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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tampa Bay Ray Matt Garza tossed the fifth no-hitter of this baseball season. That's the good news for Garza. The bad? Dallas Braden, Roy Halladay and Edwin Jackson are a combined 5-13 since their no-hitters this season.

If you've not been watching ESPN's 30 For 30 shows, be sure to start now on TSN. They're almost always fantastic.
The Chicago Bulls aren't convinced that Tracy McGrady is a good fit.  Why?  Because he's an injury prone guy who has never made it out of the first round of the playoffs?  Tough crowd.

The Toronto Blue Jays are now 10-0 against the Baltimore Orioles this season after last night's win.  Well, at least they've got one team in the AL East they can beat up.

In CONCACAF Champions League play tonight, Toronto FC host Honduran side CD Montagua.  The game marks the home coming of former Red Amado Guevara, who will no doubt be motivated to stick it to TFC's coach Preki, a pair with a lot of mutual dislike, to put it mildly.

Go to the comments section today and have your digs at what is lame about basketball.  Open subject in that you can talk pros, amateurs, rules, coverage...anything.  Have at it.  Coming up tomorrow: football (the North American variety).

Perhaps the best taken penalty kick I've ever seen comes in this Spain vs. Italy under 19 game last week.  Still can't figure out how he managed this...

15 comments:

gbvh said...

That PK is nice but not as nice as Del Piero's "That is absolutely woeful!" PK you posted here months back. Haha.

Things I hate about NBA basketball:
-- all those timeouts
-- all those stoppages
-- that they play music while the play is being played
-- that players take nights off
-- that if you're seven feet tall, putting the ball in a 10-foot-high hoop from underneath it just ain't that impressive
-- that the difference between a charge and a block is often impossible to make out ... even in replay
-- that they bother playing the first half
-- that guys often get angry when they score (thanks to empties crushed for that one)
-- that every little thing is a foul
-- that flopping is considered great defence but if you do it in soccer you're a pussy
-- that you have to throw the ball in from the sidelines and can sometimes get burned for having possession. really, if you have the ball and there are only four of your teammates to pass to and five opponents covering them, how is that fair. dribble it up.
-- all those timeouts
-- all those timeouts

Joe said...

I can't remember the last time I willingly watched the last 30 seconds/year and a half of a basketball game.

BronxBomber said...

Basketball:

-"elite" players dictate everything
-the court is far too small for the size of players
-the game is called with far too many fouls
-a basic dunk will be replayed over and over
-coaches get fired far too often (almost always because a player gets them fired)
-the quality of play takes the back-seat to flash and "swagger"
-too predictable- only 4-5 teams (if that) have a chance at winning when the season begins
-"star calls"- the game is called with a huge bias
-the younger generation (the soldier boy listenin', skinny jeans wearin' girls) all have a sense of entitlement when they accomplished nothing.

hi said...

Is the match against Montagua a group match? Can't help but feel TFC is out matched. Montagua has some really nice young players like Emilio Izaguirre and Johnny Levron. Regardless, I will try to catch as much of the match as possible.

Thing that bores me about basketball is that involves no brain whatsoever. It doesn't take a whole lot of understanding of the game for a casual fan to be able to read plays or realize what players are trying to do. It also doesn't help that the best players are rarely the smartest players, and rather the players with the most god-given talents. It's like watching tennis; it's entertaining, but there isn't a whole of science behind it like there is in baseball and soccer.

gbvh said...

^ i think it's a home-and-home set.
game two is aug. 3.
toronto is actually a sizable favourite tonight.

i think i read the honduran team is still in pre-season (?)

TB said...

Great point on the inbounds ghvh, never heard or considered that before.

More...
-the lame references to a "high basketball IQ". Pretentious as fuck.
-the NCAA talking expansion of March Madness. Don't fuck with a great thing by watering it down.
-Jose Calderon fans who were wowed by his "look at me" handclaps, holding up six fingers when he only hit a three, and not recognizing he's got as solid a defense as a porn star on roofies
-Jose Calderon
-timeouts. Heard that somewhere else I believe. Far too many.
-the Slam Dunk Contest. Put it to bed already. It is tired and played.
-the All-Star "game". Scrimmage's are more intense.
-the convoluted cap system
-Vince Carter, and anyone who says he "put Toronto on the map" - they had a rookie of the year their first year, tools!
-calling the North American champion the World Champion
-the music played during play, the forced "de-fence" on the big screens or sound systems
-Stan Van Jeremy's mock turtlenecks

hi said...

Yup, I went into Wikipedia to check afterwards.

Being at home helps, but Toronto would only be the 'favourite' because the fans are being unrealistic, especially in a two-legged series. It was only a season ago when a second division side beat us. Honduran clubs may not be fancy on paper, but they are always well represented in international tournaments, just like their national team.

gbvh said...

^ i mean tonight's game ... the bookies have them as a decent-sized favourite.

Toronto FC -112
Motagua Tegucigalpa +339
Draw: +266

Goal Line:
Toronto FC -0.5 and -1 +119
Motagua Tegucigalpa +0.5 and +1 -131

O/U:
2.5

gbvh said...

^ i mean tonight's game ... the bookies have them as a decent-sized favourite.

Toronto FC -112
Motagua Tegucigalpa +339
Draw: +266

Goal Line:
Toronto FC -0.5 and -1 +119
Motagua Tegucigalpa +0.5 and +1 -131

O/U:
2.5

gbvh said...

also, while puerto rico did beat t.o., they were by no means the better team. toronto outplayed them.
that time-wasting display in game one was sickening.

(and one of the million reasons i would love to see soccer go to stop time.)

hate that "it's part of the game" bullshit talk.

gbvh said...

also, an fyi: goltv has the galaxy-puerto rico game tonight live at 11.

double header baby!

gbvh said...

good call on the court being too small, BB.
i've thought that for the longest time, too.

ts said...

I can't watch NBA but enjoy NCAA.
Great list collectively. I also hate
- NBA having too many games.
- Attributing to next to no hustle during a game. Watching NCAA vs NBA on this front to me seems like they are two different sports.
TB did you catch the 30 on Colombian soccer during the early 90's. So good. Do you know if there is a regular time slot for 30's on espn?

ts said...

check that, on tsn?

gbvh said...

4-1 puerto rico.
wtf!?

i got screwed by goltv.
their sked says the game was live.
it's not. so they have "technical difficulties" ... no commentary. no scoreboard/scoreclock on screen.
so i see PR score in first half and assume it's 1-0 but want to make sure (missed five minutes earlier).
i check the live score on the 'net ... 3-0 in the 70th.
bastards.