A little Ronaldo, a lot of basketball, and some baseball. Oh yeah, and Eddie House's ugly tattoo.
1. If I were of Latin heritage I would name every child Ronaldo. First we had Ronaldo the Brazillian, then Ronaldinho the Brazilian and current Barcelona player, and finally Ronaldo of Portugal, who plays for Manchester United. United thrashed my beloved Arsenal in the 2nd leg of the Champions League, while Christiano Ronaldo single handedly defeated Arsenal. While I despise Man. U and Ronaldo, even I have to admit that he is the best player in the world (See video below).
2. The weather needs to make up its mind. It’s fall, it’s winter, it’s spring, or it’s summer. Pick one already. People need to get drunk at Wrigley, please comply.
3. As an excellent NY Times article noted, the NBA has no idea what is and what is not a flagrant foul. Worse what often is called a flagrant foul later gets changed (upgraded to a number 2 or downgraded to an “incidental” foul by the NBA upon further review. (How can a foul that was originally called a flagrant foul be called “incidental”? Are we to believe that Kobe’s elbow to Battier’s groin was just “incidental?). I have a sneaking suspicion that the NBA loves it when its players beat the crap out of each other. Everyone’s talking about the Kobe elbow, Rondo face slap to Miller, or the Artest foul/suspension/expulsion. Flagrant fouls or the talking about whether “X” play was a flagrant foul is good TV and great ratings.
4. With that being said, one of these days a role player is going to seriously injure a star player and David Stern is going to get medieval on said player’s ass. Unfortunately, the NBA will have no one but themselves to blame for the flagrant foul. If you let your player’s beat each other up simply “because it’s the playoffs” don’t get surprised when your league becomes the equivalent of hockey. The NBA, Where Amazing Fights Happen.
5. I saw the Larry Bird, old school special effects commercial the other night (the one where the fans aren’t in the stands). It’s cool but it makes no sense. Why aren’t the fans there? Someone needs to explain this to me point by point.
6. I still hate the Celtics and would love for someone to punch Glen “Fat Baby” Davis in the face.
7. I have never understood how so many injuries can happen in the sport of Baseball. It’s about as non-contact of a sport that you can get. There is always a pinky fracture here, a hamstring pull there, or a shoulder injury (which makes sense for pitchers). Maybe it’s the roids or maybe baseball players are just made of cardboard. I suspect it’s the former.
8. The Western Conference: Denver could be for real, the Lakers are pretenders and Houston plays very, very hard. Dallas? Who cares about Dallas?
9. The Eastern Conference: Lebron’s team is going to the NBA Finals, Boston will take every series to 7 games, and Orlando relies upon Hedo Turkalo to win games (read Orlando sucks). Atlanta? Who cares about Atlanta?
10. Ummm, unless you are a very hot girl, tattoos are for losers. Yesterday I had a 5 hour our debate with a friend wondering whether Eddy House’s tattoo on his arm was a birth mark or an extremely large and disgusting tattoo. I went with birth mark. We ended up agreeing that the NBA must have made him cover an obscene tattoo with black permanent marker because no one would have such an ugly tattoo or a birth mark the size of Texas.
11. Peter King “stacked” the Bears at number 4 out of 32 teams in his latest MMQB. Two surprises here: (A) He mentioned the Bears and (B) his NFL IQ is worse than I thought. Don’t get me wrong, I think King, despite his clear and consistent East Coast reporting, is a good writer. But, he’s not really good at dissecting football. I don’t think the Bears should be ranked that high. Remember our defense is still porous and we still don’t have WRs and a consistent offensive line. With that being said, it is nice that someone has such a high regard for the Bears.
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