Can we please stop calling Chris Paul a superstar?!!! At the very least the 3rd best player in the NBA?!! There was an article written on ESpN about CP being the best point guard ever. I of course didn't read it. If I want to be entertained by skewered facts I would watch Fox News or MSNBC. I'm sure they pulled out some player efficiency rating to back up this non-conversation worthy topic, but I would counter this. Chris Paul is in his 9th year. He's only won 2 playoff series in his entire career, sure his team is flawed, but a true superstar could do some damage with the likes of Blake Griffin, Jamal Crawford, Deandre Jordan, Matt Barnes and Caron Butler, those aren't scrubs. Not by a long shot. The NBA is a superstar driven league. Look at the last 30 years of the NBA, playoff success has been dictated by superstars. Not to mention that in the last 30 years little guys that are the best players generally don't win. Isaiah Thomas being the exception, but his team had to totally revamp their style of play for him to win. You could also throw in Tony Parker but I would say Tim Duncan is at least 1A with Parker and also, Tony Parker hasn't won a championship since he became the teams number 1 option. So yes CP is a really good player maybe even a hall of famer some day, but you would really take him over Paul George? You really think the Clippers are going to get out of the 2nd round even though Paul now has a great coach and a team built around CP's talent? good luck with that.
Can we please stop acting like baseball GM's are any different from professional athletes when it comes to spending money. A 20's something athlete that never had anything, is suddenly thrown millions of dollars and is ridiculed when they blow it all by the time they're 30 years old. Tragic, yes. Bad advice and mismanagement, for sure. I still get it. Very few people can resist the temptations of a materialistic world especially when they've never had it, but general managers that run baseball teams... What's their excuse?!!! No one in their right mind can tell me that signing a 31 year old Albert Pujols, who at the time was not only considered the best player in the game but maybe one of the 10 best to ever play the game, was a good idea signing him to a 10 year contract. He's yet to live up to that contract and at 34, he's not going to get better. Still somehow the Seattle Mariners just signed a lesser player in Robinson Cano, who is 31 years old, too a 10 year contract. How can you justify paying a player 24 million a year when he will be 41 years old. The odds say that he will be past his prime by at least the age of 36. Unless you know he's doing... Well you know... I'd rather not say. So that's 5 years at 24 mil to a player who will be over the hill. $120 million dollars?!!! Someone wrote an article that Jay-Z, Cano's agent botched the deal.... WRONG!!! kudos to Jay-Z, I would have to think that part of the negotiations went like this
Seattle GM: You must think I'm one of your little groupie girls if you think we'll pay that much to Cano
Jay-Z: I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one (Jay-z doesn't blink)
Seattle GM: (blinks) Ok we'll give Cano this money, but you and Beyonce have to perform at the Seattle Mariners Christmas party as soon as Cano bats .280 with 15 home runs.
Jay-Z: HOV
Can we please stop acting like the NFL is a quality product?!!! The only reason that I'm invested in the NFL, is my multitude of fantasy teams, mixed with a small gambling problem and a fall/winter habit (that im sure to break) of spending every Sunday watching a once magnificent game. How can you justify that the NFL is great, when every pass play you either hope or hope not, pending on your rooting interest, that there is a penalty flag. Pass interference, illegal hit on the quarterback, etc. etc. How can that be entertaining. I'm a huge Chicago Bears fan, but I know a journey man QB when I see one and Josh McCown is that such dude, but yet every week he puts up monster numbers. Andrew Luck, Colin Kaepernick, RGIII and Russell Wilson all burst on to the scene with incredible efficiency. When the likes of Steve Young, Brett Favre and Troy Aikman (too name a few) struggled too adjust to the NFL. How can this be?!!! Answer me, Commissioner Goodell!!! The rule changes has made it increasingly hard to defend offenses. So now when a player like Josh McCown, who would have a limited amount of throws he could make, is giving an option of throwing the ball wherever he wants because defenses aren't allowed to hit anyone. He comes across as this great QB, when in actuality he has arguably the 2 best starting receivers in the game, whom defenses can't touch because of the rule changes. I'm personally glad that the Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars played on Thursday, cause Thursday night football is the worse of the product offered by the NFL. Sending teams out every week with only 3 days to recover and prepare to make an extra dollar. Shame on you Goodell. We may as well get those 2 teams out of the fucking way, so we can salvage whatever good we can for the mediocrity the NFL has become. Every Thursday, the shittiest game of the week should be played as voted on by the fans? The reality is that there aren't any great teams in the NFL, which is why a mediocre Ravens team and before that a mediocre Giants team can catch a little hot streak and win a Superbowl. I get that players need to be protected, that's fine, but its still a water shed product and shame on the NBA for not capitalizing on this, an injury to Derrick Rose, the awful hiring of Jason Kidd and Carmelo Anthony being a fraud of an NBA superstar has left the Eastern Conference in shambles. 3 teams at .500!!! This makes the NFC East look like a real division and with all of that being said. I give you this...
My picks of the week
Denver-13 over Tennessee Peyton Manning just declared that he was the same QB in cold weather as he is in a dome. Peyton also. Has a chance to break the single season record for touchdown passes in a year. I smell a rout 41-20
Denver/Tennessee over 49 look at above prediction silly
Pittsburgh-3.5 over Miami The Steelers won't go away quietly and sadly nor will the Dolphins and their Jonathan Martin saga
Philadelphia -3 over Detroit I don't like Detroit on the road, as a matter of fact I won't even drive a Detroit made car on the road
Is 4 games not enough?!! Fine
San Diego-3.5 over New York
Tampa Bay -3 over Buffalo
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