Deja Vu

It's good to be back blogging again after a short break. I have just been busy with a couple of random things. Many interesting and weird things happened while I was away, but there are 2 things that I find very odd. I could have gone away for 3 years and it's like nothing has changed. I am talking about TO fighting with his QB, offensive coordinator, WR coach and anybody else who comes his way in his own locker room. This is like a flashback of what happened in Philly, which was a flashback of what happened in San Francisco. I feel like TO has been single-handedly keeping the sports media busy for 30 of the last 60 months. ESPN should send him a paycheck instead of sending Screamin' A Smith to ask him some dumb questions. On the bright side, at least TO will not be calling Tony Romo gay like he did Jeff Garcia. Or at least lets hope so because if he did do that, he would be implying Jessica Simpson is a man !! That would be stupid even by TO standard.

The other deja-vu story of the day is Brett Favre starting to talk about retirement again. Enough already !! Shut up and play, make the playoffs and throw an interception to end that playoff game like you always do. I have no use for his retirement story - not until 3 games into the season after the supposed retirement. Unless he stays retired 3 games into the next season, I don't consider Brett Favre gone. He can come back any time to any team and would any of us be surprised? This guy is worse than the poor 60 year-olds who thought they were retiring this year and thanks to the financial meltdown, they can't for the next 8 years. Brett has been trying to retire for 5 or 6 years now. Somebody check what's going on with his 401 K or something! May be he should stop going to Mississippi during the off-season. Of course he wants to get out of there after 6 months and he wants a job in "big cities" like Green Bay. But to be fair to him, he has played really well and I can't believe the Jets can potentially keep the Patriots off the playoff. Thats impressive.

In the NBA, the Suns got J-Rich from the Bobcats for Boris Diaw and Raja Bell. I love the trade for the Suns and I have no idea what MJ is doing there in Charlotte. This gives the Suns some much-needed athleticism and scoring power. They lose the defensive prowess of Raja Bell, but the returns have been diminishing on that front anyways given Raja's advancing age. He'll always be fondly remembered for clotheslining Kobe and may be his jersey should go up on the rafters just for that, but he has not done much in a couple of years. Even his trey was not falling at the same frequency last season. I think Kerr pulled off a good one with this trade and apparently these guys were causing some trouble for the new coach Terry Porter. The Suns defense, if anything, is worse now than it was under Mike D'Antoni and thats a clear indication that the cats are not trying hard enough. There was stretch couple of weeks back when every guard and his mother came into Phoenix, scored 40+ and went back home a winner. I am sure Kerr wants to fix this culture with some new bodies. I like J-Rich. He is a true professional who has gotten better every year he has been in the league. I wish him good luck. Hopefully he can be at the business-end of some of them alley-oops from Nashty!

But the league as a whole is on a roll with the Lakers, Celtics and the Cavs. These 3 teams just don't lose.