First off, I would like to give thanks to God. Without him none of us would be here.

WELL now that I got that out of the way.........

No matter if you are in the West coast office, the East coast office, the Norcal office, or the Socal office, or even the South American wooden un-air-conditioned shack that I am in, the biggest sports story around has easily been an epic battle between two great titans. No, I am not talking about Wilbon vs Korheiser, or Yankees vs. Red Sox, or even the short Mexican fan in the Pistons jersey vs. Jermaine O´Neil's sliding right handed punch. What I am talking about instead is something far more complex, much more difficult to grasp, and really something that I can go back and forth with on a weekly basis.

Kobe vs. Barry. Who do you dislike the most?

OK, now I know that there are variations of this topic. For example we could go with things like ¨Who is the worst human being?¨or ¨Who is the most arrogant?¨ or even ¨Who would you rather see being forced to loose all their money, and work at a movie theater collecting ticket stubs for the rest of their lives¨ But for my guest blog I will just go with the basic ¨Who do you dislike the most¨ It is simple, basic, and for the most part it gets to the point.

For me, at first, it was obviously Barry. Kobe was the young kid winning championships, saying all the right things, smiling, and even though he married a hood rat from Long Beach, (yes she really is from long beach, ugh) he was still bearable. Barry, on the other hand, was Barry. His head was beginning to grow, ( literally, as we can now prove) he was as arrogant as can be, and the more homeruns he hit, the more unlikable he became.

BUT THEN, Kobe raped some white girl and the pendulum started to switch.( by the way have you notice that you cant refer to her as the girl her raped, but it has to be the white girl that she raped. I had a conversation with my Chilean friend the other day and even she was like ¿que le paso a la chica blanca?)

Anyways, he forced out Shaq and Phil so that he could have his own team, yet he still tried to pretend that he was Mr. Innocent, a victim in the whole situation, and he started to show up at kids choice awards wearing Martin Luther King shirts and talking about injustice. So fake. So So fake. I mean really, could there BE anyone more fake then Kobe Bryant. ( alright how bout John Kerry in the hunting outfit. maybe? maybe??? ouch)

At this point I was like, well, at least Barry is Real, he NEVER tries to pretend he is a good guy, and not caring what other people think is kinda cool.

So I kinda hated Kobe more.

BUT THEN, this past couple of weeks, it was finally proven that Barry was on the juice. We were all thinking it, and now we all know it. Barry in his testimony claims he ¨didn't know¨ he was taking steroids, and for the past week we have all been forced to look at all sorts of old, skinny, Barry photos with him and his Hitler mustaches. Barry is now a Liar and a Cheater, and really all of his arrogance seams quite insane now considering for the last 6 years he has probably been more juiced up then Lyle Alzado. I mean really, does anyone really thing that he would have hit that Moon shot off of Troy Perceval in game two of the World Series if didnt have the same ¨trainer¨ as Vince McMahon.

Stop being such a jerk Barry. There is a reason why you have more HRs then anyone else, and it has NOTHING to do with you being better then everyone else.

So for a couple of weeks I kinda hated Barry more.

BUT THEN, the other day Kobe goes out of his way to insult Karl Malone, who only one year after coming over from the hated Utah Jazz, easily became the most popular player on Team Dysfunctional last year. Because of Kobe, Karl basically kicks the Lakers to the curb, and once again every Laker fan can question who does this guy think he is?

The reasons why these two are ridiculous are for a different blog, however the one thing that I do know is that the debate regarding who is easier to hate is still very strong. Between Barry and Kobe there is a lot to dislike, and I for one am just getting started.