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Hey, got a few things on my mind. Why not blog it, I asked myself. And now here we are.

Item the first:

Mayor Street was heckled out of a line waiting for the iPhone.

Apparently he was waiting in line since 11 AM to buy the new iPhone when some 22-year-old kid just started heckling him with things like, "don't you have better things to do?" and, "why don't you try and solve some of those 200 murders?"

Street's response was, "I'm doing my job."

He defended his actions by saying he "loves to check out new technology." As an aside, he added, "Oh yeah, and, uh, it will help me conduct business, too."

Nice cover up, John.

Now I think it's hilarious that someone my age had the balls to heckle the mayor so relentlessly that he left line, and he was asking great, topical questions.

But here's my question.

You are the mayor of Philadelphia, which means you are in charge of one of the biggest cities in the most powerful country in the world...and you can't get somebody to wait in line for you???

You can't maybe set up a deal with the distributors?

I don't know, free parking, maybe...or a shiny new gun?

Politics is all about the art of the backroom deal, and our Mayor can't even secure himself a freaking cell phone.

That's really saying a lot.

Next Issue:

I don't know what to make of the Sixers draft. The main question is why Thaddeus Young over Al Thorton. Thorton appears to be better, but he's 23. Since when was experience such a nasty word in professional sports? Teams would rather have an unproven kid with a chance to be great over a guy who already is pretty darn good right now.

That's like playing poker and constantly passing on pocket Kings for a chance at a flush. Sometimes you just gotta take what they give you.

Who knows, though. The draft is a crapshoot. Billy King could end up looking like a genius, or at least a fully functioning adult. The thing is, though, it's gonna take this guy 2-3 years to develop. By then we will have forgotten about how big a deal this pick was, and that it is basically the main thing we got for Iverson.

Yikes.

Speaking of Iverson. This point was brought up in the Inquirer today: What if we had kept him? Chances are we would have finished up with an even worse record than we did (remember how spirited we played after he got traded?) That would have meant a better pick (Oden or Durant, possibly. You have to remember that the Sixers suuucked earlier in the year). Also, we still could have traded Iverson on draft night for a better deal than we got. Look how much worth somebody like Ray Allen was able to get. Imagine what the Celtics would have given up for Iverson. Suffice it to say, a lot more than the 21st and 30th picks, and a 33 year old point guard.

It almost boggles the mind thinking what we could have gotten.

Some very rough math to give you an idea.

Ray Allen = 5th pick
Iverson has to equal that, at least.

So we stink up the season with Iverson, end up with a top 6 pick (that's being conservative), and then trade Iverson for another top 6 pick, and end up with either 1 ridiculous player (meaning Oden or Durant), or 2 future stars, like Al Horford and Corey Brewer or something.

Unbeliveable.

Third, and final, Point:

BoDog, the online gambling site (I thought gambling was illegal?), now offers...

drumroll please....

BoDog Live!

That's right, you can bet on live action.

Like 20 bucks says Howard laces a double up the middle on this pitch.

Think about that.

Oh, and furthermore, Susan, if I end up going broke, you will know why.