Okay, uh, he made the shot. Unbelievable. Flat out incredible!

The president seems to have a sense of humor.

...I'm not going to write about how Pat Robertson claims that he can leg press 2,000 pounds. It's old news anyway, especially if Gayson has heard about it. That guy never even leaves the house!

Anyway, what I'm really going to write about is what being "retired to stud" really means. How does a stallion learn to love-up mares with the most efficiency? Reportedly, an ounce of semen from a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby is worth up to $10,000. Question is, how the hell do you collect it if you don't have a championship-caliber mare at the ready?

No, you don't go to Tijuana and the donkey show woman (aka Mrs. Oliphant), you get yourself an Equimount! I think Trudeau even had the human version of this somewhere in the fraternity, if I'm not mistaken.

If any of you like to play online poker, it will now become a felony in Washington State beginning June 7th. This will prevent me from laundering money, which I guess is a good thing.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/271844_internetgambling27.html


Oh, and anyone who writes a post about Pat Robertson pressing 2,000 pounds.....is an ass bite. No one cares at Pat Robertson.

Looks real to me.

The Steven Segal Blues Band is playing at the Tractor Tavern on Saturday night. I shit you not, this is for real. I'm not going to be around to go, but I know if Colby was here he would be in!

Amazingly I was able to hold the camera still enough to take a picture.

Well guys we have made it one year! Happy anniversary to everyone, here's to many more!

I think it's time to start taking nominations for the all-inaugural teams:

1. Best Comment
2. Best Picture
3. Best Post
4. Best Topic
5. Best Put-down
6. Best Commenter
7. Best Poster
8. Smartest Poster
9. Gayest Commenter

The winners will be forever enshrined in the Bendermenz Hall o' Fame

Barry Bonds ties the Babe, Gil Meche throws a gem and Michael Barrett does something that everybody in Major League Baseball has wanted to do for years:



Was the punch a result of the moment or an accumulation of years of AJ Pierzynski being a complete assbag to everybody else in baseball? In other words, had Damian Miller, Yadier Molina or Chris Widger acted identically as Pierzynski did, would we have seen what we saw? I say no. AJ Pierzynski is a clown, pure and simple.

UPDATE: The video has been fixed. Quit complaining.

It's gonna get THIS crazy! "The Chief" (pictured) will be there, Prewett, myself, Blair, Hallock, Kara (in spirit), Black, Asspony?, Almanza. Anyone else, just add yourself to the list. I have a feeling that someone is going to jail this time...I hear they have cable TV so how bad can it be? Black, we'll come get you in the morning. I would say Blair, but he will just make friends with some other people and stand back while the rest of us get escorted out of the park...ala Seahawks NFC Championship game. Or, Black will relieve himself in a plastic Miller bottle and I will be kicked out for it.

Sleek. Taut. Asspony.

Incredibly, Bendermenz was recently visited by an Iranian user in Tehran who was referred to the site by searching for "famousathletic" on Yahoo!. Because of Jason's sloppy cut and paste job of Rick Reilly's pre-Superbowl, anti-Seahawks article, our Iranian friend decided to take a look at our little corner of the internet. He undoubetly was looking at our site to learn how to enrich uranium for atomic energy production. That, or Jason works for the Iranian government - one of the two.

Hi, my name is Brian. I live in Seattle.

My interests are: complaining, reading, and cats.

Rank me on a 1-10 scale with 10 being hotest to 1 being notest.

From George Clooney to Bill Murray to Harvard Medical School.... All in one half-inning. If anybody has a way of pasting Jason's head on Rick Sutcliffe's body, let me know and we'll get that going.

Hot Damn!

My friend Ben got expelled for a year for bringing a gun to school in 8th grade.

Did Stumpy and his classmates have more fun in Auburn?

I like it. Humorous, and it degrades Jason, which is a bonus. Although technically, a picture of him (or me) is degrading enough.
What I also like is that even though the picture is cropped, it's easy to tell who is behind Jason. The body posture and the gout-hand tips it off.
That picture was also taking during the years(continuing?) where Jason was finding himself, as shown by the lumberjack shirt and hat.
It looks like he's trying to suck booze off the floor, too, but something keeps his lips from touching it. Any guesses?

So Tom Cruise is in Aberdeen today to promote his new action flick, M:I3. Poor Aberdeen, they just can't seem to catch a break. First they cut back logging, then the Harbor was found to be extremely polluted, then my ex-girlfriend was born there, now Tom Cruise is coming over to grind his feet on their couches. If I were the mayor of Aberdeen, I would dump gasoline on the whole damn town and strike a match, then I wouldn't even bother rebuilding. Pathetic.

--Update--

Katie Holmes is with him!

No, we are not digging to China to find Paulson's next girlfriend.

We are digging for horseclams, which is what Jason has in his hand. Fortunately, Wallgreens has a great bargain on these so Jason was able to wear white shorts. Also, it was nice he was man enough to brave a cut up hand and get dirty.
The jacket he bought in 1987, however, did not fare as well.

This was a good weekend. Kudos for blair for driving up as well. It was nice that we all were able to pile into his Explorer; that's really handy.

Sorry Blair. I don't think I'm going to want Platinum "grills" even in 2039.

It seems the new banking job is a bunch of crap, Darkie has actually been pursuing his first love: dancing.

So the LeBron and the Cavs won their first round match-up with the entertaining, Gilbert Arenas led Wizards. What a night it was for LeBron, he had his first playoff win followed up by his first public, gay, french-kiss! Talk about a hang-over!

Apparently, if Cinco De Mayo wasn't already enough, it is also No Pants Day.

In case any of you missed it, Pearl Jam performed last night on Dave Letterman:



In addition to playing Life Wasted, they stuck around and played a few more tunes. All in all a solid performance. Check it out.

UPDATE: More positive press for the new album:

• Seattle Times - "Pearl Jam Makes an Explosive Return"
  
• Popmatters.com - 9/10
  
• Stylus Magazine - B
  
• Detroit Free Press - 4 out of 4 stars
  
• Entertainment Weekly - B+

UPDATE #2: A review from the New York times about PJ's recent show at Irving Plaza is available here.

Sexson sat out Thursday's game after bruising his right heel and turning his ankle while running the bases in the eighth inning Wednesday.

"I hit the bag kind of funny," he said. "I wanted to play today, but I would have been useless."

Mariners manager Mike Hargrove said he'd be "surprised" if one day off would be long enough for the injury to heal. Roberto Petagine got his first start of the season at first base in Thursday's 4-1 loss to the White Sox and went 1 for 2 with a walk.

let's hope it's a tendon tear. Is his contract insured?

So I guess John Daly admits that he's lost $50-60 million on gambling. Amazing.








http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14484355.htm

Here is a picture of Kermit the Frog posing in front of my new Hybrid Escape. I thought it was time for me to be a part of the solution instead of part of the problem. I guess I just care more about this planet than the rest of you.