Randy Latini's Journal

I'm not one of these people that will ever say that professional athletes get paid to much. In fact I think it is hilarious to hear a person who is wearing the jersey of his favorite football team while sitting in his season ticket seats say, "these guys are overpaid" without realizing irony of the situation. But it IS amazing to think about the fact that a person can become very wealthy for playing a game. It's one of the greatest things about this country. It may be hard to wrap your head around the point I'm trying to make so let me put it this way. Think back to when football or baseball were just games that people played for fun. On the weekends or after work they just got together and played a game. There were no professional athletes, no endorsement deals, not even bleachers much less stadiums. Now imagine if you would have told those people that in the future your could become rich and famous for playing this game. And you wouldn't have to wait until a day off from work to play the game, because you would be a "professional athlete"' and this would BE your job. It's almost hard to imagine sports existing on just a recreational level anymore. Most major sports have a professional level at which people can strive for. There are fewer pickup games than ever and most people that want to play a sport have to join a league. Spectators will be present and there will be a championship game that all teams will be aiming for. But imagine if when you were a kid someone told you during a game of kickball that in the future professional kickball players will be rich, famous, and swimming in supermodel and pop star poon. Or someone from the future crashed your Uncle John's BBQ in 1983 and said , "enjoy that tetherball game. In the future professional tetherball players will be so competitive that some of their hall-of-famers will be accused of using steroids and have to appear at the Supreme Court in order to solidify their place in history sand asterisk." With the growing popularity of mixed martial arts it's easy to imagine that there are still some sports just waiting to become professional. My nominations for the future of professional sports: Kick the can, Jail Break, Horse Shoes, Slip-N-Slide, That Paper finger flicking football game, and of course Tag.

There are 2 types of girls that you can't hit on. Bank tellers and pharmacists. No guy wants to start a relationship with a girl that can see their bank account and what ointments they have prescribed o them.

Being in a hotel for 4 days I end up watching a lot of crappy TV. But I just saw an ad for a new show on A&E called Parking Wars. This show follows the parking law enforcement officers (aka meter maids) of Philadelphia around. Is their any job left that reality TV producers will not film? WE used to come home from work and watch TV to forget about the day we just had at our boring job. NOW...their is no escape from the mundane. We've created a vicious cycle of feeding ourselves the same meal all day. If you fix cars for a living you can now come home and watch a TV show about guys fixing cars. If you are a photographer you can come home after a shoot and watch a show about photographers. If you are a gynecologist you can come home and watch...well theres no show for that yet but there's always been porn for those guys. The writers strike is necessecary and just. So Hollywood should take a glimpse into the future of television and give the writers whatever they want (which is 4 cents by the way) before A&E green lights 'The True Stories of Hotel Room Service' By the way if anyone ever makes that show...I will sue.

Fox News just ran a story about a guy that had lost his thumb. The doctors removed his big toe and surgically placed it where his thumb used to be. No thanks...I'll just be the guy with no thumb. I think that is way lower on the freak meter than "the guy with a toe thumb" is. Plus now he's now one of the few people in the world that can stub his toe while masturbating.

After her stint in prison Paris Hilton decided to devote some of her precious time to charity work. The charity she chose (and this is NOT a joke) is working to stop elephants from killing themselves after consuming alcohol. That's right, Paris is helping alcoholic elephants. Reports say Britney Spears is extremely grateful for her help.