A-Rod hears it in Boston

I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that every Red Sox fan in the world hates Alex Rodriguez, but just in case you had any doubts check out this video of his last appearance at Fenway Park.

NBA Finals: Game 4

Reefer Madness here, checking in with a quick look at game four of the NBA Finals which goes tonight in Orlando. The Magic are looking to even up the series that many people thought (including myself) they didn’t stand a chance in, but so far they have proven to be the better team, aside from game one, despite trailing in the series. The first game the Magic looked overwhelmed by the whole finals atmosphere and got spanked by the Lakers’ experience, they are only one Courtney Lee alley-oop layup away from winning game two and leading the series. They are a team that lives by the jumper and dies by the jumper, and after setting NBA finals shooting records in game three they only won by four points. I do not think they will be able to repeat anywhere near the same type of shooting performance, but if they realize it early and start feeding the ball down low to the beast that is Dwight Howard he could put them on his Superman-esce shoulders and get it done. The Lakers have done well in limiting Howard’s offensive contributions, but you can only hold him down for so long, with a lower shooting percentage comes more offensive rebound opportunities for D12 and he will have his best game of the finals for sure, but will it be enough? I know if GOAT were here (and we all wish he were) he would be all over his boy Dwight tonight, but he’s not, so I hate to break it to you all but it’s not going to happen for you tonight. Kobe won’t allow it.

Game three was a bust for Kobe and he knows it. He shot only 50% from the free throw line, and talked about letting his team down after the game. Kobe has come a long way since his last championships with Shaq, he has matured both on and off the court into a more complete player and person. He is still grumpy as hell though when he doesn’t win. I expect him to have a dominant performance tonight to makeup for leaving more than the margin of victory at the charity stripe last game. That doesn’t necissarily mean dropping 40+ points anymore, but it might. Kobe has shown more trust in his teammates all season long than ever before in his career and has become a leader on the court. He will look to get everyone involved early and then look to take over down the stretch, and when the Magic throw everything but the kitchen sink at him he won’t be afraid to look for guys like Fisher or Ariza to make a big shot.

Key for me tonight is the Lakers’ energy off the bench, if Lamar Odom comes ready to play and gets his fair share of rebounds to keep Howard away from the offensive glass then I think the Lakers will take the win. If the Magic are able to get Howard involved early and often on the offensive end that is their best chance at winning. I don’t see them shooting 62.5% from the floor again so I don’t see them winning this game. I am picking the Lakers tonight 102-98.

Stanley Cup Game 7: Can it get any better?

The Stanley Cup will be awarded on Friday night in Detroit one way or another. 9 months of preparation all comes down to a single game to determine who is the best team in the league. Clearly we know who the two best teams are again this year, but will Friday bring a changing of the guard, or further cement a true dynasty? I chose Detroit to win it at the beginning of the series and I am sticking with the home team for this one. Crosby scares me a lot in a single game situation, especially for what he has been practicing for since he could skate. I expect a close game and I am rooting for Hossa to get the winner just to stick it to those pesky Penguins fans that extra little bit!

Zetterberg for Conn Smythe Trophy!

Bellator: Bringing The Hits…

I showed you the luckily skilled “inverted triangle”  last week and at their next event Bellator scored another highlight reel video when Yahir Reyes knocked out Estevan Payan.  Using the “Mr. International” AKA Shonie Carter, Reyes caught Payan with a spinning backfist right on the button.  Check the full facial landing…

Peace!

Rajon Rondo: Stu Jackson’s…Son?

OK, I have NO evidence to back that up but Jackson must REALLY like Rondo.  For those that don’t know, Jackson is the NBA’s fun police.  Anything goes wrong, Jackson slaps your ass with the proper suspension, for example, Dwight Howard’s “people’s elbow” on Sammy Dalembert which Jackson thought warranted a 1 game suspension. (So did I, for the record).

As I mentioned/showed before, Rondo Bruce Lee’d Brad Miller on a pivotal play in OT on Tuesday and wasn’t penalized by Stu Jackson like D12 was for his mishap.  Then last night during the best basketball game I have watched  EVER, Rondo and Kirk “the Hobbit” Hinrich got in a wee skirmish in the first quarter.  During a rebounding scenario, Hinrich and Rondo were out near the 3 point line when they got “tangled” up, so Rondo deciding he didn’t like the manwich he was making with Kirk decided to toss him into the scorers table.  Rajon was assessed a flagrant foul and it was said the league was going to look at the play again.  Last night, Stu Jackson reviewed the tape and proclaimed there would not be any additional penalties assessed to either Hinrich or Rondo.

