If you haven’t heard the news, Lance Briggs crashed his Lamborghini and then left the scene of the accident. Furthermore, he lied and then reported the car was stolen. And why was he out at 3 in the morning? The only solution I can think of is he was drunk. Why else would he be out at 3AM and flee the scene? I never knew the Lovetron’s idiocy extended beyond the man-love for WRECKS the Wonder Bear: “We have a one-car accident and now alcohol is involved? I think that’s stretching it a little bit to go that far.”

No, Lovie it isn’t. It’s valid. I remember some fellow named Tank Johnson was pulled over and found to have been barely under the legally drunk limit. Josh Hancock slammed his car into a tow truck and died. The culprit was booze. It’s valid to ask if Briggs was drinking.

What Briggs did won’t sit well with the new get-tough commish Roger Goodell. You behave like a thug off the field, you should be suspended. Thank you Mr. Goodell for not dismissing incidents like this. Right now Briggs should get two games. One for leaving the scene of the accident, and another for lying. As more details unfold, we’ll see if Briggs should get additional suspension.

With less than three weeks before the NFL regular season starts, the Bears head into the 2007 season with more talent on each side of the ball than last year’s Super Bowl runner-up.

Since the Bears lost Super Bowl XLI to the Indianapolis Colts, there have been numerous changes to the team, including the departures of Thomas Jones, traded to the New York Jets, Tank Johnson, gone after numerous run-ins with the law, Ian Scott, lost in free agency, and Chris Harris, traded to the Carolina Panthers.

Twenty of the 22 starters from last season are back, including $7.2-million man Lance Briggs, following a long dispute over the franchise tag.

With the trade of Jones, Cedric Benson takes over as the starter at running back, with Adrian Peterson (not to be confused with the player from Oklahoma of the same name and position) and rookie Garrett Wolfe from Northern Illinois as backups.

Many people have questioned whether this move was done because Benson is being paid $16 million, or because Jerry Angelo feels that Benson can be the leading runner. I tend to think it was the former. Whether his body can withstand a full season worth of hard hits in the leading runner role remains to be seen, and is a legitimate concern, given his injury filled past.

His maturity is also an issue. Benson has admitted to losing focus during games before. Last year, on Dec. 3 against the Minnesota Vikings, Benson scored a touchdown on fourth down. After the game, when asked about the touchdown, Benson said he didn’t realize it was fourth down. Such lapses of concentration cannot happen for Benson and the Bears to succeed.

On defense, Tank Johnson is gone after continually getting arrested, and it remains to be seen how Tommie Harris will recover from his badly torn hamstring last year. If “Real Deal” Harris comes back and shows he is, in fact, the “Real Deal,” then the defensive line will be better.

The linebacker trio of Brian Urlacher, Hunter Hillenmeyer and Briggs is back, and the Bears have added depth with Jamar Williams and rookie Michael Okwo. The secondary will get a boost from Mike Brown’s return, and Peanut Tillman and Nathan Vasher are going to be around for the long term after receiving extensions. Adding Adam Archuleta to the secondary only adds depth.

The Bears will also have the weapons to be a very explosive offense. The entire offensive line is back, and they’ve gotten deeper. Electrifying return man Devin Hester is being moved to receiver in an attempt to get more touches, joining an already talented wide receiving corps.

Ever since Mike Ditka retired, the Bears have not had a true tight end. Rookie Greg Olsen from Miami should end this. He has the combination of speed, power, and size to be an elite player. If G-Reg can play as good as he raps, other teams better watch out.

However, the biggest question for the Bears is as usual, the quarterback. After a season in which he played like he was Joe Montana one game, and then reminded us of every other Bears quarterback of the last 12 years the next, Rex Grossman must improve his consistency this season and cut down on turnovers. In the second pre-season game, he fumbled two snaps, blaming sweat on his wrist for one and a bad exchange on the other. These excuses are not acceptable, as there are 31 other quarterbacks in this league, none of whom have a fumbling problem.

