Last night I decided to watch as much KNICKS basketall as possible, and it was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. To tell yourself, "Do not turn this off..." over and over, is akin to dutch-ovening for a specified time period.
This team is the absolute worst, and Isiah Thomas has got to be the worst coach/manager/person-who-is-paid sports figure anywhere. After the game he was asked a question about the Wizards, and both Jamison and Arenas specifically. Isiah responded with, "Well, those guys are paid a lot of money..." Really? THOSE GUYS are paid a lot of money? Slow down there, Mr. Wizard, because I know a few other guys who are paid a lot of money, and some of them are sitting next to you ALL GAME. In fact, some of them are paid a lot of money to be on the Knicks, but actually aren't even sitting next to you. They're sitting in the booth, and that guy is Allan Houston, who is still the THIRD highest paid player in the league!
Putting Houston aside, and forgetting about THOSE GUYS, lets focus on a few others who make as much, more, or damn close to as much as Arenas and Jamison. First we have Stephon Marbury, who makes more than both, coming at over $17 Mil, and then there was Jalen Rose, also making about the same. Steve Francis makes slightly less than Jamison, but more than Arenas. DO NOT think for a second that Maurice Taylor isn't making close to $10 Million, which is just slightly less than Arenas at $11 Mil, who plays for Team Those Guys.
In fact, ThOSE GUYS and their teammates make less than HALF of what the Knicks make. Those guys make about $63 Million while the Knicks make about $137 Million. I know, it's all relative. The rents are very high in the New York region, so it makes sense that they make more money...it's the same everywhere...
Anyway, putting all of this money talk aside, there's the actually game itself. The Knicks are horrendous, and Isiah is clearly the worst coach to ever sit at the end of the Knicks bench. These players do not have a clue what is going on. Larry Brown was a disciplinarian, so I'm told, and he didn't mesh well with Isiah and HIS GUYS. Nice call firing him. Sure, they were horrid, but I guarantee he was teaching them the fundamentals of the game, which is the saddest part. You've got multi-millionaires who do not understand fundamentals. At least with Brown you know he would spend the time teaching them, and if they didn't like it, they wouldn't play.
Brown coached in college, which is exactly where most of these Knicks needed to be. The only guys who have a clue about fundamentals are Lee, Frye, and Rose (who isn now gone, but still paid by the Knicks). This is the #1 problem with the Knicks: you have a bunch of players who do not understand how to play the game the way Parker, Duncan, Wade, Lebron, and Nash do. And to top it off, they're all on the court at the same time. There's nothing better than seeing Marbury, Crawford, Richardson, Curry, and someone on the floor. COMBINED, maybe, a 1,600 on the SATs, assuming Frye or Lee is not out there with them. It's ridiculous.
The one good thing Isiah did since coming to the Knicks was drafting Balkman, who I know is going to be a player. Who against Florida last year, and in the SEC tournament, hustled his ass off for every rebound. I can't wait to see him on another team that's going after an NBA title.
If Isiah makes it through the New Years it is sad. In fact, the team should bring back Larry Brown, and let him ride it out. Afterall, he's still being paid! And like so many Knicks not on this team, being paid, his probably being paid more than any coach in the league.
I will now let myself up for air.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
The Situation is CALLED Grave...
Thank goodness we have a Democrats in control of Congress or else we'd never know about this situation:
Wait, wait, you're being, ummm, uhhh, you're being a defeatist. A Defeatocrat! A Liberace Liberal (just made that up)! We have to dig in, dig deeper, get really deep. Balls deep if you will. Balls deep to the point where the tongue can reach the balls sorta deep. Waaaay deep. Keep digging in. And yes, we've dug in...into a hole we're never getting out of. History has been changed forever, and you can blame the Republican moderates of the United States of America for joining forces with the conservatives, and bringing us the biggest clusterfuck in American history.
Good times.
The other day I read this little piece in the Jew York Liberal Times Rag Socialist Paper, and it went like this:
Of course there are the finacial conservatives, social moderates on Wall St who are too embarassed to admit having voted for Bush, and probably didn't the second time. They feel as if they're in the middle, having done nothing wrong, except, of course, loading Republican coffers the first go round to help ENTERTAIN us with tax cuts.
So yes, because of the MODERATES we're stuck in a war that really has no end in sight, and only the likelihood of it getting worse. For how can it get better? How is the Middle East going to dig itself out of war, poverty, and religious fantaticism? The only way that could possibly ever happen is to create real jobs in the Middle East; cheap labor. But who in America is going to support exporting jobs to the Middle East, except Republicans, of course (as long as the dollars work out, and stock price goes up)? There's no way out of a bad situation if the people in it have nothing to look forward to except heaven.
