Last one

I think its been crazy how fast the semester has flown by. Tomorrow I am officially done for the semester and the summer is going to begin. This semester has been a whirlwind and I wouldn't have changed it for the world. I will now be halfway done with college, and as scary as that sounds, and believe me it is, I am really excited about the future. I'm excited about what kind of internship I will get and to start the next phase of my life that doesn't involve school. I'm pumped about going to Mets and Yankees games over the summer and am even going to one next week. I'm excited for the summer and to hang out with all my friends who are away at school and go to barbeque's, parties, and what will amount to endless Stop n Shop runs and fast food runs with my friends. I will miss my friends from school that are going back home and will especially miss my girlfriend who's going home to New Mexico for the summer. It's been an amazing semester and I'm sure the summer will be just as.

the $65 million pants

I don't know if anyone else has seen this story but I was convinced this was from News of the Weird except its not. A Korean family that runs a dry cleaner is being sued for a missing pair of pants. Doesn't seem so bad right now but it gets worse. They are being sued for $65 million dollars. Oh its not done with the weirdness. They are being sued a by a judge. Even the writers at SNL couldn't come up with a better one. The judge went into the cleaner to get his pants for many of his suit altered. One pair became missing and the judge wanted them to pay for the suit which was $1,000. The family offered the judge three different settlements but he declined them. Most of the law suit is coming from a strict interpretation of Washington D.C's consumer protection law which fines violators $1,500 per day. The judge apparently did the math of 3 violators for 1,200 days. Because of the signs over the cleaners saying “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service” he is saying that this is false advertising. Also, since he had to go to a dry cleaner outside his neighborhood, he's calling for them to cover the cost of renting a car every weekend for 10 years which is roughly $15,000. I hope this judge gets destroyed in court and disbarred for being such a horse's ass.

NFL DRAFT

Sometimes watching the NFL Draft is like watching the grass grow. It's tedious, boring and quite possibly the worst thing to do on any given day. But any hardcore NFL fan loves it. I like watching the draft but I usually flip the channel to something else in between picks just because it can get really dull. That's basically because there is 15 minutes between picks. Seriously guys, do you really need 15 minutes to make a pick? The NBA does it in 5 and they survive. I am throughly convinced that some teams just don't know what the hell they are doing in the draft especially this year. First of all the Miami Dolphins. With Brady Quinn still on the board they take....Ted Ginn? Do they realize this guy's going to miss half of training camp most likely because of his injured foot? They then take John Beck a quarterback from BYU in the next round. He is going to have to have a better career then Brady Quinn and for that matter Ginn as well in order to justify that. Then the Philadelphia Eagles. Donvan McNabb needs some people to throw to. So they trade out of the first round not once but twice and then take....Kevin Kolb a QB from Houston. Ummmm.....yeah....I don't get it either. They lose their best wide receiver and really haven't given Mcnabb anyone good to throw to except for T.O and that worked o so well even though they did get to a super bowl. My point is that some GMs just don't understand their own team

BYE BYE HEAT

I love the Chicago Bulls right now. It's a very hard thing for me to say because I am a big Knicks fan, and all the times that Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and that crazy dude Dennis Rodman beat them in the playoffs over the years really hurt, but I hate the Miami Heat more. The Heat and the Knicks were big rivals once upon a time as well. Who can forget little Jeff Van Gundy, during a fight in the playoffs, hanging on to Alonzo Mourning's leg like a 2 yr old kid hanging on to his father's leg. The Bulls swept the Heat in the playoffs and I was ecstatic over this. I think its because I hate Shaq so much. Shaq is a behemoth of a man and he obviously uses that to his advantage because he's just wider than everyone else in the league unless Charles Barkley came out of retirement. I really feel that if he played in the years when Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played they would've shut him down. He basically scores all his points by bodying people out of the way and dunking the ball. I don't think he has that good of a hook shot and everyone and their mother knows he can't shoot free throws. I don't hate Dewayne Wade. I think he's a very good player and very fun to watch but Shaq just annoys me.

NBA PLAYOFFS

The old cliché about the playoffs in sports is that it is the second season. That holds true in the NBA. If you've been watching the playoffs at all, you really feel that this holds true. The playoffs started on April 21st and it is still the first round. The NHL season ended just 10 days prior and are about halfway done with the second round. Granted the 10 day head start does help but come on already. David Stern really needs to do something about this scheduling. They could start games in the afternoon on weekdays but the ratings wouldn't be that great for them. But wait, doesn't baseball start games in the afternoon during their playoffs? No one's complained about that and they still fill up the stadiums for the most part during those games, don't they?

Also, one other lament about the NBA playoffs. What is with the divisions meaning nothing? In the Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz series, the Jazz won their division but because the Rockets had a better regular season record. WHAT?!?!!? If you're going to do that, then get rid of the divisions because they obviously mean nothing if you are going to have that as the set-up for the post season. Just line everyone up in both conferences and the top eight records make it and then you go from there.

Yankees

After a month and a game, the Yankees are in last place in the American League East. I am a little bit shocked by that but not that much. The only two people that have really done a lot are A-Rod and Andy Pettite. There's been a rash of injuries especially to their pitching. Chien-Mien Wang hurt his hamstring, Phil Hughes just hurt his, Mike Mussina hurt his hamstring. Unless your blind, your starting to sense a trend here with hamstrings. That's why their strength and conditioning coach got fired yesterday and rightfully so. One time is a fluke, two times is a little odd, but three times suggests a trend especially when it deals with the best pitching prospect in the game in Phil Hughes. I'm not biased by saying that, every scout says that about him too.

The Yankees real hope is that Roger Clemens later in the month, probably on the 22nd, since he's a little obsessed with the number, says I'm coming back to the game and signs with the Yankees. If I'm George Steinbrenner, I give him the sun, moon, and the stars to pitch on this team. I'm sure General George is thinking the same thing. He's also probably getting really upset because they haven't won a World Series since 2000 and haven't been to the Fall Classic since 2003. I'm sure the Yankees will snap out of it and eventually step up and end up in first place. If they don't I'm sure heads will roll and it will be a crazy off-season in New York.

Reyes vs. Jeter

It must be baseball season. Already after a week and a day many questions keep popping up especially in New York. What’s up with the Yankee starting pitching? Will A-Rod choke again in the playoffs? Are the Mets really this good? One question really seems to be popping up all over though, Jeter or Reyes? Honestly if I was a GM for a team, I wouldn’t mind having either or for a shortstop. Jeter is a class act, a great leader and one of the most clutch players of all time. Reyes is an absolute monster of a player. He might be the fastest player in the game, could get a gold glove one day and once he is on the bases, you know you are in trouble. Plus he's starting to hit for power now. Granted Reyes is about ten years younger than Jeter which might make him better for the long haul to have on a team and even though I think that he might be the better player right now, I would still take Jeter. Maybe I’m a little biased since I’m a Yankee fan but I’m one of the few that doesn’t hate the Mets and never has. The Mets are actually a very fun team to watch play and both of my parents are Mets fans so what am I gonna do? Jeter, as I said, is one of the most clutch players of all time. He has four rings and the Yankees have been in the playoffs every year since he took over at short for the immortal Tony Fernandez. Basically my point is this, Reyes might be the better player right now, but get me when he’s won 4 rings and is as clutch as Jeter is.