Broken Record

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I know I keep harping on this but it bears repeating.

Players in the NBA are so far removed from reality it's scary.

The latest culprit is the New Jersey Nets Alonzo Mourning. Today he came out and said "I want to play for a contender real bad so buy out my contract. Bitches." Notice that he didn't say "I want to play for a contender real bad so don't worry about paying me the remaining $17 million you owe me. Just tear up my contract. In fact, keep the $5 million you paid me last year since I only played in 12 games".

Imagine earning a year's salary and only working 12 days.

It gets better. From the NY Daily News:

"We (signed) with the intentions of trying to win," says Alonzo Mourning, who agreed to a four-year, $22.6 million deal with the Nets at the same time Kidd opted to stay. "Unfortunately, we didn't get the same response from the organization."

"I have always said this" Mourning says. "We are pawns in this game"

'Zo, you may be right about being pawns in the game, but you're getting paid millions of dollars a year to play a kids game so please, for your own sake, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

In other NBA news, Latrell Spreewell, you know, the one that can't feed his family for $14 million a year? He drives a Rolls to his home games.

But it's not all bad. Damon Stoudamire won the NBA's Community Assist Award for the month of October.

My company had cheap seats to the Wiz/Heat game on Saturday, so I'm going.  I didn't pay this but guess how much upper level nosebleed seats are in Washington?  $48!

Maybe they don't have an HR department or something, but the Arizona Diamondbacks fired new manager Wally Backamn today, just four days after hiring him. Seems like they didn't know about his shady past:

- Arrested in 2001 after an altercation at his home involving his wife and her friend in Prineville, Ore. Pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment, sentenced to 12 months' probation, ordered to undergo an anger management evaluation and donate $1,000 to the local Boys and Girls Club.

- Arrested on a driving under the influence charge in Kennewick, Wash., in 2000.

- Filed for bankruptcy several years ago.

It's called a background check people. It's very basic. This franchise has a HUGE amount of egg on it's face right now.

According to Linux Insider; "Compare Apple's dual G5 to the top of the line Dell dual Xeon Precision workstation and the PC has most of the features but costs a thousand bucks more than the Mac." He also says, "[I] discovered that not only are Macs cheaper than PCs once you upgrade the PCs to rough comparability, but the PC line is narrower than Apple's."

Is the new Typepad interface throwing anyone else off? Weird.

**UPDATE** The one and only Thighmaster reviews the Star Wars III trailer.