Random Ramblings, Part 2

Whats up kids.  Not enough going on for a specific post, so I decided to go with some random ramblings.  NFL preview coming soon.

I could fall asleep on that.

1) This Reggie Bush shit is annoying.  There is absolutely no way the kid should have to give up his Heismann, and the Heismann committee should not be allowed to take it back.  I don't care if he took money, got his rent paid, got his bills paid, got free handjobs, whatever... he earned the Heismann on the field.  Agents didn't score his TDs for him.  Agents didn't break his big, exciting runs for him.  I understand the school giving their copy up.  They have to try to remove the stain of the events from their reputation.  Alot of sports writers and analysts are saying stripping him of his Heismann would "send a message" to other recruits in the future.  No, it won't.  If kids need money, and they're offered it, they're gonna take it.  Treating one athlete who made the mistake completely unfairly will not change that.  The idea of him having to give up his accolades that he EARNED for an immature mistake (that most of us would make, I might add) is bullshit to me.  The guy already lost Kim Kardashian's ass.  He's suffered enough.

2) This Ilya Kovalchuk situation... the NHL messed up.  Yea, so maybe the Devils were trying to skirt around the salary cap a little bit.  Isn't that what ownership is supposed to do?  Sure, the cap is there to even the field.  But realistically, no field is even.  If Kovalchuk & the Devils found a way to fulfill both of their needs without a blatant breaking of rules, what's wrong with that?  Plenty of teams have done similar things recently.  It's not like they signed him to the minimum and offered him cash under the table on the side.  That I could see shutting down.  Plus, who is the NHL to say that neither side reasonably believed it would finish out the length of the contract?  Maybe Kovalchuk wants to play until he's 44.  I'm just saying.  If what they did is completely unacceptable, make a rule against it (and i mean a real rule with solid boundaries and no grey area), and punish everyone else who's done something similar.  I applaud the Devils & Kovalchuk's people for finding a deal like this that worked for both sides.  The NHL people are just mad they found a way around things.  I hope the NHLPA decides to fight this.

3) Floyd Mayweather is officially a fucking pussy.  When this fight was initially gonna go down, I would've bet alot of money on Pretty Boy Floyd to win.  Now, if they end up fighting, you couldn't get me to bet on Mayweather no matter what the odds.  This whole fiasco just means to me that he's scared of Pacquiao and knows he'll lose.  At first, I was like, okay, you want this and you want that, Manny won't do it, so fuck him don't fight him.  But Manny's camp has now met Floyd's in the middle; in fact, they've almost come completely to Floyd's terms.  And he STILL won't agree to a fight.  He's barely even talking about it.  Now admittedly I'm not a huge boxing fan, but I'm pretty sure a win over Pacquiao would solidify Mayweather as one of the best fighters ever.  Now?  He's a mouthpiece with a real good record who backed down when it came time to define his career.  What a bitch.

Mayweather's nightmares.

4) Why doesn't T.O. have a job yet?  Seriously.  Why not.  All you Eagles fans can shut the fuck up for a second, and think realistically.  Numbers wise, the guy is one of the best ever to do it.  And he's not that old.  Is he really still that much a headcase?  It's a shame people don't forget stuff.  I think if a good team snatches him up, they can push themselves over the edge toward contention.  I just don't get why he's still jobless.  He's at least better than 50% of the WRs who have jobs in the NFL right now.  Even if he does occasionally cry.

5) These comments from Nick Saban, where he called agents "pimps", are just so fucking laughable to me.  First of all, Saban has been around football (and specifically college football) for awhile now.  I'm sure he's seen plenty of wrongdoing and turned his head to it.  Now suddenly he's on a high horse and is disgusted by these agents?  I'd be willing to bet some of them have helped him before.  And besides, the recruiting that him and his staff does... how is that any different from what the agents do?  Sure, he probably doesn't hand them cash, or cars, or jewelry, or whatever.  But he hands them a free education.  And free training to make the money to buy those things.  Saban is a hypocrite. 

6) Karl Malone has proven to me, once and for all, that he's a classless piece of shit.  As a kid, I always hated him while he was playing, but I figured it was just because I was an MJ & a Bulls fan.  Then he pulled a Lebron-and-Bosh before Lebron-and-Bosh and joined a Lakers team that was stacked with talent just to try and coast to a championship.  Karma got him on that one.  Then as I grew up I started to hear all the stuff about how he has kids that he refuses to acknowledge.  And I just read the final nail in the coffin for the Mailman.  He has selected Willis Reed to present him at his Hall of Fame induction next month.  WHAT?  When you think Karl Malone, what pops into your head?  Exactly.  John Stockton.  Now I'm not saying Karl isn't good, but you could argue that Stockton had as much to do with Karl's success as Malone himself did.  So why not Stockton?  Or AT LEAST Jerry Sloan?  Willis and Malone never played together; Reed retired 10 years before Malone entered the NBA.  Karl's reasoning?  "He grew up 5 miles from me" and "I've always respected him."  So why not pick the guy who pumps gas in your neighborhood.  If I'm Stockton, I take this as a slap in the face.  You stay classy, Karl Malone.

I'm done.  Tune in soon for my NFL preview.