Bobby Knight and Others

Many many many sports reporters and other notable people in the sports industry make their picks for the NCAA champion and fill out a bracket that they let everyone else see. They make many bold predictions, because bold predictions get you noticed, safe ones do not. This goes the same with all sports. My question is, how come we don't hold them accountable for these bold predictions. If they make a prediction, and it turns out to be the complete horseshit we originally thought it should be, shouldn't they lose their job or suffer some sort of consequence? They should at least have to endure some sort of humiliation.
Take these two items for example. On TNT to start the NBA season, Charles Barkley said the Cavs wouldn't make the playoffs. The team that won the Eastern Conference last year wouldn't even make the playoffs this year. As it sits now they are easily one of the best teams in the East and are seeded 4th out of 8 playoff teams, very similar to where they are last year. I already didn't respect his opinion before this, but shouldn't we and many others hold him accountable for this? He made a statement meant only to garner attention and tried to pass it off as an objective opinion. What a moron, in my opinion, he shouldn't have a job. My second example is Bobby Knight. He hated the media as a coach and has now joined them. Then ESPN had all sorts of build-up to him picking Pitt to win the NCAA championship. Then they lost in the 2nd round. Now they are still having all sorts of buildup to Bobby Knight picking the Sweet 16. Shouldn't we already assume he knows absolutely nothing about what is going to happen since the team he picked to win it all only won 1 game instead of the required 6? Why would I care what he has to say now? Why does he still have credibility?
Anyway, this always brings me back to my same point that people like Charles Barkley and Bob Knight and Lou Holtz who are no damn good as sports reporters or TV analysts shouldn't have jobs. They played or coached in a sport and made a hell of a lot of money doing it. Those jobs should now go to those who studied or earned their way up the ranks in the sports analyst world. They would do a much better job, and we wouldn't get spit on by Lou Holtz.

Art Stolen in Heist

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/02/11/art.theft/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

When I read this article I started laughing. I guess I only thought this sort of thing happened in movies like Entrapment, Thomas Crown Affair, and other robber glorifying movies. I didn't think that paintings were actually swiped in real life. In the movies it is always so hard to rob these places that I didn't think anyone would actually ever really try it and get away with it. Perhaps they aren't as hard to steal as they are in the movies....

Two First Names

Individuals who have 2 First Names for their First Name and Last Name annoy me slightly less than those who have Unisex names. Those with a First Name for a Last Name are doomed so there is really nothing that can be done about this unless those people stop reproducing. So here is a list of some of the offending names, most of which are celebrities:

Ricky Bobby
Gary Baxter
Frank Thomas
George Brett
Hank Aaron
Nolan Ryan
Ron Paul
Bill Murray
Rick James
Chris Paul

If These Two Could Mate.......

If Lou Holtz and Reche Caldwell could somehow have a baby together, this is what it would look like........

Baseball Writers of Moronica

Goose Gossage was elected to the Hall of Fame today. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with Goose going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In my opinion, he is deserving. I just want to know what happened. Why wasn't he elected in 2000, or 2001, or 2002, or 2003, or 2004, or 2005, or 2006, or 2007? Why was he elected in 2008? Did he unretire and record 30 saves this year that I don't know about? I didn't think so. In my opinion, if you are deserving of the Hall of Fame, you are deserving of the Hall of Fame. There are no in-betweens. If a writer votes for a guy the first year on the ballot, he should vote for him every year. If a writer doesn't vote for a guy, he should never vote for a guy. They didn't go out and magically get better stats or become more historically significant.
So my point is this. If a baseball player is good enough to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame, he is good enough the first year on the ballot and every subsequent year. He doesn't get better or worse. There is no need to elect a player every year and there is no need to limit the number of elections in a year.