(Thanks to the guys here for giving me room in the shelter tonight. It’s much obliged.)
Tonight in Boston, the Celtics took the air out of the Hawks’ party with a by-the-numbers 25-point win. Just like, the night before, the Pistons told the Sixers to turn off the lights and go to bed already with their own Game 5 spankdown. And the temptation is to take games like those and have them color your memory of the earlier games in the series, so much so that you don’t really give Joe Johnson his due for utterly dismantling the Celts in Game 4, or the Sixers for making the Pistons look old, tired and disinterested in 2 of the first 3 games in their series.
Here’s a Spoiler Alert for anyone who is watching sports: it’s going to end badly for you. Either your team will lose before a championship has been achieved, or (very rarely) they’ll win, but fail to defend their title in a heartbreaking fashion at some future date. Oh, and in other news, you’re getting older and will eventually die, probably with some strong loss of dignity and loss of bowel control.
So… the only thing to do is to take the gift that is the 2 in the inevitable 4-2 series, and just delude yourself until it’s more important than the 4 that aren’t. Sixer Fan has a lot of practice in this. I’ve trained myself to forget every moment of the 2000 Sixers-Lakers Finals that doesn’t involve Allen Iverson stepping over Tyronn Lue like he’s a pile of dog droppings.
Oh, and for any Sixers fans that think the team is really confident that they are going to take Game 6 and make the series go the full 7? I’m on their e-mail list, and they’ve been spamming me to sell the Game 6 tickets… with the added benefit that I could win a shopping spree at a local supermarket. Now that’s confidence!
-If you’re wondering if Kate Hudson looks good in a red thong, we know where you can find the answer. (on205th)
-Before casting your vote for Hilary, check out the Obama Mix-Tape. (withleather)
-The Erin Andrews Birthday Bash rolls towards a rousing climax. (bustedcoverage)
-President Bush’s rapier wit actually connects….at the expense of Jessica Simpson’s. (bumpshack)
-pacman does dallas. enough said. (bangcartoon)
-you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Tom Jones cover Hoobastank:
-NY Daily News jumps the gun on the Sean Avery death story (http://machochip.com/2008/04/new-york-rangers-sean-avery-ho.php)
Daisy Fuentes has one of the strangest bodies we’ve ever seen. We’re not sure whether her breasts are too big (are they fake) or too small (are they fake). Her chest reminds us of Phil Mickelson.
She has a pretty face…but that body is strange.
BUT…..it IS nude. See the rest of the photos at on205th.com.
Contributing Editor Conrad Dupes will tell you from first hand experience that when your coach tells you to eat the fucking banana….YOU EAT THE FUCKING BANANA.
Even if you’re a sushi-munching player on the Sony Ericsson WTA tour.
The Prostitute Ralph Wilson today announced that he would accept $78 million (presumably US or Canadian $…..not Turkish$) in exchange for playing eight Buffalo Bills NFL games over the next five years in Toronto.
By accepting the money, Wilson sodomizes one of the NFL’s most loyal fan bases and perhaps paves the way for a sale to Rogers Communications mogul Ted Rogers and Larry Tanenbaum, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors.
Wilson is most famous (infamous) in NFL circles for refusing to sell naming rights at RALPH WILSON STADIUM (forever to be now known as “The Bunny Ranch”). By not selling the naming rights to The Bunny Ranch, Wilson has fallen behind other NFL teams in revenue generation and that financial disparity has been reflected on the field as the Bills have one of the poorest records in the NFL this decade.
It has not yet been announced how this plan will effect season ticket pricing for Bills fans, but it is unlikely that Wilson will greatly reduce package pricing, even though eight less games will be played at The Bunny Ranch. So, it would seem that Bills fans will continue to fork over their $700 per season, and get 1.5 less Bunny Ranch games per year…..and…..The Prostitute Ralph Wilson will get and extra $15million-plus per year in revenue.
No word, yet, on whether Eliot Spitzer has contacted Wilson.
(finances aside, left unsaid here is that this is an excellent opportunity for Bills fans to get out of town and visit one of the world’s finest cities, Toronto.)
We don’t know Ted. And we don’t know John. But they are ESPN sports personalities in one of our favorite cities, Houston (it would be your favorite city, too, if like us you’d dropped 5-figures in one sitting at the gentleman’s club Treasures!).
Anyway…these kind gents were nice enough to feature our flatusyahu on their show and the result was HUMONGOUS hits. So we decided to listen to their podcast and, quite frankly, we think they ARE the Monsters of the Midday.
So…when in H-town, lend them your ear, patronize their sponsors and make sure to mention flatusyahu when you call into their show.
CSKA is quite possibly the coolest professional sports franchise on the planet.
The subject of a recent Sports Illustrated feature article by Ian Thomsen, This Moscow-based basketball team is the New York Yankees of European basketball. And quite fittingly for a team that rolls like rock stars…..
-it’s always fun to revisit the day Peyton Manning went berzerker.
-trendhunter is willie with thenew Nike commercial directed by Guy Ritchie, aka Mr. Madonna, who directed one of our favorite all-time movies, Snatch.
-espnu and flatusyahu are totally gay for suggesting you read this touching story of sportsmanship.
-can a baseball pitcher make a kick save? break.com has proof that the answer is affirmative.
-y2kers is suggesting that baby-tossing might be the next big sport on VS.
-need more looooo in your life? check out the lou pinella widget at brunchandthecity.
-this picture on si.com HAS to be embarrassing to homer bailey.
-you’ll get arrested if you streak in Scranton, PA….even if you’re a future NHLer.
Brazilian over-biter Ronaldo was apparently sent off with a yellow card after having procured the services of a trio of Brazilian tranvestuables and not meeting their demand of $30,000 to keep quiet. Ronaldo is now in hiding in hiding in a very secluded place, most likely a an NHL arena.
