The NBA playoffs don't start until this weekend, but for most of the teams in the Western conference, it's playoff time already. A bunch of teams are going after the 3/4/5 and 6/7/8 spots and they are playing each other often to setup a playoff type atmosphere. The Suns played the Nuggets today and are playing the Jazz tomorrow. They creamed the rich and creamies today and that got them home court in the first round for sure. But if they don't beat the Jazz tomorrow, they'll end up at 4. A spot teams are trying to avoid since that puts them in the way of the fakers before the eventual Western conference finals. Tomorrow, we will know if the Suns are 3-Rd or the 4-Th seed. If they finish third and get past the first round, they will play the Mavs. Thats a crazy rivalry and the Suns used to get better of the Mavs back in the day, but I am not sure this year. The Mavs look scary good and they always play well against the Suns because of the rivalry. But I guess we have to pick that matchup ahead of the fakers anyways. So it's important the Suns win tomorrow in game 2 of the 2010 playoffs. Lets hope Amare continues to abuse folks like he has been doing the last 2 months. He pulled a move on K-Mart today and K-Mart is still trying to figure out what happened. You are the man if you can out-thug the top-thug, K-Mart.
In the bottom half of the West, seems like the OKC will be at the 8-Th spot and will go against the fakers. They have great talent including my main man, Sun Devil James Harden, but they don't have the experience or the maturity to hang with the Fakers. I was hoping the Spurs would finish 8-Th and we could have all seen a great Lakers-Spurs war in the first round. It could have even been an upset. Now, I just hope the Suns don't end up drawing the Spurs in the first round. The West looks so scary that I don't feel comfortable playing any of these 7 teams in any of the playoff rounds, but still you got to be afraid of teams like the Spurs and the fakers. Lets see where things fall tomorrow. In the East, the story is about the Chicago Bulls executive vice president John Paxson shoving coach Vinny Del Negro twice in the chest in a postgame confrontation late last month. I think Paxson should be punished hard. I hate when these so called leaders of organizations treat players like they are thugs on the one hand and behave like thugs themselves on the other. Apparently he tried to provoke Del Negro in to fight so he can be fired. Lame and cheap and stupid and classless.
The MLB season has begun. It's too early to say anything important, but there are a few early surprises as always. Both the bay area teams are on top of their western divisions behind some great pitching. The A's are 6-3 and the Giants are 6-2 and I am not sure if they can stay on top for long. If I were to pick one of the two teams, the Giants are probably capable of surviving given that the division is relatively weak and their pitching is awesome. Even the DBacks are 4-3 and have looked decent so far. They dropped 13 runs in one innings in a game. Of course the Toronto Bluejays are leading the AL East at 6-2 - like thats going to last! The entire league is a front for the RedSox and the Yankees and I don't even know why the other teams in that division are playing. MLB reminds me of a corrupt business that has a trust as a front to siphon off money. The MLB has an elaborate league going on thats basically a front for the Yankees and the RedSox. I think MLB needs serious reforms to make it relevant across the country again. But then again, the Rays of all teams made it to the World Series couple of years back. So I guess the Bluejays and the Orioles in that division and other bad teams in other divisions all have some hope.
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