Post #1

So here we are on the 1st Monday of 2010 and the first post of DNP-CD.  After years of enjoying that line at the bottom of NBA box scores in the sports section of the Deseret News I've decided to dedicate an entire blog to the NBA's version of the Mendoza line.  There just seemed to be something perversely satisfying to see that in a game that only dresses 12 people for 48 minutes of high intensity activity that there would always be 2 or 3 guys that just never played because their coach felt a tired #7 guy was still better than they are for even 1 or 2 garbage time minutes.
2010 seemed like the perfect time in second way, as New York Knickerbockers's coach Mike D'Antoni has used the power of the did not play - coaches decision to reinvent being a GM from the bench.  After successfully DNPing Starbury out of the league last year, in the greatest DNP-CD of all time it looked like he was back at it again with Nate Robinson this year.  Only, he had transcended the obvious and used the long term DNP-CD as a powerful multinational tool, bringing Nate off the bench for a career high 41 point explosion and then cutting his minutes drastically the next in what seems like a return to the last spot on the bench and another stretch of DNP-CD box scores for Nate in the near future.
This could be just a new tactic to create a trade chit out of Nate, a reinvention of the original Stephon DNP-CD of last year, a DNP-CD 2.0 so to speak.  This is one we will just have to ride out, but either a new era is a upon us and this blog is dedicated to it.
In a much less metaphorical way we will be talking about local Salt Lake sports, and then the specific team interests outside of the local arena that each one of us enjoys.  I think we will all have something to say routinely on the Jazz, the main focus of the blog.  I hope to talk about the limbo that find themselves in, a perpetual middle of the pack western team that seems to be stuck between the slowdown philosophy of the 1990's and the up tempo, inside outside, but not so much give and go transitional NBA of today.  Uj, goes to the games and will probably just talk about drinking 6 beers at half time and having Steven Jackson threaten to kill him during a game and Ron will discuss his hatred of Carlos Boozer, the one constant in his NBA life, that is if Ron ever gets back to me about writing.
As far as other sports go, I think there should be some U of U action during football season, and maybe some Rugby updates too, as well as other MWC info, possibly some college basketball.  I will mention my Steelers, Pens and Yankees as much as possible, Uj will go with the Vikes, Flyers and Red Sox, and Ron will be a Chicago guy all around, Cubs specifically on the baseball, so there should be lots of shit talking going on there do some serious division over laps.
Sometime soon we are also hoping to start a podcast, hopefully once a week to begin with.  Also, I think there will be lots of bad spelling, mildly racist jokes and the 'F' 'S' and 'Scrotum Sucking Cunt-Bag' words.  Also, we may talk about other blogs that have anything to do with ours, there are probably even some other Jazz-centric blogs out there, but I haven't read them so I'll assume they kinda suck.  So get ready, because there is a lot of chatter at the end of the bench for those of us who Did Not Play - Coaches Decision.