I want cheese with my whine

Do you understand what's it like to compete with a guy who blogs on high school sport rivalries on a consistent basis? It's a lot like B.J. Armstrong hoping to get asked for an autograph when Michael Jordan is around. It's probably like Robin trying to get a date with Catwoman when Batman is flying around the room. It's impossible. Trying to blog about interesting subjects within the realm of Southeast Missouri Sports and not having high school athletics at your fingertips is like a police scanner report without an NBA player's name in it. It's not happening.

To be quite frank, you're hurting my feelings.

I try to be interesting. I could talk about the Mitchell Report but it seems the only time anybody cares to talk about the subject of steroids here is when I mention that Mark McGwire is a lying cheat who deserves his stats banished and his name mum in the Hall of Fame discussion.

Then all anybody does is hate on my opinion on McGwire and then go on to say that Barry Bonds rightfully deserves his own room in the depths of hell. To be frank, it's extremely hypocritical and I get sick of it.

I could talk about the ongoing discussion that's taking place concerning the T.O., Romeo, and Jessica Simpson debate. You know, when T.O. opened his mouth and jokingly referred to Simpson as a "distraction," saying "Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite – in this locker room or in Texas Stadium. With everything that has happened, obviously with the way Tony played and the comparison between her and Carrie Underwood, I think a lot of people feel she has taken his focus away. Other than that, she was high on my list until last week."

I mean, I'm a Jessica Simpson fan. But this isn't a nude, action movie scene website where you can look at alluring pictures of her. And..really...how long can sports fans actually talk about Jessica Simpson? Pretty soon they're going to start saying she looks like a horse and we'll go back to talking about Barry Bonds.

Hey. Pay attention. Quit staring.

So what can I do? We traded Edmonds, I got nothing. I wrote a very compelling, and fairly controversial blog on the BCS and their screwing of certain college football teams. I even went so far as to refer to some men at the top, who are probably extremely nice gentlemen in many ways, as "power-driven, oil-drilling, multi-millionaire big money, greedy, power-tripping, unrealistic, slime-ball execs." I got one response.

Those are hot topics. And yet nobody seems to care.

The only thing I can think of is to talk about high school sports, and I'd hate to steal Mark's thunder. But I'm going to steal a little bit anyway, and only because I too want to weigh in on that Notre Dame and Sikeston game.

I just want to say a few things. I watched nearly every minute of that game on KFVS12's webcast. Not once, not one single time, did I see a negative confrontation between opposing players. NOT ONCE. Which makes me wonder, why is it that high school athletes are setting better examples than aged high school sports fans? Really, the tides have turned? We're now supposed to look towards our youth for a better example set? I saw a hell of a lot more maturity on that basketball court between the Sikeston and Notre Dame players than I'm seeing on Mark's blog response board.

But that's cool. I mean, maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's embarrassing to be talking about high school kids they way you're doing it.

Last but not least, will at least one of you give some props to Marc Bulger, who continues to get beat up worse than Robin Givens in a Mike Tyson reality T.V. show.

And I don't mean to belittle you. I appreciate the attention all of you have given our website, but I was just hoping that some of you might pick it up and start competiting with Jose and givemethat, who are trying hard to keep me in business.