who likes sports shorts?

so what a fucking sporty weekend we've got here, let me tell you. well, slightly longer than the weekend, since i somehow missed a friday post, yet again. but let's jump all over this shit.

theo's back. what a shock. and i am happy about that, and i am hoping things will start to turn around a bit here, but i'm also so very pissed that all this shit took place to begin w/. do i think johnny would be gone had theo been here? no, i don't. do i think we would have made the move for beckett? no, i don't. but at the same time, while the beckett move, by itself, is a great fucking move and was well worth making, we've got a rotation of pitchers who can go out and start baseball games. at this moment, we still do not have anyone who can even stand in centerfield and pretend he's a centerfielder. nor do we have a leadoff hitter. so...yeah. at this moment, i would take johnny over beckett, and i would take theo having never left in the first goddamn place.

i hear coco crisp is on his way over here, in one odd trade of basically prospects for prospects, which is good news. better than trading away bronson for some untested kid. coco crisp is a good player, but is he the type of player that can play here? that i really wonder about, and i'm kinda worried that the answer is no, he's not. he is also no johnny damon, but that can be remedied quite quickly if theo can come back, use his skillz (yes, w/ a z, they're that good) and get tejada up in boston for clement. all this talk of us signing alex gonzalez is, i hope, just a backup plan to tejada, and possibly even another piece to add to the trade for tejada, to fill baltimore's new hole at short. because man, alex gonzalez? seriously? it's better than trading players away for no good reason to tampa to get the same exact player, but come on. and better yet, why have you not yet traded wells to the padres for dave roberts to leadoff and play center, and then dump clement, gonzalez and "prospects" on baltimore for tejada. what IS the deal?!

well, uconn went about handling it's business this weekend, sloppier than anyone would have liked to have seen, but they got it done, and got it done w/ very little concern. they are THE team in the country this season. and as if them winning wasn't nice enough, duke and florida were nice enough to lose and open the door up to the number one spot once again. here we go. uconn huskies, number one in all the land! all the land i say!!!

then the steelers went about just handling the broncos, and the panthers reverted to the team they were throughout portions of the regular season, just unaware that yes, they actually were a nfl football team. surprise! jackasses... not that i'm overly pissed, though carolina would have provided a much better "game", this should most assuredly hand the steelers their fifth title, and give jerome one hell of a send off. i'm very much looking forward to the flat out dismantling the steelers will do to the seahawks. i mean, seriously, seattle, super bowl champions? come on.

but the biggest most insane sports news of all was kobe bryant literally beating a team single handedly. i mean jesus christ, what he did sunday night, scoring 81 points, was just beyond words. i'd try to talk about here, and tell you all the stats, but it just doesn't even get it across. 81 points! in one game! he outscored the raptors 55-41 in the second half himself! 58 times this season an nba team hasn't even scored 81 points! in a whole game! as an entire team! come on! 81 points! i hope it's an instant classic, as i assume it will be, because man do i need to set my dvr for that. that is a game that everyone should watch, because if you know me, or read this blog, you know i'm not down w/ the nba these days. i keep up w/ it, i watch sportscenter daily, but i couldn't even tell you who's in first in what division (though i've got a prety good guess.) i follow certain players, kobe being one of them, but i could not care much less about the nba than i do these days. but this here, kobe scoring 81 goddamn points, is possibly the most amazing thing i've seen in sports. at the very least in the nba, or in the game of basketball. i've seen larry legend, i've seen jordan, i've seen jordan's flu game, but i don't know if a single thing i've seen in the game of basketball can measure up to that performance. i mean jesus, it's the second most points ever in the nba. and you may say, well, anyone can do that these days w/ all the shots the stars are shooting. no! he shot 28-46 from the floor! 18-20 from the line and 7-13 from three! those are insane numbers! a.i. scores in the 50's quite often. kobe does as well. everyone gets their 50 point game every so often. but kobe not only has the second highest scoring game of all time now, he's also only the third player in the history of the nba w/ two games over 60 points in a season. third player! ever! (wilt and jordan are the other two) this is a game that'll be talked about for a long fucking time, as well it should be, because if you don't understand what kobe did, you need to take a look again. this is one of the finest performances any athlete has ever had, ever.

so yeah, a whole lot of sporty type things to chat about. i'll leave it at that for now. enough to wrap your little heads around. plus i've got a goddamn script that, for whatever reason, has yet to read itself. imagine that. ps. god i love making movies that are just sad ripoffs of something, that often times, wasn't an original or good idea in the first place. this would be my ryan reynolds movie, if i were to do it. we shall see. i would totally have a beard in it too, just like he did. good times. and that's that. gotta take a leak. later.

stahl