Everyone remembers the greatest scapegoat of the last decade-Steve Bartman. Ever since he interfered with that foul bal in game 6 he has been blamed for yet another Cubs collapse-despite the fact that they still could have closed out that game or even won game 7. But this is not why I am writing about Bartman.

Many of us would have taken their 15 seconds of fame and found some way to cash in, but Bartman has repeatedly turned down interview requests, book and tv movie deals in recent years. He even turned down an offer to be completely relocated to FL free of charge. Well now the most intriguing offer yet has been made-though not the most lucrative. All he has to do is show up to Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois and sign a single autograph on a picture of the infamous play.

Here is betting he turns this down to, and here is hoping that he does. I think that Steve Bartman is one of the single greatest Cubs fans ever. Lets not kid outselves anyone sitting there would have gone for that ball-but most of those people who have been hating on him all these years would have lept at. But Bartman has enough pride in himself as a Cubs fan not to cash in on one of the hardest moments in Cubs history.

Now with all that said-I would take the money.

Edit-First Take reported this morning that Bartman has turned down the offer

The Hungry Actor is back. First of all let me apologize to my 17 readers for being gone so long. Tonight I went over to the Muffin to watch both the UFC fights and Affliction simultaneously on two screens. Anyone else who watched will understand when I say that Affliction is the TV a equivalent of white noise. It was on but I barely even noticed what was happening even when I was watching it. In short it was simply terrible. So without further ado here are my top ways to make Affliction bearable.

10. Replace the ropes with barbed wire. This will keep the fighters from letting themselves get pushed out of the ring-which happened over and over.

9. Put them in a triangle shaped cage. What could be more entertaining then watching a fighter get stuck in the corner of a triangle.

8. Make the floor of the ring out of Temperpedic Material-you could also make it like a giant water bed but that might be a safety risk.

7. Every half round throw a random object into the ring. This could be a bat or a rubber chicken-this would create a real life Smash Brothers.

6. Make the matches a Royal Rumble format. Send someone new into the ring to join the rumble every minute.

Take the jump to see the top 5

Exclusive to the Hungry Actor we have a recap of Rampage's devastating and controversial loss to Forest Griffin tonight. Here we have Yardbarker's Pelechati and Oflarity from the Sports Muffin. The Hungry Actor decided to stay behind the camera for this one.

Personally I thought Rampage won the fight. I had him easily winning Round 1, obviously losing round 2-but I did not think Forest did enough after hurting Rampage's knee to warrant a 10-8 win, then I thought Rampage took rounds 3 and 4 by landing cleaner and more damaging shots. I thought Round 5 was a toss up but again I thought Rampage edged Forest out. Either way it was easily the best fight that I have seen in a long time and I can't wait for the rematch.

The only other highlights of the night was the incredible submission by Joe "daddy" Stevenson to save himself from losing, and Melvin Guillard's assassination of Dennis Silver. Other than that I think I was alone in the room by enjoying the Almeida/Cote fight.

Next time The Hungry Actor will step in front of the camera.

The sad thing is the fight is still better than both Kimbo's and Kalib Starnes' last fight. The sadder thing is that the fight lasts as long as it does-how come he can't knock this kid out? The saddest thing is that the MMA fighter was willing to take the fight.

The Kansas City Chiefs are the the owners of two utterly ridicuous things. The first is a starting QB named Brodie Croyle. The second is a "Fan Code of Conduct." Rule number 2 under this code of conduct is a ban on standing during the game. That's right you are not allowed to stand up during a Chiefs game.

According to the Shutdown Corner this code of conduct was written by an 85 year old second grade teacher. I am not even going to comment on the ridiculousness of that. And if you thought this couldn't get any lamer there is a system in place which allows you to tattle via text message to the authorities.

In a great move the Wiz officially have locked up Antawn Jamison to a 4 year 50 million dollar deal. This not only brings Jamison's 20 and 10 back to the team but also the strongest leader on the team.

Equally important is the fact that this also opens the door to resigning Gilbert Arenas who earlier in the season said that he would only resign if Jamison did-and what is more that he would be willing to take a pay cut to keep Jamison.

The question is how much will it take to resign Gilbert especially now that Baron Davis has opted out of his deal and Golden State may be in the Gilbert market. If Gilbert had not been hurt most of this year then he would certainly command something in the 6 year 100 million range but I am not sure that the Wiz will want to throw down that kind of money on his shakey knee. And if that was not enough to complicate things Gilbert is leaving the country of a promotional tour on Tuesday which obviously puts a twist on things since Gilbert is acting as his own agent this year.

We have two of the big three back lets hope we can keep the third.

Edit: The Washington Post is reporting that the Wiz are close to offering Gilbert a 6 year 100 million dollar deal.

How come this can fill a stadium but the Indiana Pacers only managed to fill 66% of theirs this past season? The answer is that obviously Ostrich racing is the next big thing. Just look and listen to the size of the crowd. Horse racing is dying a slow steroid injected death and something is going to have to fill the void. So why not Ostrich racing? We have all heard people say that the losing horse is going to be sent to the glue factory well this is even better-have you ever had an ostrich burger? The Hungry Actor sure has!

Yes there are a few kinks to be worked out, like making sure they run the right direction, and the saddles need a little work to keep the jockeys on-but all in all this has the makings of something big.

