So, news out of Germany today is that they have loud sex. SHOCKING!

I used to live in the Meadows Apartments in Waukesha, and I had this neighbor that lived upstairs from us. He is well-known in certain markets in the Milwaukee area because he is a pretty good player on the Milwaukee Wave soccer team. Anyway, he always seemed to have chicks over at his joint. In the summer, we’d all have our windows open, and man, you could hear them going at it. I can only imagine the cops showing up at his door…

“Excuse me sir, your sex is waking up your neighbors, can you please close your window and CONTINUE at a lower volume? Thank you.”

Funny to me that the cop asked him to CONTINUE. Guess everyone listening outside still wanted a show.

A few years ago, the West Nile Virus was all the craze in the United States. Everyone got pretty freaked out about a little mosquito biting you and giving you this disease that was killing people left and right. Well, the disease hit home for me, because my cousin Eric, who lives in Ohio, got West Nile. It’s been two years, and he’s finally recovered from it. Since the disease is still around though, I thought that I would share this article that was written about him two years ago. Sorry for the length of it, but there is only a physical copy of it, so I had to retype it.

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I read an article on jsonline today that really summarized a lot of my feelings about the US Olympic team sports such as basketball, softball, and soccer. Although the article speaks only of the US womens’ basketball team, I think the general concept of it can be brought over to all of the sports.

I won’t try and paraphrase the entire article, but basically the author keys in on reasons why the womens’ team was so much more successful than the guys. This IS the pinnicle of their sporting careers. Sure, they play in the WNBA, but they aren’t making the money that the men make, and they aren’t playing for what seems like 9 months out of the year. They are honored to be on the Olympic team, because for them, this is what being the best in the United States is about.

I think the same can be carried over to sports like softball and soccer. With basketball, these are three gold medals that the women of the US brought home this year. Mens basketball had to settle for the bronze, and the mens baseball and soccer teams didn’t even qualify. In years to come, I hope that we decide our Olympic teams on people that WANT to be there. Not for the fame, or the extra paycheck, or the extra stardom, but because they want to be there and play on a team to represent the best of the United States.

So, this is the end of my Olympic obsession for another 2 1/2 years until the winter Olympics comes around. It’s been a fun two weeks, and I must admit–I’m going to miss watching ping pong on tv.

Yesterday was another diverse day for visitors to tarapfeifer.com.

— United States
— Latvia
— South Africa
— New Zealand
— Turkey
— Philippines
— Italy
— Taiwan
— Canada

Still waiting for that hit from Mongolia though…

No wonder Tennessee is ranked #14 in the pre-season football polls. You know you’re bound to have a good season when this guy is your quarterback. That’s all I have to say about this. (And yes, this is for real).

Your Quarterback, #8…

Every year, MLB gives out this Hank Aaron Award to the best overall offensive performer in both the American League and National League. I don’t know exactly how they come up with nominations, but I think this year’s nominees from the Brewers are mostly a joke. Our three nominees:

While I am in love with Geoff Jenkins, he has really blown ass this year. This is the guy that the Brewers ponied up for before the season and signed him to a multi-year contract because he was going to be the “leader” on this team. Leader my ass. milwaukeebrewers.com touts Jenkins as being our “biggest power threat.” What? Are we on the moon? Late season pickup Russell Branyon, or reserves Chris Magruder and Trent Durrington have more power than him. Hell, the wimpy, crappy pitcher Wes Obermueller has a higher slugging percentage than Jenkins. If strike outs were considered a positive for the offense, then sure, Jenkins is in with his team-leading 119. But it’s not… what a joke. Nice nomination.

Scott Podsednik is perhaps the biggest disappointment for me on the Brewers this year. milwaukeebrewers.com starts off this nomination with “although his average is down from his historic rookie season…” I don’t know if “down” is the right term to use there. It’s not down, it just flat out dropped off. Scottie Po finished last season with a .314 average. He’s down to a .245 this year, and it’s only going to drop off more. I will give him respect where respect is due, as he already has 47 stolen bases this year (which is more than his total from last year with just over a month of baseball left to play)… but your stolen bases don’t count for crap unless the guys behind you can hit you in. And the Brewers can’t. When you are the leadoff guy, your job is to get on base. And when your OBP is 11th on the team, you’re not doing your job.

Lyle Overbay is the only one out of these three, actually, out of the entire team, that I think is deserved of this nomination. While Lyle’s numbers have dropped since his all-star break snub, he’s still easily the best offensive player on the Brewers. In a time when the best offensive player on the Crew could probably be hitting .230, Overbay still is managing to hit a solid .316 with a .499 slugging percentage. Not to mention those 41 doubles. Anywho, if I had to pick one out of these three, it would be him.

What do you kids think about this? I know the Brewers won’t have any of these guys even make it to the finals, but they are interesting nominations, nonetheless.

