11/11/09 Houston Sports FaF Smear

Song of the Day: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”

T-Mac: "I'm ready." Rox: "No, you're not."

What did I tell you? Yesterday, I said that Tracy McGrady had announced that he was ready to return to the court for his first game since his ovaries started giving him problems he injured himself last season. I half-heartedly joked that he probably didn’t get clearance from the team yet. Let’s take a quick time out for the following announcement:

I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!

T-Mac said he would be back the 18th of November for the T-Wolves. The Rockets said NOT so fast, my friend. We all went through this before… Remember back when McGrady said he put a date on his return when the season hadn’t started yet? The Rockets came back and countered his statement with a, “you live in MY house, you live by MY rules” by telling the world he wouldn’t be coming back until after a scheduled November 23rd MRI. Last time I checked, 18 < 23 which means it technically comes before on the calendar.

But, now things are being said to have been taken out of context. Who’s to blame? Not T-Mac. No, of course not. It’s the fault of the interwebz. They’re the ones that blew this up all out of proportion (not Fourth and Fifty… we abide by a lofty ethical standard of reporting). Unfortunately for T-Mac’s backpedaling to be effective, that would mean that the MRI on the 23rd would be a myth. Hey, asshole. Why don’t you just own up to trying to jump the gun. It’s not that difficult.

Since T-Mac has become more of a distraction off the court than on (where he can’t seem to win playoff games. Yes, ’07 technically wasn’t his fault, but still), why is he still around? This doesn’t seem to be the kind of shit that Daryl Morey would put his team through. There has to be a Sabermetric that counts the number of derogatory articles written about a player, right? Let’s coin it here: The Pop Culture +/-. For example: Yao Ming has a PC+/- of positive One Billion. He brings the entire nation of China under Rockets fandom. That’s a man you want on your team. T-Mac has a PC+/- of negative 736. The number of crocodile tears he’s cried every time he gets injured but still collects a paycheck for one game unplayed that’s more than you’ll make in two years.

Moving on to the rest of your Houston Sports updates:

ROCKETS – Let’s finish up the rest of the Rockets news by saying that they lost, 121-103 last night to the Dallas Maverick’s. I blame T-Mac.

UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON – Here’s a link to CBS-Sports’ UH vs. UCF preview. No matter how cliché something ultimately is, it never sounds “prepared for the media”  when it’s coming out of a player’s mouth from your favorite team. Observe:

“I don’t know what the Heisman voters are thinking,” Keenum said. “My goal right now is to beat UCF. My goal is not to win the Heisman or break records. Any individual award is a team award. If you’re not being successful and winning games, those team accolades are not going to come your way.”

I swear, if any of us saw that in print about Colt McCoy we would just dismiss it. But, since Case Keenum wants to defer his success to the rest of his team instead of taking all the praise he’s a fucking saint. A SAINT, I tell you.

TEXANS – Texans Look to Shake Off Tough Loss to Indy. O RLY?! You mean they don’t want to accept the fact that they’re losers and won’t win another game? They actually want to play the rest of the games? What kind of world is this that we live in where teams are allowed to redeem themselves on the field? I thought the NFL was a suicide pool of a League. Last team unbeaten wins the big prize. Just ask the Patriots.

UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON (pt. 2) – Two more points of interest: UH Concerned Over Late Game Tactics which is officially the politest way of saying “you can go get fucked, June Jones and Todd Graham,” that I’ve ever read. Houston’s asking C-USA to look into the injury timeouts that were taken in the SMU and Tulsa games. And, Heisman Trust Interested in Keenum. Finally.

- Septimus Rex

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