Elton, I Am So Mad At You!

Oh fuck you Elton Brand! I mean what the fuck, everyone was rooting for you and the Clippers to actually do the right thing and you sign with the Philadelphia 76ers. Fuck you man! I mean sure you are looking out for you and your family by taking more money than the Clippers offered and now actually have a chance to make it somewhat far in the playoffs because you are in the Eastern Conference. Selfish. Who would ever want to win more and make more money? You hurt all of the die-hard Clipper fans out there by leading them on man. But seriously, as a pseudo-Clipper fan this is very disappointing news. The only die-hard Clipper fan alive is Frankie Muniz, and I bet he was so excited about the possibility of overthrowing the Lakers as the kings of Los Angeles. Brand was offered $75 million by the Clips over five years, only $7 million less than the Sixers offered, and there are reports that the Clippers were ready to bump it up to $81 million. He convinced the Clippers to sign Baron Davis as he offered to take a pay cut to make it happen because he was so inspired by watching the Celtics win with superstars. Brand and agent David Falk screwed everything up and gave a big F U to the Clippers organization who got burned again and burned badly. What are they supposed to do now, sign and overpay Josh Smith? They are a fairly logical organization at the moment as they correctly let Corey Maggette walk and get overpaid by the Warriors and made the right move in drafting Eric Gordon. Things were looking so promising!! If Brand signed with the Clippers I would argue next season that the Clippers would be better than the 76ers are going to be with him next season. He was simply scared of the Western Conference and sees the possibility of the 76ers in a couple years overthrowing the Boston Celtics with the young talents of Thaddeus Young, Andre Iguodola, and Louis Williams. But to do this for $1 to $7 million extra, after getting Baron to Los Angeles and saying he planned to resign with the Clippers, that's turrible. Elton Brand threw a curve ball showing that the NBA Off-season never fails to disappoint, unlike some other things during summer, like ESPN’s SportsCenter.
If you watch SportsCenter and you should if you read this blog, you realize that during the summertime they come up with idiotic gimmicks. Last year it was “Who’s Now?” which got laughed at by every single viewer because SportsCenter poppin’ and everything stoppin’. This summer it is their segment “Titletown,” where they have terrible anchors like Wendy Nix travel to Tennessee and do a short story why Knoxville is the best/most successful/I-don’t-know-what city in the United States. Firstly, this is insane as everyone in the country knows it is Boston as you can extend its success like they do in the segment beyond professional teams to college sports and say look at BC/BU Hockey it is so good and BC Football is alright because Doug Flutie threw that hail-mary. I had to watch Roy Williams talk about the UNC Basketball, Baseball, Football and Women’s Soccer teams, even though the only good ones are Basketball and Women’s Soccer. It’s stupid, how could they possibly be a contender for Titletown when their professional basketball team is the Charlotte Bobcats?!?!?!?!? But the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup?!?!?!? No one cares, and they didn’t even mention it! Who is going to vote for a Titletown that is not Boston or not their closest city? Unless of course you vote for Seattle and all those titles they have won.

Lastly, my World Series prediction is the Chicago Cubs and Titletown Red Sox squaring off in a epic battle. The Red Sox for the first time this decade won’t sweep their National League counterpart, but will win the series in 5 games and for the first time, in Boston because the NL will beat the AL in the All-Star Game. The NL has every good pitcher and they just picked up two of the best from the AL this week, Rich Harden and CC “don’t put those periods in there” Sabathia. The best pitchers in the AL are Justin Duchscherer, Cliff Lee, and Joe Saunders, who? The AL is in trouble yo, as the NL has pitchers I recognize as aces like Dan Haren, S.I. Cover Boy Tim Lincecum, Ben Sheets, and my boy Edinson Volquez!!