Luke Scott is an idiot

An MRI taken earlier today revealed a tear in Scott's right labrum, but he won't go on the disabled list. He'll just deal with it.

"It's disappointing and a tough pill to swallow," he said. "The question now is, what are my options? Do I get upset and let it bring me down, or do I take a positive attitude and rely on my faith in the Lord?

"I've had miracle healings before, a couple of times, and there's no reason why it can't happen again. I'll just pray every day with my family and friends and loved ones, and deal with it the best I can. I'll continue to do my rehab exercises and receive treatment."

yeah things heal because God heard your prayers and magically re-attached the cartilage in your shoulder. also its easier if you have a birth certificate right?

Wizard-Related Things that have died since FINGA GUNZ

This blog (sorry)
Wizznuttzz (the twitter is spastic and entertaining)
Gilbertology (more or less)
the value of my Gil 20's.
the value of my Gil Zeros.
Antawn jamison's abilities as a basketball player
caron butler's health
Pierre mcgee's former name (JAVALE)
multiple half smokes at the hands of Andray Blatche

OSAMA BIN LADEN BITCHES.

back in a few

NOSTALGIC FOR AGENT ZERO

ahhhhhhh nostalgia. gimme 3 weeks. i'll be back.

be a pretty shitty job by us if we didnt post up this video. wait a second...are we shitty because we don't post?




probably.

Anytime I can rub it in on the HOkies

I jingled my keys after that shot.

What?

It was a key play.

I'm an asshole.

Grading Experts

So with the end of the post-season near, let's grade the ESPN experts on how well they predicted the outcome of the 2010 MLB season. Scoring is as such, one point for each correct pick, 0.5 pt if incorrect, but the team still made the playoffs.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview10/news/story?page=10expertpicks

Jorge Arangure Jr. 3
Matthew Berry 3
Steve Berthiaume 3
Aaron Boone 4
Jim Caple 5.5+
Tristan H. Cockcroft 3.5
Jerry Crasnick 2.5
Richard Durrett 2.5
Gordon Edes 4
Pedro Gomez 4
Christopher Harris 2.5
Orel Hershiser 2.5
Tony Jackson 2.5
Eric Karabell 1.5
Tim Kurkjian 2.5
Keith Law 4.5
AJ Mass 2
Joe McDonald 3
Joe Morgan 2.5
Amy K. Nelson 2.5
Rob Neyer 4.5
Buster Olney 3.5
Peter Pascarelli 4
James Quintong 3.5
Karl Ravech 4
J.P. Ricciardi 3
Brendan Roberts 2.5
Mark Saxon 2.5
Jon Sciambi 2.5
Dan Shulman 4
Mark Simon 3.5
Chris Singleton 2.5
Jayson Stark 4
Rick Sutcliffe 2
Jon Weisman 4
Gene Wojciechowski 2

God, that was boring. Out of a possible 10 points, only one person did better than 50%. When one considers the actual probabilities of choosing correctly based on pure chance, it would lead to a score of 1.5 or so. When you consider that 0.5 was guaranteed if one chose either the yankees to make the playoffs in the AL, and then another point pretty much guaranteed because everyone (except four, including the guy who did the best) chose the phillies to win the east, then many of these "experts" were pretty useless. I guess if they scored a four or higher, I might listen to them in the future, and probably coincidentally, 2 of the 3 guys (Keith Law and Rob Neyer) that I think provide good insight into baseball on ESPN scored higher than that, and the other (Buster Olney) was just under at 3.5. Then again, hindsight is 20/20, and so is my vision now that I got my new glasses.

HEY HOLIER THAN THOU PEOPLE

Hi,

I root for several sports teams. In football (college and pro) and basketball, there happen to be many incidents involving the players, that are not exactly flattering in most people's eyes. As far as I know, there is not a single team that consists entirely of players that have experienced zero criminal incidents. As far as I know, there is not a single Fortune 500 company that employs only people with zero criminal charges (chick-fil-a?).

So when someone (these people are referred by Jason Whitlock as Palinites) says my team sucks because there happens to be someone who committed a crime on the team, I say, your team is no better. And thus begins the pissing contest of whose teams criminal charges are worse (my opinion rape worse than manslaughter, better than murder 2, accusations of rape worse than robbery, unless armed robbery).

After reflecting upon these arguments (nobody ever wins these arguments, we don't ever even say "agree to disagree"), I came to a conclusion, WTF, I DON'T CARE. If I wanted to root for a team based on how good the people on the team were, I'd go around to private Catholic high school games or I dunno, do nuns play ball? With the actual professional teams that I root for, all I care about is their ability to win and the style that they choose to go after the win. What a player does off the field/court/playing surface is irrelevant. I mean look, do I like the fact that Mike Vick trained dogs to fight and sorta (I say sorta ironically) tortured them? No, but he was caught, served time, and now he gets to play football. Mike Vick, the athlete, is defined by his performance on the field. Mike Vick, the person, is not someone I care to know. I don't care what any athlete does off the field, they are humans, maybe a little richer on average than the Average American, but am I surprised when an athlete is a dick or full of themselves or a nice person? No. They are people. Do I think it is news that Ben Roethlisberger attempted to have sex with a girl, who may or may not wanted to have sex? Nope. Do I think it is kind of funny? Yes, but only because normal people manage to have sex without all these sorts of issues. Do I think it will affect his ability to play football? Nope, I mean unless they put him in jail, but that's less affecting his abilities, and more affecting whether or not he can leave jail to go to Heinz Field.

