Steve J. Rogers

That may have been the "official" start of the booking of the feud and the promo was just a way of reintroducing DBS in WCW, just so happened that Mongo was the other guy in both segments Who knows... I just always liked that quote "You could be that bone" and it just stuck with me Don't ask me why Mongo was the "go to guy" to ask about all these new talent coming into WCW at the time... Steve

I thought it was started during a Mean Gene interview with Mongo and Mongo going off on all the new talent coming from all over and DBS comes out and says "I need a bone to chew on. You could be that bone" or something like that

Hey not that there was anything wrong with that They just didn't have a darn thing for them to do other than realize "Hey you know neither Benoit or Angle are on this card?" At least thats better than some of the reasons for feuds listed In fact, whatever happened to just plain "THEY HATE EACH OTHER" buildups Steve

I wonder how much different the XFL would have been if they just shot for the Arena league at first. Nothing fancy (well in terms of gunning for the NFL) just trying to be better than the AFL All parties just gave up too quickly Though I love it when people try to remeber it as a "Failed TV Show" as opposed to a "Failed Sports League" such as TV Guide last year (or so) put it on the list of worse TV shows of all time. If that was the case, the failed "Baseball Network" from MLB was a far worse experiment than what the XFL tried to push. Heck "Monday Night Baseball" an ABC spinoff of "Monday Night Football" deserves listing Steve

I've been telling friends of mine to check out my column at InsidePulse.com but it seems that their browsers will not let them on the site due to all the spyware and adware crap that is associated with the ads. This probably is due to their work venues (Universities (A professor's office PC) financial institutions, a DA office, ect), blocking such content on their machines Is there a way I can send them a safe link without cutting and pasting my column into the email or sending them a document? Thanks Steve

Actually thats more urban legend that got a rise on the fan boy circut and pretty soon even Shatner and the Trek Powers That Be bought into it through the years Hence Will Riker on TNG was the one that really made out with everything that moved Steve

The entire episode of Three's Company revolved around some sort of "mis-understanding"

Believe it or not this, and wheiher or not its a good thing that no one on the Yankees came to ARod's defense has been a major topic on sports radio in New York City the last week and a half. Very bizzare in a "Uh, why do we care about this" kind of way Steve

Just did a column for InsidePulse.com where I listed my top 5 disgraces in sports history, check out the link in my sig for further commentary but basically in no particular order I went with: The cancellation of the entire 2004-2005 NHL season The 1919 Black Sox The MLB Color Line Murder of 11 Israeli athletes, Munich 1972 Baseball not playing the World Series in 1994 Great topic to think about Steve

Explain to me what just happened? Suddenly the players realized "Hey we ought to be playing" and Gretzky is spouting off that the Cup ought to be played for so one last ditch effort to salvage something And what happens? Sounds like the owners are more concerned about 05-06! No progress, no new proposals, no new talks scheduled. 6 HOURS and it came to THAT? RIP NHL's casual fan base here in the States. Good luck guys because NASCAR, Golf and Tennis have climbed up ahead of you Steve

Didn't they do that with Stephanie McMahon when she was still a "pure girl next door" babyface when she was describing how HHH and D-X pretty much raped her after the "wedding" I think the crowd also did that when Steph was describing how Undertaker treated her during the "Black Wedding" arc Maybe THATS why she turned her character heel! No one thought she was pulling off the "sweet innocent girl next door" act Steve

Yup I searched all I could but Yahoo's are as far back as batter vs. hitter splits goes it appears. Best I can come up with is Orlando Cabrera has the most at bats (17) against Randy Johnson without striking out. Oh and Mike Marshall lead the Majors in 1984 with three homeruns when there was a full moon. Hint, his last at bat against Ryan was probably during the 1988 season. Very well known player for anyone older than 20 And here is another stumper, who was the last Major Leaguer to hit .400 in a single season with over 100 at bats Steve Fernando Valenzuela, Former Dodger pheonom, was all the rage during his hot rookie year of 1981 with "Fernando-mania" running wild in LA. Had a decent career for himself, but flamed out soon after his torrid start (kind of like Hideo Nomo's MLB career actually) was the guy with most ABs against Ryan with no Ks And Bob Halze, a spare part Outfielder, for the 1957 Braves (curtosity of Baseball-Reference.com) hit .403 in 134 ABs Steve

