Britney Spears

It seems like everyone I know has informed me in the past couple days about Britney Spears getting married. I guess for some reason people tend to think of me when Britney Spears is in the news. Why, I have no idea? Anyways, for those of you who haven't heard the story, I guess she "took a joke too far" with her high school boyfriend in Vegas, they got married, then she had it "annulled" 55 hours later. Seems like a really unlikely story, but then I think about some of my friends and how they take jokes too far. If Britney and this guy are anything like us, I could kind of see it happening. Instead of being like "Boats?" or "40's?", it would be like "Get married in Vegas tonight?", and you know neither one can back down once it's said. The only thing is, I can't really picture her saying "shibby", which is kind of key in those situations.

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Pete Rose

So the guy gets caught betting on baseball, and he's banned from the sport entirely for the past 14 years or so. Meaning he can't coach in the major leagues, and he's not eligible for the Hall of Fame. Then this whole time he's stubbornly denied ever gambling on baseball, until the past week, when all of a sudden he finally admits it. I guess that's great and all, but in the words of Chris Rock, "what you want, a cookie?"

Well, what he really wants is to be allowed to coach again and voted into the Hall of Fame. Personally, I don't really care if he does either one or not, although I think if you break a rule knowing the exact consequences of getting caught, then you should suffer the consequences when you do get caught. But really, when I think about the whole thing, I just wonder what it's like to be Pete Rose. If I were him, I'd just go away. What's the point of forcing your way into the Hall of Fame, or wasting your time trying to coach in a league where half the people hate you to begin with?