Get your popcorn ready!!!! It's the TO show!!!!

I'm not sure which sight was the most pathetic to see. TO (do I really need to type out Terrell Owens?), Dr. Phil, or the three baby mommas who appeared together on a show as compelling as watching panhandlers work a Reds post-game crowd. Dr. Phil peddles his psuedo-psychoanalysis to a crowd similar in size to a Milli Vanilli concert. Three gold diggers baby mommas sit across from TO, eyes panning his sweat and tears for tiny golden nuggets and wondering when he will drop in on his kids again (over a year between visitations for each kid). TO tries to appear sympathetic but instead comes off as John Edwards (Cheating on your dying wife? She's dying ... keep it in your pants for a couple months!!). TO plays the MC Hammer card, $80million blown. On what? He doesn't know. Monthly child support payments of $50000 have pushed TO back into the game as a WR for the Allen Wranglers - ever heard of them? Me either, but TO had a TD catch in their last Indoor Football League game. TO says he's going to be back in the League - National Football variety - this season. He's 38 and does more damage to team chemistry than the Enola Gay did to Hiroshima. But he needs another huge paycheck and any ancillary income he can grab through another 'Chad & TO Show' ... is he worth the risk??? I know he's desperate (quick .. name the last big celebrity to visit the Dr. Phil show, win great prizes!), but that alone won't get him open on Sunday afternoons. TO's memory is playing tricks on him like so many superstars before him and the reality facing TO is as scary as the Grim Reaper's scythe. Too often the great ones don't see decline coming, believing even at 85% of their greatness they are still better than the grinders at 100%. This psychosis ignores the reality of the real difference between the great one and the ones at the elite level ... which is about 3-5%. So get your popcorn ready .. and a comfy couch Terrell ... the NFL is back in September!!

The revolving closet door opened yesterday to reveal President Obama in support of same-sex marriage. It was quite a change from the 2008 version of Barack Obama, who declared his support for marriage between a man and a woman then. I'm not as critical of his ideological change in orientation as I am of his panhandling for votes. Other Government teachers must be as boring as Ben Stein .. Bueller .. Bueller .. because so many people do not know or understand the Constitution .. including apparently Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The federal government has no power over marriage laws in the United States unless the Constitution is amended. The power to set and regulate marriage laws rests with the states. Including same-sex marriage as a plank in your election campaign is poorly designed vote grab. I also got blasted by someone yesterday for advocating the separation of church and state with respect to the laws. They accused me of trying to remove God from the United States (which means I have illiterate loyal readers .. an oxymoron but reality .. did I take one of Roger Sterling's LSD cubes yesterday unknowingly??? Why is my desk tie-dyed??) I will re-cap my thoughts at a lower reading level for those of you who have just progressed from Stellaluna and Is Your Mama a Llama to more difficult texts. I said the Constitution sets up laws to protect life, liberty and property. I said religion and religious teachings do not belong in our laws. My view is in line with the men typically called our Founding Fathers. I never said religion does not belong in the United States. I love God, appreciate the grace of Jesus and welcome the Holy Spirit into my presence .. however denying someone else the right to choose their lifestyle in any fashion they choose goes beyond the bounds of the Constitution. Do all my Catholic friends insist I go to confession? Do my Jewish friends force me to cook only kosher foods? Do my Islamic friends require me to pray in the direction of Mecca? No! And neither should the U.S. or any state government require me to do any of these things. Denying same-sex couples the right to marry based on religious belief is exactly the same as the situations I described above. Laws are designed to protect life, liberty and property. Laws for any other purpose are outside the bounds of the Constitution. Here endeth the lesson.

I'm glad the Reds game wasn't on TV yesterday afternoon because Ben Stein put fewer people to sleep than the first eight innings of the game. 0-0 after eight innings of baseball may entertain a few purists, but I enjoy a couple runs to liven up the action from time to time. It wasn't so much a pitching duel as a pitch and catch, with only seven hits combined in those first eight innings. The Big Bad Wolf didn't produce as much wind as both teams' batters swinging around pitches. The Big Bad Reds put together a two-run rally in the top of the ninth off Brewers' closer John Axrod through Drew Stubbs, Joey Vottomatic and Dat Dude BP, and despite some drama in the bottom of the ninth (Roid Braun hit a lead-off HR, Reds closer Sean Marshall got yanked, the Big O - baseball variety - came in to end the game) the Reds got the win. The Washington Nationals come to 'Nati on Friday for a three game set, and the Reds will try to build on their 16-14 record. Leake (who desperately needs a good outing and a win), Latos and Arroyo will pitch for the Reds, who are 3.5 games back of the division leading Louie Cardinals.

My older son has a baseball game tonight ... still hunting victory number 1 on the season. A great friend and former player was just hired as the AD at Xenia. Lot of good things going on!!!

Enough. Talk tomorrow.