(Yardbarker) So if you’re swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that’s called trespassing. That is not a shark attack. A shark attack is if you’re chilling at home, sitting on your couch, and a shark comes in and bites you; now that’s a shark attack. Now, if you’re chilling in the water, that is called invasion of space.
Aparantly he lifted the bit from comedian Ian Edwards, but unlike when Carlos Mencia steals another comedian’s material, Arenas stealing your jokes equals free advertising. Mencia stealing your jokes equals rape. Worse than that, he’s pissing on the industry, ala what Barry Bonds is doing to baseball. Erasing the notion that the game or the stage is sacred, or at least worth more than any one person who capitalizes on there being this venue for their talent in the first place. No one has likened Bonds to Mencia that I know of, but they’re the same type of person as I see it. And when comparing the two situations, I suppose Joe Rogan would be comedy’s version of Curt Schilling.
Joe Rogan and Carlos Mencia Fight (MUST SEE)
Bonus clips:
Mencia on a radio show:
Joe Rogan standup “Stupid People…”:
The thing about Berry Bonds, or Beroid as Jim Rome likes to call, is he is hitting all those home runs against pitchers who are roided up and outfielders who are roided up as well. He took steroids to level the playing, so I don’ think you can critisize him for doing what everyone else was doing, his only crime is that he was better at it than the rest of the cheaters.
I doubt that…he got the best stuff! ‘The Clear’, the strongest and 100% untraceable. Bob Costas intereviewed the chemist on HBO a week ago, a must see. I’ll try to download it and post to here somehow.
I was listening Alfred Williams, a former NFL player, on the radio last night. He was saying something to the effect that it used to depress him when guys who were juicing would get twice as strong as he was getting doing the same workouts. I think that steroids are probably far more prevalant in sports than anyone wants to admit. Do you remember a few years ago Wayne Hagan mentioned that Don Baylor told him that Todd Helton was on the juice, and if you look at Heltons numbers he sure seems to have had more power during that time. Hagan was attacked from every where, and I don’t think he is associated with pro baseball anymore. The truth hurts and speaking the truth seems to hurt even more.
There are a lot of guys like Helton, whose numbers just bottomed out…off the top of my head, Nomar Garciapara, Scott Rolen, Adrian Beltre, Preston Wilson…damn, the list is really immense, and all you need to do is check the back of the baseball card to know what’s going on.
I posted on Giambi, in support when he spoke up. It’s really interesting to me to see which specific sports writers go after a guy who tells the truth.
Jason Giambi
When people are living in extreme denial the truth seems to hurt worse than the act itself. Sort of reminds me of the right wing freak out regarding Scott Thomas.
Good insight – – – I can’t really get my arms around why journalists would be upset about a guy like Giambi giving them a story to write and another wrinkle to add to the caper. They must be in camps on this issue, and you’re right, they’ll swarm on something they don’t want out there. I thought that Max Blumenthal from The Nation had the best writeup on Scott Thomas. Have you read that karl?
I will go check it out, if I ever get back to school I would love to write a PHD thesis about the power of denial, it really does seem to drive many actions.
The GOP is providing a lot of proof these days. Romney talking about his sons, the campaign manager in Florida who propositioned a cop, pretty much every one of them when the topic of Iraq comes up.
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My favorite GOP’er was the chairman of the young republicans that fellated(is that a word) one of his fellow GOPers whle the guy was sleeping. The best part of the young republicans is that they accept people up to the age of forty. That says something about the average age of a republican. It really does seem that the GOP is made up of people who were hippies in the 60’s but couldn’t get laid at Woodstock, so they became bitter and tried to figure out the best way to screw over the country, which apparentely involves giving Dick Cheney power.
Yea, that guy really misread the situation. Thought his friend had been giving him that “I can’t say it to you here, but I’m hoping you give me a good reason to double up on therapy sessions for the rest of my life” look…
So late and tired I’m not even sure that one makes sense.
I know i just assume anyone who is a member of the young republicans is a latent homosexual, the guy was just making the same asssumption most of us make everyday.
While I’m not going to be so naive to think one of my favorite players could have been on the juice one can’t ignore the most significant factor(s) in the decline of Todd Helton’s decreased power numbers. The first factor would be the Coors Field’s use of the humidor to reduce the effects of the high altitude (if you’re skeptical Mythbusters did an entire episode on baseball myths including the use of a humidor – it has a dramatic effect (essential the same as playing at a higher altitude but negative). Secondly, Todd has had significant injuries over the past two seasons specifically back issues. If there is anything I’ve learned is once you start having back issues it rarely gets better and more often than not it gets progressively worse.
In conclusion, the saddest thing about this era in sports is now everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Hopefully this will ease up on the heat placed on Todd Helton – the guy will never get the credit he deserves because of where he’s played his entire career (so far) but unsubstantiated claims of steroid use is dumb.
I’m getting more on board with the idea that Helton isn’t as guilty as he was once assumed to have been. Having the chance to watch Colorado in the past year (rarely are they televised on the east coast), especially the playoff game vs. San Diego and when the Rockies came to Boston, it was easy to see that Helton’s bat speed was back. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, as unlike say…Nomar Garciapara, his batting average hasn’t been .280 since the hammer came down.
I’m curious about the effects of the humidor. When I was at Coors field for the Red Sox series a couple of years ago, the balls seemed to defy gravity when hit the right way. Line drives, well hit balls that would be a single at Fenway, double anywhere else, were maintaining altitude for way too long it seemed, and soaring into the stands.
I had a 3 inning long conversation with a retired season ticket holder, and he told me about how it’s even worse at Colorado Springs. How can a club retain pitching talent over the long term? Jason Jennings blew a gasket this year, but his last season in Colorado was outstanding. The kid who pitched last night, the lefty, did a great job.
I’m pulling for Arizona and Colorado. Mark Reynolds came up big with a solo shot off of Marmol (a guy I had in fantasy for most of the year)…clutch. Webb is out, and I guess it’ll be Lyon/Cruz and then Valverde. Lights out!