Last_Blast's Blog

Why do these basketball fights always seem to happen in Detroit? Detriot is a great sports town. But when it comes to basketball in mowtown, they should just let Thomas Hearns suit up. The latest basketball brawl takes place last night at the Palace in the Auburn Hills and this battle was between the women.Ladies from both the WNBA's Los Angeles Spark and Detroit Shock. But surprise surprise, former Pistons and current Shock coaches Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn were right there for this one. Yes Mcfilthy and Mcnasty passing on the tradition of good hard nose ultimate fighting on the basketball court. Don't you miss the bad boys? Not!

Did you know Indy race car driver, Milka Duno, before this dust-up with Danica Patrick? Unless your a racing enthusiast or know anything about Venezuelan models, then I doubt it. That is why I say, more power to you, Milka! Take full advantage of your 15 minutes of fame now. I haven't seen anyone in a better position to do that since William Hung or Monica Lewinsky ( yes, I think Monica is shameful, though). So you go girl, but just do everyone a favor and stop racing now! According to people who know racing, you are dangerous on a race track and other peoples lives are in danger.

Milka is an interesting cat. This 36-year-old Venezuelan former model actually also holds four masters degrees, including one in Marine Biology. George Costanza is jealous. Duno may be both sexy and smart, but she also happens to be slow -- so dangerously slow on the race track that fellow Indy car driver Dario Franchitti's celebrity wife, Ashley Judd, thinks Duno should be banned from racing. There are two women who want you out, Milka!

So again Milka, I say, you go girl. Capitalize on this 15 minutes of fame, just stop racing.

Butch

I just want to say this about Barry Bonds in a Red Sox uniform. NO, NO, NO!. Maybe I'm not making myself clear. NO!!!!!

There's right and there's wrong and this is just wrong and even those of you who think Bonds can still hit and could help the Red Sox if Papi isn't completely healthy? Even you know this is wrong. You may remember that when the Patriots were about to trade for Randy Moss, I said, I don't want a guy like that on the Patriots. (a guy who says " I only play hard when I want to"). I admit I was wrong about Moss but I'm not wrong about Bonds. He's a cheater, a liar and soon to be a convicted felon. I'd rather lose without Bonds than win with him.

Butch

MANNY RAMIREZ PUSHING SOX TRAVELING SECRETARY JACK MCCORMICK WAS A QUICK DECISION AND THE WRONG REACTION TO A HEATED SITUATION. AND NOT JUST BECAUSE MANNY ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED ASSAULT AND BATTERY ON A COWORKER, IT WAS WRONG BECAUSE OF THE MAN MANNY MESSED WITH. JACK MCCORMICK HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE RED SOX INNER CIRCLE FOR 12 YEARS. HE IS AN EX BOSTON COP AND AS DECENT A MAN AS YOU WILL EVER MEET. AND HERE'S WHAT I CAN TELL YOU WITH CONFIDENCE. JACK TREATS PEOPLE WITH RESPECT AND COMMANDS THE SAME RESPECT IN RETURN. HE HAS THE TRUST AND RESPECT OF SOX PLAYERS AND MANAGEMENT BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED B/W MANNY AND MCCORMICK AND NEITHER DO YOU. BUT WHILE MANY OF YOU WONDER WHETHER MANNY DESERVES THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT HERE, I CAN TELL YOU THAT JACK DOES. HE'S EARNED IT. YOUR THOUGHTS?

MLB has decided that with the Red Sox and Rays set to start a 3 game series in St Petersburg on monday it is the perfect time for those players involved in the previous Sox Rays brawl to start serving their suspensions. Wrong!

Keeping Coco Crisp and James Shields and the rest of the fighting boys from facing each other again only serves to postpone the inevitable. Justice will eventually be metered out between the lines with these teams sooner or later. Baseball, like hockey, has a way of having justice served on the field when the games are played. The right thing to do would have been to warn both teams before this series started and let the boys have at it. They would have been on their best behavior and it would have added some spice to an already pretty spicy rivalry

THAT IS TMZ VIDEO OF SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FREESTYLE RAPPING ON STAGE RECENTLY AND TAKING SHOTS AT KOBE BRYANT. SAYING HE'S THE REASON SHAQ IS GETTING DIVORCED. SHAQ SAYS " I WAS FREESTYLING, NOTHING SERIOUS, IT WAS ALL DONE IN FUN" . MARICOPA COUNTY SHERRIFF JOE ARPIO DISAGREES. ARPIO, DIDNT' LIKE SHAQ'S USE OF FOUL AND DEROGATORY LANGUAGE. SO MUCH, SO THAT HE IS TAKING AWAY THE SPECIAL DEPUTY'S BADGE HE GAVE TO SHAQ BACK IN 2006. AT LEAST HOW HE FEELS. HOW DO YOU FEEL?

WHO'S BETTER THAN ME WITH THE TROPHY? I get a lot of grief in this town for that statement which I uttered from Busch Stadium on October 27, 2004 after the Red Sox won the World Series. Say what you want, but at least I know how to handle a championship trophy.

Did you see what happened in Kitchener, Ontario on Sunday May 25th? Click here to watch the video. After the Spokane Chiefs beat the Kitchener Rangers to win the legendary Memorial Cup (the championship of Canadian Jr. Hockey) they were presented with the trophy. Chiefs Captain Chris Burton held the trophy over his head but as he tried to pass it on to a teammate he dropped the trophy and it broke in half!

