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well, we're into full swing for summer in the midwest and quite frankly, it's been very nice since mid-may. apparently, spring has been eliminated from our weather season and now we jump directly from snow to sun but as long as the snow melts early, we can deal with it.
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ladies, i want you to remember a name. AARON PERSKY. that's the jerk who sentenced stanford student & convicted rapist BROCK TURNER to just 6 months in the county jail for raping an unconscious student.
convicted of three felony counts, white & entitled apparently rings true with the judge who could have shipped turner for 14 years but chose long term probation as an apt sentence.
can you fight back at this atrocity? go to CHANGE.ORG and sign the petition to have the judge removed from the bench. over a million people have signed already.
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what's this new deal with fruit??? my entire life i've been told to eat fruit and you'll always be healthy but now "they" have a list of fruits that maybe aren't so good for you, mostly because of high natural sugar content. BANANAS!, grapes,cherries, dried fruit, pineapple and get this .....APPLES. an apple a day keeps.......never mind.
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the achilles' heel for HILLARY CLINTON comes to light again today when the republicans release the results of their two year investigation on the MASSACRE AT BENGHAZI in 2012 when the anti-christ was secretary of state. fasten your seat belts cause it ain't going to be a fun day for the democrats.
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finally, the world's ugliest dog was crowned over the weekend. i don't know what finished 2nd or 3rd but this is good enough for me. have a great day!
FINALLY!!!!! good riddance to bad rubbish! DERRICK ROSE aka MR. SOFTEE was finally dumped by the BULLS in a trade with the NEW YORK KNICKS, with the bulls getting a basic rookie and two journeymen and the knicks got the right to pick which ambulance service will take rose to the emergency room with his first injury.
softee has only appeared in a third of the scheduled games over the past few seasons and is the 23rd rated guard in the league but still "wants the ball and the spotlight." softee, meet CARMELO ANTHONY, who commands both of those items on a nightly basis.
softee burned many bridges in chicago with his ghetto demeanor and his inability to handle the english language. "personally, i don't care what any of the fans think" was my personal favorite.
i can't wait to see how the new york media handles his 'hooray for me and the hell with everyone else' attitude. softee can 'listen' to his body and decide not to play at the last minute, which should really endear himself to knicks fans and make him easy fodder for the toughest media group in all of sports. NO CHANCE he stays there when he becomes a free agent next year.
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and now to the south side where it had been a week since SLEEPY ROBIN had cost the WHITE SOX a ball game but he put one more notch on his managerial gun yesterday when he allowed starter MIGUEL GONZALEZ to get punched around for EIGHT EARNED RUNS in just four innings against one of the best hitting teams in baseball. OBVIOUSLY not the young man's day so sit him down and go get 'em next time. but not sleepy robin. it gets better..........
with the sox trailing by just one entering the ninth inning, sleepy brings on a rookie pitcher who's greeted by a line drive single and then a first pitch monster double to the farthest part of the park by the first two batters. ok, sleepy, remember it's a one run game....maybe not this kid's stage.
an error doesn't help with the next batter but every ball has been hit hard. make the change, right? apparently, sleepy's alarm clock didn't go off until the next batter hit ANOTHER line drive to plate the tenth run of the day. game, set and match. way to go jerkwad. please fire robin ventura.
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the BLACKHAWKS and ANDREW SHAW were a victim of the NHL's hard salary cap when shaw got shipped to montreal for draft choices. shaw was one of the most popular hawks but three players have raises totalling 4.5 million this season so shaw had to go. the nature of the business.
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a crack in the foundation? start counting the number of pitches by cub starters through just 5 innings. JAKE ARRIETA has been over 105 pitches in four recent starts, JOHN LACKEY is at 110 and JON LESTER is at 102 through 5 innings during the month of june. big deal? well, when you have to start relying on that bullpen in the sixth inning, i think you're poking the bear. we'll see.
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is ICHIRO the hit king or no?
gotta run. have a good week. and don't forget SHARK WEEK starts sunday night on DISCOVERY CHANNEL.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DUSTIN JOHNSON, who finally broke through and captured his first major golf championship. beset by personal problems the past few years, including a big time substance abuse problem, johnson methodically took apart the U.S. OPEN course at OAKMONT and shrugged off a delayed ruling by the incompetent USGA and won the tournament with room to spare. May you win many more, dustin.
THE USGA?? what a bunch of jerkoffs. imagine you hit a three run homer in the 4th inning but they tell you "we're not sure if that was fair or foul....we'll let you know after the game is over." what?????????????
that's EXACTLY what they did to johnson after his ball moved on the 5th green and waited until the 12th hole to let him know there MIGHT be a penalty stroke assessed against him AFTER the round was over. WHAT????? assess the penalty or not....but do it on the 5th hole so EVERYONE knows the proper strategy for the rest of the round.
ALL OF THE GOLFERS ARE PISSED at the usga for not making an immediate ruling, including RORY McELROY, JUSTIN SPEITH & SERGIO GARCIA. "the guy is trying to win a major and you're holding back a decision???"
Look for that procedure to change IMMEDIATELY.
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NOBODY dislikes LEBRON JAMES more than i do but he made a block for the ages with about a minute to go in GAME 7 and led his CLEVELAND CAVALIERS to the NBA CHAMPIONSHIP, the first crown for cleveland in ANY professional sport since 1964. the cavs became the first team in finals history to come back from a 3-1 deficit.
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the BLACKHAWKS made a nice salary dumping move this weekend by trading two players for draft choices, including the worthless BRYAN BICKELL. this will enable them to
re-sign ANDREW SHAW, who plays at one hundred per cent ALL THE TIME.
