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Danke Schoen

Tuesday, September 10th, 2019

Unlike in New York, in Las Vegas Max made friends quick.

By 1977 he was running security for Birdie’s burgeoning escort service empire which consisted of an old crack whore named Connie and a semi-retarded 17-year-old.

Security consisted of Max hiding behind the trailer with a baseball bat hoping the johns didn’t get out of line.

Between 1979 and 1985 James “Birdie” Wallace became the biggest importer and distributor of cocaine in Clark County, NV.

He helped Las Vegas become known as “Sin City.”

He supplied coke to everyone who supplied coke to everyone in Las Vegas: dealers, valets, bartenders, taxi drivers, strippers, whores, hotel managers, stars and performers.

Steve & Edie, Phyllis Dyller, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Brando, Eric Estrada, Goldie Hawn: either directly or indirectly, Max Steingrout sold cocaine to them all.

If you did blow in Las Vegas in the early ’80s it probably came from someone who got it from someone who go it from Birdie Wallace.

Birdie Wallace’s cocaine.

Peru was the world’s leading producer of cocaine. The Colombian traffickers turned it into a dirty, bloody business and the cartel cocaine wars turned violent. This spelled the end for ’60’s pacifists like Las Vegas’ Birdie Wallace.

He didn’t have the stomach for the rough stuff.

Birdie made too many people nervous and he started to make too much money.

Birdie was fine doing the hustle, rolling a junkie or slapping around an under-aged runaway hooker, but once he started to move mountains of coke and make the kind of money reserved for Wayne Newton, he no longer knew his place.

One day he flew away.

Allegedly with a bullet to the back of his head in the back of an El Dorado.

Danke schoen.

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Vegas

Friday, September 6th, 2019

In 1976 Las Vegas was a mob town.

Everything was clean.

Everything was tidy.

Everyone knew their place.

No one wore flip-flops or tank tops in the casinos.

Young, junkie bottom feeders were allowed to exist. They served a purpose. They were consumers.

They also took care of one another, sort of like a black market Department of Social Services.

“Welcome to Las Vegas, Pilgrim!”

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Yearling

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Local, Upstate New York bookies and cops persuaded him to take his talents away from Chemung County.

Late bloomer, 19 year old Max Steingrout exalted in the exhaust fumes of the Las Vegas Trailways bus station.

Birdie Wallace noticed him immediately. He had seen a hundred, a thousand of kids like him. He was just what he was looking for.

Max hid his money in his shoes and his socks in his pants.

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Man Out of Time

Monday, February 12th, 2018

Man out of time Max Steingrout, like Icarus, flew too close to the sun.

The Nevada Gaming Commission believed him to be the mob-connected lynchpin responsible for manipulating the outcome of hundreds, if not thousands, of college and professional basketball games.

In reality, the mob rode Steingrout like a painted show pony.

Although too much drinking, smoking, drugging, and whoring had taken their toll, he could still read the writing on the wall.

He fled south of the border.

Upon his return to Las Vegas, Max the Junkie had lost his nerve, his mind, and his soul.

He became the mark for the tourists, junkies, pimps and prostitutes he once so proudly preyed upon.

Faces were the same but the names had changed, perhaps to protect the innocent.

Max knew there were no innocents.

For money, he wandered The Strip in a methadone fog forcing escort brochures into the hands of unsuspecting old ladies and wide-eyed children.

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Escape from Las Vegas

Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Vegas neon seared his dilated retinas.

Colors splashed his brain turning tourists into lizards.

The heat was hot on his trail.

He had been awake for 2 days fueled by acid, amphetamine, coffee, cigarettes, and an overactive imagination. He realized it was time to go south.

Associate, Dick Wheeler, warned him that the gravy days were over. If he didn’t leave on his own accord he would be leaving in a Clark County coroner’s body bag.

They had ways of making accidents happen to people. Max had seen it first hand.

There was James “Birdie” Wallace, Tony “The Ant” Spilotro, and even Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s El Dorado exploded as he turned the key to his ignition.

