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'Double Balls' came from back when he was with Pittsburgh and the Phillies. Every time the 'Stros played one of those teams, Jim Deshaies and Bill Brown would go on and on that Rick White (whose number at that time was Double Zero) picked that number to honor his father who wore the 00 for his softball team or some shit. Seriously, they told that same story every time he came in like it was the most interesting thing in the world. And Rick White sucks and the 00 on his uniform looked like two big testicles so, during one game I was watching with my brother, he came in and my brother jokingly said, "Uh-oh...here comes Big Double Balls!!!!" We laughed for a good few minutes at that. A couple weeks ago at a game, Rick White was signing autographs and my brother got him to autograph his hat 'Rick "Double Balls" White'. So, yeah, even though he's morbidly obese and he sucks, he's still got that going for him...and he's got a nice goatee. And that's my overly long explanation unto the origins of 'Double Balls'.

Wandy walked the first two batters of the inning. Then uh...somebody got a hit. Then Rickie Weeks hit a shallow fly to Luke Scott who misplayed it HORRIBLY and it turned into a bases clearing triple. Then Rick 'Double Balls' White came in and gave up a 2-run homer on his first pitch. Then he walked a couple and gave up a hit to load the bases. Then Johnny Estrada hit a grand slam. Oh...and there was a grasshopper on Rick White's cap for the entire inning. Jim DeShaies said it was good luck. It was not good luck.

If it's true that he killed his 7-year old son with the finishing maneuver that he used for his professional character...that's clearly psychotic and shows that he was deluded and not able to seperate his real life from his character. That's just...man.

I dunno...the Astros did go back-to-back in the 2nd inning. Maybe they'll go back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back in the 7th.

I will say that I'm happy to see that, at least, Benoit didn't use 'internet slang' in his text messages nor were they riddled with grammatical errors.

Chris Benoit WWE Timeline Here's an interesting article on the WWE site that has transcripts of all of the text messages (5 of them) sent by Benoit between 3:51 AM and 3:58 AM early Sunday morning (which means he killed himself sometime after 4 AM). From reading this, I learned that Benoit's physical address is, in fact, 130 Green Meadow Lane, Fayetville Georgia, 30215. Edit: Well...nevermind.

What I heard was that he had his knee on her back pressing her up against the floor. Seriously, the fact that he took the time to wrap her hands and feet and bash her in the head before strangling her seems to show some...mental process going on that would indicate that it wasn't just roid rage. And the fact that he killed his son the next morning. I don't know how long roid rage lasts, but I don't think it lasts over an extended period of days, and if it did, it seems like he would've killed both in the same stretch instead of, apparently, calming down after the first murder before committing the second.

Remember last nite when it was revealed that the Wikipedia account for Nancy had listed her death 14 hours before it became public information and that the IP had been located in Stamford, CT? I still wonder what that's all about...if it's about anything at all.

Well, WWE stock is down $.31 over the last 5 hours.

The way the media is playing it up is that because Benoit was a pro wrestler, he used steroids and the steroids caused him to go wonky and murder his family and himself. That steroids were found in the home seems to support this hypothesis to some degree; however, that hasn't been conclusively determined. The correlation that they seem to be proposing is that 'Pro wrestling positively correlates with increased steroid usage' + 'Steroid usage positively correlates with increased rage and/or anger' + 'Increased rage and/or anger positively correlates to violent or murderous acts' = 'Pro wrestling positively correlates with violent or murderous acts'. However, the correlation isn't between pro wrestling and being a murderer, but is between (hypothetically) steroid usage and the type of rage that would lead to murder, but, it can possibly be inferred that the fact that Benoit was a pro wrestler, he was in a field that lent itself to steroid usage and, ergo, steroid rage, but, that's sort of a leap of faith. Correlation doesn't mean causality, but it can infer causality. There have been many, man pro wrestlers that likely used steroids, but weren't driven into a murderous rage. Therefore, I don't think steroids can be inferred to be THE cause of the murder, but they can be, possibly, inferred to be a a factor in the equation that led to murder, dependent upon the outcome of the toxicology reports.

The saddest part (well, one of the saddest parts) was hearing that there weren't any signs of a struggle by Nancy or Daniel.

The timeline given in the conference is slightly different than the one that was given before, huh? They're saying now, Nancy was killed Friday, Daniel Saturday, and Benoit hanged himself later Saturday or Sunday morning.

Bibles next to all the bodies, wife was bound. My God...this is demented. Edit: He hung himself WITH his weight machine...Yeesh.

I'm watching Fox News waiting for the press conference, and they just started a story with the headline of 'Stalker Hacks 3 Cell Phones; Leaves Death Threats'. My first thought was, of course, "First Benoit...Now Barry Windham?!?!?!?"

Hmmm....so if Benoit was sending text messages to his friends in the company on Sunday morning and today, I wonder if the guys who were working the show last nite had some idea of what was going on and if guys like Chavo and Dean knew what had happened when they were doing their testimonials. But with the news of Benoit sending weird text messages over the weekend, it would seem like the WWF ( I call it that cuz I'm old school) had at least SOME knowledge or some idea of what had happened when they went to air tonite.

Kevin wore the same bluejeans every day for the last season cuz, like me, he figured "Meh...they're not really THAT dirty...they'll be good for another couple of days." Daniel Stern didn't know that the series was ending until the producers et al. told him and gave him the narration to read over the last scene right before it aired.

This story is making the suicide at my neighbor's house that I posted about in General Chat look like an after-school special or something.

It was me. That's how I got the 'African Wild Ass' info.

Hey! The African Wild Ass is actually a type of horse...I thought it was a little known gimmick that James 'Kamala' Harris used back in the Mid-South days.

The IP Address in question also updated entries about Ron Artest on the 17th of June, Chavo Guerrero Jr. on the 15th, The Sopranos on the 11th, something called 'African Wild Ass' on May 16th and Stacy Keibler also on the 16th.

He did it with the balsa wood chair and then polished them off with a double-foot stomp after tying them in the 'Tree of Woe'.

"Unskinny Bop"...cuz it's by the band Poison. I likes to participate.

I'm not huge into wrestling, but I saw this headline and got sad; I was always a Benoit fan like most people. Truly a tragedy. Anyway, here's a section from the abcnews.com piece: I don't want to sit here and speculate on what might have happened. I just wanted to come in and express my condolences for both families and all the fans who have fond memories of the man's work.

Nah, Hunter Pence was in sunny Anaheim when the accident occured. He's cool. The kid can do no wrong.

They should be able to do the 'Roland giving Annie an abortion by sticking a gun up her vagina scene' on HBO, right?