~Talk about a blown opportunity to have anything good conclude your weekend, we'll start with the Soprano's even though that has nothing to do with the sporting world, but it was the dominant storyline for the weekend. I have personally have never gotten that into the Soprano's occasionally I've watched a string of episodes with my father (its his favorite show as a 100% Italian American) but that's been it. So I figured why not I'll flip on the final episode and watch and what did it leave me with, a feeling of relief that I had not invested much interest into the shows past. What a lame friggin ending, and a lame episode completely. One guy gets popped and while that scene was relatively cool, it lasted for about 3 minutes, the rest of the episode was filled with useless jargon that didn't belong. And the conclusion well, their was no conclusion all they did was make you think that something went wrong with your TV when it all of a sudden went black screen on you for about 10 or 15 seconds before the credits rolled. All in all, I'm just glad I'm not a die hard Soprano fan cause those out there have to be left feeling ripped off.~Speaking of ripped off how about the NBA finals. For those like me that decided to tune into the Soprano's first and then flip to the game afterward, you turned on a game that had a 20 point margin already, after an hour. That effectively was the end of my viewing of that game. There's no friggin way the Spurs are gonna blow a 20 point lead, I don't care if the Cavs got it to single digits with a few minutes left, it wasn't happening, the Spurs are too good, too smart, and too experienced to blow any lead like that. Perhaps the Cavs can turn on the Jets like they did starting game 3 against the Pistons, but it all just seems so doubtful to me.
~Continuing the theme of lame this weekend is everything French Open. My girl Ana Ivanovic not only lost to Henin, who seems like the biggest asshole in all of tennis mens or womens, but she got steamrolled in barely over an hour. There was absolutely no drama in that match whatsoever. And the men's final which provided some drama was just a formality after Nadal broke early in the 4th set. The theme of the match was watching Federer miss hit ball after ball into the stands. For someone who is the greatest player in the world, who could at some point in the not too distant future lay claim to being the best ever, he miss hit so many balls and was absolutely terrible at capatalizing on break point opportunities. I would have very much liked to see either win, but it wasn't in the cards.~Chad Johnson beating a horse in a race is quite humurous, I'm not quite sure why he got such a massive head start, kind of seems like it took the whole point out of it, but his whole overly cocky schpeel afterwards was funny.
~I'm not sure why Gilbert Arenas would admit a full year prior that he was going to opt out of his contract, but it's not really news is it? If he plays overly well again this year, won't it be common sense to opt out and get more?
~What's better than going 2 for 3 at the plate and throwing 9 innings of shut out baseball and getting a Wi--- what the f, Sabathia threw 9 innings of shut out ball got two hits at the friggin plate and his team couldn't score for him at all? In his teams defense, if Sabathia wasn't fat he should have advanced to third on a passed ball and would have scored on the following pitch which was a hard single to left. Anyway, the Red beat the Indians in extras cause they couldn't score at all.
~The Yanks are now on their first big time hot streak of the season, and the majority of the reason has been the hot bats, and the re-emergence of Bobby Abreu as someone who doesn't suck. You have to love playing the Pirates during a time when your lineup is clicking, because even when a starter like Gorzelanny has his good stuff working they are able to work him and eventually get to him, and they absolutely brutally beat up the Pirates bullpen all weekend long. So the Yanks slip to within single digits of the Red Sox right now, and have to continue to win games and stay hot.
~Missed the Belmont, I'm not very upset about it.
~Also didn't watch any of Clemens return, which I'm sure was completely overblown for a 45 year old man making his first start of the season. He pitched exactly what you expect from him, 6 innings around 3 runs or so and a W cause the Yankees mashed the Pirates. So in essence he's a big upgrade from De Salvo, who saw that coming?
~I went to see Knocked Up instead on saturday afternoon and I would highly recommend it, especially if you're looking for a date movie as it's funny enough for even the dumbest guy and has enough of a plot for even the sappiest girl. All in all I think it may not have had the absolutely hilarious scenese in 40 Year Old Virgin, but it was more consistantly funny throughout and was probably a better movie overall. I'm not sure if I'd put it on par with Wedding Crashers, but regardless it's a much watch.
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