Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
Piston Power
Tuesday
June 1, 2004
The Pistons beat the Pacers tonight in an ugly Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals. That means we'll see a Lakers vs. Pistons finals, which should be interesting. Stopping Shaq and company will be a most formidable task, even with Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace in there. Lakers in six, I say. Even though I'll be pulling like mad for Detroit. It's funny, as politically misaligned as I am from Terry Jaymes of the Lex & Terry show, I do agree 100% with his hatred of the way Karl Malone is trying to ride the Lakers coattails to get a NBA Championship ring as a role player. Malone is a total ass.
Tomorrow night will be a dry one for sports... No NBA, no NHL, just baseball, which I haven't exactly been following very closely this year. I do know that Nomar Garciaparra is leading the AL shortstops in votes despite not having played a single game, while Alfonso Soriano (whom the Yankees should've NEVER traded) leads all American League vote-receivers. Remember when it was Nomar and A-Rod and Jeter all competing for the starting SS spot and how it never seemed like Nomar had a chance for a fair shake? Now he doesn't even play a single game in 2004 and he's in front of the AL shortstop pack. What a bunch of bunk.
As long as we're talking sports, the worst move of the NFL off-season has to be the Miami Dolphins trading a 2005 second round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles for A.J. Feely. Feely can't even beat out Jay Fiedler (whom he was intended to replace), and now the Dolphins can just look out there at guys like Kerry Collins and Kurt Warner come and go and think ARRRRGH! At least Dan Marino had the smarts to walk away from that situation -- imagine if that had been one of his first GM moves? "Dan, we love having you on board, but a second rounder for this guy?!?" Instead Marino's legacy remains untarnished in South Florida. I think I'll write an entire column about this on DraftKing.com tomorrow.
I've been having great fun playing the Midway Arcade Treasures PS2 game that I purchased over the weekend. I have a similar release that came out for the PlayStation 1, though the PS2 version is superior both in title depth and in the translation. I thought that the Paperboy arcade port on the PSX title that I had was a 100% authentic reproduction, but I can tell with the PS2 version that there were some slight things missing from the original. Oh, and the game comes with 20 classic titles for $20, which is a bargain in my book.
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