So Many Stories in Sports are Begging the Question: WTF???

The beauty in sports is two fold: the competition and the drama. Sometimes the side stories become so overwhelming that, admittedly, I lose focus on what matters most (the actual game) and get lost in the nonsense (the drama). Recently, it seems there are some oddball happenings in sports that I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams. It's as if me, my friends, recently fired soap opera writers, recently hired porno writers, and TMZ all joined forces to create stories that were made exclusively for cable networks needing to fill the 3am, Sunday morning time slot. Yet here we are, actually living in the same world that these stories are happening. Let's take a look:

Should I sit out at Denver or should I risk another near death experience?

A few years back when Steelers safety Ryan Clark played in Denver the dramatic change in altitude caused such a bad physical backlash with his sickle cell disease that it caused his own blood to attack his spleen and gallbladder forcing him into emergency surgery and almost killing him. That's right his own blood attacked his own inner organs and he almost died yet he legitimately considered playing a game of football! Clark ultimately decided to not play, but to even entertain the notion of playing at the expense of dying is out of control. WTF?

Bitches runnin' wild!

The Dodgers owner Frank McCourt fired his wife Jamie a week after the Dodgers were eliminated from the playoffs. Jamie was the CEO of the Dodgers and the gig payed $2 million a year. Hmm, perhaps he was displeased with the way his wife handled things in the organization and wanted to turn over a new leaf, after all, the Dodgers have been a playoff disappointment the past two years. ERRRR. WRONG. He instead filed for divorce because his wife was banging her bodyguard and taking trips to Israel and France and then leaving the tab for the Dodgers to pick up. In a way I empathize for Mr. McCourt for his bitch of a wife back-stabbing him, it's deplorable. On the other hand, Mrs. McCourt had a bodyguard? What in the hell does she need a bodyguard for? Oh that's right, to fuck her. If Mr. McCourt was so naive to believe that there was nothing wrong/suspicious/off/completely unexplainable with his wife traveling abroad for weeks on end with her bodyguard, then shame on him. WTF?

Who says a monkey wrench and cryogenically frozen heads don't mix?

So Ted Williams was a 2x MVP, 17x All-Star, 2x Triple Crown Winner, 1st ballot Hall of Famer, and Veteran of WWII and the Korean War, but most people know him now as the guy that had his head severed and cryogenically frozen. As if that's not crazy enough, in a new book published by a former Alcor employee (the company that keeps Williams' frozen) head, the employee makes the claim that another Alcor employee cracked Williams' frozen head with a monkey wrench as he was trying to knock off a can of frozen tuna that had gotten stuck to Williams' head. WTF?

And just when you thought things couldn't get anymore weird ....

Sammy Sosa goes from being black to being some sort of god-forsaken mole rat that has endured 3rd degree burns over 90% of his body. Sosa blames the inexplicable change in skin coloration on a skin moisturizer. Wow. W. T. F????


-Brad