NBA Musings gets around (and other musings)

NBA Musings gets around
* Nat from Heels on Hardwood was nice enough to ask me to write up a Celtics preview for her blog. It was fun to actually start thinking about basketball again. This off-season has been crazy long. You can scope that out @ Heels on Hardwood – Match Ups – Toronto Raptors [...]

what’s good in the hood

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
* You know that time in high school when your ivy league bound boyfriend broke up with you and ignored you until you started dating the captain of the football team? Then he called you at the eleventh hour and asked you to prom? Evans Clinchy of NESN.com [...]

you stay classy, ricky p. (and other musings)

He said, she said
* Out of the corner of my ear last night while I was playing another rousing round of Cake Mania 2 on the computer, I heard the following coming out of my television set: “Rick Pitino has admitted to having sex with the woman in a restaurant and paying for her abortion.” [...]

nba musings: rick astley has gone fishing

Playoffs Game 6
Magic v. Cavs 103-90
By now, I don’t know what there is left to say about LeBron James and his lack of sportsmanship. He’s been picked clean really and is now just a pile of bones laying by the roadside. I feel like talking about it though, so lets just pretend we haven’t already heard everything there is [...]

t.j. simers knows me so well

I really love this column. I’m not being facetious, I really love it. In fact, I’m surprised someone out in la la land didn’t write it sooner. I’ve been waiting for someone in LA to articulate what I knew they’ve been thinking about the Manny situation:
When Manny Ramirez reported for Dodgers duty he tried to [...]

a few thoughts. quick and dirty

Wow. So much to bitch about, so little time.
Jazz game – I completely missed that Jazz game that we lost (Yes. I’m one of those people that says, “We” when referring to my favorite team. Deal with it.) I had a massive headache and fell asleep long before it started. The Jazz have our number [...]

manny turns down dodgers for third time

In this horrible economy mind you — Manny Ramirez has rejected the Los Angeles Dodgers’ one-year, $25 million offer.
In what completely bizarro world is $25 million dollars not enough? What. a. friggin. tool. I spit on his grave.

gary payton can suck it

From Boston.com:
Former Celtic Gary Payton disputed Garnett’s All-Star selection during a TNT telecast Thursday. “Garnett shouldn’t be starting,” Payton said. “Some guys out there are playing better than him and [Allen Iverson]. [Chris] Bosh would take [Garnett's] spot; he’s playing way better than him. We are talking about a guy consistently performing every night; [Garnett [...]

john lackey, tell me how my (bleep) tastes

What a loser, er sore loser…
Seriously though, dude needs to take his loss like a man. Congratulate the other side, accept responsibility for your shortcomings, say better luck next year, and be on your merry little way. Ok? Ok, then.