I know the foul on Miller was tic-tac and this foul wasn’t necessarily ALL Rajon’s fault.  But I can only imagine the penalty a guy like Artest or even ‘Sheed would receive if they pulled this move off, especially, two days after they went after a dudes head!  I am posting the video below so you guys can let me know what you think.  Does Stu have a man crush on Rajon or is he just the victim of wrong place wrong time all the time???

P.S  I like how Hinrich responds after he bounces off the scorers table.  I didn’t expect him to be so GANGSTA, he gets some street cred from me for that move and subsequently I lose TONS of street cred for admitting that in a public forum.

Peace!

Will The Real Anderson Silva, Please Stand Up???

****Since I first wrote this, it has been disclosed that Anderson Silva will replace Thiago Silva and fight Forrest Griffin at UFC 101 on August 8th****

As a massive MMA (mixed martial arts) fan, I am constantly defending the sport to people who are either uninformed or just looking to bust my balls.  Either way, I usually get pretty riled up and some how always end up just calling the person a name. Yes, my tactics haven’t changed since kindergarten.  One of my friends, Darkman, is a HUGE boxing fan and is only somewhat interested in MMA and more than anything just LOVES the fact he can rile me up whenever he wants.  One of his big complaints is the fact that anyone can beat anyone and usually 80% of the fights are just dudes laying on each other doing nothing.

 So coming into the fights a few weekends ago, I invited the DarkMan over to my mansion to take in  the fights on my 150″ HD TV. (See: one bedroom shoebox apartment and 32″ tube TV) and after checking with EVERYONE else and seeing there were just no other options, he obliged to join me.  After a few beers and some less than impressive fights, he started in about guys just laying on each other blah blah blah…That’s when I really stepped in it, “Wait till Anderson fights, then they be some excitement”.  He agreed and said that was the only fight he was looking forward too, were we EVER wrong.

In his first fight back since his weird, jitterbugging fight against Patrick Cote, I figured Anderson would have to just come in and decimate Thales Leites to shut everyone up and show them who’s boss.  Instead Anderson just sort of proved he seemed to like doing the jitterbug a hell of a lot more.  Sure, every time he tried to engage his opponent, Leites would just drop to his ass and lay there in the “GoatDiesel Defensive Position” but for me that is no excuse.  If you are the “pound for pound” best fighter in the world, shouldn’t you be able to hang with anyone, anywhere in the cage, including the ground?  I have NEVER seen another fighter stay away from another fighter the way Leites did but I have also never seen a fighter who was supposed to be the best stay away as well.  I truly think if that was GSP, he would have given up and engaged Thales on the ground, I would say the same for BJ Penn AND Fedor and those 3 have to be the other guys on tops of anyone’s list.

So what is the problem with Silva then?  I’m glad you asked.  I honestly think he is both bored and pissed off.  Bored with having to deal with completely inferior opposition just so fans can watch him fight every few months.  And pissed off for, having to deal with completely inferior opposition just so fans can watch him fight every few months.  Why the UFC doesn’t wait a few months and give ”Spider” some real competition at Middleweight is a mystery to me!  It’s not as if the division is empty, they gave Rich Franklin 2 shots at him, why not Nate Marquardt or Okami?  Sure he fought Nate the Great before but it was 2 years ago and Nate truly looks like a new and far better opponent now a days.  Okami is an very interesting fight as well because he was the last person to “beat” Anderson Silva.  I used quotations because it was actually a disqualification for an illegal kick that DQ’ed Silva and gave Okami the win.  Both of these guys are by far the best in the weight class in the UFC, besides Silva of course, so why keep throwing him guys that aren’t even in the Top 10 of the weight division?  Because, I believe the UFC does get greedy and figures as long as you throw a guy of Silva’s calibre you are going to get fireworks and you are going to get ratings.  Unfortunately for the fans, there was no gun powder on Montreal on the 18th.

Now it has been disclosed that Anderson Silva will face Forrest Griffin at 205lbs on August 8th.  WHY?  Sure, its probably going to be the 3rd most anticipated fight that has been official announced to take place this year, GSP vs, Thiago Alves and Brock vs. Frank Mir) but to me it doesn’t make sense.  If Anderson’s last two fights were at 185lbs and he either decimated top contenders or had a couple of wars, this fight makes sense.  But coming off of two of the weirdest fights I have ever witnessed?  Doesn’t make sense to me to put him up at 205lbs.

