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Weekend Review Quick Notes

~Billy what the F? Why in the world did you take the job and then within a single weekend decide it was a bad move. I don't get it. What changed so much in the two days between you signing the contract and then asking them to release you. I don't think I could ever do that, I think you really should take the time to decide what you want and then when you come to the conclusion stick with it. Perhaps this rebuttal is a bad move. One way or another the Magic have to let him go back to Florida, sure it sucks and is a PR hit but you can't keep him there against his will, it would be bad for your franchise. There are plenty good coaches out there that would love to coach Dwight Howard, just find a different one.

~Johnnie Morton got knocked the F out in his MMA debut on a quick right to the chin. Then post match he refuses to take his performance enhancer test and they refuse to pay him. Looks like nothing has changed in Johnnie's life.

~Can't say I watched much of the saturday night NBA game. Me and games during bar hours don't usually mix well. I'm not really that surprised that the Cavs won game 6, just seemed like the Pistons couldn't figure out who their go to guy was all postseason and as much as I have loved C Webb my entire life, what the Pistons needed at the #5 was someone who could play help defense, and C Webb is not that man. Boo, I was hoping he would get his opportunity in the finals.

~Hooray the Hockey was actually on a station I get this weekend, so I watched a few minutes of it. Congrats to the NHL for getting one more viewer for a single period of the Stanley Cup finals, that brings you up to about 23 total viewers.

~Walkoff homer sunday as Vlad the Impaler and the Flyin Hawaiian drop homers in the ninth so they could enjoy getting pounded in the skull when they cross home plate. It was even Victorino hula bobble head night, which looks exceedingly not heterosexual. I probably would have protested if I was him.

~Johan Santana is 6-5 and was outdueled by the 6-1 Chad Gaudin yesterday afternoon? Um who knew. In all actuality, Santana sits with a 3.30 era through his first 12 starts, so it's mostly the fault of the Twins lack of run support.

~Gary Sheffield might be the most ignorant person on the planet. How about you toss the race card out there a few more times this weekend? First you say that if you get suspended for what was deemed throwing a broken bat at the umpire (I didn't see it) that it would be a conspiracy. And then you come out and say that Latin players just do what their told and that's why there's not that many black players in the Majors? Some just needs to get that man to shut up and just hit the ball. He is out of his friggin mind. I just hope he doesn't get suspended cause I have him in 2 of my 3 leagues and he is starting to rip the cover off the ball. Jimmy please tell your DH to shut the f up.

~Federer and Nadal are both still on a collision course for the final next weekend, which I would be very excited to watch. Nadal's match today is against Leyton Hewitt so that could potentially be entertaining.

~I caught a little sportscenter this weekend and caught the story of the gay lacrosse coach that was ousted weeks after he came out. They put part of this decision in the players hands and they proclaim his sexuality had nothing, zero, zilch to do with it. That's quite laughable. The part that startled me the most was the "woman", so the name Karen suggests, that fired him. Woah was she a Pat and quite hypocritical.

~It's official, three leagues, 2 months, 3 current pole positions. Woo. May have to do a fantasy round up post this afternoon, in celebration.

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