~So just when you thought the Yankees pitching staff couldn't get more injured, Darrell Rasner goes out and breaks his finger trying to field a comebacker and is placed on the 60-day DL. Hilarious, how many pitchers could the Yanks possibly have injured.~At the other end of the spectrum I go out and make fun of the fact that the Yanks are pitching Tyler Clippard on sunday and he goes out and throws a 3 hit gem. And it was much needed as the Yanks hitting was miserable the first game of the series and nothing worked on saturday. A Sweep against the Mets would have been incredibly embarrassing, and the Clippard win both avoided that and gave the squad some momentum which carried into last night.
~Federer whiped out Nadal in the final two sets in Hamburg to make the upcoming French Open much much more intriguing, if they end up meeting in the finals in Paris, I will be watching every second of that match early on a sunday morning.
~33 years after the fact, George Foreman is making an excuse for why he lost to Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle. Ok George, maybe all those grill sales have gone to your head.
~This Michael Vick thing just gets more legs everyday. A few days ago Vick comes out and says stuff about how his fans will always support him. "Regardless of where I go people are gonna still love Mike Vick". Nice, Ron. Next Clinton Portis apparently doesn't think having a dog fighting ring is that bad. Cause he's from Mississippi it's just a normal thing to him. Clinton I think you just served yourself up to some annoying PETA hate mail.
~Justin Miller broke the Jets streak of lack of involvement in NFL thuggery when Justin Miller went to throw a punch at a bar, and when his target ducked he landed it on a female. Nice Justin.
~In more signs that hockey is merging closer to its death, on saturday prior to the Preakness NBC was airing a playoff hockey game, the Sabres vs. Senators. Well when this game went into overtime, NBC stopped covering the game and went to Preakness prerace coverage. The game was then thrown on Versus for the overtime session, if you are Gary Bettman how could you possibly put on a positive face about this whole Versus debacle anymore? One of your games just went into overtime in the conference finals, and many of the fans most likely were unable to watch the conclusion because it was switched to a station they might not have. Go NHL.~Here's the sad fact, the NHL playoffs are flat out better than the NBA playoffs. They always have been. They're more exciting, the sudden death overtimes are edge of your seat entertaining, meanwhile the NBA has 79-76 gross fests in the Eastern Conference finals.
~Speaking of the Preakness I actually like horse racing. It's a quick thrill and I can turn it on for 25 minutes watch some quick pre analysis, make fun of the jockey uniforms and watch a 5 minute race and then be done with it. It's much better for my attention span than most sporting events.
~And in quick recap to the NBA playoffs, the Suns and Spurs should have played a game 7 but thanks to Stern they did not, instead the Spurs are going to roll the Jazz, and the Pistons will eventually bore everyone to a 6 game series victory over the Cavs, and yet again the NBA will showcase the boring Spurs vs. the boring Pistons in their finals. I bet David, isn't looking forward to looking at those ratings come series end.~As for last night people yelling about Lebron not taking the ball to the rack and passing to open teammates. How about shut the hell up. If the teammates can the wide open shot, every says what a great pass by LBJ what vision, instead Donyell clanks it and people say that he needs to be more aggressive and take control. He might have had a lane and maybe if he takes it strong he makes it, but he was struggling with his shot and found a wide open man. Enough with the Monday Morning Quarterbacking.
~Chelsea won the FA Cup to give them sole dominance of the two English tournies this year. However, Man U took the bigger prize in the Premiership title, and Liverpool has a chance to take home the biggest prize of them all tomorrow when they square off against AC Milan in the Champions League final, so all in all, not a successful campaign for the Blues from London.
~I finished last week in 1st, 1st, 2nd in my three fantasy leagues. Woo.
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