Captain Kirk vs. Luke Skywalker

I never watched the Star Trek series growing up. Actually I never watched Star Wars until I was 18. So after seeing the new Star Trek movie last night I think I was missing out. I loved Star Wars after seeing those movies, and now I am equally fascinated in Star Trek. They are similar but different. It's kind of like Superman, Spiderman, and Batman. It's always fun to debate who would win in a fight between the super heroes. There obviously has to be stipulations, which makes it hard to really decipher who wins. But let's look at Luke Sywalker vs. Captain James T. Kirk.

Luke Skywalker was a 5'7'' blue eyes blonde hair human. He was born on Polis Massa, and his hometown is Tatooine. He was a member of the new jedi order, new republic, and the galactic alliance. Luke's father was Anakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vadar. Luke was a skilled pilot and fearless leader. Luke's mentor Ben Kenobi was also a jedi knight. Luke surrounded himself with valuable yet diverse cohorts. The main members of his crew were R2-D2, C-3PO, Han Solo, and chewbacca. Eventually Ben Kenobi would sacrifice his own life for the betterment of Skywalker. Luke had many victories in his quest to bring peace to the universe including terminating the feared death star. Luke's biggest challenge was overcoming his own inner demons. He feared he would be drawn to the dark side much like his father. He hated death, and the immense loss of life that war caused eventually leading him leave the military. Later in life he married had a child and developed the new Jedi Order

James T. Kirk was also human. He was born in space, and lived in all places Iowa. He was the starfleet captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk's father sacrificed his life ensuring that James and his mother would survive. Kirk was a brash, and fearless captain. James Kirk had a crew that included Spock, Leonard McCoy and Montgomery Scott. Kirk was a womanizer leading a life of mischief and petty crime until Captain Pike found him beaten and bloody at an Iowan bar and convinced him that the StarFleet needed captains with his never say never attitude. Not wanting to tarnish his fathers legacy, and to prove that the great sacrifice his father was worth it. He joined the starfleet.

Now I have seen one Star Trek movie, and six Star Wars movies. I didn't watch the TV series, or read any books. So I am basing everything on those 7 movies. You have to take away the force. With the force this is a no-brainer, Luke Skywalker wins easily. So if you take away the force you're left with two humans who traveled in time and space to defeat the enemies. You have to take away their crews too. Han Solo vs. Spock would be a great under card.

Hand to hand combat goes to Kirk. He grew up fighting in bars. Skywalker always fell back on the force. Luke has the light saber which Kirk would have no answer to when Skywalker used the force. But again we're taking the force away, so Luke would be left with a sword. And since Kirk is good with a gun, I'll take Kirk.

Mentally Kirk is a rock. He doesn't fear anything. That's what makes him so tough to beat. Luke might have the intelligence to use that against him too. Kirk once got inside Spock's head and forced him to resign as captain of the enterprise, only later to name him 1st officer. So Kirk can beat you mentally. And we all know that Luke is a head case. Luke's best chance here would be to stay controlled and bait Kirk into a overzealous action, putting Luke in a favorable position. But since I've never seen Kirk put in jeopardy, I can't assume Luke would get him there. So Kirk has the upper hand here too.

Weighing all of the options I do not see a way that Luke Skywalker could possibly take down James Kirk. I have to rule that Captain James T. Kirk is the winner.

Ernest Provetti/Glen "Big Baby" Davis

I'm sure by now you've probably seen video of Glen "Big Baby" Davis hitting the game ending/winning shot to beat the Magic. After making the game winning shot he proceeds to run emphatically down the court to his teammates. He squeezes through the ref, and some fans who were sitting court side. He brushed the ref, and at worst bumbed a kid.
Now the kids dad Ernest Provetti is demanding an explanation. What the hell is wrong with this guy? If you watch the video, at the time of said bumping the dad does not even notice it happened. The kid is not injured, not does he seem even the least bit bothered by the incident. But now that some media person noticed it, the dad seems to think this is his 15 minutes. He sent a letter to the NBA claiming that Davis was acting like a raging animal. How the hell does he know, he was turned around? Why do so many people feel like it's situations like this that they need to get attention? I wish Glen "Big Baby' Davis would have dodged the kid, and then clotheslined this clown, Provetti. The NBA should revoke his right to sit court side. I demand that this guy apologize to his kid, for making him seem like such a little pussy.

