Fanview Lite: May 9, 2009

By Joe Torosian

Good Morning!

Do you hear the sounds of pattering feet? Listen…Real close…Got’em now?

Yeah…well that’s not the sound of children coming down your hall…But rats skedaddling off the Dodgers bandwagon.

I’m holding firm…Once Jeff Hamilton is off the DL and Kevin Gross gets back in the rotation things will be fine.

A-Rod drives out the first pitch he sees after hip surgery…How many pitches has James Loney seen this season? How many has he driven?

Houston looked really mortal last night against the Lakers, Kobe looked like an immortal. I’ve never seen a guy with so much game, do so little to inspire me. I freely clicked back and forth between the games last night unafraid of missing something…

I actually enjoyed seeing Jordan Farmar get some playing time…Can somebody tell me if Andrew Bynum made the trip to Texas?

Nuptials are pending between Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings…

So the team with the worst defense in the NFL, the St. Louis Rams, releases its number one tackler Piso Tinoisamoa…That makes a lot of sense…I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that second round pick James Laurinaitis will start in the middle…Will Witherspoon on the outside…but who’s the third linebacker?

I’m not happy.

Rick Pitino to the Sacramento Kings…The sports equivalent of Dumb & Dumber…If they are stupid enough to hire him, he’s stupid enough to go there.

Pitino is the basketball equivalent of SC’s Pete Carroll…Moderate pro success, but their first best destiny, to quote the old Spock, is college basketball…

Rumors are flying that the Kings are thinking of returning to Kansas City…Nice, now only if the Clippers could return to Buffalo…

Buffalo? Yeah, for those of you “Villanuevaly Challenged” there was a pretty good basketball team in Buffalo called the Braves…Bob McAdoo celebrated his glory days there, Randy Smith was a legend, and Dr. Jack Ramsey was the coach…Then again it wasn’t all good, Dale Schlueter played there…

Worth Remembering: Chuck Daly, who passed this morning at 78 of pancreatic cancer, was a great basketball coach.

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