 For those of you that don’t know, the UFC, unable to find Silva formidable competition at his “natural” weight class of 185lbs, let the very talented fight move up to 205lbs, while they went searching for anyone who would give the champ a challenge.  In his only fight at the 205lb weight class, Anderson looked pretty impressive. In his debut he took on the very heavy handed James “the Sandman” Irvin that has unreal KO power.  That fight lasted a total of 61 seconds before Silva caught a kick from Irvin with one hand and then knocked him out with his other hand.  Yes, he is THAT GOOD.

Make NO mistake, Forrest Griffin is no Thales Leites or James Irvin, this man is a legit ex-champion at 205lbs and VERY GAME.  I will bet the farm you don’t seem Forrest dropping to his ass unless its either a joke or because Anderson puts him there.  Forrest is a serious striker with a concrete chin and with his debut in the UFC, a war with Stephan Bonnar, he helped put the UFC and MMA in the mainstream with his heart and determination.  The winner of season 1 of The Ultimate Fighter, Griffin is a VERY popular fighter and is no doubt very excited to be the guy who gets to make Silva actually HAVE to fight someone.

If Silva beats Griffin, the UFC almost HAS to give him a title shot or at least a fight with Rampage Jackson or the loser of Lyoto Machida and “Sugar” Rashad Evans.  If Silva loses, keep him at 185lbs, throw him a good challenge and if he handles them easily then throw him and GSP together and let’s truly find out who the best pound for pound fighter in the world is.

Peace!

The Goat Is Back In Town….

Ladies and Gentleman, introducing a now virus free (online anyway) GOAT…DIESEL!!!  My man D.A.G came out of the wilderness and tried a few things for me but like everything in life it was the last resort that solved our problem. At first, we thought it was our versions of Word that needed to be updated but when that didn’t work, I thought I was done for good.  So I get an email yesterday that says I need to update my anti-virus and BAAAM like a bottle of penicilin, Norton stopped that burning feeling my got when he tried to perfrom simple tasks…My computer now virus free I am ready to roll. (I can’t believe I made it through all that without a swine flu crack)

Some of you may ask, “How did you post about the playoffs and the Jays, if you computer was ‘broken’ “.  And then I’d be all “I know you are but what am I”.  (Sorry, I haven’t been on here in a while and I am excited OK)  This is something I actually had lined up before my comp went down but never really got to it.  We have ghostwriter, who has actually been with us from damn near the start.  Sin City (I just made that nickname up) he has posted about 6 stories on here and we are slowly going through the old stories and marking them. That way you all don’t get confused and think I learned how to write actual, entertaining story with structure as opposed to, well, THIS I guess…

Upcoming stories that you can look forward to being disappointed in: Anderson “The Sleep inducing Spider” Silva: What happened and what’s next?, GoatDiesel and Bryan Colangelo Sitting in A Bar…D-R-I-N-K-I-N-G, NHL Mock Draft, NBA Mock Draft, Playoff predictions and much much more….

LET’S GO RANGERS…GAME 7 IN WASHINGTON…ITS ALL YOU!!!

Peace!

Georges St. Pierre: “I Did Cheat Against BJ”

For those of you that follow MMA and the UFC you are fully aware of what has been going on between GSP and BJ Penn since their fight at UFC 94.  If you aren’t a hardcore fan you may not know, so guess what?  I’ll tell you!  At UFC 94 in what was billed in the biggest fight in MMA history to determine the best pound for pound fighter in the world, GSP and BJ Penn faced off.  What happened after the bell rung for round one was more like the most lopsided drubbing in MMA history and a fight to determine how badly you can own someone else in every facet of MMA.  As if getting trounced by GSP wasn’t enough for the pudgy Hawaiian, BJ Penn then accused Georges and his corner man Phil Nurse of rubbing Vaseline on St. Pierre’s body which is highly illegal as it makes it almost impossible for a guy on the bottom to regain any type of control.  After the first round a member of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which oversees all fights to make sure there is no funny business, noticed that GSP’s cut man (Nurse) was touching the fighters back after he had applied Vaseline with his hands to the fighters face.  After noticing this the NSAC came in the ring and wiped GSP down with a towel to get any residue that might have been left on the back of Georges.  Obviously Penn didn’t feel like this was thorough enough so after he quit between the 4th and 5th round of the fight, BJ went home to Hawaii to be the man again and maybe he didn’t get any props at the fast food joint he was eating at and decided to take a formal complaint up with the NSAC and try to get the bout turned into a no contest and get St. Pierre and his trainers fined and possibly suspended for what took place.  He went as far to make an over the top elaborate video with catchy tunes to show how St. Pierre and Nurse cheated with quotes from other fighters saying how slippery GSP was (it would have been awesome if they all talked like Dan Severn).  The video actually does a good job to sway you in the corner of BJ but if you watched the fight live, you know Georges was just the better fighter on that day and truly owned BJ, Vaseline or no Vaseline. 

