Thursday Thoughts
* Reason #961 Why Alex Rodriguez Will Never Lead A Team To A Title: His throw to first last night when the Red Sox had the bases loaded.
One evening after booting two easy ground balls and getting eviscerated for it in the New York rags, A. Rod's head was clearly on screwy and every ball hit his way was an adventure in anxiety-control. When the Sox had the bases loaded early in the game, a sharp grounder was hit to A. Rod. After double-clutching and practically cradling the ball to make sure he had a grip on it, Rodriguez fired the ball down the first-base line, practically causing Jason Giambi to come off the bag at first.
He's a pretty-boy headcase infielder and that's all he'll ever be. Except when he's catching for Derek Jeter, of course.
* Underrated receiver Jimmy Smith retired this afternoon, closing a career that was highlighted by 862 receptions, over 10,000 receiving yards and a 2000 championship while on the roster of my fantasy team, "The Dudes." Smith retired due to past injuries and a desire to spend more time doing the things he enjoys. And in a prison cell somewhere, Pablo Escobar Jr. weeps.
* Sony's 60" Grand Wega SXRD TV offers many new innovations and features, but there's one that doesn't appear on Sony's spec-sheet that I discovered last night: In the stunning light of the new benchmark-setting television, the NBA Playoffs are a resounding 35% more mind-numbingly boring.
* Does anybody else find it amusing that Bill Simmons thinks Steve Nash shouldn't have won the NBA MVP award because he technically doesn't play defense, yet just six months ago he was advocating David Ortiz's candidacy for MLB's MVP award even though he literally doesn't play defense. Wait, did I say "amusing"? Because I totally meant "convieniently hypocritical."
Since Simmons' mailbags consist of little more than sycophantic ego-boosts from readers, I doubt this answer will ever be adequately answered. (Would a real man dodge critics like Simmons does? Granted, real men tend to have voices that don't sound like those of a five-year old girl, so I guess I should curb my criticism until "The Sports Guy" hits puberty.)
Thursday, May 11, 2006
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Is Simmons even a good writer? I've never made it past the first paragraph in any of his columns.
I opened one of his columns once and saw "NBA" in the first paragraph and then stopped. The second time I started to read a column, it was in December and the first sentence mentioned the fact that he had watched less than 10 college football games all year.
If there's two reasons to not have any respect for one's views on sports, that covers it right there.
Or college basketball. How any human being can prefer NBA ball to NCAA ball is beyond me. Maybe those people just don't have souls.
The same guy who refuses to watch college football because Pete Carroll achieved success in it. Dude should just change his name to Celtics/Pats/Sox/Horribly Outdated Pop-Culture Reference Guy.
And I'm not too mad about Deron getting a ROY vote. After seeing that fly-ass white girl on his elbow at the draft, I was ready to give him MVP. Paul's gotta step his game up on that front, and I suggest he start with Desmond Mason's wife.
What, The White Shadow isn't hip enough for you?
His articles about Boston teams and the Clippers are the worst and somehow ESPN keeps letting him write about them.
And they are mind numbingly long articles.
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