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I woke up to an impassioned plea from a fellow Californian’s email, requesting a guest spot here today to address something that someone wrote somewhere. I did no research and took the commneter at face value and posted his rant. The commenter….Fiesta Trio. So the following are his words from his email….

Since Sparty sent a shot directly across my bow in The Morning After, I’d like to take this opportunity to say that LA fans don’t suck. Most of the rabid fans are blue collar, who are actually working their ass off right now, and not hanging around sports blogging sites. We were winning championships while your grandparents were wiping you parents snotty little noses (yeah, they were in Minnesota at the time, hence the name Lakers). But we have lakes…in the desert! Anybody can make lakes in the humid continental region of Minnesota or the subtropics of Florida. It takes real talent to have lakes in the desert (so what if we steal the water from Northern California and Colorado. We still have lakes!)

OK, you want smack? Well, I’m here to represent! Let’s start with Dwight Howard. He is basically a non-ghey’d Dennis Rodman; only good for rebounds and blocks. No offensive game. He mentor is Patrick freaking Ewing. What the hell has he ever won? Bynum is a few years younger and is still developing. But his mentor is the greatest center of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. No contest here.

And what about Rashard Lewis? He is a non-MVP Dirk Nowitzki. Get off of the three point line and start banging bodies in the paint already! Gasol is a finesse player, but at least he is trying to assert himself down low.

Turkoglu is pretty good, I’ll give you that. Nice block on Kobe at the end of regulation in Game 2. And that brilliant feed to Courtney Lee was sick. But Lee is just a rookie, so we can’t blame him for not finishing.

And Jameer’s mouthpiece is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Nobody wants your cooty infected saliva all over the ball. Keep it in your mouth or Fisher will drop you like Luis Scola.

Anyway, my cautiously optimistic prediction is that the Lakers will win one at the O, and close it out in 6.

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