Archive for March 22nd, 2006

I'm really trying to resist the Manning/Chesney jokes, but come on... how fucking gay does this look?Kicking indoors, on a rug… Adam Vinatieri might not miss another kick. He’s also probably about to become the first kicker ever taken in the first round of most fantasy drafts.

It’s going to be weird as hell to see that last name across the back of a royal blue jersey. In fact, it’s going to be weird just knowing that the Colts have a player on their roster who isn’t a total fucking donkey when the pressure’s on.  Also, he’s apparently into gay glamour photography.

I think it’s a great move for the Colts. Whatever they’re paying for him, it’s worth it. Hell, I think they should name him team captain. I think he should wear all three of his rings to every practice, just to remind Peyton Manning what a winner looks like.

I still do not understand why the Patriots let him go. If he wanted a little more scratch, they should have given it up. Go rent Rounders, skip ahead to the end and listen to Teddy KGB: Pay him. Pay that man his money.

If the different between what he wants, and what the club is willing to spend is even as much as $2 million… big fucking deal. Adam Vinatier’s leg has made Bob Kraft more money than a measly $2 mil a year. That leg might be the most valuable appendage in football. Adam Vinatieri’s leg is worth more than Christina Aguilera’s pussy. And it’s been seen by fewer people.

This could be the most important transaction of the off-season. I’m not saying it is, because, certainly, some great players are changing teams… Edgerrin James, Julian Peterson, LaVar Arrington, etc… but the Colts and Patriots are both going to be in the playoffs, and sooner or later, someone’s going to need a field goal. One team’s going to look to the sidelines and see a quivering, unproven, tower of nerves, and one team is going to see Adam Vinatieri and his balls of steel.

Game.  Blouses.Yes, you read that correctly. Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer is suing Prince. Yes, that Prince. I don’t know why people even bother to make shit up sometimes. Carlos Boozer is suing Prince. How much fucking imagination does a person need?

Here’s the deal. Boozer owns this giant mansion in LA, and Prince was renting it out. Pausing right there for a second, shouldn’t Prince be able to buy and sell Boozer’s candy ass? Why is he renting a house from Carlos Boozer? At $70,000 a month.

I dunno. Anyway, Prince made some alterations to the place that Boozer didn’t authorize. I guess ol’ Booz wasn’t expecting someone to run plumbing and piping to the basement to facilitate the new beauty salon chairs. I don’t know how anyone rents a house to Prince and doesn’t expect him to run new plumbing and piping to the basement to accommodate the new beauty salon chairs.

I guess Prince also painted the whole damn place purple, put up the logo for his new album (which better be an improvement upon Musicology), and installed some purple monogrammed carpet… none of which was authorized by Boozer the landlord.

I think they should just settle in a game on one-on-one. If they play to 15, and Boozer spots him 5, I’ll take Prince.

Nautica, huh?  Maybe you can sail your ass out to left field, bitch.Continuing to ease my way back into baseball…

At least three different times today, I heard people on TV or radio discussing the Alfonso Soriano situation and wondering who was the blame, the team or the player. Seems like an easy call to me. It’s the player.

Blaming the Nationals for not clearing it with Soriano first, before they traded for him? Why should they have to? They are his employer. It’s not like they’re asking him to squeegee windshileds in the parking lot, or paint kids faces at the county fair… it’s still baseball, right? His contract indicates that he should play baseball, and not second base, correct?

For $10 million/year, if Frank Robinson wants Alfonso Soriano to be a bullpen catcher and rub hot oil into the right arm of John Patterson, that’s exactly what he should do. He’s a player. Players have coaches. Coaches tell players what position to play. That’s how this goes.

So the Nationals are supposed to try and shovel his ass out to left field again today, and if he again refuses, they can just not pay him. I like that idea.

I think his next employer should require him to wear his hair like this.What’s the big deal with the Missouri job? I don’t get it. Is there some legendary Missouri basketball history of which I am not aware? I don’t know why the job seems to be so highly sought-after. I don’t see it as a step up from Iowa or any other decent program in a BCS Conference.

Maybe they’re offering tons of cash. Maybe coaches see replacing Quin Snyder as a no-lose situation.  I dunno.

Nevertheless, rumored replacements have included Pitt’s Jamie Dixon (seems like it would be a backwards step for him), Iowa’s Steve Alford (him, too) LSU’s John Brady (him, too), Creighton’s Dana Altman (for him, it might be worth the move, and I think he’d be a great hire), and our old pal Bob Huggins.

To stick with Alford for a second… Indiana seemed like a lock. I know he’s got his critics, but what I saw of Iowa this year was very impressive. They work hard, they’re fundamentally sound, and they play excellent ball… I’ve been impressed with Iowa. The people at Indiana, apparently, have not. I guess they have their reasons.  Perhaps he still carries too much Bob Knight-related baggage.

Anyway, if I had a coaching vacancy to fill, I’d be looking to steal one of the coaches from the Missouri Valley… hire the coach from Bradley, Northern Iowa, Creighton, Missouri State, or Wichita State, and I don’t think you can go wrong.

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