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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Tuesday Countdown
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
10.I didn’t see the funeral procession for Uga VI. But I keep having this vision of car doors opening, several dogs jumping out and stopping to tinkle by a tree before proceeding to the gravesite.
9.Oh calm down. I love dogs, but please. The guestbook on AJC.com is now 173 pages long. The groundskeeper was a pallbearer. A Baptist preacher presided. Uga was carried in a dog crate. His entry was accompanied by “The Battle Hymn of the Bulldog Nation.” Admit it. If you lived anywhere else, you’d be falling off a chair, laughing.
8.Three Georgia players were arrested for battery over the weekend. Must be emotional fallout.
7.Alex Rodriguez has been seen recently in the company of Madonna. Must be emotional fallout.
6.Warrick Dunn never mentioned any players by name. But coming off his experiences with the Falcons, with the likes of DeAngelo Hall and Jimmy Williams, it doesn’t seem surprising he told Sportsline.com: “When I came in, my generation was different. We respected the guys who came before us. … Now you have a lot of young guys who don’t care about the past. … Don’t act like an a-hole. There are too many guys who act like that. I’ve seen too many guys who just want money and power.”
5.How long before Bobby Cox stops convincing himself that Jeff Francoeur (3-for-29, .239, .213 with runners in scoring position) will play his way out of this slump and sits the lad down for a while?
4.This is the kind of guy Bob Hartley is: I phoned him two weeks ago asking for an autographed picture as a funny going-away gift for Craig Custance, who now works for The Sporting News. Bob’s response, “I might be in Atlanta that week. What if I just come to the party?” And he did.
3.On a related note, Hartley is willing to cut you a deal on his house in Sugarloaf.
2.Don Waddell is slipping. He’s not even a good liar any more. His explanation for buying out Alexei Zhitnik less than two weeks after he said, “We think he’ll be a big part of our team,” is nonsensical. He claims things changed after the Thrashers drafted defenseman Zach Bogosian. But a veteran player doesn’t go from being “a big part” of a team to no part of a team based on one draft pick. Dept. of Duh: Waddell wanted to trade Zhitnik and couldn’t.
1.There are legitimate arguments on both sides of the, “Is Josh Smith worth the money” argument. But if you’re the Hawks, can you risk him becoming the player he can be in another city?
