Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

2.

Our idiot loudmouth (but award winning!) local columnist just posted a new column calling Kobe the second best ever ("And apologies to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Bill Russell and Co., but they aren't in his class."). I think Kobe is the best in the game today, but I'd take Magic or Bird over him. Russell's before my time (and harder to compare, anyway).

Whole thing here: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore...performan.html

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Agree that Kobe's probably the best today, but also agree that it seems your idiot loudmouth is indeed an idiot loudmouth.

FWIW, there are plenty of homers in the LA media for Kobe, but not everyone. One of the local wiseass columnists has dubbed Kobe Our Ball Hog.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Some Americans are stats oriented. Most just want the two teams they're watching to score and, better yet, to have one team win!

TM

Re: Dweebness
 

No. Because you're never going to watch them unless you flip to them and they're on one of your hd movie channels and you decide not to turn the channel.

The only movies I actually watch from my dvd collection are Trading Places and Trains, Planes and Automobiles.

TM

eta: And Snatch.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I'll have to check that out. I agree with everything you say, except the "Kobe is the best in the game today." He's clearly the best if you need someone to take over at the end of the game or hit a game-winning shot--and that's definitely very important. But Lebron is a better player. I'll ask you what I asked Ty about Bird. If you put Lebron on the Lakers and Kobe on the Cavs, the Lakers would miss the playoffs and the Lakers would probably win the championship in 5.

TM

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

His act of playing nonplussed (in the incorrect sense of the word) at post-game press conferences is so very, very tired.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

You're saying Americans aren't smart enough to handle three possible outcomes instead of just two? Hockey tends to suggest you're right.

Doing both would be quite the feat.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Clearly.

"He's a better long-range shooter than Jordan, and more skilled all-around offensively." What? Yes on long range, are you fucking delusional on all-around? That's not even close to funny.

"And apologies to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Bill Russell and Co., but they aren't in his class." This is a joke. This guy shouldn't be able to write about basketball ever again.

"In the Finals, against the unit that plays the league's best team defense, Bryant is averaging 29.5 points per game. That's a basket above his season scoring average." Ha! What is his shooting percentage? How often does the ball go to Kobe and never come back out again, freezing the offense? The idiot loudmouth should study this article: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4...-of-the-finals

"Bird won three NBA titles but wasn't the all-around player that Bryant is. Magic was a charismatic entertainer and a wonderfully creative offensive player, but he didn't play top-notch defense or carry his team single-mindedly the way Bryant does. And Russell isn't in the same conversation as Bryant offensively." Bird was a slow, kind of crappy defender, but he could score with Kobe any day and was 5 times the passer Kobe is. Magic comanded the game, led his team, made everyone around him better and sacrificed scoring for assists. This guy forgot that Magic played all 5 positions in game 6 of the championships in '80 and put up 42 purnts, snatched 15 boards, while passing out 7 dimes. And Russell has 10 championships and guarded Jabbar and fucking Wilt Chamberlain.

"Loudmouth idiot" is an understatement.

TM

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Interesting that you think it's about brains. If I'm stupid because I went to a game expecting to see one team win and was disappointed when the game ended 0-0, then I guess I'm not smart enough.

Lebron on Lakers wins in 5. Kobe on Cavs misses playoffs.

TM

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Americans don't like soccer because they are not used to it, don't understand it, and have lots of other really good sports options. Other countries enjoy soccer because it is and has been the biggest or one of the biggest sports in their countries since they were kids, and they grew up watching it. I don't think American sports sentivities in that regard are somehow better or worse than the rest of the world -- just different. I don't think we are better than, well, pretty much every single country in the world because we don't like soccer, nor are we unsophisticated thugs for not appreciating soccer. It just seems like a dumb argument to have that fans of one sport are somehow better or worse than fans of another sport.

Well, I just opened up the NYT, and find my belief (that arguing about whether Americans are good or bad because we don't like soccer is moronic) is confirmed:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...-mentality/?hp

Re: Okay, maybe I like soccer a little.
 

Now THAT would catch on in a minute here.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

"I will suck your dick in Macy's window if LeBron comes to the Knicks." is a bet I have made with like umpteen motherfuckers.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Protect the middle. Oy, what a novel concept.

Why the world likes soccer
 

There are no other sports to watch on TV and all their other TV is SHIT !

Re: Okay, maybe I like soccer a little.
 

Why does that chick get to wear some kind of underbra? That's less fair than Drogba's cast.