When the San Francisco Giants signed Barry Zito to a $126 million, seven-year contract, I am sure they were not expecting a horrid 2007-08 season and an 0-6 start to the 2008-09 season.    This is just another example of how ridiculous salaries have become in all major sports especially baseball.  You can suck at what you do and be a multi-millionaire.  Only in MLB!!!

I remember New York Mets GM Omar Minaya saying to the press that he just could not justify to the Mets’ ownership giving Barry Zito a 7-year contract instead of a 6-year deal.  Well, lucky them.  I give much credit to super-agent Scott Boras for his incredible negotiation skills in getting Zito this huge deal and for suckering the Giants.   

Memphis lost the NCAA Championship game for one reason and that is bad coaching.  How does your team blow a 9 point lead with 2 minutes to go in a championship game?    The stupidest coaching move of all came at the very end of regulation.  Up by 3 points after a made free throw by Memphis with 10 seconds left, Kansas drove down the court and Mario Chammers swished a 3-pointer to tie the game with 2 seconds left and send it to overtime.

What went wrong……..  Why did John Calipari not call a time out after the made free throw to setup Memphis’ defense and discuss strategy?    I clearly expected Bill Self, not John Calipari to do something as stupid as this!!!  I am just appalled by this.  Maybe Calipari should replace Self in my top 3 most overrated college basketball coaches.  STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

Memphis was completely confused on defense.  There were Memphis players guarding their men inside the 3-point line and right under the basket.  Why???  Who cares if they score 2 points.  All the players should have been around the 3-point area.  Instead, Chammers had a really good look at the basket and made the clutch 3-pointer.

Why did Memphis not foul Kansas and send them to the free throw line?  They would have to make one free throw, then get the rebound on a missed free throw (which rarely happens), then still make a basket to tie.  This should have been discussed in a Memphis timeout. 

 Instead, Kansas Jayhawks bring down the nets.  Memphis goes home losers….  What might have been?  Maybe next year, but I doubt it.  No Derrick Rose, no Joey Dorsey…  good luck!

el choco loco moment - LSU wins, Auburn blows..

It takes luck to win the National Title and LSU pulled another win out of their hat last Saturday night.  Trailing Auburn nearly the entire game, LSU QB Matt Flynn threw a 22-yard fade to the back of the end zone on 3rd down and 6, to beat Auburn with :01 remaining.  All Auburn had to do was break up that play and not let the receiver catch the ball for a TD and the game would have ben over. 

Instead LSU wins, game over!!! 

el choco loco moment - The CAL Bears blows it against unranked UCLA 30-21. 

For the 2nd straight week, CAL blows it on another boneheaded QB play at the end of the game.  The idiot CAL QB this game, Nate Longshore was driving the Bears down the field to the UCLA 30 trailing by only 3 points when the Longshore threw an INT that is returned for a TD.  Instead of at least attempting a game-tying FG, the game is over and so is CAL’s season. 

The Mets blew it..  or shall we say choked!! 

New York went 5-12 down the stretch and had a seven-game lead in their final 17 games and are out of the playoffs! 

Bad pitching, bad defense, Phillies red-hot …   the end.