Basketball draft as it happens

Well, it's 8:30 at night, and because I feel like it's a good idea to for once blog an opinion on something in the real world, I've went to the fantasy instead. Yes that's right it's the 6th or 7th anunal fantasy b-ball draft... yup I know I sound like a real winner. But it our way of keeping the gang together and having some fun at the same time. So yes that's what will happen. Now to get down to a bit of business, firstly Dustin is the defending champion of this league and has decided to pick at #2. Which is probobly a good choice... hate to decided who to choose at #1. As for those that live with me, Jose is at the 4th spot, myself at #6 and Mike at #10. Now to give anyone a little background, we've been researching for the last week, not that it means anything, just something for us to be entertained with. We also have erected a podium to announce our draft picks, along with a flag, and hopefully some compadres to clap there hands... but maybe not that far. And if we can pull it off we will put some of the video online, but that will be determined later.

So round by round, I will try keep up and either mock or give props, and just try to immortilize anything silly that comes about... from Thunder Bay Ontario, I'm Benny McCarthy reporting live.

Round 1.
Well going into this draft I sort of expect it to go Lebron, Kobe, Marion, KG, Wade... but that's just me... I could be completely wrong, which I've been known to do. Just my thought to start this off. So I've been informed it won't be Lebron... well then I'll just shut up and watch the draft and see how it progresses. Marion goes #1, I like the selection, it's what you wish to do with your team. James, and then KG go... it's all good picks. Jose takes Bryant, no other choice on that one. Brand goes at #5... leaving me with choice but to take Dirk... ah well he can do everything so I can't complain. Then Wade, Arenas, and Nash go next... little early on Nash, all he does is assists in the end, no defensive presence. Allen goes to Mike at #10, followed by Paul, Duncan, Pierce, Bosh... that ends Round 1.

Round 2
Okay so after that entertainment we move on to round 2... home on the range, in reverse order for all. Amare, Dwight and AK47 go in the first 3. McGrady goes next to a fan of Ming... I guess that works, he is a rocket. Mike is up now... I have a feeling AI will go... and I was correct perfectly. Fez takes J O'Neal... no one in this room thought that would be a collect selection. Chuck picks Ming, probobly a very strong selection in the end. Diaw goes next, and I'm up... well after small deliberation I went and picked Richardson, I keep getting him in every draft... maybe I overrate the guy, ah well, it's a solid pick in my mind. Near goes and takes Josh Smith... I think you can overrate a guy, and then you go and draft him in the second round... ah well I guess he blocks your mom after all, or steals her. Well Jose is up... what does he have instore for us... And he picks Jason Kidd... surprised... will get him assists. Carlos takes Carter, I like the pick... Wallace goes next to Dustin. Billups goes last in the round to Jason.

Round 3
Jason is on the board again, got to love how the snake works... he goes and picks Lamar... well done, great pick. Dustin takes Artest, Carlos takes Joe Johnson. Jose is up and he is asking himself what is availble, other than his sister not very much. Well he takes Brad Miller, he needed a stiff pool in the room... or stabiblity, whatever you like to call it. Near is up next. Takes my pick with Carmelo, leaves me no choice but to take Rashard Lewis... didn't want him, but he was there and the best availble. Hinrich, Bibby and Redd go next in a row. Mike is up next... taking his time, doing his scouting I assume, and about to make his selection to the world... he picks Atwain Jamieson... kind of scares me... but he likes the Tarheels... so he selects him (as Jose points out he tarred and feather me). Camby goes next... he's great for an injury or two a season... I like him and all, just wish he could stay healthy for more than 30 games. Rasheed goes next, nothing to say there... yay Wallace I guess. Chris Webber goes next (Mike wonders why... so do I), up next is Cousy... wonder what he will take. Oh wait he takes Iquodala... we all love our 76'ers back to back.

Round 4
Shaq is taking, followed by Davis, and then Wallace, then Jefferson... trying to concentrate don't have as much to say. Mike is up, he takes Okafor... no surprise he has a love for UCONN players. Okur, Peja, Gasol... followed by me picking Marbury, and then the overrated Tyson Chandler. Next up is Jose who will he pick. He picks the bearded European... well done Illgauskas... two quality centers so far. Boozer goes next... for a second there is their anyplace worse than a mormon state for him... no wonder he gets injured all the time... followed by Felton and then Chris Kaman.

Round 5
Mike James gets picked, intriguing. Tony Parker representing team french goes next. Terry goes to Carlos... I like the pick. Jose on the board, MANU... getting his south american fix. Samuel goes next, followed by me picking Maggette. Then Al Harrington, and then Butler and then Ford. Up next is Mike, he picks Howard. Randolph goes next, then Cassell, then Villneuva and then Mohammed.

okay okay, 9 more rounds went by and I refuse to blog about them... mostly because well frankly things got way too insane and I had to actually concentrate on the whole matter and all. So keep in mind everyone that I did put in some effort. Anyways in the end I'll have to try give a post analysis of some sort.