Well now we have a confession from GSP that he indeed DID cheat and you can see it in this video below.  I will also post the Hollywood blockbuster Penn and his team put together.  Lastly I would like to say that in my experience with someone crying foul is usually the harder you cry the less foul there was…..

Also, I would like to add that the NSAC has held a legal hearing and DID NOT agree with Penn and there were no charges filed against GSP or his trainers. 

GSP Admission Video

BJ’s video expose

Peace!

The Madness Day 1 + Pool Standings

Phew…I survived a MAJOR scare yesterday when Memphis decided to make their game interesting.  I know there were A LOT of people out there holding their breaths as the minutes ticked down and the Tigers weren’t getting any closer to closing the lead CSU Northridge had accumulated.  Cue my new favourite Tiger, Roburt Sallie, a guy whose career high was previously 13, comes in an just ANNIHILATES CSU by going 10/15 from 3 point range for 35 points and seriously single handedly takes the game back for Memphis in probably the most exciting game of the day. 

You could argue that VCU and UCLA was also a great game that came to the wire but if you watched the majority of the game it wasn’t really that close.  UCLA was up pretty big most of the game and whenever Maynor would get the game within 2 possessions, the Bruins would pull away again.  I do have to give it up for Darren Collison who played UNREAL D on the last VCU possession to make Maynor take the toughest shot possible at the end of the game.  The shot ended up about 6 inches short but was right on line and no doubt if Collison wasn’t playing that good of D, there would have been 5 upsets yesterday. 

Yesterday also marked the beginning of what is likely the last NCAA tournament Blake Griffin will play in and it was quite an interesting one.  First off, if you haven’t seen the MONSTER of a human play, you HAVE to watch Oklahoma’s next game on Saturday when they take on the winner of Temple and Syracuse.  Even if it’s just to see how HUGE this “kid” is, I mean its pretty scary, as one of my buddies said yesterday while watching “He looks like a freakin’ body builder”.  If he would have said WWE wrestler he would have been a but closer after yesterdays game.  If you didn’t see it, the Sooners were just demolishing were just demolishing Morgan St. (WHO?) and I guess Ameer Ali had enough and off of a rebound, he got tangled with Blake and subsequently grabbed Griffins arm and proceeded to HIP TOSS Griffin to the ground. I am trying to get a clip of the video for the site, its hilarious and only because Blake is a BEAST and just bounced up and walked away.

Now on to the most important part of the MADNESS, the GoatDiesel Mad At March Pool standings…which will be your brackets name followed by the number of correct picks out of the total number possible.  Obviously, the first rounds will be a litter congested but you get the idea…

1. Scotts 14/16,

1. Rank Last 14/16, 

1. JVK 14/16

4. Darksides Picks 13/16

4. The Arabian Ballers 3/16

6.GoatDiesel 12/16 (I SWEAR I took Michigan)  

6. Reefer Madness 12/16

6. Erica’s Picks 12/16

6. Ballin’ 12/16

10.Moomoos 11/16  

10.British Brackets 11/16

12. Butch Mcrae 10/16 (should stick with Blue chips brudda)

12. Roosters Boosters 10/16

I going to take you all SAILING!!! Ha ha…Seriously, I’m gonna win!!!

Peace!

March Madness

HERE…WE…GO!!!  Tomorrow is the big day, March Madness begins.  As always GoatDiesel will be bringing you the lastest and greatest stuff from all tournament games.  Check the site often for updates from Twitter and posts at night after all the days events are over.  Well may all your Cinderellas wear their glass slippers and your big dogs eat their steaks.  Also, you have about 12hrs to sign up for the 1st Annual GoatDiesel March Madness Pool, where you have the chance to win a pair of tickets to a Raptors game and some swag!!!

Peace!