Random Thoughts: Urlacher Thinks He's McMahon
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Isidro Marquez:
- In a Jim McMahon like statement (remember the head bands?) a defiant Brian Urlacher wears Lance Briggs' #55 in practice. Hey, Brian, if you are trying to convince someone to settle the matter, go put that jersey on and stand in Drew Rosenhaus' driveway. He's the issue here, not the Bears.
I know that the big Cubs-Sox series has no meaning to you as you are far too fired up about tonight's NHL draft. In a year with little talent, a team with little brain power, the Chicago Blackhawks get the first pick and will most likely select Patrick Cane, a 5'10 right winger who had 62 goals last season for London of the OHL. Editors note: Patrick Cane should not be confused with Sydney Crosby or Alexander Ovechkin. - Here's some mock draft info for you to study. A very interesting study from the web site Est.1967.com
- In an effort to dump salary (Billfold Wirtz's favorite thing next to receiving oral favors from Bob Pulford) the Hawks will send oft injured defenseman Adrian Aucoin to Calgary. Aucoin played for new Flames coach Mike Keenan in Vancouver and actually liked it.
Joe Girardi is smart enough to hear the robot yelling "Danger, Will Robinson, danger!" The fact is, the job is better suited to an old hack like Jim Fregosi because he's got nothing to prove and every job he gets is simply a bonus. Dusty Baker will not get the job, he was just Andy McPhail's way of acknowledging baseball's EEO policy. How about a wild hair: Tom Kelly. There's a guy who could actually do something with this team.- Golf wants to test for steroids. Golf?
- Chipper Jones adds a sore groin to his sore hands. Bet he won't be watching any skin flicks anytime soon.
- Here's what happens when you name something after a company: NASCAR is going to have to change their big prize, the Nextel Cup to the Sprint Cup because Sprint bought Nextel. Corporate sponsorships bring in a whole lot of money, but they confuse fans.
- The days of the in your face, facemask grabbing, scream in your earhole coach are over in the NFL. Mike Ditka just shrugs his shoulders and sighs.
- Dale Earnhardt Junior will run under a Sony sponsorship next year with Hendrick. My guess is that Budweiser has seen enough from DEI and Martin Truex Jr. the last three weeks to want to honor the final year of the contract with DEI. The big winner here will be Truex Jr.
- Milton Bradley=Carl Everett Lite.
- Indiana University has decided to build a new basketball arena rather than try to renovate 35 year-old Assembly Hall. The odds are good the new basketball facility will NOT be named "The Bob Knight Arena." Actually, in honor of new coach Kelvin Sampson, the stadium naming rights should be sold to either a phone company or a used car dealer.
- Michigan, meanwhile, is making the "big house" even bigger in it's pissing match with Tennessee. Eventually these teams will be ordered to stop adding on to their stadiums by the FAA.
- Memo to Ozzie Guillen: Now that he's four years removed from winning a Super Bowl, Jon Gruden has been reduced to a bunch of recycled veterans and young, unproven players to try to save his job. This could very well be your situation next year, if it isn't already this year.
- The Padres welcomed Michael Barrett to San Diego and he disappointed no one with his oh for four, three strikeout debut.
- Our friends at 100% Injury Rate have written an interesting article in DEFENSE of Sammy Sosa. Who else would do that?
- There's a new four letter networks production which chronicles the 1977 Bronx Zoo New York Yankees Team. Daniel Sanjata, who plays Franco on "Rescue Me" plays Reggie Jackson while Oliver Platt, who was awesome as White House Counsel Oliver Babish on "The West Wing" plays King George.
- This is interesting: A lawyer is demanding that the RIAA go after Barbara and Jenna Bush for making their dad a "mix CD" for father's day.
- Citizen Kane is still the greatest movie of all time according to the AFI. In my book, #3 on the list is.
Isaiah Washington claims ABC fired the wrong guy. According to Washington, T.R. Knight used the situation to illicit sympathy and parlay it into a big raise and a contract extension. Yahoo downgrades what Washington did to get him in trouble as a "homophobic invective." What one does conclude form all this is that apparently Knight isn't the only one who got it up the backside.- Space Suit, $567,000. Space Shuttle $127,975,389. Not being able to land the damn thing, priceless.
- Consumer Reports has anointed Hebrew National hot dogs as the best dogs in the land. For my money, you can't go wrong with Klement's Chicago Style Jumbo Beef Hot Dogs or anything that says "Vienna Beef" on the package.
- Captain Kirk is upset he is not going to be allowed to go where no man has gone before even though Spock is. Maybe one of Shatner's lawyer buddies could sue.
- Virginia invents a speeding ticket that could cost you up to $3,500. They said they are doing it to raise revenue. Charging interest on a speeding ticket and using it as a revenue stream is not a way to raise revenue, it's a way to enable every Barney and Johnny in that state to pick off people going two miles an hour over the limit. Not to mention saddle middle class and lower class families into having to add a freakin' speeding ticket to their debtload. Tickets should be a small penalty for going over the limit, not a windfall on the backs of people that would be devistated by a $3,500 penalty.
- The liberals have come up with a dream ticket. And a theme song.
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