The Pursuit Of Leisure

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

I Can't Get Enough of the Knicks.

- Knicks fans turned out in droves to hold a rally for the firing of Isiah. That is absolutely fantastic. Right now David Stern must be praying for Isiah and James Dolen to die in a fiery car crash together.

- Watching the Raps lose to the Blazers last night (not a bad loss either, they were up 7 after three but ran out of gas since they were in the second game of a back to back on the road) made me realize the Blazers are for real. I wouldn't be surprised if they made the playoffs this year. They are ridiculously athletic and fundamentally sound at the same time. I said when they won the lottery in the spring that they would win the NBA from about 2011-2015 and I am now more convinced than ever. Throw in Greg Oden next year and the fact that they project to be $29 million under the cap in two years and can go hard for Chris Paul or Deron Williams and every team in the west should be officially terrified.

- All of which makes it even more regrettable that the Suns couldn't pull off the Kevin Garnett-Amare Stoudemire trade. Even though the Suns beat the Spurs the other night they showed again there is no way in hell they can beat them in a 7 game series because they can't stop Tim Duncan. Stoudemire is still awful defensively, relying on instinct more than positioning, and Garnett would have pushed the Suns over the top against the Spurs. The Suns are wasting Steve Nash's prime and will have nothing to show for it.

- You knew the single biggest idiot and team wrecker in the NFL (aka Terrell Owens) would start ripping on his QB eventually. He's done it with Garcia and McNabb so why not Romo? So yeah, Jessica Simpson may wreck the Cowboys Super Bowl hopes but it's because of Owens not her. I think it is physically impossible for this asshole to keep his yap shut for more than 20 minutes.

- Britney Spears' mother has had to put her parenting book on hold now that her 16 year daughter is pregnant. Probably a good idea on her part. The question is Is anyone really surprised. The thing I have always said is that at the end of the day they are just trailer trash from Louisiana. All the money in the world can't change that.

- A Christmas letter taking 93 years to be delivered gives a new and literal meaning to the word snail mail. You just can't make stuff like this up.

- Curt Schilling calling on Roger to give up his Cy Youngs isn't going to help his rep as a self serving, egomaniacal dumbass. No two pitchers have bigger egos than Clemens or Schill so I would love to see Roger fire back at this one.

1 Comments:

At 3:37 PM, December 20, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The NBA season is tough to watch but the Knicks make it interesting. The whole franchise is a complete train wreck. I was wondering how a guy who can't run a basketball team in a NYC could have possibly been successful enough the business world to buy the Knicks. Then I found out he inherited his money. Maybe this country needs a higher death tax.

 

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