The Peanut Gallery: May Edition

Welcome back to the from the ridiculous to the sublime issue of The Peanut Gallery! I am your party host, The Greg One. Spanning the globe, we'll start with the ridiculous and what better place than Pittsburgh where Ben Roethlisberger has been under fire for allegedly having unwanted relations with a college coed for the second time in less than two years. One's an accident, two's a trend...three's a habit. Even though Ben has gotten off light legally he's officially the dumbest pro quarterback in NFL history. Congratulations Ben, you make Jamarcus Russell look like he knows what he's doing! All of us can see you're a target when you go out in public, why can't you? You're a multi, multi-million dollar quarterback with two Super Bowl rings. You're going to be under the radar anyplace you go for the rest of your life. What are you doing hanging in college bars? All you're going to do is what we just saw. You got hooked by a barely legal piece of college hotness with nothing better to do than pay off her tuition at your expense the moment the hangover wore off. There may not be a criminal trial but the trail does not go cold overnight unless there was a substantial payoff involved. Ask Tiger about that. You put yourself in that position, Ben. Twice. Roger Goodell laid his pimp hand flush on your gamechecks and its going to cost another three million on top of your payout for the games you will be missing. Your team didn't back you, the annoyingly rabid Steeler fans didn't back you, the management didn't back you and EMINEM even punked you! That sir, is a ridiculously bad couple weeks which you definitely deserve.
The Raiders, speaking of ridiculous, traded for Jason Campbell and sent the aforementioned Jamarcus Russell packing. For once the Raiders made a smart move but The Greg One has complete confidence the Raiders will make the same moronic mistakes they always do. This is the team that brought proven quarterback Jeff Garcia into the fold last year only to cut him before the season started! Stupid is as stupid does. Russell did do The Greg One a favor by replacing disgraced Charger Ryan Leaf as the biggest bust in NFL history. Now all the NFL talking heads are asking if Russell will get another job. Sure he will, at Dairy Queen. He has a promising future as a Wal-Mart greeter! Oh, you mean a job in the NFL...In a word, NO. Getting cut from the Raiders is like flunking preschool. Jamarcus, don't go away mad, just go away.
Last season David Stern jinxed the NBA. Salivating over the potential ratings bonanza that would be a Lakers/Cavaliers finals, Stern officially jumped the shark by rubber stamping commercials that promoted the potential series during the semifinal round. Remember the Kobe/Lebron puppet commercials?( Lebron, have you seen my RINGS?!?) Predictably, the Cavs lost in the conference finals and the showdown never happened. In the end, no one outside California cared about a Lakers/Magic final. This year, no puppets, no commercials and sorry David Stern but Cavs/ Lakers still will not happen. Why? The Suns are good enough to beat the Lakers but even if they don't there is NO WAY Cleveland will get through Boston AND Orlando. The Cavaliers are a one man show and one man will not win a championship. Orlando will make it to the finals for the second straight year. That Kobe/Lebron finals series will NEVER happen. Lebron might make it with his next team but Kobe's window will shut after this year and the Lakers will not make the finals after this year for a very long time, IF they make it this year.
On that topic, The Greg One was the only man in the blogosphere to predict the Suns winning the series against the Spurs in five games, thus getting closer than all the 'experts' out there handicapping the series. Everyone else had the series going six or seven but the writing was on the wall. The Spurs were old and slow. The Suns are young, fast and deeper than any team remaining in the playoffs. If the Suns keep playing the way they're playing and the Lakers keep playing the way they're playing the Suns will win the series. Official prediction? This series will go seven games and when the smoke clears...The Lakers will have squeezed out the win and will lose to Orlando in the finals. Hard to say being a die-hard Suns fan and The Greg One hopes he is wrong for once.
Wrestlemania proved to be the biggest game in town the last weekend of march as yours truly told you on the air. The event was the best attended, highest grossing event in the history of University of Phoenix stadium, bringing in 72,219 fans and pumping more than 50 million into the Glendale economy over the four days they were here. If you want to know why the WWE is the greatest show in town rent the dvd and watch the Money-In-The-Bank ladder match and the main event featuring Shawn Michaels versus The Undertaker. If you're not a fan after that call an exorcist because you have no soul.

The Greg One will be back soon talking MMA, MLB, the controversial Arizona immigration law and the REAL keys to fixing the recession. Stay tuned.