Hard To Disagree.

The British public has voted Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band their favorite album of all time. I have always argued that Pepper's was the greatest album of all time so I wholeheartedly agree. The White Album also made the top 10 which you could persuade me to agree with but I can't agree with Revolver and Abbey Road in the top 10. Both are great albums but definately not among the best of all time.

What A Goof!

What the hell was this guy thinking? When the A's were in Toronto last week this guy ran on the field after the game and tried to get into the Jays clubhouse. Security stopped him before he could get there which is too bad. I would have liked to see John Gibbons beat on this guy. I think the tip off to the cops was that he was wearing grey uniform pants. I guess you have to give the guy full marks for effort.

This Cast Makes Me Happy

Russell Crowe has signed on to Ridley Scott's new flick "American Gangster" but the name I am excited about is Chiwetel Ejiofor. He has had small parts in Love Actually and as Denzel's sidekick in Inside Man, but he also gave the best male acting performance of the past five years (in my humble opinion), in Dirty Pretty Things, a fantastic and little seen movie. For those of you who want to watch a movie with first rate acting, directing, and an incredible script, I highly recommend renting this movie. You won't be disappointed.

Sports Thursday

I think Tiger will win the Bridgestone for the fifth time this week. He absolutely kills this golf course and is playing too well to bet against him. Another reason to pick him is how gutless everybody else on tour seems to be. As much as I enjoy watching Tiger play great, in the same way I enjoyed watching Gretzky and Jordan in their primes, I was bored stiff watching the final round of the PGA on Sunday. Why can't anyone stand up and play a great final round to push him. I'd love to have seen Luke Donald say before the final round started "He may beat me tomorrow but he's going to have to shoot 64 to do it" and then go at and shoot a 65. Someone needs to step up and start pushing Tiger and I think it's going to be one of the young guns who will do it. I think guys like Geoff Ogilvie and Adam Scott have the games and the make up to compete with him and now that they each have enough majors under their belt, they will. I also think Luke Donald can content with him too. And a new crop of guys will come along in the next few years who grew up watching and gunning for Tiger that should make things interesting.

It's about time absolute lowlife and degenerate David Frost was put in jail. The hold this guy has over his former players is very scary.

Blue Jays Embarrassment

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons should be fired immediately. Last night's fiasco proves this guy can't handle the pressure of managing a major league team. When he challenged Shea Hillenbrand to a fight last month it could be tossed off as a fluke occurrence because Hillenbrand is generally considered a complete idiot by everyone who has played with him. Ted Lilly is widely respected and liked by his teammates, both current and former. Two fights in less than a month with your players is unacceptable. What's even more telling about last night's incident is that Roy Halladay was one of the closest guys to the tunnel where the fight took place and didn't even leave his seat. I'd love to know what Gibbons whispered in his ear later on. I now think Gibbons may be a big reason why Vernon Wells has no intention of signing long term with the Jays. Halladay and Wells are the two franchise players. They are both model players off the field. If Gibbons can't get along with them there is clearing something wrong. He needs to go today.

Big Screen, Little Screen

Snakes On A Plane has cult classic written all over it. It also has one of the coolest posters ever. As long as you get to hear Samuel L. say Motherfucker at least once how can you complain about the movie. Surely the director would smart enough to give the crowd what they want?

It was pretty clear that the only Friends star with any movie future was Jennifer Aniston (and even her movies suck), but Courtney Cox's new flick Zoom has to be considered a disaster even by the former cast's standards. When you get goose egged on Rotten Tomatoes you have hit rock bottom.

Congratulations to Benji who won So You Think You Can Dance on Wednesday night. He was without doubt the best entertainer on the show and a fantastic dancer. Congratulations on also having apparently turned down the opportunity to dance as part of Celine Dion's Vegas show. Though I am a bit disappointed. Benji claimed to still be a virgin at the start of the show and I think trying to keep his virginity while spending a year in Vegas would have made one hell of a reality show.