Lefty was lucky to be alive.

So was Max.

No one had to tell him twice.

Indictments were being handed down and entries made into the Vegas Black Book.

Attorney, and future Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman said: “The only way to beat the Black Book is to drop dead before the hearing.”

Max, armed only with an ounce of Peruvian flake, liquid LSD, half pack of Luckies, and a quart of Wild Turkey, pointed his Ford Pinto southbound.

Cocaine eyes darted from rear view mirror to highway horizon back to rear view mirror.

Next stop: Tijuana.

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Methadone

Friday, January 3rd, 2014

Upon his inglorious return to Las Vegas, Max the Junkie stared into the lumpy bowl of oatmeal and searched for meaning.

Unable to eat, methadone dulled his brain senseless.

Developed by the Third Reich, because war-torn Germany required a reliable internal source of opiates, Max found getting off methadone twice as hard as coming off heroin.

The monkey on his back mocked him as he climbed the walls and suffered vomiting, sweating, diarrhea, nausea, panic attacks, itching, stomach pains, constipation, headaches, skin rashes, urination problems, hallucinations and insomnia.

Helpless, hopeless and without any joy, his trademark exuberance was gone.

Vegas didn’t seem the same and Max didn’t feel the same.

The neon glow dulled. The cacophony of slot machines, black jack, craps, roulette wheels, pit bosses, dealers, winners, losers, waitresses, valets and call girls incongruously blended into a hum of white noise leaving Max feeling alone and left out.

He was depressed.

For money he resorted to pay phone coin returns. Meager earnings disappeared into penny and nickel one armed bandits.

Win or lose, it didn’t matter.

NFL Playoff Locks –

Kansas City +1.5 @ Indianapolis W

Philadelphia -2.5 vs New Orleans L

Cincinnati -6.5 vs San Diego L

San Francisco -2.5 @ Green Bay W

TCh NFL Locks ™ vs Spread (121 – 127 – 7) (.488%)

Disclaimer: The Chickenhawk’s NFL Locks™ are not for entertainment purposes. They are for making you serious amounts of ca$h. Remember: the more you bet, the more you win.

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Paint Chips

Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

Like a moth to a flame, Toddler Steingrout gravitated toward soda, candy, paint chips, magic markers and glue. Anything that changed the way he felt.

In 1976, 19-year-old Huckleberry Steingrout arrived in Vegas with a lack of self-control, an addictive personality, a lust for life & an affinity for inhalants.

Never proud & afflicted with undiagnosed ADD, Max spent the cocaine-fueled late 70′s & early ’80′s doing any sub-human job Vegas had to offer. A man’s got to eat, a junkie’s got to get high, and a bettor’s got to bet.

Binge drinking betting orgies resulted in syphilis of the bank and Max resorted to canvassing the Vegas strip handing out escort brochures to tourists. A little action on the side.

They say it’s darkest right before the dawn and in Max’s case it’s true.

In 1986 luminary, Jake “The Fizz” Fizzario (RIP) shot across the Las Vegas desert sky like a comet intersecting with, and brightening Max Steingrout’s life.

Together, they turned Las Vegas upside down with “The System,” culminating in Max Steingrout’s exodus south of the border.

The Fizz (RIP) was done. Max was done. “The System” was done and, in Mr. Steingrout’s opinion, Las Vegas was done.

The corporate takeover was complete. The last vestiges of Meyer Lansky’s crew were run out of town with Lefty Rosenthal & Co.

All these years later, is Max bitter?

No.

He’s just happy to be alive.

