As you listen to the out-of-world Dwight airline employee discounts on chicago hotels Howard trade scenarios (and it's beginning to make Toronto's four-team, double sign-and-trade epic that ended up with Turk with the Raptors seem like a simple transaction) one word keeps popping into mind:
At one point they were going to get – and may still get – Kris Humphries as the centerpiece of their end of the transaction. Now, I like Hump a lot and he's become a very solid player now that he realizes what he's with and I hope he has a long and productive and lucrative career. But doesn't he play the same spot as Tristan Thompson, a younger, cheaper Cav piece as that team tries to re-establish itself.
Didn't airline employee discounts on chicago hotels the scream airline employee discounts on chicago hotels bloody murder when LeBron exercised his contractual right to join another team with two other all-stars and now they're perhaps going out of their way to let a star get his way despite him not being able to move freely on his own?
I'm sure there will be more venting and whining and commenting if and when this gets done but right now, the salient points airline employee discounts on chicago hotels are that if I was a fan of a team facilitating a deal that would seemingly make a rival far stronger, I'd be ticked.
And for those who might think this is a player – Howard – getting tired of being treated like chattel airline employee discounts on chicago hotels and trying to simply work where he wants, here's the main point: He willing told his team last March that he was "all in" and would stick around this year; he made quite the fuss about that and now it's apparent he cannot be trusted.
If I'm the Magic, I find some trade with some team that isn't New Jersey, force Howard to go there, play a season and then become a free agent so he can go wherever he wants. For the salary that's available next summer.
It drones on and Chris Berman has got to go and it was weird seeing a BP pitcher looking airline employee discounts on chicago hotels like he was pitching around Jose Bautista in the final round. The kids in outfield are kind of cute, I guess, but I half expected some brawl to break out when they were fighting over pop ups.
Now, I will admit it's a shallow pool – the Saturday airline employee discounts on chicago hotels night of the NBA all-star weekend and the pucks thing are far from must-see TV – but I'd probably like to see four innings of a prospects game and some other skills airline employee discounts on chicago hotels competitions than three hours of batting practice.
A whole bunch of travelling yesterday as Bryan, the Henchmen, the coaching staff and various others headed to Vegas for the Summer League (a little training camp this week, games start later on) so it was uber-quiet on the roster front.
But now that BC's out there with a couple of dozen other GMs, who knows what might happen. The sense on the weekend was that things were going to calm down a bit, I hope that's the case but, as we know, things have a way of heating up rather quickly.
One thing we don't know yet, though, is who's on the Summer League roster. It's a rather fluid situation as teams try to piece together workable groups and agents try to get their clients into the most enviable situations.
Doug, can you ask the folks who run the website airline employee discounts on chicago hotels to have a link on the main sports page to your blog? It disappeared a week or two ago and I have to find your hyperlink name before finding the blog again (if you don t have a blog story as a main story on the main sports page). It s about 4 more clicks after the sports page. Many thanks!
The trading of Howard is not for Humphries - this is why the deal hasn t gone through...The Cavs stated last night that they can sign Hump out right, that the Nets needed to include Marshon Brooks...Now that it is known Brooks can be had - other teams like the T-Wolves and B-Cats are invovled. This is why Cleveland airline employee discounts on chicago hotels is involved, to get Brooks - who is a fantastic player filling a position the Cavs really need to fill. Really Doug, this type of reporting is not hard! Just read, man....read!!!!!
It really is water under the bridge nw but kudos to BC comes out looking good as he did all he could to bring Nash here.I just hope that BC is not done yet, otherwise we may be in for another long season.
I would think the Cavs have a pretty good thing going with the high draft picks the last couple of years, that being involved in the trade would only complicate what they are trying to build. The Betss - do they even have any future draft picks left?
Although Nash was a free agent, why on earth would Robert Sarver or Lon Babby agree to make their nemisis even more dominant for three seasons for the rights to a measly 4 picks, all projected to be likely 25-30th, and 55-60th?
Its been said by Nash that they did it out of mutual respect between the two men, but it makes the Suns appear to be saying well we are rebuilding anyway, lets be the Lakers airline employee discounts on chicago hotels whipping airline employee discounts on chicago hotels boys for three years while we restock .....
