How am I supposed to pick games anymore if the outcome may be pre-determined and not related to the skill of the teams playing? This Donaghy dickbag apparently was most influential in pushing spreads so they beat the over. Well, in this last NBA season, AC had a 51% winning percentage overall but was only 41% in picking unders (58% picking overs, 50% picking the favorite and 55% picking the underdog). So how many of those unders did Donaghy cost your boy AC? Would it have netted out with AC’s 58% on overs? This is really just horrible. Tim Donaghy has ruined NBA betting and has made it so AC may have to discontinue his weekly free NBA picks, and for that, we are all a little sadder.

I now maintain that Tim Donaghy is one of the ten worst people ever born on this planet for ruining this one little piece of joy we all had. Below is my new list of the ten worst people ever starting with the worst.

1. Hitler

2. Osama Bin Laden

3. Tim Donaghy

4. Sadaam Hussein

5. Hernando Cortez

6. Jane Austen

7. Slobadan Milosevich

8. Pol Pot

9. Bill Laimbeer

10. Josef Mengele

So thank you Tim Donaghy for ruining the NBA for me. I hope you go to jail and become Keon Clark’s personal man servant.

Now on to your questions.

Dear Sir,

What is the significance of the football players who upon scoring a touchdown - raise their hands over their heads - place their index fingers and thumbs together to form a square and hold this above their face?

I have seen many players make this motion and am curious to the symbolism behind it. Thank you.

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Pressing On,

Ron Tipton

Mr. Tipton,

I apologize for my delayed response. Unfortunately my time has been devoted to figuring out how to fix the NBA and downloading and “viewing” videos from the www.bangbus.com .

While the hand signs athletes give can be confusing and may be construed as everything from the shocker to the Spocker, the hand sign you are referring to is of a black fraternity. Every black fraternity has their own sign ranging from the so called diamond you are talking about to Shaq’s hands to the head to Isiah Thomas’s hands around the neck choke sign (ok, I made that last one up).

So there you go, it is relatively innocuous.

Press on young buck,

AC Titticock IIIi Esquire

My son plays competitive baseball for a 10 year old AAA team. He has hit 19 home runs in 44 games. The fences at the fields he plays on are 180-200ft I'm not sure of his batting average since the coach hasn't told us lately and we haven't asked. But a little over mid season he was batting .600+ and he hasn't let up much.

Are there any published statistics for Youth 10 yr olds?

Also, How many MLB players played competitive baseball? When did they usually start playing competitive?

Thanks,

Jason

Mr. Greer,

Congrats on getting your son on roids at such a young age. I wouldn't worry about any of the side effects, it's not like roids have ever made anyone do anything rash (well, except for this and maybe this, but you get the point).

All kidding aside, your son sounds like he is doing well for his age. Unfortunately, there are no national little league stats since leagues vary widely by talent, size of ball field, weather conditions, level of overbearing parents, and pubescent stage of the kids. It's just really hard to standardize stats from one league to the next since there are so many variables, especially with 10 year olds who are only a few years a way from their growth spurts where everything changes.

As for MLB players, I would wager that 99.99% started playing competitive baseball at a young age, except for maybe those on the Pittsburgh Pirates because there is no other way to explain their ineptitude.

In short, there is not much you can read into your son's performance except that he is good for a 10 year old in his league.

And not to dash your hopes too much, but there are only 750 major league baseball players and according to the census there are 47,665,660 men in the United States between 18 and 40 year old. So 750/47MM = .00157% of US males are in the major leagues (and the real % is probably less since ~1/3 of major leaguers are not US born so it really is ~.00105% of US born males that are in MLB). To make a better comparison, the porn star Houston banged 500 guys in a gangbang at one time, so your son has a just as good of a chance, if not better, of being in a large gangbang than he does of being a major leaguer.

So you could make your son take batting practice for 5 hours a day, run wind sprints until the sun goes down, and shag flies during recess, but the odds are very slim he will become a major leaguer. Thus while his .600 batting average is great, and I am glad he is excelling, I would make sure he studies hard because he is more likely to use ito's lemma at some point than he is to be a major leaguer.

God Bless,

AC Titticock IIIi Esquire

Lead NBA Writer www.Wagercom.com

Census data if you are interested:

AC,

in the 80s the dallas cowboys traded picks with the atlanta falcons. in that draft the cowboys picked up a bunch of players that would help them win championships. who did the the atlanta falcons get out of that deal? and who where the key players for the cowboys?

Nick W

Nick,

Thanks for the question but I believe you have the wrong team. The Cowboys made a franchise changing trade with the Minnesota Vikings and not the Atlanta Falcons. We all know the only thing of value Atlanta ever had to offer was the Gold Club and they were smart enough to keep that.

In 1989 the Cowboys traded Herschel Walker to the Vikings for Jesse Solomon, David Howard, Isaac Holt, Darrin Nelson, Alex Stewart, 6 draft picks of which two turned into Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson, the Mall of America, Kevin McHale's #1 draft pick, and the key to F Scott Fitzgerald's boyhood home (ok, the last three were made up, but you get my point, they basically bent the state of Minnesota over and made them call them daddy).

You can see the details here .

Enjoy the soup,

AC Titticock IIIi Esquire

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