Introducing the PBO Diggs and WHTP's The Week That Was

Introducing Pbo Diggs, the newest member of What Happened to Pride. He'll be running a weekly column, "The Week That Was" recapping all sorts of sports news. You can check out his blog at Short Shorts and Weak Pros. And ignore his defense of Plax, he's a Giant's fan; they're numb after years of supporting retardation.

The Week that Was... -Unless you've been living under a rock for the past five days you've heard that Plaxico Burress, New York Giant WR, shot himself in the leg this weekend at a Manhattan Club. Now, this story has been on the Daily Show, The Colbert Report and every other program known to man, so I won't get into how he was sporting sweatpants at the club, or that he may have fucked the Giants' Superbowl hopes and tarnished the reputation of stand-up middle linebacker Antonio Pierce etc… All I want to say is this: How can you go to jail for three years for shooting yourself? Isn't the trauma of nearly shooting your dick off punishment enough? Listen, Plax is a retard, he should have gotten a permit, hired a bodyguard or just not carried a gun, but he doesn't deserve to get his life ruined because he over estimated the strength of the elastic band in his sweatpants. I wonder if those were team issue?

- --- -The Braves got Javier Vasquez yesterday. Bug Selig may need to step in if they keep this up or the rest of the NL East may just forfeit. Sweet offseason moves, Braves. In a similar move, the Astros signed 1998's own, Mike Hampton. Contention, here they come!

- --- -Is Matt Ryan's rookie season better than any season Mike Vick ever had in his entire career? 90% of the league would come to terms with a few hung, beaten and drowned dogs if they could void the huge contract of an overrated player and upgrade the position. The only easier out for a team would be something ridiculous, like a self inflicted gunshot wound.

- - -- I went to my first Knicks game yesterday. We lost. There were two foreign gentleman sitting in front of us watching there first basketball game. These guys didn't understand the game well, and asked us at one point what we were saying during the "De-Fense" chant. We explained, and for the rest of the day they chanted it at all possible times. This marks the first time someone has gone to a Mike D'Antoni game and come away learning about Defense.

- - -- T-Mac is out three weeks with some knee issue that is probably going to lead to a re-aggravation of his back. I love T-Mac but he is like Grant Hill with osteoporosis. It's hard to win that allusive first playoff series when you're always the 6^th or 7^th seed because you miss 30 games a year. With that said, his team has a 26% winning percentage when he is injured, so all those people who say he is overrated, you're wrong.

- --- -The Big East has 8 teams in the top 25. That makes them the best conference is sports right now. I'm calling 'Cuse v. UConn in the National Title Game, which will be a rematch of the Big East Championship. You heard it hear first.

- --- -I know the economy is rough, so all I want for Christmas is "12 Play 4^th Quarter," the new album by R. Kelly. His first single "Hair Braider" really speaks to me.