Author: Vin

Vin is a Philly boy who shouldn't be invited into your house because he'll judge you on your book and music collection. He owns Dawkins, Utley, Iverson, and Lindros jerseys, which is all you really need to know about him. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Random Thoughts

Smart TV: Arrested Development

I am going completely off topic today but that’s what happens when training camp is a month away. You know what kills me?  Shitty “products”.  If you think about it, television is exactly like the four major sports.  The constant expansion (800 channels anyone?) has eroded the talent pool and we’re left with programming like “Cooking with Adonal Foyle on $8M a year” or “Animal Rage: Sharks vs Kangaroos!”  Which is why I can’t rave enough about Arrested Development.  Aside from sports, I watch only a handful of television and Arrested Development is currently tops on my list.

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LA Lakers

Coach K- Spurrier’s on Line One

This is one of the most improbable stories of the year, yet it seems that it just might come true.  LA has offered Mike Krzyzewski the head coaching job. (Rumors about it being a $40M deal.) Somehow I just don’t see Coach K being a good fit for Hollywood but that’s a lot of cash to turn down.

I love high profile jumps from college to the pros because more often than not, it shows the limitations of those coaches.  Rick Pitino anyone?  How about John Calipari? In a twisted way, I am hoping Coach K takes the job. Let me state for the record right now, and you guys can blast me for it later, Coach K will never win a championship with the LA Lakers.

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San Francisco Giants

Bonds Flies into a (Roid?) Rage!

Barry went bonkers when asked about sprinter Tim Montgomery’s alleged testimony that the person who supplied Montgomery with performance enhancing drugs also supplied Bonds with similar drugs. According to the AP, Bonds unleashed a “flurry of expletives” against Tim Montgomery.  Remember when Turk Wendell basically said, “look at him! he’s obviously on steroids!” and Bonds went nuts? At that time, the Associated Press said that Bonds “chastised” Turk.  I saw that clip folks and chastised isn’t quite the word I’d use. Bonds called him a little bitch and said he was chickenshit.  If that’s chastising, I wonder what “flurry of expletives” means.

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San Francisco Giants

Crazy Bs: Bosox- Bonds- & Bitches

There’s an episode of Family Guy where the first leaf turns color and the residents of Quahog start scrambling to prepare for the ambush of New York “Leafers”.  It was just like this in San Francisco over the weekend except the Red Sox were in town and the “massholes” were doing the ambushing.  Just like in Family Guy, SF residents were happy as hell when they finally left.

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Detroit Pistons

Let the Rioting Begin!

Forget the final score.  Forget the MVP.  The real intrigue as I’m typing this at the start of the fourth quarter is the over/under on the number of arrests (120), the number of burnt out cars (15), and the number of bowls `Sheed will be smoking (3) tonight as Detroit celebrates the Pistons championship.

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Detroit Pistons

The Anti-Conspiracy Conspiracy

Imagine you’re David Stern.  You trot out superstar after superstar trying to fill the shoes of Michael Jordan.  Still, all of them fail for one reason or another. Vince Carter – no killer instinct; T-Mac – no heart; Kobe – too arrogant, flawed; Tim Duncan – too boring.  So how do you fix the NBA?  You make a team worthy of winning the championship.  

Despite the claims that Detroit is boring and numerous experts bemoaning of the death of the NBA, these Finals are giving the league back some of its credibility.  So here’s the conspiracy.  You make it look like the league is doing everything possible to give LA another championship.  Then you let the good guys win.  You smile for the camera and say, “see, the NBA is a level playing field.” If this is the latest NBA conspiracy, I’m all for it.  

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LA Lakers

Oh Oh Oh… Kobe’s Cryin’

Remember this photo from the 2003 NBA Finals? Forget the self-immolating monk. Forget the Beatles stepping off the plane. This is the most important photo in the past 50 years. Why? Because it reminds us that Kobe is a little bitch.

Will we see a repeat of this next week? Perhaps. But the Lakers are like herpes simplex 10, you can’t ever be sure you’re rid of them.
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Random Thoughts

Disrespect

It seems that there is currently nothing in the world more egregious than being disrespected.  I have two random stories today on being dissed…er..yo.  First comes Larry Bird who, in an interview with Jim “Bait” Gray, admitted that he hated getting defended by white guys.  He felt it was disrespectful to him because the white guy had no chance. (The suggestion of “disrespect” was contributed by Magic Johnson, who still thought he was doing a talk show.) Apparently, even Basketball Jesus felt white guys couldn’t play defense.

Remember when Iverson caught flak for whispering in Stockton’s ear, “no f’ing white boy can guard me!”  Malone went nuts.  I wonder what the mailman will have to say about Larry Legend. I wonder if anyone will have anything to say.

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Dallas Cowboys

Come on Tuna- you should know better

It always amuses me that in this day and age, people can still stick their foot in their mouth.  From AP: Parcells said about quarterbacks coach Sean Payton and defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer. “Mike wants the defense to do well, and Sean, he’s going to have a few … no disrespect for the Orientals, but what we call Jap plays. OK. Surprise things.”

Because Parcells is old school (and old), this should be taken with a grain of salt.  I personally think a lot of things are blown out of proportion, especially when it comes to be PC. Still, it’s amazing that someone as high profile as he is hasn’t gone through a “sensitivity training” course by the Cowboys or the NFL.  

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General Sports

Smarty Jones? F Smarty Jones!

I’ll let you in on a little media myth. No one in Philly really cares about Smarty Jones.  The reports of big “Smarty Parties” on Saturday are largely…how do you say… bullshit.  There hasn’t been a sporting event more overhyped and less anticipated since NBC’s Olympics Triplecast.  

It’s completely out of control.  The Philly Daily News has a weblog supposedly written by the horse himself.  Nice gimmick.  Nobody cares.  Schoolchildren are writing letters to Smarty.  Cute.  Nobody cares.  Catherine the Great rose from the dead to meet Smarty.  Sick.  Nobody cares.

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