You really want out of it? If so, I'll tell you the way. There are like 2 ways to get out of it, in all seriousness. The first is simple: nuke the region. Yep, I said it, nuke the region. I'm not advocating it, rather, I'm just saying it. If you're lucky they'll turn into the Japanese, who were at least only dying for their country. The Muslims are dying for God, so that may not even be a solution. It's most likely a long term postponement. And then there's the other way, which is pulling out our oil influence via the military in the gulf, and that's obviosly happening really soon......
Basically, there's no way out. Iraqis are not going to govern themselves at any point. They don't care. They've never had great lives, and never will. If they can see there's a chance for the children to have better lives through education and jobs, maybe they'd step up to the plate, but this is so unlikely. It's just not happening. We can keep throwing money at it, but nothing is going to chance. Afterall, we don't make the sacrifices necessary in this country to make things better for the poor. What are the chances we're going to make these sacrifices for an entire region of the world? NILL. We let their leaders get reach while disent foments, as long as we benefit. We don't even make them change their peoples' lives. Are we going to change them? Not on your life.
To be honest, the only way out of Iraq is really to go further into Iraq. CRUSH the movement against us. It's larger than World War II, what I speak of. But are we really going to do that now that we're moving in the opposite direction? Not that I supported the war in the first place, but where's this going after we pull out? Maybe Iraq clams down. Maybe a new Saddam, if we're lucky, takes control. Maybe. Other than that the region is inflamed. The rich are getting richer here in America, and our poor are becoming richer than their rich. This is never ending, I'm sorry.
Hire a new guy to make it seem like progress can be made, but in all honesty, unless you have an immediate pullout, and a propped up strongman in Iraq, the whole region is going to spin out of control.
That's the fucking irony of it all. The conservative advertisement for this war, Saddam Hussein, was the only type of person who could possible put this thing to bed. Nice work, dipshits...hope you sold enough ads on Saddam's back.
bipartisan commission warned on Wednesday that “the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating,” and handed President Bush both a rebuke of his current strategy and a detailed blueprint for a fundamentally different approach, including the pullback of all American combat brigades over the next 15 months.Lets just call it what it is already: A DISASTER THAT CANNOT BE FIXED.
Wait, wait, you're being, ummm, uhhh, you're being a defeatist. A Defeatocrat! A Liberace Liberal (just made that up)! We have to dig in, dig deeper, get really deep. Balls deep if you will. Balls deep to the point where the tongue can reach the balls sorta deep. Waaaay deep. Keep digging in. And yes, we've dug in...into a hole we're never getting out of. History has been changed forever, and you can blame the Republican moderates of the United States of America for joining forces with the conservatives, and bringing us the biggest clusterfuck in American history.
Good times.
The other day I read this little piece in the Jew York Liberal Times Rag Socialist Paper, and it went like this:
“The Web sites that are the most heavily composed of Democrats are not focused on politics, but on communities that are heavily Democratic,” said Kenneth Cassar, the chief analyst for NetRatings. “I don’t know whether that tells us that Democrats haven’t figured out how to make politics entertaining.”Yep. Democrats, unlike Conservatives, haven't managed to make the most serious matters in the world ENTERTAINING. Is that actually a problem? I guess so. Conservatives entertained us so well that we're now being entertained nightly by this WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST! FOX leads the charge with this entertainment. Thank you, Moderate Republicans, for giving us this war.
Of course there are the finacial conservatives, social moderates on Wall St who are too embarassed to admit having voted for Bush, and probably didn't the second time. They feel as if they're in the middle, having done nothing wrong, except, of course, loading Republican coffers the first go round to help ENTERTAIN us with tax cuts.
So yes, because of the MODERATES we're stuck in a war that really has no end in sight, and only the likelihood of it getting worse. For how can it get better? How is the Middle East going to dig itself out of war, poverty, and religious fantaticism? The only way that could possibly ever happen is to create real jobs in the Middle East; cheap labor. But who in America is going to support exporting jobs to the Middle East, except Republicans, of course (as long as the dollars work out, and stock price goes up)? There's no way out of a bad situation if the people in it have nothing to look forward to except heaven.
