It was just a few days ago

.... that Ed told me I should stop posting picks and stick to writing. Well, guess what, bro? While you've been traipsing through Canadia I have ripped off 3 straight unbeaten days. That's right - my posted picks are 7-0 since Sunday, including a perfect 3-0 on Tuesday night. Now if only I had the money to actually bet them....

The Lakers basically wrapped up the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday night with a win in San Antonio that left the degenerates at the Hilton hugging in the aisles. Let's just say that if you had been in the Superbook on Tuesday night, you would not need to deliberate much over which franchise has the worst fans. Give credit to the Lakers as they dominated the game from start to finish - the Spurs never held the lead. And as usual when the game was on the line and the Spurs made one final push, Phil Jackson turned to his Fireman of the Year - Official Joey Crawford. Isn't Joey Crawford the same ref who threw Tim Duncan out of a game last year in Dallas for laughing from the bench? And isn't he the same ref who got into a verbal spat with Gregg Popovich during the Spurs conference semifinal series with the Hornets? Hmmm.... That's a coincidence....


You ponder that one while you skim through some more blurgbs:

* Graham's in the chair next to me and he's got his laptop out as well. He's researching hotels and whatnot for a trip to Del Mar in July. Has anyone ever been to San Diego and come back with even one negative thing to say? That place is so nice I even had fun there last summer with a girl I now literally avoid being in the same room with. What a magical place. Anyways, it's like an internet cafe in here but I kindof like it.... Very conducive to blogging....

* I've enjoyed calling people "Bro" so much over the last few weeks I have decided to take it one step further by calling people "Brother." It's going great so far. There have only been a few times where the person on the receiving end of a "Brother" gave an awkard pause to mentally rewind what I had said and digest it. I'm going to stick with it for now. I'll keep you guys posted....

* I saw my boy Rodney on Tuesday for the first time in a few days. He had been in San Diego over the weekend with a young lady friend. He told me a story about the guy at the car rental place trying to give him and his girl a huge upgrade for free. I asked why and he said the guy was doing that because the guy was black, like Rodney and his girl. When he could tell that I was puzzled by this, he assured me that it was a "Black thing." I still don't really get it....

* Later that day, former Tampa Bay Bucs QB Shaun King was in the VIP Room and Rodney and I were getting calls from the line telling us to go make sure he was comfortable in there. So Rodney goes over there to talk to King and when he comes back he tells me that he and the former NFL quarterback will be watching the Lakers-Spurs game later that night at the 40/40 club. I got upset by this and asked why King had never invited me to go hang with him at a cool spot like 40/40. Rodney laughed and told me that again it was because he is black. What's up with that? I gotta admit I was shocked there was this much racism going on in the back room considering Metcalf had the day off....

* Looking forward to the USA-England friendly match on Wednesday afternoon at Wembley. Did you know that Wembley Stadium is the largest stadium in the world in which every seat is undercover? This will come in handy if there is a rainy day next month when the England fans gather at the stadium to not watch their team play in the Euro on the Jumbotron....

* Cheers to my boy Mikey Millz who took me up on the Ryan Howard-Chase Utley bet. It's an even money bet on who will hit more home runs - Ryan Howard or Chase Utley. Ryan currently has 14 to Chases's 16. Should be interesting. The biggest thing I have going against me in that wager is the fact that Utley has Howard protecting him in the lineup, while the great #6 is followed by the utterly atrocious Pat "The Babe" Burrell. Now that guy sucks....

* Great job by Andy Ross in his most recent blog entry. The running diary really captured the torture of working with Mike Jaz and Chad on the line. Those guys need to be under round-the-clock psychiatric evaluation. And I'm not talking about one guy. Mike and Chad need an entire team of doctors - each. They are getting worse by the day and the clock is ticking....

* The blog experienced a first on Tuesday - physical backlash. Austin was not pleased by my crack about college baseball oddsmakers not waking up on time to adjust the odds.... So he hit me. He is truly an intellectual giant. Considering that Austin has rarely been a target in this space, I was very surprised by this. If Jorgen or Chad was as tempermental as Austin I'd probably be dead by now.... Wait a minute - what am I talking about? Look at those kids. What could they possibly do? I'm laughing right now....

* Speaking of young Yorgen, he came into the back room on Tuesday, after his shift was over, to follow his many, many, many baseball bets. He was also talking about how I should start betting on Arena Football like him and that I should mention his "picks" in my blog. Feeling concerned about my buddy, I slipped a When The Fun Stops brochure into his red man-purse while he was captivated by one of the meaningless regular season baseball games he had money on. Now I'd like to ask you all to say a prayer that he takes the time to read it. Amanda - if you are reading this - I am really worried about him. We all are. You and I really need to talk about this during our next late night phone conversation....

* Basketball-Reference.com lets you sponsor individual player's pages for a yearly fee. I'm considering having my blog sponsor Robert Swift of the Seattle Sonics with an eventual goal of sponsoring every goofy white stiff in the league. (Now that's an admirable goal.) The only problem is that it costs 10 bucks and no one has ever heard of Robert Swift so it will literally do nothing to increase my blog's visibility. However, if someone ever accidentally stumbled onto Swift's page they would see my blog's URL staring them in the face. But still - 10 bucks....


Now that I've bragged about my recent success, I will surely lose - Or will I....

Celtics

Orioles

Marlins

U.S.A. Soccer


Something tells me the NBA doesn't want to see the Celtics heading back to Detroit down 3-2. Call me crazy. The league already has half of their pre-determined championship matchup in place - time for the other half to put themselves in position to join the party. I'll take the Stars and Stripes plus a goal at England. Oh, and I pulled those baseball picks out of my....

(See Jeff - no cursing. The blog is very family friendly)

I got some compliments on the picture of the super hot Mexican model on my blog Tuesday. Big surprise considering that 100% of my readers are male. We'll make that a regular thing.... I figure since I can't get anyone to read my stupid thoughts, I will try to lure them in with pictures of hot women. It was only a matter of time. That reminds me - Jorgen that picture of Amanda you gave me leaves way too much to the imagination. You got anything a little more.... I don't know.... revealing? Thanks, pal. Anyways, today I added a picture of Kaley Cuoco who stars in the sitcom Big Bang Theory on CBS. Don't ask me how I know these things. It doesn't matter. I just do. The girl is hot. The show is.... Yeah....


Wednesday's Trivia Question - Name 4 of the 5 quarterbacks selected ahead of Dan Marino in the 1983 NFL Draft. Dan Marino - Who doesn't like that guy?

(Racists, that's who....)

Wednesday will be the first day in almost two weeks that I didn't have to go to work or deal with my parents, which is actually more work than my job.... Or any job for that matter.... Perhaps I will indulge myself with an adult beverage. I'm not saying I'm going to end up in a ditch somewhere with vomit all over my shirt like a young Chad, I'm just saying I probably won't be blogging tomorrow night. You all enjoy flipping through my archives (I feel like I've done about 1,000 of these stupid things) but don't let that distract you. There's a lot going on in the sports world on Wednesday so you all have no excuse but to....



Enjoy the game.