Friday links and notes

by Kirkendall on Jun 6, 2008 9:04 AM EDT Comment 1 comment

ESPN the Magazine threw their "Revenge of the Jock" party Wednesday night. T.J. Houshmandzadeh and a "naked" Chad Johnson (4th pic) were having a good ol' time working out.

After Johnson claimed he's be with the team at mandatory camp, he's still keeping his options open and his mind isn't totally made up. Chad could lose $1,700 per day during mandatory minicamp and $14,000 per day during training camp. Bengal Stripes isn't buying his return.

The plan for the defense is start with the 4-3 and then work in 3-4 later. Bengals linebacker coach, Jeff FitzGerald says, "We want to get good at what we do first before we start stretching out into other things."

We previously said that Jason Shirley would be free to come to Cincinnati after a mistrial Thursday. That's not the case. Jason Shirley has a hearing for his fourth misdemeanor charge at 1:30 p.m. today and his retrial is expected to "take place June 25 with jury motions being heard June 9."

Antwan Odom sticks with this PB&J, Snickers and milk diet to gain weight.

Bengals.com examines running backs. Speaking of which, no news on the Shaun Alexander front other than the argument surfacing if Alexander is a Hall of Fame candidate.

Not the Bengals, not the Reds. The Cincinnati Cyclones won Thursday night, 3-1, in the sixth game of the Kelly Cup Finals over the Las Vegas to win the ECHL's Kelly Cup. It's the first title that calls Cincinnati home since the Reds swept the Athletics in 1990. Even worse, you have to go back to the Cincinnati Mohawks beating the Troy Bruins April 3, 1955 when the last time a Cincinnati team won the title in Cincinnati (1990, Reds won title in Oakland... 1976, Reds won title in New York... 1975, Reds won title in Boston).

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In those pictures, though they are apparently equidistant to the camera, Chad and T.J.’s heads are not similarly sized. Either T.J. has a Herman Munsteresque, squared off melon or Chad is microcephalic- or a little of both. Given his recent behavior, I’m leaning towards the second option. “Ocho Cabeza de Alfiler” just doesn’t roll off the tongue well, so how ‘bout “Ocho Pinhead” for the incredible two-faced boy?

“Good at what we do” sounds like a nice place to start because it implies knowing what we do and that’s refreshing for a Bengals defense.

I’m not sure why some spaz juror bolting should penalize the defendant as it does in this instance. Unless, of course, an evil eye cast by Shirley or the sheer gravity associated with an object of that size elicited some mental soiled drawers response in said juror. I still want a Shirley jersey.

Picturing an image of a milk-mustached Antwan Odom in a national ad campaign is not a place you want to go.

Alexander can go wherever he likes, so long as it isn’t here. Seriously though, to get in the Hall, he’ll have to buy a ticket like the rest of us.

Congrats to the ‘Clones and how fitting that our world title is a minor league one. Maybe if the Reds were AAA or the Bengals joined the Big 10, we wouldn’t have to go without so long.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Jun 6, 2008 6:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs