Taboo Tuesday

So its come to this...weekly updates! Hello, for those of you that may have forgotten my name is Doug and THIS is the Two Minute Drill. After starting off as a daily column, went to every other day, to twice a week, to recently weekly. This isnt permanent, more of a time and cheap connectivity issues. So bear with me and soon I'll be back to daily postings.

 

RANDOM RANTS AND STORIES

-The Dodgers finished the month of April 14-8 which is their best April in recent history. Many have written off this teams fast start as merely a fluke and are already awaiting their collapse. Sorry to break it to you naysayers, but this IS a good team. They arent a OVERPOWERING team, but they are good and that says something. Everyone thought this team would be in dead last most of the year or MAYBE 3rd place. Instead the offense came rushing out of the gate and the pitching has proved to be unsinkable on some nights. May brings with it a tougher schedule for LA's REAL team, so this month may actually prove to be the make or break month for the Dodgers.

-We are now 2, count em 2 days away from the "Happiest Homecoming on Earth" festivities at Disneyland. At first I was confused as to why they would be celebrating Disneyland's 50th Anniversary a full 2 months before the actual date. Then I looked at the date more closely: 05-05-05..flip it around..50-50-50. Duh! Gotta love that marketing dept!! It should be a blast on Thursday, but many in Disneyland's exec offices are wondering: "If we are bringing out all the big guns for this May date, what are we gonna do for the REAL Anniversary?" July 17th, 2005 is the actual 50th anniversary date and there is concern that date will have none of the pomp and circumstance of the May 5 date. In the next few weeks, Disneyland execs will be hastily putting together another celebration ceremony. Waiting in the wings for that date of course, is the RELAUNCH of Space Mountain. Recent info indicates that the ride itself remains unchanged, but the special effects and sound system have been brought into the 21st century. One cool new addition, is a special "night time only" soundtrack by VanHalen. In fact, upon closer inspection of the new sign installed outside the ride, the fiber optic writing reveals the name "Rock It Mountain". The new tagline? "By day it ROCKETS, by night it ROCKS!" Sounds like fun, but I just hope they brought back the OG soundtrack too.

-The Lakers should find out in a few days whether or not Phil Jackson will return to their team. I'm starting to think he is NOT going to return. Why would he want to? I mean this team is at least 2 or 3 years away from competing again. Does Phil really have the patience or desire to go through a rebuilding? I honestly dont think so. Of course, as you long time readers may know, I could be wrong. One thing is for sure, unless Mitch Kupchak starts acting like a REAL GM and not some guy who makes stupid trades and stupid contract offers, then it wont matter whose on the bench. Because his moronic moves will just continue to hamper the team.

-Shaq and the Miami heat are into the second round of the playoffs. The curse of the Shaq-bino continues! ;-)

OK, that will do it for now. I hope you are all doing good. I'll try to get updating this thing more often. Til the next time we meet.

DQ