Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Chuck and the Jet vs. Cuban

Mark Cuban has had a running feud with Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley. Kenny and Charles criticized Dallas' defense even though they beat Phoenix. Cuban called them "idiots." That started a whole bunch of talking back and forth. First of call, Charles is an idiot. He is so unprepared it's embarrassing. He makes up for his lack of preparation by saying ridiculous or outrageous things. Kenny is unassailable, he's great on camera, knows what he's saying and backs up his opinions. I love Cuban. In this case, I think neither of them did anything wrong, they just disagreed. If anything Cuban shouldn't have take then criticism of his team so personally because the fact is, they don't play defense well. But Barkley should be very embarrassed that he doesn't use the internet. In this day and age that's ignorant. And there's no way he can prepare to do his job without using the internet to read local papers, or game recaps. Fortunately for him TNT doesn't pay him to be intelligent, they pay him to be entertaining. Barkley is the poster child for everything that's wrong with throwing athletes on TV into pseudo-journalistic roles.

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