Steve and the Tank! - Medford Bob Says...

Medford Bob Says...

So, I'm sitting in my local Ruby Tuesday's at the bar having a burger and watching football. Texas is playing Iowa and the game is pretty good. We're in the fourth quarter and the Longhorns are down 21-20 when they march down the field and score a touchdown to take a 26-21 lead. They miss the two point conversion and kick off to Iowa. The Hawkeyes (heavy underdogs) get the ball back in decent position and start to march back the other way. Suddenly, I'm staring at a flag draped coffin. I've heard of sudden death but this is ridiculous. I ask the bartender what's going on and she says the manager says we have to watch 15 minutes of President Ford's funeral and then they'll turn on the Giants game. Now if they turned down the music and turned up the sound on the TV it might have made some sense but staring at a flag draped coffin while Judas Priest was blasting "Breakin' the Law" over the sound system tipped my weird meter. Check please!

Anyway, college football is over for the year. Finally. Can't say I was surprised that Florida won the title game. Especially after watching So. Cal take Michigan apart in the Rose bowl. Started me to thinking that maybe the Big Ten wasn't all that. And the bowl games sorta proved that. Conference record was 2-5. Hardly the dominant conference they claimed to be. And really, after Boise State and Oklahoma, was there any point in playing anymore games? Ever? Talk about old school. Game was seriously off the hook. It was like watching "Citizen Kane" and everything after that was "Snakes on a Plane".

The votes are in. Ripkin and Gwynn are in the Hall of Fame. They deserved it. McGwire is not. There was a poll on Yahoo which asked if Mac deserved to be left out because he was a cheater and 61% said yes. But cheated on what? We knew he took andro (it wasn't banned then) and suspected steroids (also not banned then) so what the hell was he cheating about? Stupid, maybe. Bad judgment? Time will tell. But this smacks of the PC police imposing their opinion based on supposition and innuendo. Maybe we should look at Babe Ruth again for being an alcoholic AND a SMOKER!!! Mickey Mantle did a LOT of speed. Casey Stengel was a thief. Throw the bums out I say. But wait, what did Big Mac really do? Oh, yeah, hit 583 home runs and pulled baseball out of a death roll instigated by greed and selfishness. He didn't lie to Congress. And even if he did, who cares? It creates personal problems for himself but has NOTHING to do with his baseball stats. Should he be an ambassador for the game and a roll model for kids? Two words. Ty Cobb!!! And that racist redneck is in. Simple fact of life. You can't break a rule if the rule isn't there. And, at the time, these weren't. Sportswriters forget their real job is to look at the baseball record, judge it against others and make a decision based on that. Where has he been the last two years? Out of baseball and living his life. Not the first guy to disappear. Remember Ted Williams? Great hitter, turd of a human being. Totally dropped out after his playing days. First ballot Hall of Famer. What about Pete Rose you say? I guess you didn't pay attention. Pete broke the rules. McGwire didn't. Does he deserve to get in? I say yes.

And speaking of turds, Randy Johnson was traded to Arizona. I say "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Watching him pitch was like trying to get back together with an old girlfriend. You could see why you liked her in the first place but then you are immediately reminded of why you wanted her to leave. Made me pine for Kevin Brown sometimes.

Kudos to the Jets for a really nice season. And memo to the Giants: YOU ARE WHAT YOUR RECORD SAYS YOU ARE!

Tiki, we hardly knew ye!

………….Till next time.

Posted by The Tank and Written by Medford Bob.