maybe the worst beer I have ever drunk (although Red White & Blue is right up there) was Sterling!!!

It had a wierd aftertaste of solvents. My dad used to stock it (he is a frugal man) & it would be a desperate situation (i.e. no money at all) before I would liberate any.

I don't know if they still make it.

Your post was ellafunny!

Rinkrat19 commented up above about how much coverage it is getting. I too think I've watched a little too much of it (although I do enjoy watching Mrs. Walsh stylishy spike balls off the opposing girl's heads or to wherever they aren't)

One of the weird things about it is whenever there is a stoppage in play (side out, point scored, mandatory timeout, etc.) they start up with some old timey rock & roll music (and here's the really weird part) & due to the quickness in getting the ball to whomever is going to serve the music only lasts for 5 or 6 seconds. You get 5 secs of 'Help Me Rhonda' & then at the next stoppage 8 secs of 'Wipeout', and so on.

I think it (the music) detracts from the competition & makes baech volleyball a little cheesy.

Another thing is that whenever May/Walsh are interviewed & asked how they beat some team they will mention a few reasons but they will never mention the real reason: Walsh is a great blocker/hitter & is just too tall & athletic for the other players. That's why they win all the time. Give May another woman her size & they wouldn't have 104 wins in a row (IMO). Give Walsh our best setter off the indoor team & they could still have that winning streak.

bigguns said up above: 'However, he's an ordinary monster, given all the dittoheads who worship him. When you have that many monsters, they comprise an ordinary swarm, however repugnant, like the winged monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, or the maggots that writhe on roadkill deer.'

I'm sure you didn't mean to disparage the ordinary maggot but I do believe they make a much more positive contribution to our world than Limbaugh. In fact, I long for the day when Limbaugh & maggots meet. I can only hope he'll still be concious.

who said: 'Have to disagree vehemently with you there. May without Walsh might be a more diminished team than Walsh without May, but defense and the transition game is a major factor in winning. How come Phil Dalhausser didn't win with Nick Lucena? Because Todd Rogers plays all-world defense, just like May.'

I probably engaged in a little hyperbole with my comments that you took exception to. I do think that K. Walsh is the major reason the team is so good. She overpowers the opposing players at the net. The more I have watched May, the more I have warmed up to her & her all-around game.

I think she could be even better if she lost about 10 - 15 pounds.

who responded to my observation that M. May could be even better if she lost about 10 - 15 pounds: '---Misty May-Treanor is pretty damn fit as she is. She has muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. Good God, why can't some people understand that being in shape doesn't necessarily mean you're a beanpole or that you're a size 2? I bet she can outrun you any day of the week.'

I agree that she is pretty damn fit right now & I agree she could outrun me any day of the week.

When you look at her muscle definition, or lack of it, especially in her thighs, you can see that she could probably jump a little higher & have a little more stamina if she had just a bit more tone (and a couple less pounds to lug around). This is my opinion. Losing 10 pounds certainly would not make her a 'beanpole', as she has a zaftig-like frame.

She's supposed to be in a sport competing against world class athletes & you would think that one would try to max out in every way to get just that little extra edge.

As a representative of the female species she does look great just as she is (if I implied she doesn't, my bad).

Excellent points in your response. She must be doing something right to have won 104 in a row. One day maybe, some team will rise up to challange them (I hope, makes for better competition).

Right now, I guess she doesn't need to do anything except set up K. Walsh for her kills.

I wish they would show some of it, because the Olympic version is light years from your backyard games. Back in my youth I was a ferocious backyard badminton player (or so I thought).

I attended UK & there had a chance to play in the intramural badminton tournament (winner got a cool shirt that was only given to someone who had won an intramural champioship). God, I wanted one of those shirts.

Anyway, I showed up on the morning of the tourney to play my 1st round match. Saw I'd been paired with a guy who had a very long foreign sounding last name, something like 'Phermonsanvorem'.

I headed to the equipment room to get my bandminton racket & went back to find my opponent. I found him, a small oriental looking fellow, and his racket which was in a case that looked like something you'd put a small banjo in, crushed velvet interior, etc. That was my first clue that this person took bandminton a little more seriously than I did.

Long story short, my opponent beat me like 21 -1, 21 - 0 (and it wasn't that close). Any serve I would do, he would smash. Any serve he made, the only thing I could do was hit it up in the air & he smashed it.

My opponent was a graduate student from Thailand. Was probably the equivilent of a CYO player over there. It was an eye opening experience for this callow young man.