Clippers Get Marcus Camby, More Brett Favre Reax, And The All Star Game Should No Longer “Count”
No quick-hitters tonight:
- Quick thoughts on the Clippers-Nuggets deal that sent Marcus Camby to the Clippers for the rights to swap second-round picks:
1) Clearly this was nothing more than a salary dump for Camby, but certainly they could get more than the right to swap picks, right? They couldn’t get the Clippers’ second-round pick outright for the former All-Star?
2) As for the Clippers, I like the deal, even though Camby’s not close to Elton Brand’s talent level. Camby’s contract is reasonable—two years, ~$16 million left—and the Clippers still have a bit of cap space to add another piece. The problem with this deal is that it effectively wastes two years of Baron Davis’ career. Still, I might rather have Camby for two years and cap space for the key free agent year of 2009-2010 than five years of Emeka Okafor at some obscene amount.
- So I went weeks without commenting on Packers’ diva Brett Favre, and now I’m going to comment about him on consecutive blog entries? Wow.
Apparently there is a second part of the interview between Favre and Greta Van Susteren (who just happens to be a family friend of Favre’s AND a Packers’ shareholder! Talk about a conflict of interest!). And boy, is the second part a doozy.
Apparently Favre does feel “bad” for current Packers’ QB Aaron Rodgers. How nice of you, Brett! Three years of pissing all over the guy while you waffled over whether or not to return, and you finally admit that you feel bad for the guy?
(And why do people insist that Favre is such a great guy?)
The entire quote is a great read:
The one thing in this, I do feel bad for Aaron a little bit. I think he’ll do a fine job, to be totally honest with you. I do. He has been injured. The two injuries are not his fault. Couldn’t control them. I know this has been tough on him. I think he’ll do a fine job. And this has nothing to do with him, this whole deal. If they want to make me a backup … The thing is, they’ve been preaching about, ‘We want to protect Brett’s legacy’ … and we both know what that’s about. How does that protect my legacy if I’m a backup? Brett, we welcome you back, we’ll play you $12 million but you’ve got to hold the clipboard and ball cap. That’s probably better for them as opposed to letting me go somewhere and me coming back. Then, their legacy, the management, could be in jeopardy. Let me worry about that. You don’t worry about my legacy. It’s a bunch of bull. That’s all it is.
Did the Packers’ brass really state that they wanted to protect Brett’s legacy? If that’s so, then I’ll have to agree with Favre, in this sense: right now, the Packers owe Favre NOTHING. They don’t have to protect him in any way, shape, or form, not after his recent waffling.
And what’s all this garbage about Favre wanting to return to the Packers to “call their bluff?” As rough as it would be on Rodgers to have to look over his shoulder to see Favre on the sidelines during every one of his pass attempts, the thought of seeing Favre holding a clipboard on the sidelines slightly amuses me. And I’m sure GM Ted Thompson wouldn’t mind seeing that as well.
It’s 50/50 that I’ll have ANOTHER blog entry about Diva Favre tomorrow.
- So I tuned in to the MLB All-Star Game today, and after three innings of scoreless ball, I shut the TV off. Later in the day, I turned the TV back on to see the National League score a go-ahead run against Jonathon Papelbon.
(Tangent: Despite all the stupid comments Papelbon made about wanting to close, then deferring to Yankees’ closer Mariano Rivera, then flipping flopping a la Diva Favre, no way did Papelbon deserve the treatment he got from the Yankee fans during the eighth inning. And never mind the treatment that Yankee fans gave his wife during an All-Star Game parade).
I flipped the TV back off—the game just didn’t appeal to me, for some reason—and we went to Coldstone (note to self: get the Apple Pie a la Mode sans caramel next time). When we got back, it was 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning, and little did I know what we were in for.
Dan “Ugh”-la’s late-game attempt to cement the All-Star Game Least Valuable Player of the Millenium—a huge double play, two nearly crushing errors, two strikeouts, followed by a third “error”—fortunately was thwarted by outstanding pitching by Aaron Cook and Carlos Marmol as well as ridiculous (!!!!!!) defensive gems by (where do I start?) Miguel Tejada, Christian Guzman, Nate McLouth, and Russell Martin. I don’t know what play was better: Tejada’s off-balance throw in the 10th to get Aaron Cook out of a bases-loaded jam, or Nate McLouth’s strike to Russell Martin to nail Dioner Navarro in the 11th. And the game nearly was extended on a bang-bang play at the plate involving Corey Hart and Brian McCann. Now THAT would been awesome.
What a way to say farewell to Yankee Stadium, eh? Yankee fans might want a World Series championship to top it all off, but I’m content with this All-Star Game 
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