Goodbye Birdie

The Blue Jays recent trade of Eric Hinske to the Red Sox was a great move. He's very overpaid at $4.4 million and has gotten steadily worse since winning the Rookie of the Year in 2002. This year he is basically a platoon player who only has 12 home runs and 29 RBI's. I really don't think trading him (or a pedestrian middle reliever) is waving the white towel. It frees up salary space for next year and gives Frank Catalanotto and Reed Johnson, each hitting better than .310, more playing time.

More support more my belief that Greg Maddux is a better pitcher than Roger Clemens.

Everybody knows that Tiger and Phil hate each others guts, but some people seem disappointed that they didn't brawl on the 5th green. Did they really expect them to?

Charlize Theron

Similar to my post about Kate Beckinsale last month, this post has no purpose other than to add the lovely and talented Charlize Theron to the official "Pursuit of Leisure Hottie" list. If you need to ask why she garners the much coveted "PoLH" designation you are clearly not a heterosexual male.

Look for further additions on a monthly basis. Or as I feel like it.

New Planets? I Just Started Remembering The Old Ones

Apparently Pluto has been reinstated as a planet. And not only that, there are also three new planets. Just as I finally figured out the proper order of the planets from the Sun outward they go and screw me up. So "Pluto and Charon, Pluto's large moon, are the solar system's first double planet because they revolve around one another". I wonder how their egos will take that. Do you think there will be a duel to the death for superiority?

Given that the original Apollo 11 tapes are nowhere to be found, it's only a mtter of time before the wackos who insist the moon landing was a fraud taped on a desert set in Nevada start piping up again.

Would you equate using sperm of frozen animals to revive extinct species with stem cell research in humans? In purely Darwinian terms I think it's the same idea - you're trying to advance species through scientific means.

Finale of Dance Tonight

Tonight the winner gets crowned on "So You Think You Can Dance" and I'm excited about it. I've picked Travis as my winner all along and I am sticking to it. I think it will come down to him over Heidi. The reason I have enjoyed this show so much is that unlike other reality shows it is based on talent rather than scheming, cheating, or lying in contrived situations. It's go out, show your stuff and the best move on. The only thing I am not looking forward to is Fergie performing her new single "London Bridge" live. That song is just awful.

Sports Shorts.

In a league championship game in Utah a little while back the team on the field had a one run lead in the last inning and the team hitting had a runner on third and their best hitter at the plate. The coach decided to have his pitcher intentionally walk the good hitter to face the team's weakest hitter who was up next. Did I mention that this was a 10 year old's league? And that the team's weakest hitter had his growth stunted by a malignant cranial tumor? The coach who ordered the intentional walk should be banned for life. And don't give me the "you play to win" speech. At that age you are there to teach sportsmanship most of all. You are also there to develop kids into better players. I played competitive baseball until I was 21 and at the age of 10 no one ever got intentionally walked. The point of pitching to the good hitters was so that the pitcher could get better, which is the second point of little league sports. This while episode is a sad disgrace.

I'm looking forward to the PGA Championship. I think it's extremely underrated, doesn't deserve to be referred to as "just the fourth major", and actually think it's a much better tournament than The Masters. The Masters is big because it is played in the spring and introduces the golf season to northern viewers, which is why the ratings are so high. It's also the weakest field of the majors and the easiest to win. The field is limited and you still have 60 year old former champions shooting 80-80 the first two days taking away spots from competitive players who would have a shot to win. The PGA chooses strong courses, sets them up fairly and has the strongest field of any event on tour. In other words if you win it you have beaten all the best players in the world. As a bonus for this year's tournament Phil and Tiger are paired together for the first two rounds. I expect both of them to play very well in each others presence and contend all week. However, I am going out on a limb and saying Jim Furyk will win it. He's not one of the big hitters but he keeps the ball on the fairway, has the short game, is very tough mentally and will be able to stand up to Tiger's inevitable Sunday charge.