Last week’s NBA Draft didn’t provide many early surprises, but Bucks fan John Paulsen was as surprised as anyone to see Milwaukee tab Yi Jianlian at #6. It’s just one of the notes John offers up in his Draft Impressions column for Bullz-Eye.com, along with his thoughts on the Ray Allen and Jason Richardson trades.
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Michael Silver ranked all 32 NFL owners in his latest column for SI.com, with No. 32 being a small surprise.
I think the first owner to come to mind as being one of the best is the Patriots’ Bob Kraft, which Silver promptly ranks No. 1. However, most might assume the Lions’ William Clay Ford Jr. would rank dead last due to his franchise’s decade worth of losing and terrible management, but he comes in at No. 29. Tom Benson (Saints) and Mike Brown (32) rank 31 and 32, respectively, which isn’t too big of a surprise with Benson’s horrid management of the Hurricane Katrina situation (i.e. wanting to move the team to San Antonio) and Brown’s turning a deaf ear to the criminals on his team repeatedly acting up.
On the whole, I think the rankings were pretty spot on.
Alex Rodriguez’s wife, Cynthia, wore a shirt with the words, “F**k you” to the Yankees-A’s game yesterday, igniting a bit of a firestorm according to the NY Post.
“I mean this kid was right in back of Cynthia – his nose must have been about 4 inches away from the words ‘F- – – you.’ “
According to the article, she wasn’t even kicked out of the game, despite a team policy that prohibits any banners or signs that are not in “good taste”.
While I think it’s wrong for kids to have to be subjected to profanity at what should be a harmless baseball game, Deadspin.com has a point in insinuating it’s not like “F**k you” has never been shouted at Yankee Stadium. The bigger question is what the hell was she thinking? First and foremost, she had her kid on her lap and “F**k you” printed on the back of her shirt and secondly, you’re married to a celebrity, so why wear it? Tell me what point you’re trying to make while wearing something like that. Come on lady, you’re a freaking idiot.
Sports agent Scott Boras wrote a two-page proposal to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about expanding the World Series to a best of nine. Part of Boras’ plan is to have the first two games of the series played at a neutral site, which he believes will create a buzz similar to the Super Bowl.
“I know from an owner’s perspective, this is a gold mine,” Boras said. “To have a World Series Weekend, WSW, I think it will create a stage that the game has not seen.”
Alright, there’s two problems with your grand plan there Boras. One, is a city like Baltimore or San Diego really going to give a crap about a Tigers-Cardinals World Series? Doubtful. Plus, if you have the first two games at a natural site and one team drops both, are you really going to ask that same team to go on the road for two more down 0-2? They could be down 0-4 before throwing one pitch in their home park. Sorry Boras, but I think this one’s a swing and a miss big guy.
Barry Bonds was officially voted into the All-Star Game by fans Sunday, leaping over Alfonso Soriano and landing a spot in the starting outfield with Ken Griffey Jr. and Carlos Beltran.
All anyone wants to talk about is how Bonds has cheated fans and the game, but then he still winds up in the All-Star Game, as a starter nevertheless. I can hear the conspiracy theorists out there right now saying, “Well, since the game is being played in San Francisco, MLB fixed the voting to get him in.” Go that route if it helps you sleep at night, but I don’t buy that, not with Bud the slug Selig making a quiet public stand against Bonds and breaking Hank Aaron’s all-time home run record.
Are we as fans hypocrites? It doesn’t make a lick of sense how this guy is public enemy #1 in baseball fans’ world, yet he’s still voted into the All-Star Game…by us. It’s not all San Francisco fans doing the voting either, folks. This goes right in line with fans at opposing parks that boo the hell out of Bonds, yet all the while are snapping pictures of him at a Mach Three pace.
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