Your Solution

I can't really work up any ire over Barry Bonds breaking the home run record. I guess my feelings on Bonds are best summed up by this quote from Samuel L. Jackson;

"Guilty, innocent, whatever, you know? Barry still hit the ball out of the park. The ball's been hit out of the park that many times by this particular guy, so they can put asterisks by the record if they want to, or whatever, but it doesn't change the fact that he did it."

But, there are people who are really upset by Bonds taking over the record. As a public service I have devised a way for these people to regain their love of baseball. My solution minimizes the incentives for current players to take steroids and doesn't celebrate former steroid users.

The answer is simple, let's only celebrate inside the park home runs. Sure, chicks dig the long ball, but with the right promotion this just might work. We can build off of Ichiro's MVP earning inside the park home run in the All Star Game. We can probably get Bob Costas on board too. In my head I can already hear him covering the biggest story in sports, whether or not this is the year that some major leaguer will break Sam Crawford's single season record of 12 inside the park home runs.

Speaking of Crawford, he's also the career leader in inside the park home runs with 51. So spread the word, Sam Crawford is the "new" home run king.

Abe Lincoln v. Gary Coleman?

Some people created celebrity versions of Miis (characters to use on the Nintendo Wii video game system) and have pitted them against each other in the Wii Sports game. I must say that I totally disagree with the result of the Wii boxing match. A world where Gary Coleman can beat Abe Lincoln in a boxing match should not exist, not even if it's only a virtual world.


At least virtual Abe comes back strong with a win on the tennis court:


After seeing that bogus boxing match I could totally understand if you wanted to pick up one of our Abe Lincoln Was a Badass shirts, just to set the record straight.

Court Rules That Man Can't Name His Racehorse "Sally Hemings"

Not only is the subject matter of this case interesting, but the judge was also able to work in a quote from a song by the band America.

From CNNSI.com
"The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled that The Jockey Club can legally bar horse owner Garrett Redmond of Paris, Ky., from naming his 4-year-old horse after Thomas Jefferson's most famous slave, who was also reputed to be his lover."

"Because The Jockey Club is a private organization with power delegated by the state, it may restrict free speech so long as it doesn't discriminate against a specific viewpoint, Batchelder wrote."

"The Jockey Club forbids horse owners from using names of famous or notorious people without special permission. The organization's rules also say that "names considered in poor taste; or names that may be offensive to religious, political or ethnic groups" won't be approved."

Bob Dole And O.J. Simpson, Together At Last?

I enjoyed this post from The Eclectic Life about finding things in old used books. I've found my fair share of fun things in used books, with my favorite being a trading card of former major league pitcher Dick Pole.

(Check out that picture, porn name? Check. Porn Stache? Check)

Near the end of the post they've got a picture of some "carefully clipped pictures of Bob Dole and O.J. Simpson" that they found together in a book recently. What a combo.

Tainted Love

It has nothing to do with politics, but over at Deadspin I noticed that Mothering Hut has produced this clever t-shirt. The numbers running up the side reference various dubious sports achievements throughout time. I'm not really sure I would have included the number 7 referencing Lance Armstrong's number of Tour de France wins, but overall the shirt is so clever I couldn't help posting it.