You Leave Us No Choice, Mr. Brooks

We’re a day late, but, if an NBA player wears a red tuxedo to a post game press conference, the JoeSportsFan.com bylaws require us to make a smart ass remark about it.  Such was the case when Houston Rockets guard Aaron Brooks, fresh off a monstrous performance against the Lakers, stepped up to the podium to discuss the game.

To this point, we’ve already seen him compared to a waiter, a valet, a ventriloquist and a prom date, but we tend to think he looks more like the guy ripping our ticket stub and telling us that Star Trek is on the third theater to the right.

Regardless, we’re digging the threads, Aaron.

May 12

1925 - Yogi Berra is born and immediately informs the nurses and doctors that birth is just as good as being born.

1941 - After five years of being called the Bees, the National League franchise in Boston is once again known as the Braves.  Outside the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech and the Killer Bees of WWF fame, bee-related names of sports franchises really have no business existing.

2009 - Tony Hawk celebrates his 41st birthday. If there is one thing Tony has brought to the mainstream of society’s attention, it is that wearing pink shirts and underwear with an accused rapist, bong smoker and steroid user is not cool. ###MORE###

If this headline accomplishes anything, we are hopeful that someone from Manny’s camp sees it and decides to add “make appointment at Sport Clips” to the to do list during the suspension.  The dreads have officially run their course, Man-Ram.

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Wikipedia informs us that today is the birthday of former Tigers 2B Lou Whitaker. As a token of celebration, we turn our attention to Whitaker’s guest appearance on Magnum P.I. If there’s one thing this world needs more of, it is baseball players helping out private investigators with huge mustaches and ample chest hair.