Monthly Archives: May 2012

May 31, 2012 · 9:37 PM

Conspiracy Theory

While the Celtics were losing Wednesday night a little thing happened prior to the game that reinforced my theories that the NBA is totally and completely corrupt. The NBA Draft Lottery.

I’ll explain.

We won’t go into the history of the Hornets and how they used to be in Charlotte. Or how they moved to New Orleans but are still called the Hornets, even though Utah has a team called the Jazz who were originally in New Orleans. Change New Orleans back to the Jazz and change Utah to the Salt Lakers or something.

I digress.

New Orleans was owned by the league. The league had purchased them in 2010 for $300 million. Well, the team was run by the league. Remember, Chris Paul couldn’t be traded to the Lakers but when a shittier deal came across the table the could trade Paul to the Clippers? Yeah, the league’s doing. More specifically, David Stern’s doing.

I’ve made my opinions very clear on Stern. I don’t like him. Sure Bettman shat on TV deals and stuff for the NHL, but he’s not as absurd as this assclown. Stern assigns specific referees for games with specific outlines to make sure he manipulates what he wants (see Lebron in the Finals).

But back to the lottery.

The NBA had a tough time selling the team. Finally the Saints owner, Tom Davis, bought the team. He paid $338 million. So the league made a small profit. And here’s where the conspiracy begins for me.

They sat on the team for over a year, dumped their best player for spare parts, and really have no marquee player. How can they sell the team? Who’d want to buy it so they’d sit in mediocrity for years? No, the league needed to get a marquee player to New Orleans. A player the team can build itself around, but more importantly a poster boy for the team ownership.

How can you get that? You rig the lottery. You make sure that even though New Orleans has the third best chance to win, that their number comes out first.

If they broadcast the actually balls being picked, I’d believe it’s not fixed. But they don’t. They just open the envelopes. So when Boston has the second worst record in the NBA a few years back and gets the worst possible pick in #5, you have to think something’s up. How else did they lose the Duncan lottery in 1997.

I flip flop on this whole topic. I don’t think teams should be able to tank to the #1 pick like in the NFL but I don’t think that the team with the 6-14th worst record should even have a shot at the #1 pick. Top five maybe? How about a playoff for picks? Your loser’s bracket that has all the worst teams and they have to play for the top pick? I don’t know.

All I know is the NBA is the most corrupt of the major sports. Stern is the master of the manipulation. And the world will be a better place when Stern is out in the NBA office.

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· 6:01 AM

Glad I Made My Decision

I posted it on Facebook last night but seriously, enough already. Much like Battleship that’s taking a dump in theaters right now, this movie is being crammed down our throats. I didn’t want to see your stupid fucking movie the first time I saw the trailer. Adding Coors Light into your commercials isn’t going to change it. Enough. The people that want to see it will, they decided that as soon as they saw Ridley Scott’s name attached. The rest of us are just annoyed.

Anyways, there was a basketball game in-between all the Promethues commercials.

When I got home the Celtics were up eleven and really looking good. It was somewhere near the beginning of the second quarter and I was happy to see that the team had found offense. Then I heard the announcers saying how Rondo was the big scorer and had 14 points in 12 minutes or something.

Interesting.

Then they went on to say how Rondo had played every minute of the game so far and that Doc’s gamble seemed to be paying off. The Celtics stretched the lead to 15 but that was shrunk to nine at the half.

Halftime had Magic Johnson saying that Dwayne Wade would wake up and when he did, the Celtics would need to watch out since their lead had already shrunk to nine. Ah, Magic the prognosticator.

You guys know me pretty well by now. I’m a fan of the Boston teams. If they’re doing something that’s pissing me off, I’ll call them out. That’s what fans do. Right?

Well, I can tell you that I don’t make dime one writing this thing. I do it for the simple fact of I like getting my opinions out there. So if you ever run into me in a bar and ask something that’s going on, I’ll ask you if you read the blog.

The fact that I don’t get paid to do this means obviously I have a real job. And come playoff time I need to make that decision – as the games start later and later – am I going to stick it out (like the Bruins last season) or am I going to bed? A lot of factors go into that decision like can I make up sleep tomorrow? How much is on my plate at work tomorrow? Stuff like that.

I tell you all this because as I watched the Celtics lead shrink to one and then turn into a two point deficit, I made the call. Fuck you Celtics. You’re going to lose. You abandoned whatever was working in the first half and the other team made adjustments you weren’t ready for. You’re going to lose and I need sleep.

