Excuses

Some of you may remember the Cleveland response video to LeBron's Nike ad, the commercial where he repeatedly asks the camera, "What should I do?" Whether you loved the commercial or hated it, you have to admit that it does raise some interesting questions about the psyche of the King.

I wrote two extended posts on "The Decision" back before and after it happened. In the second, and also during a post from way back during the NBA Playoffs, I referenced several writers and my own personal opinion on LBJ's lack of a "killer" gene, that Michael Jordan X-Factor. Where am I going with this?

Someone decided to mash-up an old MJ commercial with the newer LBJ commercial creating the video below. Maybe, you should listen up, LBJ.

Joey Votto

A warm congratulations goes out to Joey Votto, 1B of the Cincinnati Reds who yesterday nearly swept the 1st place votes for National League MVP. I'll let the Associated Press tell the rest of the story.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!



The full ESPN story can be found here with an interview with the MVP himself.

'Bout Time

Richard Seymour did something yesterday that I (and countless other people across this great nation of ours) have been wanting to do for a long time. Check out the video below. Replay it a few times. Bookmark it. Smile.

Happy Monday.

Effort

It's always nice to hear positive feedback at your job or in school. Words of encouragement and reinforcement give someone incentive to try harder and do better moving forward, because they know their efforts are being appreciated.

Now imagine you're Flip Saunders. Your Washington Wizards are playing the Boston Celtics last night. You have a guy named Andray Blatche as your starting power forward. In the offseason you signed a contract that pays him $35 million over the next 5 years. That seems like a nice pat on that back if you ask me. In the 1st quarter of the game, Andray decided to display some truly fantastic defense that he's known for (read: sarcasm).



He's pretty luck Shaq wasn't expecting that at all. The NBA - where caring happens.

Like a Bosh

Since Chris Bosh put up 35pts in a Miami win against the Phoenix Suns last night, this doesn't seem quite as appropriate anymore, but the proof is in consistency, something the 7 year NBA veteran hasn't necessarily convinced me of yet.

Case in point: Bosh is the Raptors franchise leader in points, rebounds, blocks, double-doubles, free throws made and attempted, and minutes played. During the '06-'07 season, he led the team to their first playoff berth in 5 years in the '06-'07 season... with a 47 win team that won the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. 47 wins in an 82 game season wins the division?! Welcome to the Eastern Conference.

The Raptors then lost in the first round of the '07 playoffs to the New Jersey Nets. Regardless, below is a hilarious video that "raps" up all things Chris Bosh, pun absolutely intended.




UPDATE: Just noticed this gem on today's Daily Dime article:

"[Spoelstra] knows he has to meet us halfway. He wants to work; we want to chill." - Chris Bosh. Now that's a champion's work ethic if you ask me.

And We're Back!

No apologies, no excuses. We're just going to move on. Some new format changes - I'm still going to try and draft some longer posts, but I feel like there's a lot of quality sports stuff that has fallen through the cracks that doesn't take much more than a quick video link or an image that goes viral - all good things.

That being said, I'd like to introduce you to my new arch-nemesis. As reported by Yahoo! and posted on Break.com, this chick absolutely destroys at Pop-A-Shot. I need to get back to a couple of my old watering holes and start practicing again.


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