· A few Notes from the Red Sox Opening Day Game: I watched the entire game from the first pitch to the last. First and forth most Curt Schilling looked like absolute crap. He looked overweight and extremely out of shape. For a guy that has made a career out of hitting his spots and overpowering hitters with a 95mph fastball and having a splitter that literally drops off the table he did neither in his opening day start. He looked pathetic out there. I can see why the Red Sox would name him the opening day starter (200 wins over his career) but he was just not ready. Their range at the middle infield by Lugo and Pedroia is just awful. Any groundball up the middle is going to be a base hit. Having that along with a centerfielder with a noodle for an arm in Crisp could cause a lot of problems defensively. All in all, I’m optimistic about the chances of the Sox this year.
· A few of you have gotten back to me about the 11th member of my list of the Next 11 NBA players into the 61 best players in the NBA and it appears that the resounding favorite is Gary Payton. Also receiving votes were Reggie Miller, Tracy McGrady, and my personal favorite suggestion Dennis Rodman (Not a bad suggestion, you could definitely make an argument). Gary Payton’s career stats are 16.4ppg, 6.7apg, 4.0rpg, and 1.8spg (these have declined in the last couple of years due to his backup role with the Heat). A 9-time All-star nicknamed “The Glove” he was also one of the fiercest on the ball defender ever.
· Is it me or has South Park really been stepping it up this season? I mean honestly the last few episodes have had me laughing harder then I can remember in along time from watching South Park. The 24 spoof, the Head Lice episode, Naggers, and Easter Da Vinci Code special have been hysterical. Such high quality episodes. Good work Matt and Trey.
· As I have stated earlier this upcoming weekend is one of the greatest TV weekends because of the start of Entourage and the Sopranos but I almost forgot that The Ultimate Fighter 5 starts up tom. night and the Masters are this weekend as well. Even if you don’t like Golf you have to like the Masters due to the history around it. The music of that Masters alone should make you watch it. The Ultimate Fighter 5 starts off with the introduction of a new weight class (155lbs lightweights). I am so excited for this as well. It truly is one of my favorites shows. On the other hand, the UFC pay-per-view this upcoming Saturday appears to be on its face, very sub par. A main event of Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Sera should not be highlighting a pay-per-view. I’m setting the over/under line at 2 minutes to how long this fight will last. I dare you take the over.
· One of my new favorite things is when a college athlete decides to “do the right thing” and stay in school for an extra year and its end up costing them millions of dollars when they don’t get drafted as high as they were projected. Last year Joakim Noah would have been either then #1 or #2 draft pick because the draft was so weak. As of right now he has probably closer to #10 due to how stacked this draft is. Nick Fazekas wanted to return to school for his senior year to improve on his projected draft position as a late first/early second round draft pick. After this year he appears to be right at the same spot. So he returned to college and picked up a degree and lost about a million dollars in the process. The all-time leader in this category though is Matt Leinart. Two years ago Matt was the consensus #1 draft pick to go to the 49ers. He decided to stay in school and “win another national championship” and ended up getting drafted #10 by Arizona. He had already won a national championship and a Heisman trophy but he went back to school for another year with the potential to get hurt and never play in the NFL. Now I believe he went back because he was banging every hot Southern Cal Coed and if that is the case then I have less of a problem with it but loosing out on $20 million is a tough choice to make to bang some USC undergrads. To my readers out there, send in your choices for the “Matt Leinart ‘I should have left school” all-star team”.
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