Good Cubs Article

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


I don't know a Cubs fan who is actually excited about the 2010 season. Here is a brief write-up on them, anyway.





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Great Article About Synthetic Horse Racing Surfaces

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


I copied and pasted this article from DRF.com. It's written by Steven Crist, publisher and editor of the Daily Racing Form.

Crist Blog | March 27, 2010

Dubai World Crapshoot

The richest horse race in history was staged in Dubai earlier today, and it was a $10 million advertisement for how synthetic surfaces can make a complete mess of so-called world-class championship racing. For all that it proved about the quality of the contestants either individually or as a group, the results of the Dubai World Cup might as well have been drawn out of a hat.

The winner, front-running Gloria de Campeao, is an admirably durable Brazilian 7-year-old who was beaten 16 1/2 lengths by Curlin in the 2008 World Cup and 14 lengths by Well Armed in the race last year. Those two editions, like the 12 before them, were run on dirt but this year's version at the new Meydan Racecourse was run on Tapeta, a synthetic surface which until this year had never been used for anything more prestigious than a Grade III race at Golden Gate Fields.

The runner-up, Lizard's Desire, came into the $10 million race with a field-low bankroll of $207,442, having finished 10th and 11th in his two prior starts in Group 1 company in his native South Africa. Allybar, who was third, was 0 for 6 in graded or group races of any kind. America's supposed synthetic specialists -- BC Classic runner-up Gio Ponti (who finished 4th), Goodwood winner Gitano Hernando and Pacific Classic winner Richard's Kid -- had no impact on the finish.

Tapeta may well be a lovely training surface, and it has gotten high marks among synthetic tracks, but no one can really explain why anyone needs a third type of horse racing to go along with the dirt and turf racing that has defined the sport and its great horses for centuries. The Maktoums' decision to replace dirt with Tapeta at their gaudy new racing palace was a premature guess that these new surfaces might somehow magically combine dirt and turf racing into one globally-accepted footing. That hasn't happened and isn't going to anytime soon, or probably ever.

Instead, it remains entirely unclear what this World Cup proved other than Bob Baffert's adage that synthetic tracks make good horses look ordinary and ordinary horses look good. (And put down your torches -- this has nothing to with Zenyatta, a transcendently great horse who handles everything and is probably as good or better on dirt than on synthetics.) Sure, plenty of major dirt races end with befuddling finishes (cf. Kentucky Derby, 2005 and 2009) and there were even bigger upsets on grass today than on Tapeta. But in the past, the World Cup was a true showcase for champions, such as Cigar, Silver Charm, Dubai Milennium, Invasor and Curlin. Now? Step right up and spin the wheel.

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Cribs

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

You know how on Cribs they say stuff like, "If you aint got a lambo, you aint no big dog!", or, "You know you're ballin' if you got one of these!" or when Master P said of his bejeweled necklace, "if you can buy this necklace and actually afford it, you're a true G."

If you have lived here or visited here, you a big dog/G/are ballin"



It's true. I resided there. Second floor. That narrow verticle window was the bathroom. We set up an opaque somethingorother on the lower panel and then the lower window panel could be dropped. So we could put the window down and talk to people on the sidewalk and once I even played catch with a football while in the shower with friends from the sidewalk.

I was Alive With Pleasure only without the newport cigarettes.





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I am Great

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter




I told you in February that KY wouldn't win the Madness of March.











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This is an Uber-Doozy

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

This is just your typical, two gay guys fighting at a welfare office then when one kicks the other's ass he starts voguing to celebrate being manlier than his vanquished former opponent.

By the way, this happened in Chicago. Don't even mess the gay boys in Chicago. That's why I never go to gay bars.










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Wow

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

This is a doozey. And not safe for work. That is one fountain of youth I would NOT like to drink out of.








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Big Time A-Hole, Good Apology

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


He owned up to it like a man and sounded sincere.





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This Would be Annoying

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


What if you discovered a vital property contained in snake oil that was previously unknown. Surely, you'd want to get the word out, and ideally, profit from it. But who would believe you, given the reputation of snake oil salesmen from a previous era?





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When People go To The Extreme but do NOT Rock the Mic Like a Vandal

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


Why do the right wing extremists, the ones who hate the terrorists the most, not see their congressman-threatening actions and language as terrorism?







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G.W. Bush Wipes his Hands on Bill Clinton After Shaking Hands With Haitians. (?)

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter








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Someone has Gotta Say This: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Poster Is Creepy

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

Note: I was unable to enlarge this picture to the extent of where I first saw it. If what I say about the photo above isn't abundantly clear to you at first glance please see the larger version of that picture here.

