Weng Weng Wednesday

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

I wouldn't say I'm bi-lingual, but I do know a little Indonesian. He's in the video below and his name is Weng-Weng.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter: 9/17 Edition. 12 Games Left.

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


Cubs won a doozie last night, and the magic number is down to 4. If they sweep Milwonky in this series, they win the division.

Cubs Fan Emotion-o-Meter Word(s) of the Day: Parking Lot Pimpin'. Apparently, if you want to be a rapper and represent the dirty south, you have to make reference to parking lots in order to maintain your credibility. Why should I be any exception?

Cubs Fan Emotion-o-Meter Monkeyification Picture: Smokin' and jokin', baby.



Today's edition of the CEOM will break tradition and not end with the monkeyification picture. It will end in pontificating. Ron Santo has been placed on the ballot for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the veterans committee. It's time to get him elected into the Hall of Fame. It's a joke that he is not in the Hall already. Since this is (I am purely speculating here) read primarly by Hall of Fame Veterans Committee members, allow me to state Ron Santo's case.

1. Bill James thinks he should be in.

2) All of what Kerry Wood said here. It is exerpted below.

Cubs Closer Kerry Wood on … Ron Santo
"The Hall of Fame vote and Ron Santo are talked about a lot in our clubhouse. He's been denied 18 times, and after each vote we'll look at his stats and ask, 'Are these Hall of Fame numbers?' You'll get a yes from 95% of the guys. When you start digging into the numbers, I don't think there's any doubt. How can you not vote for a guy who was a nine-time All-Star, earned five Gold Gloves, had four top-10 MVP finishes, three top-10 home run finishes and four .300-plus seasons, and led the National League in walks four times? And if you look at all the third basemen who played between 1950 and 1975, Ron ranks second in HRs, third in hits, RBIs and games played, fourth in slugging, and seventh in on-base percentage. And he did it despite having diabetes. For him to play in the big leagues at that level is amazing.

"For some reason, third basemen get jobbed in the voting. There are only 13 of them—three Negro Leagues stars and 10 major leaguers. Nothing personal, but if George Kell is in [see chart], then Ronny should be too. Ronny crushed him in HRs, RBIs, hits and runs, and he did it with a respectable .277 career batting average, which is almost 25 points higher than the NL average during his career. I'm not saying Brooks Robinson doesn't belong in the Hall, but Ronny played eight fewer seasons and finished with 74 more HRs, a higher batting average and on-base percentage, and nearly the same RBI total. I know, Ronny never played in the postseason. Neither did Kell or Ronny's Hall of Fame teammates Ernie Banks and Ferguson Jenkins. Neither did Billy Williams when he was with the Cubs.

"I keep it simple: Look at the third basemen who are in, then look at Ronny's numbers. I'm amazed he isn't in yet. His next chance is in 2009. When it happens, and if the schedule lets us, I'm going to be there for the ceremony. He's the epitome of Chicago baseball. He's still part of this team. He lives and dies with it. In fact, I think we've put him in the hospital a few times. He should get in just for that."

CUBS CURSE Santo stacks up with his third-basemen peers in Cooperstown.
	AVG	HRs	RBIs	ALL-STARS	GOLD GLOVES
Ron Santo (1960-74)	.277	342	1,331	9	5
Eddie Mathews (1952-68)	.271	512	1,453	12	0
Brooks Robinson (1955-77)	.267	268	1,357	18	16
Wade Boggs (1982-99)	.328	118	1,014	12	2
Mike Schmidt (1972-89)	.267	548	1,595	12	10
George Kell (1943-57)	.306	78	870	10	0

3) This ESPN article, also exerpted below, furthers the Santo debate.

Santo is unique in baseball history, a third baseman who hit like a left fielder while playing excellent defense at the hot corner.

Part of the reason Santo has been left out of the Hall of Fame is that the BBWAA has never quite figured out what to do with third basemen. They are historically underrepresented, and the change in the position over time has made it difficult to establish standards for what makes a Hall of Fame third baseman. Santo also lacked one signature skill on which to hang his case; he doesn't have 400 home runs or 3,000 hits or one major point his supporters could use to beat his candidacy home.

