Styles P featuring Noreaga and Uncle M – ‘Pablo Doe’
What-what!?! Dreams of wild cream is what rap music means to me. I need this green right now to launch my spaceship. It’s time to get back on my video grind ASAP.
Premium Pete sold these SB FC to me for only $40. I think I will rock these joints on February 1st.
“Dayyyyum, these Nets sux!”
What a piss poor franchise the Nets have become. The Kentucky Wildcats, Kansas Jayhawks, Texas Longhorns and a host of NCAA Division-1 teams would pwn these losers. And this is the franchise that they want to relocate to Brooklyn?
The Brooklyn deal is reportedly short some bucks right now, but supposedly this Russian dude with wild billions is gonna save the project.
I vote ‘NYET’ to Moscow on Atlantic Avenue. If the developer Bruce Ratner were a smart man he would simply nix the arena deal put some other shit in that empty space. Maybe Wal-Mart? Maybe affordable office space? Brooklyn certain has enough places to shop. What the boro needs is places for her residents to work and be trained with skills that would allow people to work on their own shit. If there is a place in New York where the hipster ideal has proven to be a sustainable way of life Brooklyn is the place.
Hopefully then Mayor Bloomberg and Jay-Z won’t have to take silly pictures holding those crappy jerseys and simply allow the Nyets to remain playing their home games in crappy New Jersey.
You know what I just thought of? If Mayor Bloomberg and Jay-Z formed a rap group they could call themselves the B-Jayz [ll].
Let me state this clearly for anyone reading this drop…
Ken Griffey Jr. is my favorite all-time player. He was my generation’s G.O.A.T. Honestly, Barry Bonds was my generation’s G.O.A.T., but I could never get close to Bonds. He played in the National League throughout his whole career and I could never get Bonds to sign shit for me. Back in the days I used to troll the press gate at the OG Shea Stadium because that is where the visiting team would enter the ballpark. Even before Barry Bonds had become the single season home run champ he was hard to touch.
I don’t favor Griffey Jr. over Bonds because I couldn’t get Bonds to autograph some shit for me. I fuxed with Griffey because his style was so much fresher than anyone else in the game. His swing was so gorgeous and elliptical. Most big hitters yanked the baseball after making contact with it while Griffey Jr. just seemed to let the ball go in any direction but always on a line. The only thing better than watching Griffey bat was watching him play centerfield. He made some of the most incredible catches I had ever seen. As a routine…
Now here comes the tough part. I think that Griffey Jr. tried to use steroids but his body rejected them and this is what caused his debilitating injuries. I feel like Griffey learned about steroids while with the Mariners. There are several Mariners players I’m sure were users who prA’li influenced Griffey.
Bret Boone, Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez and Vince Coleman are all players I suspect of using HGH or steroids during their playing careers. They were all lean players who ballooned into bulky hulks during the 1990s. I don’t want this to become a scary witchhunt for which players may have used steroids in the days before baseball had outlawed these drugs and treatments. These players also knew of the risks that were inherent in receiving these treatments but just like the NFL stands for ‘Not For Long’ and those players willingly accept the negative side effects of steroids so did the baseball players.
The potential from steroids was something that trumped jaundice, prostate cancer and even bone density decomposition. The potential from steroids use appeared to be immortality. A chance at the Hall of Fame is what allows players to retire comfortably. For fifteen years that the the top tier pros remain in their sport some have twice that amount of time selling their signatures as Hall of Fame players. I love baseball and I don’t hold a grudge against any of these players for sipping the ambrosia of immortality. Maybe Barry Bonds will let me get his autograph one of these days.
Mark McGwire finally confessed to using steroids, but NOT human growth hormones. Who the fux really cares? EVERYONE that was anyone was doping in bigtime sports for at least the past twenty years. How else does a top level Olympiad champion like Florence Griffith Joyner have a heart attack in her 40’s? Or another pro baseball slugger, Ken Caminiti, also suffer from a heart attack only a few years after retirement. The truth is that most sports fans don’t give a shit whether their team’s top player uses steroids or cocaine or Advil-coated Tic Tacs. We just want our favorite teams to win.
McGwire’s confession doesn’t make him any more or less courageous than when he was an active player. He did it for the glory and the money. McGwire’s about to return to the game as a coach and he doesn’t want the spectre of his past to slow down his money machine. I don’t fault McGwire for getting his paper right. He’s got his weedcarrier Tony LaRussa maintaining the story that the Athletics and the Cardinals lockerrooms were all clean spaces. That’s a crock and Albert Pujols is now a steroid suspect in my book. The real crooks however are still the MLB owners.
The MLB owners made money hand over fist for the last twenty years from cable tv contracts, merchandising and licensing and of course ticjets sold at their ballparks. The owners pushed the players to destroy their bodies, but we still don’t discuss this on a mainstream level, only in the blogs is this idea even broached. If the owners were as contrite as they want the players to appear maybe they would give back some of the billions that they made over the last ten years. When it comes to sharing their money the MLB owners have nothing but love for the fans.
Nothing but love.
Lori Singleton-Clarke, recipient of the DP.com 21-Gun Salute
INTERNETS! Do you realize that you will never win if you go toe to toe with the IRS? Do you? Internets! We are speaking of a virtual impossibility. A chance so low, you would be crazy to risk it. Wesley Snipes [ll] tried it – and look where it got him.
BUT INTERNETS! Never give up on the human spirit. The human spirit is capable of incapable feats, Internets! Today’s DP.com 21-Gun Salute goes to a sister who challenged the IRS and won. From the front page of the Money & Investing section of the weekend’s Wall Skreet Journal:
A Maryland nurse accomplished two rare feats in her battle with the Internal Revenue Service: She defended herself against the agency’s lawyers and won, and she got a ruling that could help tens of thousands of students deduct the cost of an M.B.A. degree on their taxes.
The U.S. Tax Court handed Lori Singleton-Clarke her victory last month, saying the 47-year-old Bryantown, Md., woman had properly deducted nearly $15,000 in business school tuition. The Tax Court ruling should make it easier for many other professionals to deduct the expense of a Master in Business Administration degree.
Even the man in the robe gave this sister crazy propers:
Reached Friday by phone, Judge Goldberg said: “I remember the case well because Ms. Singleton-Clarke was so articulate and well-prepared. Too many taxpayers are not.”
INTERNETS! Dare to be different. Dare to challenge the system. Dare to stand up and say, This shit ain’t right! Dare to be great. Lori Singleton-Clarke did. Will you, Internets?