Watercooler Chat: Oden #One In NBA draft, Bonds an All Star
NBA Draft
It was no big surprise that Greg Oden (remember the Ohio State All American who looks like he’s 50 years old) was selected first by the Portland Trail Blazers in the draft on Saturday. In all of his weekend interviews, Oden really seems like a class act. I can’t wait to see him dazzle the League next year. Portland also made headlines by trading away their star player Zach Randolph to the New York Knicks. Over the next year, there will be a lot of talk about Zach’s character. He has been arrested numerous times in Portland for among other things, breaking his teammate’s eye socket and driving under the influence. With a new $61 million over 4 years, he has a lot of reasons to clean up his act. Stay tuned.
Just 5 minutes after Oden was taken by the Trailblazers, the Seattle Supersonics selected the other highly touted college player Kevin Durant (University of Texas). The best thing about the NBA draft is that teams have only 5 minutes between rounds to make their selection. In one hour, we can see 12 selections. Compare that to the 15 minutes between rounds in the NFL draft. It would take about 3 hours to see the same number of selections.
Baseball
Saturday I introduced my Kids to their first baseball game. A friend of mine offered us tickets to see the New York Yankees play the Oakland A’s. It’s kind of a testament to the Yankee season that they were much more interested in their mint chip flavored ice cream dots, cotton candy and cracker jacks than they were in the game. How can you blame them? The Yankees only got one hit (yes one hit) in an abysmal 7-0 loss. Hooray for junk food. The Kids had such a fantastic time getting a free ride to eat their body weight in junk they couldn’t wait to go back.
The big news of the weekend is that the very controversial San Francisco Giant, Barry Bonds, was selected for the July 10th All Star Game. Thankfully the All Star Game will be played in Bonds hometown of San Francisco because he is almost universally booed in every other stadium for allegedly taking performance enhancing drugs.
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What is happening with the Lakers, Kobe? Lamar?
As if Alex Rodriguez doesn't have enough bad press, his wife is all over the news today for wearing a F_you shirt at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. What was she thinking???? Not only is that shirt completely inappropriate to wear out in public, but she put it on and left the house with HER 2 1/2 year old DAUGHTER. She is certainly teaching her great morals and class....yeah right!
Hey Tanya,
No news yet on Kobe....as of now, he's still a Laker. I'll let you know if anything changes.
She is probably a rightous B*%ch! Her shirt should just say B*%ch on it!
Hey Tanya,
No news yet on Kobe....as of now, he's still a Laker. I'll let you know if anything changes.
Can you imagine the NY's dissapointment with their team. I wouldnt want to be on the subway after that kind of game, yikes.
I can't believe Alex Rodriguez's wife wore that shirt?! The best part is she's holding her TODDLER child right over her shoulder!!! No class...
Kobe is such a brat! He will stay with the Lakers since Garnett is gonna come to LA...all he cares about is himself anyway