Smoke and Mirrors

Seven- time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, is having his wins stripped from him and his name erased from the record books for “doping.” You know, for all of those blood tests that he took that came up negative at the time, that’s why he is getting erased from our memories.

Who knows if he doped or not for sure amongst us common folk? Is this a witch hunt? Did he dope later and because he did that makes him guilty and erasable from the time he left the womb? Did he dope well before and everything he did later is under a cloud of suspicion?

We are no privy to the inside information so we will probably never know for sure. But since he has stopped all appeals processes he is being labeled a “cheater.”

So say that Armstrong did cheat for a moment. Take him and all of the baseball stars who “allegedly cheated” their way into MLB record books and I won’t get into naming all of them. What does that say about my generation and its sports heroes? It was all fake? I simply witnessed an illusion on TV for all of those years? It turns out that all of these athletes are no more powerful than David Blaine or Chris Angel.

It’s sad and pathetic. I have a hard time watching sports any more because of it. I am going through Olympic withdrawal right now and don’t know where to turn. But the Olympics are filled with that also. At least it seems that athletes get caught quickly and the justice is dished out promptly. With MLB the Unions had just enough power to fight off investigations into athlete’s possible drug usage. The result of that misuse of power has been a disaster.

Next year’s MLB Hall of Fame ballot has some interesting names on it for the first time; Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa. Bonds and Clemens have been on trial for possible steroid use. Sosa, while not in that same situation, has been rumored to be amongst possible culprits as well.
There are two names, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro who are struggling to get Hall of Fame votes. McGwire has failed 6 years now and Palmeiro twice. Palmeiro has over 500 home runs and 3000 hits which would normally make him an automatic qualifier. He was one who made a claim that he never, ever used steroids and then was linked to them shortly thereafter.
It will be interesting to see if the future record books will list Bonds and Clemens as record holders and/or as members of the Hall of Fame.

Speaking of smoke and mirrors, magicians didn’t fare that well trying to make it into the semifinal round of America’s Got Talent. The clogging group, All That, somehow got in there though. But I did get redemption when Sebastian “El Charro” de Oro reached the semifinal round by getting one of the four wild card selection. He is the 10-year old mariachi singer who should have been in there, according to my earlier picks, amongst the first 16 semifinalists.

Speaking of smoking, I saw a Facebook debate break out about who was hotter, Mila Kunis or Kristen Bell. Both were in the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and when someone recently watched the movie she (yes, she) claimed that Kunis was hotter than Bell.
Coincidentally those two names were going in my next installment of “What’s Hot” today.
This is a tie for certain. It’s simply a matter of what hair color one would prefer on a given day. Kunis, of course, is a brunette and Bell is the blond.
Kunis made her name on “That 70’s Show” and, from what I remember, had lied about her age early in her career and was younger than what she told people she was back then.
Someone in the debate said that he didn’t think Kunis was that hot in the first years of the show. His man instincts were correct there since she was jail bait. But no longer is she that, so fantasize away, dudes.



Brunette- Mila Kunis?



 

I first saw Bell on “Heroes” where I also saw Hayden Panattiere. Any hot girl with super powers gets the edge in my fantasy playbook but straight up without such earthly powers creates the tie.



or Blonde - Kristen Bell?



I asked for women to submit some favorite hot guys for posting here and I did get my first two submissions.

The first is Al Bundy, played by Ed O’Neill, of course. Bundy was a man’s man and a woman’s man. No one can actually doubt his talent as in this category and it’s evidenced by the fact that he moved on to land a role in that other show (which name still escapes me) that has Sofia Vergara as his wife (who made the hot list last blog entry.) So clearly whoever can bag Sofia Vergara has to be hot.

Al Bundy

Next on the list is Danny McBride, better known as Kenny “effin” Powers from the hit HBO show “Eastbound and Down.” Who can resists a flame-throwing, f-bomb throwing, drunken, chubby, coke head who treats women like shoes treat a pavement? Every woman has a secret desire for a bad boy, and Kenny Powers fits that bill.

Kenny Powers

Also making the hot list is someone who I first saw on “Eastbound and Down” as well. His name is Deep Roy. He played in the season where Kenny “moved” to Mexico and his star shined brightly as the thug that he was. Good things come in small packages and when that thing is a bad boy too? Ooh yeah, the women go wild.

Deep Roy

Well, that’s all for now folks. I have to save some hot names to ensure that I have lots more nonsense to write in the future! So, I’m

Done.