The T-Wolves won’t be sweeping their first-round series against the Nuggets, but I’m not too upset that they lost Game 3 in Denver; this way, they can clinch the first playoff series win in franchise history at home, in Game 5 at Target Center on Friday.
Speaking of sweeps, the Yankees dropped all three games to the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium over the weekend (after a four-hit shutout by Pedro and Scott Williamson) to run their record vs. Boston this season to 1-6. Michele is happier than anyone, it appears. While, anyone but this kid.
Meanwhile, the latest baseball trade rumor (albeit one denied by all involved parties) has the Yankees trading Jason Giambi back to Oakland, along with cash, for soon-to-be-free-agent pitcher Tim Hudson. It’s a good idea for one reason (Jason would be able to grow back his hair and beard) though a bad one for several: the Yankees don’t get rid of superstars, the A’s can’t afford another big contract after the Eric Chavez signing, and I’d imagine Giambi would like to avoid a move back to the Bay Area, what with the whole BALCO thing.
I watched the entire first eight hours of the NFL Draft on Saturday, and I commend the Vikings on making their pick on time, and getting someone (defensive end Kenichi Udeze) who could turn out to be a helluva player. And funny that in a draft in which six players from Miami (Florida) were picked in the first round, the one guy from Miami (Ohio), Ben Roethlisberger, could turn out better than all of them.
But one weird thing about the whole Eli Manning/Giants controversy: several analysts on the draft speculated that the agents for Eli Manning and Philip Rivers would vie for the right to negotiate as the #1 pick. My question is, why? Manning was picked #1, Rivers #4. Just because the team with the #1 pick traded down to take Rivers doesn’t make him the #1 pick. Rivers doesn’t have any more right to #1 money than does the player taken with the third-round pick the Chargers also got in the deal. Why would anyone think otherwise?
Still, a generally good job by ESPN on the draft, proving that when they leave behind all the “premature jocularity” of SportsCenter and go back to the Chris Berman/Mel Kiper basics, the Worldwide Leader can still be the best in the business. And I say this despite several grossly unwelcome mid-offseason appearances by Sean Salisbury.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 26, 2004 07:30 PMHappy? Go back and read again.
Happy is NOT what I was.
Posted by: michele at April 26, 2004 08:03 PMHow'd you manage to sit through 8 hours of the NFL draft? That's impressive.
My little brother, a big Yankees fan, was and still is very upset about what happened, not to mention my suitemates.
Wow...I'm really going to have a problem next fall being a yankee hater in a pro-Yankee area
Posted by: jaws at April 27, 2004 01:54 PM