Torii Hunter says baseball is clean, the Big 12 rocks and Shawn Kemp pulls out early

(Nikki Giavasis: one of Shawn Kemp’s many babies’ mommas…)

QUITE FRANKLIER is TWWL’s mid-day breakdown.

The news shouldn’t be shocking exactly, and it doesn’t appear to be. However, the fact that one of MLB’s stars is finally saying what the fans have been saying for the past few years is kinda nice. Torii Hunter gave his thoughts on why this year posted the lowest homerun-per-game average baseball has seen since the early 1990s. I bet you can guess why…

To all of you elitist fools who suck on the Southeastern Conference teet and tout it as the far-and-away best college football conference: suck it. The latest Associated Press poll is out, and features three Big 12 teams in the top five – including Oklahoma at No. 1. Missouri is four and Texas five, with Alabama (inexplicably moving from 8 to 2. Granted, they beat the UGA poop out of the ‘Dawgs, but six spots????) and LSU sandwhiched in the middle of OU and Missouri. The Big 12, with its slew of quarterbacks, high-powered offenses, quirky coaches and athletes galore, is the place to be these days for college football.

Former NBA All-star and baby-maker deluxe Shawn Kemp’s attempt at a comeback is over. Kemp, 38, was trying to resurrect a career that had been dead as long as Al Davis. He went home to Houston and never came back, so the Italian team cut him…before he ever played. Hey, give Kemp some credit – he almost made it to the start of the season. Maybe his life would have been better off had he learned to pull out early in other life situations.