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Thank you for pointing out the absurdity of my previous statements. They were, as you can all imagine, nothing more than attempts at drawing you bastards out, although the Steelers are cheating bastards and do have a white trash king for a QB. The sad part is that I too have no idea what the Browns are doing, so even though they are cheating bastards I can only wish to follow a franchise so put together. By the way, how much of a tease is the LeBron being an NFL player for the Browns stuff being run on ESPN right now? I feel as though I need some alone time with this article and a warm towel.

ZG made a few good points about the larger topics in sports right now.....I would like to focus on a few that are on the fringe.....

Jose Canseco - Knocked out in 77 seconds by a 7'0 300lbs South Korean named King Hippo....errr...Hong Man Choi. A great fiction writer couldn't come up with this story line. This is phenomenal on about a dozen levels. That makes a professional fighting record for Mr. Roidman a remarkable 0-2-1 (draw was to Danny Bonaduce of the Partridge Family). I believe the ohhhh to obvious next stop is Vivid Video or YouPorn.com. I mean the odds on this have to be 1-500 at this point right?

Isaih Thomas - fantastic article a few weeks back on FoxSports.com from Jason Whitlock speculating as to WHY Zeke has been such an utter failure since ending his playing days. Bascially it hinges on the fact that after he retired he kind of parted ways with his best friend (Magic Johnson) and never had anyone to keep him in check over the years. No one to look him in the eye and tell him "you're stone cold fucking retarted and you need to sit down and shut the hell up". Not sure if I completely buy the premise of the article seeing as Magic hasn't been the bastion of good decisions since his playing days ended, but maybe both guys just needed one another. Who knows, but it was certainly intriguing.

Horse Racing - Rachel Alexandra has proven to be an inspiration to women everywhere. Although she is just a horse Lisa Leslie and a number of other WNBA stars (past and present) have said they too hope that one day they can race in and win the Preakness and possibly the Kentucky Derby. Good luck ladies.

Last (for now) James Harrison - While my other digs at the Steelers may very well have been shallow, mean spirited, and to some degree unwarranted. This one is not. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?! Now I really don't care what anyone elses political affiliations or view are, especially professional athletes. So, if one of them doesn't want to go to White House that's fine with me. I personally think it's dumb, because not many people get that opportunity in life and if it's presented to you, then you should jump at it and do your best to learn something from the experience. If you don't feel the same, that is fine, and if you feel you have something better to do that's fine as well. But with all of that said Jack-ass Harrison said the following....

"I don't feel the need to go, actually," Harrison told Pittsburgh station WTAE-TV. "I don't feel like it's that big a deal to me."

This is a perfectly acceptable answer, and if he would have left it at that, then the worst anyone could say is, "I'm sorry he feels that way". Unfortunately he followed that up with what could be one of the dumber things every said.

Harrison doesn't believe the invitation is all that special, saying if the Steelers hadn't beaten the Cardinals 27-23 with a last-minute rally, "He [Obama] would have invited Arizona."

While he is 100% accurate in that statment, the fact that he made it makes me wonder how exactly this man gets up in the morning, ties his shoes and puts one foot in front of another. Dumbest thing I've heard in a long time and I've read Iantosca's posts.