Isiah Thomas Sexually Assaulted My Team

From wikipedia.org –

In most professional sports, the General Manager is a team executive responsible for acquiring the rights to player personnel, negotiating their contracts and reassigning or dismissing players no longer desired on the team. The general manager may also have responsibility for hiring the head coach of the team.

Recently I was talking to one of my buddies and the topic drifted to sports. He is a Cowboys fan by blood and mentioned that he noticed that it seems sports are cyclical. Most teams, like the ‘Boys, go through periods where they are good then periods were they are bad and then repeat this over and over again.

On the surface this seems true, but lets dig a little deeper for the truth…

I love Isiah Thomas as much as the next Bulls fan and let me tell you, the comedy value of some of these trades are up there…at least as high as According to Jim. Now why is he so bad? If you don’t know lets sum it up, he gave Jerome James a 5-year 30 million dollar contract last year. Who Jerome James??? I will supply the stat line: 4.8 points and 3.4 rebounds per game in 290 career games.

Still sound weird? Let’s break this down further:

If he continues that average over 5 years he will make $15,243.90 a POINT! Let me break it down further: that’s the equivalent of paying Whoopi Goldberg 15 grand for every minute of that movie where she actually coached the Knicks.

This is the type of move Isiah makes. He is not the general manager of the Knicks, but he was hired by the GM to basically do the job of the GM. Someone thought this was a good idea and that is why a GM can ruin a team.

Back to being cyclical, Jerry Jones made one of the greatest trades of all time. He traded away a hapless Herschel Walker for five players, six conditional draft choices and a 1992 first-round pick in 1989 (to see another bad GM look up Mike Lynn. These picks led to the holy trinity of Irvin, Aikman and Smith. Jerry Jones also hired a great coach in Jimmy Johnson. So wha happen?

The same thing that happens to all GMs that end up in this “cycle” he thought he could make no mistakes. He fired Jimmy Johnson, he released Jimmy Smith (yes, that Jimmy Smith you know the guy that was still pulling down 14.6 yards per catch and 6 TDs up till last year when he retired) because Smith got injured and Jones didn’t agree with that, he hired Dave Campo and if you don’t know who he is I suggest not finding out (imagine the Louie Anderson of coaching, he really tries to do a good job but you just wanna punch him the jaw).

It’s human nature to feel invincible, it happened to Jones, it happened to Krause with the Bulls (notorious for battling with Jordan and Jackson), and it will happen again.

On the flipside you have the Patriots who just got a first round pick for a guy who had 5 TDs last year (yes one less than Jimmy Smith who retired after grabbing 6). Aside from Tom Brady complaining about mentally drained he is from losing Branch, it was a tremendous move and if they do well with the pick it will keep them in the playoff race for a couple of years more. Ever wonder how they have multiple first round picks lately even when they are pulling down championships? It’s cause they refuse to overpay for these so called great players. They trade them for picks to GMs that are scrounging for anything. Apparently they never heard of the Herschel Walker trade.

So in a sense, it is cyclical. It’s the building up of a GMs ego to a point where he destroys a franchise at which point his ego gets torn down again until he hands over the reigns to someone who knows better.

Until their ego gets in the way

Week 1, Post 1

Hey anyone that reads this.

As you can probably guess this blog will be about sports, mostly football and basketball, some golf and the tiniest bit of baseball as we like to stay awake during a sporting event and I can’t make it through 9 innings of a baseball game without passing out from boredom.

So if you like bad jokes and bad picks keep writing and maybe we will keep writing.
Sorry it’s late but here are the picks:

Baltimore (-13) over the Raiders

If I take the Raiders at all this week please come find me and get me off whatever type of drugs I am on. I am serious, if they are getting 100 points vs. the Jets I think the only logical decision would be to bet the under, that would be your best shot.
New England (-6.5) over New York Jets

My co-poster here watches too much ESPN. They lost Branch’s 5 TDs last year……ouch, yeah man it’s over New England. The point is, it’s early in the season. The Jets are still the Jets for now at least and New England seems to bounce back after they lose a player. Remember when they lost some big defensive player (and I’m running too short on time here so I can’t look up the players name) to the Bills and I heard all these “locker room rumblings” about how the team was torn apart. Come on, these are grown men, if the guy in the cube next to me left for some other company and I told my boss that my sub par work was because I was sad that he went to another company I would be fired in about 10 seconds. Stop paying attention to this stuff.
St. Louis AT San Fran

See below

New Orleans (-2.5) over Green Bay

This game just stinks, I don’t like either team and I doubt I will put any money or pride on either team the whole year. It literally pains me to be forced to pick one for this post.

Buffalo (+6.5) over Miami

I realized one thing during the season opener; even if his knee is healthy this looks like early 2005 season Dante Culpepper and not 2004 Dante Culpepper. Give me the points.

Minnesota (-1) over Carolina

Give me an efficient QB and a great O-Line over Keyshawn and a fake QB any day.

Cincinnati (-10) over Cleveland

I tried to come up with something witty about the Dawg Pound vs. a team of convicts……..there is a joke here I just can’t find it

Chicago (-9) over Detroit

I know that the Lions got so close to 40 points last week against a suspect Seattle Defense it was “stupid” (read: they got 2 field goals) but I will take the 14-0 shutout by the Bears. Remember folks, you don’t need to be great on offense just have a better defense then the other team.

Houston (+14) over Indy

Seriously, can anyone run the ball on Indy? Anyone?

NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS (+3) over Philly

HOMER RANT ALERT – you may want to move on
Seriously, the Eagles just beat Houston, can we all calm down?
Yes, the Eagles were really good the past few years (excluding a really torn up season last year that shouldn’t count), but come on. This is the same team of 3 years ago plus another career number 2 wide out playing number one (ask Atlanta how that worked out for Peerless Price). They got older, slower and everyone around them got better. When the Eagles end up bottom 2 in NFC East this year I don’t want to hear anyone being shocked. They still have no running game.

Just stop it Philly fans.

Atlanta (-5) over Tampa Bay

Chris Simms, you sir, need to pick it up before I will pick your team.

Seattle (-7) over Arizona

Did he seriously just take the Cards over Seahawks??
Did I actually read that?

KC (+10.5) over Denver

10.5 is a lot.

Tennessee (+10.5) over San Diego

10.5 is a lot.

Dallas (-6) over Washington

Washington’s offense is like a brand new Lamborghini being driven by a comatose grand mother

Jacksonville (+2.5) over Pitt

Seriously Taylor owns Pitt

As for the Rams vs. 49ers………

A new feature for my column, the

FREE MONEY GAME!!!!

This is a game that I can’t believe how it seems Vegas is just handing us money, hoping we come back next week and spend it all on stupid decisions.

3 points the Rams are giving to San Fran!!!!! 3 Points!!!

What is this?!? Is this because the Rams are on the road??? Its San Francisco…..it’s gonna be like 90 degrees and sunny, this isn’t going to New England in December people.

Good luck all, and a real post coming this week. Where I will actually make sense, maybe.