But first, the sports.
- Will Barton is not going to be eligible to play for the Tigers this year. Cool. The 4th best player in the country not playing. In a way it may be a blessing in disguise. That's one less badass to have to score points, it might open the door for another guy to step up. Too bad it is our best badass scorer...So I imagine we would have been a top 10 preseason team. I think we'll still be Top 25. Right? I have no clue.
- Brett Favre retired, then didn't. He said he'll play if the ankle is good to go. I hope he plays, I like him and I'd like to see him give it one more go.
- Darelle Revis is looking like he'll hold out for the season if necessary. That's stupid. Just play, the money will be there. How can he waste a prime year of his career? The Jets are stacked (even if he doesn't play). Get out there, Revis!
- Tyson Gay beat Usain Bolt in the 100m the other day. I guess that's an upset. Gay sprinting...get it? Gay? Ha.
- Shaq was introduced this morning for the Celtics. He said he has 2-3 more years. Umm, hate to break it to you Big Shaq, but...no you don't. No one on that team (minus Rondo) has 2-3 more years. KG, Ray Ray, PP, JO, Shaq...well Pierce probably has some old man minutes in him in a couple years. Either way, Boston might be looking like a retirement home by midseason.
- T-Mac signed with the Pistons for 1 year. He is 31 years old. Kobe is the same age and still unstoppable. Imagine if T-Mac still had knees...or what could have been. Vince Carter made it a little longer than T-Mac before his knees gave out. If Vince and T-Mac could've stayed healthy until 32-33 years old...woo. They would have put up giant point totals. Probably top 20 all-time totals.
For the wife's big 3-0 we went to New York City. Neither of us had ever been. I will say, it was the best trip I've ever been on, everything we did was awesome. The people were friendly and helpful, the hotel was great, our flights were on time. Couldn't have been better. We checked out a lot of cool stuff:
- Top of the Rock - which is a great view from the top of the Rockefeller building (where NBC is). We went at night and the view was spectacular.
- We did the double decker bus tour. Saw all of Manhattan and Brooklyn and got a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. It was very informative and they took us to some cool spots for skyline pictures.
- Went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm not real into art stuff, but it's kinda hard not to be impressed when you see Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali etc
- Saw an off Broadway play called Avenue Q. It's people with puppets singing funny crude songs. Sounds lame, but it was really funny...and you could drink in the theater.
- Went to Chinatown and Little Italy, got some fake Rolex watches and the wife got some fancy handbags.
- And we just shopped all down 5th Ave. Niketown was 5 stories. The NBA Store was freakin' sweet. I wanted to buy everything in there. I think they maybe had 5 Grizzlies items in the whole 3 story place...shocker.
One thing we did was go to the Bronx and visit the new Yankee Stadium as the Yankees played the Red Sox. A-Rod got hurt in BP and didn't play, but I saw CC Sabathia go 8 innings and Mariano Rivera come in and close out the 9th.
I realize I have stated on this blog that the Yankees are my most hated team in all of sport.
Confession: During the visit to Yankee Stadium...I caught Yankee fever. I don't know man..I don't know why. I'm so conflicted right now. I can't hate a team that put on an amazing experience for me and the wife (who also loved the game and stadium). I even bought a Sabathia shersey, a shirt for the wife, a beer cousy (sp?)...it was ridiculous.
First pic is CC and Big Papi. Second pic is Rivera.
Hoop Family
Lost in the C-League. We are now 1-3. Sheesh. We just played like doo doo last night. And I busted my ankle real bad with like a minute left. I seriously can barely walk...eh.
Expendables opens this Friday!
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