Friday Afternoon Boredom

So I'm at work, watching all things from the world of sports. Including Andy Roddick, Women's golf, and the Cubs finally hitting a little bit of a rough spot. Speaking of the Cubs, I think its funny how people from Chicago look at their tendency to have Friday afternoon day games as an example of their superiority over other teams. Really? Just beacuse you decide that you want to have games at an awkward time does not make you special. In fact, it just makes you dumb. And if I hear one more thing about the Cubs amazing fan base...you know why there fan base is so large and why its so hard to get tickets to a game at Wrigley? Because there are 9.5 million people in the metropolitan area, and your stadium holds under 40,000. The Reds have some of the most fairweather fans in the country. Cincinnati's metro area is just over 2 million people. They average over 20,000 fans a game. If the market was the same size, "amazingly", you have a sellout everygame even when you suck. There is nothing special about Cubs fans loyalty.

So my attempt at recording my thoughts about the NBA draft hit a snag last night when I experienced true boredom. However, there are plenty of reactions I still have to give today. The Bulls, one of the few truly great defensive teams in the NBA, drafted a "high energy guy" who rebounds and block shots. Last time I checked, what they needed was a scoring big man during their loss to Detroit, not some girly dude who can't make a jump shot. I was really starting to like the Bulls until they drafted Emzara. (That's the wife of Noah from the bible for all you people who wondered).

The Knicks had a wonderful night in front of all their fans. For as much crap as Isiah Thomas takes, he seems to come through on Draft night. Everyone on earth laughed when they took Balkman in the first round last year. He was a really good rookie this year. Their front line now consists of Eddie Curry, Zach Randolph, Balkman, and Randolph Morris. That's pretty deep. And they drafted a young talented forward from Depaul. Isiah might have the Knicks heading towards relevance.

Challenges in tennis are fun. The idea that they ask a computer system if the ball was in or not still amazes me. I'm bringing this up because a guy just challenged a call in his match against Andy Roddick. Roddick looked at the Chair Umpire and said that ball was so far out it won't even show up on the screen. He was right. It was 2 feet out. I think that guy is going blind, or its really hard to see at 8:30 at night when you have no lights.

Essential Reads:

• PD on the Reds: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/COL03/706290353/1082/SPT
• In the previous article, Paul says "Some guys dream of mai-tais on Aruba with Jessica Biel. Others want to trade Adam Dunn for Roy Oswalt." Read it.
• Dan Shaughnessy writes of the Celtics draft day: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2007/06/29/what_ever_happened_to_young_ideas/
• I love Jay Mariotti's columns, this one about Kobe and Noah, two of my favorite topics: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/mariotti/448968,CST-SPT-jay29.article

Long live NFl Europa. I'm sure 23 people in Germany will mis it. Reds will beat the Cardinals tonight, and then again tomorrow with the Phi Tau boys on hand to bring it home. Until next time, this is the young Intern, passing the rounding third sign, and heading for home.