You really want out of it? If so, I'll tell you the way. There are like 2 ways to get out of it, in all seriousness. The first is simple: nuke the region. Yep, I said it, nuke the region. I'm not advocating it, rather, I'm just saying it. If you're lucky they'll turn into the Japanese, who were at least only dying for their country. The Muslims are dying for God, so that may not even be a solution. It's most likely a long term postponement. And then there's the other way, which is pulling out our oil influence via the military in the gulf, and that's obviosly happening really soon......
Basically, there's no way out. Iraqis are not going to govern themselves at any point. They don't care. They've never had great lives, and never will. If they can see there's a chance for the children to have better lives through education and jobs, maybe they'd step up to the plate, but this is so unlikely. It's just not happening. We can keep throwing money at it, but nothing is going to chance. Afterall, we don't make the sacrifices necessary in this country to make things better for the poor. What are the chances we're going to make these sacrifices for an entire region of the world? NILL. We let their leaders get reach while disent foments, as long as we benefit. We don't even make them change their peoples' lives. Are we going to change them? Not on your life.
To be honest, the only way out of Iraq is really to go further into Iraq. CRUSH the movement against us. It's larger than World War II, what I speak of. But are we really going to do that now that we're moving in the opposite direction? Not that I supported the war in the first place, but where's this going after we pull out? Maybe Iraq clams down. Maybe a new Saddam, if we're lucky, takes control. Maybe. Other than that the region is inflamed. The rich are getting richer here in America, and our poor are becoming richer than their rich. This is never ending, I'm sorry.
Hire a new guy to make it seem like progress can be made, but in all honesty, unless you have an immediate pullout, and a propped up strongman in Iraq, the whole region is going to spin out of control.
That's the fucking irony of it all. The conservative advertisement for this war, Saddam Hussein, was the only type of person who could possible put this thing to bed. Nice work, dipshits...hope you sold enough ads on Saddam's back.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Time To Digest
Well, it looks like James A. Baker the Douche helped Florida again! Somehow, after a 2 week layoff, the voters sent in their ballots, and Michigan was defeated, by the narrowest of margins. Too bad, Wolverines, maybe next year...No, seriously, maybe! Michigan will be stacked on offense, and will lose most of their defense, but that is all too similar to this year's National-Champions-to-be, THE Ohio State Buckeyes. Wow, my first use of "THE." That's almost as weak as "The U," which we'll get to. But for now, lets focus on the games at hand.
Okay, so Ohio State plays Florida, the winner of the SEC, which this year should stand for "Some Even Contests." Say what you will about the SEC, how it's top to bottom the best conference, fine. That could be true, but there's not a truly great team in that conference this year. There's not one QB who makes you worry at all. Sure, there are some big name recruits, but overall, they're a year away at the least. Relative to their own schedule, and how good Florida is, yes, their schedule was tougher. But I'm pretty confident Ohio State goes undefeated with a few close calls, and many more blowouts, had they been in the SEC this season. I've heard the B.S. that the SEC is a "fast" conference. Okay. Show me a faster 4 x 100 relay squad than the ones that exist at OSU, Michigan, and Penn State right now. LSU may have it, but they don't have someone that can get them the ball. Besides, this is football, and guys like Jason Capel, an Olympic Sprinter from Florida, couldn't catch a ball. Unlike Ted Ginn Jr, the guy that turned down the Olympics to play football, full-time.
Bottom line, Ohio State is going to mash Florida. There's not an aspect of the game that Florida will win, except more yardage on kickoff returns.
Finally, please, spare me the "Florida 2006 is like Ohio State 2002..." That's such a weak comparison. It's like comparing two QBs solely because they're black: they sorta look the same in some ways...
Ohio State dominated a Miami team who sent most of their players to the NFL. OSU won in the trenches, and now all their players are in the NFL. In fact, I believe every player from both those teams went to the NFL, even Maurice Clarett. I got news for you, Florida is not sending all their players to the NFL, and Ohio State most likely will. It's in the trenches again where Florida is going to get crushed. Plus the fact they just lost some of their best lineman in the lost few weeks because of injuries and suspensions. Florida is nothing like Ohio State was. That team in 2002 refused to lose. Florida lost.
Now let me jump around for a bit because there's so much to say...I want to discuss the BCS, Michigan, and FOX's horrawful coverage of College Football.
First, Michigan. Please, can we stop acting like you won the game in Columbus? Yes, you're probably the second best team in the nation, but knowing L-L-L-L-Lloyd Carr, you're going to tank your bowl game. For those why say "we only lost by 3...we almost won..." I say, "you luckily lost by 3...and almost lost by 10..." Bottom line, you lost. It happened, like it does every year, once, and you lost. Try again next year. Yes, you're second, now let someone else try.
