Good-bye Scot

Scot Pollard signed with the Boston Celtics today. What a devastating lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now who will tell our kids to do drugs during games? Who will the media talk to when no one else wants to talk and Pollard is the only guy willing to talk because he got a new hair cut? Who’s going to sit with David Wesley and practice his stand up act? What nerdy looking white guy are the Cavs going to have on the end of the bench? Everyone knows good teams have at least one nerdy white guy buried further on the bench than the trainer. Just a sad, sad moment for the Cavs franchise.

But it might just be sadder for the Celtics for all the same reason. All the good vibes they were getting after the KG trade are gone. Danny Ainge ruined the perfect season before it even started.

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Quinn in, Now how does Crennel pick?

Now what will Romeo Crennel do? There are only two sides to a coin but the Browns now have three quarterbacks.

Brady Quinn finally ended his hold out and will be in camp this morning. As reported in yesterday’s post, Crennel said he may just flip a coin to decide his starting quarterback for the exhibition opener. That may work for the first game since Quinn might not play at all, but what about the next one? And the one after that? And on Sept. 9 against the Steelers?

You would think by then someone, anyone, would start to establish himself as the starting quarterback. That probably won’t be the case. Both Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson are so perfectly mediocre I can’t see either one clearly being a head of the other. And Quinn will be in the hunt because he is the most gifted of the quarterbacks. Looks like Crennel will either have to find a three sided coin, play rock, paper scissors, or man up and pick a quarterback.

I don’t think Quinn will start until Week 8 in St. Louis (after their bye week and when the Browns are sitting at a 1-5 record). But even after missing some 15 or so practices, you got to think he has a chance to start right a way. I mean he is only going up against Frye and Anderson. I hate to be so negative on those two but if neither of them is having a camp like a starting NFL quarterback should be, Quinn can catch up to them quickly.

I honestly don’t know what I want to happen with the quarterbacks. Quinn is the most gifted but he missed so much of camp I can’t see him playing right away. Sometimes I think I want to because the other options are Frye and Anderson. Sometimes I think he needs to wait because we’ve see what happens to rookie/inexperienced quarterbacks with the Browns. There’s no doubt it will be Quinn’s team next year the question is just when do you hand it to him. I don’t know and the head coach will only know if he finds a three sided coin.

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No. 756

Well Barry Bonds has done it.
With one home run he won it.

Bonds blasted number 756 last night to finally break the all time home run record. I don’t care what you think of him – a cheater, a jerk, a liar or the greatest player to ever play the game – watching that moment last night (or the highlights this morning) was something special.

You can read as much as you possibly can on other sites so I’m not going to take up your time with it, but I just hope everyone realized how special of moment that was.

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