What Was That?

    Just as I was starting to forget what it felt like to be a Red Sox fan they did what only Kim Kardashian can do better, they blew it. I saw this thing coming a mile away yet for some reason I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor.  I knew from the get go our pitching could be a problem, and as soon as they went down to St. Pete and got swept by the Rays I knew they were gonna shit the bed.  Yet the sox fan inside of me continued to fight with my brain like that awkward couple that keeps breaking up and getting back together.   It's unacceptable for any team let alone a team with a 180 million dollar payroll to go 7-20 in the final month of the season.  The most disturbing part of all was the after the game there were more "I's" than "we's". 

   You had Adrian Gonzalez pissing and moaning about how it was the most physically demanding season he's ever had because the sox had to play so many Sunday night games and how it wasn't in God's plans for the team to make it to the playoffs. Boo fuckin hoo. I'm sorry Adrian that no one wants to watch the Padres play on Sunday Night baseball but if you didn't want to be in the spotlight you should have stayed there.  On top of Gonzalez whining about the travel schedule you got Tim Wakefield's talking about coming back next year not to help the team win a championship, but to get 207 wins and become the all time leader for the sox. It's disgusting.  

   I'm not gonna do a breakdown of the game and go on and on about how a guy who wants big money blew the biggest game of the year and how the 20 million dollar man dropped a ball that Dante Bichette could have caught because it should not have come down to game 162. The sox blew the biggest lead in the history of baseball. They were playing to their potential in the summer and thought they could just turn on cruise control and coast to the postseason.  Unfortunately, the team shit themselves, fell asleep at the wheel, and crashed into the front window of the drug store like a man with Alzheimer's.   

Good Weekend of College Ball

First off last nights NFL kickoff was a ballin game. That last play gets me wet everytime i see it and ive been watch the same sportscenter and first and ten all morning so my panties are moist to say the least.

Second off Rescue Me ended therefore so has my life.....

Third off SYKE cause college football is looking good this weekend with Bama at Penn St and the struggling Fighting Irish head to the Big House to take on Michigan in a the first night game. But you already knew that. UCF is playing BC, hopefully BC can use there $50,000 tuition brains and get a fuckin W and make a statement against UCF, who in fact beat Georgia in there bowl game last year. I keep the faith.

ND at Michigan - Good luck ND in the BIG House, with quarteback confusion and the first night game there, pff ya right. But really im excited for this game should be a good one...im basing that off nothing so ya.

Denard Robinson - 28

Flopping Irish - 20

Bama at PSU - This should be interesting. Id normally take Bama just cause there Bama and they do good football stuff, but playing in a game in one of the biggest stadiums in college football ehhhh i dn.

Joe Pa's Lion Cubs - 21

Roll Tide - 20

BC at UCF - Maybe i think this will be good just cause im a stubborn headed boston irish mother fucker and im more loyal to my teams then i am to myself.... anyway. BC has serious potential they got a solid linebacking core lead by Luke Keuchly, Chase Rettig at Q who id take over Shinkes jeryatric ass, and a pair of hands in sophmore reciever Bobby Swiggert. It all comes down to if Montel Harris plays i think though. I could go on for days but before my semi turns to a full on woody...

Newton Nutjobs - 24

UCF Golden Dildos - 17

just saw this on espn classic, fuckin sick

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TONIGHT

College football begins tonight. Thank you sweet baby jesus. Yeah maybe its UNLV and Wisconsin and Louisville and Murray St. But none the less its game time.

GO BC!

ps this is what its all about

Paul Pierce Almost Dies Playing in China Because The Courts Are in The Middle of Opium Dens

Yahoo: While playing in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang province… Pierce and Beasley both suffered asthma attacks due to large amounts of fans smoking cigarettes inside the stadium. After the game, things got even more shocking when Beasley fell to the floor in his hotel and started to roll around in obvious pain, scaring everyone around half-to-death. At that point, there was no choice but to dial 120 (the number for an ambulance in China) and take him to the hospital.

    Well I hope David Stern is happy.  I understand that business is business and that financially the NBA is all over the place.  It amazes me that despite a salary cap small market teams struggle worse in the NBA than those in the MLB. It is clear that somethings gotta give and NBA execs need to sit down and figure out what to do to prevent every major market from doing what the Miami Heat did but I'll save the business issue for another blog and focus this one on players going overseas to make money.  

   Superstars like Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, etc. going overseas to play during the lockout is absolutely ridiculous.  I understand that they're not seeing any money from their NBA teams, but last I checked the lockout does not prevent sponsors like Nike, Adidas, Gatorade, etc. from paying them.  Is every player in the NBA as financially irresponsable as Antwan Walker? These guys are making tens of millions of dollars a year yet they have so little in the bank that their children will starve and they'll lose their house if they don't play in Europe or China?

   I don't understand the "I just want to play basketball" excuse either. Why don't the top superstars in the league make a superteam of their own and go on a cross country tour where they take on the likes of the Harlem Globe Trotters and the And1 street ball team? They can show them how its really done.  

   On a serious note, what's the difference if you're scoring 600 points a game on the blacktop in Philly or you're scoring 600 points a game in an opium den in China? The only difference is you're getting paid to play in China so drop the "I love the game" bullshit.  

    Now I'm not going to argue that superstars shouldn't be going overseas because they might get injured; because lets face it, these guys aren't going to sit on their couches during the lockout there going to play ball. The difference between staying here and going abroad is the top medical facilities in the world are located in the United States. If Kobe plays in Eastbumfuck, China there might only be one hospital in a 100 mile radius and what are the chances that hospital will have the same resources as a hospital in LA, not to mention the language barrier. This is a nothing but a recipe for disaster.   

    I understand that the NBA is becoming a global brand and that teams are offering them big bucks to come and play abroad.  However, I fear that stories like Pierce having an asthma attack during a game because everyone and their mother is smoking in the arena will become the norm.  I also fear that as more and more players go overseas the horror stories of the playing conditions will get worse.  

   The NBA superstars of today should take after the best of all time, Michael Jordan. Take a year off from basketball, gamble irresponsibly and try out for a minor league baseball team. Last time I checked Jordan won three championships after taking a year off to play baseball, so if it worked for him it'll work for everyone right? All celtics fans should be calling Theo Epstein begging him to open up some roster spots on the Portland Sea Dogs for the big 3. This could not only bring three more championships to the city of champions but it could save Paul Pierce from dying of lung cancer from second hand smoke.