Not enough to do an entire post on one topic, so here is a little bit of everything:
Loved hearing about Fresno State winning the college world series last night upsetting Georgia 6-1. Great story to see them win the National Title, and being 6-0 in elimination games in the entire tournament.
Jermaine O'Neal to the Toronto Raptors for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic and the 17th pick is a good deal for both teams. The Raptors get a big man to play down in the post and sit there and rebound the entire game long, and it takes a lot of pressure off Chris Bosh and Andrea Bargniani who were playing the inside game. The Pacers get an excellent point guard in Ford and the possibility o####reat player with the draft pick. Nesterovic was just a throw in to make the salaries match up, but he could turn out to be a good player for Indiana.
If the Miami Heat don't take Michael Beasley with the second overall pick in the draft this will be the biggest passover since the Raptors took the stiff Rafael Araujo with a ton of good palyers still on the board.
The whole Javon Walker saga has become a little tired. After his BS excuse that he was mugged at his hotel room and dragged to a car and dumped in the street was completely believeable. Now we have testimony that he willingly got into someones car and then was dropped off in the street. I was on Javon Walker for bad decision making when this stroy broke, then I dismissed that totally implausible story, and now the truth has come out. Okay, time to move on.
I love interleague play, and when I hear people say the schedule is un-balanced and un-fair need to look at baseball as an entire sport. It is the most un-fair sport in the world. Different parks have different dimensions, some parks have different nuances to them (Houston has a hill in centre field and Fenway has the Monster). The schedule has been un-balanced for a long time. The AL EAst plays the Yankees and Red Sox 18 times each, while other AL teams play them about six-nine times a season. The Cubs get to play the Pirates 18 times a season. Baseball on the whole is the most un-fair sport on the planet.
Stop beating me over the head with somone dunking in the WNBA. When Candace Parker throws one down on someones head and doesn't just let it fall over the rim, call me.
4.Mugged at his hotel and dragged to a car? Not.
That's not believable, unless he was staying at the Motel 8.
5. The sad thing about interleague is the AL pitchers in the batters box.
6. We've not allowed to comment on how lame WNBA semi-dunks are or we're labeled haters. WNBA dunks ARE lame. They can be compared to NBA dunks, since a dunk is a dunk. Lame. I used to throw down like that in high school. Mine were lame, too.
Husker, not in Felix Hernandez' case. Hernandez CRUSHED a 440-foot, tape-measure grand slam off Santana. And he hit it to the OPPOSITE FIELD. He was the first AL pitcher to hit a grand slam since 1971, and the first Mariners pitcher in franchise history to hit a grand salami. If given the opportunity, I bet some of the AL pitchers could rake. But if the DH were put in the National League, pitchers like Micah Owings and the Big Z would be denied the opportunity to rake. (Both pitchers are also used as pinch hitters by their respective teams)