In honor of Brandon Inge's recent injury while moving a pillow I thought I would put together my list of the most ridiculous sports injuries. I am sure there are tons that I don't know about but here are my favorites.

10. Brian Griese trips over his pet poodle and sprains his ankle.

9. John Smoltz burns himself while ironing a shirt he was wearing.

8. Tom Glavine breaks a rib while vomiting up an inflight meal.

7. Brandon Inge pulls his oblique while readjusting a pillow on his couch.

6. Glenallen Hill, an extreme arachnaphobic had a nightmare about spiders and while fleeing the spiders he fell into a glass table and received multiple cuts over his entire body.

5. Denny McLain goes to sleep in good health and wakes up with four dislocated toes.

4. Muggsy Bogues misses the second half after accidentally inhaling the fumes from an ointment being used in a halftime treatment.

3. Adam Eaton stabs himself in the stomach with a paring knife trying to remove the packaging of a DVD.

2. Clarence "Climax" Blethen thought he looked meaner when he pitched without his false teeth in. Unfortunately for him he left them in his back pocket while sliding into second and he bit himself on butt.

1. Bret Barberie failed to wash his hands, after making nachos with hot sauce and chili peppers, before he put in his contact lenses. The extreme burning cause him to miss one game.



Honorable Mention: Chris Hanson misses while chopping wood and severely cuts his leg landing himself on the DL for the season; Lionel Simmons developed tendinitis from playing too many video games; Manny Cordova falls asleep in a tanning bed and receives burns so severe he has to miss time; Sammy Sosa sneezes multiple times in the clubhouse prompting a series of back spasms which puts him out of the lineup.

I am hoping to get 2 of these right.

In the second story about steroids in sports in the past couple days (the other being Terry Bradshaw) Big Brown's trainer Rick Dutrow has been suspended for using more than the legal limit of a drug on one of his horses. Dutrow you will remember made news after winning the Preakness and Kentucky Derby for his use of steroids on his horses-though only in states that allowed it.

While I don't have a problem with athletes using supplements that are legal I have a different feeling about trainers giving them to horses-simply because the athletes can say no the horse can't. And if any of you saw the interviews with Dutrow you know that he is a total wanker-so here is hoping he gets hit with a good long suspension.

In a not too surprising development Terry Bradshaw revealed that during his playing days he used steroids to speed up recovery from injuries. He claims to not have used them to get bigger or faster etc.

Some New England fans will now claim that all their championships need asterisks next to them. Though I would argue that you cannot claim a team was cheating by using steroids even though Bradshaw admitted it because at the time it wasn't cheating. In the 70's the stuff that they were taking were not banned by the NFL. In fact I would not be surprised at all if all the teams back then were using them and frankly have no problem with it.

The Hungry Actor has reported on many topics most of them pointless and no one really cared. And in the spirit of that take the jump to find out the most exciting news ever to grace my site.

And if that is not enough it is your chance to see what the Hungry Actor really looks like!

Huge news on Saturday June 26th Jack in the Box is giving away free tacos to anyone who brings in a receipt from a gas station. Jack tacos are delicious and free Jack tacos are even more delicious. Make sure you all go out and get some!!

A few weeks back I wrote about Kimbo Slice and his pros and cons and while I didn't think he was the real deal yet I thought he was on his way if he kept training. Then we finally got to see the fight and we all learned what many of you have long suspected-Kimbo was terrible. It was simply an awful fight that Kimbo may or may not have really lost (I don't think Thompson was doing enough damage to warrant a stoppage myself).

I knew going in the Thompson was a bum, but I expected Kimbo to knock him out in the first minute, instead as many of you saw the fight was stopped in the third when Kimbo exploded Thompson's revolting cauliflower ear. Even before that he looked awful, he was completely gassed by mid way through the second round and when he did win he collapsed on the ground and looked like he might have a heart attack. It was pathetic.

So all in all I felt like a moron for ever writing about Kimbo-but then I learned something interesting. A ton of people are now actually interested in MMA because of that awful, awful fight. I was in a sports bar the night of the fight and sitting at the table near me was an older woman who had never even heard of MMA. She started asking me all kinds of questions about Kimbo and at first I thought I was being mocked because of my excitement but I learned from a mutual acquaintance that she had since on her own done tons of research about MMA and Kimbo and consequently was now addicted. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before she starts watching some good MMA and there is another fan out there.

Being totally amazed by this I asked around and the consensus is that people who don't know anything about MMA were amazed and intrigued simply because on national TV he "exploded some dudes ear."

So all in all I have to change my opinion of Kimbo's role in the MMA world. I am no longer of the opinion that he was a waste of time but rather I think he may just be a good thing for MMA. For whatever reason he makes people want to watch when he fights. And while I can't condone watching him fight it can only be a matter of time before those who watch to see him, start to watch real fighters.

It is called Sport Stacking. Considering it is called "Sport" Stacking it made me wonder if this is actually a sport. So being the total dork that I am I looked up the word sport and the first definition is an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. It certainly takes skill and physical prowess but I am just not sure if it qualifies as athletic.

Don't get me wrong do it for an hour straight and you would probably work up a sweat-especially if you are in my shape-but I am not sure I buy it being athletic. That being said it is freakin cool to watch, but I am going to go with it being a game and not a sport.

Agree? Disagree?