A Mixed Bag of Sorts

Welcome to, "Failure To Communicate". A blog about two guys who have a passion for sports, entertainment, "professional" wrestling, and just about anything that requires me to use the least amount of brain power possible. Right off the bat I want to encourage anyone who reads this blog to subscribe, comment, and pass it around to your friends or whoever you might think is interested. These are the things that'll keep the blog running! Matt Philips is my partner in crime and he'll be posting every so often (or whenever he hears about someone liking Tim Tebow!).

To start, I want to say WELCOME BACK NBA. I think I speak for the majority of Basketball fans when I say hooooooo-leeeeee s**t did we miss you. You went out of our lives last summer and came back this winter with some major changes, some for the better and some for the worse. You still have some ugly features about you (I'm looking at you, David Stern...Billy Hunter...) but you haven't changed who you are and that's why we're happy to have you back! Now that you're back, there's something we really want to tell you. GET BACK TO WORK AND F**KING ENTERTAIN US. Christmas day isn't going to prepare itself...

In all seriousness, I'm just happy to see that the NBA back and I'm even more excited to see that the free agency/trade period is already in full swing. 

This brings me to my latest issue. Mr. Dwight David Howard of the Orlando Magic. I'm a fan of Dwight and his freakish athleticism. And his size. And his defense. And his gigantic physique (this list could go on and on...). But there's just one thing I'm not a fan of when it comes to Dwight and it's this one bad thing that outweighs everything that I like about him. HIS F**KING OBSESSION WITH TRYING TO BE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL. It's the constant Superman references. Or the over-doing of trying to be quotable. Most recently, it's his desire to be traded to the Lakers! To me, Dwight is just trying to imitate everything Shaq has done and probably won't achieve any of what Shaq earned. If I'm Magic GM Otis Smith, I'm looking to trade Howard ASAP, because there is no way in hell that Howard is staying in Orlando. 

Not only is there talk of Howard going to L.A, but now you've got Chris Paul's apparent 'imminent' trade to the Lakers. Now, most people probably look at the Lakers and are making this equation:

   Kobe (Bean!)

   CP3 (Chris Paul)

+ Imitation Superman (Dwight)

=OMGCHAMPIONSHIPSFOREVERLETSBEDOUCHEBAGSBECAUSEWE'RELAKERFANS!

But that's not going to happen. Outside of those three, who else do they really have? Metta World Peace (formerly, Ron Artest) is an offensive liability, Fisher is as close to done as you can be. Shannon Brown has jetted off to Phoenix, and there's no way in hell that the Lakers are going to get BOTH CP3 and Imitation Superman, while retaining Lamar Odom, Andrew Bynum, and Pau Gasol. As sad as it is to admit it, I don't see Kobe winning another title. I don't even see Garnett, Pierce, and Jesus Shuttlesworth winning another one together. 

Sorry for drifting off. Let's go back to Dwight's obsession with Shaq. If he wants to imitate Shaq and his career, so be it. But no matter what, he better not EVER do anything like this:

OR this:

AND HE ESPECIALLY BETTER NEVER DO THIS:

You know what I just realized? This makes me miss Shaq more than it makes me hate Dwight Howard's imitation of him.

With that said, this wraps up the very first, "Failure to Communicate" blog. Expect to see many more entries and be on the lookout for Matt when he makes his F2C debut. Like I mentioned at the beginning of the blog, please subscribe, comment, and pass this blog on to anyone and everyone you see. More importantly, give us feedback and let us know how we're doing! These things are vital to this blog's success.

Until next time, "Go f**k yourself San Diego!"