That giving the fans what they want to see was just Floyd spin after the fact. Maidana forced the pace early and Floyd had to adjust. A lot of people got swayed by the first three or so rounds but none of those looping overhand rights were doing much damage early on and they never even landed in the later rounds.

D'Amato was an enabler as well. Ask Teddy Atlas about that. Tyson was all over Teddy's 11 year old niece and Atlas had to threaten him with a gun to get him to back off.

Freddy Roach himself intimated Pac was juicing - with the bullshit caveat that his strength coach was feeding it to him without Pac's knowledge. The kind of BS that Barry Bonds tried to say.

At his best, Tyson was one of the greatest defensive heavyweights of all time. It didn't last long and he fell apart, but when he was good...

For the nth time, Floyd won't fight Manny while he is with Arum. A fight with Manny would net Arum another dozen million or so at least and Floyd has been saying the same thing for years - no 50/50 split, no PPV shares for Manny, agree to drug testing that is agreeable to him and no Bob Arum. You may think these are…

Floyd was complaining because MAIDANA WAS HITTING BELOW THE FUCKING BELT AND ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD.

Chefs are not known as a particularly touchy feely group.

Lupita is like the second coming of Audrey Hepburn. I want to tame dragons for her and bring her plates of fresh fruit and walk her dog. She is the classiest woman alive.

It really was a weird thing to witness, especially if you came to work high.

We used to get live prawns shipped in styrofoam containers from the Gulf Coast. The prep cooks would take the lid off the container and draw a target on it and they would throw the prawns at the target. The prawns had pointy probosci and would stick like darts, their creepy little legs swimming in the air.

Do you live here? No. Have you ever heard an American complain about this? I haven't. It never fucking comes up but here you are posting over and over about this minor thing because American corporations are shady or something. Noone here thinks that any one is getting cheated because they all know they will get…

Except him.

It isn't shady, things just work differently here.

Those restaurants have glowing tales from the owners and hand picked select employees. There are a few of those in the Bay Area and the service is ok. The best servers, bussers and bartenders don't work there because they can make more money elsewhere.

Taxes vary from town to town. It has nothing to do with being shady. The same chain will have a slightly difference price because some cities have a different tax. If the entire chain says here is our price, why should they eat a loss if some places have no sales tax and others have nearly 10%?

Supposedly, once upon a time, Jay Leno had the raunchiest, edgiest stand up around.

One of the chillest funniest people I ever knew was my mom's friend who taught in some of the most run down ghettos in Philly. She was definitely cut out for it but everyone was always scared for her working in North Philly.

Willie Pep was almost 85 when he died and he was active and lucid way late into his life. You're saying Floyd will be drooling in ''a couple of years.'' You say this because you wish it on him. Pep was fine way into his later years.

It's funny to me that almost every other group of foreign tourists other than anglophones have since figured this out. French tourists know they had a bad rep, it got press and into the their guide books, they will ask and they tip. The Japanese, who collectively have shitty english skills, are aware of this tipping…

I tend bar. The cheap tippers seem shocked that I choose to serve them last after their first cheap tip. They will wave and snap fingers and bitch about being first and feel upset that the guy who tipped $10 on his first round of 4 drinks gets more attention than the guy who tipped $2 on the same kind of round.