Post #2016 in 2016

30 minutes ago...
Supreme Court's ruling lets one get any winnings easier..
but now there will be the paying of taxes
and most likely there'll be higher vigorish.

GS vs. Cavs - Part IV

The vast majority of the viewing public fails 'GS vs. Cavs - Part IV.'
Even if the series, and each & every matchup, was a Pick 'Em price
- which this NBA Finals is not close to being; it's so badly lopsided
its no-way a "must watch."  GSW (-1000) vs. Cavs (+725) in 2018.
If one bets such a crappy contest,  then the most one can invest in
terms of one's time is to wake up the next day, scan the results and
utter  "Ho-hum: They won / They lost."
But since the NBA knows via Nielsen's, advertisers' projections, etc.
that their arranged 'GS vs. Cavs - Part IV' must also be arranged to
be at worst a 'Gentleman's Sweep' = Won in 5, the wagerer's only
question to be answered is "Will the Cavs win Game #1, #3, or #4?

One can compare the built-in boredom of this 4th-in-a-row series
to an MLB World Series of the same 2 teams for 4 straight years,
even Cubs v. Clev grows old & stale after a repeat, hurting MLB;
NHL's Stanley Cup Final of the Hawks vs. Bruins 4 yrs in-a-row
= BORING BEYOND BELIEF.

GS (-12) in Game#1 = largest spread in a Finals game since 1991,
(ESPN Stats & Info); Cavs = Biggest Finals dog in nearly 30 yrs
« "Kyrie kept GS off-balance; he allowed us to go 1-on-1 against
mismatches and can’t nobody stop him one-on-one,” Lue said.
“We gone miss that."

GSW = biggest Finals-fav in past 16 years, per historical data
compiled by SportsOddsHistory.com; previous high = 2002,
LAL (-750) Vs. Nets (LAL swept Nets);
Cavs (+650) ML-dogs, longest odds of any James's team in his
9 NBA Finals; previous high = 1st Finals trip in '07 (+350) dog
vs SA who swept in 4.  James' 9 Finals teams opened as favs 2x:
Heat (-220) in '13 [WON],
& Miami '11 (-175) [LOST to Mavs in 6].

His neck tatts tie in with his everyday pot-smoking:
Jelf-Retarded.

First, beats the TOP team's best;
then adapts to the ref's bad calls:
Calls against, e.g. 'blocking' (vs.
clearly taking KD's wild charge
offensive foul - ¡¡ Overturned !!)
and many "And-one" hacks
left uncalled - so never got;
but lastly, the Brutus-like
self-saboteur,
Jelf-Retarded,
spells CAVed.

Jelf-Retarded escapades

J.R. Smith's ability to make mind-numbing decisions
is not restricted by the borders of the United States.

The oft-disciplined streak-gunner was even more of
a problem punk playing in the Chinese Basketball
Association during the NBA lockout in 2011.

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports said, "Signing
J.R. —or the "clown prince of basketball— almost
immediately was easily seen as a big mistake.
Skipping practice for shopping trips, then making
unlimited "unreasonable demands" about his mode
of transportation, his China stay was no different
from the one he's had stateside
—a series of moronic events."

But one particularly cruel Brutus-type knife-twist
that Wojnarowski describes stands above the rest:

"Perhaps his greatest excess of idiocy had been a
weekend of running a room service bill into the
proximity of $3,000, a source with direct knowledge
told Yahoo Sports. He kept ordering food, stacking
piles of trays upon trays – "just to see if dem Chinks
would keep bringing it to the room," the source said.

All uneaten, all on the franchise's tab – all a window
into Self-Retardation.

It's disrespectful. It's wasteful. It's incomprehensible.

In other words, it's everything we've unfortunately
come to expect from J.R. Smith.

"These kinds of jerks don’t last in pro sports as long
as they think they will," Larry Brown wrote. "Smith
probably won’t make the NBA beyond the age of 30."

Woj described Smith's stay in China as "a relentless
pattern of insubordination." Sounds a little familiar,
doesn't it?  A lot like the "recurring instances of
unsportsmanlike conduct" that just hit Smith's wallet
for $50,000, no?

Maybe that's the saving grace in all this. That J.R.'s
transgressions aren't going unpunished. That folks
take notice of just exactly what type of punk he is.

Maybe someone should remind him that working in his
field is a privilege, not a right. And it's a privilege that
can be revoked at any time.

It isn't going to take too many more stories like this to
move J.R. to Unemployment. His on-court production
does not make his off-court blunders worthwhile.

"Scoring specialist" w/ a 34.8 FG %age to his name.

Then again, how—or why—does J.R. do any of the things
that he does? Even J.R. can NOT answer that question.

Good call on your on your "3333" thread.