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and looking at the other tenants of the UNITED CENTER.....the NEW YORK KNICKS are sniffing around regarding making a trade for DERRICK ROSE and most of the fans in chicago couldn't be happier. the knicks need a true point guard to augment the talents of CARMELO ANTHONY and the bulls could use some draft choices. PLEASE make the deal. i can't wait to see how the NY media reacts to MR SOFTEE "listening to my body."
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FIRE ROBIN VENTURA.
This current CHICAGO CUBS team is incredibly talented and are steamrolling the central division. they should end up with the best record in baseball which gets then a first round match up with the wild card survivor.
If the season ended today, the cubs would play a best of five series against one of four teams: the DODGERS, METS, CARDINALS or MARLINS. who would you rather play??
For party planning purposes, the WORLD SERIES starts on OCTOBER 25th. and for general information, if your town does halloween on the weekend, call 'DIBS' now on not answering the door. if your town celebrates on actual halloween, there's no game that night.
This team looks like it will win a minimum of 110 games and maybe even break the record of 116 wins for the regular season. WEAKNESS? probably the bullpen but even that isn't bad. i watch a lot of baseball and if the worst criticism of a bullpen is 'good but not great,' you should play deep into october.
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and now we travel 8 miles south where jerkwad ROBIN VENTURA is still employed. all i can figure is that he has video of owner JERRY REINSDORF doing strange things with an aardvark. how in the world do you keep your job with a 45% success rate over 5 years and ZERO PLAYOFF APPEARANCES?? i continue my strike against attending any WHITE SOX games until that pud is removed.
and speaking of the sox, just who was responsible for getting JAMES SHIELDS from san diego??? and here's the best part. despite giving up an average of TWENTY-ONE RUNS A GAME since coming over, guess who has a player option for next year at 27 million dollars????? so add shields' money next year to the contracts of ADAM DUNN & ADAM LaROCHE and somebody upstairs needs to head to the unemployment office. i pray every night. start with robin.
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Has STEPHEN CURRY turned into a whiny little bitch? what was that all about on thursday night? throwing your mouthpiece into the crowd? grow up and play ball. and tell your wife to shut up. making allegations that games are fixed isn't good for anyone unless she can prove it.....which she can't......so just steer her back to the kitchen.
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What is professional golfer DUSTIN JOHNSON'S problem? i'm watching the U.S. OPEN on saturday and he leads by 2 at the half-way point ninety minutes later, he's chasing three strokes, a 5 stroke swing in nine holes. this guy has all the talent in the world and i hope he can make a move on sunday because he needs to win a major.
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NBA GAME 7 TONIGHT! whoyagot? or are you watching the cubs/pirate game?
gotta run. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
On friday night, i cried.
A big part of my life from the time i was a teenager passed away late friday night and a part of me disappeared forever.
MUHAMMAD ALI died at the age of 74 and he had been part of my life for over fifty years. i followed his life and career and was NEVER anything but a fan of his.
my father & i were never close when i was a kid and ALI polarized us like no other topic could until my father's death in the early 90's,
my father yelled "loud mouth" and "lucky" in 1964 when Ali upset SONNY LISTON for the heavyweight championship of the world but i thought his braggadocio was very cool and his boxing style was new and exciting. my imitation of ALI'S vocals & poetry did nothing to endear me to my dad.
The standoff continued in 1967 when Ali refused to be inducted into the army and my dad yelled "draft dodger" and i staunchly defended his right to freedom of religion under the first & fourteenth amendments..
When he was convicted of draft evasion in the same year, my dad said "i told you so" and my retort was "he's going to win on appeal." when the supreme court exonerated Ali with a unanimous 8-0 vote in 1971, i called my dad in northern wisconsin and he hung up on me.
Most people today have no idea what 'closed circuit' tv is or was but back in the day, that was the only way to see most championship fights as there was no free home tv and it was well before 'pay per view.'
i spent many a dollar to see the champ at venues like the PICKWICK in PARK RIDGE, the old ROSEMONT ARENA, the MERCURY THEATRE IN CHICAGO and in various hotel rooms & garages with illegal hijacked signals but the one i remember the most is when i hung on the fence FOR FREE at the harlem-irving outdoor theatre in 15 degree temperatures and listened to my transistor radio to see him beat liston).
on closed circuit, i watched him lose to JOE FRAZIER, beat frazier in both rematches and destroy GEORGE FOREMAN to regain the title. i saw all 5 of his losses. FRAZIER, KEN NORTON, LARRY HOLMES, LEON SPINKS & in a fight that burst my balloon, TREVOR BERBICK. who?
but i also saw forty of his wins, including two rematches against frazier, two rematches against norton, his destruction of GEORGE FOREMAN, (Ali was a 3-1 underdog) and regaining his title against leon spinks.
i was fortunate to meet him in person three times....once at a gym in the late 60's, once while walking down MICHIGAN AVENUE in the city and my favorite, waiting for a plane at o'hare where he drew a little sketch on a 3 x 5 which i framed and still hangs proudly in my house.
As most of you know, i collect memorabilia but the autograph i have the most of is the CHAMP. on my bedroom walls are one WALTER PAYTON and three MUHAMMAD ALI sigantures.
He's been retired for 35 years and he's STILL the most recognizable name in the world. I LOVED THAT MAN and everything he went through to defend his principles.
I'm sad that he's gone but happy that he's no longer suffering from advanced parkinson's disease.
MUHAMMAD ALI, I LOVE YOU. REST IN PEACE.
