My dvr is not broken thank you very much

Explanation for the series ending Sopranos blackout:


People in the diner in The Sopranos last night:

- Guy at counter was Nicky Leotardo, Phil's nephew
- 2 black guys were the ones that tried to shoot Tony in an earlier season
but missed and clipped his ear.
- The truck driver was the brother of someone robbed and killed by
Christopher in season 2.
- Cub scouts were witnesses in the train store when Bobby got shot.
- Do you remember the convo that Bobby and Tony had two episodes in the boat, about getting whacked? He said if you were to get whacked, you would never see it coming and it would just be like everything would go black all of a sudden...

Wine at a premium

Ok, I was kidding about the crack dealer hedge fund. But this is for real and apparently successful: The Fine Wine Fund.

Redemption

It was pretty universally accepted that Rick Barnes aggressively screwed up his team's chances in the NCAA tournament even though he had the best college basketball player in history. And indeed, "Watching Barnes manage the second half of the Kansas game was like watching Principal Ed Rooney handle the Ferris Bueller situation." However, the man made quite a comeback today in my book with this gem on his ex-ass-saver Kevin Durant and the whispers that Durant's stock was dropping because he showed up to pre-draft workouts weak and out of shape:

"If people question his strength, they're stupid," Barnes said Tuesday. "If they are looking for weight lifters to come out of Texas, that's not what we're producing. There are a lot of guys who can bench press 300 pounds in the NBA who couldn't play dead in a cowboy movie. Kevin's the best player in the draft – period, at any position."

That is an aggressively true statement. Nice job Rick.

Scary image of the day

Greenspan, 81, said he wrote "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" in longhand in the bathtub -- an old habit after a back injury years ago.

Size Matters!

I mean economies of scale silly. Anyways, diehard Zone readers have alerted me to AdultVest, "The world's first and only investment community designed specifically for the adult industry!" And they are about to launch a hedge fund to originate loans for ever-expanding adult-entertainment club networks. I swear, some aspiring entrepeneur is going to launch a hedge fund soon backing underfollowed crack dealers.

Gaaaaary

Gary Sheffield is a crazy human being. In a Dark Alley Poll, he ranks near the top of instant killers to avoid. That wild look he gets in his eyes makes one want to pee his and/or her pants. Anyways, his militancy continues. But in the midst of his neverending us against them shtick, a larger point sticks out: holy crap, only 8.5% of MLB players are African-American. By my count there are only two African-American starting pitchers in the whole league (Dontrelle and CC Sabathia). The league runs baseball academies off back roads in the Dominican (think Pedro under a mango tree) but they've got nothing similar in Chicago or New York. Why don't we ever hear about this?

The yuppies are coming!

Or in the case of my roommates and I, the yuppies have already arrived. This building is going up a couple blocks from me in Williamsburg. Please check out the delicious comments section, specifically #9.