One of the flagship features here at MLJ is the Jerk of The Month. This month’s Jerk is Sparty of Sparty and Friends, who won the opportunity to be Jerk of the Month for some reason or another, I can’t remember. Great lead in, I know.

Sparty, congrats on being MLJ’s Jerk of The Month. This must be a fantastic honor. First things first, I’ll let you get in a little advertising. How did the site come to be?

The long version may lead you to not ask me anymore questions. I will try to summarize. Dan Shanoff: WORST.BLOGGER.EVAR. He wasn’t always terrible. We all use to print out the Daily Quickie from Page 2 at the WWL and read it while eating a espresso brownie from Starbucks. but after he “left,” I guess we realized the power of well done editing. You never knew that he didn’t watch sports until he was on his own. The instant history shtick got old really quick. I kept visiting his site because i enjoyed chit chatting with the other commenters. it became a big rip session on Shamford. Then I had my MOMENT. I could do this way better. So I started the blog, his readers followed. Yeah the name is cheesy, but whatever, Shanoff still sucks.

Presented without comment since I’ve only read Shanoff’s “blog” one time. Speaking of blogs, in our first e-mail you requested to rip on Hef, so being the good employee that I am, I’ll let you have at it. 20 words or less please.

Thank you Hef and all of MLJ. You classless ladies have helped so much. But you’re all ghey. Except Roman. When do I get my new site design? 28 words, whatever.

Thank you Hef? That’s how you rip on him? Fine, whatever man. On to sports: I’ve noticed your fandom is split between New York (Giants, Yankees) and Michigan (Red Wings). Tell me a little bit about that and how you chose which teams to follow from which locale.

The 1st two teams I ever became affilitated with were the Yankees and World Champion New York Football Giants while living in Jersey as a kid. Then pops took a job in Michigan. Now mind you, the Yanks were terrible in the late 80s and early 90s, so I was not growing up as a little kid a spoiled Yanks fan. But Mattingly was my boy. I still have all but one of his starting lineup figures. My old dog, Neo, ate one. I grew up a teenager and all my 20s as a spoiled Yanks fan. My father was born into the Yankee Dynasty years of the 40s and 50s. As for the WCNYFG, Detroit still has a professional football team? I got to watch a lot of Barry in Detroit, which was fun. But the G-Men have been an institution in my family for years, as you know we are season ticket holders. I have watched Giants Among Men more than any video ever.

Damn this answer is long. I just didn’t know what hockey and basketball were prior to moving to Detroit. They love hockey in Detroit. When we moved Steve Yzerman was still a baby and was already the Captain. They had a young exciting team with Stevie Y, Adam Oates, Petr Klima, Bob Probert and Joe Murphy. The church we belonged to was getting tickets, so I went and became a fan. But I will say this, though I am not a Ranger fan, seeing them win in 1994 was really really cool. I have watched Super Bowl and World Series victories with my father, but never happier was he than when the Rangers beat Vancouver. First time I saw tears from the man. That is a huge sports moment in my mind.

Ah the Pistons. The Bad Boys were the NKOTB when we got to Detroit. That was that. I couldn’t cheer for the Knicks. I mean, look at Ewing, he lost to Nova. Let alone that he is the ugliest player ever.

Funny story, I coached Joe Dumars’ son at a basketball camp when he was like 5. I felt funny teaching a HOFer’s kid how to shoot. Hey kid, I expect a shout out someday!

I’m sure your Red Wings fandom reasoning is much better than Sportsgal’s. By the way, you’re welcome for leaving in the “World Champion” stuff. So seeing that your name is Sparty, most can guess you’re a Michigan State guy (I’m sure the picture didn’t hurt either), so our e-friendship will come into question on two dates: January 10th, when the National Champion Kansas Jayhawks invade the Izzone, and two weeks before that when the North Dakota Fighting Sioux come to Michigan for the GLI. Going 0-2 in those might kill you, right?

Not happening. This is probably the most talented Izzo team since the 2001 Final Four team that had Jason Richardson, Charlie Bell and Zach Randolph. Kalin Lucas is one of the best PGs in the nation. With Raymar Morgan and Goran Suton returning, along with Chris Allen, Durrell Summers and the super-frosh Delvon Roe. Things are gonna be hoppin at the Breslin Center. Dude, seriously, college hockey? I got nothin. The Miller family rules.

If you mean Ryan Miller, sure. I’ve never heard of any of those basketball players. But I’m sure Cole Aldrich will be impressed with them when he swats one of their shots into the 10th row. So other than the L against Kansas, how’s the team gonna do?

We are going to the Final Four at Ford Field. Book it.

Book it is my line, sorry. Most readers can feel free to not read this question since it’s about -gasp- the Olympics. I want to know two things. How many medals the greatest athlete on Earth gets in London, and how many medals the biggest underachiever (Katie Hoff) of the 2008 Games gets in London.

Well, Phelps will earn as many medals as events he races in. In fact, I say he wins all gold. However that is under the assumption that he races the events he raced in at Beijing. Now if he gets greedy and tries to race in the 100 Free or the 100 Back? He may have to settle for another color. Hoff, 4. She made a mistake. Phelps and Spitz were freaks of nature. Biondi was great, but he couldn’t pull it off either. I don’t see Hoff making it back in as many events, nor do I see her trying to.

This question is from CRM and Clown via special request: Is Canada the greatest country on Earth or what?

Canada has a special place in my heart. It was the first and last place I ever had a legal drink, Bentley’s was the shit back then. Also, my Gram lived in Binghamton, NY, so we use to cut through to visit her. I remember the drive like the back of my hand to get to NY. 401 to the 404 to the QEW right on thru to Niagra.

Winnipeg is a great place. Legal drinking age is 18 folks. Not that I would advocate that. People who are under 21 don’t drink. There are no photos of me suggesting otherwise.

So Instead of finishing it out with quick hitters, or whatever gay thing TBL does, I’m going to let you play Ombudswoman. Give me one thing you like about MLJ and one thing you’d like us to do differently. And if you would like to answer one random queston, I will allow you to tell the public who the hottest celebrity is.

You limited me once already in regards to MLJ, you are not doing it again. I wouldn’t change a damn thing about the site. Well, maybe more of Clown doing There’s Nothing to Click Here. Hef did a great job getting this going and putting together a diverse group of people. My favortire feature is Stat of the Day. I do not think that I was ever in the “purist” group, but I definitely didn’t rely too much on stats. I can honestly say I was one that fell into the trap of the word intangibles. What can I say? I love Jeter. So I have appreciated the edumacation.

I wish we had more of Hef. The place hasn’t been as snarky as it use to be. Hef and I are somewhat alike. I believe I read somewhere that he is a Half-Jew. I’m a Half-Jew. [Ed. I think Hef's proper name is "Yahweh" I could be wrong] The difference being that I go to church, so that makes me a spiritual Jew. So I am better. Wait, did I just contradict myself?

Anyway, you guys keep doing what you are doing. With MLJ and S&Fs, we will keep pissing people off to the end of time.

Hottest Celebrity is right hurrrr. My wife knows about it too. Her movies suck big time, but sexy as hell. She is a MILF too.

The upset of the century is that we got through this without a Javon Ringer mention. Great job by you Sparty, we at MLJ appreciate it.
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