There are 2 major sports stories with ties to the MA sports scene that have popped up in the last few days. The first is Randy Moss being released by the Vikings only 4 games after he was traded there. The second is the Kevin Garnett/Charlie Villanueva trash talking cancer incident. Let's go with the not-serious one first.
Most sports fans, sadly, are morons. You've got Pink Sox fans who can't name anyone on the team other than Ortiz and Ellsbury. You've got Yankees fans for whom every discussion about anything baseball related will eventually contain the number 27, despite its irrelevance to said discussion. You've got Patriots "fans" who don't know the first thing about football. You've got Jets fans, period. You've got Rays "fans" who don't show up for the first 81 home games and then all of the sudden are die-hard supporters. No fan base is immune to these jackoffs.
With that being said, you can usually identify these people pretty quickly. For instance, anyone who thought that trading Moss away would make the team better is a moron. In what situation does losing your best (and probably only) deep threat make a football team better? Was it the right move for the team? Maybe. Does it make the team better? Absolutely not.
Once Moss was waived, the Patriots couldn't have claimed him. Well, they could have but it would have been stupid. See, they have the best record, which means that have the last chance for a waiver claim. But if Moss had made it all the way through waivers to the Patriots claim, it would have been more sensible to just sign a new deal with him instead of claiming him and owing him all the remaining money on his current contract. I know, knowing stuff about sports is hard! So the bottom line is that they could possibly have signed Moss back to the team if no one else claimed him off waivers. And that would have meant that they had received a 3rd round draft pick just to play a few games without Moss. Score!
Now the issue because people, usually ignorant ones, blasting Pats fans for being glad that Moss was gone a few weeks ago, and now being psyched that he might be coming back. But there's a simple reason for that: the people who were glad Moss was gone are idiot sheep who just mouth off stupidly or repeat stupid crap they heard somewhere else. They are the sports equivalent of Rush Limbaugh's listeners, and their opinions should be paid just as much attention, i.e. none. Remember that crazy one-hand catch Moss made in the endzone against the Jets? That's reason enough to want him on you team. His presence makes the offense better, especially if that offense starts throwing to him on routes other than 40+ yard fly patterns.
And in related news, since Moss is often referred to as a "clubhouse cancer," let's talk about KG and his alleged comments. Well, I'll talk. You just read.
Charlie Villanueva claimed, over Twitter like a real man, that KG called him a "cancer patient." And then things blew up since without the Brett Favre will-he-or-won't-he-come-back saga, sportswriters don't know what to do with themselves. I think we can immediately dismiss Villanueva's charges based on one obvious fact. Had KG actually said this, it would have contained a lot more f-bombs. Have you ever seen a Celtics game? He swears constantly, almost as much as he breathes. He's like a cursing shark; if he stops, he'll die. There's no way that this comment happened the way Villanueva claims it did. Therefore, it didn't happen at all. QED
So why even claim it happened? Who knows. Maybe Charlie just was mad about the blowout and started running his mouth. Apparently athletes tweet things all the time without thinking first. And without proofreading. I guess that the filter part of your brain turns off when you have millions of dollars and a stream-of-consciousness outlet for your insanity. Or maybe he's trying to get inside KG's head. Or get a bunch of people against KG. Obviously this is going to be dragged out a lot longer than it should be. You can bet that next time the C's are in Detroit, things are going down.
The dumbest thing about this is that, for once, everyone is in agreement that if it did happen, it was terrible. So why even write it? Not a single writer has come out claiming that outlandish and inappropriate trash talking is just part of the NBA. So just let it go! Note - this post doesn't count because I am discussing whether it even happened at all, not whether or not it was bad.
Oh, and Beltre didn't take his option to stay with the Sox, making him a free agent. Damn, he was like their only player not to get hurt last year!
-Jon
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