Casual Wednesday Thoughts

Written by Josh Cohron | 29 July 2009

Musings that didn't warrant full articles...

• Am I the only one who thinks that the Roy Halladay hoopla is a bit premature seeing as he has never pitched in a playoff game before? However, if Boston gets him, mark them down as World Series Champions.
• Adrian Peterson would have been a consensus #1 overall fantasy pick with Brett Favre at QB for the Vikings. With Tarvaris Jackson taking snaps, I wouldn't touch the guy. He's going to be seeing eight in the box for the rest of his career.
• That being said, Plaxico Burress made Eli Manning look like a decent QB, so he could be a big-time difference maker in Minnesota. He should check gun laws before taking the trip to Minneapolis, though.
• Chris Paul agreed to a four-year extension with the Hornets in July of last summer. At that time, they had just taken then defending World Champs, San Antonio, to seven games in the 2nd round of the Playoffs. Since then, the Hornets realized James Posey was a colossal waste of money, lost a playoff game by 58 points and then didn't fire their coach. We need to assure that CP3 gets the hell out of New Orleans as soon as possible. It's not fair that the best PG in the NBA has to play in a city that is hemorrhaging money.
• Speaking of CP3, I spent some time coaching and watching on the AAU circuit this spring/summer. The most impressive player I saw was Reggie Bullock, who plays for CP3 out of North Carolina. He has already committed to play for Roy Williams at UNC. Brubaker and I texted while watching his game the other day on ESPNU and were equally in awe of his length, athleticism and ease to score the basketball (Bullock is #35 for Kinston [in white] below).

• John Calipari must have wanted to kill any kind of productivity for his male Twitter followers, ages 13-75, with this tweet yesterday. That set off more of a stir in Central KY than the Erin Andrews video.
• If I were a Chicago Cub fan (Thank God, I'm not), I would not feel so good with the trade deadline two days away. St. Louis just added Matt Holliday and Mark DeRosa. The Cubs ownership is in such a mess they can't make any moves. Add that to the fact that the Cubs are three games back in the win column from the Cardinals and it could be another long summer/fall for the Northsiders.
• Grubby told you I was going to liveblog the WNBA All-Star Game if more people didn't tell me their plans for the game. Well, my attendance at a wedding prohibited the liveblog. I did send about ten tweets about the game which resulted in everyone following me on Twitter to hate me (Shameless plug: follow me twitter.com/JoshCohron).
• Clay Travis asked Tim Tebow if he is still a virgin. Judging by Clay Travis' beard, I don't think anyone needs to ask him that question.