BEFORE I START to LOAD 2 of EACH ANIMAL on the ARK......SOME SPORTS SHORTS!!!

Will it ever, ever, ever stop FRIGGIN RAINING? I'm begin to think that I've been transformed into one of those Twilight Zone episodes where things get switched--- unbeknownst to me. Something like while I was sleeping around the 1st of the month, New Jersey actually transformed into Seattle......rain, rain, rain, rain.......Only problem is, I don't see a Starbucks on every corner and hey.....where's the grunge music?

So without any US Open to watch on this rainy day, some blogging to try and lift my spirts:

MARIAN HOSSA

Pictures tell 1,000 words and I don't even have to add one to this!!!

US OPEN

a) I want to see Phil win. I'm a Phil guy.

b) I believe Tiger is gonna win. Win by 5+ shots.

c) My darkhorse is the man in pastel, Ian Poulter.

MONEY TALKS

Item #1: Plaxico Burress is facing a possible 3-year sentence for shooting HIMSELF! Item #2: Michael Vick get 2 years in jail for animal cruelty.....killing dogs.

Item #3: Donte Stallworth gets 30 days for KILLING A HUMAN BEING!

What's this tell you??? If you can write enough 000,000's on a check, you have the ability to buy your way out of causing the death of another person. Hope the family enjoys all that money they got in exchange for allowing the killer to spend ONLY 30 days in prison. To me this is blood money in a different form. DISGRACEFUL!!!

PLAXICO a JET?

If I'm Rex Ryan and unless I gain about 150 pounds, I'm not......NO WAY, no how do I want Plaxico on my team. Forget about the shooting instance. He's a ME GUY on a team coached by a rookie coach preaching it is all about the TEAM. There's no "I" in team. DON'T do it Rex.

GOOD LUCK LeBRON

If you believe that Mike Brown was actually the best coach in the NBA this year, then please allow me to serve up this invitation to see me next year in the Mr. Universe contest. PPPPPPPPllease!

GIVE ME the SMELLING SALTS

Shocking, SHOCKING news that Sammy Sosa took steroids. As an early major leaguer he had the body of a flamingo with a baseball cap on and then low and behold practically overnight he has muscles upon muscles and hitting 60+ homers a year. Throw in getting caught with a corked bat as well and it all adds up for me. So now we've got 2 (A-Rod is the other) out of the 103 positive steroids tests from 2003. Gives us the other 101 names and let's move on, I'm tired!

FAVORITE SPORTS TWEETS

* John Heyman of SI.com on the Mets bad health and bad fundamentals........."I'm starting to think the Mets Doctor and Baserunning Coach are the same guy."

* Bill Simmons the SportsGuy on the NEW Yankee Stadium........"Yankee Stadium is like flying a red-eye in First Class. Just as quiet, just as expensive."

Hope the rain stops in time for me to disembark from the Ark and make it to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor waterpark for my Father's Day ritual outing. If not, I'll play with the giraffes, elephants and others on the Ark!

Later! DZ22