Actually, the biases Santo fights are more basic that that. Large parts of his value are hidden in areas that the BBWAA hasn't done a good job of recognizing: defense and walks. Santo was the NL's Gold Glove winner at third base from 1964 through 1968, and led the league in bases on balls in four of those five years. He was among the league leaders in OBP and slugging throughout the 1960s, finishing in the top 10 in both categories in every season from 1964 through 1967.

He was a reasonable MVP candidate throughout this time, with his chances being hurt every year by the lousy Cubs team around him. You simply couldn't win an NL MVP on a bad team in the 1960s; every NL MVP winner in that decade played for a team that won at least 90 games. The Cubs won 90 games just once, in 1969, a season that for some reason isn't remembered on the North Side as their best performance of the decade. Because Santo never appeared in the postseason and rarely was a factor in a pennant race, he didn't have the visibility of other players. This hurt him, probably unfairly, with the voters.

Santo never had a monster season, in part because his era wouldn't allow for them. Yes, he played in Wrigley Field, which helped his numbers, but the game-wide dampening of offense kept him from having the signature years, the 40-homer, 120-RBI campaigns that Hall of Fame voters love to see on a resumé. He was never the best player in the league -- there was this guy named Mays who made that impossible -- but you can make a case for him as the second-best player in the NL during his peak.

So Santo was one of the top few players in his league for about six years, the second-best third baseman in the game's history upon his retirement, and put up numbers at a defensive position that would have made him a borderline Hall of Fame candidate at an offensive one. That is a Hall of Famer.

The omission of Ron Santo is the most egregious mistake ever made by the Baseball Writers Association of America. They should have inducted Santo 20 years ago, and that they overlooked him throughout his 15 years on the ballot is a shame. I sincerely hope that the new Veterans Committee rights the error quickly. It will be a boon to their credibility and a honor for a man too long left outside the hallowed halls of Cooperstown.

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Do the right thing, Veterans Committee.

Dork Chatroom Uncovered

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


So I posted a link to my blog on the message board of a Cubs website. I thought I'd try to drum up some exposure for my site, and see if fellow Cubs fans agreed with my point of view. Apparently the more cultish regulars there thought my blog was lame found my posting overly self-promotional. Fair enough, I guess.

Then today on the same message board, I posted something Cubs-related that had nothing to do with my blog and the cultish regulars were like "Dude, why didn't you mention your lame blog again?". Again, fair enough. Ribbing the new guy is fine with me, but it's that tightly-knit/cultish that they concern themselves with fellow posters? No big deal, I thought.

But then I noticed via StatCounter.com, the site that monitors my webtraffic, that I'd gotten a bunch of new hits since I posted on that message board a few minutes ago. StatCounter also enables you to see where your hits come from. For instance, if YourBlog.com links to a story of mine and someone visits, Statcounter tells me the IP Address of the visitor, when they visited, how long they stayed and the referring link- yourblog.com in this case.

So the referring links I've been getting were from this place I'd never heard of:

http://www2.shoutmix.com/?badkermit&view=5 (once you click the link, look for the posting by "PenFoe" at 2:52 PM. The link does not take you exactly to that posting at the 2:52 mark, so you'll have to navigate your way there. After that's one you can also refresh your browser to catch up with the latest of their awesome cubicle "lives"!)

It turns out that five or six of the cultish-dork-regulars from that site all chat on that webchat site all day long, like a bunch of chatty women at a hair salon. They've been on the site chatting ALL DAY about zero. So even though they told me my site was lame, they still passed around more than a few of my articles. They spend their days forwarding eachother their favorite celebrity pictures, photoshopped McCain pictures, links to their next ballroom dancing gigs, and all the quasi-witty posts they've made on their myriad of other message boards. Apparently, this is how they spend their lives.

