Potpourri

Readers of "Roast Beef Tech:"  Do not get your hopes up.  This blog will take me no more than 45 minutes to write, it's on short notice, I still don't even know what it's going to be about, and I have a feeling it might be more of a stream of consciousness technique than actual, good writing.  Oh yeah, and I have a softball game in about 2 hours which means I've begun my required pre-game beer consumption.  On that note, I had an epiphany today.  So many times I've argued that golf and bowling are not "sports."  Call them "hobbies," "games," "activities," or just about anything else you'd like, but please don't call them "sports."  When I wrote the "golf is not a sport" column for "The Maine Campus" in college, I had at least a hundred people explain to me why golf is a sport.  "You play it on a designated field, you keep score, blah blah blah..."  I don't really care what your sports management 101 class told you is the definition of a sport.  Here's my definition AKA the right definition:  You must break a sweat, you must be better at age 25 than you are at age 65, alcohol consumption can NOT enhance your performance, and lastly, the epiphany I had today, an argument that I never thought of before, your "uniform" absolutely positively can NOT be dress shoes, slacks and a collared shirt.  Can you imagine Blake Griffin trying to posterize Timofey Mozgov Cocktail in some penny loafers, Dockers and a Ralph Lauren button-down!?

Speaking of Blake Griffin, lets move right along to topic number two:  Should Blake have been eligible to win NBA Rookie of the Year even though this was essentially his second year in the league?  For those of you who don't know, Griffin was selected first overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the LA Clippers.  He then suffered an injury before the year started that kept him out of action for the entire 2009-2010 season thus making the 2010-2011 season the first that he actually played.  Recently he was named Rookie of the Year.  There are some people who believe that Griffin should not have been eligible to win the award because he had the unfair advantage of going through a full year of NBA workouts with NBA players and adjusting to the way the league functions.  To answer the question I posed in the first sentence of this paragraph in one word, yes.  And my explanation is simple.  Blake Griffin essentially got the NBA's equivalent of an NCAA medical redshirt.  Should collegiate athletes not be eligible to win ROY in their respective conferences if they're not true freshmen?  Maybe you believe that they shouldn't, but the reality is that every year there are redshirt freshman winning ROY in different sports and conferences around the country.  AND, the majority of collegiate athletes that redshirt do so because they simply are not physically or mentally ready to play at that level, not because of injury.  Therefore, Griffin may have had some unfair advantages, but lets not forget that he was rehabbing a stress fracture on his knee cap for close to 6 months.

Oh yeah, one more thing...Shout out to my man Gary Williams...Retired after 22 seasons as the head coach of my favorite college basketball team, the Maryland Terrapins...The now 61-year old led the Terps to the school's only men's basketball national championship in 2002, a joyous night for myself and fellow fans...

Before I wrap up this blog that a third-grader could have written better, I want to introduce something new that each of my posts from here on out will close with:  a quote of some sort that is on my mind.  Some will be song lyrics, some will be movie lines, and others will be quotes from famous people.  Most will be comical, very few will be serious, but all will be random.  That being said, I leave you with this:

"Call me Spongebob, stackin krabby patties..."

-Brusk Dollas