A few stories to talk about today:- In a decision that really was not a surprise at all, NBA Commissioner David Stern suspended Gilbert Areans and Javaris Crittenton for the remainder of the NBA season for their unlicensed gun show in the Verizon Center locker room. At this point, I’m resigned to the Wizards sucking for the next 5 years barring some miracle or Michael Jordan himself coming back to play for us (crap - we tried that once). What really pissed me off yesterday was our GM and President Ernie Grunfeld talking about Arenas in his press conference like they were ready to move on and expect him to play out his contract. Earth to Ernie – the guy is never playing for us again. Not only are fans like myself furious with him and his antics, but you just sold him out and erased his picture from the arena façade and pregame video like Michael J. Fox being erased from existence in Back to the Future I. What I’ll be happy to see is Ernie getting the boot once the Wizards ownership situation is settled with the death of Abe Pollin. He staked his entire credibility with the Big 3 (Jamison Butler and Arenas) and not only did it fail, but he kept the failed experiment together for three more years than he should with drastically diminishing returns. Ernie has already outlasted the usual life span of a GM in pro sports these days, and was an enabler with Gilbert to the point the franchise lost all control over him. And I thought last year I hit Chad Ford’s lottery machine an unhealthy amount hoping the Wizards would get Blake Griffin….it will be exponentially worse for Kentucky’s John Wall (and in case you missed it on Twitter: chadfordinsider It's not Wiz's year RT @bingbongsports Took 39 tries for Wiz to get #1 & John Wall (11.9%) even on a lottery machine we are unlucky)
- Sad to see Johnny Damon and the Yankees part ways this week. The Yankees decided to go with Randy Winn at a much cheaper price. Winn is a solid player with good speed, and the fantasy baseball equivalent of a girl on JDate that if you talk to enough of your friends, you quickly realize you've all taken her on a date in the last year. Never wows you with her stats, usually a 1-2 week pick up until you can find a better option and maybe, just maybe, she can put together lightning in a bottle with a week of home runs and stolen bases.
- By some stroke of bad luck, I somehow follow more Mets twitter accounts than anything else. I couldn’t stop laughing the other day as Mets fans were freaking out about other teams signing starting pitchers Ben Sheets (who’s arm after his most recent surgery I’m told is being held together by crazy glue and Lincoln Logs) and Jon Garland (career 4.42 ERA). I even saw 4-5 people talking about bringing Pedro back!
- On the “things I was curious about but never thought I’d actually get to see” scale of 0-10 – the Greg Oden frontal nudity pics were a solid 8. The only one higher on this scale for male nudity is Shaq, and that’s only because his has been talked about to the point its right up there with the Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot as far as myth and folklore. And now that I’ve thoroughly creeped my readers out, we can stop there for the day.
-Steve Lugerner
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