Sometimes I Hate Tubby

Now everyone knows that semilocal gadabout Tubby B hates the Sonics, even though they're 7-1. He still refuses to watch them until they admit they're rebuilding. What if they're not rebuilding? As I said before the season: WHAT IF THIS WORKS? Seriously. What if it works? What if these Supersonics work? Worth thinking about.

Anyway, Tubby is gung ho about rebuilding. But what does The Sports Guy have to say?

With so many teams dumping coaches, making panic trades and wasting money on shaky free agents -- it's like 80 percent of the league at this point -- the teams that keep building around the same nucleus (one bona fide star, four or five supporting stars, one coach) have an enormous competitive advantage over everyone else.

When the subject of NBA problems comes up, everyone points to poor shooting, over-reliance on three-point line, overzealous defense, high schoolers ... to me, the lack of continuity is THE biggest problem in the sport right now. None of these teams knows how to play together for more than four-minute stretches.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/041116

Tubby wants to rip it apart and head to some unknown, and Bill Simmons extols the virtues of continuity. I will go with the Sports Guy here. The Sonics do not have absurd contracts (ex. Rashard's reasonable deal) except Danny Fortson who so far is playing well. But, we had to take on his deal to get rid of Calvin Booth who has a fucking Berkeley tattoo even though he went to Penn State. I don't care what his nickname is. That's wrong. Booth also defined stiff which is usually the exclusive territory of the white center. White Center? Don't get me started.

These Supersonics will eventually come back to earth. I still think they're doing the right thing. Regardless, it's indefensible to refuse to watch the Supes when they are winning every game and kicking the shit out of good teams. I know Tubby will talk shit when the Supes start losing. It's important to understand that this means he will be happy when the Sonics lose. Unacceptable. Tubby, I hate you and you have lost all of your Sonics cred.



Welcome back Commies!! Mother Russia has been down and out lately, but Vladimir Putin is taking things old school to bring her back.

"We have not only conducted tests of the latest nuclear rocket systems," Putin told a meeting of the Armed Forces' leadership. "I am sure that in the coming years we will deploy them. "Moreover, these will be things which do not exist and are unlikely to exist in other nuclear powers," he added.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041117/1/3olc5.html

Now that is leadership. And scary to boot. This is on top of Putin recently nationalizing the press. I missed you Russia.