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The advent of twitter into the lives of athletes has been a major win for the fan. Not only do we get the see the minute to minute thoughts of complete idiots like Shaq and Gilbert Arenas, but we have a whole new avenue for athletes to get themselves in trouble. This past week Barndon Jennings found himself in a twitter based argument with Jordan Farmar after the Flakeshow took it to the Bucks...
It's pretty obvious that NBA teams in one way or another shut it down when they have no chance of making the playoffs. It makes sense from the player's perspective as they are probably dejected and disenchanted and it makes sense for the high-ups as they probably want to optimize their chances at winning the lottery. A simple example is when the Heat told Wade to stop trying to rehab his shoulder and shut it down for the season, Miami went on to win the number 2 pick (Beasley). But having said that its pretty rare that a team engineers them self (from the beginning of the season) to win the lottery. And though many people suspected the Cavs of doing this (and admitedly no one really cared) its pretty crazy for someone on that team to admit it! Check out what former Cavalier's coach John Lucas was saying:
I'm no fancy big city Clipper's fan mindya, but I gotta say that this news about Blake Griffin majorly sucks. I was pretty stoked to see the b-diddy, gordon, thornton, kaman, griffin lineup tear some fools up. But Griffin, who was originally only out for a few months, is shutting it down for the year. I was recently in a debate where we were trying to come up with the quintessential example of a "bummer." I of course won with the example of really really having to drop a deuce but sitting on the toilet and finding yourself to be constipated. Well I rescind my title, and acknowledge that Blake Griffin, my friends, is the true definition of a bummer. It especially sucks for a kid that has been asked about playing for a "cursed" franchise since the moment he was drafted and always took it in stride saying that the past doesn't matter....and I think he meant it. As far as the Clipper's cursed first round picks go, let's just hope that Griffin is more of the Eric Gordon, Antonio McDyess, Lamar Odom caliber and less of the Shaun Livingston, Michael Olowakandi, Chris Wilcox, Darius Miles, Yaroslav Korolev (?) etc mold.
Hey guys, apparently the Big Mac was on roids. 
I'm not gonna lie, I've been waiting a long time to write a post connecting Wilt Chamberlain to Fidel Castro. Though the big dipper is famous for scoring 100 points in a single game (a game that he touched the ball every possession and that his team lost) he is more known for another number: the 20,000 women he claimed to have slept with in his autobiography. When I was 14 i definitely though that was awesome, and though its still impressive (if not mathematically suspect) its somewhat gross. Well in any case the all-time leader in minutes per game, 60 point games, 50 point games, 40 point games, consecutive field goals made, and chicks banged can step aside as Fidel Castro (ewwww that guy?) has been privy to the spoils of 35,000 young ladies. Apparently a Cuban official claims that Fidel had at least two women a day for 40 years with the regular regimen of one for lunch and one for dinner. Oh hey, strong work Fidel Castro...just thinking about it makes my nuts hurt.
The migration of big name ballplayers to the big name teams has become so commonplace that we don't even bat an eye...Roy Halladay to the Phillies, Granderson to the Yanks, Jason Bay to blah blah blah. Its hard to bring yourself to pay attention to it all. But this morning I saw a news blurb about Adrian Beltre. I had totally forgotten about that dude! Mr. Beltre is entering the ranks of Red Sox nation on a one-year, $9 million contract with a $5 million player option for 2011. A seemingly small contract for a 30 year old coming of a 62 million dollar deal who is considered one of the better defensive 3Bs in the game. Unless of course you recall how Beltre earned that contract. Mr. Beltre entered the show with the Dodgers where he was your standard good defensive 3B until he had a contract year explosion to a .334 avg with 48 HRs and 121 RBIs in 2004. The Mariners were quick to "win" the sweepstakes there, only to be disappointed by the pooh-balls 5 years they got from Beltre's bat. This is the story of a guy that was quite obviously on steroids just to get made on one contract, and is one of the best examples of how the steroid era really screwed baseball. I can't believe I almost forgot about that guy.
That prompted Arenas to draw on Crittenton, who then also grabbed for a gun, league security sources told the Post."
Oh hey. At least we can leave that 2009 nonsense behind us, right?
Happy New Year sporting nerds! May 2010 bring peaceful resolutions to our unsettled gambling debts and more posts from people not named Ganesh.
