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An increasingly annoying and festering pet peeve of mine about some people on this site is the random rating of people with one star. I'm of the opinion that if you really don't like what someone has to say then yes, feel free to rate them a one star. But if there statements are innocuous and clearly not intended to stir any controversial comments, then giving them a one star should earn you at least 10 one stars by people who side with the victim. But it seems that 99% of my one star ratings are not coming as retaliation for when someone gives my post a one star. I'm thinking that it just isn't enough for me to rate them, we need to form a coalition of friends that will help send a message.

Let's start with this blogger, ravefan66, who thought it appropriate to give my innocuous thread a one star and I sure as hell hope you all scrutinize ravefan66's threads and help me pay back in kind!

Seems that every piece of the puzzle has fallen back into place for them all over again.  Anyone thing that they can lose the West?  State why.

Tell me which team do you think made out like a bandit this year and which team totally bombed the draft.   

It seems to me that many have problems acknowledging that sports and culture go hand in hand. Indeed it seems that at times, when all else fails in human relations, we've been able to fall back on sports as our one unifying point. But sadly, every time someone highlights a point that remotely discusses race or gender in sports it seems that people get all up in arms about how pure sports should be and how immune sports should be to all this "race and gender BS." Notwithstanding, sports cannot be any more pure and impervious to these issues that affects the cultures of its participants. Take for example the Olympics, which I think could be a good jump-off point for discussion, since it has less to do with race and more to do with ideological differences, what's your response to the argument that the Chinese government's overall cultural and political positions towards its neighbors and the rest of the world should have no bearing on opinions and expressions of people on the 2008 Olympics?

I'm not saying, I'm just saying...

Feel free to post whatever you want and I will give you a five star rating, I really want to hear other's thoughts on this.

This year seems to be a time for making and obliterating history. Everywhere unbelievable things just keep happening. I mean, even though the Superbowl didn't end with an undefeated season, we still had an undefeated team in the Superbowl. Has anyone else notice that the balance of professional sports has completely normalized (except of course in Golf and I don't think we'll see that happening anytime soon, but more on that later)?

BASEBALL
Looks like baseball (although if Bean Town wins again I may have to eat these words) no longer seems to be in the hands of a few, with viable teams on both sides of the league and more good players to spread the love.

BASKETBALL
The West is amazing, but now there finally is a powerhouse (other than the Pistons) to contend and very likely win it all from the East.

HOCKEY
Juicy, just plain juicy how many teams have decent opportunities to do something in this year's Stanley Cup. I think Hockey is finally back.

On to the celebrations:

GOLF
The gods were smiling when they saw Tiger Woods. But as much as we thought we knew about this guy, he continues to amaze by showing us that there's more to come. I tip my glass to you Mr. Woods.

FOOTBALL
Belichick has apologized, so I guess we can move on, but I'm more impressed by the way the Giants took it to the