Great Call too on your
"nba-Game Of The Year"

Cheers bro!

Unwatchable — NBA sees big drop in ratings.

Compared to previous NBA Finals clinchers,
GSW’s win fell over 30% from last year’s
Monday Game 5 (16.0) & fell a HUGE 41%
from 2016's Sunday Game 7 (18.9).

This finals clincher's 11.2 = lowest in 9 years,
since the disinterest of LAL-Magic's 9.4 in '09.

A previous NBA Finals sweep in '07, Game 4
of Spurs versus Cavs had an overnight of 7.8.
NBC got 12.0 for LAL's G4 sweep of the Nets.

All 4 games of this year's NBA Finals declined
dramatically from last year, capped off by the
double-digit decline registered for Game 4.

As listed in The Nevada Gaming Control Board's docket,
former NBAer Charles Oakley faces a felony charges of
having been caught on video tape of gambling fraud by
changing his bet (after the results were shown) in a game
of blackjack Sunday night at The Cosmo,


Because the house knew they had him cold,
just like they had O.J. Simpson dead-to-rights
caught on resort surveillance cameras,
changing his $100 bet on a table game to
$5 after it was clear he would lose his bet.

Vids show Old Oakley pulling a chip back
off its mark at his blackjack table, now dubbed
the Blackcharles table.

After hotel security reviewed casino videos,
the house person went up and tackled Oakley,
who was then cuffed and arrested on the charge of
“committing or attempting to commit a fraudulent
act in a gaming establishment.”  “Mr. Oakley is
guilty of adding to or reducing his wager on a
gambling game after the outcome was known”
which is a serious crime

Oakley was booked into Clark County Detention
Center and given a blanket he asked for (cuddles?).

The felony count carries a prison sentence of between
one and six years and a $10,000 fine.

“The truth always comes out, right?” Oakley cried,
 “The truth always comes out, and that’s all
I’ve really got to say.”

A Cosmo spokeswoman said Thursday that that's
just too bad because Oakley is coach of the Killer 3s
of the Big3 pro basketball league, co-founded
by rapper Ice Cube who was not conclusively caught
in the same cheating method.  Their visit to Las Vegas
coincides with the NBA Summer League at the Thomas
& Mack Center and Cox Pavilion.

BamBam gots this !! !! ==>

Utah is playing Boise State version 2.0.
UDub seniors are all players who were going to Boise State.
UDub coaching staff are mostly from the same Boise State
that beat Utah 31-26 as 16-point road-dogs to Utah in '98
then as18 point home-dogs blue-washed them 26-20 in '99
then as 4.5-point road-dogs creamed them 36-3 in 2006
and finally bowl-rolled 'em 26-3 on 22 Dec 2010 !!!!
There is a reason Utah canceled their series with Boise State
once they had a good excuse, that of their joiningthe PAC 12.
Wittingham has never beat Peterson.
=> Not going to happen tonight.
UW -4.5

2 best defenses in the West, as 1st match this year went under
21-7 - so will this on, since the total is the same that 1st one,
45.5, so easy under again !!

Funny thing, this Friday -
the last day of November,
The Championship of two:
The MAC
with their Huskies;
and
The PAC
with their Huskies.
Well Dog gone it!

LAKRs
=
Lebron J.
Anthony D.
Kyrie I.
Rojon Rondo
supporting squad

Lebron takes on everyone except KD,
while AD is KD's only shot-blocker;
Kyrie matches the 3's of SC & KT;
Rondo assists anchor & add FG%.

Might also sub-in
L
A
Klay T.  (for Kyrie)
R
s

Mabrey's ND's best 3-pt shooter but is only 20% in Tourney,
and Baylor has 2 huge Bigs who're Miami Vice close buds,
so they help each other shine. Baylor takes this easily !!!


And to top it all off, Baylor's Center is 6'7"
and just as good as Griner who entered
the NCAA Champ Game as a #1 seed
versus N.D. as a #1 seed, like today,
and Baylor smoked the Irish !!!

Kawhi & May's 2nd Sunday

Today's the the 2nd Sunday in May, 2019.  
The 2nd Sunday in May, 2017

Kawhi shut down Kevin Durant & any & all Warriors trying to be a playmaker,
as he dominating the 1st Half, then matched GSW point-for-point as GSW made
their usual strongest push in the 3rd Quarter.  None expected GSW to roll over
like the Houston Rockets, but it sure looked & felt like S.A. would easily hold
their huge 20+ point lead over GS w/ Kawhi controlling both ends of the court.
But Kawhi got wiped out by Go State's Zaza P. after 28 minutes into Game #1
with the Spurs were up by 23 points, 78-55...

