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I'd like an explanation on this one, if you don't mind. He's a Nash nuthugger.

Tampa Bay > "The Sandman" Jeter's up with a chance to win the game with a HR in the bottom of the 10th. I think he'll do it to spite me. I'm guessing right down the right field line.

No, my point is Nash only won 54, LeBron 50 and Kobe 45. They will be 1-2-3 in some combo while Nowitzki is the only Maverick worth shit and won 60. Parker and Billups won't be anywhere near the award despite leading their teams to the highest win totals in the league. A few years ago the media give Duncan the award over Kidd because he won more games despite Kidd resurrecting the Nets and carrying them to the Finals. If Kidd didn't deserve it that year, Nash doesn't this year. Now watch when Phoenix wins 60+ next year Nash will get the credit again and win because his team won more games than any of his rivals. I don't dispute he had a better year this year than last but it's not about the best stats or he wouldn't have won it either time. When they can come up with a criteria that works all of the time, I'll be satisfied but when you routinely took the best player on the best team during Jordan's era, and now you just pick the guy who makes his teammates look better even when others win more it seems suspect. Again, there is no multiple time or back to back MVP winner in any league who has stats as poor as Nash. A 1st ballot HOFer with ~9,500 points and 5,000 assists at the age of 32? Gimme a fucking break.

I mentioned Bonds' HR, but I'm glad to see the Mets rebounded from that horrid bottom of the 9th and won the game. I was certain they'd choked it away, so while Wright and Wagner's confidence might have taken a hit, at least we left San Fran with a series win. If we can take 2 of 3 from the Braves I'll be thrilled.

Wright whiffs with men on 1st and 3rd and 1 out in the top of the 10th. This guy is really fucking pissing me off lately.

David Wright makes a throwing error to extend the game, Bonds goes deep, Mets lose a 3 run lead. FUCK.

Julio Franco does it again, battling back from an 0-2 count to get a 2 run pinch hit single to give the Mets a 6-4 lead. And he just stole a base. LOL.

So the 2006 MVP has the lowest full win total of anyone since 1990, but that's OK right? Dirk, Billups and Parker all led their teams to 60+ wins, and none of those guys will finish in the top 3 behind Nash, Kobe and LeBron. All you've done is prove that the media are biased towards whatever they want the MVP to mean from one year to the next. I didn't say that Arenas deserved the MVP, I said he deserved some consideration along with guys like Brand and Wade who were the best players on playoff teams who just so happened to end up with gaudy stats. Dirk, Kobe or LeBron were all clearly better choices than Nash. Billups and Parker were equal to Nash. The rest were top 10 votegetters.

Nowitzki and a bunch of decent to good players won 60. Bunch of decent to good players? MVP's lead their team The Lakers without Kobe are worse than the Knicks. I wouldn't go that far! LeBron had the best all around season in the league. MVP's shouldn't come from teams who don't win their division and have less than 46 or whatever wins. They were barely over 500. Billups led his team to the most wins in the league with similar numbers. Billups had 3 all stars starting with him in the starting 5. Thats not an mvp it is more of a collection. Parker led the Spurs and a 1 legged Duncan to 63 wins with similar numbers. A 1 legged Duncan is also in the top 3 in NBA players and is one of the greatest big men of all time. Plus when ihe s healthy,his team always win. Those are just 5 arguments, and don't include Brand, Wade or Arenas who pretty much singlehandedly put their teams in the playoffs as well. Brand had a good season but Cassell really helped that ball club. Wade still has Shaq who is one of the best centers in the league. Gilbert Arenas is a ball hog with a low shooting percentage and played on a team that was barely above 500. When was the last time an MVP came from a team that was 4-6 games above 500??? Dirk led his team to SIXTY wins. What more is he supposed to do? Win 65 by himself? 70? The Lakers with an average 2 guard barely win 20 games aka they'd be the Knicks. With Kobe they won 45. The LeBrons had 50 wins, so they were 18 games over .500, which is not "barely" over .500. FYI they had the 6th best record in the league, and no one on that team is close to the caliber of Marion. Nash WON the MVP last year with 2 of the top 6 forwards in the game in his frontcourt. Billups doesn't play with anyone as good as Amare or Marion were last year. Duncan was not in the top 15 players this year which is why he's not an MVP candidate like he always is. Parker carried that team this year. You asked how anyone can argue against Nash and I'm giving you valid reasons in relation to what Nash did last year and/or this year.

Bannister just hit another double. The guy's done more for the Mets offense than Beltran lately. Just as I say that, he blows his right hammy rounding 3rd to score on a Matsui hit, JUST LIKE BELTRAN. ARGH

Nowitzki and a bunch of decent to good players won 60. The Lakers without Kobe are worse than the Knicks. LeBron had the best all around season in the league. Billups led his team to the most wins in the league with similar numbers. Parker led the Spurs and a 1 legged Duncan to 63 wins with similar numbers. Those are just 5 arguments, and don't include Brand, Wade or Arenas who pretty much singlehandedly put their teams in the playoffs as well.

I agree, but in general you don't want to face the best team in your conference in the first or second round in any sport.

Brian Bannister just hit a 2 run double to tie the Mets/Giants game at 3.

