Friday Quick Notes

~Per request of one William Edward Salomon, I must comment on the Spelling Bee, which because I had class last night I did not watch a second of. Perhaps, Wes missed this but the spelling bee has been aired on ESPN since we were in grammar school, nothing has really changed it's always been on, now they just expanded it to prime time, which seems like an awful stretch to me, but hey its ABC's money. In all honesty if their is some semblance of competition involved I think ESPN feels like they can show it as long as it will get ratings. Let's be straight this nor poker, nor NASCAR are really sports but they do have defined markets and they do have competition involved so I will not crush ESPN for showing them. But if you ask me if I'd rather hockey be back on the network, so I could actually F'in watch the playoffs, instead of this other stuff, my answer would be a quick yes.

~Jason Giambi is injured, boo hoo hoo, I'm crying on the inside. Here's what is most laughable about this injury, the first is how they are claiming that it happened, while rounding the bases on a home run? So while jogging at a light pace he tore apart his foot, well isn't that classic. Secondly, the duration that he will be out. Atleast three weeks but perhaps the entire season? How vague can you possibly make an injury timeline out to be? He could miss the 3rd inning or he could be gone until 2011?

~And the King was crowned last night. I wonder how many times in NBA history a player has scored it's teams final 25 points in a game, nevermind in the Conference finals of a series that is tied and heads into multiple overtimes. James was pretty much a beast last night and it makes you wonder several things:

1. Just how good is he? If he could do that, what can't he do? If he can do that, why doesn't he do it more often?

2. Just how bad was the Pistons defense last night, James got to the rack almost effortlessly in the final minutes of regulation and overtime, where was the help D, or the ball denial or anything. He had all their points, friggin triple team him.

3. Just how bad are the rest of the Cavs, 25 of 25 and 29 of the teams last 30, where the hell was the rest of the squad, do they even serve a purpose.

4. How badly will the Cavs be dominated by the Spurs if they do finish of the Pistons? Any chance they win 2 games in the series, I would say they lose 4-1.

~So Billy Donovan decided that he would leave like the rest of the team to the NBA. You can't necessarily blame the guy, his whole team is essentially gone, he's going to get paid much more money, he won't have to leave the state of Florida, and he'll have Dwight Howard to build around. However, you have to think that if he stayed at Florida, everything on the campus would eventually be named after him. He's been a beast there, and perhaps the program continues to dominate perhaps it doesn't if he stayed, but where can he possibly bring the Magic. Dwight Howard is great, but he currently does not have close to the Offensive firepower to be the #1 weapon on a Title winner. And honestly, I'd rather have Oden than Howard. I think this is a very risky decision by him, will he make the playoffs, sure, but will they do anything in the playoffs? Almost certainly not.

~Is there anything more meaningless that contract extensions signed by college coaches? Do any of them ever honor the full length of the contract and how many times do guys get big time extensions and then leave before they even hit their first year of the contract? I don't think these contracts should even be reported, their ridiculous.

~Jim O'Brien got the Pacers job which is completely unexciting in every possible way. He has been a good coach, and really the Celtics would be better off with him then what they morphed into, but I can't say if I was a Pacer fan I would be jumping up and down with happiness right now.

~I always like looking at the Fortune 50 list, and laughing at how many undeserved players from New York are on the list of highest paid athletes. Way way too many.

~In news flying under the radar, somehow someway this happened 10 days ago and I missed it but, a Steelers assistant emailed porn to several NFL execs including the Commish. Apparently he just hit 'the wrong button'. Ya that button on your computer that instantly sends porn to the highest employee of your company, I usually avoid that button during my days work. Come on who in the world is ever going to believe that excuse, I was just trying to forward it to my friends and then somehow I sent it to several execs and the commissioner of the league. I think you'd be better off going to the Sammy Sosa school of answering questions, No Hablo Ingles.

~Another Yankee Red Sox series to get me depressed about 2007 baseball, woo.

~A long awaited rebus is going to go up at 1ish, first one to get the answer = winner.