Occasionally Coherent Ramlbings #17

I said I was back but then forgot to actually follow up those words. Look, here I am, face-to-face, A couple of Silver Spoons. Together.....

Barry Bonds is one Home Run from tying the Babe. Look like he had it off of Cubs pitcher Rich Hill, until Juan Pierre stole the home run and caught it over the wall. Funny, Pierre stole the home run like Bonds is stealing the home run record.

Speaking of Bonds, and this is coming from someone who really liked Bonds for a long time, next time you have a chance to watch a montage of Bonds over the years, watch it, preferably in sequential order. You will see, in almost flipbook manner, a man getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and now, fatter and fatter......Although he still does have one of the most pure swings you will ever see.

So the NBA playoffs and NHL playoffs are well under way, the four fans seem to care. Although, I did watch a bunch on the Bulls-Heat games (I am a Bulls fan) I liked watching them play since they play selfish, hard-working basketball. They move the ball on offense and are fun to watch, almost like a college team. Coincidentally, they are so young, many of them should still be in college.

I am getting annoyed in the mornings when I watch Mike & Mike in the morning and they go to show highlights during the breaks and they are wasting my time showing NHL highlights. Are there highlights? Hockey is so boring, I would rather watch two fat guys playing catch in the backyard of their trailer home. Or even worse, Brittney Spears talking.

It does amaze me the conquest the NFL has taken over this country. The Super Bowl ended the first Sunday in February. They had plenty of talk after the Super Bowl about Free Agency and then the Draft, but they are still having more coverage about rookie training camps (see Marcus "Loser" Vick) than the NHL can get during the playoffs. Owners and players, "Oopsie on the Strike".

Raise your hand if you are loving the fact that Albert Pujols is on course to hit 83 home runs this year. It pains me to say this as a die-hard Cubs fan, but I love watching Albert hit. He is a great hitter that understands each and every at-bat. He hits with power and hits with average and knows when to shorten his swing to get the ball in play. By the way, did I mention he was clutch (see home run off Brad Lidge in last year's playoffs). I really hope he destroys Bonds' home run record for this season so we can remove that asterisk. The only thing I would worry about, and Albert seems like a naturally big, strong guy, but what if we find out later on that Albert is also on the juice? I still think A-Rod is on the juice. Or, at least, was on the juice.

I know that I am no owner of a sports franchise, but I better be careful with my choice of words considering how the NBA would have no problem with fining me if I said something they deemed as being inappropriate. This all comes after Mark Cuban insulted the refereeing in the playoffs....oh yeah, on his blog. This is why I do not make fun of the refereeing at my job, if they fine me any amount, let alone the $200,000 they fined Cuban, I would be paying them to work here.....a feeling I already have.

By the way, let the celebrations begin, the Cubs end their losing streak and Carlos Zambrano got winner number one for the season. Yes, it was on May 10th.

Final Thoughts:
Paul Shirley has a chat column on ESPN.com and I find it hilarious. He also has a spot on myspace.com that is real funny. I would check it out. Nothing like self-deprecating humor and how he struggles getting women at 6'10". Now people know how I feel at the total opposite side of the spectrum, me being a fierce 5'5".

I watched the NFL Draft again, 8 years in a row now, and although I am willing to admit that I am a dork for doing so, I would rather be a dork about the NFL Draft than say, go to a Star Trek or a Star Wars convention.

On the note of conventions, I was at a seminar for work at a hotel near O'Hare Airport in Chicago where in the same hotel there was a convention for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Talk about your female equivalent of Star Trek losers. I had never seen so many mother-daughter relationships built on hot pants, big glasses, 80s hair, pimples and guts as I got to see with this mutant bunch of people. X-Men IV should be this group of people running a 25-yard dash, wait, I should not be mean or expect too much, so a 10-yard dash, and watch what happens to them afterwards, between clutching there hearts, passing out from exhaustion or when one dies the others feeding off the dead. Who knows.

Last point, how much am I enjoying baseball this year, other than Derrek Lee getting hurt and the Cubs falling apart, that the two best divisions in baseball are the NL and AL Central. ESPN must be so disappointed that the NL and AL East are not so great. I love it!