They also think that I'm not actually me, but some other cultish regular under a different name. One of them even had the free time to create a webchat name of TR Slyder to pretend it was me defending myself (lamely, I may add). Then they were like "Yeah, 'TR' has to be the invention of [some random friend of theirs]....But I just don't know if he'd make up a phony blog like that just to throw us off." (!!) That idea strikes them as even plausible??!! They're friends have THAT much free time. Good lord. And thhese people will be voting.

The odd thing: They never mention their girlfriends during their awesome conversation. Funny how that works. You have to check out their lame-o chat. They're still chatting live.

Enjoy how the lamer half lives!

UPDATE: Their archives don't stay up for too long, so the previously mentioned hilarity is now off of their message board. But it's still worth a visit if you want to feel cooler about yourself.



See Also: What do you think Sarah Palin's Yahoo Password Was?

Does Anyone Else Think This?

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


Do you think Mission Viejo sounds like, "Mission of the A-hole"? Everything I hear "Mission Viejo" I kinda giggle to myself because that's what it sounds like to me. Trust me, I wish I didn't hear that, but I can't help it.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter- 9/16 Edition- 13 Games Left

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


Cubs won again today, while Milwonky was idle. Well, idle in the sense that they didn't play a game today. But they were not idle from the standpoint of personnel moves because they fired their manager today! With two weeks left in the season, and tied for the Wild-Card lead, they canned Ned Yost. Ted Lilly nearly followed Zamrbano's no-hitter with one of his own. He took a no hitter into the 7th inning before giving up a base hit it would be Houston's only hit of the series. There was lots to like about today's win: the Cubs played with determination after an emotional game last night, and the power-slumping Geovany Soto and Derek Lee both hit home runs, and the defense was outstanding. Things are looking good.

So with 13 games left to go the Cubs Magic Number is down to 6. They start a three game series with Milwonky tomorrow, and if the Cubs sweep the series, they'll have clinched the National League Central. Things are looking good for the Cubs.


Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Word(s) of the Day: Calm.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Fan Emotion Picture Monkeyified: Just cruisin', man. Just cruisin'.

I'll Tell You This For Free....

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

A lot of things are stupid, but among the stupidest is affixing the word "star" when used to connote fame. Namely when used after the words, "porn" and "reality show". In every other field of work you're only bestowed with that moniker once you've proved to be a standout in your field. Sports have all-star games, actors become referred to as "movie stars" only after several hit movies, and musicians do not become "rock stars" just because they had two hit singles. If you're baseball career lasted only one game you were a "baseball player", not a "baseball star". But if you're an extra in one porn-movie, you're a "porn star".

I am not all that concerned with porn-related levels of fame, but the "Reality show star" label has got to go. Is anyone from a reality show really befitting of the word "Star"? And I am not talking about the game show type of reality show, like Survivor or American Idol. American Idol isn't a "reality show", it's a game-show. It's just like Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune, but has better PR, and takes way, way longer to decide on a winner. A true "reality show" is one that just films people living out their "reality", a la "The Osbournes", "The Anna Nicole Show", "Rob and Big", "The Real World", "The Hills" etc. Ozzy Obsourne is a rock star, not a reality show star. But what do you call people who were not famous before their reality show?

The Media needs to be more accurate with their nomenclature. "Reality show participant", "reality show veteran", "reality show alumnus", "reality show famewhore", anything but the current phrase. The word "star" makes it seem like getting into a drunken fight on two episodes of The Hills makes you the television equivalent of Babe Ruth or Cary Grant. It makes the participation sound distinguished or like something that one can aspire to, when the actual "reality" is that they're the lowest form of famous.

Opposite of Superfluous: More Günther

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


I haven't had an excuse in a week to show off how I know how to type an umlaut (ü) so I figured I'd have another Opposite of Superfluous Monday with a video by Günther. Making it even less superfluous, is that he is collaborating with former pin-up and 80's one-hit Brit wonder- Samantha Fox.

