Random rants or posts by a Brown Guy who is not always Angry.
Do you believe in the Golden State Warriors now? A 33-21 team that is on the outside looking in, on the playoffs in the Western Conference played one heck of a game last night against the Boston Celtics… a thrilling 119-117 win in regulation against the best team in the league. If a basketball clip is going up, you know I watched the game with Joe.
Coach draws up the play for Baron Davis and once again, he finds a way to deliver. Here is the clip so the rest of you can enjoy it as well.
I know I do not put a lot of hockey news on here but the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens game from last night has to go up. Half way through the second period, the Rangers had a 5-0 lead… but as you can imagine since I am putting the highlights up from the game… the Canadiens sort of made a little come back. It ended up going to overtime and then shootout… where I will let you see who won the game. What a game it was.
Several of you have already seen this but I will put it up anyways.
Kyle Kendrick was a victim of one of the best pranks I have ever seen in professional sports. It was all set up the help of assistant general manager, the team manager, teammates and even the members of the media. Truly an awesome prank.
After the Phillies’ workout on Saturday, Ruben Amaro Jr. summoned Kendrick into manager Charlie Manuel’s office at Bright House Networks Field. With a straight face, the assistant general manager told his gullible pitcher that he’d been dealt to the Yomiuri Giants of the Japanese Central League for a player named “Kobayashi Iwamura.”
Kobayashi – for those of you who are not familiar with the name, is the name of the famous hot-dog eating champion from Japan and no such baseball player exists.
Here is what his manager had to say… “I would have loved to see him fly to Japan and get off the plane. That would have been the best. As a matter of fact, I would have paid his fare.”
What a prank indeed. If you want an official detailed article on what actually took place, an article from MLB.com is here.
What an All-Star weekend and no I am not talking about my visit to Virginia.
Saw the 3-point competition there where Jason Kapono just lit up the field and blew everyone away winning for a second straight year.
The event that everyone will be talking about though will be the slam-dunk competition. It had recently become quite a bore the past few years but certainly this one had the life of the 2001 competition where Vince Carter stole the show.
Last year’s champion Gerald Green, I do not think got enough credit for his blow out the candle dunk because if you watch it live without any previous knowledge of the dunk, you might not know what is going on. What a dunk though.
Clearly the star of the night of ‘Superman’ Dwight Howard. I will only link to the Superman dunk but certainly you could pick any one of his dunks and it was simply amazing.
On an unrelated note, I had heard of an Obama music video of “Yes, We Can” but had not seen it yet but was linked to it by Katie today.
I have attached below a recent Google Analysis on the terms searched on Google and if my blogs are in the top 20 (as in appear on the first page), these are the top search queries from that.
It is a little disturbing to see all those Tom Brady references to see whether he was actually on The Brady Bunch. I remember talking about it a couple of friends a day or two after I had posted the ESPN clip about him and the mock Brady Bunch references. Apparently, several people took that very seriously and did not get the joke. Among the top disturbing queries would be “Angry Tom Brady” and “Brady ‘Bunch Tom’ Brady” searches. I do not know what these people were thinking when they searched for it but certainly my blog appears #3 when you search for either of those two terms and there you have it. However, as of today if you search “Brady ‘Bunch Tom’ Brady“, I do appear #1 on the search result… go figure.
Outside of the title of the blog, I was impressed to see that I appear #1 when you search for “Super Tuesday Results” on Google.
Chris Berman going “Boinkers” now has me third overall.
