Where will he end up? Normally I don’t care about the NBA, but here’s some words to consider.

If he wants to win the NBA title, he’s not far in Cleveland. Just add the two pieces and don’t add to your own contract.

If he wants the most money, go wherever that is and be done and don’t pretend you care about winning.

There’s no reason to go to Chicago (which isn’t closer to a title than the Cavs) unless his goal is to be the best ever and he thinks he can take Jordan down by winning titles with Jordan’s team.

The Nets? Nyets? I don’t care if the owner gives him his body weight in rubles, potato skins and 23% of the franchise. Don’t be a star in New Jersey if you can help it.

The reason to stay in Cleveland? It makes you look like a good guy and if you win, you bring the first title to the city in forever. The last guy to win a title in Cleveland was, I think, Otto Graham. When was that? Here’s a hint – the name Otto was popular.

Wait a minute – was that the US team actually doing something… clutch?  I’m not sure the national team has come through when it needed it most, perhaps ever.  Congrats to them and a matchup with (likely) either Germany or Serbia. 

You can never really feel bad about making it out of the group stage -no matter what comes next.

I cannot believe the break the USA just got.

For anyone who wants to hear that sound all the time…

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Seriously, what’s with the uniforms?  We got sideways stripes, solids, numbers and the back is stripes, then a space for the number and then stripes again.  The Kansas City Kings had a better kit than this. The Denver Broncos’ vertical striped socks were better than this.  Honestly, I have played for co-ed softball teams with a nicer look.

Yeah- in my Major League debut I stuck out 14, walked none, gave up 4 hits in 7 innings and stuck out the last 7 guys I faced while hitting 101 mph a few times along the way.  Yepper, that’s exactly what I did. Struck out 14, stuck out the side on 11 pitches, got the win – this is exactly what happened to me.

Yesterday I saw someone wearing a Denver Broncos Travis Henry jersey.

I’m trying to decide – do you think they respect Henry for fathering 9 children with 9 different women
-or-
do they respect him for being arrested for financing a cocaine trafficking ring?

Tough choice.

A NBA player I won’t name is in financial trouble because he took out a loan at 85% interest.

Yeah, not 8.5, but 85.  I guess the only place where you can do that is, naturally, Vegas.  What special breed of dibbling idiot do you need to be to approve that?  No level of desperation could explain that.  You don’t have a single basketball-playing friend who could spot you a half million for 5 months?  Unbelievable.

It should be clear – the team has 5 saves so far. 5.  And only a handful of teams have lost more 1-run games than Colorado. 

They need Huston Street and more than that, they need him to be Huston Street. He can’t be a former shade of his past succes; he’s got to come blow the doors off 20th and Blake.  The Rockies bullpen is stocked with set-up men and no closer.  Corpas?  If the Rox thought he could close they wouldn’t have traded for Street in the first place.  Fuentes priced himself out of town.  With his velocity and the Rox’ abundance of starting pitching, maybe De La Rosa could close if he could control the walks.

None are the right solution.  Get Street back healthy and get yourself back into the division race.  Sitting .500 at the All-Star Break isn’t going to cut it.

A lot of baseball players are claiming they will not go to the All-Star Game in Arizona if this immigration law stands.

Ballplayers drop out of games for many reasons – don’t like the manager, just played, about to play, injuries or just wanting the rest, wanting to be with the family… anything.

I don’t know that baseball can force players to attend but wouldn’t it be an interesting slap in the face of the AZ government if the fans and managers selecting those teams opted for all-international teams?

You could certainly form two meaningful rosters of non-USA born players, so why not go for it.