Personally my favourite team at the moment is Jason's... congrats you used the first pick to your full advantage and made some times plicks when it count. After that it's a pick type league, it's all depends on what categories people decide to go for, and who makes the shrewedest acquisitions and pickups throughout the year.

As for my team, I don't mind it, I did what I wanted too, going to make a few moves and watch to see if my team pans out. The three amigos in phase 3 put forth a great effort, and the podium was brilliant.

Hopefully we will put video up soon enough of what we were up to for the first few rounds... but that will take some time, lots of video editing to happen, but it all fairness it was probobly the funniest thing we have ever concieved up here. To all who were at the draft I thank you for being there and hope you enjoyed. You were all very ballsy with your picks.

Regards

Might as well put a big Z on his shirt.

Okay,

So it was announced some days ago that Zdeno Chara (that loveable big man that the Bruins overpaid to get) will be the captain of the Boston Bruins... *I think my initial reaction to that was... who and what the *A%&@@* .... why.... *

And to be perfectly honest I'm still in that boat with the idea... I just don't get it, did we really have no one else in the Bruins organization that could be the captain, someone that has actually spent enough time with the team to actually understand the team dynamic. It's like telling Chris Pronger, hey welcome to Anaheim... here's the C, now don't go cheat on your wife so that we have to ship you off somewhere (oh wait that wife part already happened allegdealy). Moving along I really can't quite figure out why he was picked as the captain, it stumbs me, i am glad they didn't give it to Bergeron yet, he's too young and the pressure in Boston is too huge to be young and a captain (reminder of the Thorton trade... bah that still angers me). But there were other candidates... 2 that I think really could have been. The first is Glen Muarry, the man has been around hockey long enough to know it all and well, he's been with the bruins alot longer than Chara has been, for goodness sakes. Oh well maybe he's too old to be a captain... well then if we seem to like European captains, why not maybe choose the penalty killing specialist PJ Axelson (by far my fav. choice to have been the next Bruins captain). He's played with the team for years, known how to deal with the personel, and has never been a cancer or anything in the dressing room, he shows with his work ethic, which if you ask me is always a positive way to go about things. But hey, the Bruins choice Chara who will be bumbiling on the blue line all day and get accolades for looking like Hal Gill (by the way not a good thing in my opinion, oh well maybe they will let him play the tough guy role as well, break his hand... be a good fight, Chara vs McGratton, be there)

Enough ranting on Chara, probobly took up more space then he should have, sort of like him in general. Well another video the post... let's just say the Colbert Report is getting up there on my fav. tv show to watch radar... anything to do with an eagle blaming Canada and so forth is a good thing. Or naming things after an eagle works just as well. So enjoy the posted video.


In other news, Holland has 2 friendlies in the next week, ummm let's see if the turmoil of that team continues. Van Bommel gets picked again (why is beyond me) and then refuses to play for the favourtism showing son of a gun Marco Van Basten (yes I said I used to like him, that was until the Portugal match). So Van Bommel won't play, Ruud doesn't trust him yet, and well we are in for an interesting week again. He better win both games... anything less than that and Co Adriense will be coach... mark my words, it's called being a coach in Holland and coaching the national team.

Everyone enjoy your turkey... I'll be heating mine in a microwave... yup you heard that one right, no stove or oven leaves me with the only other route, which is microwavable food... you stay classy Thunder Bay.

Thunked Eagle

Well greetings all, another wonderful bitterly cool day in the northern part of the province, and thankfully it still smells like fresh air. Yes that's right no pollution baby, no pollution.

Anyways in news, Chuck is home safe and sound, and I'm not talking about sports this post... mostly because my life has been me in bed or me going to class, less time to worry about pity things known as sports... damn you northern sickness damn you... okay so basically I've recovered.

But the meaning of the post is the attached video. I've become quite the fan of the Colbert Report and the Daily Show, and well a few nights ago I just happened to walk downstairs in time for this fantastic report of Stephen's Eagle... and well I can't stop watching it without laughing everytime. So I hope you all enjoy.

Chuck Thunked

Greetings all,

Well I want to congratulate Chuck for being the first male visitor to come up and visit me in Thunder Bay. Yes he now has that distinction, probobly for the better for him, the man last time I checked was looking for more back pills than leave it to beaver reruns... it's what happens when you travel, you get stiff body parts, sadly he is learning the lesson the hardway.