The crowd booed. Spokane was the away team in this game. The good news? This was a replica trophy. The real Memorial Cup is in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

I may have had some fun hoisting those trophies in 2004 and 2007 but did I ever drop them? Of course not. So again, I ask you? Who's better than me with the trophy? Certainly not Chris Burton. (sic).

SO HAVE WE FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHY MATT WALSH CAME FORWARD IN THE FIRST PLACE? HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY SMOKING GUN AND THERE IS NO TAPE OF THE RAMS WALKTHROUGH.

SO DID HE START THIS ALL UP BECAUSE OF BITTERNESS TOWARDS THE PATRIOTS FOR FIRING HIM? OR DID HE WANT HIS TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT OR BOTH? OR ARE HIS MOTIVES SIMPLER TO FIGURE OUT? WHO KNOWS IF HBO PAID HIM ANY MONEY FOR HIS FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTS. IF THEY DIDN'T, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE MORE MONEY AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE WAITING.

Tonight I'm blasting Seattle Mariners First Baseman Richie Sexson. In case you missed it, Sexson lost his cool Thursday night after Kason Gabbard(former Red Sox pitcher) came in high in tight during the Mariners-Rangers game.

The pitch never actually hit him, but the 6'8 Sexson decided to charge the mound. Here's what I have a problem with. Sexson takes his helmet off and throws it at Gabbard on his way to the mound. Remember, Gabbard is standing there completely defenseless.

If you want to charge the mound, go right ahead, but drop your helmet, drop your bat and fight like a man. You don’t see hockey players throwing their equipment at each other, do you?

Sexson was trying to be a tough guy, but instead looked as soft as his .209 batting average. Major League Baseball suspended him 6 games for his actions.

What do you think?

SO IT TURNS OUT THAT BIG BAD ALEX RODRIGUEZ IS A WIMP WHEN IT COMES TO HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS AND HE ACTUALLY PASSED OUT IN THE DELIVERY ROOM WHEN HIS FIRST DAUGHTER WAS BORN.

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH A-ROD ADMITTING THIS. THE PROBLEM IS, IT'S HIS WIFE CYNTHIA WHO'S TELLING THE STORY. CYNTHIA SAYS "ONE NURSE HAD A CLOTH ON HIS HEAD, THE OTHER HAD THE BLOOD PRESSURE ON HIS ARM AND MY MOTHER IS LIKE RUBBING HIS BACK AND HE'S PASSED OUT ON A COUCH. HE'S THERE MOANING AND IN BETWEEN PUSHING, I AM GOING, HONEY ARE YOU OK. ARE YOU BREATHING?. THIS IS THE SAME CYNTHIA RODRIGUEZ WHO DEFINITELY STOOD BY HER MAN AFTER THE TORONTO STRIPPER STORY LAST JUNE OH WAIT A MINUTE. SHE'S GETTING HIM BACK FOR THAT. NOW I GET IT?

We all love it when a coach shows support for his players but does Atlanta Hawks head coach Mike Woodson really want us to take him seriously when he says it's a travesty that his rookie Al Horford lost out to Kevin Durant for NBA Rookie of the Year?

Look, Al Horford is a good young player and his rookie year double double average of just over 10 points and just under 10 rebounds per game. This year is impressive, but he's not the best rookie. Kevin Durant is, by far.

And the 125 writers and broadcasters who voted agree. Just 35 first place votes for Horford. 90 first place votes for Durant. Nearly three times as many. The travesty is your math skills, Mike Woodson. But that's OK. You can brush up on those adding up how many points you lose to the Celtics by.

Your thoughts?

Butch

Don’t you just hate it when athletes hang ‘em up and retire....only to change their mind down the road and come out of retirement and completely taint their legacy? It drives me nuts!! Brett Favre is the latest "Great One" to be contemplating coming out of retirement, and all I have to say is... ‘Please Brett, don't do it!’

Think about some of the great athletes that came out of retirement, only to make a fool of themselves. The image of Michael Jordan in a Washington Wizards uniform still makes me nauseous. Mario Lemieux did it in hockey, and of course Roger Clemens has done it a few times.

When you're a premier athlete in sports, you've got to know when to hang ‘em up, and more importantly, when to stay retired!

In the NFL there are haves and the have-not's. The salary cap can't save poorly managed teams. The latest case in point involves two such stupid teams. The Washington Redskins (by far the league's dumbest organization thanks to Daniel Snyder) offered the Bungles a package that could have netted them two first round draft picks for talented and mouthy receiver Chad Johnson.

This is brutal on two counts: first it's too much to offer the Bengals (remember the Patriots surrendered a mere 4th round pick for Randy Moss.....who in case you forgot broke the NFL's touchdown reception record).  Second the Bengals should take their money and run. Chad Johnson is damn good but he's going to be a cancer if he even plays a down this year.....so the Bengals have made another bad move. The offer in the first place is the worst move here, both teams stink and will continue to stink because of situations like this. The Bengals and Redskins are loco for this Ocho Cinco situation.

If you're still bummed about the Super Bowl take comfort in the fact that Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli are the best at putting together championship teams. With picks all over the place this weekend, they'll reload this already solid contender.