Part 10 *(final part)* of McGwire story up on You Tube NOW

"6) John did a lot of other things with his life, including law school, having a radio show and a TV show and also working for a very high powered law firm. PL wasn't the only thing he had going on in his twenties and John did not make PL the most important thing in his life at that time as most of his PL critics did, most of whom can't even fathom what it takes to go to Law school at Berkeley and be one of the top students. Not to fault the other guys but just to ask them to tone it down against John, he's a good guy and a hard worker, you don't need to keep trying to bring him down."

You know what I get from this section of SG's post? JDV is a jack of all trades but master of none.

 

This thread is harder to kill than Rasputin. And bat-shit crazier too.

21, I know your time here preceeds me, but this is easily the most certifiable thread in my SJ history. I know posts from the likes of Jonathan the Soccer Fan, et al, ring down the SJ annals like a Beowulf epic from the so-called "good ole days", but this is like the most banal acid trip ever ... with grainy multi-media and bat-shit participant-on-bat shit-participant crime to boot.

And like any acid trip, I'm not totally sure whether any this is the worst or best thing ever.

If JDV and his One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest posse weren't enough, the SJers who keep giving it life by either arguing with JDV and friends are blowing my mind too. It seems there's about a third of SJ arguing legitimately (why? JDV's credentials as a certifiable grandstander were established on page 1), and two-thirds are arguing cynically just enough to keep the hydrogen pumped into the Hindenburg of threads. It's like fucking with a drunk in exelcius.

Again, not sure if its the best or worst thing ever, though on page 31 I'm leaning towards the latter.

I'm assuming since Moddy hasn't weighed in for a while, he's already rented out a padded room and started popping Lithium like they're Flintstones vitamins. I feel like that comeback line when someone says everyone is crazy ... "Maybe your crazy and the rest of the world is sane!"

I think I'm going to go join Moddy. Don't bogart the Thorazine and I have dibs on electric shock first.

 

Oh, it's all in fun, Bubbler. Just, at this point, seeing when reality will hit JDV in the head.

 

It must be the picture, but whenever I see Pern say "whatever" I hear Dr. Peter Venkman's voice.

 

My guess is never. I'm not sure reality is a notion he's familiar with.

 

I might suggest a course of thioridazine with a side dose of Ritalin.

 

This place was visited by a balding man who taped 100 minutes of himself talking while wearing a t-shirt with his name on it, who has taken credit for a Jayson Stark column and an ESPN headline, who won three southern California world powerlifting titles, who plows raiderettes, bathes in epsom salt, who has made 'whatever' the new 'like', who may have seen Mark McGwire once -- at a baseball game or something -- and has mastered the sublime art of posting -- and I'm ballparking here -- around 50,000 words without really saying anything....

and you're wondering if it's a bad thing? Whatever.

Heck, no. I've laughed myself silly at this shit.

 

Where the hell can you get one of those JDV shirts, whatever

 

I am slightly disadvantaged here, as I tried to read this thing on a blackberry for five days while out of the country and probably need a skin graft on the finger that controls the scroll button, but I would agree that the multimedia element of this thread elevates it above the others in our exotic past.

Although I do think there's room for debate in favor of the Anti-Shoutout extravaganza.

 

I was just a SJ baby during the anti-shoutout, so sadly, I did not participate.

SJ on Blackberry = SJ dedication. Very nice.