Bye bye Mr. Rah-Sheed

For all the people that hate millionaire spoiled lacking perspective athletes Rasheed Wallace has done the unthinkable. He has shown personal pride and will walk away from the final two years and $13 million remaining on his contract and conclude a 15-year career. He is leaving guaranteed money.

Sportynation, how many of you would say, "I know I am owed 13 million dollars over the next two years, but I am going to walk away from that. I have too much dignity and personal pride to do something not well or without my full heart.

This is further proof that, indeed, the rich and famous are not too far different from us regular folks.

This is my Minority Report. Have a good one Sheed. "Both teams played hard"-Rasheed Wallace

Pay the man.

Seemingly soon to be millionaire, Wesley Johnson from Syracuse University was selected 4th by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He is wearing pajamas not unlike the ones pictured below. Give the man an advance. Start his per diem early. Geez. What a shame.  (juxtaposed picture coming).

NBA draft night Minority Report.

Why Paul Allen is only worth ≈ 13billion

Paul Allen is an American industrialist and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of US$13.5 billion as of 2010 and is clearly not the nicest most empathetic person in the world.

Paul Allen fired  GM Kevin Pritchard on draft night. The story broke just minutes before John Wall was drafted by the Washington Wizards. Curious. No? Pritchard will handle drafting duties tonight and then pack his bags for Paul Allen. He's thought of as a top NBA GM and should have no trouble finding another job.

Sportynation, this is worse than getting fired on Christmas eve.  This is more like getting fired the day before an IPO or the day before the Olympics. It's wild. This is awful. You'd think that Allen would have known this before today. No? There are only a very very few reasonable things that should occur at the 25th hour such as Pritchard commiting a crime or something taudry such as sleeping with Allen's wife, mother, daughter, or son. I'm just sayin'.

I leave you with this....who wants to work for Mr. Allen? Whoooooooo? I sure don't. Whataguy.

This is my mini Minority Report.

Why to root against the Celts...

Ten excuses Celtics fans will use if they lose to the Lakers 

Courtesy of Matthew Berry

1. Kobe got all the calls. And his fingers weren't hurt enough. Or his toes. I don't know. Kobe sucks.

2. Rondo was banged up, and everyone knows you can't win a championship with three future Hall of Famers if your fourth-year point guard has muscle spasms.

3. The Lakers stole Gasol! Rip-off trades should only happen when a beloved former power forward becomes the GM of another team.

4. Bill Simmons jinxed us.

5. The tech/ejection/suspension on Rasheed/ KG/Perkins is because the refs are out to get them, not because they're crazy and/or jerks who have complained about every call ever. (Not gonna lie -- Artest doesn't do well in this category either. But at least we only got one crazy).


6. If we aren't going to get a 38-to-10 free throw advantage like we did in Game 2 of 2008, how does anyone ever expect us to win?

7. Wait, they're still playing? I jumped off the bandwagon last year. OK, I'm back! I never bailed! Celtics forever! What? They lost? Why does this always happen to me? (This is the best and probably the most accurate one.) Of all the bandwagon fans out there, Boston has the most. See Pats, Red Sox, and Celts. The tried to do it with the Bruins, but they lost...maybe next year.

8. Fisher is a dirty player. That's KG's move!

9. Gasol flops too much. That's KG's move!

10. Pierce got confused on which injury to fake.

The last round I rooted against the Lakers and for Amar'e and Nash, but this series I absolutely have to root against the always talking, front running Celtics. Doc Rivers, Tom Thibodeau, a few other coaches, and maybe the pure shooting Ray Ray are fine by me...all the others not so much.

Rooting for the mamba. Oh the world we live in. Talk to you all soon.

This is my Minority Report

The perfect game that wasn't

Armando Galarraga, not the big Kat Andres, of the Detroit Tigers came within one out -- and maybe one inch -or less -- of the third perfect game in the major leagues this season.

The 28-year-old right-hander from Venezuela, making his third start of the season, beat the Cleveland Indians 3-0 and lost the bid when first base umpire Jim Joyce ruled Jason Donald safe for an infield hit as he crossed the first-base bag as Galarraga was receiving a throw from first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who had fielded Donald's grounder.

Look, I'll be the first one to argue the importance of consistency of calls, but you have to kinda lean towards the guy working towards the perfect game particularly on an infield single which at worse was arguable.

Jim Joyce just made an imperfect call to ruin a perfect game. Galarraga will not be remembered for his gem and what was rightfully his place in history. He is more than likely never get this moment again. In the moment, Galarraga reacted merely with a laugh. I applaud him. MDK could have occured. See "Demolition Man" for the reference. 

That being said, Jim Joyce is a dead man walking. He could be worse than Steve Bartman and Kirk Gibson.

Sportynation, like the GOP, Sarah Palin, and tea partiers. I'll say "don't be violent, but fight for what you want and believe in."

Gun to my head, gun to my head, if I woke up in the morning with some crazy news about Mr. Jim Joyce it would be the least surprising thing ever. I mean ever. Crazy news like Marshal Mathers, Kid Rock, Jim Leyland, the auto industry, James Carville, Sarah Palin, and ME joining forces together to torture and waterboard, I would not be surprised. Yes, I threw myself in there.

Sportynation, instant replay is coming. The pundits will be out in full force. Unreasonable conclusions will be made, and it's going to be one of the more entertaining things of the summer and quite possibly the year. Hyperbole this is not. 

Welcome instant replay!

No soapbox or high horse. Man, that was crazy! Largest impact of the summer?

We almost just had 3 perfect games in ONE MONTH threw maybe 25% of a 182 game season. 20 in history.

Before I forget, Griffey Jr retired an hour and a half ago. He retired on the wrong night.

Detroit just could be the saddest most unluckiest city in the U.S. Forget could be, it is. 

This is my Minority Report. My take, my opinion, nothing regurgitated, before we are told what to believe or think.