Insane Grizzly Men and White Sox Managers, Boxing Rule Amendment, and other Exciting Tidbits

Today, we achieved on this blog what real blogs can do in one day: we had our 10,000th visitor! At this pace, we shuold be one of the top read blogs on the Internet within the next 800 years....

I saw the movie Grizzly Man last night. It is a documentary that follows the life and ultimate death of Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 straight summers in the Alaskan Wilderness living with the grizzly bears, one of whom ultimately decided to eat him for lunch. I highly recommend this movie, but not for the reason that the director or Treadwell himself would prefer. Yes, there are a lot of beautiful shots of the scenery. Yes, there is a vaguely interesting storyline. But ultimately what makes this movie thoroughly enjoyable is the fact that Treadwell, as the sports guy Bill Simmons of espn.com would say, ranks as just about a perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale. This guy is so utterly and completely insane that he makes Ozzie Guillen look normal and well adjusted. Trust me, take my recommendation and rent this one, especially if you will be drinking while watching the movie. Classic stuff.

Speaking of Ozzie Guillen, now that Timothy Treadwell is no longer with us, he has to be the biggest lunatic left on the planet. After the debacle of how he handled his pitcher not following instructions and hitting an opposing player as retaliation (he sent the kid back to the Minors), he called Jay Mariotti a piece of s^&*, a f@!#!#@ fag. Then tried to say he did not mean what we mean in America, that there is a different connotation in Venezuela, and that he is pro-gay, and planning to go both to the Madonna concert and the gay games later this summer. Are you kidding me? There is debate over whether this guy should be suspended. I think the debate should be over he should be institutionalized. He is nuttier than a peanut bar. Ozzie, once again, let me repeat the advice I gave you last week: When you get an urge to speak, DON'T! Just keep quiet and manage your team. This cannot end well.

If you live in the Philly area, I suggest going to see Edwin McCain in concert next week. He is playing next Wednesday, June 28th, at World Café Live, at 7:30 pm. For more information on the venue, or to buy tickets, go to: http://www.worldcafelive.com/. Edwin always puts on a great show, will have the full band for this show, and the venue is a great place to watch a performance (and the food is pretty good too).

I am going through sports withdrawal all of a sudden. We went from deciding game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Monday, the deciding game in the NBA Finals Tuesday, to a bad Phillies performance Wednesday, to the U.S. trying to stay alive in the World Cup on Thursday. If there is a better example of a bad trend line, I have not seen it. By Saturday I fully expect to be a watching a badminton / dominos doubleheader on espn.

Winky Wright and Jermaine Taylor, two of the best fighters in the world, fought to a draw last week. This is not acceptable. I propose a new boxing rule: if, after 12 rounds, the fight is scored a draw, they clear the ring out, keep the gloves on , and they fight one additional five minute round. Winner take all. Think of how exciting that would be. I think it could increase boxing's popularity, and eliminate some of the cloud hanging over questionable draw decisions. Hopefully Don King is a reader of this blog. If not, can someone forward the idea to him?

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