Say it ain't so

Manny being Manny finally got to me. I have been a giant Manny fan all of my life. One of my hobbies has been trying to convince them that he belongs in the best hitters of all time talk. But the steroid era has finally beat me. I sat and protected Manny and said he's one of the guys that didn't do it. I'm convinced everyone one of these pricks took steroids. White, Black, Cuban, Asain, I don't care you are. In my opinion if you played baseball you took steroids.

What a fraud this crook is. He loved the game, he was just being Manny. He played the game for himself, and the fans. He's a dirty rotten bitch. I hope we find out his Visa's expired and we ship his ass back to whatever shit hole island he's from. This guy stole my respect. He's no difference than any other Latin American thug that comes into our country and steals from us. He has convinced me that every baseball player is a crook. It also strengthens my belief that Big Papi took steroids too.

We're going to Miami

It sounds more and more like Brett Favre will be the Vikings starting QB in 2009. Growing up as a vikings fan I was trained to hate the packers. And beyond that their plays the game like a kid, pain killer loving, lawn mowing leader Brett Favre. And now he might be the missing piece to our puzzle.
How should we feel about that. Sure we would have liked to do it without him, but that isn't happening. So what if he does bring us to Miami. I think it would be great. We sat and watched as he won MVP after MVP with the cheeseheads. We watched him gun sling his way to two super bowls winning one. But now we get to watch it on our side.
Does he have anything left though? Is this just a bargaining tool to get a big marketing deal from the packers? Those are the question marks right now. We have to hope he has enough left to make the receivers better, and open up space for Mr. All Day. We worry about the interceptions, and mistakes he makes. Well we have a QB that does that in T-Jack, the only difference is Favre has the ability to be great, something Jackson is incapable of. Sage Rosenfals? He couldn't start for the Houston Texans.
We play the packers at home on Monday night, October 5th. That will be crazy if Favre comes running out of the tunnel wearing purple. I for years now have bitched and moaned about Minnesota being to conservative, not taking chances. Well if this gets done, it's on. We are saying we are going to win the Super Bowl this year. We'll only have a 1 or 2 year window with the current regime. Childress is coaching for his job. Peterson is one big hit away from being done. Pat Williams, Steve Hutchinson, Chester Taylor, these guys aren't getting younger. Right now, we have a very well balanced team that should be competitive for a long time. But now's the time. We added a threat on and off the field in Percy Harvin. He might handcuff defenses or end up in handcuffs. We get EJ Henderson back too.
Screw the code of ethics, personal conduct crap, or the culture of accountability bull. This is a football team not a damn church choir. Let's load up on painkillers and steroids, fire up those love boats, grab some beers, pump the Will Smith and sail our way down to MIAMI!!!

Big Papi

How come no one has put David Ortiz and steroids in the same sentence? Let's take a look at his career. He played six injury plagued seasons for the Minnesota Twins. He had 1273 plate appearances and hit 58 home runs. Rather pedestrian numbers. Now let's give the twins a little bit of credit. They do have an eye for talent. They also are very cheap. So they let David Ortiz go. He signed with the Boston Red Sox for 1.2 million dollars. The Twins were paying Doug Meintkjewicz half a million more than that. So it seems to me, that if the Twins saw any future in Ortiz they would have kept him.
Now he's on the Red Sox, and he only signed there to back up Jeremy Giambi. Giambi goes down with an injury and Ortiz fills in. And he did a great job filling in too. He didn't finish out of the top 5 MVP voting the next 5 years. His numbers jumped too. He was averaging a home run every 21 plate appearances for the twins, and with the Red Sox he averaged a home run every 15th appearance. So how do you explain this?
He also didn't get hurt anymore. He played 5 injury free seasons in a row with the red sox.
Then you have the last 2 years when Baseball has tightened up it's policy. He is now hitting a home run every 26th plate appearance.
Now I don't know that he's done steroids. It might be a coincidence. It might be that finally he was healthy, and maybe he's winding down now. But it seems to me like we give the good guys the benefit of the doubt. The red sox have never had anyone in the steroids drama to my knowledge. Maybe they've all been clean. But they got good in the steroid era, and hadn't won in the decades prior to that. I don't have enough evidence to accuse anybody of anything, but it seems to me like a lot of coincidences that happened in beantown.