1) Yes, we know. We've been gone a little while. We know you've wanted to hear what we've thought about the NCAA final (I guess free throws DO matter after all) and the hiring of Donnie Walsh (guardedly optimistic) and instead you got only silence. We won't let it happen again. Okay, we probably will. But we'll feel bad about it next time. Okay, we won't. Next time we'll be thinking of you in our absence. Okay, no, we won't. At the very least, we'll think of you as we're pooping. Okay, when we're flushing.
2) The Warriors lost to the Nuggets tonight, which all but sends Denver to the playoffs, keeping Golden State out. That is a huge bummer. The playoffs, especially in the Western Conference, is all set to be incredible (and you'll be hearing about it a lot here, and on the Disciples of Clyde NBA Podcast) but it won't be as awesome as it could be without Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson, and Monte Ellis running all over the place, and with that Oracle crowd going berserk.
3) Why did the Warriors miss the playoffs? Don Nelson barely used 8 guys all year, and he employs a fast-paced, run up and down the floor all night system. As such, the last couple of weeks, Stephen Jackson and Baron Davis, 30 and 29 years old respectively, have looked tired and haven't played their best consistently. So you can blame the coach a bit, I'd say. It also hasn't helped that this is the strongest the West has been in a long time - the Warriors are going to win just about 50 games and miss the playoffs, which doesn't happen.
4) Here's my theory on early season baseball: all you have to be is around .500 by the time the NBA Finals are done, with no major injuries, and the team will be fine. That's why it's pointless to get too worked up about, say, the Tigers looking so bad or the Cardinals looking so good. It's a really, really, really, really long season. Stay around .500 until June, then play better than that for the rest of the year, and you'll be looking at the playoffs.
5) Not sure if you all saw this, but Sports Illustrated but it's entire archive online, in searchable form. Here's the link: Sports Illustrated Vault It's got all 54 years of articles and cover photos and such. Lots of fascinating stuff on there. For example, last week for the podcast, I looked up a great article about Walt Clyde Frazier from 1975, and another one about Bernard King from 1991.
Here's a fun project for you, readers: Go find an interesting article for us to read, and post it in the comments. Remember, you can either use HTML in the comments to make the link fit (if any of you brainiacs know how to write HTLM) or you can use TinyURL, which lets you take long web addresses and shrink them.
The best article posted in the comments wins! Wins what, you ask? As if you have to ask!
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Dan,
The other day on Mike and Mike they were discussing what you were saying about not getting worked up about the Tigers. However, they noted that if you start off 0-10 (they are actually 1-8) that is roughly the equivilent of losing your first game in the NFL (it is 1/16th of your games), but no team in MLB has ever started 0-10 and made the playoffs.
That's probably because a team that starts 0-10 has fundamental problems that will continue to manifest themselves throughout the season.
I think with this Tigers team, with that lineup and a couple of good starters, can just as easily go on an 8-1 run soon to erase this 1-8 start.
This article is great, almost 20 years later.
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068312/index.htm
Here's the tiny url.
http://tinyurl.com/5hgab5
Zoltan, that is awesome.
This article manages to take place before either Tony Mandarich OR Axl Rose became punchlines.
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