Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -Clarence Darrow
Public Knowledge:
1. What are the Orioles thinking? Sure his plus-speed gives him good range in center. Sure his arm is an absolute cannon. Sure he can hit for good average and has twenty plus home run potential. Sure he’s a bona fide five-tool talent. Vernon here’s got a job. Vernon’s got prospects. He’s bona fide. What are you? I get all that. But Adam Jones for Erik Bedard? Bedard is Cy Young waiting to happen. Bédard struck out fifteen Texas Rangers. Bédard probably has the best curveball in baseball. Bédard broke the Orioles’ single-season strikeout record. While everybody’s yammering on and on about Johan, this may be the steal of the hot stove season.
2. More on this tomorrow but, anyone who believes the Giants have the slimmest hope at all of beating the Patriots on Sunday are out of their cotton pickin’ minds. There is a reason New England is undefeated. You wanna know what it is? Huh? Do ya? It’s because they’re good. Real good.
3. The triple double king wants out. Jason Kidd’s agent, Jeff Schwartz, recently asked Nets president Rod Thorn to move his client to a contender before next month’s trade deadline. He sure would look good in green. Huh? Wouldn’t he? You bet he would.
4. It looks like a Golden State/Don Nelson/Chris Webber family reunion is brewing. I don’t like it. Webber is old. Webber is cantankerous. The Warriors are a run and gun team. Webber can’t run. Webber can’t gun. I know it’s a cheap, three-month rental. I know Golden State still needs another piece to the puzzle. I know Brandan Wright is not ready. I still wouldn’t do it.
5. Will Ferrell and Johnny Mac have a Power Lunch:
6. If an NHL All Star game is played in the forest, does anybody see it?
7. Hockey Krishnas rejoice! More hockey talk. Boston wins again. And this time it’s the Bruins. Or more correctly, a Bruin. Boston’s lone offensive entry in this year’s All Star game, Marc Savard, scored the game winner. Winner winner chicken dinner. Savard’s goal was the first to decide an All-Star Game in the final minute since another Bruin turned the trick. You may have heard of him. Hall of Famer Ray Bourque scored the winner for the East in 1996.
8. Oh, now it all makes sense. Roger didn’t need steroids to rebound in the twilight of his career. It was the split fingered fastball. Brian McNamee didn’t inject the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times in 1998, 2000 and 2001. No. It was all the split fingered fastball.
9. 20-0? You betcha. And beyond. Don’t forget the Patriots have the seventh pick in this here draft. Think James Laurinaitis. Think the Ohio State linebacker. Think the 2006 Bronko Nagurski award winner. Think absolute wrecking machine at the inside linebacker position. In a linebacking corps that is becoming aged, this could be just the shot in the arm they need. Or they could learn to throw the split fingered fastball.
10. Yankees still suck!
Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
Need More? Random Notes, Will Ferrell
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