Public Knowledge

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.  -Sir Winston Churchill

Public Knowledge:

1.  So now Anthony Smith knows what everybody else knows.  What Bart Scott knows.  What Don Shula and Eric Mangini are gonna know.  You don’t tug on superman’s cape.  You don’t spit into the wind.  You don’t pull the mask of the ol’ lone ranger.  And you don’t mess around with the New England Patriots.  When you do that, you get embarrassed.  When you try to write checks your ass can’t cash, Tom Brady throws four TDs in your mug.  Randy Moss proves impossible is nothing.  Rodney Harrison makes big time stops.  So now it’s 13-0.  So now the Patriots face the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets.  Revenge is a dish best served cold.  My guess is it’s gonna be frigid up in Foxboro next weekend.  Cold as ice up in Foxboro next weekend.  Willing to sacrifice up in Foxboro next weekend. 

2.  Speaking of the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets.  You ever get the feeling that Mangini may just not have been ready to take this gig.  Maybe the guy the Jets made the youngest coach in the NFL was just a little too young.  A little to young to do a man’s job.  That maybe he should be still on the Patriots’ sidelines holding the camera.  Ya, that camera.  The one he used to hold.  I mean, you watched the game yesterday right.  Looked like all the Jets games this year.  Desperate. 

3.  Tom Brady is having a monster year.  Brett Favre is making us all feel young again.  That six-five, 230-pound quarterback with a laser rocket arm is still a six-five, 230-pound quarterback with a laser rocket arm.  But what about this Tony Romo character?  Romo was Harbaugh-esque yesterday.  The new Captain Comeback.  The new John Elway.  In his fifth NFL season, though only his second as a starter, Romo has rocketed into the elite category.  Houston Rocketed.  Johnny Rocketed.  Rocketed Richard.  Soon we’ll be saying Romo-esque.

4.  Isiah Thomas.  The new What Me Worry kid.  Despite back-to-back losses against the horrible Sixers.  Despite the fire Isiah chants booming from the Garden.  Despite being in last place in the Hot ‘Lantic Division.  Despite being 6-13 through Saturday.  Despite being 10-28 since owner James Dolan signed him to an extension nine months ago.  Despite losing to Golden State by 26 points, Philadelphia by 28 points, Denver by 32 points and Boston by 45 points.  Despite losing an $11.6 million judgment in a sexual harassment lawsuit.  Despite all that, Zeke was told by owner James Dolan that his job is not in jeopardy.  Alex Trebek is rolling in his grave.  Not for nothing, wouldn’t you love to hear what Clyde really thinks?

5.  DaWaaaaaaayne Waaaaaaaaade!  Flash looked awful flashy last night.  Flash a-ah.  Savior of the Universe.  Flash a-ah.  He’ll save everyone of us.  Flash a-ah.  He’s a miracle.  Flash a-ah.  King of the impossible.  Is he back?  Is it the shoes?  It sure looks like it.  Flash with thirty-five points.  Flash with ten dimes.  Flash, who had 33 points on Friday, who has scored 30-plus points in four of the past nine games, looks like the Flash of old.  Now if the rest of the Heat could just get on board.

6.  Hey Don Shula.  Hey Mercury Morris.  Ha ha ha ha!  Good thing you didn’t draft the Mighty Quinn.  Ha ha ha ha!  No champagne for you!

7.  Now I love Antoine Walker as much as the next guy.  Maybe more so.  Loved the shimmy shimmy shake.  Shimmy shimmy shaking the Celtics all the way to the Eastern Conference finals.  But this campaign by the Timberwolves to make him an All-Star starter is a little bit of a stretch.  Even Toine thinks so:  “Somebody out there must feel sorry for me.”

8.  The Reds still think they can get a deal done for Erik Bedard.  They’re not going to give up Jay Bruce to do it though.  That would mean Homer Bailey would likely be in the package.  Actually, it will probably take Bailey, Joey Votto and a top prospect to get the deal done.  I’d do it.  Do it in heart beat.  Erik Bedard is a stud.

9.  All of a sudden things are pretty quiet in Giant nation.  No Plaxico running his mouth.  No Shockey running mouth.  No Strahan running his mouth.  Quieter gentler Tom Coughlin?  I don’t think so.  I think the biggest is difference is the addition by subtraction of malcontent Tiki.  He’s the only one still running his mouth.  And he doesn’t even play anymore.

10.  Quick.  Who leads the NHL is assists?  Sid the Kid?  Joe Thornton?  Vinny LeCavalier?  None of the above.  It’s Marc Savard.  The biggest baddest Bruin of them all.  And you thought hockey was dead in Beantown.  Well, you were right, but it’s no fault of Savard’s.  Marc just came off a  career-best 12-game scoring streak.  Marc Savard may be the most unsung player in all of hockey.

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

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