Rex also needs to show more consistency and not heave it every time. He has many weapons this year, so there are no excuses. If Bad Rex continues to go out there, there is no way Lovie Smith will have the kind of patience he had last year. The catcalls for Brian Griese and Kyle Orton, and maybe even Lovie’s job will grow louder with each bad game Grossman puts up. When the goal is to win the Super Bowl, there is a concept known as “I don’t care for the future.” A few bad outings by Rex, and it’d be a good concept to grasp.

Overall, this team is loaded and built to return to Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3, 2008 in Glendale, Ariz. The window of opportunity to win a Super Bowl is going to slam shut pretty soon. This is their best shot. Ultimately, the Bears hopes of going to Glendale will lie on Grossman’s right arm and on his brain.

I was looking at the standings on MLB.com today, I noticed the White Sox are tied for last place in the AL Central with the Royals. My, what a fall they have taken. Winning the World Series 20 months ago to thinking they were king of the world and could do whatever they want to now being in last place. This is by far worse than the fall the 1998 Marlins took after winning the World Series in 1997.

Being the most classless organization ever, the White Sox are getting what they deserve. They employ a constipated hick as their play-by-play man. They have an owner who thinks he is so great because he and the dick of a commish Bud Selig are butt buddies. They apply stupid financial principles to anyone they want to sign. They have a GM who makes any trade he can. They have a manager who thinks he is an automatic success and has a free ride to do whatever the hell he wants because he won a World Series. The entire vocabulary of their rude, dumb, obnoxious, field-jumping, umpire-attacking fan base is Cubs Suck. When things go wrong, they blame everyone but themselves. Their favorite culprits are Jay Mariotti, Scott Boras, the Cubs, and the umpires.

They hate Jay Mariotti because he writes negative about the organization. Boo-hoo, he rips you. Get your eyes checked, White Sox. Jay doesn’t rip everyone, he doesn’t just speak the truth, he blasts the truth. Speaking the truth does not make you great. Blasting the truth makes you great. Ever notice you’re the only team that has issues with him? All the owners in this town are dicks, Riensdorf, McCaskey, Tribune, Dollar Bill, they all suck. Jay Mariotti does not have an axe to grind with you losers, you losers think you have an axe to grind with him. Guess what: Mariotti will be in business for a long time, and when he hacks off, there will be people to take his place and continue making hay. I don’t think someone who is successful like Mariotti is a piece of shit and a fucking fag.

They don’t like Scott Boras because he is a hard negotiator. They hate him so much that they refuse to draft any player he represents, they refuse to sign anyone he represents, and because the best 3rd baseman they had since Robin Ventura is represented by Mr. Boras, once he is a free agent following the 2008 season, he will be gone, if he isn’t traded before then. This is part of the dumb financial principles they apply. And the reason is because they have an axe to grind with him, apparently because of how he treated Kenny Williams during the A-Rod derby. More on this to come.

Ozzie really is the umpires bitch. And he should be. The umpires should have it in for the Venezuelan Motherfucking fag. You don’t go around telling the press that an umpire is a lair and that he has a vendetta against your team. (See Hunter Wendelstedt).

They always go around blaming the Cubs because it’s all they can do. Cubs Suck is the entire vocabulary of their shit fans. White Sox fans are not real fans. They just hate the Cubs and need a team to root for. Remember those old Us vs. Them ads from marketing?? Yup, those were taking shots at the Cubs. How about Ozzie, saying he had to park his car at McDonald’s for a Cubs-Sox game at Wrigley? Or how about him saying Wrigley is not a ballpark, it’s a museum? Or how about when they blamed the Cubs last winter for spending $300 million on free agents and driving up the price for everyone? Why did they do it? Because they have nothing better to do. They are more focused on seeing the Cubs fail than their own team do good. For some un-explained reason, they think the Cubs are their enemy, and thus need this anti-Cubs agenda.

