Actually, there’s no way I’m un-retiring. I couldn’t sleep all night because of a sore shoulder and I think I only made about 5 throws.

But I did hit that ball off the wall.

I can remember being home from school during the summer and waking up in the morning, always thankful to see that morning soap operas on NBC were replaced by tennis. It’s not that I was really much of a tennis fan, but I hated soap operas. But, by just having tennis on in the background while I was doing other stuff made me understand the game a bit. But more importantly, to me, it made me a fan of certain players. And they were always the women players. I found men’s tennis actually kind of boring. It took longer for matches to be resolved and it was mostly all about power. Serve, volley, kill. Wash, rinse, repeat. But I noticed that the women’s game had a lot more rallying back and forth and the set ups of the shots were less predictable. And what male on earth wasn’t a fan of Chris Evert Lloyd? And then Jennifer Capriatti came along. And Monica Seles. I didn’t really care who won, as long as Martina Navratilova didn’t, which meant that for the most part, I was unhappy with who won. She was like the Darth Vader of women’s tennis. Expressionless (at least to me). Didn’t seem happy. Didn’t know that wearing glasses and a headband wasn’t attractive. But she annihilated people. Gladly, for me, her reign of terror was near the end when I started watching. But she was still the villain and a fantastic one at that.

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I hope everyone had a good day today, even if you don’t celebrate the 4th of July.

Since it’s legal in Gilroy, we were able to set off some safe fireworks. A bunch of cousins came over and we had a great time.

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Supposedly, Elton Brand opted out of his contract so that he could offer the LA Clippers some flexibility to help to the team offer more money to a big time free agent. Last night, they got their guy in Baron Davis. It seemed like a lay-up that Brand would then agree to a contract that would allow he and Davis to be Clippers for the next several seasons. But it looks like Chris Mullin and the Golden State Warriors have given Brand something to think about.

According to both Tim Kawakami and Marc Stein, the Warriors have offered Brand max free agent money to come up north.

If the Clippers offer Davis what is expected to be $65 million over five years, their offer to Brand looks to be smaller than what the Warriors can throw at him. The Warriors reportedly are offering at least $90 over 5 years. I won’t even pretend to understand the NBA’s salary cap, but it seems that in order to have both Davis and Brand under contract for next season, the Clippers’ offer could be much less than what the Warriors could offer.

But Brand specifically has stated that his goal was to remain a Clipper and that he was inspired by what Boston did by having Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen all on the same team. He wanted superstar teammates who were willing to give it their all. So if that’s his goal, the Clippers are probably his team. The Warriors’ best player is a young and small shooting guard and right now, they have no point guard. Will money talk? Who knows. But my bet is that Brand takes the Clippers deal. If he doesn’t, he might be more hated in Los Angeles than Carlos Boozer is in Cleveland.

Thanks to cousin Miko for this.

Word on the street (well at least according to Yahoo! gossip site OMG!) is that Shannen Doherty is in talks to become Brenda Walsh 2.0 in the new Beverly Hills, 90210. With Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling already in, I wonder how much the old characters will overshadow the new ones. I have a feeling if too many of the old cast starts to reappear, none of the new characters will get over with the fans of the old show.

Luke Perry has supposedly said no, and if I were him, I’d probably say no as well. This way, if they want him badly enough for season two (if there is a season two), they’ll pony up the money. As for Jason Priestley, no word on him yet. They still have time.

I only hope that they reprise the scene where Brenda tries to explain why she thinks Kelly is a bimbo and says, “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck …” That would be great.