Ok i'll do a bit of the reverse today by getting to the fantasy stuff and then moving on to the title.
First, the latest news on law school for me is that I got rejected from UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall this week. Unfortunately. I wasn't expecting to get accepted, but I thought maybe I could sneak into their waiting list. O well, there goes the school that my parents most wanted me to go to.
The picture above ( a lil blurry is the school that I'm taking a serious look at). See if you can decipher which one it is.
Hoops action from last night w/fantasy implications:
O btw, first off, on Sports Illustrated and a lot of sports publications hyping up Evan Longoria, top prospect in baseball right now. If you're drafting right now, don't draft him unless it's ur last pick. Seriously, don't worry about missing out on ryan braun or tim lincecum or anything, there's a lot more established players out there worthy of pickin than a rookie who hasn't had a major league at-bat yet. Just ask peeps last year who drafted Alex Gordon.
Anyway, Chris Paul vs. Deron Williams last night. I watched the whole game last night and figured out how CP3 posts such monster lines. He handles the ball ALL the time and the hornets run the pick-and-roll as well as anybody and a lot of his dimes come from him comin off a screen, the screen guy ( probaby tyson chandler) rollin and paul lofting one up for an alley-oop. That and he passes to shooters like mo pete and peja who shoot right away. Stats a bit misleading but will be consistent the rest of season.
Andrei Kirilenko is struggling. Last night he had perfect opportunity to block peja inside, didn't do it. He needs to be more aggressive, grab more rebounds, ASSERT himself! And his minutes are down too......last night cuz of foul trouble but sloan likes to rotate him right away.
david west is the epitome of a blue-collar work horse guy: doesn't dunk or do anything terribly sexy, but by the end of the night he puts up 20 and 9. Hornets wouldn't be same w/o him.
O and in terms of shortstops in fantasy baseball, the best value is probably derek jeter: the big 3 of rollins, han-ram, and reyes are hyped so much people forget derek jeter is a perennial all-star in a perennial juggernaut offense. Target him in 3rd round and something, maybe even wait til 4th and hold ur breath. Also take a hard look at michael young : underrated this year.
Rajon Rondo SIXTEEN assists last night? Can you tell he's a little motivated by sam cassell's arrival?
Mike bibby might just lead the hawks to their first playoff appearance in god knows how long. 10 assists last night, granted against knicks, but he and joe johnson seem to work well togehter.
Houston won their 14th straight last night, no residual effects from yao's season-ending injury, won big vs. memphis w/ dikembe mutombo blockin 4 and pulling down 13 rebs. Wow.
It took huge games by jarret jack and brandon roy to take down the lakers last night, ended their winning streak. LaMarcus Aldridge also really good game, aren't the bulls kicking themselves for makin THAT deal.
Dirk seems to be really enjoying jkidd's company, as his offensive game has just been dynamite since adding the all-star running mate, last night against the kings went 34 pts, 10 rebs, 3 assts, no turnovers...........and 3 blocks. That's motivation from dirk, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway, my main concern was addressing the holiday that I silently protested yesterday, University of Illinois's annual "Unofficial St. Patrick day." For those of you who don't know, it's a pretty big deal around here in that students all get together and wear green the whole day in honor of st. patty's day ( 2 weeks before the actual one) and basically just drink the entire day away. Sounds appealing, huh? Many "hardcore" practitioners of this tradition get up at 5:30AM and start parties around 6:00AM w/ things like kegs and eggs, then go the entire day goin to party after party, and wind up the day waiting in a long line to get into one of the local bars and cap it off by getting drunk. It's a big debate about how this tradition got started, but the one I ascribe to is that the bars and businesses around the community wanted to make money off of st. patrick's day which usually happens during spring break, so they moved it up. And students followed through. Bars get rich.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with partying/ drinking, even drinkin excessively to have a good time ( and this is not to say i've done any of these things), but to have a WHOLE DAY directed at this activity is, for me, a little ridiculous. At some point, when does it stop being fun and just become a wacked-out drunkfest w/ everyone just brain-dead, exhausted, and dehydrated from drinking all day? There are some seriously unintelligent ( euphemism) decisions made during this day, yet most students seem to enjoy it here, citing the fact that "it enhances school pride," "it's something new," it's a "stick-it-to-the-man" sort of action. I really don't think you're sticking it to anybody besides yourselves personally. By sticking it to the school, you're sticking it to yourselves when you graduate from the school that has a reputation of doing this sort of thing. Also, you're DEFINITELY not sticking it to the city of champaign cuz they're making a boatload out of this from drinking tickets, bars making money, whatever.
To me, Unofficial st. patrick's day was and still is a terrible idea and just an excuse for overzealous students to get drunk. Which might be some people's cup of tea. Not mine. Yesterday I had a great time being sober, playing a lotta B-ball, watching good NBA action, and hitting 130 on cosmic bowling ( lol, a good score for me). Like leap day, I hope this tradition doesn't happen next year.
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