Some of these have been held due to laziness on our account. We haven’t attached your names to these, which may or may not be a good thing. For future reference, if you’d like to see your names on these, then maybe put MAILBAG in the subject. This can probably be a bi-monthly segment, like ESPN the Magazine or something. Below, your comments are in italics, and ours are bolded. We didn’t clean up the spelling or grammar.

Did you catch PTI Thursday? You have to check out what Dan Lebartard said about the Dolphins team. He basically stated that it wasn’t Cameron’s fault that they are a bad team. The real reason is that they have a Somoan, Morman and latino on the field. Kornheiser didn’t say anything to him. I don’t usually care what these idiots say, but espn really tried to start a controversy with Phil Jacksons comments. Yet they allow this on the air and LeBatard will not get any negative attention from it. Maybe before the wwl goes after other people that make an off color remark, they should clean up their own trash.

TBL: Here’s the link, so judge for yourself, but the William H. Macy comment alone lets LeBatard off the hook.

I don’t have a link for you or anything, but I’m listening to NFL Radio’s Late Hits on Sirius, which is cohosted by Jerry Rice. Apparently Late Hits invited Randy Moss to be on the program, in part to talk about the Pats season, but it felt implied, also to speak of Moss breaking Rice’s record, despite playing in 4 less games–a point that was brought up at about 10.20, central. That he declined to appear on the program resulted in a mini-rant by Rice expressing his disatisfaction with Moss, specifically that Moss did not defer “respect” to Rice with regards to the record.

TBL: Knew there was a reason Rice got those cornrows. He needs to gully-it-up if he wants to get in Randy’s head.

I know you’re into politics, have you been watching the MSNBC coverage? Kind of biased, but they were talking about how well Obama scored by going on Leno, while Hilary didn’t do as well on Letterman. Thought that was kind of funny. I live in Iowa and while its neat to have everyone here, but its just been getting to be too much lately. Get them out to New Hampshire.

They’re saying Obama took the women vote? Not good for Hillary!!

TBL: Yup, that women’s vote is troubling, but more importantly, do you know if Chuck and Scarlett hooked up in Des Moines?

I am not sure if you have heard about this yet, but I figured I would give you guys a heads up. There are murmors that due to a loophole in the federal sentencing rules, Mike Vick may be able to get a full 12 months taken off his sentence. Vick, obviously, tested positive for marijuana shortly before his sentencing. Additionally, during his sentencing his attorney, somewhat curiously, made a point of explaining how Vick has a lot of personal issues and has always “self medicated” to deal with them, and his “medicine” of choice was marijuana.

According to federal sentencing rules, if an inmate enters into the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program he is eligible to take a full year off of his sentence, no matter what the original length of the sentence is. I am going to interview a federal prosecutor tomorrow to get the full details, but I wanted to give you a heads-up beforehand. Additionally, about 10 years ago someone close to my family received a 31 month federal sentence. When he entered into the RDATP due to alcoholism, he did in fact get a full 12 months taken off his sentence. So I know that this program exists, I am just not sure why no one is bringing this up.

TBL: We don’t know if the guy who sent us this is still alive, but we could smell the alcohol on his breath … through the email.

I could swear I heard Bob Ley’s guest during the Charles Dolan piece on Outside The Lines talk about “playing shitty hockey.” Maybe you can reach out to your blogosphere network and see if someone TIVO’d it.

TBL: Blasphemy. Bob Ley doesn’t swear, belch, or fart.

In case you missed it……………..a little after 11AM Sunday, Dec. 16, Berman threw it to a lady named Nix who was to report on the “huge weather story developing in Foxboro.” Miss Nix proceeded to say that things are a “disaster” at the stadium (yes, she used the word disaster). She then told us that although it is less than 2 hours until kickoff, “the tarp is still on the field.” She said that several Patriot players had come out to warm up and had to go back in because “the tarp is still on the field.” Here is the fun part…..during her whole report we could see the field behind her and…..THE TARP WAS NOT ON THE FIELD. It was obviously uncovered.

Oh, and of course espn had a graphic on the screen at the same time…..it said ‘Foxboro Tarp is still on the field’

TBL: Maybe this was all coded, to disguise the true disaster: Bristol was the stadium, and Berman was the tarp?

I just wanted to provide you with some quick insight from another die-hard baseball fan. In short, I could careless. The media has made me immune to the steroid controversy in baseball. When ESPN or some other network starts blaring a story about steroids, I just change the channel.

In my eyes, Mitchell has zero credibility. He has too strong of ties to the Boston Red Sox. I work in the finance industry, if the SEC tried to pull an investigation like this they would lose very ounce of credibility they have ever had (I’m assuming they still have credibility, but that is an argument for another time). It’s like having a former Fortune 500 CEO investigate corporate America for fraud - laughable!

Back to the point, when the Mitchell report comes out, I will look at the names. Some may catch me off guard, but I won’t care. I’m over this whole mess. Baseball players used steroids for a variety of reasons; some justifiable, some not. Like trying to come back from a potential career ending injury - baseball’s their meal ticket, I get it. The media is going to make a huge deal out of it. I really think a larger number than is expected of fans are not going to pay attention to this non-sense. All they’re doing is arming the fans with more poster board material to hold up at games against an opposing player. When it comes down too it, fans are going to still love the game. Does baseball have a black eye from this? No. Baseball has done much more horrible things in the past.

Truthfully, I think baseball is just trying to protect their anti-trust exemption. It makes a lot of sense. The last thing they want is Rep. Waxman threatening to have a discussion about their anti-trust exemption status. What better way to protect baseball’s golden ticket than to have an “investigation” into the “mass” steroid use in baseball. It’s genius really. To top it off baseball uses a former Senator, because that “instantly” brings credibility to the investigation!

TBL: Cheating is in fact cool - how else would we have gotten through French 2 in high school?