Who's to blame: Fung, dats who

Zydrunas Ilgauskas hit 10-of-10 shots from the floor on Wednesday for 24 points, six rebounds, four assists and three blocks in an easy win over the Wizards. Big Z was great tonight and was playing through a bruised shin. Obviously, he had no problems with the shin, or Brendan Haywood, tonight.

The Rochester Zeniths would have been reaping the fruits of this labor if i didn't have to sit players because no one, like, oh, Commissioner Fung, told me about the asinine "maximum games" rule until a third of the way through the season (an obvious conspiracy to keep Smiff from finishing in the money in anudder Yahoo league...). So i wasted a bunch of games early in the season on players i shouldn't have been playing. If i do anything in this league it will be to finish ahead of Parcers' Bud Lite, a Zimbabwean used car salesman from Chicago...

How to be a total failure and yet profit immensely...

...lie, too. Something for George W. Bush to consider (say, baseball will need a new commissioner in 2013, unless Bud lies again and signs for another extension).

Bud Selig [click at own risk] on Thursday was given a three-year extension as baseball commissioner through the 2012 season. Financial terms weren't released, of course, but Selig received $14.5 million in the 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2005, according to MLB's last available tax return. Selig insisted when his last extension was done that he'd be retiring after it expired following the 2009 season. This sets him up as commissioner through age 78.

Bud Lite: another failure

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former commissioner Bowie Kuhn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the revamped Veterans Committee on Monday while his longtime adversary, players' union boss Marvin Miller, was left out for the second time this year. Former Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, managers Dick Williams and Billy Southworth and ex-Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss also were elected.

With only 25% of the vote, there's no way Marvin Miller is getting in under this or any other system Bud Lite dreams up. What a crock.

add this to Bud Selig's neverending list of idiocies

Carlos Silva, who could command north of $32 million for four years as a free agent this winter, won't net the Twins any compensation under the newly unveiled Elias rankings. The same goes for Kyle Lohse and the Phillies. We've railed against them for years and we'll do it again: the Elias rankings are a complete joke and it's in everyone's best interests to base free-agent compensation off another system. It's ludicrous that Silva and Lohse don't qualify, yet Troy Percival, who pitched 40 innings during the two years the rankings cover, is a Type B free agent, meaning he could net the Cardinals a supplemental first-round pick. One more example of the idiocy: Robinson Cano and Mike Lowell are rated above Alex Rodriguez among infielders (A-Rod is still a Type A, of course).

That's it?

Belichick, Patriots Fined

If there's a rule against filming opposition coaches during the game, and then you film opposition coaches during the game, you should forfeit the game. Period. The Patriots will give Belichick back the money he got fined - he won't lose. First round pick lost? Feh, so many of those guys end up duds anyway. "It had no impact on the game." How the phokk do they know? But if you want to send a message, you make them forfeit the game. None of this fining crap.