Friday, February 19, 2010

Cheers and Jeers: Penguin Edition


(Not a Penguin but still cute)
Ingredients:
Cheers: To NBA Trade Winners - Dallas, Cavs, Charlotte all improved for a playoff run

Guarded Cheers: To NBA Trade Cap Clearers - (everyone else). A number of teams reached their goal of clearing cap space. I believe there are over 8 teams now that have the cap space to make a run at a max contract. Which is short hand for a lot of teams are going to be unhappy or over pay

Jeers: To Covering the Tiger Press Conference. Everyone fails in this. Tiger is using a Friday to help make himself more money. It's his life but let's no confuse this with some noble gesture. Every network is covering it like Tiger will announced a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. Don't like that. And people will tune in like Tiger will give the secret of how to convince a porn star to get into the muddy wombat position. There's so much fail.....

Cheers: To the flying Tomato and his gold medal. USA! USA! USA!

Jeers: To Doc Rivers criticizing the NBA rule that potentially allows the Cavs to resign Z. In 2005 the Celtics traded Antoine Walker for Gary Payton and then resigned Walker following a buy out. But I guess that's fine because it helps Doc Rivers....


And your C&J moment of irony...I give you NBC Olympic Coverage


(h/t Deadspin.com)

2 comments:

MJ said...

What is the criticism of NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics? What I've seen has been OK...

I totally jeer the entire Tiger thing. I don't care one bit that he cheated on his wife. I don't feel like anyone is owed an apology except for his wife (and press conferences aren't the best way to repair broken marriages).

I totally cheer Doc Rivers...there's nothing like transparent hypocricy. We can now use this to further accept how brutally corrupt the NBA has become. People rip baseball for not having a salary cap but no one seems to blink that the NBA has evidence of collusion. Remarkable. At least the truth comes out. That's what I'm cheering for.

Gutsy Goldberg said...

1) The tiger thing is ridiculous.
2) doc rivers and hypocricy is awesome!
3) i don't think the NBA has "collusion" as MJ says. It's in the wizards best (financial) interest to buy-out zydrunas.