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Sunday Happenings
We're gonna go ahead and declare this the Summer of Wake. Sure, we noted yesterday that Josh Beckett's the anchor of the rotation. And we're not going to forget to spread the love around when guys deserve it. But in his first start since learning his All-Star status, Tim Wakefield hung around long enough to get graced by a Sox comeback, earn his 11th win, and be carried off the field on a metaphorical wave of cheers.
The young Oaklands were dazed and confused by the knuckler. "There were at-bats where guys came back and said they'd never seen it move as much as it was," said A's skipper Bob Geren. "'I'm going to close my eyes and swing.' And nothing," said old friend Orlando Cabrera. That's what we like to hear, and what we'd really like to hear from the NL All-Stars next week.
Offensively, Wake was benefitted from a pair of 6th-inning homers by J.D. Drew and David Ortiz - the 299th of Papi's career. Papelbon gave up a run in the ninth, but held on to save the 5-4 win. The Royals are in town for a 4-game series tonight, which will let the Sox miss out on Wake's fellow All-Star, the 10-5 Zack Greinke.
The Celtics made the Rasheed Wallace signing official yesterday, bringing the feisty forward in for three years and an undisclosed number of dollars. Doc Rivers is already trying to figure out how best to use him (the plan is to bring Sheed off the bench, but we'll see.)
Elsewhere in basketball, the world is buzzing about Xavier student/athlete Jordan Crawford dunked over LeBron James at James' Skills Academy(!) near Cleveland. The buzz is mostly because Nike confiscated tapes of the dunk from two people who filmed it. So much for "we are all witnesses".
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The LeBron Hype Machine never stops humming. Jordan Crawford was on ESPN this a.m. and he was great. He wasn't boasting at all and didn't criticize LeBron about the tape. He did admit he'd love a copy of the footage of the dunk. He'll never forget it, tho. He's probably the most famous college player now.
LeBron, despite being either the best or second-best player in the world (Kobe), is a punk. Keeping the tape quiet only hurts this kid because it might help him get paid. This is why he won't ever be like Mike. The kid dunks on you and then you teach him a basketball lesson like he's never seen. LeBron has four inches and 70 lbs. on Crawford and probably talks better smack, too. Just show him why he shouldn't dunk on you. Crawford said the dunk happened early in the pick-up game so LeBron had an entire game to torment the kid. Jordan would have eviscerated him. Oh, when it was over he'd probably sign the ball for the kid and help him get into the NBA just so he could embarrass him on national TV.
Punk.
The only bigger punk than LeBron is Kevin Harlan because he said this.
I feel better now.