After he signed his new mega deal Gilbert Arenas said he was going to cut back on the
little distractions that he is so prone to creating. At the time he claimed,
"Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, all the little things I do out there is gonna come to a halt. You know, but I think I'm up for the task. I just need to cut out some of the foolishness I do." - Gilbert Arenas
Well I don't even think it's been a month yet and Arenas is already living up to his quirky reputation. The latest piece of information is just too good. Here's a hint: it involves sharks. From
Arenas' blog, by way of
TrueHoop,
"I’ve been in love with fish tanks and sharks for a while. (And not just shark jokes.) I actually bough Ken Griffey Jr.’s old tank online and have that in my living room. I knew somebody who was selling it in Orlando. Actually, the company ended up buying it back from me and building me another one for the same price because the old one was too tall. It was like 10 feet tall and there was too much water pressure to have it in my living room, or whatever, so they build me one that was rounder and shorter. I’m going to have exotic fish in there, a couple sharks, some black tips, some bonnet heads … that’s my mild tank.
Then I have the tank in the grotto that’s going to have semi-aggressive fish like lemon and leopard and puffer fish and the fish with poisonous spikes that’s in Deuce Bigalow.
Then I’ll have my personal shark tank that’s going to be in my basement. My basement used to be my weight room but I’m converting it to a shark tank. I cut a whole wall out down there and replaced it with a 10,000 gallon shark tank. That’s going to be my aggressive tank, only filled with bullhead sharks. If anybody knows what a bullhead shark is, it’s the No. 1 killing shark in America. It can go in salt water and it can go in fresh water. I’m going to have a salt water tank so I can have my eels and my stingrays too.
I’m going to have three bullheads in there. I originally wanted six, but the guy who has to clean it once a week said that he’s not going to get in the tank with six of them, he’ll get in with three. Once they get big enough, I’ll have to get rid of them. The guy who cleans the tank actually goes and catches the sharks himself, because you know, these sharks you can’t just go buy, they’re illegal." - Gilbert Arenas
I encourage you to check out his blog for the rest. Oh yes there's more. He references
Jaws and
Cribs. Meanwhile, I maintain that if I had to be from any other part of the country and as a result blog about another team I would want to be from the DC area and focused on the Wizards from 2003 until whenever. As long as I didn't have to like the Baltimore Orioles or the Washington Redskins. Man I hate those teams. For some reason I'm cool with the Nationals though. Is there a lesson here? Definitely. I'm intrigued by anyone who blatantly talks about breaking the law on NBA.com.
4 comments:
It's very strange to me that the Nationals still exist. I haven't seen a sportscenter highlight of them once this season. I haven't heard them mentioned once until I just saw them. My thought process was literally "wow, that's right, I forgot the Nationals are a team."
It's true. I feel like "we need baseball in DC" is one of those things people just liked to say. And then they got it and what's next? Although it would help if the Nationals were good and did not expect big things from Austin Kearns and Elijah Dukes, who might be the craziest athlete of the last 5 years. Really crazy - http://www.fanhouse.com/2007/05/23/elijah-dukes-allegedly-threatens-wife-and-kids/.
I heard the nationals have an average viewership of 7,000 for their live TV broadcasts!!!
I feel like I should comment here since I fit the description of Weeksy's post.
DC could care less about baseball and this will continue until the Nats get good. Getting good, in my mind, requires them to sign a few big name players and start competing in the NL East, like their division rivals. Until this happens no more than 7k will watch them each night.
As for Arenas, there's no doubt about this guy's popularity in the region. He goes out of his way to be eccentric, write about it, and then have people talk about it through his own public persona. Frankly, I'd prefer for Arenas to shut the hell up and stay healthy and lead the Wizards to a championship. But I doubt that will happen with the current nucleus of players.
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