Happy Black Monday Nouveau

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


If you're invested in the stock market, chances are that you were wealthier when you woke up this morning than you will be by the time you leave work, as it looks like the markets are gonna get totally BF'd today. So I hope you're prepared to lose some of your riches today and I also hope that you don't wind up looking like that chick pictured above (or Jack Black, for that matter).

This could get ugly, but I'm kinda eager to watch it all unfold, kinda like watching hurricane coverage on cable news, only less Geraldo Rivera-tastic (Riverrafiffic?).

Good luck and I hope your assets are covered! Hello-ooo!

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter: ZAMBRANO NO HITTER:9 /14 Edition; 15 games left

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Great day at the office for Cubs fans. As I type now, Zambrano has a no hitter going through 8 innings and Milwonky lost TWICE today! As of this second the Magic Number is 8, and in about 20 minutes it will be officially down to 7 (the Cubs are leading 5-0). Oh, and did I mention, just to salt the Milwonky wounds after losing twice today, Zambrano is doing this IN Milwaukee?? Hurricane Ike postponed the Cubs versus Astros games in Houston, so they're playing tonight and tomorrow at a neutral ballpark- Milwaukee.

I'm going live-blog style for the last half-inning.

9:19pm: Trying not to jinx this.

9:19: Oh, and a friend texted me today to let me know that she had tickets to the game and asked if I wanted to go.

9:20: One pitch, one out. Groundball to The Riot. This is kinda awesome

9:21: pinch hitter Jose Castillo. he grounds out to Theriot as well. two outs.

9:22: Darren Erstad is the potential final out.

9:23: 2-2 pitch and Zambrano bounced a fastball. HE DID ITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!! CARLOS ZAMBRANO DID IT!!!!!!!!! NO HITTER!!!!!!!! FIRST ONE SINCE 1972 FOR THE CUBBBSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Moly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE RON SANTO DOESN'T HAVE AN H.A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAGIC NUMBER DOWN TO 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9:26: deep breath. That. was. awesome. First no hitter since Milt Papas in 1972 for the Cubs. So far Santo hasn't had an H.A., thank baby Jesus and Allah.


Cubs-Emotion-o-Meter Word(s) of the Day: "I'll be Goddamned!!!!"


Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Fan Monkeyified: I'm so happy I could do this.

SNL Brought the Good(s) on Saturday!

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Saturday Night Live kicked off its new season on, well, Saturday Night, and it DID disappoint- except for at the very, very end where I witnessed my favorite post-Farley SNL moment.

Before The Transcendent Moment occurred, we had to endure 90 minutes of Michael Phelps' acting, which made your dad's skidmarked underwear look like Larry Olivier. Once again Kristen Wiig overacted, and Fred Armisen managed to creepily play a recurring-role-weirdo. Neither of those three were responsible for The Moment.

After musical guest Li'l Wayne's last song, it was time for one last sketch before the closing sequence. The last sketch was a funny spoof of those lame-o diet commercials that start off with a voice over saying something like, "Are you tired of always feeling hungry on your diet? And fed up with the puny portions and food that tastes like cardboard?". Then Michael Phelps appeared on camera and talked about his diet, and how it allows him to eat whatever he wants. With that setup in place, the usual laughs ensued for a few minutes before the audience got a funny surprise. Jared the Subway guy made a surprise appearance in his Subway colored shirt and told the camera that Phelps diet "sucks a footlong" (Jared is totally growing some creepy, slanty, moobs, by the way. It was really odd). But that wasn't the Moment of Awesomeness.

During the last segment when the host thanks the band, special guests, audience and then hugs everyone is when The Best Thing Ever happened. So Phelps did his thanking, of Li'l Wayne, Tina Fey and Jared, then gave everyone five/hugged them as the credits rolled. As Phelps made his way to high-fiving the cast.....the Impossible Happened.....Jared walked over to Li'l Waye and gave him the 5/handshake/one-arm-homey-hug. I wish the credits weren't rolling to screw up The Vision that it was. The two least likely bros of all time hugging it out like theys was old drankin' pahtnaz, and it came from out of nowhere. I'd love to get a picture of that on a t-shirt and/or mesh hat.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter: 9/13 Edition. 16 Games Left To Go

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


The Cubs remained idle today but Milwonky got humiliated by Philadelphia. That increases our lead to 6 games, with 16 games remaining in the regular season. That brings the Magic Number for winning the division down to 10!

