alright alright- sometimes things get a little crazy at the Beacon and I can't throw up a dose for your quick fix...
but sports always comes to my rescue in situations like this and just provides gold - gold baby, gold - by way of ridiculousness...
like Gov. Sarah Palin already destroying one Legace without even being elected ....
and then on the (former and never were) Chicago Bulls front...
who's surprised that Eddy Curry is unhappy in New York with new coach Mike D'Antoni? What? You mean 300-pound "Fast" Eddy (you know, the guy with no work ethic) isn't a favorite of a coach who loves an up tempo style predicated on ball movement and crisp cuts?
ok Bulls fans, that was me being nice...
here's the kick in the Spaldings....
From this SI piece on Portland center Greg Oden...
"All our holes," says shooting guard Brandon Roy, a surprise All-Star last year in his second season, "are holes that Greg is going to plug."
The Blazers are good with plans. They had one before the Ping-Pong balls brought them Oden: to remake a team that had lost its nestling spot in the warm bosom of loyal Portland fans, having earned the sobriquet of Jail Blazers through the on-court and off-court misadventures of players such as Rasheed Wallace, Isaiah Rider, Damon Stoudamire, Bonzi Wells, Ruben Patterson, Zach Randolph, Qyntel Woods and Darius Miles. Pritchard (who arrived in 2004 as director of player personnel and was named G.M. late in the '06-07 season) and McMillan (who became coach before the '05-06 season) wanted to rebuild with what Pritchard calls "character guys." So far it has worked, not least because Pritchard pulled off some draft-day magic to get solid citizens Aldridge (from the Bulls) and Roy (from the Minnesota Timberwolves).em>
The highlighted parts are what will eventually get Bulls GM John Paxon fired.
He passed on Brandon Roy. He traded Aldridge away. Now, you can say with those two the Bulls never would been in position to draft Derrick Rose, but sorry - those two, right, have The Beloved contending in the East. There would be no need for Rose and I'm not sorry saying it.
Right now, the Bulls suck. Rose, if healthy, makes them less so. But already the kid has had a bum knee and now has a hurt hip/hammy. Not a good start.
it's unfortunate, but to me, it looks like Pax is kind of like Scott Skiles - an A-to-B GM...but his last few drafts have proven to be busts....and if Rose is consistently hurt...that won't help.
Rick Armstrong 
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