Brain Dump

Random thoughts from the last few days in the world of sports/idiots.

Larry King and LeBron: Seriously? I don’t know who I lost more respect for after watching that “interview”. Actually, that’s not fair, I never had any respect for Larry King to begin with, so I can’t hit him with that. But LeBron James is an entirely different story. I like LBJ. I love watching him play ball. I think, all things being considered, he has handled his fame and fortune and scrutiny as well as anyone possibly could. His teammates like him, which to me, says almost everything. (Save your Delonte West jokes.) No one ever liked Tiger. No one ever liked Kobe. No one ever liked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That too says a lot about them. I liked LeBron, but LeBron saying that Cleveland has ‘the edge’ in signing him might have been the most disingenuous thing to ever come out of his mouth. They do? Then why not say that all along? I don’t buy it for a second. If he wants to stay in Cleveland, he stays and there was never this hysteria around his possible departure. He floated that balloon so, after he possibly leaves for New York, Chicago, or wherever, he can go to the ‘they didn’t step up, they didn’t do this, they didn’t do that, I wanted to stay but they couldn’t get it done’ speech, after he slips on his number 6 jersey for the Knicks. You’re better than that LeBron.

As for Larry King; pretty much what you would expect and I mean that in the most demeaning, hurtful, and disrespectful way possible.

Kendry Morales: It finally happened. The only thing surprising is that it took this long. A star player is on the rack for the rest of the season, severely damaging his team's shot at a World Series, because he was injured in a walk-off ‘celebration’. Kendry Morales and the Los Angeles Angels, you win. You are now the poster children for stupidity masquerading as bad luck. Get excited, slap five, throw a party, shotgun a beer in the clubhouse, but see if you can manage to hit a game winning homer wittout ending up in the OR having your leg put back together.

As for the next person who gets hurt in a celebration, you are officially the biggest jackass ever.

NBA Playoffs: This is how much I dislike Kobe Bryant. I have lived in southern California for 32 of my 38 years. For most of those years, I was a Laker supporter, if not an avid fan. I am a child of the 1980’s and anyone who was in LA during those years was a Laker fan and a Celtic hater. Magic Johson was everything, Bird was the overhyped white stiff from French Lick with the single worst mustache in recorded history. Granted, as time moved on, Magic became a parody of himself with the sex and TV shows and Bird was revealed to be as great as advertised, with an ever redder face, but still.... I hated the Celtics. Hated them. HATE. Hated Ainge. Hated Walton. Hated McHale. Really hated Dennis Johnson. Loathed ML Carr. Understand? Fast-forward the better part of 30 years and while the word ‘hate’ certainly doesn’t apply anymore, I don’t like the Celtics. Ray Allen is tolerable. Doc Rivers is OK. The rest of them, KG and Actress Pierce especially, are only slightly more popular to me than that pocket of sand that gets wedged in your trunks when you go the beach. Chaffing sand. All of that said, this is how much I dislike Kobe Bryant. Go Celtics.

NHL Playoffs: Yes, I know you like them Canadian Guy, but I don’t, so stop trying to convince me. And yes, as a matter of fact, I have seen something more exciting than overtime playoff hockey.

World Cup: It’s almost here. Can’t you feel the excitement? Makes me miss hockey.

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