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Word(s) of the Day: "Kinda Awesome". Between our 16 remaining games, and Milwonky's 14- we need a total of only 10 of them to go our way (either Cubs win or Milwonky loss). That's a third. The Cubs' winning percentage is .603, and Milwonky's losing percentage is .439, our odds of winning the division are Kinda Awesome

Cubs Emotion-0-Meter Cub Fan Mood Monkeyfied: --->




Also, I was able to have one of my German operatives do me a favor. His cousin is a big Brewers fan and watches all of their games on MLB.com. The footage of him watching today's loss against the Phillies sheds a lot of light on the current mood of Brewers fans. They aren't nearly as carefree as our monkey is, that's for sure. See for yourself below.



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Emotion-o-Meter: Zambrano No Hitter Edition!!

Notre Dame Wins One For the Gimper

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


Notre Damn beat Michigan 35-17 on Saturday, despite their coach tearing his ACL during the game. You read that correctly, Notre Dame's COACH tore his ACL during the game.

Notre Dame got out to an early lead before the heavy rains came, and back when Charlie Weis still had two intact ACLs and MCLs. Both of those changed late in the second quarter when the skies opened up and Irish defensive end John Ryan was shoved out of bounds and rolled up the leg of an unsuspecting Charlie Weis, who was watching the play downfield and never saw Ryan coming. Weis stoicly finished his coaching duties with crutches and a legbrace on the sideline. Despite the rain and an injured coach, Notre Dame won one for The Gimper against their rival Michigan.

Lookalikes 10.0

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Bristol Palin (below, far right) and Shawn Johnson






















More WhereAwesomeHappens Lookalikes:


David Wright and Steve Eigenberg

Jane Velez Mitchell and Adam Rich

Amy Poehler and Cindy McCain

Louis CK and Jim Cramer

Stephen Colbert and Jamie Gold

Dana Bash and an Afghan Dog

Fred Thompson and a Shar Pei Dog

BrandonDiCamillo and Paul Scheer

Lovechild Investigation 6.0

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Karen Walker (Megan Mullally's character from Will and Grace) + Tina Fey = Sarah Palin.


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Other WhereAwesomeHappens Love Child Investigations-

Steve Carrell + Janet Reno = Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

Tom Ridge + Scott Mclellan= Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

Scarlett Johansson + Nicole Scherzinger = Kim Kardashian

Marissa Miller + Jessica Simpson = Erin Andrews

Sarah Quaylin

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com















(Editor's Note: I promise this is my last Sarah Palin post)

You can tell that the liberal sharks smells blood with Palin. She's not 100% on top of all the national issues, loves to talk, and her conservative base feels that she can do or say no wrong. She's going to be put through the media wringer in next few weeks and asked much more difficult questions than will be asked of Biden, McCain or Obama. Get ready for the Dan Quayle comparisons, fair or unfair.

Progressive Psychology

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


I have a Psychology degree, and I have labored through reading parts of the DSM-IV. But I think there is a more effective way to diagnose clinical depression. If what you witness at the 1:00 minute mark doesn't make you happy, then you are miserably depressed and should seek professional help immediately. (granted, seeing a chimpanzee with a collar and living the circus-life is sad in its own way, just try to ignore that while watching what happens at 1:00).

Fat Fall Friday

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com



She wins the Pee-Wee Herman Award for best, "I meant to do that" post-fall reaction.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter- 9/12 Edition: 16 Games Left To Go

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

It's the bottom of the 9th and the Cubbies are gonna try to hold on to their 3-2 lead. I'll just live blog the rest of the game since I'm impatient.

10:12pm: Pinch Hitter Brendan Ryan steps into the batter's box. Luckily, I have never heard of him.

