Here's the link.
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_4103
Here are Forego's individual comments, but first an overview. The inclusion of Kent, Mickelson and Pierzynski lend some credence to the story. It's not just one of those pick out all the black guys who make a lot of money.
10) LLEYTON HEWITT. Forego will always remember Hewitt not for the James Blake incident. People say stupid things all the time, but somehow when those stupid things are vaguely racial it's like double-plus taboo. Hewitt could well be an asshole though. We like him because we like very good athletes who are short in stature. Hewitt also produced one of Forego's best brags which was sadly short-circuited. When we priced the 2001 Hewitt-Sampras US Open final, we made Hewitt a -$1.90 favorite, yet the market had Sampras -$2.00, take back +$1.80 with Hewitt. We push in a large bet on Hewitt. Spend the afternoon and evening at a tomatoe crush and pasta dinner and enjoyed Hewitt's win, doing only the minimal bragging because the big bragging would surely come later in the week. That tennis final was played on September 9, 2001. Y'all know the rest.
9) A.J. PIERZYNSKI. Realtively obscure player to make the list like this for a mainstream publication like GQ. Hard to argue. We have no opinion one way or the other, except that he's the catcher on our fantasy team this year.
8) PHIL MICKELSON. Outstanding revenge his showing up in this. Some years back, Forego layed -$1.40 with Mickelson over Scott McCarron for the full tournament in the Las Vegas Invitational. Both made the cut but going into the final round, Mickelson was in 3rd place and McCarron was in 60th, 15 strokes adrift. Forego was something on the order of 10,000,000/1 odds-on to win. Mickelson fails to show up for the 4th round, citing the "flu." The "flu" as some have said was a $3 million loss at baccarat the night before, after which Phil just said "fuck it." He, apparently, didn't feel like it was worth his time to bother chasing a $500,000 first prize in the tournament. His failure to appear was grounds for a disqualification and Forego lost the bet. Three years ago, Mickelson and A-Rod decided to play a little club poker at one of Forego's favorite old spots, Club Broadway in Chelsea. The press followed and called the police who shut the place down, never to reappear. Phil Mickelson's charity according the PGA Media Guide: "THE FELLOWHIP OF FAITH MINISTRIES." Hypocritical asshole.
7) BONZI WELLS. Forego doesn't follow the NBA. No opinion.
6) MICHAEL IACONELLI. Forego doesn't follow American Bass Tournament fishing. No opinion.
5) KOBE BRYANT. Forego doesn't follow the NBA. No opinion. That won't prevent us from offering one though. Always struck Forego as something of an asshole.
4) CURT SCHILLING. Loved him when we had big bet on the 1993 Phillies to win NL East and Pennant. Loved him when we bet him, taking +$1.85 against Rudy Giuliani's Girls in the infamous "sock" game. Hate his politics. Glad to see the rumor about the bloody sock being a dub is still around. Great Curt Schilling joke Bostonians tell: Curt Schilling is a horse every5th day and a horse's ass the other 4.
3) KURT BUSCH. No interest in NASCAR whatsoever. No opinion.
2) BARRY BONDS. You all know Forego's views on Bonds. GQ can go fuck itself on this one.
1) TERRELL OWENS. Don't follow NFL to extent that Forego's aware of anything about Owens other than he's a first class receiver, though not a brilliant one.
OF THE HONORABLE MENTIONS...
JEFF KENT: His inclusion kind of puts the lie to Bonds for #2 because following the Kent-Bonds fight, the only player who offered support of Kent was Lance Berkman of the Astros. And they quote a Houston-based writer in the story, so Berkman's probably all wrong. Move Kent into the main list and take of the Bass Fisherman.
RANDY JOHNSON: This could all be true we have no opinion. The Unit was amazing at this best.
RASHEED WALLACE: NBA. No opinion. It is rumored he has a taste for White, female sports journalists so that could be the motivating factor behind his inclusion.
A-ROD: See the Mickelson entry on what we don't like about him. Otherwise, we proudly claim A-Rod as a Native Manhattanite and have appreciated seeing greatness.
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Did Davydenko dump against Vasallo-Arguello. It sure seems that way. Especially as in the same week, there was unusual, and unusually large, betting against Konstantin Economidis in two very random first round matches. During the same week, the bookies could not give Andreev away despite his projected superiority over his opponent. Kelso was on the wrong side of the Davydenko match, and both Economidis matches. The right side with Andreev, but Andreev underperformed his projection by two service breaks in each of the first two sets. Some links.
http://myespn.go.com/conversation/story?id=2961187
http://www.tennis-x.com/xblog/2007-08-03/189.php
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=2965889
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/index
Good luck from Forego, a poor skin-head without a dollar
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How about most hated person in finance?
At Steve Schwarzman's 50th self-love fiesta, he had a life size painting of himself on display, and no one offered him even a single toast.
Hard for me to pick between COOPERMAN and GERSTENHABER if we're talking about money managers. If we're talking about business, it's like a zillion-way tie for last.
The Meriwether-Lynch/Malkmus-Bono analogy is great. How about Malkmus:Bono::Pryor:Cosby?
By the way, what is the story of Forego?
PRYOR-COSBY PERFECT!!!
Forego was sort of a Kelso-redux in the 1970s. Like Kelso, a gelding, hence the "nuts" pun. 4-time horse of the year I think.
Always liked the (mis-spelled) name. And despite that the English word "forgo" as fallen out of favor, it's Spanish equivalents "paso" or "vale" have the carry the same connotation: "WHATEVER" to not give a shit, but a polite and a wry but not hostile sense.
Follow up on the Davydenko thing. While Davy is in a class by himself, there are two other possible dumpers to watch out for: GASHVILI of the FSR Georgia and Volandri of Itly.
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