I rolled over, flipped on the sleep timer and was out by 10:30. Only to wake up this morning and find out Rondo had a career game….in a loss. Had I stayed up, this column would have been SO MUCH more angry but because I got my sleep, I’m good. Glad I made my decision to roll over and fall asleep.

Miami is going to win this series. They may sweep, they may win in five. Six and seven seem so very far fetched at this point. Bottom line is that they will be sacrificed to the Spurs in the Finals. Print up your Texas beats Lebron shirts. This is what’s going to happen. This is how the big three is going to end. But if this is the Rondo we can see every night going forward, I feel so much more confident about the C’s future.

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May 30, 2012 · 5:14 AM

Hilarious Hump Day

OK maybe not hilarious but I couldn’t think of an adjective to go with Wednesday.

The Sox finally made it above the .500 mark on a night that I would have bet the farm on the Tigers since they had Verlander going. With Pedroia likely to join the other half of the team on the DL, it should be just a matter of time before they fall back below .500.

The Celtics will try and pull even tonight against the Heat. Hopefully they find that offense they’re missing and don’t leave 10 points on the line by missing their free throws.

The Pats released Anthony Gonzalez. He was brought in as Wes Welker insurance but give his injury history, the fact the Wes signed his tender, and the fact Gonzalez wasn’t at OTA’s it shouldn’t be a surprise. Somewhere Ochocinco is breathing a sigh of relief.

Finally you headline. I’d heard about it in the afternoon driving home but completely forgot about it. Then the news kept teasing it so I surfed on over to Funny or Die. This is where you can see the Tom Brady Under Armour spoof.

Since I can’t embed Funny or Die videos, you’ll have to click the link. But trust me, worth the three minutes. I laughed out loud a few times. Not as many times as when I first saw The Landlord, but still pretty funny stuff.

Here’s the links for both:

Tom Brady

The Landlord

Enjoy.

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May 29, 2012 · 6:18 AM

Rattled

The positive from last night’s game? The second quarter when the Celtics showed up, dropped 35 on the Heat and went into the half down two. After a Miami basket was disallowed the C’s were tied at the half.

After that 11 point first quarter it was shocking.

That second quarter is where we started getting the sense that David Stern’s dirty fingerprints were all over this game. Garnett’s delay of game technical, the non jump ball when they called a foul on Bass, and of course Doc Rivers’ technical.

Seriously? Who’s the ref? A WWE official?

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Ugh.

The thing is the Celtics don’t seem to be mentally tough enough to bounce back. Almost like a little kid. Well if the officials aren’t going to let us win, why try.

Where as the Celts used to step it up and want to win in spite of the refs. No so much now.

It was evident in the Atlanta and Philly series, if this team gets rattled by the officials they fall apart. Rattled.

I’m not saying the the officials are the reason the C’s lost. Well, not the only reason. Shooting 39% from the field and missing 10 free throws doesn’t help their cause.

So we can hope that the C’s wake up. Otherwise David Stern will get his wish and the Heat will stroll right into the NBA Finals. Hopefully to get crushed by the Spurs. Eff you Stern. Quit already. No one likes you.

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May 25, 2012 · 6:49 AM

For Sale?

In case you don’t read anything outside of Boston stuff, I can tell you the Dodgers mess was finally fixed when the team was sold to a group of investors led by Magic Johnson. The going price of the Dodgers? $2 billion dollars. That’s billion with a “b”.

So rumors went rampart that the team about four hours south of us on 95, The Yankees, were exploring selling. If it’s a sellers market and the Dodgers netted $2 billion, what are the Yankees worth? $5 billion?

So of course this got me daydreaming. Daydreaming of John Henry finally being tired of baseball and throwing in the towel with the Sox. It would be the first domino to fall, but the best one at the same time.

Think about it.

Henry goes, that means immediately Luchhino and Werner are gone. Sure they would try and make a play to buy the team but neither has the money like Henry. Not when the team would likely fetch something in the $1.5 billion and change range. Remember you get the team, park, and most importantly NESN. They you have control over what’s being said on your broadcasts and airwaves. I digress on that point.

After the ownership trio was gone, the GM would have to be next. He’s part of the whole Fenway Group jackassery. The new owner would want his own president who would name his own GM, and the further we can get away from the loser Theo tree the better.

Then, and this is a huge leap, we could finally get rid of Fenway and build New Fenway.

Ah, what a dream to take me into the long weekend.

Back on Tuesday with hopefully a Celtics team still alive in the playoffs. If not, Bobby V said that if the Sox keep playing like this, they’ll win a championship.

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