10:13: Glad I didn't say "he probably sucks" like I was thinking about saying. He just doubled to rightfield. He short-hopped the wall on breaking ball that didn't break.

10:14: HOLY BUTTHOLE PENIS FARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brendan Ryan DOES suck!!!!! The next guy for St. Louis bunted poorly to Derek Lee, who threw to third and narrowly missed Ryan. Ryan was safe. Then he OVERSLID the bag, and Aramis Ramirez tagged him out!!!!!!! That was awesome. Woweee. Wa wa we wa.

10:15: The next dude dunks a singles into left. Not an awesome sign. Guys on first and second one out. Cubs announcer Ron Santo's liklihood of having an H.A. during this game? Up to about 85%. On a good night it hovers around 60%. This is getting tight.

10:17: Praise baby Jesus. Wood struck out Aaron Miles.

10:18: Pujols is now at bat. Why does this always happen?

10:19: it's 2-0 on him. I hope they walk him. Ron Santo does too.

10:19: Looks like an unintentional intentional walk. All praise be to Allah.

10:20: Scratch that. it's 2-2. Oh boy. This could get non-awesome in a hurry.

10:20pm: Pujols popped out! Game over! We win! We're the best and they're the worst! Roll Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go!"

Ok, back to my business. Cubs won. Milkwonky lost (ha ha). The Magic number to win the division is now a Spinal Tapian "all the way up to 11". Or "down" to 11, actually. The Cubs' lead is 5.5 games with only 16 left to play. Luckily, Ron Santo, did not have an H.A.. Wow, that game was a doozey.

Due to Hurrican Ike, the Cubs regularly scheduled games for Friday and Saturday have been postponed, so the next Official Cubs Emotion-o-Meter posting is not scheduled until Sunday, but there could be a few unofficial postings if Milwonky happens to lose tomorrow or Saturday. We'll see. But before that happens, I need to commence with the goods.

The Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Word(s) of the Day: "Vigilant Optimism" still. Ordinarily a lead of 5.5 games with 16 play is a lot, but when you play that team 6 times, it's not quite as big. AND I used up all of my "being an arrogant, a-hole sports fan" points on the Patriots before the Super Bowl.

The Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Monkey Picture of the Day: Since I'm still exuberant after the win, and I downloaded some new monkey pics last night, I'm showing off. The Emotion of the Cubs fan monkeyified (i.e. personified by a monkey) is captioned "Take that, Milwonky"




Cubs Emotion-o-Meter 9/13 Edition

Zambrano No Hitter Edition!!!

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter, 9/11 Edition: 17 Games Left To Go

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Both Milwonky and the Cubs both won last night. The lead is still 4.5 with 17 to play, 6 of those 17 games are against Milwonky, so there's no point in making any assumptions just yet. Our Magic Number to win the division is 13, and the Magic Number for making the playoffs is down to 9.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Word(s) of the Day is still: Vigilant Optimism/Wait and See. Not much to do but sit and watch.

Cubs Emotion-o-Meter Picture: We're watching you, Milwonky!!!

Update: I just realized that Tuesday was the 39th Anniversary of the black cat running around Ron Santo in the on deck circle at Shea Stadium in 1969. That was done in like the 6th or 7th inning. What kind of fan smuggles a cat into a baseball stadium and keeps it hidden in a bag, or in the pants for 6 freaking innings? New Yorkers, that's who. But to his credit, much like fellow New Yorker Alphonse Capone, he's a nutty New Yorker that made Chicago history.

Kanye Flipping Out at LAX Just Like Kanye Getting Punk'd

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Remember how yesterday I pointed out that Vince Young's poor Wonderlic test results could have foreshadowed his current emotional instability? Well, apparently Kanye West's flipping out on Punk'd could have foretold his arrest today in at LAX. Below is him going nuts on Punk'd, and he did the exact same crap to a TMZ film crew today. Click the link to see the similar situation unfolding today at LAX, or just check it out below. He seems to employ the "You can't do that, I'm Kanye West! I'm just gonna rip stuff outta your hands, go berzerk and hope for the best! Well, here it goes..."