Also, why was Lamar Odom playing so hard down 37 with 2 minutes to play? WTF? I will never understand him.

Does anyone on this planet swear more than KG? I mean, goodness sakes alive, every time a mic was around that guy, ABC had to bleep him out. That man single handedly abuses the 7 second delay.

Somebody might want to ask Kobe why he wasn’t trying in Games 1 thru 6. Strange, really strange?

So I guess Bynum’s knee injury was kinda a big deal. How come that guy never recovered? When it happened, it was only supposed to be 6 to 8 weeks. Its like 12 weeks now.

Pierce is some kind of ball player. Looks like he is playing underwater but is tough as nails and gave arguably one of the greatest defensive efforts in NBA playoff history.

Obviously, Luke Walton, Vlad Rad, and Sasha are some of the worst players of all time. Outside of Sasha’s game 3 effort, its like these guys have no business even being on the floor with the Celtics bench. What happened to Luke Walton, I once thought he might be a decent role player but he barely even played in this thing.

Rondo is kind of fast.

Celtics are kind of better.

Somebody in their prediction for this NBA Finals said something about Ray Ray finding his grove and Kobe being bested by karma. Not bad Gslim, not bad.

The average fan might think it is because he hits his driver so awesome. Well, let me tell you that is not the case. Tiger ranks 165th in driving accuracy on the PGA Tour. He hits an average of 58% of his fairways — that’s 4% less than average tour player. Well you say, “We know he isn’t the straightest hitter, but he sure is the farthest.” Actually, he isn’t, not even close. Tiger is ranked 65th in driving distance with an average of 285 yards. Now, I understand that he can hit it well over 300 yards when he wants, but clearly he often chooses to hit 3 woods enough of the time to lower his overall driving distance to 285 yards. So clearly, he doesn’t take advantage of his distance as much as you might think. Just trust me on this one, his driving is not what makes him great. Actually, he is great in spite of his driving. It’s true, he is a great short iron player, he is #1 in GIR (greens in regulation) ,but what truly makes Tiger great, has nothing to do with physical skill. So what it is Gslim? Glad you asked.

It’s this simple: Tiger is the best reader of greens I have ever seen. “What?” you say, come on Gslim, pull your head out, you seriously didn’t just say that the greatest golfer of all-time is only good because he can read greens. But think about it. Tiger’s greatest moments come on the green. They come when he is usually outside of 25 feet, and they always come on the back 9. Putting is not physical. There is the famous saying, “putting is 90% mental and the other 10% is mental.” On average, the farthest you draw your putter back on greens that are “tour” fast, is about 6 inches. This doesn’t take a lot of physical skill. My mom can draw a putter straight back for 6 inches, but what separates Tiger from my mom and even the other tour players is that he can start the ball on the right line with the right pace.

I have never seen a guy make so many putts from a distance that other players are just trying to get it close. He has some kind of freaky cognitive ability to accurately predict exactly what the contour of the green will do with his ball. Consider some of those putts he has hit over the past few days. They were huge snaking double breakers that were going downhill and should have been impossible to judge. But Tiger seems to handle it with ease. This is truly a skill that you cannot teach. He has an amazing feel on the greens that cannot be matched by any player. His ability of judge pace and line truly separates him from even the next best player.

OH MY GOSH: Tiger just hit a 12-foot putt center cut on hole 7 of the playoff and Mark Rolfing (NBC announcer) just said, “Tiger is the best reader of greens I have ever seen.”
I rest my case.

“That’s the first walk-off home run in my life, at any level,” Bruce said. “It’s crazy.”

As he rounded the bases, the crowd stood on its feet and chanted “Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce” like they were at a Bruce Springsteen concert. The town of Cincinnati has already fallen in love with this kid, never believing he can top what he did the day before only to be shocked that he can. The crowd rises to his feet nearly every time he comes to the plate. He gets a huge ovation every time he catches a routine fly in center field. Dusty Baker said: “What a remarkable story Jay Bruce is. I’ve never seen a better story. If he’s living a dream, I’d like to be in that dream.”

I have no idea what this kid has in store for us next, all I know is that I don’t want to miss it. Neither should you!

PS: I actually have no idea what Dusty Baker was talking about because if it is a dream, he is in it, he’s actually the manager of that dream.

