Random Sports Nuggets
I watch Sportscenter way too much. Possibly 2-3 times a night…for no real reason. Hergeo, I keep up my with sports news, much like some people read sections of the newspaper other than comics, the Best Buy ad or the sports section. This is what I’ve been dwelling over:
-Delmon Young, the #1 prospect in MLB, was suspended 50 games for throwing a bat at an umpire. This not only shows his lack of maturity, but proves why the Devil Rays didn’t break him up last fall: He’s a nut job! Outside the Lines had a segment on prodigal athletes and discussed the “entitlement” Delmon Young may feel. I heard his apology earlier this week, or the attempt at one. This kid feels no remorse was the first thought that crossed my brain. Look, throughout all this steroid scandal, Young should be embracing his place in the game as that of restoring honor to the past-time and not whipping lumber at the men in black. He should be gone for the season. Too frequently are the talented young stars given slack for their bigger impact on the game. If Kenny Rogers threw a bat at the cameraman a year ago, it would have been bye-bye season. I don’t like Kenny Rogers and at this moment, I don’t like Delmon Young. For all your abilities, if you can’t be a likeable image, you may just end up more like Barry Bonds than the Pujols or Griffey Jr. your talents deserve. Shame on you Mr. Young and your tantrums. I’m kinda hoping his older brother Dmitri beats some sense into him.
-Poor LeBron James…he will never win an NBA championship. For all his amazing talents, he cannot win the ring himself. The higher ups in the Cavalier office need to realize this and give him a Pippen. Why not trade your draft pick for a solid guy. This isn’t to knock the guys surrounding LeBron, but Jordan had Pippen. Kobe had Shaq. Bird had McHale and Parrish. Magic had Worthy and Kareem. LeBron has Eric Snow and Zydraunas Ilgauskas. Spend the money to get this kid a team or maybe spend the draft pick. You already have the ultimate prospect waiting. Don’t Karl Malone this poor kid. He’s too special a player.
-Speaking of the NBA, the first round of playoffs have been nailbiters…in the West. I tuned into the Laker-Sun epic struggle and was riveted by the basketball and I’m not even a fan of either team. Watching Kobe and his young guns topple Sheriff Nash and his miscreants was pretty sweet as well as watching that same Sheriff lock up Kobe’s Boys was enthralling. The Maverick-Memphis and Clipper-Denver match-ups weren’t great but still…it’s the fucking Clippers! They’ve won like consellation prizes every year and are finally putting it together. San Antonio-Sacramento was good too, as the series went to 6 games and was good basketball. The East really has no parity…Detroit dominates. Cleveland gives everyone a scare every now and then, but see previous and the Heat look like a reunion of the 1998 All-Star Team, minus Flash. Pacers have faded into oblivion and the Nets seem decent enough. The West is populated with competition and the East has scrubs. I unfortuanetely, follow the East with my lovely Celtic turd-green. How can the league tailor the parity of the East? Or is it the teams responsibility? Why is there such a difference? I don’t know.
-So when are the random steroid-tests in baseball? When is Giambi getting the next one? Guy got player of the month in April! What the hell is going on? This guy isn’t a character story! He pissed on the stature and honor of the game with his steroid bullshit and then comes back at a torrid pace AFTER his only drug-test had been administered? What seems wrong here? Good for him if he’s doing this straight, but I smell horse enhancers.
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