I see what you are saying. I can tell he tasted life and been down many roads and done many things. I appreciate that and it is a breathe of fresh air next to 10 articles about the same damn thing and the plethora of ads.
HOWEVER...remember back 3 yrs ago...he promised some earth shattering new supplement him and colker were designing and promised in a very near upcoming issue he will reveal it...nothing. He never told us who 'Lizzy' was. One issue he swore the NEXT issue he would tell us who beat the piss out of Tom Platz in the parking lot of Gold's...nothing.
I likehis views on life, women and relationships...in a way but his new angle of political insight is'nt too special. He's conservative and a little bit of a Libertarian but he isnt some untapped mega political idealist. No way...he feels the same about the usual topics that pretty much every meathead at my gym feels.
His jokes are boring and trite and his subliminal endorsements/plugs suck. I bet Gaspari is still selling halodrol now because of it.
I think he has to keep it on BB and forget trying to self-depricate. I am a fan of thatkind of humor but he is NO Rodney Dangerfield...just a faded carbon copy of him with an even more faded base of material.
...Blockhead, I'm glad to see I'm not the only 'once a fan' of Valentino's. His article is just garbage. I didn't mind the actual stories about bodybuilding in the 80's, but goya beans? Shart stories? Shouts to jailhouse homies? GOYA BEANS???
Gregg needs to save some face. He has ZERO cred and yet his article wastes around 10 "good" MD pages.
He also has NEVER delivered on any of his article 'promises'....first, his bloated arms with steroids, oil, horse piss....his 'secret' concoction with Colker....the identity of Lizzy...just more and more crap about Klein's ass and his disrespect to some made-up ho named "Mercedes".
If I ever met Valentino, I'd feel very sorry for him. Then I'd hand him a can of Goya beans and remind him how his legacy to bodybuilding (a sport he doesn't even LIKE) will be his nonsense tales of falling asleep while jerking off his steroid-destroyed non-existant (as he likes to constantly remind his readers) "dick".
MD needs CHANGES...there's your first, Romano.