Phil Helmuth- Biggest Baby with the Most WSOP bracelets

While watching Poker after Dark on NBC to help go to sleep I couldn't help but ask myself, "why can't Phil Helmuth just quit his crying?"

Phil Helmuth is one of the most decorated poker players in the world. He's won 11 World Series of poker bracelets which have all come in Texas Hold'em which ranks first all time in front of Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan who have 10 bracelets. Phil is one of best cash game specialists out there. But whenever you watch one poker show that has Phil in it, one thing is constant with him: Phil can't lose with one bit of dignity without giving a speech and crying. Let me give you the two examples that I saw tonight.

Example 1: In a hand with Brian Adams(not the singer) Phil had pocket 10's and raised before the flop about $4500. Adams called and the flop came Q-2-4 with two clubs on the board. Phill bets about $7500, then Adams comes back over the top and raises $35000 more. This is when Phil thinks he has the best hand but couldn't risk the call and folds. Adams turns over the 10-7 of clubs and shows a great bluff. Phil then proceeds to berate Adams for even being in the hand, and on several occasions he calls Adams a "moron". Hey keeps saying that he wants Adams to do that when two clubs weren't on the board. Here's the thing Phil, you got bluffed out of a hand by a better player. Why don't you show some class and say nice play instead of embarassing yourself and looking like a 2 year old.

Example 2: New comer David Peat plays K-9 off suit. Phil has A-K offsuit and raises to $6000 before the flop. Peat calls and the flop comes K-6-2. Phil makes a bet of $12000. Peat makes the call. The turn comes a 9. This gives Peat two pair and Phil bets about $6000. Peat re-raises all-in for over $50000 and Phil calls and when the cards get flipped over, you could actually see Helmuth's brain explode. Phil then goes on to lose all of his money and let David Peat know that him and Adams are both morons and that he was playing the best at the table and he decided that he was going to take his ball and go home when everybody started to laugh and taunt him. Phil doesn't like having his own medicine.

So when you watch Phil Helmuth on tv poker and he starts into one of these cry baby fits just remember that he is the best hold'em player in the world and he doesn't deserve this type of luck. (I wish you could see the sarcasm on my face while I wrote that). One of these days Phils going to cry and somebody is going to need to grab him, slap him, and tell him that he is only 2 years old and to QUIT embarassing himself.

The best player to not be in the hall of fame???

When I think of all the players that have been voted into the baseball hall of fame, there has been the biggest omission in our lives: Ron Santo. As I sit here and watch the great movie "This Old Cub" and it goes through the trials and tribulations of Santo, I think to myself with all of the sucess this man has had in his career how is it that every year that there was a vote from the committees that vote on inductions, how is he not already in the HOF? Santo who played with the Cubs through his entire career was ranked second in fielding percentage behind a certain HOF third baseman named Brooks Robinson. Now I know that he didn't put up the flashiest of numbers (Over 300 HR's and 1500 RBI's which ranked 5th all time for RBI's) through out his career, but his stats rivaled those of some of the HOF's that we have in there now. He won a couple of division titles with the Cubs, he even made several all star teams in his career and he even became the youngest captain of the Chicago Cubs at age 23. The one thing that avoided him was a world series title. Now that I have told you most everything about his career, there is one more thing about him that should have gotten him into the Hall, that is that Ron Santo had to deal with having Type 1 diabetes. If you have ever known somebody that's had the disease you know that person has to take shots every couple of hours to regulate their blood sugar levels. So as a baseball player that is playing at the top of his game in the '60's and '70's to also have to deal with the disease that would eventually take both of his legs, that is one of the toughest SOB's that have ever played the game that is not in the HOF.

Now when there are such great HOF's like Hank Aaron and Willy McCovey saying that this man needs to be in the HOF, don't you think that the senior committee needs to listen and induct one of the greatest Cubs and best ball players of the '60's and '70's in. YOU BET YOUR ASS THEY DO!!! SO VOTE HIM IN ALREADY, and give this Cub one more day in the sun before we lose the great man.