“I think people are trying to pick on Miami right now instead of opening their eyes to just how great they are.”
-Jeff Van Gundy
It has become sort of fashionable to question how good the Heat will be this year. Of the twenty five experts on ESPN.com twelve picked the Heat to win the championship, twelve picked the Lakers, and one picked the Celtics. On SI.com only out of the six experts and one out the six of the anonymous scouts picked the Heat to win it all. It gets worse for the Heat on NBA.com where only two out of eleven experts pick them and ten out of thirty general managers in the annual poll picked them (nineteen picked the Lakers).
So out of 78 respected opinions, 24 or 31% believe the Heat will win the NBA championship. In my opinion that is too low and not only do I predict the Heat to win the title, I think they have a 50/50 chance of getting 73 wins. Here are the reasons why the Heat can break the ’96 Bulls’ record:
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Baseball MVP Talk
“I felt like the MVP was also who was most valuable to the game as a whole.” – Buster Olney
September is a great month for sports- baseball pennant races, beginning of football, and, one of my favorite things, baseball award debates. It is fun for me to argue about ridiculous topics like Charles Woodson winning the 1997 Heisman over Peyton Manning, so it is fun to argue every year about baseball awards. The most interesting debates usually involve the MVP awards because MLB has purposely written the criteria for “value” vaguely. As a consequence some (or a lot) of the criteria are left up to each voter’s individual criteria.
September is a great month for sports- baseball pennant races, beginning of football, and, one of my favorite things, baseball award debates. It is fun for me to argue about ridiculous topics like Charles Woodson winning the 1997 Heisman over Peyton Manning, so it is fun to argue every year about baseball awards. The most interesting debates usually involve the MVP awards because MLB has purposely written the criteria for “value” vaguely. As a consequence some (or a lot) of the criteria are left up to each voter’s individual criteria.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Hope Is Eternal
"I'm from New York and never was a fan of the Knicks." -Big L 1998 freestyle
For the last two years Donnie Walsh had been giving away first picks like he was....er…Isiah Thomas in order to dump bad contracts and get as far under the cap as possible. He convinced Knicks fans that two more years of losing would be worth the pain because LeBron and his super-friends (or if we are talking about Joe Johnson his above average friend) were coming to town. His last move before the summer reeked of desperation. To entice the Rockets to take back Jared Jeffries and the remaining one year and $7 million on his contract, Walsh traded them the 8th pick in the 2009 draft, the disappointing Jordan Hill, a 2012 first rounder that is not well protected, and the right to swap 2011 first round picks.
For the last two years Donnie Walsh had been giving away first picks like he was....er…Isiah Thomas in order to dump bad contracts and get as far under the cap as possible. He convinced Knicks fans that two more years of losing would be worth the pain because LeBron and his super-friends (or if we are talking about Joe Johnson his above average friend) were coming to town. His last move before the summer reeked of desperation. To entice the Rockets to take back Jared Jeffries and the remaining one year and $7 million on his contract, Walsh traded them the 8th pick in the 2009 draft, the disappointing Jordan Hill, a 2012 first rounder that is not well protected, and the right to swap 2011 first round picks.
LeBron and The Decision
"In order to be the man, you have to beat the man." - Ric Flair
Like many others, the first thing that came to my mind after hearing LeBron announce that he was heading to South Beach was Hulk Hogan smashing Macho Man with chair and joining the NWO in the process. Looking back, Hogan's transformation into a heal (bad guy) made sense because Hulkamania's popularity had peaked years before, and people began to feel indifferent toward him. It is common for wrestlers to alternate between being a face (good guy) and heal to prevent apathy and stay relevant (or coincidentally in wrestling terms "draw heat."). Hogan needed the heal turn to stay relevant, but LeBron had yet to win a championship in Cleveland nor reach the height of his popularity so his decision makes less sense.
Like many others, the first thing that came to my mind after hearing LeBron announce that he was heading to South Beach was Hulk Hogan smashing Macho Man with chair and joining the NWO in the process. Looking back, Hogan's transformation into a heal (bad guy) made sense because Hulkamania's popularity had peaked years before, and people began to feel indifferent toward him. It is common for wrestlers to alternate between being a face (good guy) and heal to prevent apathy and stay relevant (or coincidentally in wrestling terms "draw heat."). Hogan needed the heal turn to stay relevant, but LeBron had yet to win a championship in Cleveland nor reach the height of his popularity so his decision makes less sense.
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