Mid week shuffle

I may bounce around a little
JR. Was docked a 100 driver points. And Tony (Eury jr.) was fined $100,000.00 for improperly mounted wing on the COT. Tony's taking the blame and Dale is offering to pay the fine. Were they tryong to get away with something? Mabey. But you can almost here them saying F-IT in there interviews. What are they going to do? FIRE HIM? I expect more of this. Especially if he starts droping in the standings. Owners are trying to find a way to push the envelope for the COT, the only way to do that is to cheat and see what you can get away with. Got cought, whoops!. Cheated and NASACAR didn't catch it? Better!. I'm just saying. Everyone loves Jr. Why not ask him to do it? (Remember the kid in high school who really didn;t give a crap and you asked him to do everything 1st in case you got A) hurt, B) cought, C) both? Well right now that's Dale.)

NBA
As expected David Stern suspended Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for the Suns and Robert Horry for the spurs. BUT. Amare and Boris got suspended for tonight game (in pheonix) and Horry got suspended for 2 games (tonight and game 6). A couple things here.
#1 - When Amare is out Boris is his replacement under normal circumstances. With both of them under suspension this basically kills them for tonight (you would think). My suggestion, put in the smallest and quickest line up you can and run them off the floor. The Spurs are a team that likes to slow the temp. Run Duncan and Parker off the floor. No way the can keep up with alittle run-n-gun offence.
#2- STAY ON THE BENCH!
The NBA rules are clear. During an altercation, if you were not on the floor to begin with, stay on the bench or get suspended. The 97 knicks game and "The Brawl" should have tought you that lesson. PERIOD.
#3 - If the Suns loose tonight the killed themselves. big shot Rob is only good for 5 to 10 points a night, off the bench. Stoudemire is the Suns leading scorer with about 29/8/3 and Diaw is good for about 15/3/1. Again this goes to #2 - STAY ON THE BENCH.

NFL BAD BOYS
Tank Johnson meet with Goodell yesterday. As of this morning no news on how the meeting went. Tracking............
Mike Vick.
Virginia investigators say the have evidence of Vick not only knowing about the dog fight, but being video taped watching one of them!. He's done. Wait until PETA get a hold of this story. The'll not olny run him into jail and out of football and possible out of the country. What do you compare this to? If this is true what kind of punishment should the NFL hand out (besides jail time)? All the reports i have read (espn/fox news / yahoo sports) all tell the same story. #1- HE KNEW. #2 - HE CAME #3 - HE WATCHED.

MLB -
Speaking of morons.
Lastings Millage, one of the best major league "ready now" prospects and one of the better names in baseball. Was features on a rap CD degrading women and using the N-word. NIMROD PLEASE!
L-MILLZ as he is know on the album and the song "bend ya kneez" features vulgar language twards women, several sexual referances and repeted use of the N-word.
Have we learned nothing from Don Imus? What was he doing? Sitting on the Dl and thinking to himself "You know i can play this game for a long time or totally screw up my future by making an obsene rap CD". "Wonder what i should do?". Was this a coin toss? Was Matt Hasselbeck the one tossing the coin and told him to "Take the ball and score"? What the Hell. I will never, ever, ever understand professional athlete's.
I grew up watching and playing baseball. Would have given my left nut to play professionally or even semi pro, or even been good enought to have a collage "look" at me. Motocross was not paying well at the time and the UFC did not exist so i got a job like everyone else. We as regualr people bitch about our jobs, lives, wives, ect. But baseball players complain about the long flights, long days, double headers and six figure salaries, for playing a sport they once loved to play. Mabey thats the problem. They play it so much it takes all of the joy out of it. Mabey we should have an 8 year rule like we do the president of the united states. After 8 years your done. I can think of the players right now i enjoy watching and who actually enjoy the game. David Wright(mets) Johnathan Papplebon (red sox) Dontell Willis (Marlins) Ryan Howard (philly). Know what they all have in common? Less than 5 years in the league. Sure there are some exceptions for the older players (Chipper Jones, Greg Maddux, john Smoltz, Omar Vizquel, and even Randy jiohnson seems to be having fun again) but think about the bitter players still playing the game because of pride or money, Bonds(pride), David Wells(money), Roger Clemens(pride and money), Beiggo (3,000 hit club). Sure they still contribute to there ball club (Wells piched a hell of a game the other night and lost due to lack of offence) but baseball is a "kids game to play and a "grow-ups" game to watch, atleast professionally. If your male and over 35 play softball. that's why the game was invented. I was at a game the other night and saw two kinds of players. #1 - The serious kind. Who kept yelling at his teamates and the ump for the screw ups. (In the words of Norm Edwards "YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!). Then there was #2 - Mabey not the most athletic guy in the world but was having fun with it. Made some good play in the field, was alway supportive of his teamate when something bad happened and came into the dug out saying "Lets get um back guys!" after the other team rallied. That's the guy you want to play the game with. (in the word of Allen Iverson "We talking about PRACTICE!")
Look, barring a miracle, none of us will ever become Roy hobbs and make a major league comeback at age 36 (but the dream is still there) so what ever you do have fun with it. Every morning you wake up as a rookie again. Play like one, but act like an old pro.

And finally - News of the weird.
Congrats for Howard David Ludwig for getting his offical state of Ill gun permitt after his grandfather bought him a 12 guage Beretta shot gun as a gift. On the certificate is his picture with his age, height and weight. It list as follows.
Howard David Ludwig
Age: 10 months.
Height: 2ft 3in.
Weight: 20lb.
Look it up. True story.

Dave