Welcome to a brand new monthly feature here at Pacman Jonesin’ called Snap Takes & Sinister Spin.  The feature was inspired by a tweet from the Twitter account of the bronzed and stylish @RicBucher.  While we do like to kid Ric (screw the K at the end, who needs it), his NBA commentary, sideline reports and insights are really topnotch.    
Snap Take I:  Mike Brown coaches the best basketball player on the planet and doesn’t have a clue how to use him!
Snap Take II: How many times is Brown going to continue to instuct LeBron to go 1 on 5 or run a high screen [...]

Faux Twitter Tweet of the Day
Take this money and don’t print Tim Donaghy’s book or else you’ll wake up with Violet Palmer’s a horse’s head in your bed.
David Stern      October 29th  
 
Um Houston, I think we have a problem.  Excerpts of former referee Tim Donaghy’s new book Blowing The Whistle: The Culture Of Fraud In The NBA were posted yesterday and some of the revelations are quite damning…to say the least:
To have a little fun at the expense of the worst troublemakers, the referees working the game would sometimes make a modest friendly wager amongst themselves: first ref to give one of the bad boys [...]

Yankees vs. Phillies. Game 1. Don’t watch the insipid commercials…check out the following links instead: 
Nick Swisher may need to take a page out of Steve Phillips’ playbook     Babes Love Baseball
The Egregious 8: Wait, Garrett Morris isn’t the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?   Gunaxin 
Checking in on the chimps at the BCS   Global Sports Fraternity
The Boston Celtics looked good last night vs. LeBron & Co.   Josh Q. Public
The Orlando Magic open the season tonight against the 76ers and Ryan Anderson (the next Dirk Nowitzki?) is in the starting lineup    Howard The Dunk
How does your favorite NFL team stack up on ebay?     Terapeak

 
The countdown to 100 continues.  Click here and here if you missed the first 40 characters.  Here we go…
41. Homer Simpson
42. Michael Bluth
43. Tobias Funke
44. Bart Simpson
45. Hank Moody
46. Newman
47. Lucille Bluth
48. Estelle Costanza
49. Johnny Drama (Chase)
50. Christian Troy (the first two seasons; haven’t watched since then)
51. Charlie Runkle
52. Stewie Griffin
53. Jerry Seinfeld
54. Felix Unger
55. Kevin Beekin
56. Marty Shonson
57. Alan Finger
58. Peter Griffin
59. Frank Costanza
60. Joan Holloway

 
 
 
Bob Griese’s attempt at humor over the weekend was certainly inappropriate and ill advised.  Was it a racist comment though?  Did he deserve to be suspended for a week?  Absolutely not.  It’s just another example of the PC Police being completely out of control in this country.  Griese apologized for the unfortunate remark.  Let’s just turn the page, shall we?
How out of control has it gotten?  Well, within the past few days we’ve had the Griese incident, the hens from “The View” harping on Barack Obama for playing pick-up basketball with his Boys Club and Kansas City running back Larry Johnson’s impending suspension for using the word faggots.   
Obama has really made a [...]

Faux Twitter Tweet of the Day
Big Baby’s injury will enable me to lead the Celtics to another championship & prove that I’m an elite player like LeBron, Kobe and DWade.
Brian Scalabrine           October 27th    
 
A Few Quick Predictions
The start of the NBA season is now only a couple hours away and it’s time to go on the record:
MVP: Chris Paul
ROY: Tyreke Evans
Coach of the Year: Flip Saunders
Sleepers: Washington Wizards, Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Clippers (despite the injury to Blake Griffin)
Overhyped team:  Oklahoma City Thunder – there is no way Kevin Durant & Co. will make the playoffs this season.  None.
Eastern Conference Finals: Boston Celtics vs. Orlando [...]

Faux Twitter Tweet of the Day
My choice of road beef was an embarrassment to ESPN and I will seek treatment for an addiction to plus sized production assistants.
Steve Phillips      October 26th
 
Less than a week after acknowledging a relationship with a 22-year old production assistant, Steve Phillips has been fired.  Last night, ESPN network spokesman Josh Krulewitz released the following statement about the termination:
“Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN.  His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways.”
Was Phillips fired for cause?  Absolutely.  Let’s cut through the legalese bullshit [...]

As we suspected, a number of people took issue with the Top 25 list posted earlier this week.  When it’s all said and done, we’ll get to the Top 100, but here are the next 15 best television characters in history… 
26. Omar Little
27. Louis DePalma
28. Murray Hewitt 
29. Eric Cartman
30. Artie (from “The Larry Sanders Show”)
31. Jimmy McNulty
32. George “Gob” Bluth
33. Alex P. Keaton
34. Paulie Walnuts
35. Tracy Jordan
36. Al Bundy
37. Liz Lemon
38. Cosmo Kramer
39. Devon Banks (props to Will Arnett)
40. Josh Lyman