The Sip Is So Back

(Note: A piece by Cheddar Ben about the Yankees farm team leaving Columbus appears immediately below.)

Fuckers, fuckers, fuckers.

I feel like Steve Stifler right now.

Life is pretty good. Last night I had my first drink in 31 days, an all time record for me and one that I can't see myself ever breaking.

This morning I had a chance to catch up on some Steamin' Mikey Lehman Yankee bashing and I'm utterly shocked.

This kid can hardly talk, yet somehow, some way he writes pretty good... kidding Mikey, but always fun to take a jab via the Blogosphere. Sippy Momo, internet thug, WHAT!

As a Jew, I am approaching what I used to think was the most depressing day of the year: Christmas.

It used to be that while all my Christian friends were really happy, I was really, really bored.

But now that there are NBA and NFL games, and now that I finally realized that the smart move was hitting up the all-you-can-drink Chinese food place by my house somewhere around 11:30 a.m., Christmas is all of a sudden turning into a pretty sweet day for us kings of Hollywood and Wall Street.

To give you a "10-12 things I hope for on Christmas" would be wrong because I am sure that AFOMG is going to write that some time this weekend. I don't even really feel like talking about sports at all right now, but I don't know if that would fly around here.

So here are a couple of quick thoughts.

I think David Stern's suspensions of Carmelo Anthony, JR Smith, Nate Robinson and co. were racially driven.

If that was David Lee fighting Ersan Ilyasova, they each get 2 games.

It is obvious that Stern is trying to rid the NBA of its thug image (read: the dress code) and by dishing out huge suspensions he is sending a message.

But still, come on. Hockey has fights every game, so does football. Let these guys throw some punches. The Garden hasn't seen that much energy in a basketball game in the better part of a decade.

And it is somewhat shocking to me that JR Smith has as many tatoos as he has. The kid is 20 and has like 94 tatoos. I don't have any. But don't those things take sometime to heal?

Baseball sucks

The Braves had to dump Marcus Giles for financial reasons. It kills me that my favorite sport is one where my arch rival can't afford to pay one of their best players and therefore loses him. That isn't fair.

The Rangers have four guys in the top 20 in scoring.

When I was a kid I was a huge hockey fan. When the Rangers won the Cup I was as happy as they come.

I remember when they got Mark Messier I thought it was the coolest thing in the world because the Rangers finally had someone that would make the paper for scoring some points.

The days of Tomas Sandstrom were supposedly behind us.

And so yesterday, while reading the bible (NY Post) I read that the Rangers are all over the net and apparently Sydney Crosby is leading hockey in scoring.

Isn't that kid 14?

I don't know. I thought it was cool.

Caught the Knicks game on Wednesday.

Only the Knicks could have two last second shot attempts with 20 seconds left on the clock to start the possession and settle for chucking 20 footers and then win on an alley-oop with 0.1 seconds remaining.

Isiah is truly the worst.

Also, Eddy Curry almost died on Wednesday. He and Channing Frye play ZERO defense.

That was my third Knicks game this year and I have already seen Malik Allen and Primoz Brezec combine for 36 points. The other center I caught, Fabricio Obierto, has SICK hair.

That's all I got. Have a great Christmas guys. A big thank you to Sip Sr. and Mom dukes. Despite denying me Christmas all year, they are about as awesome a set of parents as a young blogger could have.

Stay low guys.

Merry Christmas.

Vaya con dios,

Sip

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