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05/12/2008: "Monday Sports Rant"
I'm sitting in an incredibly boring meeting, and I haven't done one of these in a while, anyway, so ...
- Hard to figure, but it's a really good time to be a Marlins fan. Not only is the team playing lights-out ball - they're leading the East by three games! - but they started demolition on the Orange Bowl over the weekend, which will make room for the new Marlins Stadium. Oh, and they're about to lay out 70 megabucks to lock down Hanley Ramirez for the next 10 years. The Fish currently have the best record in baseball - the latest they've ever had that - and are doing it with the lowest salary. I'd try to figure it out, but I'd rather just ride it ...
- Things are tightening up in the NBA Playoffs, as the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs each took a second game to even their playoff series at 2-2. Meanwhile, the Cleveland Cavaliers finally took one from the Celtics and still have another home game to even things up. We thought these series would be good, and they're living up to their billing. As they say, though, the series don't really start until someone loses a home game, and in two of those series it hasn't happened yet ...
- One week after wrecking NASCAR's most popular driver, Kyle Busch survived the carnage to win at Darlington Saturday night. There's no denying his talent, or quality of his team, and he's won races in all three of NASCAR's national series. But he's driving with a chip on his shoulder, and is pushing things that shouldn't be pushed. It's going right for him now, but it could all go very wrong very fast if he doesn't start using his head.
