"Not only will Josh Towers lose the baseball game, he will give up a bomb to Barry Bonds...if he gets within a foot of the plate Bonds will put it in the lake." - The Dan, on his show yesterday morning.

Now, I was not correct with the part of the lake but when you get to watch the great Josh Towers as much as I do you become graced with the knowledge that allows you to make easy predictions like that one.  It still feels good to be right on the money sometimes, with the lake exception.  There I got extra cocky.  Oh well.

- Ichiro's quote that he'd rather punch himself than go to Cleveland was absolutely hysterical.  Has this guy always been a total comedian or is this something he picked up while he was learning the angles in Center Field?  All I know is that was one funny line and he should come up with more gems for us to read.

- The fight woke Carlos Zambrano up.  That was something I called last week on my show as well.  Sometimes when guys are underacheiving they need to blow off some steam and do something like that.  Remember in 2002 when Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent got into a scrap in the dugout?  Well after that incident Kent started to catch fire and started hitting like the best player in the game.  I'm not suggesting that players who are underperforming should fight a teammate but sometimes guys need to do something to wake themselves up.  Randy Johnson did that in 1998 just before he was traded to Houston.  He was high and tight to Kenny Lofton, who still loves to #### about pitches not even close to hitting him.  Unit was yelling that it was a slider (and it was), then was high and tight again which got him ejected, benches cleared and he was angry.  Right after that start Johnson was a machine and had an incredible second half.  I expect to see the same thing go down for a Zambrano who's chasing a fat contract and wants to prove that he can keep himself together when the chips are down.

- The US Open is wide open this year in my mind.  With Phil's wrist and Tiger's lack of unquestionable dominance opens doors for the rest of the field to walk through.  I know I've talked about this already but the closer we approach the more I think there could be a US Open champion not named Phil or Eldrick.  As for Tiger, I wonder how the process of fatherhood has changed him?  Not to say that it has prohibited him from being focused on golf but this is a new thing for him and now he does not have his father to lean on for advice.  Then again, he could win the US Open and all the questions can be thrown out.

- Asante Samuel must be locked up by the New England Patriots in order to be the favourite to win the Super Bowl.  They have always had question marks on their secondary dating back to when Ty Law got injured during their 3rd and final championship title run of their dynasty.  Without Samuel, an injury to Rodney Harrison this season will prove costly.  This is not the wide receiver position where they can let a guy walk, this is defense where you can't rely on others to step up and replace what Samuel brings to the table.  He's also very young with a very bright future ahead of him which makes me think New England would be nuts not to sign him.

- Game 3 tonight between San Antonio and Cleveland, and I made a prediction today that Cleveland would jump out to an early lead and barely hang on to win.  Pretty far out there huh?  Well if there was any game Cleveland would steal it would be this one.  They have the fan support plus if LeBron drops 30 they have a chance to win the game.  This game will all hinge on how they can stop the big 3 on San Antonio from scoring and the role players on Cleveland stepping their game up.  The way the series has gone so far, this may be their only win of the series because San Antonio looks as hungry as ever. 

I know I've cracked Larry Hughes a lot despite his injured foot.  However, he has been dissapointing the entire season and has gotten worse with the injury.  Clearly somewhere down the line he was healthy and playing like horseshit.  Well at least he's been consistent.

- Jerry Buss' kid needs to drink some shut up juice and stop ruining things for his dad.

- I don't care if JR Smith is 21, 16 or 40, you need to stop at the stop sign.  When you disobey the laws of the road you run the risk of doing serious damage to your car and whoever is inside of it.  Nobody knows what kind of automobile crash lies ahead of them but you are more likely safer in a vehicle when you obey the rules of the road.   You may blame it on youth, I blame it on irresponsibility and stupidity.  You don't have to be older to know better, otherwise the laws of a 16 year old being a licensed driver would change to 18, 19 or even 21.  That won't happen, so he should know better than to run a stop sign.

Now, because his friend is now dead there could be some problems down the road where he could be liable.  This reminds me of Dany Heatley of the Atlanta Thrashers.  Heatley was speeding along with his high performance car and hit a brick wall, killing his friend Dan Snyder.  The Snyder family pleaded to be lenient on Heatley and they were.  Will the law and the victim's family be so forgiving for Smith?  Maybe, but there was a debate amongst a few people I know regarding both incidences and some feel Smith will be worse off than Heatley and racism could be one of many reasons.  That's up to you to decide.

- Speaking of hockey, lots of people are throwing out the changes that need to be made for hockey to succeed.  Question is, if they get on a major TV network what will that do?  Will people all of a sudden start watching?  No, so why would a major network bother with the NHL when they know people won't watch?  It would not make any sense for a TV company to give hockey the time or day to give them reasons why they should be on TV over shows that people may actually watch.  Little changes like pushing the nets back closer to the backboards like they did years ago and ending the season before June is a start.  But there are a lot of tweaks that must be made before anyone can take the game serious again.

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