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Ewing wasn't hated by the time he was left. I know a lot of people, myself included, were very pissed about the trade. It was just a smear campaign by the media and Knicks management- the fans still loved Patrick. And Ewing was still on the Knicks in Jan 2000. He was traded in Sept 2000 Not to turn this into a Patrick Ewing debate, but Ewing DID have a hand in getting himself run out of town by being completly resistant to changing his game And by the way, most fans at Knick games during the late Ewing years and today are corporate clients who wouldn't know George Mikan from George Gervin by the way! This is the same crowd that on Ewing's night gave Michael Jordan a standing O. MICHAEL JORDAN. Okay, so lets not go by the reaction at the Garden The media and the fans calling up sports talk shows couldn't wait to "start over" of course they didn't think the Dolan mis-mangement would completely sink the franchise in the ensuing years, but the point is pretty much Kurt Angle was making a "shoot comment that wasn't meant to be a shoot comment" and anyone who was a Knick fan at the time would be saying "Hey he's right about something!" Steve

Bob answered it already, but you do know how NBA fans (or sports in general) are, right? For Example... Karl Malone is still loved in Utah, despite leaving for the Lakers. Reggie Miller sure as hell is still loved in Indiana despite retiring after this year without winning a championship. Fans respect their teams history (usually), and for them to boo a legend who helped carry their team for years would be an insult. Despite Miller, Ewing, and Malone playing on different teams around the country and different roles of the team, all share the same thing: respect from the fans, and sometimes that is more important than a championship (except for obsessed fans who want to WIN WIN WIN all the time). On that note, Go Bobcats! Okafor for ROTY! (waves flag) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to the topic, any time WWE goes to Toronto. Sometimes its a good thing, sometimes bad. See Wrestlemania X-8 (set up Rocks heel run; Hogans babyface run; HHH no reaction) or Summerslam 2004 (everything shat on except for a few over heels). Problem is Ewing does NOT have that respect from New York fans and media. I don't know about Reggie, but Malone had a public perception of being a nice guy. Ewing was sullen, moody, and very tough to like. So when it seemed that the Knicks could improve by moving the guy, especially when he wouldn't "change his game" to make the team better, fans and media applauded getting rid of him

I'm not talking about sheep-like tendancies, (i.e. cheering for the Bushwackers) or certain cities acting "smarkish" (i.e. Philly in ECW's heyday) I mean just doing things that totally surprised you Actually one that really had me shaking my head was Royal Rumble 2000, before Kurt Angle's match at MSG he ran down Patrick Ewing and the crowd lustly booed him. That had me wondering how many of those fans actually KNEW anything about the Knicks and the Patrick Ewing era as Ewing was hated by the time he left for never winning a championship. In other words, had the crowd been full of Knick fans, Angle would have been cheered for those comments! Steve

Basically just standard word processing/excell spreadsheet/web surfing/Real Player Playing (or whatever) thing. Looking for best value, I guess best product at a low cost is what I am looking for. For some reason I keep wanting to say "Dude, I'm getting a DELL!" to match my current PC Steve

Off hand Robin Ventura is the only one who might get a "sympathy" vote or two For what? Getting his head pounded in by Nolan Ryan? Cause that's really all I ever remember about him Also, as a Reds fan, I'm just glad Larkin retired without putting on another team's uniform. Should he make it into the HoF, I would have hated to see the plaque say something like "1986-2004 Cincinnati Reds, 2005 Tampa Bay Devil Rays" or something like that Probably ranks top 10 or so in all-time Grand Slams, hit a Grand Slam "Single" that woin a "legendary" 1999 NLCS game (Mets still lost series) and set the collegite record for consecutive game hit streak Thats enough for a vote or two

Career Passing Yards: 61, 361 (Dan Marino) Career Rushing Yards: 17,418 (Emmitt Smith) Career Sacks: 200 (Bruce Smith) Career Receiving TDs: (still going now thanks to Jerry Rice still playing but at last count, 197) You're not asking the right people if you can't find anyone who knows this stuff. Some hardcore fans know the football records as much as baseball fans do the baseball records. It all depends on if you care enough to know. FYI, there are plenty of people that maintain Deacon Jones with "Too many to count!" is still the "unofficial" sack leader! Steve

