Weight has no effect on athletic performance.
-Shaquille

Imagine if the man had stayed at the MERE 305 lbs or so he started out at? I have little doubt we’d be saying, “Wilt and Bill who?” by now.

Making fun of fat professional athletes that suck is fine. They make enough money to to hire personal chefs, trainers etc to do the groundwork….they just have to care enough to go with it.

This inspires me………..

The Willie Burger:

Single slice of bread preferably some ubernatural whole grain bread because it has the most grit.
Single meat patty. Origin of meat unimportant when you’re seriously gritty.
1 slice Kraft Singles
Single tomato slice
Single lettuce leaf
Single serving packets of ketchup, mustard and mayo. One each.
Single pickle slice
Single onion ring

Stack in preceding order on bread and serve with small glass of whine.

I can handle a pitcher being fat if they can still get the job done, but a batter needs to run the bases.

Or, at least hit the ball consistently. Toward the end of their careers, both Dave Parker and Tony Gwynn had grown considerably more portly…yet they still brought something to the table in that each could still hit pretty well (unlike Vidro).

The whole ripping on Vidro and Silva for being fat thing is getting kinda lame.

They suck because they don’t have above average major league talent – not because they’re fat.

I can handle a pitcher being fat if they can still get the job done, but a batter needs to run the bases. Vidro would suck less if he could run the bases and he could run the bases better if he lost weight. These guys are professional athletes, after all.

Now swap out the buns for Krispy Kreme donuts, and it gets both Silva’s AND Vidro’s stamp of approval…

P.S.: BTW, I haven’t mentioned it yet, but I love this edit feature as well…thanks!

P.S. I just edited this post and it rocked my face off.

He and I chatted about baseball and his life after baseball for about 15 minutes, and he posed underneath the sign out front for a picture. Dang! Why didn’t I buy a couple of donuts and make a donut sandwich???

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RE: #24 msb’s report of Sunday Times’ Backtalk section:

Evidently Sexson has the same mindset as these two deluded fans who think it’s the M’s fault, the M’s fans’ fault.

On another message board a Yankee fan rather smugly told me,

“Richie also said it’s more fun playing for a contender than it is playing for a team 20 games out of first place. Interesting thought.”

Yeah, interesting, all right. I guess Richie is practicing selective memory loss now that he’s wearing the sainted pinstripes…he’s forgotten that HE’S a major cause why the M’s are 20 games out of 1st place.

Of course signing him in the first place is only one of at least a dozen stupid moves the M’s have made in the past 3 years.

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Sigh… I’m old enough to remember seeing actual copies of that cookbook (saving grace: I was too young to actually PREPARE anything from the cookbook though, and that’s probably why I’m still alive today).

My favorite recipe from Jeff Nye’s excellent link in 36 is here. So pure. So true.

Agreed…that link is totally hilarious!

Though I’m still trying to figure out what exactly the nutritional value would be for Head Cheese Jell-O Souffle — or whatever that dreadful-looking concoction is.