And dont forget, the whole reason that Miami was able to make the moves that it did is via BC making the JO trade. Remember, the three of them signing was hinted airline employee discounts on chicago hotels at the year before it happened, airline employee discounts on chicago hotels and then next season Sam Presti I think trading a pick for Daquan Cook , who represented the last roster player needed to be moved so James and Bosh could sign. They also do very bad things to one another, like inflate players value in offer sheets to stick it to other teams. Hello Roy Hibbert...looking airline employee discounts on chicago hotels right at you and Portland. This often backfires, so its double funny.
They help eachother for unknown reasons. Maybe its just an Old Boy s club and they all sit laughing as the money rakes in.( there are what, a pool of about 45 guys that in any given year are GM s.) Put together enough superteams, (we are at a legit 4 now) and maybe revenues will increase, and more people airline employee discounts on chicago hotels become interested. Or, the exact opposite will happen...........
airline employee discounts on chicago hotels Because Jose Bautista was a part of it, I tuned in to The Homerun Derby last night, and lasted for all of 5 minutes. Was put off by it for lots of reasons, but the first was the pure aesthetics; it didn t look pleasing to watch: too much going on that had nothing to do with baseball, Kauffman Stadium wasn t looking very attractive, the daytime sky didn t photograph well in the shots and the baby blue uniforms airline employee discounts on chicago hotels were unfortunate. And then there was the sound of Chris Berman, who I think should stick to his NFL preview show. So, thank you for the clip of the real Homerun Derby show. Imagine. No fans in attendance. Just the players, umpires and one Mark Scott who handled introductions, play by play, commentary and interviews with the players. And his explanation of the rules! Priceless! Did you catch Mickey s eyes glazing airline employee discounts on chicago hotels over even while he bravely told us that he d been here before and understood how it worked! But wasn t it perfect in its pared down black-and-white elegance? That s how I like my baseball. Yup, I m old. :) And so old in fact to have known that it was Phil (Bilko) Silvers who wrote the lyrics to this Sinatra classic. Another performer who knew a thing or two about paring stuff down to its essence and simply - and elegantly airline employee discounts on chicago hotels - delivering the goods. Cheers! (And Mark Scott had a rather large hardcover book on the broadcast booth table; do you or any Irregulars have any idea what that weighty-looking tome might have been?)
I don t get why notification of successful surgery is something to scoff at. Complications happen all the time -- just going under General Anesthetics is a risk in itself -- and we should be pleased every time they don t.
The Stein piece really is a fascinating look into the perks of being an NBA all star. Given the effort put forth by BC and Larry Tannenbaum, it is hard to find fault except perhaps in the fact that the Raps as a team still look life and death to secure the eighth spot in the east and that was not good enough for a guy with multiple offers. The surprise for me in the article was the seemingly minor effort put forth by the Mavericks.
I like your solution to the Dwight Howard saga. I am thinking that the training staff in Portland could work wonders on Dwight s back (sarcasm). It would be just but how likely are you to find a team willing airline employee discounts on chicago hotels to rent Howard for a single year knowing that he is likely to sign with the Nets next summer and more to the point, how hard will Howard play.
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If George Little Poopies Brett never makes another TV appearance airline employee discounts on chicago hotels in his life, that would be a very good thing. Chris Berman should simply become the living Fred Flintstone he is, and take his caveman show on the road (he could open for Phyllis Diller or something). I say bring back Mark Scott, prop him up in a chair, and let him say nothing at all. A far better show. And lower that infinite first round to 8 outs, please. Oh, and as another shout-out to Berman, as one of my current seamhead talking head favourites, airline employee discounts on chicago hotels Greg Zaun, would say, Go sit in the truck.
I agree with most of your writing. airline employee discounts on chicago hotels The one thing I am wondering airline employee discounts on chicago hotels about with the Cavs involvement in the DH trade is that they are conceding that they don t have a shot at beating the Heat any time soon, so could they be helping out another airline employee discounts on chicago hotels Eastern Conference team get stronger to prevent the Heat from winning multiple titles? It s the only theory I could think of of why they or any Eastern team would be part of this.
Great blog today. I just finished reading Scott Rabb s The Whore of Akron and after reading Stein s article on Nash and your blog about Howard the only logical conclusion that I can come up with is when it comes to superstar professional athletes, whatever they want is what they get. This is especially the case in the star-driven NBA. While we can make an argument airline employee discounts on chicago hotels that Nash s decision was based on sounder reasoning,in the end, he isn t that much different than Lebron or Howard. They are three superstars who ,in the end, got or will get exactly what they wanted. They are no different than th
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