Thought #1

LenDale White gave up Tequila and lost 45 pounds, the Seattle Seahawks gave up LenDale and lost 220 pounds and a guy who scored 17 touchdowns in the past two seasons with the Tennessee Titans. Now LenDale did miss on of the team's organized activities this month but the question remains; a guy comes in with all that upside and reportedly in the best shape of his life, why dump him this quick?

It seems a lot like a guy who is on his second go around with a girl he dumped once for cheating on him. Sure she has a lot to offer, but he remembers the first time she didn't answer his calls and showed up at his door at 2 am smelling like cheap vodka. He remembers how that one night replayed itself over and over until he found out the chick spending her free time with a couple of sketchy dudes working at the local sports bar. Now on this second time around, he's been to the rodeo, he's seen the clowns, and he ain't sticking around for the dramatic finish.

Seahawk's coach Pete Carroll knows LenDale, he spent all of LenDale's college career with him. Pete knows the signs, he knows how this story goes, and despite LenDale's efforts to excuse his behavior, Pete aint buying it. When you show up to a party with a bunch of familiar baggage, and no matter how hard to try to say you were visiting your Grandma, the shampoo and towels in your carry say Holiday Inn and this time around the story ain't flying.

Thought #2

You ever watch one of those B-rated action flicks where the hero pops off about a thousand rounds during a shoot out, amazingly only reloading twice, but then one final bullet catches the villain and he's a hero. Yeah he destroyed an entire city block, blew up ten cars, and set fire to the local Boys and Girls club, but hey he caught the bad guy so hooray!

This must be Ron Artest's theory on basketball after the dude went 2-9 Thursday night, but got the game winner. Now it's no secret that Ron is a little off his rocker, I mean dude did miss time because he was attacked by presents over Christmas break, but after lobbing up a brick when he could have ran out the clock for his team his bank shot at the buzzer made him a hero.

Once again this proves, you can't explain crazy, you just have to ride it out and hope for the best and for Laker fan this time it payed off.

Thought #3

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