I found another thing to waste my time with at work. (Thanks to www.goateestyle.com)

This game, called Cyrkam airtös (yeah, I don’t know what that means either), is awesome. There are two guys in an office–one of them is “feeding you” balls of crumpled up paper, and you are this guy in a chair (with his feet up) trying to catch the paper and toss it in a garbage can. It’s pretty funny, and if you’re bored, I suggest you give it a shot–but be careful, it’s addicting!

Every week, Steve Czaban (he’s always on Bob and Brian on Lazer 103 in the morning), writes a column for onmilwaukee.com. His article this week, called The Olympics are a “travishamockery” hits on some great points and is pretty funny. In fact, I’m pretty sure that he’s reading my website and stealing some of my points. An example.

“Russian stork-queen Svetlana Khorkina lost the women’s all-around to Carly Patterson and then immediately blamed the judges, saying they were biased in favor of the Americans. Oh really? Like the rest of the world is just loving us these days.

Sound familiar? Yeah, that’s because I wrote almost the same thing a few days ago. Oh well. I dig Czabe, so that’s fine. Steal anything you want. But all of you should read his column, because it’s good stuff.

While I am out of Gmail invites, Tim (who you can see by clicking here… oh, and if there is any question, he’s the guy in the middle), just got FIVE of them. He doesn’t have anyone to give them to, so he told me, “if they give me a BJ, I’ll give them a gmail invite.”

If you’re interested, please post a comment blow… I mean, below.

A followup to the Dave Matthews Band “dump” story that I posted about a few weeks ago…

The State of Illinois is suing DMB! The lawsuit accuses the band and one of its bus drivers of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws. They are suing them for $70K.

That’s got to be just pocket change for Dave. If you were the band, would you just try and settle this out of court, or would you stick to your story that “we didn’t do it” and take it to court?

People in Wisconsin have too much time on their hands. Check out this corn maze here in Burlington, Wisconsin.

That’s right–20 acres of Bush and Kerry. Pretty unique idea. Usually they do the maze to look at the Packers/Bears Rivalry, but they decided to focus on the elections this year. If you want to visit the website for Fairwyn Farms (where this is), check it out. They have pictures of what they’ve done in the past on there as well.

I’ve decided that I should promote this site a little more, so if you want one of these two remaining Gmail invites, all I ask is a link on your website (and a little promotion from you) to my website. Any takers?

What ever happened to losing gracefully and admitting that maybe you aren’t the best? I guess Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina doesn’t believe in that theory. I heard about this gymnast when I was watching the female all-around gymnastics competition last week. Khorkina came off extremely cocky and arrogant from the start. Examples:

1. For years, Khorkina has called herself the “Queen of Gymnastics.” That’s like Tripp voting for himself for MVP.

3. Then, at the medalists’ news conference, Patterson stepped onto the podium to be greeted by Khorkina (who won the world championships), who immediately started flipping through a magazine to show the American her latest modeling pictures. Arrogance, anyone?

Then there is the latest event that Khorkina is dreaming up to try and make herself feel better about this. NOW, she’s saying that the event was FIXED from the start and the judges had predetermined that Carly Patterson was going to win it.

“I knew well in advance, even before I stepped on the stage for my first event, that I was going to lose.” Asked why she felt she was marked down by the judges, Khorkina said: “You better ask them. I think it’s because I’m from Russia, not from America!” When Khorkina won her silver medal on Thursday, she showed no outward signs of disappointment and said: “I think it’s the best day of my life.”

Check out that last line. She showed “no outward signs of disappointment” after she got the silver medal. What a mental case. Yeah, it’s because you’re from Russia and everyone hates the Russians. GET OVER YOURSELF. Oh, and did I mention how Khorkina said this?

“She said she was hoping Sydney’s experience [she didn’t win the all-around] would cause the judges to be more sympathetic to her plight in Athens — her third and last Olympics.

I’m sorry, but you’re saying that Carly Patterson was chosen before you even performed, yet you want the judges to give you extra sympathy because you’ve blown the all-around in the last two Olympics? Hmmm… what’s wrong with that.

So, I want to at least give my congratulations to Carly Patterson for winning the all-around by performing all her routines to the best of her ability and being a welcome representative of the United States. If I were a Russian, I’d be embarassed to have Khorkina representing me. In the words of my mom, “Shame on you.”

Today is a sad day at work.

My boss comes back from his month and a half vacation that he takes every summer. Since he’s left, we’ve moved offices, I’ve gotten a boob job, and I’ve grown to love my job. Actually, strike those last two.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get going so I can come up with a list of things to justify my job when he asks what I’ve done over the past month…

Club G’s co-ed softball team got together for the end of the year softball party this past Friday. We had two different people puke, then come back to finish the power hour, we had John eating the entire tray of peanut butter bars, and we had a wicked game of speed quarters going on. All signs of a good night. Check out the rest of the pictures by clicking on this link.

Handed out the end of the year awards as well. Congrats to all who won.

Anyone see any trends???