Second, the BCS. It's not perfect, but I'm not about to freak out! The team that won the SEC is getting a chance to play for it all in place of the team that already played. Do I want a playoff? Uhh, sorta. I want 4 teams, period. No team outside the top 4 has any right to claim they should be in the game. That's life. If you're fifth, and there's 4 undefeated teams ahead of you in the end, well obviously a lot of other people don't think you should be there either.
Easy system. Eff the plus one thing. I don't need ANOTHER game.
Send the Rose Bowl back to the Big Ten/Pac-10. This year it'd be USC vs Wisconsin. Now take the 3 remaining BCS bowls and rotate them in a semi-finals/finals scenario, year in, year out. It's that easy. It's 1 extra game for the two best teams, well preserving the bowls, and giving the best teams a chance.
Winning the regular season matters to hardcore fans and players. Having 1 loss or less will still matter a lot. Last thing anyone wants is a weak ass Notre Dame team with 2 losses revenging a loss to Michigan, per se, on a good night. A playoff is a burden on fans, and players. If only the selfish sports world, writers and fans, could see that. It's not all about you!
And last, but certainly not least, FOX's coverage of the BCS. If that wasn't the lamest piece of media since, uhh, I don't know, uhh, maybe FOX's decision to ban their baseball announcers from talking about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, then I don't know what is.
I've gotten used to the announcers who call the games on the channels that carry college football. FOX's coverage of CFB is ri-goddamn-terrible. CHarles Davis? WHO ARE YOU? This guy lost his voice, and from what? He didn't call any games on Saturday, and here is, on National TV, with no voice. Seriously? The host said, "You must have lost your voice from all that yelling..." What yelling? Is he having marital issues? And Barry Alvarez, who are you kidding? Did you steal that jacket from one of your pimps? I thought he was going leave the set and start opening the door for people. Someone get that guy a top hat. Unreal. And yes, Alvarez loves pimps, no joke. One day the story will break of how he used to bang Wisconsin cheerleaders, and sleeps with hookers a lot. I kid you not. As for that tie, that's actually worse than banging hookers.
Just terrible. And to think they're going to announce the championship game? Ouch. Westwood One, are you carrying this? If so, and I'm not there, my tuner will be on for sure.
All in all, Florida is going to get wiped up like Barry Alvarez's stomach after a massage. This is going to be flat out, jizzmopper, nasty.
Not editing. Cheers.
Okay, so Ohio State plays Florida, the winner of the SEC, which this year should stand for "Some Even Contests." Say what you will about the SEC, how it's top to bottom the best conference, fine. That could be true, but there's not a truly great team in that conference this year. There's not one QB who makes you worry at all. Sure, there are some big name recruits, but overall, they're a year away at the least. Relative to their own schedule, and how good Florida is, yes, their schedule was tougher. But I'm pretty confident Ohio State goes undefeated with a few close calls, and many more blowouts, had they been in the SEC this season. I've heard the B.S. that the SEC is a "fast" conference. Okay. Show me a faster 4 x 100 relay squad than the ones that exist at OSU, Michigan, and Penn State right now. LSU may have it, but they don't have someone that can get them the ball. Besides, this is football, and guys like Jason Capel, an Olympic Sprinter from Florida, couldn't catch a ball. Unlike Ted Ginn Jr, the guy that turned down the Olympics to play football, full-time.
Bottom line, Ohio State is going to mash Florida. There's not an aspect of the game that Florida will win, except more yardage on kickoff returns.
Finally, please, spare me the "Florida 2006 is like Ohio State 2002..." That's such a weak comparison. It's like comparing two QBs solely because they're black: they sorta look the same in some ways...
Ohio State dominated a Miami team who sent most of their players to the NFL. OSU won in the trenches, and now all their players are in the NFL. In fact, I believe every player from both those teams went to the NFL, even Maurice Clarett. I got news for you, Florida is not sending all their players to the NFL, and Ohio State most likely will. It's in the trenches again where Florida is going to get crushed. Plus the fact they just lost some of their best lineman in the lost few weeks because of injuries and suspensions. Florida is nothing like Ohio State was. That team in 2002 refused to lose. Florida lost.
Now let me jump around for a bit because there's so much to say...I want to discuss the BCS, Michigan, and FOX's horrawful coverage of College Football.
