Friday Quick Notes

~How hilarious is this whole Pacman Jones thing? He has his meeting with the commish about how he's going to turn it around and avoid going to strip clubs and clubs in general and do community service etc. But the night before he has this meeting he hits up a strip club in NYC and this news somehow finds its way into Goodell's hands. What an idiot. Atleast he told Goodell the truth, I'd imagine lying dead to the face of the commissioner would not help your case for a season suspension which he ended up getting anyway.

~Furthermore in Pacman news, his lawyers case for why Pacman Jones should not get suspended is simply, look at all the other scumbags that are in the NFL, and they don't get suspended.

~Note to Tank Johnson, do not go to a strip club or carry any unregistered firearms next week when you are set to meet the commish.

~How bad have the NBA playoffs been this year? This second round thus far has been miserable. The Bulls Pistons series looked like it had some potential, but the Bulls decided they didn't want to show up at all. The Jazz look like they should be able to take care of the Warriors, and who likes watching the Jazz. And the Cavs Nets series is not exciting at all. Lebron maybe the greatest talent in the history of the NBA, but he's team is so blah. I don't like watching the Cavs at all. And to further the annoying NBA playoff scheduling the Suns and Spurs have 3 days off in between games. Long travel between Phoenix and San Antonio...

~Donald Trump appeared on Stephen A Smith's radio show yesterday and his bashing of Mark Cuban was quite humurous and completely repetitive. Basically, from what I could gather is that Trump doesn't like Cuban, cause Cuban tried to copy his show Apprentice with his own show the Benefactor which was a complete bust. Anyway Trump rambled about how he thought the Mavs choked simply because Cuban puts too much pressure on them to win and that the Mavs would never win because of that. Sure Donald, why don't you do some more WWE. I'm pretty sure the Yanks won a few titles under Steinbrenner, and I don't think Cuban puts nearly the pressure down as George does.

~So much for the Blue Jays competing in the AL East, you might as well stick a fork in them. They are already 10.5 back, and in the middle of a 9 game losing streak. They're ace Roy Halladay was rocked last night against the Sox and their stud close B.J. is out for the season. I bet the owner is please he gave J.P. the go ahead to add big time free agents two years ago. Thus far, Ryan will have played 1 out of 2 seasons, and Burnett will have missed much of 2006 and was nothing special while he was in there.

~Bobby Abreu is annoying me very much. This guy is petrified of the outfield wall. Yesterday, he had a very catchable ball hit over his right shoulder, but since he slowed up to a snails pace to not crash into the wall, he did not make the catch, and Laird ended up with a triple and scoring after the botched run down. It's really unreal how a big man like that, could be that scared of a highly padded wall. What a wimp.

~The rumor is that Clemens will make his debut at Fenway, personally I highly doubt this is going to happen. It would certainly make for a good storyline, but I just don't see Clemens being thrust into the flames his first start back in pinstripes.

~ESPN polled their 'expert' college basketball announcers and surprise the most underachieving team in the past ten years was Michigan. 4 of the 5 experts had Michigan as the most underachieving team, and then there's Jay Bilas who did not even have them in the top 10. That boggles my mind, I know he was a teammate of Amaker, and a fellow assistant coach with him at Duke, but he of all people should know how miserable Michigan has been these past few years. Not making an NCAA tournament this decade, is not acceptable for a team with a national title and two finals appearances in the last 20 years.

~ESPN also put in a poll for the top teams of the past 10 years. Maybe its just me, but personally I wouldn't put this years Florida team at number 1. As much as I am a Duke hater the 2001 Duke team was the best of this decade. Jay Williams was a stud in college before his motorcycle accident, Boozer is going to be a perennial all star in the NBA, Battier was one of the grittiest college players in history and Dunleavy was a super swingman. That team was better than this years Florida team.

~The TPC is this week? Wow that flew under the radar, I had no idea that was happening this week, shows me how much I think of Golf's 'Fifth' major.