TCh World Famous NFL Power Rankings: Week 16

1. (2. 3.) Seattle Seahawks (12 – 2) (10 – 4) +ll+ -w+ w -+++++

2. (1. 1.) Denver Broncos (11 – 3) (9 – 5) +l++ -w – l++wlw

3. (5. 21.) Kansas City Chiefs (11 – 3) (8 – 6) +w ll +l – – +w – – ++

4. (6. 2.) San Francisco 49ers (10 – 4) (8 – 4 – 2) + – – ++p+l -pllw+

5. (3. 4.) New England Patriots (10 – 4) (6 – 8 ) – – ll -+w++ – +ww –

6. (4. 8.) New Orleans Saints (10 – 4) (8 – 4 – 1) l- +++w+ – lp+wlw

7. (8. 19.) Carolina Panthers (10 – 4) (7 – 7) w- l – +lllllw+ – w

8. (7. 14.) Cincinnati Bengals (9 – 5) (9 – 5) ++ l – ll++w-+l+ –

9. (9. 16.) Indianapolis Colts (9 – 5) (8 – 6) – – – + lwl+ -+w+w+

10. (11. 26.) Arizona Cardinals (9 – 5) (9 – 2 – 4) +l w – lp wlpl+plp

11. (12. 9.) Chicago Bears (8 – 6) (5 – 7 – 1) w- l – w -w++p -ll+

12. (14. 15.) Baltimore Ravens (8 – 6) (7 – 6 – 1) w+ l – ++ – -lp+ – – +

13. (16. 20.) Miami Dolphins (8 – 6) (9 – 5) +llww – w+ -+++l –

14. (10. 22.) Philadelphia Eagles (8 – 6) (7 – 6 – 1) lw – w llw -+++p+ –

15. (17. 5.) Green Bay Packers (7 – 6 – 1) (5 – 8 ) wl – lwll -www+ l

16. (13. 13.) Dallas Cowboys (7 – 7) (8 – 6 ) l+ + – ll+l- -l – – –

17. (15. 17.) Detroit Lions (7 – 7) (7 – 7) + – l l -lw -w – +ww

18. (18. 25.) San Diego Chargers (7 – 7) (8 – 6) l+ – – – + +wwwl – ++

19. (21. 12.) Pittsburgh Steelers (6 – 8 ) (7 – 7) –w– wllww+l+l – l

20. (22. 24.) St. Louis Rams (6 – 8 ) (7 – 7) wwww+l – + -ll – – +

21. (19. 28.) New York Jets (6 – 8 ) (8 – 6) +l+ – l- +wl-wwl+

22. (20. 10.) New York Giants (5 – 9) (6 – 8 ) – – – – – l+l++ -+ww

23. (26. 29.) Buffalo Bills (5 – 9) (7 – 7) llwlwllwwwlw – l

24. (23. 30.) Tennessee Titans (5 – 9 ) (7 – 5 – 2) llllw+wlwplwwp

25. (29. 23.) Minnesota Vikings (4 – 9 – 1) (7 – 6) wl – +ww -llwlll

26. (30. 6.) Atlanta Falcons (4 – 10) (5 – 9) -+ – – – + – – w – +++w

27. (24. 18.) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4 – 10 ) (6 – 8 ) wl – – -w – llllwlw

28. (25. 27.) Cleveland Browns (4 – 10 ) (5 – 9) wwll – – llww – +w

29. (27. 31.) Oakland Raiders (4 – 10 ) (6 – 8 ) llwwl – +lll – l -w

30. (28. 32.) Jacksonville Jaguars (4 – 10 ) (5 – 9) w- – ww+w – + – lll –

31. (31. 11.) Washington Redskins (3 – 11) (4 – 10 ) – – – + – + – + -w -ww+

32. (32. 7.) Houston Texans (2 – 12) (2 – 12 – 1) – – – ww – wwp – – + -w

TCh Power Rankings ™ utilize Lefty Rosenthal’s Plus/Minus system reflecting a combination of record and perception.

legend:

(previous week ranking. pre-season ranking) (record) (record vs. spread)

+ (plus): bet on & won

– (minus) : bet on & lost

w (w): bet against & won

l (l): bet against & lost

p (p): push

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Steingrout

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

In 1976, at the tender age of 19, Upstate New York refugee, huckleberry Max Steingrout, arrived at the Las Vegas Trailways bus terminal.

By 1987 he was a Las Vegas lifer. A hanger on, a degenerate, a chain smoker, a drunk, a drug addict and most important, to the establishment which allowed him to exist in the first place, a gambling addict.