Marino = 420 TD passes. But that number is not associated with greatness in football. It's associated with smoking pot. Which is why I remember it. He said nobody could tell you the number w/out looking it up. It's certainly no less obscure than Cy Young's win total (among non hardcore baseball fans). Ask 10 people off the street, and I'd be surprised if more than 2 people could tell you 511. The big difference is in degrees. Hardcore baseball fans can recite these numbers (I could tell you the win record is 511, and the win record for lefties is 363, and the strikeout record is 5,714, and the HR record is 755, and the hits record is 4,256, and even that second place in hits is 4,191), while hardcore football fans would be hard-pressed to tell you the career yardage record, or the career sack record, or the career receiving TDs record. Casual fans can still tell you a good number of the common baseball records, while I couldn't tell you any of the football records besides Peyton Manning's 49 passing TDs. By the way, to my knowledge, still the only "record" in the ENTIRE HISTORY of North American sport to be immortalized in a year long celebration on the anniversary of it being set, to the point of the team wearing a commemorative patch on their uniform is 715 by Hank Aaron (on the 25th anniversary the Braves went all out, including a special TNT documentary) Again granted, like I said, its more about Aaron's journey (the racism he endured) but the fact does remain that it is the only record that has been comemorated in such manners Steve

Which is why I brought it up, you rarely hear number comparisions in terms of milestone groupings mentioned in debates over who belongs in the football hall Since I've used it, lets go down the actual list of all 17 10,000 yard rushers: (from baseball-reference's sister site pro-football-reference.com) 1. *E Smith 18355 2. W Payton 16726 3. B Sanders 15269 Emmitt will join Barry and Sweetness obviously 4. *C Martin 13366 5. *J Bettis 13294 Now we start the "Great Debates" Only this year has anyone thought about Curtis, but does "The Bus" belong in Canton? Hmmm 6. E Dickerson 13259 7. T Dorsett 12739 8. J Brown 12312 9. M Allen 12243 10. F Harris 12120 All current members 11. T Thomas 12074 12. *M Faulk 11987 Both are talked about as "mortal locks" when their time comes 13. J Riggins 11352 14. O Simpson 11236 Both in already 15. R Watters 10643 16. *E George 10441 17. O Anderson 10273 Hmmm. Seems like the "Rafael Palmerio and Fred McGriff" of the group. Mere compliers? Otis Anderson does have a Super Bowl MVP that should have given him some cache but as of now he is outside looking in. Definalty guys that make you go "THEY had more than 10,000 yards!?" While the 500 HR club is easily more tracked by the national media Steve

By the way, I would say I'd lean towards the "Why DON'T we do the same in the other sports" rather than "Why do we do this in baseball?" I'd love to see debates on wheither or not NBA player who failed to reach X milestone should get in the Hall because others in his range are in Ditto with say 100 TDs scored or 10,000 yard rushers (I'd have to check both lists) I think such debates would be fun now, especially given the recent explosion of 1,000 yard rushers in the NFL. I mean is Tiki Barber a HOFer? He has 4 1,000 yard rushing seasons to his name, 41 career touchdowns, if you start to "project" you might start to make a serious case Perhaps thats why the MLB hall is the only one that garners year-round debate it seems. Case in point, I've seen Derek Jeter in 2000 projected to be in the Hall because it seemed he was on course for 3,000 hits (still is, I see him having a Paul Molitor like career but thats a whole different topic) Steve

I think that has to do with the amount of time inbetween than anythingelse To reference Al's mentioning the lack of attention on the actual game, I think many people were convinced by all the bluster that season that the single-season mark had just been tied and anything extra would be a seperate record and not that important Also I think its more of a Yankee thing with Maris and the whole turmoil he had to go through. Put it this way, had say Harmon Killebrew hit 61 and/or ending up breaking Ruth's all-time record I doubt people would recall much beyond Harmon's name and final total. Its more about Maris' and Aaron's respective journeys during the chase, and after, that makes it more interesting

Off hand Robin Ventura is the only one who might get a "sympathy" vote or two Edgar Martinez is the only other guy listed on the Hall's site, its doubtfull he'll get in, though I wonder how much support he'll get Steve

I can definatly see Larkin being a "Guy who waits 14 years and gets in on the last try" type of guy. Yeah, he probably does belong, though he gets hurt for being in the League during the same era's as both AL "Troikas" (Ripken-Fernandez-Trammell early and of course ARod-Nomar-Jeter later) along with being a contemporary of Ozzie Smith leads Barry to being way overshadowed Steve