I kind of realized the other day that while I title my Blog "Ramblings from a Desert Sun", I haven't done any rambling lately, I've been talking about specific things, so since I was overdue for a "rambling" blog, here you are...You are invited to comment or add to any of this:

***** If Greg Popovitch wants there to be a "trade committee" to handle proposed trades, shouldn't we also have an "official's committee" to handle proposed official misconduct?

***** Am I the only one who feels that it's bad enough we have to listen to these politician simper and shine us on in order to get us to vote for them (primaries) but now we have to listen to them simper and shine us on regarding steroids and baseball?  Find me a news channel where they are not talking about either the senate committee hearings or the primaries and I will gladly tune in.  Meantime I'm just changing the channel.

***** Does anyone actually feel better about this whole Roger Clemens shindig?  Look, if took the 'roids, he took the 'roids, if he didn't he didn't, but someone please tell me why *I* should care what a millionaire sports figure does when millions of us blue collar people show up for work just as wired on energy drinks and caffeine tablets as these guys are in the games?   Face facts politicians, the genie is out of the bottle, and she ain't getting back in, so stop wasting our time, please.

***** Do you think the NBA will ever stop trying to "spruce up" the slam dunk contest and get back to making it what it SHOULD be in the first place, that being the guy who can most effectively and crowd pleasingly dunk the damn ball?  Though I must admit I am curious to see what kind of plot twist they have in mind this year (it's going to be better than the latest Stephen King novel that's a lock!)

***** So Bill Walton thinks the Shaq trade is a joke, eh?  Gee, I wonder if that is because his son plays for the Lakers? LOL

***** Speaking of which, WHY, after all these years, do we STILL have this whole Kobe/Shaq thing going on?  Are the sportswriters THAT lazy now that they have to dredge up this old wive's tale?  It's the sort of thing that's like Paris Hilton - she's famous for WHAT again?  Kobe/Shaq - we are talking about this again for WHAT reason?  Because no one has anything better to do, probably.

***** Things that make go BLEH!  I wonder if, when Britney Spears gets outta the psycho ward, she would take a flyer at Tony Romo for a quick one nighter.  What the heck, she could use a little popular press these days, and who better than ol stick em and lose em Romo!?  (I was going to say Tom Brady but then I realized Brady has better taste in women)

***** Speaking of Brady, back when he FIRST made the Super Bowl, the ESPN shorts about the Brady Bunch were...semi amusing.  After the FOURTH time of this particular running joke, they are...definitely butt ugly bad.  I guess the writer's strike hit ESPN too, since they drug out that whole pack of nightmares again.  (By the way, how many of you really thought he was a member of the Brady Bunch? - Can you picture him running naked through the house, yelling Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! I'm ONLY you're half brother!)

***** So the pro bowl ratings were up this year.  And the crowd goes....mild. 

***** People who like to think the worst of corporate america should, respectfully, take a good look at the NFL.  Those teams with corporate contacts, coupled with the corporate educated sons and daughters of the old guard of NFL team owners, have managed to turn what was once the most mediocre pro sport in America into a ratings juggernaut, that actualy has some parity in it, even the WORST teams in the NFL bring in better ratings than the best teams in Baseball and the NBA (with some exceptions, I grant you).  Maybe instead of trying to be like the old Feudal Lords of Europe, who wanted to horde all the power and not share a thing, MLB and the NBA should look at how effective a model the NFL has, and how much sharing the power has benefitted their league.  Nothing is perfect, I grant you, and the NFL has a LOT of problems underneath the glitz, but on the whole, the NFL is a much better pro sports league (in my opinion) than either MLB or the NBA.  And apparently a lot of America agrees with that opinion based on the ratings.

***** Another thing MLB and the NBA should look at as an issue that the NFL has addressed.  Accountability.  The NFL is the ONLY league that publicly and routinely takes their officials to task for screwing something up.  Their officials are not sacred cows, they are sacrificial lambs, and the other two leagues should take notes.

***** Last one for today:  Take a moment and look around at the Sports world of today.  Anyone notice it's becoming a lot like a political arena?  You got public figures always in this or that scandal, lies and half truths, no accountability, and everyone thinks it's all a big conspiracy. 

Makes ME wanna vote....

Thanks for reading!!

Dal