He lost more than he won.

In spite of the smell, the sports books tolerated Max, as long as it wasn’t convention season & as long as he didn’t bother the girls.

In 1987, for the first time in his sordid gambling career, Max Steingrout started to win & win big.

Simultaneously, the Las Vegas Corporate Takeover had began.

Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was the target of FBI & Las Vegas Gaming Commission investigations.

In a last ditch effort to avoid indictment, & potential entry into The Black Book, Lefty Rosenthal looked at long time associate, Dick Wheeler, pointed at Max and said: ”Make that fucking prick The Chickenhawk.”

TCh World Famous NFL Power Rankings: Week 14

1. (1. 3.) Seattle Seahawks (11 – 1) (8 – 4) +ll+ -w+ w -+++

2. (2. 1.) Denver Broncos (10 – 2) (8 – 4) +l++ -w – l++wl

3. (5. 19.) Carolina Panthers (9 – 3) (7 – 5) w- l – +lllllw+

4. (6. 4.) New England Patriots (9 – 3) (6 – 6) – – ll -+w++ – +w

5. (3. 8.) New Orleans Saints (9 – 3) (7 – 4 – 1) l- +++w+ – lp+w

6. (4. 21.) Kansas City Chiefs (9 – 3) (6 – 6) +w ll +l – – +w – –

7. (7. 2.) San Francisco 49ers (8 – 4) (7 – 3 – 2) + – – ++p+l -pll

8. (8. 14.) Cincinnati Bengals (8 – 4) (8 – 4) ++ l – ll++w-+l

9. (10. 16.) Indianapolis Colts (8 – 4) (7 – 5) – – – + lwl+ -+w+

10. (12. 13.) Dallas Cowboys (7 – 5) (8 – 4) l+ + – ll+l- -l –

11. (13. 17.) Detroit Lions (7 – 5) (7 – 5) + – l l -lw -w – +

12. (14. 22.) Philadelphia Eagles (7 – 5) (6 – 5 – 1) lw – w llw -+++p

13. (9. 26.) Arizona Cardinals (7 – 5) (7 – 2 – 3) +l w – lp wlpl+p

14. (11. 9.) Chicago Bears (6 – 6) (3 – 7 – 1) w- l – w -w++p -l

15. (17. 15.) Baltimore Ravens (6 – 6) (6 – 5 – 1) w+ l – ++ – -lp+ –

16. (18. 20.) Miami Dolphins (6 – 6) (7 – 5) +llww – w+ -+++

17. (15. 5.) Green Bay Packers (5 – 6) (4 – 7) wl – lwll -www

18. (23. 10.) New York Giants (5 – 7) (6 – 6) – – – – – l+l++ -+

19. (16. 12.) Pittsburgh Steelers (5 – 7) (6 – 6) –w– wllww+l+l

20. (19. 24.) St. Louis Rams (5 – 7) (6 – 6) wwww+l – + -ll –

21. (20. 25.) San Diego Chargers (5 – 7) (6 – 6) l+ – – – + +wwwl –

22. (21. 28.) New York Jets (5 – 7) (6 – 6) +l+ – l- +wl-ww

23. (22. 30.) Tennessee Titans (5 – 7) (7 – 4 – 1) llllw+wlwplw

24. (24. 27.) Cleveland Browns (4 – 8 ) (4 – 8 ) wwll – – llww –

25. (25. 29.) Buffalo Bills (4 – 8 ) (6 – 6) llwlwllwwwlw

26. (26. 31.) Oakland Raiders (4 – 8 ) (6 – 6) llwwl – +lll – l

27. (29. 23.) Minnesota Vikings (3 – 8 ) (5 – 6) wl – +ww -llwl

28. (30. 6.) Atlanta Falcons (3 – 9 ) (4 – 8 ) -+ – – – + – – w – ++

29. (27. 11.) Washington Redskins (3 – 9) (3 – 9) – – – + – + – + -w -w

30. (28. 18.) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3 – 9) (5 – 7) wl – – -w – llllw

