Thursday, May 28, 2009

Big Z,Lakers,Manny and More

Hello again everyone its Ryan in the guest blogging role for a little bit until Brad gets back from his travels of the world..anyways lets jump right into it

  • You gotta lead with the NBA Playoffs...LA beats Denver 103-94 to go up 3-2 in the series.The game was actually a really close game until the 4th quarter where Denver just went flat..bad timing really and then combine the foul troubles/ineffectiveness of Nene,Billups and JR Smith its going to be very hard to overcome on the road.On LA's side Lamar Odom was the main surprise guy adding 19 pts and 14 rebs which is easily his best game of the series.If he is doing this off the bench things seem a little smoother from Kobe who only took an economical 13 shots for 22(Lamar was the leader with 15 attempts).And while his box score was a little light,the contributions from Shannon Brown were very big with a big dunk on the Birdman as well as jumper late in the shot clock.He helped the momentum swing.Denver's back is against the wall for Game 6 at home,no one wants to play a potential closeout game against Kobe Bryant.
  • Another thought on the NBA..I think its a really bad idea to have the league take back every technical and flagrant foul as well as give people flagrant fouls the day after..clearly the people who are giving these fouls out the 1st time arent doing a good enough job...soooooo lets try to do better you know?...its killing the crediblity of the sport.

In the MLB
  • I would steer clear of pitcher Carlos Zambrano for a few days...on an close play at the plate against the Pirates today,the runner was called safe and he erupted..he bumped the ump so he got the toss...he then mocked the ump by...throwing him out?...or he gave the motion of that..he then launches the baseball somewhere short of the wall throws his glove on the ground and walks to the dugout....is he done?...why would he?...he picks up a bat and wales on the gatorade machine(sidebar when did gatorade machines become automatic like restaurants?...I want one) for a few minutes...a pretty nice meltdown if I do say so myself
  • Toronto is in complete free fall these days..after posting an out of the blue record early..they've lost 9 in a row.And if there was ever a division to not do that in..its the AL East.Today they choked away a 7-3 lead going into the 8th against the Orioles...read that one again..yikes..they lost the game 12-10 in the 11th..
  • Who would've thought that the Padres would be pitching better AND hitting better than the Diamondbacks?
  • Manny Ramirez is still capable of starting for the NL all star team as an outfielder...yeah the suspended for drugs Manny..that one...if that isnt a clear cut signal that no one really cares about steroids like that I dont know what else will.In the end it will always be a big cut in the sides of writers and the purists of the sport..but for the fans they just want to win...its not like people are showing up much anyways to the games.
I thought about covering soccer and tennis..but I doubt Brad would be happy with that lol...but I will say that
  • Manchester United fell to Barcelona 2-0 with goals by Rossi and Eto..it wasnt as competitive as people would have thought it should have been.
  • Sharapova needed 3 sets to pull it out over Petrova;Safina,Nadal(30 in a row in the French)and Andy Murray all advance as well

1 comment:

Brad said...

My god... Tennis?? Haha just kidding... Thanks for your help brother