Jumping the Rails

So...

Carmelo Anthony has demanded a trade.  Why?  Because he feels like it.  Because he's an overpaid, overindulged child (sound familiar Cavs fans?) who can dictate the economies of multiple metropolitan cities due to his ability to throw a rubber ball.  It is a grace and a blessing to be gifted with such marketable talent and how these classless punks defile the beauty of the sport is a shocking disgrace.  At some point the levy must break.  An owner, a man with some measure of gumption, must stand up and say "no."  Like the the parents of spoiled children who finally cease sparing the proverbial rod, the man on the purse strings must just say "the hell with it," and let the P.O.S. sit and decay without pay as he breaches his contract.  Everything has come full circle.  Enough is enough.  Tell Carmelo that he can play in Denver and honor his contract or he can sit on his butt and atrophy before having to give back all his misbegotten cash.

If that weren't enough...

A recent release of MLB financial documents reveal that the Marlins have been concealing profits for years.  Whatever, right?  Who cares?  Wrongo.  The Marlins recently dropped their cock and bull on a hapless Dade County board to procure more than 75% of the funding for their new $634mil stadium complex.  Over the past two years the Marlins have accepted scads of MLB money to the tune of a cumulative $48.9mil profit.  Not the just barely breaking even they whimpered, a bloody $50 million dollar profit.  "We have no money," they said.  "We need a new stadium," they whined.  "If we don't get it, we'll leave," they hissed.  So Dade County agreed to pay the price, to place the burden on taxpayers, as Jeffrey Loria et al. cackled at the rubes behind closed doors.  Here's the piece that blows mind: a single $91mil loan will be paid back between 2040 and 2049 at a rate of $118mil... a year.  I'm sorry, I didn't hear you right.  $118 MILLION A YEAR!  All tolled taxpayers will dish out $2.4 BILLION for the stadium.  Long story short, if you see Jeff Loria, or any of the the Marlins money men, on the street, punch him in the face.  And give him an extra one for me.

And lastly, in an occurrence that many will say signals the impending apocalypse even more strongly...

Cliff Lee over his last 4 starts -- 0-3, 8.39 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, .306 OBA, 5HR