Company slogans

This morning there was a breakfast to celebrate the birthday of our company slogan. Hah! Does anyone else find this ridiculous and worthy of an entire "The Office" episode?

They don't get much love on here since they play a whopping 162 games, but here's a rare thought on the Padres:
- Justin Germano - Not only does he share a name with my favorite cousin, but this man's got an inspiring second-chance story.

He SUCKED for the Padres a few years ago, got shipped away to another team, no one wanted him so the Padres picked him back up for mere pennies, he gets penciled in to replace an injured starting pitcher, and now he's 5-0.

Not too shabby for a former reject. That's Drew-Breesish persistence right there.



And now my thoughts on the NBA Finals:
I had class when the Spurs completed their sweep against the Cavs. And I wasn't too upset about missing it. Should that say something about the state of the NBA right now?

There's a lot of talk about re-seeding and other ways of shuffling teams to make the Playoffs more interesting.

My favorite idea (heard it on late-night sports radio) is to re-arrange the whole NBA conference system using original NBA teams to form the core of one conference. I don't remember the details, but basically old-school powerhouses like the Lakers would be thrown in the same conference as the Bulls and Pistons.

Then take ABA teams and expansion teams and teams with similar TV markets as an original NBA team in the other conference - i.e. Heat (expansion), Nets (ABA), Spurs (ABA), Clippers (same market as Lakers) - like the NFL's AFC/NFC. It would have an old-school vs. new-school feel, and also make both conferences equally competitive.

This way the Western Conference isn't beating each other to death all year. Clippers/Lakers, Warriors/Kings, and Nets/Knicks games would be more rare and have more of an inter-league atmosphere (Dodgers/Angels games are huge in LA).

Either that or make the basket 9 ft. high for more dunks!