WTBT Volume 5

We're taking bets that...

* blogging is the hip thing to do.
* this is going to be a fantastic football season.
* there are not too many things creepier than an adult talking to a cat like it is a 4 month old baby.
* the best way to avoid arrest is for the paddywagon to be full. :)
* Andy Roddick may be hot, but that wasn't good enough in this years US Open.
* Donald Trump has officially passed the line of egomaniac and gone right into Freakazoid.
* the Hockey World Championships are going right now and no one except Canadians and Scandanavians care.
* people might think that living is Compton is scary, but I would live there in a second over anywhere in Israel right now.
* the Miami Dolphins will have a hard time winning one game this season.
* this may be one of the worse times for new movies.
* it is great that Clyde Drexler of Phi Slamma Jamma made the Basketball Hall of Fame.
* Carson Palmer is the real thing and the Bengals might actually make the playoffs this year.
* it is maddening that Barry Manilow sang, but did not write "I Write the Songs."
* the next two weekends will be the most exciting baseball has seen in a decade.
* the Star Wars DVD should be on everyone's purchase list for next week. Remember, although I refuse to acknowledge it I have a birthday coming up. Hint Hint Hint!!!
* Joe Gibbs may be the best coach ever in the history of the NFL.
* only Utah could pass a law that prohibits Santa Claus from flying over their airspace on Christmas Eve.
* getting up to go to the gym is a lot harder than it sounds.
* you have never seen anything as crazy in football as the last :03 seconds of the first half of the Broncos/Chiefs game.
* it is about time for Florida to catch a break and not have another hurricane ravish it.
* Pat Summerall should retire and not be announcing Sunday Night Football on ESPN.
* fark.com is a fantastic website.
* it is very easy to become obsessed with Fantasy Football.
* Ichiro will probably break George Sisler's hit record, but it is a damn shame.
* making up your own captions to newspaper photos is a lot more fun than reading the ones they came up with.
* UML Mens Soccer could bring UML its first National Championship since 1988.
* everyone should read the story of ex-Lowell Spinner Abe Alvarez. Gangbanger? Try Modest Abe.
* no matter what you think if you were damned if you did then you were definitely damned if you didn't.
* Notre Dame does have actually have God on their side; especially after beating Michigan this weekend.
* there is nothing like being at a live football game with 35,000+ fans.
* you don't know where this movie line is from... "To a cop the explanation's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you find a body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right."
* the cast of Happy Days never needed to have a reunion, but alas they will.
* Manny Rameriz is the best player in the AL and only Barry Bonds is a better hitter in all of baseball.