what do you mean its the offseason?

As our devoted readers know, we here at VTB are avid new york sports fans. In commemoration of next season's yankee tickets going on sale today I would just like to say, that offseason baseball has been way more exciting this year than any sport currently in the midst of battling out its season.

THE NBA:
ok as a whole, really who gives a damned about a league where the notion of parity has all but completely disappeared. The Knicks, known for their inability to underachieve and do just well enough to not get a good draft pick, are doing just that and are 9-17. What's funny here is that they're only four and a half games out of first place in the Atlantic Division. Seriously, the entire eastern conference is a bunch of losers. Why even bother having eastern conference playoffs to see who's going to get their asses handed to them by a western conference team. I mean really, what kind of sporting world are we coming to when the ENTIRE western conference has a better record than the knicks? so sad, and really so uninteresting. on a side note does any one else find it weird that the denver nuggets, the golden state warriors and the memphis grizzlies are all over .500? aren't these teams known for perennially sucking? yes, i know all about carmello and mike dunleavy and hubie brown, i'm just saying teams that have always sucked are now decent and that's strange. but i guess someone has to be winning these games and it sure as shit isn't anyone who plays in the eastern conference - save the pacers and that damned reggie miller and the pistons who have always been a scrappy little team.

THE NHL:
ok. first of all. maybe its just because no team at the garden knows how to do anything but underachieve, but being a rangers fan makes watching the NHL really hard year in and year out. We get good players, they just start to suck when they put on the red, white, and blue. Alex Kovalev is just another in a long string of doomed players, sad really. as for the rest of the league, well again there's something unnatural about the Atlanta Thrashers being in first place, Mike Modano sucking it up like he plays for the rangers, and the st. louis blues playing like they might actually win their first ever stanley cup. its all so unholy.

THE NFL:
ok. the jets suck. the giants suck harder. oh and the bengals might make the playoffs. i don't think anymore needs to be said.

in the meantime there's been drama, there's been bitter rivalries and there's been a little smug boy up in boston who went to the george steinbrenner school of how to put together a baseball team, we've seen blood (charges in the garcia, fenway employee melee), we've seen tears (petitte gone to houston), we've seen sweat (a-rod's going to boston, now he's not, now he is, now he's not), we've seen sheer lack of heart (getting rid of Nick Johnson? those bsox ready to give up nomar?) and of course we've heard the stupidity of one larry lucchino. it's a better drama than Tru Calling. stick to baseball, i'm telling you it has all the makings of falcon crest in sports.