Bangcartoon.com

Looking through some old bookmarks here at home, I remembered an old friend. http://www.bangcartoon.com/archive.htm

You'll LOVE these. The guy used to be on extremeskins.com, but started his own site a while back...VERY funny stuff.

Oh - and I forgot to mention...

It would be really nice if NASCAR would get some consistency in its rules...

Johnny Benson passes below the yellow in the Daytona truck race on the last lap and the justification we get is "once the white flag waves, anything goes"?!

In case NASCAR forgot...the sole reason FOR the out-of-bounds below the yellow rule is because of the Big E wreck. The 3 car dropping some tires on the apron is part of the reason the car got loose and was the reason for the implimentation of the rule. AND Earnhardt was killed on the last lap. Stupid precedent NASCAR...stupid precedent.

And Michael Waltrip - while everyone else seem to think it was a slap on the wrist at the time - has gotten as close to the death penalty as a driver can get. Las Vegas will be race #3, and he's still 27 points in the hole. NOT guaranteed a spot like he wasn't in California where he missed the race. He'll be racing for his life every single week. Not a good position for the flagship Toyota team to be in.

Stupid Upgrade

It's been a while since I last typed something that nobody will read - thanks to the stupid update that I haven't had time to do...But here's more.

Dangit! I thought we were going to be rid of Pau!! I don't have anything personal against Pau (I know I rail against him an awful lot), but it's just that I think his value to the Grizzlies is MUCH higher as trade incentive than it is as a player. We've been waiting on Pau and putting different pieces around Pau since 2001 - and all we've gotten is swept out of the playoffs 3 years in a row. Should have traded Pau instead of Shane and gotten a higher pick in the Rudy Gay draft.

The racing season is starting off with a bang - and no I don't mean David Reutimann's crash (thanks Greg Biffle) at California - so far this season. DEI is sucking a little now, but it's usually all or nothing at Daytona, and California isn't typically one of their better tracks.

Congratulations to Kevin Harvick. Great job on the 500 win! And Congratulations to Mark Martin - leading the points standings (at least for now). Make another run, Mark. If there was ever a sponsor that deserved the commitments that the drivers make - it's the Army. I would think getting to meet with those guys and help boost their morale would ease some of the sponsor commitment sting.

I'm getting through it slowly, because I keep having to put it down...it gets depressing. But if you haven't read "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young" do it. It's the book that the Mel Gibson movie was based on. It will give you a whole new respect for our Vietnam veterans - and a whole new outlook on what's happening in Iraq.

And lastly - time for tee-ball!! Coaching my first season and coaching my son's team (his first season).

Yeah, We Believe You, Pete...

So USC is already being investigated about improper benefits to Reggie Bush...and NOW we find out that maybe Bush and McKnight may have had phone contact?? wow. I am so shocked. I can't believe that a high-profile school might cheat.

But, Hey! Pete Carroll says that it didn't happen. The kid says it did, but Pete says it didn't...so hey, we believe you Pete.

What I DO believe is that Reggie Bush took a pay cut when he came to the Saints when he started having to pay taxes on all his money.

Trade Pau Now, Part (what is this?) 87

In Sunday’s CA, Pau is quoted as saying:

“There are a lot of things going on indoors around this team that fans don't know. And they don't need to know. That's just the way it is. But you always have to respect individual decisions. You might not agree with them. You might not see why. But there's something. That's the bottom line. Just know there are reasons. It's not just because I want to be in a different place.”

So basically Pau says that there are a lot of things the fans don’t know about and don’t need to know about, and the article said that this trade request has been brewing for 2 years.

Here’s my theory. Pau wanted a sign and trade after his max contract deal. He knows that he’s soft and pathetic. The Grizzlies were bound and determined to try and build this team with Pau as its centerpiece, and apparently Pau didn’t like that decision any more than I did. He wanted max money and a trade to somewhere that he could hide behind someone better than he is. He’s weak. He knows it, I know it, and Jeff Wineberger knows it!

This trade request is two years in the making because that’s when it became obvious that Jerry West was absolutely going to build this team around Pau. The only different place he wants to be in is out of the load-carrying role. He wants somebody to hide behind when Kobe elbows him in the mouth and dunks over his 7-foot-useless head. He wants to go Anywhere that he doesn’t have to worry about anything but shooting the ball. He’s too weak to carry the team and he’s too weak to handle the criticism that goes along with it. He can’t hack it as the focal point. Plain and Simple. THAT’s why he’ll never be a superstar, and THAT’s why Memphis needed to trade him at LEAST 2 years ago.

Art Monk Deserves To Be In!

Rushing Receiving
G Att Yards Y/A TD Rec Yards Y/R TD
TOTAL 159 6 6 1.0 0 750 11904 15.9 65
TOTAL 224 63 332 5.3 0 940 12721 13.5 68


The top numbers belong to newly inducted Hall-of-Famer Michael Irvin. The latter, to Art Monk.

More TD's, more receiving yards, more rushing yards, more receptions, longer career...

Why is Art Monk NOT in the Hall of Fame yet?!