This is a photo of the new movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The title charcter, is the short, pale kid third from the right.

I will just come out and say it: I think that kid's crotch has been photoshopped to make it look like he has a vagina. )Look at the link to see a bigger photo. )

Here's what will happen: You'll say, "what kind of pervert are you? You must be sick. I will look, but if it is not totally, 100% black and white obvious what you're alleging, then you are disgusting. If it is that obvious though, you may have a point." Then after looking you'll agree that it's too obvious to not be a photoshop job. It isn't a photo of a real wrestling team that I am alleging is photoshopped, it's a movie poster that attempts to make obvious which kid is the wimpiest, or least manly. How could you imasculate a kid? Oh I don't know, how about the time-tested method- give him a cameltoe.

Below is blowup of the area in question. Were folds in fabric a coincidence?

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John Wall. Who? John Wall

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

My dad invented this dance in the early 90's while taunting me in a game of Monopoly while he was winning decidedly. It is of course, the John Wall dance.









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Public Service Announcement

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


Schizophrenia is a psychological malady that essentially means you are delusional, hear voices in your head, have "undirected thought", and are insane.

Multiple Personality Disorder is where a person thinks they possess more than one person within themself.

Overlap is possible but not altogether common, either. If someone is crazy they are schizophrenic. Let's stop with the analogies like, "This baseball team is schizophrenic: sometimes it's great and sometimes it's horrible", or "one minute she's nice, then the next minute she's crazy, talk about a schizophrenic!".







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Oh Yee-uh Yee-uh Yee-uh

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


Rachel Alexandra and Rachel Alexandra both race tomorrow. Separately. They are both prepping for the MONUMENTAL showdown in the Apple Blossom next month. Zenyatta hasn't raced since she shook up da worl' in the Breeders Cup Classic in November. Rachel hasn't race since she nearly blew the roof of the historic wooden Saratoga in early September at the Woodford Memorial.

My dream has always been: at the same time Rachel Alexandra races Zenyatta in a race with other horses (i.e. not a match race), while Manny Pacquiao boxes Floyd Mayweather in the infield's backstretch turn, while at the far turn is a steel cage match in a 100 yd. x 100 yd. steel cage that is 50% water 50% land that contains a lion, tiger, orca and a great white shark.

You have to dream big. You HAVE to.





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Ohhh Maaaa Gaaaaa: James Lipton IS Respectable!!!

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


Gentleman.


Does THIS look familiar?





James Lipton lent the dude voice. This list nearly changed my life. 7 celebrities with bad ass lives you didn't know. Dr. Seuss made a WWII Propaganda film that apparently kicked hiney, and he drew some awesome posters (shown in the link). Rogert Ebert wrote some softcore 'ornography for Russ Meyer. Sir Isaac Newton invented the pet door.

P.S. How awesome would it be if you traced your family lineage back to Sir Isaac Newton and your like great-great-times 19 grandfather was friends with Sir Isaac Newton and left a diary referring to him as "Ike"? I mean, if that were true for me, I'd probably tell chicks that while hitting on them.





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Sorry K. Ro. You Be Lookin' Hammy, Brah

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


So I guess that is why none of my Jewish friends like Karl Rove.






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Corey Haim Dead

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

He will always be known to me as the guy who made more strides for the "agape mouth is sexy" movement. Especially within the female teenager demographic. While questions linger about his death, one certainty is that he was #30 on my Big Board for my celebrity death pool draft that never happened 4 years ago.

Corey's spirit (i.e. the movie License to Drive) will live on forever.






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Maxwell Doing a Larry David Cover

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter


I watched this past season of Curb your Enthusiasm when it aired. It ended a few months ago, I think, and I enjoyed it. Then recently I've been listening to Pretty Wings by Maxwell a lot and something sounded familiar. When Larry David does his new (I think, this is the first season I've watched of Curb) catchphrase of, "Pretty, pretttyyy, pretttayy, pretttaaayyyyyy good." It reminds me of from about the 2:30 mark to the 3:20 mark (and its best at 3:20) of the aforementioned Pretty Wings.

See fo' yo' gottdamn self.





Pretty Wings by Maxwell (our part is at 3:20)








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MORE Proof That God Doesn't Exist

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter



Told you.






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Oh Hell Neezy: Jaime Escalante is In Declining Health!

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

Check it out on Radar.com

For those of you who don't appreciate the finer things in life, Jaime Escalante was the inspiration of the movie Stand and Deliver.

Or, as I called him, "Himeezy Escaleezy"







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