...the Rest of the Story

Godspeed to the longtime radio commentator Paul Harvey who died earlier today.

The man was a great commentator, like him or not.

Foster's fundamentals

Tonight, I attended the NBA game: Indiana Pacers versus (my fave team) the Boston Celtics.

The game, in my eyes was dominated by one man (well, except the Cetics' Ray Allen who single-handedly kept them inthe game and allowed my team to win)...Jeff Foster.

For any casual NBA fan, you're probably saying, "Jeff, who?"

Foster has been around for over 10 years, first coming up with the Utah Jazz in the late 90s, but his game hasn't chabged much. This is not meant as a slam, it's meant as a compliment.

He's an under-sized big man who doesn't light up the stat sheet with gawdy numbers. He IS, however, an above average role player who can be counted on to go out and bust his ass.

I'd call him: the un-agitator agitator. He doesn't really get under the oppoenets skin too much. He just plays hustle defense, can hit a mid-range shot (something sorely missing more and more in the Association), get hustle and some cheap rebounds, go after loose balls, and play those old wiley veteran tricks.

He's a solid player I'd love to have on my bench.

One more reason to dislike alcohol consumption

Number 4,398: It/Drinking causes the behavior of preppy-wannabe asshats to act like even bigger, preppy-wannabe asshats-n-douchebags!

Steve Kerr is a giant moron

Terry Porter was brought into coach the Phoenix Suns this year after they continually were bounced in early rounds of the NBA Playoffs because they played zero defense.

Porter demanded, and preached defense. So, what did Kerr do when players whined and bitched like the spoiled brats they are?....Kerr fired Porter and didn't back him.

Porter was shafted, was given a very raw deal, I'm glad that at least he will get ALL his money. Alvin Gentry is now the coach of the Suns, and they've gone back to their no defense way, which will assure them another bouncing from the playoffs early.

Gentry has proven jack shit in the NBA, and this was ultimately a huge mistake long-term.

A Sox fan who now feels bad for A-Rod

A-Rod is, and has never been, liked by his baseball bretheren. He has a tendency to care too much what others think, he's often too scripted, he always tries to say exactly the right thing.

As a Red Sox fan, I generally loathed A-Rod. But, baseball's players have managed to do the unthinkable, I now feel sorry for the guy.

Sure, it think it's clear he did the steroids. He probably is STILL doing them.

But, I can't stand these baseball asshat union buttboys who continued to sit idly by and watch baseball destroy itself. I really have a distaste for whoever the four players are that clearly threw A-Rod under the bus and singled him out through the list of 104 names of players popped for a failed test.

A-Rod's the only one who has been fingered, and it is this way because his union turned the guns on him because they didn't like him.

As a baseball junkie, I am saddened by the steroids. But, I'm just revolted by the other players sat there with their thumb up their ass doing nothing while they watched others cheat. I have no sympathy for them, and I consider them just as guilty as those who did the steroids.

I'm especially talking to you Tom Glavine.

The number is 3

Three simple notes on the state of our economy as a whole:

1. Cutting police officers and/or fire fighting personnel, is not an acceptable way for states/towns/communities to save cash.

2. Neither is cutting school budgets.

3. If your a company that has a sponsorship for a sports arena, take a loss by cutting that contract and save a blue-collar.

My poblem with the WPT

**Warning - As I am sleep-deprived, this is a pretty fucking mean rant, read at your own peril***

WPT = World Poker Tour/Tournament

Poker on tv has become a sensation in recent years and I never understood the fun part of it. But, this is what it hath wrought...

On my local Comcast Sports channel are four, fat, white trash dumb-fucks who clearly think they are as smart as a rocket scientist vying for a spot in NASA's elite astronauts club.

My problems with this "sport" are:

1. That while it may spurn learning some simple math arithmetic, it's largely a simple game to master. Who is truly vie in the top cream o' da crop as they say, say it's more about watching social behaviors than just playing simple math odds.

2. It gives fat white trash Americans a legitimate excuse to sit on their ass and think their going to hit the grad-fuck-lottery instead of working at a real job.

So, if you sit on your fat, lazy, doughy-white ass and wax poetic about how one day you'll win it big by taking down "a big score"...do us all a favor, pull out that rifle you surely must be a sportin'...and kill yourself. At least it's give some other American a reason to keep their real job.

Gammons equals Couric

Today's big sports story is the bust of Alex Rodriguez. And after hearing the most-recent interview A-Rod did with ESPN's Peter Gammons, here are a few thoughts:

1. Legally, A-Rod got totally screwed here. Whomever leaked his name to the reporter who originally broke the story, broke the law. No if's, and's or but's about it. Those records were to be confidential and the blood was supposed to have been destroyed after the results came in.

2. A-Rod was also screwed by the Players Association (the Union) because the people the baseball players elected to their top position, purposefully and willingly kept those records instead of destroying as they were legally allowed to do by the agreement they made with MLB.

3. Gammons again shows what a soft-baller he is. This interview was just like Couric's, and Gammons really didn't ask any serious or tough questions.

4. No doubt, one or more of my Red Sox has done and/or is doing some type of banned substance.

"There's never an egg timer when you need one."

Good liberal movie buffs will recognize that as a line spoken by actor John Mahoney from "The American President," the Aaron Sorkin liberal love movie.

This is slightly old news, but...marriage just seems to destroy everything in it's path. Conservatives are so stupid...if they allowed gay marriage this (divorce) is exactly what would be happening more and more:

After nearly two decades together as a lesbian couple, Hillary and Julie Goodridge got hitched in May of 2004. This came because of their landmark lawsuit, which famously persuaded the state Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to make it the first state to recognize same-sex marriage back in 2003.

After announcing they were separating back in 2006, it has become official: Last week, they became one of 168 couples to file for divorce in Suffolk County in January.

Thus, my quote to title this post: There's never an egg timer available when you need to measure the expediency of a divorce after a marriage.

Now THAT was entertaining

After a spat of recent SuperBowl blow-outs...we've had some good games in recent years. Last nights' was pretty darn good...the better team won, but I will say that they were asking to get beat (and perhaps should have been).