Kobe, Sammy and Pacman

NBA is over, but the fun is just starting. Like Bill Simmons wrote on ESPN.com, this might be the only league where the off-season is lot more fun than the finals. This is especially true this off-season with all the Kobe talk. Looks like he took a week off to keep the finals in focus, and is now back on the horse. Apparently he met Dr.Buss in Spain and reiterated his demand to be traded. He is still maintaining that position on his website. Looks like the Lakers are still in a state of denial and they are saying they wont trade Kobe. But Kobe is walking around talking to random people outside malls and restaurants and blasting Mitch Kup-cake and teammates like Bynum. An amateur video is going to be available for 2 bucks on the internet with this rant. What's wrong with this kid? Kobe is just nuts and is quickly burning through all the goodwill he built over the last 2 years. It looks like when all is said and done, Chicago is going to luck out and end with number 24.

Now that the NBA playoffs are over, we can all turn our attention to baseball. If you are in to college baseball, the CWS is going on right now with a liberal dose of "PINGGGG" sounds from the aluminum bats. But I am all about the pro leagues. Sammy hit his 600-Th home run yesterday and it's amazing how insignificant this moment was. It was nowhere near the event Bonds 600-Th home run was a few years back. Thats how bad the league is affected by the whole steroid controversy. People always say baseball is not affected too much by the steroid controversy and they point to increasing revenues and attendance as proof of this, but moments like this look and feel totally different these days. 600 home runs used to mean a lot of publicity, jersey sales and huge fan interest. Not anymore and definitely not with a "tainted" dude like Sammy. Of course the big one is coming up with Bonds 756, and the apathy surrounding it is even worse. The commish doesn't even know if he should be part of that event. Thats how tainted these events have become these days. There has also been some talk about whether or not Sammy belongs in the Hall of Fame. I would say no with all the steroid and corks hanging over his head.

In the NFL, pacman jones is still the story of the off-season. This dude is still committed to "making it rain" across America as a few more of his strip club trips came to light. It's funny that this guy went to a club the day before he met the Commish. Sometimes you wonder what goes through the minds of these guys.