In the end, I vow never to argue the merits of any sports team based on the criminal records (or some in cases lack of criminal records). In fact, I won't ever argue that the personalities or anything that is superficial about the athletes (like he struggled when he was younger so obviously he has great heart and wants to win even more) make any sort of difference in competition. Well, maybe basketball, because the great player's personality is imprinted in their style of play.

Conclusively (sort of),

Ed

When you surround yourself with idiots....

LeBron's manager Maverick Carter has been accused of false imprisonment. Isn't this an open-shut kind of thing? If he has the pendant and the lady doesn't have any new money, then he stoles it. Which is silly. If he was the original owner, obviously he lost it at some point, and he obviously didnt put up flyers in the neighborhood asking for it back....so he gets to just take it back? Classic bully bullshit right there. What is he going to tell the po-lice, she just gave it back to me? Naw, he just won't snitch, he won't talk, cause when you are idiot, its better to keep your mouth shut, rather than remove all doubt.



Lebron, I don't know you personally, but damn this summer, you have done, said somethings that makes me wonder, why? I understand you live a life that I can not relate to in any fashion, and that can skew a man's perspective. Apparently you weren't at the house when this pendant got took, but as the kingpin, this reflects on you. She put that thing up on eBay, because she straight up wanted some money, so there was an easy solution. Now, the cost went up. You want to be a billionaire? It's not happening through basketball, you can't sell shoes, barely can sell jerseys, winning championships just means you get into the conversation. But shit like this, this costs. That's money coming out of your pocket.

Arenas' Last Shot

DEVIN HARRIS?

The wiz had devin harris. they traded him and stackhouse for jamison and maybe some famous dallas cowboy cheerleaders. at least they didnt trade devin harris for jason kidd. haha. MORE IMPORTANTLY...DEE-VIIIIIN makes the SUPER RARE HALFCOURT DOUBLE-PUMP BUZZER BEATER.

Daanny Granger

I love him. Ties the game, then WIIIIIIIIIINS the game.



I am pretty sure we will see more of him soon. Over the phoenix suns, who i also like, but granger needs a better nickname than the lone granger.

WITNESS.....the travel

Skip to 1:58 of the video.



"....I took a crab dribble, which is a hesitation dribble, and then two steps. Everybody, you call guys can watch it. The bad part about it was I was able to finish at the rim with contact, so it would have been a three-point play. So it's tough."

-LeBron James aka QUEEN JAMES



(quote and picture from DC Sports Bog)

FINALLY IT IS CALLED. This is like that time when I was sick and wasn't allowed to eat solid food or poop for a week and then pooping that first time. I felt like a hollow shell of a man, in a good way. Still doesn't make up for this:



AND HE EVEN CHEATS IN COMMERCIALS:

TONY PARKER OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH 01/03/09

perfect way to roll the last second shot, take the first last second shot with 5 sec left, miss it, and then make the real last second shot. TRUE TEARDROP from TONY.

Mavericks @ Wizards

Different opponent, same result. Wizards lose again. If this pace keeps up they might not even make it to double digit wins this season. Is Tyler Hansbrough coming out of the draft his year? I've got some good content here:

When will this city ever see this thing again?:

31 years ago...

Whose going to be on this from this year's team?

Some guy in the crowd was yelling at Mark Cuban to buy the Redskins from Dan Snyder haha:

Gil in digital form...

Mark telling that fan he thinks its a good idea...

Jason "I think I'm Michael Jordan from the 1998 Dream Team" Terry shooting a free throw with his eyes closed.

Now it's Dirk's turn...this time with eyes open:

Rick Carlisle: "Is that legal"?

Mark again:

What do the fans want for Christmas?

That works...

I think he played a total of 5 minutes this game...

It was Big Tigger's birthday!

Jamison had a decent game:

Digital Antawn:

This is where Caron spends all his time when he should be practicing...

Everybody Hurts.....

btw, KG is certifiably insane. it's gonna come back to bite him in a bit. soon. like against lebron. OR AGENT ZERO.

Pacers v Lakers 12/2/08

More unlikely, Pacers beating Lakers in season where Lakers may win 70 games or Troy Murphy making buzzer beater? OH, it was a tip-in that makes many senses.

Skeets is King the Merry King

Dwight vs Drago



and this

Skeets is the GREATEST

Wizards vs. Hawks

Different coach same result. The Wizards lose again this time to the Hawks. I the team is de-moralized. Losing two starters is tough. There are a lot of young guys on the team so I will have to agree with Arenas and say that the Wizards will be a lottery team this year. Who's coming out of the draft?

Nosebleed seats this game...

How do they look from far away?

Got bored...

Mike Bibby

Dave Batista

One of the more entertaining parts of the game

I could use a cool $20 mil

Wait they're back

Cold MOUNTAIN

Larry Hughes aka Cold Mountain proves that anyone can hit a LAST SECOND SHOT.

Eddie Jordan Fired

Well it finally happened. Eddie Jordan got fired as the head coach of the Wizards. After a 1-10 start to the season. I am sort of in agreement with the decision. The team just seems plain stale. I think there needs to be a shakeup with the lineup as well. One of my friends mentioned that the Wizards should have traded Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas for Kevin Garnett when Garnett was a free agent a while ago. The free agent group for 2010 seems pretty good. Maybe the Wizards really should rebuild this season and unload some of the guys taking up a lot of cap room kind of like what the Knicks have done.