Look who's taking a stab at this whole "blogging" thing...

We have lots of friends on this little thing know as the interwebs. Some are people we have never really met (Gerry, Steve), and some are buddies of our from college and what have not(UniQM, Badlander).

Well one of our friends from the later group has decided that he's ready to stop just being a guest writer here on TB&TB, and strike out on his own. You all know him as Victor the manBEARpig.



He's given us some good if not long winded, sports thoughts, and I encourage everybody to check out his new blog The Bears Cave

He'll talk about what ever he damn well pleases, but its mostly gonna be about salmon, which tree gives the best back scratch, how to prevent forest fires, the bruins and why LaBatt Blue is the best beer ever. (or so I assume).

So check him out, leave some love, cuz if you don't, he'll get all sad like this.


and nobody likes a sad bear.

Update on that whole subjectivity thing...

So, based on the commentary, a few of you actually decided to read something on this site...for those that didn't, I put up a post regarding subjectivity in the Olympics games.

Well, I was trolling the interwebs and came across the great Yahoo! Olympic blog, Fourth Place Medal

See, Chris Chase is doing a study on how the objective versus the subjective events are turning out, and he's calling it "the Real Medal Count". Essentially, he's removed from the medal totals the events that are completely based on judges scores to determine a winner. Those events are :

• Diving
• Equestrian
• Gymnastics
• Judo
• Synchronized Swimming
• Taekwondo
• Trampoline (an event being chastised on our comment boards)
  
• Wrestling

Anyway, Chase has provided a very intriguing count of medals...

First, the current medal count:

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
China	46	15	22	83
United States	29	34	32	95

Now, the "real" medal count:

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	25	26	25	76
China	23	12	13	48

Hey, the proof's in the pudding, and as my blogging buddy, Big, might say, "god damned, mongolians!"

Awesome job by Chris over at Yahoo!.