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The real "story" behind Mark Madsen's most recent blog post is his reaction to the news that California has hired Mike Montgomery as the head coach of their men's basketball program. But there's a much funnier story hidden within the post, even if both of them stem from the fact that he can't really figure out whether or not he likes the school.

All I can remember about UC Berkeley is hostility. One time one of our walk on players from the East Bay almost got into an altercation with a UC Berkeley fan even before the game started! I think the fan threatened a lawsuit or someting. Then last year someone actually hijacked my Gmail email account! The sad thing was that I could see when he was online through the "Chat" functionality from another one of my gmail accounts. I 'chatted' with him online to my "old" account and threatened to get the FBI, CIA and every law enforcement agency possible on his tail unless he gave me back my account. Finally he releneted [sic] and sent me a message: 'You can have your email account back, the new password is 'UCBerkeley.''

There's just so much to love about this story. First, Madsen is technologically savvy enough to run his own website with a blog which he posts on "moderately". But the way in which he describes "the 'Chat' functionality" (as if the common person that might read the MadDogBlog doesn't know what gchat is) and then slaps quotation marks on "chatted" is just hysterical.

Funnier than that though, is that these normal Cal students are essentially picking on an NBA player -- he's like Squeak in BASEketball or something. And his only recourse? To make ridiculous threats about the FBI and CIA to this person, as opposed to saying "Dude, I'm an professional basketball player ... give me my email account before I buy your life or have you beat down", and assume that someone smart enough to get into Cal and hack a Gmail account doesn't know those threats are just ridiculous.

I also feel like I should point out that Mad Dog is trying to cash in on this "internet" "phenomenon" by putting Google Ads on his site, but with someone this clueless it almost doesn't seem worth it to make fun of him anymore. Plus, he might call the FBI on me.