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i want to address two things. the spurs and alex rodriguez. i’m sure you haven’t heard or read enough about either of them lately.

first, why does the nba make the spurs participate in the playoffs? they are dominant and nobody (especially the cavs and pistons) is capable of taking even two games from them. in the words of denny green, ” if you want to crown ‘em, just crown their asses! they are who we thought they were…” i can’t resist posting the youtube clip…enjoy!

second, this recent a-rod business is just straight hi-lar-i-ous. first, he’s seen outside a strip club with a busty blonde. ooooooohhhhh! who cares? i wonder if they have a picture of him picking his nose, that would make a pretty worthy follow-up story i would think. that would be equally as interesting as the story of a-rod going to dinner with a blonde woman who was not his wife and two other male acquaintances. then after dinner, they went to a strip club! holy shit! print that! that’s what we like to call news. make it rain, a-rod, make…it…rain. then, apparently, he and his wife are having some marital difficulties. he’s a-rod, babycakes, he can have any woman he damn well pleases, ya heard! can we just let athletes do their thing and not pry into their private lives. i don’t give a crap if he plays for the yankees and he’s under a constant microscope. it’s just retarded. can we not start lumping athlete news into the celebrity news/gossip category. if that happens, i’m moving to friggin’ canada or something.
then i hear this morning about a-rod rounding third base with two outs, during a routine pop-out to third base; apparently he yells “mine,” or “mah,” or “hoochiemama” and the third baseman, who was apparently just called up from the minors, lets the ball drop. rightly so, rodriguez is in the middle of another “bush-league” style mishap. remember when he girly-pawed bronson arroyo’s arm while he was covering first in the playoffs the other year? i have two varying opinions on this recent a-rod flap. first, yea it is bush-league to call out “mine” while rounding the bases during a pop-out. i think most high school baseball players are typically above that kind of shenanigans. secondly, hey third baseman, welcome to the world of baseball. why would you think it’s anyone calling you off the ball and how did you not realize it was a-rod yelling this at you? granted, bush league move by a-rod, but clearly if you’ve ever played the sport of baseball, this kind of crap tends to happen and if he would have caught the ball like any other player would have, you wouldn’t have to cry. again, cheapest, oldest trick in the book pulled by a-rod, but still, just use some common sense as a third baseman and catch the ball. ok, i found the youtube clip. here it is, you decide…

too funny…that must be how posada is hitting .357

“yea, he must work out”….editor’s note: photos to scale

first things first. if you haven’t seen the photos of brady quinn and a.j. hawk at hawk’s wedding you have to see them. brady quinn needs to hire someone just to keep him out of photographs in general. the last few i’ve seen of him lead me to realize why he likes to be “under center” so much . and let’s just say, it’s a good thing a.j. hawk got married, because the questions that pop into my head upon seeing hawk in these photos are not “i wonder what hawk thinks about the whole randy moss thing.”

next, i wanted to respond to a little story i read during lunch today regarding barry bonds. apparently, bonds has no “real” response to curt schilling’s tirade the other day where he went off and accused barry bonds of…everything. to this, bonds responds, “i’m too old for childish activities…i don’t really have any time for that at all. i didn’t really hear them at first, i was told about them. i don’t really have any comment to that. i’ve got children and i’m too old for that stuff.”
bravo barry, bravo. i’m not a barry bonds fan by any measure, but every time curt schilling opens his mouth, i cringe. most people, i believe, have some sort of filter in their mind that tells them either “yea, i can say this” or “no, i shouldn’t say that, bad,” but maybe some people just aren’t smart enough, don’t care, or don’t think about the next few words that might fall out of their mouth. 95% of the time, curt schilling is one of these people. [i just want to add the fact that when curt schilling pitched that game with the bloody sock that won them whatever game that was, he probably cheated too. you can't tell me that schilling did not pitch that game without some sort of painkiller or other drug in his system to help him through the game. so if you want to call bonds a cheater because he took steroids, chances are you could say the same thing about a player on your favorite team, be it greenies, painkillers, steroids, amphetamines, whatever. just because bonds is about to break this record, don't look at him like he invented the steroid]. someone tell actors/actresses and athletes that the only good that can come out of them opening their mouths in a public forum, is for people like you and i and the rest of the world to laugh, ridicule, and criticize what they just said. nobody really cares about the content of what you’re talking about because if an athlete or actor/actress is saying it, it certainly is not an original thought. we like you because you are hot/handsome, on my favorite sports team, or good at the sport you play. if we want an op-ed, we’ll go to a credible source, thanks though.
ok, back to barry. i applaud bonds for taking the high road here. nothing he could have said other than this, would have worked out in his favor. now schilling looks pompous and because he said it pretty much out of the blue, people should wonder why he does radio shows, has his own blog, and whatever other media outlets he pollutes. barry bonds probably took steroids, yes, but that was what professional athletes did in the 80’s and 90’s before it was banned and before they knew it shrunk your junk. think of all the baseball players in the 80’s and 90’s that you remember seeing and just being in awe of their physical stature and power. now think about how many of them probably got to this point with good ol’ hard work and elbow grease. it’s evolution baby. steroids weren’t an issue back then and people didn’t know then what they know now, so why blame barry bonds? and think of what barry bonds must think everyday. my career will be tainted because somewhere along the line, some little rat pointed their finger at me instead of the probable hundreds of other guys they could have pointed at with the same result. i have to say, after i read this little article about bonds today, i dislike him a little bit less.
i’m not condoning steroids or barry bonds here, in fact, i don’t really like the idea of barry bonds being immortalized by breaking the most illustrious record in pro sports but, then again, baseball is just a game right? and none of us would ever consider cheating in a game involving money would we?

this just in… bruce bowen is a dirty player. can you believe your ears? i know, i know, i’m as surprised as you are. bruce bowen channeled bruce lee in the third quarter of game 2 on tuesday night and gave amare stoudamire a swift kick in the…achilles. check ‘er out below. wait for the slow motion.

as i’m briefly enjoying my newly-found ability to post video clips, here’s bruce “lee” bowen treating ray allen of the sonics like a stack of…wooden boards?…yea, i’m not a ninja so i’m not quite sure what martial artists refer to the materials they kick and chop to pieces. i apologize, but enjoy…and leave me some comments!