Mid-Week Thoughts

Last Weeks Picks: 8-5
Total: 50-40

Kurt Warner threw two passes then broke his elbow or whatever he did. That's my third qb in three weeks to go down with an injury for my fantasy team affectionately named, M.A.S.H. Just gonna throw that out there so that everyone can know my state of mind at this point in time. The Rams are 0-100 and Gus the Bust went Romo on everyone and threw 5 interceptions. Now Bulger is talking about starting this week against the Seagals. Which to me is a moot point, because they will beat the Seahawks even if Ryan Fitzpatrick gets the nod. That's right. That's a guarantee. About as good a guarantee as Patrick Crayton made, but it's a guarantee none the less.

On to other stuff that doesn't make me want to slit my wrists every Sunday.

Kobe Bryant is going to be traded. It's really going to happen. That or this is the biggest, dumbest, game of charades ever played. I was talking to a friend from SoCal that is a die-hard Laker fan, and even he is ready for Kobe to be traded. That's how I know it's gonna happen for sure this time, not because of all the reports and the empty locker, or the "cleaned" locker, or Chad Ford Top 5 places he may go blog, but the fact that Laker fans are ready for him to be traded.

Ford's article details 5 strong possibilities and a couple other long shots and then a few more hail mary's. The one that makes me cringe the most is sending him to Chicago for the likes of Gordon, Thomas, Noah, expiring contracts, and MJ's honor. First of all, if I have to see Noah play in the NBA it better be for a team like Chicago where he won't get too much pub because he is surrounded by more talented players who already play his position. I would rather he play for the Kings or the Bucks because then it's almost a guarantee you will never see him on TV, but the Lakers? Can you imagine how many asinine interviews we would have to endure if he was in the entertainment capitol of the world? I couldn't handle it. I would start a support group for those trying to cope with Noah-overload. But I guess it will all go away anyway after his rookie contract is up and he proves to everyone that he was the next Bill Curley.

There is talk of sending Amare and his scoped knee with Raja Bell to LA in exchange for the smallest lineup in the history of the league. I don't know if that's a factual statement, but really, if they trade away Amare my intramural basketball team from college would be bigger than those guys. It would be fun though. They would have to hire Westphal as an assistant just to assure the fans that they would score at least 200 points a night to make the trade make sense.

It's gotta be a lose-lose situation though for Kobe. Wherever he goes the team is going to have to give up so much just to get him, unless Buss takes a page from Kevin Pritchard's book and trades away his best player for absolutely nothing. It's not like he's gonna be plopped into a situation where the team didn't willing get pillaged by the Lakers for the chance to win a championship. He'll most likely be playing with second-stringers and a few free agents to fill the roster. At the end of Ford's blog he throws out the idea that Detroit could get him for Hamilton and Prince (money wise). And to be honest, I think that makes the most sense to me right now. Obviously LA needs some young players to build around other than Farmar and Crittendon, but bringing in Hamilton and Prince next to Lamar and whomever they plug in at center? That's a low seed playoff team. And Detroit would be an odds on favorite to win it all.

But no one in LA wants that. Hamilton and Prince aren't flashy enough. Would they take Oden and Raef straight up? I would pull the trigger on that in a micro-fracture second.

In the end though, where do I think he will go? It doesn't matter, but what makes me so happy about the whole situation is that Laker fans will have to suffer through another Ceballos/Eddie Jones era for the next few years. And that makes all my depression about the Rams having only one win after next weekend fade away like a perfect Kobe jumper.