Without Kawhi playing, G.S. went on an 18-0 run that took about 2 minutes.
The rest of the Spurs fought hard & proudly, staying closer in the final minutes
than most expected.  But ultimately, the talent gap w/o Kawhi was too wide, as
GSW & Zaza P.  stole a game (& likely the series) out from under the Spurs.

Today, Kawhi shows that he's the NBA's best 2-way (Offense & Defense) dude!
And that's what he has that's what it takes to win a Game 7.

test

Even today, 15 June '19 peep's gone axe me:
"Who dat Quiet Lend-art U steady talkin' bout?"

Book Futures wagers now, Finals, Champs
before they pick up their missing 'K':

LAKRs
=
Lebron J.
Anthony D.
Kemba W.
Rojon Rondo (Hall of Fame Floor-General & Assists Leader)
supporting subs

Lebron gets his proven CBB-power players, A.D. & K.W.
each of whom can easily go of for 40+ pts on b2b nights
a la Masai for his faith in the Dutchman Fred Van Vleet!!
Shout out to Masai for skimming Covers: Here's the tip:
acquire complementary R. Baker to perfectly pair  FVV...

The NBA's Ninkompoop Bigmouth fools are:
Steph Curry; S. Kerr; Durant; Popovich; James.
= Ø  Ø  Ø  Ø  Ø
Each a spits their biased crap out their mouth...
but not now when it counts.  Not a peep from
any of these ball-bouncing clowns.  Disgusting!
= Ø  Ø  Ø  Ø  Ø
Shoot your fat mouths now - speak up chumps!
Ø Let us all hear y'all are against social injustice;
Ø Let us all hear y'all support free speech rights;
Ø Let's hear y'all promote a free & open society.
///
Super-biased, self-centered sellouts, one & all.
= Ø  Ø  Ø  Ø  Ø
Their support for Hong Kong independence = Ø

One tough guy - for real, mentally & physically:
Nobody has ever called a baseball game better
- put the listener in the park w/ stats/strategies,
and if you weren't a shmuck & knew your place
you never got a better friend, loyal & consistent!
The Man upstairs got Mr. Edward Farmer home

R.I.P. Big Ed

Clint Eastwood of Baseball

Kenny “The Hawk” Harrelson remembers Farmer as not only a voice of the Sox for nearly 30 years
but also as an outstanding pitcher when came into the big leagues with the Cleveland Indians.

“He was a thoroughbred, I’ll tell you that. I’ve known him since he was 18 years old.
Didn’t take long, maybe a couple of appearances, and you knew you had something going there
because he was tough.
A great competitor. All the guys just loved him. He was one of those guys that you could tie,
but you couldn’t beat as a person. He was just a wonderful person. Unique.
Pissed a lot of people off, but he didn’t care. He was not afraid of anything.
He was not afraid of anybody or anything or any situation.”

He loved his job. Even in bad health and he’d been in bad health for awhile now, he would
just tough it out.
A lot of guys – they’d be in the ICU with what he was going through, but he never complained
one time. Not one time in all the years that he’s been going thru this."


Ed was a native of Evergreen Park, IL, and a graduate of St. Rita High on the South Side.
Ed was an All-Star for the White Sox in 1980, when he saved 30 games — then a club record.

The Hawk, Kenny Harrelson, remembers Ed
when got to the big leagues with the Indians.

“He was a thoroughbred, I’ll tell you that.
I’ve known him since he was 18 years old.
Didn’t take long, a couple of appearances,
and you knew you'd something going there
because he was tough.

Great competitor. All the guys just loved him.
He was one of those guys that you could tie,
but you couldn’t beat as a person.
He was just a wonderful person. Unique.
Pissed a lot of people off, but he didn’t care.
He was not afraid of anything. He was't afraid
of anybody or anything or any situation.

He loved his job. Even in bad health for awhile
now, he would just tough it out.
A lot of guys – they’d be in the ICU with what
he was going through, but he never complained.
Not one time in all the years going thru this."

///
Ed was a native of Evergreen Park, IL, and a
graduate of Saint Rita High on the South Side.
All-Star for the ChiSox (1980) saved 30 games
 — at that time, a Chicago record for saves.

Ed Farmer + Darrin Jackson

Darrin Jay Jackson joined Ed on broadcasts.
D.J. also played for the Chicago White Sox.
The start was D.J. getting verbally/logically
beaten up pretty bad by Ed, but took it and
stayed silent & ccol. Eventually DJ started
fighting back with witty comebacks backed
by situational stats of the present and past.
Ed struck back at that, letting it end a Draw.
DJ had to prove he was "Steady Eddie guy."

Then it just clicked like 2 professionals who
love their area of endeavor & their audience.
The Ed+DJ team got to "MLB's Miami Vice"

DJ's tough, but this loss of Ed gots to be tuff.