The Afternoon NR Wood - 06/30/2006

Due to planes, dial up, and alcohol, the Morning Wood had to be transformed into the Afternoon No Reason Wood.

Stud: Coco Crisp.
Screw whatever I said earlier in the week about not wanting my personal affiliations to get in the way of the Wood. I have to give love to Coco Crisp's catch to preserve a painfully earned one run lead, a run that he had scored the inning before. That was one of those catches where you just have to say "oh" and walk away. Kind of like her.

Dud:Jose Canseco.
Oh, so your book advance ran out? Jose Canseco is returning to baseball with the San Diego Surf Dawgs. Apparently he is going to DH and pitch. I don't even know what to say about this. Well at least Da Brat can rest assured that the Surreal Life doesn't ruin your career. I guess.

Talk Around The Cooler
Zee Germans win again. There is nothing like the World Cup to rekindle feelings of pride about your heritage. Of course that is the same heritage that you attempt to hide in 7th grade World History class when you discuss the two World Wars. Oh well, The German team moves past Argentina in penalty kicks, 4-2. Today the semifinals, tomorrow the RHINELANDS!! Too bad they don't have this lovely lady cheering them on: there is no way that Brazil loses the (C) Cup with this suppport (PFFFFTTTT, support). Brian Scalabrine is apparently a big Brazil fan too.

Scandal at the Tour de France (translation: Tour of France)! Is Jan Ullrich all right in that picture? The three bikers who finished behind Jesus Armstrong were all barred from this year's Tour. Something smells fishy here. It reeks of scandal: My theory? George W Bush told France that if they didn't take attention away from the doping allegations tossed at his homeboy, he was going to get going with this renaming french things as "freedom" things. They tossed these three under the bus, and now no one is mentioning Armstrong. Hmm, I should probably take a couple days off from drinking.

Quick Hits
Your mom was a quick hit at the bachelor party I was at last night. I keed, I keed.
Greg Anderson must have a serious man crush on Barry Bonds to refuse to testify to a grand jury. I'm sure Bonds will pay him back by calling him a honky and spitting on his soul patch. Oh Eddie Griffin . There is a joke there about not being able to shoot/stroke it while driving but it seems too obvious. Isiah Thomas has much less time to turn around his car in his driveway.

It is sad to hear about Lamar Odom's infant son passing away. RIP to the little fella.