Yes it’s true, he is pitching today but more importantly he became available in Yahoo Fantasy Baseball leagues worldwide. You see, for the past 2 weeks upon hearing speculation that Kershaw was close to being called up from Double-A ball, I would routinely go to my league’s waiver wire to see if he had been added to the game. Every time I typed in K-E-R (you only have to type in the players first 3 letters of their last name to find them) I would get a bunch of guys that I had never heard of and KERry Wood (certainly don’t want that headache).

However, yesterday it was rumored that not only would he be called up but he would be starting the final game of the series against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday, May 25. This start would all but force those bastards at Yahoo to add him into the game. I’m not sure if it is a computer program that adds guys to the game as they are officially called up by their Major League team or if it is just some guy that loves to play with my emotions and adds players to the game whenever he sees fit, therefore causing all of us great pain and stress. So yesterday, I literally type K-E-R into my player pool 8 times before I finally realize that either the computer program or that guy at Yahoo responsible for adding players is not going to do it on May 24.

So rather then go to bed at 11:30 pm when I wanted to, I stayed up till 12:01 am to see if Mr. Kershaw would be my next waiver wire gem. However, he was not available at that time either. I waited until about 12:45 am but still no luck. I decided that I would just leave the computer on all night and check it whenever I happened to wake up or need a little sip of water.

What ensued next was not ideal or nothing that I’m particularly proud of. I tossed and turned all night thinking about a 20-year-old man who plays baseball and will never ever even know my name. Then the unthinkable happened, I started dreaming about him. No joke, in my dream I was in my room back in L.A. when I was 8 years old, but this time I was racing some invisible mystery to see who could pick up Clayton Kershaw first. I’M SERIOUS, this dream actually happened. However, this dream turned into a nightmare because not only did the mystery man add Kershaw, but I also flipped out and started throwing all my belongings through my window into a dark abyss. Strangely, my entire family was there to watch and no one seemed to try and stop my; it was as if they knew what is was like to lose a guy like Clayton … Then I woke up at 4:54 am.

I thought about my dream for a second and the realized I had completely become a lunatic, addicted to fantasy people. What did I do next? You got it, I grabbed my computer, typed in K-E-R and guess who I found? I actually got nervous and accidentally clicked on a Chevy ad that took me to their website. I regrouped and got back to the waiver wire. I added Kershaw and just then my girlfriend woke up and said:

“Greg, what are you doing?”

I said, “Don’t worry about, you wouldn’t understand even if I tried to explain it.”

She said, “Does it have something to do with fantasy sports?” I didn’t respond.

She said, “I hate you.”

I said, “So do I.”

“That’s just not the Yankee way, what Joba did. Let everyone else do that stuff, but not a Yankee,” Gossage told The Record on Saturday. “What I don’t understand is, the kid’s got the greatest mentor in the world in Mariano [Rivera]. He’s one of the leaders of the team, so you’d think it wouldn’t happen on that team.

“But there’s no one to pass the torch anymore, no one to teach the young kids how to act. The Mets did a lot of that [celebrating] last year, and look how it came back to haunt them.

I guess I kind of understand what Gossage is talking about but just yesterday I saw K-rod do everything but sacrifice an animal on the mound in celebration of his three-out save. He literally pounded his chest, pointed to the sky, did some kind of séance and then left the mound. I didn’t hear a word about this. Then on that same night, I saw Jon Papelbon first pump to the Gods after a key strikeout in the 9th. Dennis Eckersley (here is my West Coast coverage folks) was famous for this, so why is everyone coming down on Joba? I really don’t have the answer but all I know is that if Joba stops, I will stop writing about my white boy Asian fetish. So, whaduya say Joba?

Joba and I quote, “Everybody has their own opinion,” Chamberlain said. “It is what it is. I am not going to change.”

Well, I guess neither am I.

Getting chicks: No, I had to fly half way around the world to get a gosh damn lady friend.
Having money: Um, not exactly, I’m one day shy of 29 and I’m back in school trying to get a Master’s degree in Kinesiology because I’m so unemployable.

Wait, what other areas of life are there besides sports, girls, and trying to make a buck or two? I guess religion but based on the amount of missionaries my church sends out each month I’m guessing even they do better away from home. So really the home court advantage only applies to sports but considering sports is 25% of the pie and I spend nearly 90% of my time on that piece of pie, I think Ben Franklin misspoke when he said, “the only things certain in life are death and taxes.” What about the home court advantage Ben?