Now, on to the team: This team has a gazillion holes. Their farm system is shit, which explains why their scouting director was canned a couple months ago. The dumb principles they apply will only hurt this team. This team is going to need a Cubs-like spending splurge to return to contention right away. Otherwise, they’re going to have to endure a very long rebuilding process. In this market, all the White Sox will be able to get with the principles they apply is sub-standard crap. Sometimes you need to forget about principles and just pony up the dough and get the marquee players. It worked real good when re-signing Konerko and Buerhle, it’ll work good for other players too. Here’s to the White Sox sucking for all eternity, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!!!????? The Brewers are handing the division to the Cubs and the Cubs don’t seem to want it. The last 2 weeks, the Brewers have gone 4-9. During that same time, the Cubs have gone 4-10, losing 1/2 game on the Brewers in the process. This slide shows how bad the Cubs suck. They have a prime opportunity to run away with the division, and continually blow it. They should be lucky they play in the NL Central. Any other division, and they would be dead meat.

Recently, Cubs manager Lou Piniella was asked if he would consider hitting his pitcher in the 8th spot, especially if it was one of his better hitting pitchers, Jason Marquis or Carlos Zambrano. Piniella said no, he would never do that because it be dis-respecting the hitter hitting in the 9th spot. Since when is it more important to respect someone than winning games?? Is Dusty in charge?? No. I don’t care for how things are, you do what’s best for the team. None of this crap like I’m not moving Sosa down because of his pride.

Fuck respect. Do what’s best for the team, and if that means putting the pitcher in the 8th spot, then do it. Tony LaRussa does it. Heck, he doesn’t even do it b/c the pitcher is a better hitter. He wants another guy on base when the lineup turns over and gets to his mashers, Pujols and Rolen. I’m sure Soriano would rather come up with someone on base, rather than the bases empty every time. Move an automatic out up in the lineup, mask the affect of the out. This is truly something Dusty would do.

I was cleaning out my email today, and I came across this article I sent a friend:

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/467310,CST-SPT-greg13.article

That’s right. The White Sox could have drafted Barry Lamar Bonds. The all-time home run leader could have been their’s. Instead, they take this guy who never amounted to anything in baseball. Congrats to the White Sox on continually fucking up the course of history.

A couple of years, I was running an anti-White Sox operation on blogger. I would have to check the blog regularly to see what people wrote on my blog. With this blog on wordpress, anytime someone writes something, I get an email. Even nicer, I can mark comments that I deem spam, as such. With Blogger, I would have to sit at my computer for a while, deleting the comments and dealing with pissing matches. I don’t have to deal with that here. Keep writing all the crap you want, it doesn’t matter to me.

So I was reading ESPN, I came across this article:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2969436

HENDRY YOU MORON!! SCOTTY-BOY SUCKS!!! LISA DERGAN HAS RUINED HIM FOR LIFE!! Podsednic is a cross of the bad traits of Corey Patterson and Juan Pierre: A wild swinging strikeout machine, no power, and a noodle for an arm.

I was out for a couple days, couldn’t get to it. On the same day Tom Glavine won his 300th career game, the Cubs lost lead-off man Alfonso Soriano with a strained quad. It was later diagnosed as a “1-centimeter tear in the belly of the quad muscle.”

What the fuck is that!!?? Is this like Prior’s mysterious aliment that was first called a strain and then later revealed to be a tear? Why can’t we be honest and upfront and tell the truth when it happens the first time!!?? And w/o Soriano, we have gone 0-3. It’s time to hit the panic button!!

1. Sell the team to Mark Cuban
2. Fire Jim Hendry
3. Lock up Big Z
4. Get Adam Dunn
5. Get A-Rod
6. Get K-Rod
7. Get Johan
8. Get Eric Gagne
9. Get rid of Jacque Jones
10. Get rid of Cliff Floyd
11. Don’t sign pitchers with Wood and Prior Syndrome
12. Take down the tag team known as Bud Selig and Jerry Reinsdorf

With these 12 moves, I SMELL WORLD DOMINATION!!!

Lineup:

1. TheRiot (2B)
2. Lee (1B)
3. A-Rod (SS)
4. Dunn (RF)
5. Ramirez (3B)
6. Pie (CF)
7. Soriano (LF)
8. Catcher
9. Pitcher

Rotation:
Z
Johan
Lilly
The King of the Hill
Smardzija

Pen:
K-Rod
Marmol
Marshall
Wood and Prior (if healthy)
Dempster
Howry
Wuertz
Gagne

Can you say 162-0!!?? MUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!