First, Michigan. Please, can we stop acting like you won the game in Columbus? Yes, you're probably the second best team in the nation, but knowing L-L-L-L-Lloyd Carr, you're going to tank your bowl game. For those why say "we only lost by 3...we almost won..." I say, "you luckily lost by 3...and almost lost by 10..." Bottom line, you lost. It happened, like it does every year, once, and you lost. Try again next year. Yes, you're second, now let someone else try.
Second, the BCS. It's not perfect, but I'm not about to freak out! The team that won the SEC is getting a chance to play for it all in place of the team that already played. Do I want a playoff? Uhh, sorta. I want 4 teams, period. No team outside the top 4 has any right to claim they should be in the game. That's life. If you're fifth, and there's 4 undefeated teams ahead of you in the end, well obviously a lot of other people don't think you should be there either.
Easy system. Eff the plus one thing. I don't need ANOTHER game.
Send the Rose Bowl back to the Big Ten/Pac-10. This year it'd be USC vs Wisconsin. Now take the 3 remaining BCS bowls and rotate them in a semi-finals/finals scenario, year in, year out. It's that easy. It's 1 extra game for the two best teams, well preserving the bowls, and giving the best teams a chance.
Winning the regular season matters to hardcore fans and players. Having 1 loss or less will still matter a lot. Last thing anyone wants is a weak ass Notre Dame team with 2 losses revenging a loss to Michigan, per se, on a good night. A playoff is a burden on fans, and players. If only the selfish sports world, writers and fans, could see that. It's not all about you!
And last, but certainly not least, FOX's coverage of the BCS. If that wasn't the lamest piece of media since, uhh, I don't know, uhh, maybe FOX's decision to ban their baseball announcers from talking about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, then I don't know what is.
I've gotten used to the announcers who call the games on the channels that carry college football. FOX's coverage of CFB is ri-goddamn-terrible. CHarles Davis? WHO ARE YOU? This guy lost his voice, and from what? He didn't call any games on Saturday, and here is, on National TV, with no voice. Seriously? The host said, "You must have lost your voice from all that yelling..." What yelling? Is he having marital issues? And Barry Alvarez, who are you kidding? Did you steal that jacket from one of your pimps? I thought he was going leave the set and start opening the door for people. Someone get that guy a top hat. Unreal. And yes, Alvarez loves pimps, no joke. One day the story will break of how he used to bang Wisconsin cheerleaders, and sleeps with hookers a lot. I kid you not. As for that tie, that's actually worse than banging hookers.
Just terrible. And to think they're going to announce the championship game? Ouch. Westwood One, are you carrying this? If so, and I'm not there, my tuner will be on for sure.
All in all, Florida is going to get wiped up like Barry Alvarez's stomach after a massage. This is going to be flat out, jizzmopper, nasty.
Not editing. Cheers.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Florida
I swear, still feels like a recount with Florida and Ohio State in the balance.
Rumor has it, Florida is in the National Title game, since LSU already accepted a bid to the Sugar Bowl. Cheers to the SEC.
I don't think Michigan deserves ANOTHER chance to beat Ohio State. Might they be the second best team, sure, but they lost, and that's that. They lost the last game of the season. They didn't win their conference. Florida played a much tougher schedule, and won a conference title game. Sometimes it's not the best team that always gets to play for it all.
The best thing that happened to FLorida yesterday was Arkansas making a comeback. Had Florida blown out the Razorbacks 28-0, I'm not so sure they get the nod. But because the game was close, coaches and writers tuned in to the game, just in time to see Florida take over, and win the game. That could be what pushes the Gators over the top. It's weird to think that's the case, but if they make it, and I'm told they have, I think that's probably why they did.
Ohio State 38 Florida 14
Rumor has it, Florida is in the National Title game, since LSU already accepted a bid to the Sugar Bowl. Cheers to the SEC.
I don't think Michigan deserves ANOTHER chance to beat Ohio State. Might they be the second best team, sure, but they lost, and that's that. They lost the last game of the season. They didn't win their conference. Florida played a much tougher schedule, and won a conference title game. Sometimes it's not the best team that always gets to play for it all.
The best thing that happened to FLorida yesterday was Arkansas making a comeback. Had Florida blown out the Razorbacks 28-0, I'm not so sure they get the nod. But because the game was close, coaches and writers tuned in to the game, just in time to see Florida take over, and win the game. That could be what pushes the Gators over the top. It's weird to think that's the case, but if they make it, and I'm told they have, I think that's probably why they did.
Ohio State 38 Florida 14
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