OK, first the good news: starting Thursday night after a week’s delay of nothing, we get a couple weeks of quality NBA finals action.  It’s Cavs – Warriors for the 3rd year in a row.  So, is this a good thing?  Are months and months of basically less than stellar NBA action worth the 2 weeks a year?  SU says unless you are a fan of either Cleveland or Golden State, it’s hard to love this scenario.  It says that for 3 straight years, the other teams and their GMs were unable to really test either of these teams in the playoffs.  This year has been especially embarrassing as between the two teams, they lost one playoff game.  Pathetic.

SU sees the only hope being that Klay Thompson might want out when his contract is up.  It’s great to win and win but at some point he is going to see himself as a third wheel.  He would definitely be the star player on any other team (aside from the Cavs of course).  But for the foreseeable future and assuming no injuries to key players, this is what you will have in the NBA.

As for SU’s prediction, I see a Golden State win in 6 games.  But it will be entertaining, fun and worth tuning in and staying up until midnight for these two weeks.

Tiger Woods had a DUI arrest last night in case you missed it.  Just a continued slide into the abyss for Tiger.  It’s clear he needs to go back to the porn stars as that was when he was at his peak.  Too bad as he is good for golf although there are certainly enough young players now to entertain the fan base.  The problem is Tiger helps to grow it.

SU is still loving the Yankees but they need a left-handed bat in this line-up.  They are way, way too right-handed this year.  Greg Bird will hopefully provide that in another week.  Once Ellsbury was injured, they could have brought up one of the youngsters but SU believes arbitration eligibility no doubt caused the Yankees to abandon that idea and go with the Rob Refsnyder option.  He will never play.

SU has done the math and the official over/under for Chase Headley’s trade to anywhere is now July 17th.  Glaybar Torres needs to be brought up and the Chase Headley era needs to end in NY.  Batting Headley and Chris Carter 8th and 9th is like having a National League line-up with two pitchers hitting.  The Yankees are losing some winnable games with good starting pitching – happened again today.

Finally, SU saw a column by Bob Klapisch about how the Yankees should look to trade some regulars and prospects for Mike Trout.  SU says no, no, no.  For once, they have really good prospects and the good news is that most of them are not Yankee draft picks who as we know are often over-hyped and over-rated (see Jesus Montero).  This is an exciting time.  Let’s see how these youngsters develop and enjoy the ride.  We are past the days of investing A-Rod type money into one player.  SU has spoken.

Your thoughts?