Sort of like Mr. Constantine, who sadly got suspended for one of the most creative ideas ever in terms of punishment. In hockey when you suck, and it can happen, usually the coach will make you do sucides for half an hour or so after the game, well apparently Mr. Constantine went to the university of creativity and tweaked it a bit... instead of any type of physical punishment, he went for the mental punishment. Instead of exerting oneself after a game even more he feed them dinner, instead of wasting lots of time and getting less sleep, therefore worst recovery, he drove them home right away. So you may ask, what's wrong with this picture, well it's simple, during that whole time they had to wear there hockey equipment. Yes hockey equipment stinks, and yes it's probobly slightly unsanitary to be eating food in your equipment (wonder if they went to an upscale restaurant, or maybe a Chucky Cheese, the guys could have played video games, or played in the ball pit, think of the fun it would be to play in the ball pit with hockey equipment on, diving at each other and all). But the point is, he was creative and I salute him, atleast he thought of something different, now if only we could get governments to think like that rather than the same old same old.

Anyways onto furthur business at hand, hockey starts, and sadly I don't care yet. The Tigers have almost blown up and giving up there lead, until they decided to come out and pull a Barcelona and win 17-2. But then again they might have just blown all there runs for the next year.

UEFA has started up it's round robin play in champions league, not much to report other than the fact that Real Madrid, is Real Madrid, lack of defense. Man U needs to teach Saha how to jump, apparently he doesn't know how too at all... poor guy, must be his unatheletic french ability.

Anyways just a quick update... cause Constantine is a wonder.

Watch out for Chuck, he'll be different after T-Bay

Ron Mexico Appreciation Day

Yes, that's right, an appreciation day is a well deserved day for Ron Mexico. And me and the guys couldn't think of a better day to do it then today. We have designated it as Ron Mexico Appreciation Day. For those of you who don't know Ron Mexico, I'll have to fill you in, firstly the name is an alias that was used by Micheal Vick and NFL Quarterback for the Atlanta Flacons. Who allegedly used the alias down in Mexico while he was on vacation. Sadly during the visit, he ended up giving some poor girl herpes, and apparently forgot to tell her before hand that this had happened. Hence the legend of Ron Mexico.

So in appreciation of his efforts, a party has been born. A party that will include the following, tequilla (as the mexican drink of choice), mexican food (hot and spicy), and friends (minus hopefully any idea of herpes being transmitted to anyone)... yes we don't condone herpes transmission. Also there will be no Ron Mexico Jr. antics allowed either, no guns, no robbing 15 year kids, and no stomping on people's legs trying to break them. Just good clean celebrating times.

So as the Mexican's would say

OLE

Thunked in T-Bay

That's Thunked,

Okay so the catch phrase hasn't caught on yet, no worries not even in my mind yet either, maybe it's a matter of time, or maybe I should just go with the classy Run you fucking dinosaur run phrase... or then again another kick at the can does just well enough.

Speaking of another kick at the can, Marco Van Basten is lucky that he gets to continue to coach the Dutch soccer team. Rumour had it, Co Adrienese, a Dutch coach that coaches the club team FC Porto was waiting on the wings if the Dutch had squeked out another 1-0 affair in there Euro 2008 qualifications. Thankfully for Van Basten and FC Porto a coaching change won't happen so soon... mind you I would have liked to see FC Porto try find another coach.

Well the US Open is getting to the grand finale, the big match up of Nadal and Federer is still on track. But no matter who wins this open it will forever be known as Agassi's swan song, and I have to say I enjoyed every minute he was on the court. He played with heart and determination, and with 23000 noisy New Yorkers behind him you would have thought you were at a soccer match. So thanks Agassi for the memories, I know my favourite will always be the time you got angry at your opponent at the US Open and decided to lob every ball he hit at you... as much as you didn't win every point it was just so funny to watch, oh and before I forget pretending to not throw the ball properly was funny as well.

Okay the pink taco, which probobly has gotten my favourite possible name for a football stadium, and leave it to my new fav. team, the Arizona Buzzsaw errr Cardinals. You'll be seeing me get my Leinart Hilton jersey shortly, or the every so popular Leinart's baby jersey, thank you USC basketball player for getting knocked up. Now if only Fred Smoot would come to the Buzzsaw that team would be complete.

In other news, I'm back in Thunder Bay, getting my life organized and setting myself up for an interesting year of classes, I'll update you more on that later, once I figure what I'm doing with my life... which sadly at this point I have no idea again. But never fear I'm signed up for a bunch of classes and we will see where the world takes me.

Back on the air hopefully this Sunday from 8 to 10pm on www.luradio.ca, I'll let you know if anything should change.

Take care all
Hup Holland Hup