roomofzen: Where Have All The Gurus Gone?

My Friends, it has been too long.

I'm not going to offer excuses as to why the number of posts have been down on this site. We all know that we have barely generated enough revenue on this site to keep Larocque and I eating Burritos for 3.5 minutes. Fact: that means we could only buy 5 burritos. We've all got jobs to do, blah, blah, blah. But, like a PR savvy man will always say...it aint about the money homey, its about respect. So here we go...

The Celtics are quite possibly the most exciting professional sports team to watch right now. Notice that I said "team". I have found myself dry heaving to ridiculous highlights of Lebron dunking on people on a nightly basis for the last two months, needless to say he is the most exciting athlete in pro sports right now. Cavaliers sidenote: I've heard rumors of the Cavs making a move to get Shawn Marion via Anderson Verajao and Wally Szerbiak. I don't get this move. Marion was a great role player for the Suns about 5 years ago. Also, I don't buy that any one would take Wally in a trade. Furthermore, Verajao is on my short list of tall assholes in the NBA (led of course by Pao Gasol) but he has actually been playing well for the Cavs this year...in fact, the Cavaliers as a whole are playing better around Lebron than they have in his entire career. Why break this up now by bringing in Marion? Which brings me back to the Celtics. The Cavaliers are playing better than they ever have, but the Celtics GOT better with the addition of a healthy Tony Allen and Ray Allen and the metamorphosis of Rajon Rondo into one of the top 5 point guards in the NBA. (Chris Paul, Devin Harris, Steve Nash, Deron Williams, Rajon Rondo). Whats the difference? The Cavs still have potential (I think) to shit the bed in a big situation. The Celtics have a plethora of guys who could come through at crunch time, including guys who can shoot from the outside... while a monstrous dunk from Lebron might make me shit, puke, and piss at the same time its only worth 2 points.

JP Losman...a poor mans Keanu Reeves.

Last weekends Patriots victory fell under the dark shadow of disgust that is the Buffalo Bills. Watching them give that game away to the Jets took a lot of the fun out of an easy victory over the Raiders. Buffalo has gone spiraling down the shitter faster than a Taco Bell Gordita. I can't imagine what the fans in Buffalo must be going through right now. Is it possible that living in Buffalo is so horrid that it makes it seem that just having an NFL franchise is good enough? One thing is for sure, JP Losman has about as much pocket presence as Plaxico Burress' handgun.

Sidenote: Instead of serving 3 years in Jail can't they sentence Burress to 3 years as a player in Oakland, Detroit, or St Louis?

I'm still optimistic about the Patriots making the playoffs. If Dallas can beat Baltimore and the Patriots win out they could snag the second AFC wild card. Arizona doesn't scare me at home in December, and well, I've already said my piece on Buffalo. All things considered the season has been a remarkable one for the Patriots. The fact is that we could very easily have one two more games this year and might already be in control of our destiny in the Playoffs. Considering that New England has lost an average of 6 starters to injury each week throughout the entire season, 9-5 is pretty good. Just ask a Redskins fan.

On another Patriots related note Matt Cassell was snubbed for the Pro Bowl. I'm not surprised that Favre gets the nod because everybody loves the guy, he's old, I get it. For an entire season no one has been able to come up with anything to say about Cassell except that he has been a backup since high school. Fact is, he put up better numbers than Favre this year in every single category except number of touchdowns thrown (Favre had 21 with 17 picks, Cassell 18 and 11). Brett Favre can kiss my ass.

Now, if you are still reading, step away from the computer and do yourself and watch the Celtics-Hawks game...and don't forget to buy those special people in your life some nice merchandise from the Roomofzen store.