Again, the Spurs (3x) and Lakers (4x) are the only teams from the West to make the Finals since 1998, so it's not like Dallas is choking away opportunities that other teams are capitalizing on. If Dallas was a 2 seed this year and had homecourt against Phoenix that would be very different than having to play the Spurs with SA getting the extra home game. They might lose either series, but the fact that Phoenix is in the half of the bracket with the Lakers, Nuggets and Clippers is a lot better than being on the side with San Antonio, Sacramento, Dallas and Memphis. Just to clairfy, if Dallas was to match up against Phoenix in the WCF, Dallas would have homecourt advantage even though Phoenix is the 2 seed. I know that, I was just saying that if the seeds were done by record instead of by divisional seeding that Dallas would be the 2 this year and home against Phoenix instead of the 4 and away against San Antonio in terms of making matchups for the next round. It's the same reason the Clips are the home team against the Nuggets even though the Clips are the "lesser" seed. It's got to suck to win 60 games and probably go home in the 2nd round because another team in your division won 63, while a team with 46 wins or so has a chance to make the WCF if they can beat the Suns.

Again, the Spurs (3x) and Lakers (4x) are the only teams from the West to make the Finals since 1998, so it's not like Dallas is choking away opportunities that other teams are capitalizing on. If Dallas was a 2 seed this year and had homecourt against Phoenix that would be very different than having to play the Spurs with SA getting the extra home game. They might lose either series, but the fact that Phoenix is in the half of the bracket with the Lakers, Nuggets and Clippers is a lot better than being on the side with San Antonio, Sacramento, Dallas and Memphis.

When they keep coming up a game or two short to the Spurs in the division and end up with the 4 seed every year that's not as easy as you make it seem. They had the 3rd best record in the entire NBA and will probably get knocked out by the team with the 2nd best record in the 2nd round because of the bullshit divisional system that allowed a team that won SIXTEEN fewer games to get a better seed.

But if Dallas has also improved each of the last two years without Nash, what does that say about his value? If he was the league's MVP two years in a row, how come Dallas is better without him? Name another team that has given up a back to back MVP and done better because of it. That's why I don't get all of the Nash love. He makes the Phoenix SYSTEM work well, and it doesn't hurt that he had 2 of the other 14 best players in the league with him last year. This year I think there were others who led teams with less assistance to the postseason, and in some cases better records than Phoenix, but that doesn't matter because the media is in love with Nash, the worst multiple MVP winner in the history of all of American pro sports, and possibly the only guy who will ever win back to backs and still not make the HoF in his sport.

Billups didn't deserve the MVP because he played with 3 "all-stars" this year, but Nash deserved it last year in spite of playing with a 100% Amare (2nd team all NBA) and Marion (3rd team all NBA)? With Kobe, Wade, Nash, Iverson & Arenas having monster years, Billups will be lucky to make the 3rd team this year and Ben Wallace is the only other guy who has a chance at league wide recognition. Please explain the logic as to how Nash always gets the benefit of the doubt simply because he's Steve Nash.

That's moreso because Marbury is a cancer. Look at the magic he's worked on the Knicks since his arrival. Is it any accident that any team that dumps his useless ass gets much better the following year? Nash gets far too much credit for making stars out of JJ (16.7 PPG/4.7 RPG/4.4 APG with Marbury to 17.1/5.1/3.5 with Nash), Amare and Marion who didn't improve statistically as I showed earlier from the last season with Marbury until this year. It's not an accident that their fortunes have turned since they got D'Antoni's system in place and stopped caring about pretending to play defense and just try to outscore everyone. Again, Nash is a top 20 player in the league but I'm tired of everyone acting like he's doing this with a bunch of mediocre players, especially last season when he had two other top 20 guys, and a rising star in Joe Johnson on the team. The idea that losing Q-Rich is of significance is as laughable as Isiah trading for him when he can do NOTHING but shoot spot up 3's and the Knicks had a backlog of worthless swingmen already.

Look at how much that them had/has improved since they rid themselves of the cancer called Starbury and got Nash the next season. Marion hasn't really improved statistically since Nash got there. He's just now being acknowledged for his talent since the media fall all over themselves fellating Nash at every opportunity. Same thing with Amare. His scoring went way up last year because he took an extra 500 shots, most of which were dunks and 6 footers, but his rebounding stayed the same basically. It's not hard being a great player when you've basically got a 20 & 10 guy and a 25 & 9 guy in the starting lineup who get next to no credit for being as good as they are. Yes, Nash made Boris Diaw a star, but that's about it. The rest of the credit can be attributed to the fact that he plays an uptempo game with good scorers in 2 of the other 4 spots on the floor. If Nash and Billups were traded straight up, I guarantee you Billups would have similar if not better numbers than Nash did, the team records would have been about the same but Chauncey wouldn't have gotten either MVP.

When Nash gets yet another MVP because the Suns will easily win 60+ next year even with three of the 15 or 20 best players in the league in the same starting 5 it's gonna get ridiculous.

My guess is that he wants to be one better than Jordan/LeBron or he thinks he's three times the player now than he was when he entered the league. I think it'll last about a year just like MJ's 45 gimmick. If you don't switch teams, I don't think you should be allowed to switch numbers.

LeBron was just trying to set an NBA record with his 10 TOs, but he came up one short. Maybe next time, maybe next time. How was that not a moving pick against Bibby on that Barry game tying 3?

As long as the top 4 on that list are safe, I really don't care whether Kellie or Paris goes since they both annoy me.

Is Willie trying to get Duaner Sanchez to pitch 100+ innings this year? He's now worked 14 in the team's 20th game and this is already the 5th game he's worked 2 innings in. The dude's arm is going to fall off by the All-Star break at this rate.