So i don't know if anyone else saw this, but Deadspin has a video of our very own Nashville Sounds getting a triple play this last weekend.  It might even be more unlikely than the one the crew had earlier in the week.

 

Logan Schafer had the luckiest grab of his life after the fly ball hit his way bounced off of his glove, then his head and he reacted int he knick of time to make the grab. In a heart beat he had the ball launched to Eric Ferris at second base for the second out. Ferris tossed it over to Gamel over at first to complete the third out with a very confused looking Omaha Storm Chaser standing by.

Kind of ridiculous, but a very fun play,  check out the video here.

Just for comparison sake, here's the crew's.

 

So who had the better triple play this week, The Crew or The Sounds

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Which one do you prefer?

37%

The Crew from the 15th

22 votes

62%

The sounds from the 20th

37 votes

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Take a look a this list from the Bleacher Report. It's quite funny, but also very sad, (you know, like when a clown dies)

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/727422-nba-power-rankings-the-35-most-worthless-players-in-the-league/page/37

 

There are so many bucks/former bucks. It's a little bit embarrasing. One that I just can't figure out is how Malik Allen didn't make this list. Probably because he's not in the NBA any more.  

 

What do you guys think. Did anyone get left off the most useless list that should have been there? 

The Dan Patrick Show just reported that Gooden is signed for 5 years & 32 Million.

What do you think this is about.  I know we were interested in him, but for 5 years.  It looks like a decent contract that could be pretty moveable if/when Sanders comes around.

 

I like it that the Bucks are making the first move in the Free Agent market.  Hammonds is putting the rest of the NBA on notice. Lets go Bucks.

 

What do you think?

There was a long discussion on trying to work a trade Kevin Love, and that is still a great idea if you ask me. What I would love to see is Hammonds get The Ramonster back in MKE.

He would be a great back-up point gaurd and a great accesory to the back-court starring Jennings.

The guy is used to playing second fiddle now, doesn't get as much play as he should. He will average about $4 mil a year for the next three years. That is a better price than what Ridnour was getting as our Back-up PG.  He also has experience playing the 2. He and Ridnour ran the set often two years ago.

Sessions can actually take the ball to the cup and score,getting to the line as well. Which are two things the Bucks couldn't do this season. I don't know what it would take to get the young man back on the team, or if he would really want to, but it's worth a try.

The Bucks are become more skilled, but they need to be more marketable.  Sessions is a player who was buzz-worthy. Think about those two months last summer when there were headlines with a new suitor for Sessions every-other day. He is an exciting player to watch and brings more toughness in a Bucks-back-court that could use it.

What do you think? 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5150940.

He will need ankle surgery if he wants to play this year... or is it just another scam to get out of training camp...

I personally believe that this is one stored in Ol' Brett's Bag-O-Tricks to get out of training camp. I'd eat my hat if he didn't come back this year. 

Is he coming back, what do you thihnk?

 

The Short End of the Stick...
  There are three premier players headed for free agency LBJ, D-Wade, & Bosh, and a some very good ones with question marks Joe Johnson, Amare, T-Mac, Yoa. But there are a number of teams with deep pockets looking to cash in.  A couple of these teams that have been banking on this free agency are going to be left aching, and hungover from being drunk on the thought of D-Wade, Joe Johnson and Amare all together on their team. 

 

If you ask me, The Knicks are going to get the short end of the stick. I don't know who would actually want to play for D'Antoni (besides Amare (who can really only play in his system). The guy is a chump who can't get along with his own players. He alienates them and pushes them into his horrible style of play. His system of Basketball cannot win in the playoffs. The 7-seconds-and-shoot system of play is flashy, but it does not get results.  D'Antoni was great in Europe (Where his style works) and he can succeed there, but he will be an afterthought in the NBA in a decade.

It's like the scrambling Quarterback in the NFL in the early 2000s.  Everyone thought Vick, Culpepper, and McNabb were going to transform the game...  not one of them has won a Superbowl. Neither did Kordel Stewart or Steve McNair. (Yeah Elway and Young won superbowls, but they were Quarterbacks-who-could-scramble, not scrambling quarterbacks)

The same can be said for Chicago.  Somehow Vinny "The NBA's greatest inbound passer" Del Negro has not been fired, and if they haven't fired him already, what's to say they don't hold onto him for next season.  Unless they are able to make some noise by hiring a big name coach, or getting extremely lucky in the lottery again, I don't think they are attractive enough to pull in any elite players. 

As well, who will want to play for the monumental F-Up known as The LA Clippers.  No coach, No GM, No fan loyalty, no players to truly get excited about playing with, no freaking chance. They are one of those eternally damned franchises. Their ship is sinking before it's leaving the dock. 

 Some teams, (The Nets, The Heat) will probably do great in free agency. The idea of working for an iconoclast billionaire and Jay-Z or in the case of the Heat... playing in Miami ('nuff said) will look great to Free agents.  They will probably put together a line-up with two or three all stars or fading greats, but several teams are going to be in a worse off position than they already are. And if you ask me, that's just fine news for Our Bucks, and bad news for the Bulls, Clippers, and Knicks.

 Who do you think will be the winners and losers of free agency? What if/any affect do you think this will all have on the Bucks?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4956242

Shaquille O'Neal just had surgery on his thumb and he will be out 6-8 weeks.  There is the possibility that he wont be back for the first round of the playoffs.  Does anyone think this could help the Bucks? Look at what the Chicago Bulls did to the Celtics w/o Kevin Garnett. 

I am not saying that this makes them a shoe-in, but if Shaq is out, do you think The Bucks could make it interesting? If the Bucks stay in position and don't fade at the end, they will be a low seed. Would playing a Shaq-less Cavs team be better than playing Orlando Magic or the Hawks?  What do you think?

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Who would you rather see The Bucks go against in the playoffs?

8%

The Shaq-less Cavs

12 votes

80%

The Hawks

116 votes

11%

The Magic

16 votes

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