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Yesterday, A-Rod reached a new low in his level of maturity:

Rodriguez distracted Toronto third baseman Howie Clark by shouting at him on a key popup in the ninth inning, touching off arguments all over the field, and the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 10-5 Wednesday night.

“I just said, ‘Hah!’ That’s it,” Rodriguez said. “Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.”

According to Howie Clark,

“I heard a ‘Mine’ call and so I let it go,” Clark said. “It wasn’t Johnny Mac. What do you do? It makes you mad.”

I guess baseball is an “anything goes” kind of sport, but yelling like you are calling off a player as they are trying to make a catch seems pretty childish.  Maybe players will also start trying to knock baseballs out of peoples’ gloves by swatting at them like little girls… Oh wait, I think that’s already been done.

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Or does he? If so, how can the Mavs get him? My answer is this: by any means necessary, short of trading Dirk Nowitzki.

Jean-Jacques Taylor disagrees with me, instead arguing that the Mavericks should go all out for Bryant and worry about filling the power forward slot later. Nice try, but why would the Mavericks dump Dirk for Bryant, creating a glut of guards and basically leaving themselves with no scoring bigs? JJT is missing the big picture entirely; namely, that the Mavericks have a unique opportunity to pair the best player in the NBA with Dirk Nowitzki, a top-10 player in his own right. Try this on for size instead: Jordan-Pippen…Duncan-Robinson…Shaq-Kobe…Kobe-Dirk, anyone?

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The NBA Draft Lottery was last night, and a lot of folks are upset about the outcome. As a quick recap, here are the teams with the first 5 picks (records in parenthesis)

1. Portland (32-50)
2. Seattle (31-51)
3. Atlanta (30-52)
4. Memphis (22-60)
5. Boston (24-58)

Many people look at this as a crime. The two worst teams in the league end up with the #4 and #5 picks? Isn’t the worst team the team that needs the most help?

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In the wake of the NBA Draft Lottery, the offseason just got interesting, didn’t it? Yes, even for the Mavs. Assuming that the Portland Trail Blazers take Greg Oden, they will have three major low-post presences (Zach Randolph, LaMarcus Aldridge, Oden) and not enough minutes to go around. Randolph seems most likely to go, with Aldridge shifting to power forward alongside Oden. Or could Cuban and Donnie sweet-talk the Blazers out of Aldridge?

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It’s official, the Super Bowl is coming to JerryWorld!

The NFL’s 32 owners decided here on Tuesday to play Super Bowl XLV at the Cowboys’ new stadium being built in Arlington, Texas, a historical decision that will bring the 2011 title game to North Texas for the very first time.

Congratulations to the city of Arlington and all of North Texas. I personally think the metroplex is a great venue for such an event, and I can’t wait to see how they pull it off.

For now, I don’t have much else to say, so I will simply quote Jerry Jones from today’s press conference:

“…It’s about perception. And so our venue as a backdrop for our event which is the several days that are involved with the Super Bowl, I think that was very, very, would be have been impressive.”

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Don Nelson is “not so sure” that he’ll return to coach Golden State. Baron Davis is mourning his exit from the playoffs by lobbying for a contract extension. Matt Barnes is a free agent. Richardson supposedly is available. And Mike Rhyner of the Ticket believes that either Davis or Jackson will be back, but not both, because you can’t have two crazies on one team for very long and expect things to work. Stay tuned.

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What’s the matter, David, can’t you bear to look at the mess you’ve created?

“[Suns owner Robert] Sarver also said that NBA commissioner David Stern has canceled a schedule appearance in Phoenix for Wednesday night’s Game 5.”

Or are you planning to fix (pun intended) things by sending Dick Bavetta to “referee” the game?

UPDATE: On the Dan Patrick radio show today, Stern took party-line bullshit to a whole new level:

“To listen to the palaver that Robert Horry changed the series is just silly. What changed the series is Amare and Boris ran out onto the court and they either forgot about it or they couldn’t control themselves,” Stern said. “I don’t know which one. And there wasn’t an assistant coach there, one of six, to restrain them. OK, so now either we have to have new rules, put up a fence, or hire more assistant coaches.”

Yeah, real funny, asshole.

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