Near Foreclosure? Kazaam! Shaq to the Rescue. I read this article the other day saying how Shaq wants to become the Mayor of Orlando and has a plan to start a business to save locals from losing their homes to foreclosure. At first I just thought it was a big celebrity that was bored and just grabbing some headlines.

Well, maybe the big Big Aritstotle should have done his homework before giving false hopes to millions of Floridians. Here was a follow-up article from today's paper.

"A week after Shaquille O'Neal told the Orlando Sentinel that he's working on a plan to rescue Central Floridians facing foreclosure, he has learned just how widespread the problem is. He has two or three thousand e-mails," said Curtis Cooper, an Orlando Realtor and mortgage broker working with O'Neal . The problem is, O'Neal does not yet have a plan. He wasn't planning an announcement, and word leaked out when he made an impromptu visit to Orlando City Hall last week. O'Neal will pursue the as-yet undefined plan."

Let me get this straight, big rich celebrity who called Orlando a "Dried Up Old Pond" when he bolted for LA for more money, and has never had a mortgage problem nor probably has any idea on what it is to pay a bill now wants to save central Floridians from their mortgage problems.........oh wait he said that.... but didn't realize how big the problem actually was.....and my favorite part......He doesn't have a plan yet.......Perfect.


Koko's buddy Hank Steinbrenner on the state of today's game, gave us our other rant of the day.

Yankees buffoon Hank Steinbrenner is pretty sore about losing his best starter, Chieng Ming Wang, for at least 6 weeks after Wang got hurt running around the bases.

"My only message is simple. The National League needs to join the 21st century," Steinbrenner said in Tampa, Fla. "They need to grow up and join the 21st century."

That is a simple message - thanks Hank. Hey, NL, quit dicking around and come on and join the AL in the 21st century, where the pitchers apparently don't bat! And while you're at it, tell those morons in Japan's Central League to come with you, too.

"Am I (mad) about it? Yes," Steinbrenner added. "I've got my pitchers running the bases, and one of them gets hurt. He's going to be out. I don't like that, and it's about time they address it. That was a rule from the 1800s."

It's a fact. The AL hasn't asked its pitchers to hit since the 1800s. Or 1973. Whatever.

"This is always a concern of American League teams when their pitchers have to run the bases and they're not used to doing it," Steinbrenner said. "It's not just us. It's everybody. It probably should be a concern for National League owners, general managers and managers when their pitchers run the bases. Pitchers have enough to do without having to do that."

I mean, Jesus, pitchers have to climb onto the mound to face major league hitters, and then you expect them to run 90 feet every once in a while? What do you think these guys are, professional athletes?