First thing is first, congratulations to loyal reader and new father, Clydesdale. Your life is forever changed, my friend. There's no better feeling in the world than holding your baby for the first time. I wish you nothing but the best.
Onto the turd, or in Clydesdale's case, meconium (WARNING: the wiki has a picture and like that first step, it's a doooozy. BING!)
Jamal Crawford
If you have the guts to throw the ball off the backboard to yourself in a game, you'd better make the ensuing dunk.
I give the Bobcats credit for not being stricken with hysterics and falling down on the court searching for paper bags to regulate their breathing with. This is the equivalent of the guy at the park calling for isolation and then dribbling the ball off his foot. Actually, that's a terrible comparison, it's much worse.
"You douchebags bring your A-game?" Much better.
Lute Olsen
Let me preface what's coming next with this...I loathe U of A. As a graduate of ASU and resident of Phoenix for 25 years, it's what I've been programmed to do. The Old Brown Town isn't good enough for a cultured Phoenician such as myself. However, something is bothering me and I feel the need to unburden myself.
What Lute Olsen has done to his basketball program and the University of Arizona is beyond wrong. In fact, it's ridiculous. The minute Lute came out with news of his leave of absence, the team may as well have canceled the season. It's been that bad.
The constant speculation has been an unwanted distraction to a team already full of flaws and the Wildcats' performance has suffered thusly. The kids he recruited, the University, the city of Tucson, Kevin O'Neill, and especially the legacy Lute and his late wife built deserve better.
Lute needs to extend himself and everyone involved the courtesy of making a final decision and ending the speculation on his and the program's future. It certainly isn't fair for Kevin O'Neill to put in the time and effort (including lecturing unruly fans) only to be strung along.
Part of me is happy things have gone this way, as the Sun Devils not only got an early-season victory in Tempe over the Wildcats, but also went down the 10 and put a rare beating on U of A in Tucson.
The other part of me, the area that is not cold and dead inside, doesn't want it this way. I'd like to see Herb and the Devils build their program the right way and not be helped along by the sudden crash and burn of the powerhouse to the south. After 20 something consecutive NCAA tournament berths and a national championship to boot, I can't help but respect what Lute Olsen has done at U of A.
That is of course until this year.
David Stern
Clearly, there are a number of people to blame for the mess going on with the Seattle Supersonics. Howard Schultz is apparently a lying, crybaby gazillionaire. Clay Bennett and his sonsabitches are hell-bent on moving the Sonics away from those friendly, left-leaning bastards in the Pacific Northwest. Last but not least, David Stern has done next to nothing to keep the Sonics in their rightful home.
I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of Stern. He's a pompous, arrogant little man and I despise him. Most of my hatred and vitriol stems from his decision last year to suspend both Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for leaving the bench in Game 5 of the Suns second round series against the Spurs, but he's done himself no favors this year either.
His combined enforcement and disregard of rules on collusion this season involving the Mavs/Nets and Spurs/Sonics is beyond frustrating. Furthermore, the ability for teams to trade players long since retired (in Aaron McKie's case, coaching for another organization,) is mind-boggling.
Stern has slowly but surely moved from ensuring the best interests of the game to securing the best interests for the owners of the game. How else to justify his treatment of the fans in Seattle? How else to explain his insistence on exploring expansion to Europe and further inroads to China despite major issues in Seattle, New Orleans, Memphis and Charlotte? Is there another answer for Pau Gasol being traded to the Lakers for nothing more than the chance to spend money at a later time?
Commissioner Stern is showing himself to be no different than the CEO solely focused on the bottom line, the people who pay him be damned. It's a shame I already have a reminder timer set for tonight's Suns/Blazers game and won't miss a game of the playoffs.
Tommy Boy for not being around to give the weight room line
I guess nights on the road can get pretty lonely for a baseball scout. What a nincompoop. What a maroon. What an ignoramus.
It's bad enough the guy can't knock himself in from second with no outs after a whopping 40 minutes, but 13 year olds? Hopefully he has to go door to door in Quincy to tell everyone he's a pederast.
4 comments:
Not sure if this has changed in the last 8 years, but back when I lived within walking distance of Key Arena the Storm was outdrawing the sonics pretty significantly and the city was still paying for the renovations to the Kingdome (which had been demolished a few years earlier) in addition to trying to figure out how to cover the >100% cost overrun on the partial replacement (Safeco Field) they had put up in its place. The screwhawks were playing at Husky stadium, and UW tix were the harder of the two to get (to be fair, the Huskies were probably the better of the two teams at the time).
That's not to say that there aren't dedicated fans in Seattle, but they do have the challenge (same as L.A.) of having half the population not originally from the area. Also like much of the west coast, even the hard-core fans aren't all that agressive compared to northeast/midwest fans; if in-the-stands hooliganism and outlandish costumes are the measuring stick, then "raider nation" is about the only group that would be taken seriously out here.
Shut your cunt Mclane
You are dead on about Lute. He have great respect for him as a coach and I hate his guts. But two things stand out about the guy. One being his wife passed away, then about two weeks later he gets remarried. Two his LOA during this season. Its ridiculous how bad he has handled it.
Seattle should keep their team. Give them a good product and the fans will show up for once.
thanks for the kind words fknmclane.
lute fucked over the brown town. b-ball is the only thing that town had. now they might break ther streak of 23 years in a row in the tourney......as tommy boy would say "that is awesome!"
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