31. (32. 32.) Jacksonville Jaguars (3 – 9) (4 – 8 ) w- – ww+w – + – ll

32. (31. 7.) Houston Texans (2 – 10) (2 – 9 – 1) – – – ww – wwp – – +

TCh Power Rankings ™ utilize Lefty Rosenthal’s Plus/Minus system reflecting a combination of record and perception.

legend:

(previous week ranking. pre-season ranking) (record) (record vs. spread)

+ (plus): bet on & won

– (minus) : bet on & lost

w (w): bet against & won

l (l): bet against & lost

p (p): push

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Shiraz

Thursday, October 24th, 2013

Las Vegas, NV – 1987

Max Steingrout walked out of the Las Vegas Valley Rehab Hospital and needed a hit. He knew he was in trouble.

Back in his apartment he was soon cooking freebase and frying his brain. “Clean living is over-rated,” he told his rotting toothed, stale cigarette smelling, then girlfriend/crack whore, soon to be wife (#1), Shiraz.

“Besides,” he continued, “momma didn’t raise a quitter.”

Shiraz smiled, not because of Max’s funny, more so in anticipation of her next hit.

Max was back & ready to gamble.

NFL Locks – Week 8

Tampa Bay +6 vs Carolina L

Jacksonville +16.5 vs San Francisco L

Detroit -3 vs Dallas L

Philadelphia -5.5 vs NY Giants L

Kansas City -7 vs Cleveland L

New Orleans -11.5 vs Buffalo W

New England -6.5 vs Miami W

Cincinnati -6.5 vs NY Jets W

Oakland +2.5 vs Pittsburgh W

Washington +13 @ Denver L

Atlanta +2.5 @ Arizona L

Minnesota +9.5 vs Green Bay L

St. Louis +10.5 vs Seattle W

TCh NFL Locks ™ vs Spread (47 – 59 – 1) (.443%)

Disclaimer: The Chickenhawk’s NFL Locks™ are not for entertainment purposes. They are for making you serious amounts of ca$h. Remember: the more you bet, the more you win.

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Icarus

Thursday, September 19th, 2013

Man out of Time, Max Steingrout, like Icarus, flew too close to the sun.

The Nevada Gaming Commission believed him to be the mob-connected lynchpin responsible for manipulating the outcome of hundreds, if not thousands, of college and professional basketball games.

In reality, the mob rode Steingrout like a painted show pony.

Although too much drinking, smoking, drugging, and whoring had taken their toll, he could still read the writing on the wall.

He fled south of the border.

Upon his return to Las Vegas, Max the Junkie had lost his nerve, his mind, and his soul.

He became the mark for the tourists, junkies, pimps and prostitutes he once so proudly preyed upon.

Faces were the same but the names had changed, perhaps to protect the innocent.

Max knew there were no innocents.

For money, he wandered The Strip in a methadone fog forcing escort brochures into the hands of unsuspecting old ladies and wide-eyed children.

NFL Locks – Week 3

Philadelphia -3 vs Kansas City L

San Diego -3 @ Tennessee L

Minnesota -6.5 vs Cleveland L

Tampa Bay +7 @ New England L

Houston +2.5 @ Baltimore L

Dallas -4 vs St. Louis W

New Orleans -7 vs Arizona W

Washington -2.5 vs Detroit L

Green Bay -2.5 @ Cincinnati L

NY Giants +1 @ Carolina L

Atlanta +2.5 @ Miami L

Indianapolis +10 @ San Francisco W

Jacksonville +19.5 @ Seattle L

NY Jets -2.5 vs Buffalo W

Pittsburgh +2.5 vs Chicago L

Denver -15 vs Oakland W

TCh NFL Locks ™ vs Spread (14 – 18) (.438%)

Disclaimer: The Chickenhawk’s NFL Locks™ are not for entertainment purposes. They are for making you serious amounts of ca$h. Remember: the more you bet, the more you win.

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