Write it down--

Kevin Garnett is playing better now than he did in his MVP season on '04. He's insane.

*Sigh*

New coach, same inbounds play. As mentioned before, I understand that Kevin Garnett is your best player, and he was on a roll at the time, but KG does not hit buzzer-beaters. Randy Foye does. There's your inbounds play.

Captian Hook

I can't say that Kevin McHale's axe-job of Dwaye Casey surprised me--I think it was apparent that Whittman was his choice ever since he forced Casey into rehiring him this last off-season. And, contrary to McHale's history regarding personnel moves, I think Whittman would be the right guy for the job.

Next year.

To be disappointed with this year's version of the Timberwolves would be ludicrous. As it stands today, they're 20-20 and hanging on to the #8 seed in the Western Conference, which would be good enough for a #2 seed in the East, and probably the Atlantic Division Championship. Although they lack the talent for it, they're actually playing some defense--they've only done this for Casey because Flip couldn't get them to do it. True, they have lost their past 4 games, and it took Casey 39 games to realize that Randy Foye is his secon-best player and should be starting (something I called for a while ago, not to toot my own horn), but seriously--did anybody think that the Wolves would be contending for the final playoff spot after the first week of the season? Casey's done a fine job with two talented guys and a bunch of role players. McHale, I swear to God, is trying to ruin this team for good.

Playoffs?!?!?!?!

Okay, so it's been a while, and contrary to popular belief, I've not had much to talk about.

Until now, because the Chicago Bears, convincing winners over The New Orleans Saints of America, are attributing their second-half surge to the taunting that came at the tail end of Reggie Bush's (electrifying) 88-yard touchdown run.

Read that again: The Chicago Bears, owners of the third-best overall defense in the NFL, number 1 seed in the NFC Playoffs, and division champs, could only get fired up to break the game open because a rookie taunted them.

Listen, I've bitched about the underdog, "nobody gave us a chance" card in professional sports before, and will probably do so again. But with all the above mentioned accolades, the Bears were offended by Reggie Bush outrunning and pointing at Brian Urlacher? I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around that. Professional football players (or the ones that still care, anyway) sell out their bodies year-round and mortgage future mobility to play in the NFL. The ultimate goal of any pro football player is to play in and win the Super Bowl. After one half of the NFC Championship Game, needing only one more half to go to reach the Bowl for the first time in 21 years, the Bears are saying that they weren't completely ready, and that it took bad sportsmanship to get them adaquately fired up to rout the Saints.

This is the reason that I will be openly rooting against the Bears and for the Colts, even though I don't particularly like Peyton Manning. The Bears are being childish, and if I'm Reggie Wayne or Joseph Addai or even Manning himself, I start ragging on the Bears defense right now.

As of 10 am today, I'm single. Mandy and I amicably parted ways, me moving out and us splitting custody of Molly. I'm in Eagan for the rest of this month, until I find a place in St. Paul. How's that for an update!