Kobe Bryant blogged about wanting to be traded (although apparently the entry wasn’t new). Dan & Keith talk about the changing role of blogs (hellooo!) and the internet in how information is disseminated. Could one, for example, post info on a site that could only be accessed after the user paid $2? Hold on, let me stop giggling. Ok.

Everyone assumes Kobe would go to the Knicks, were he to leave Los Angeles. However, the Lakers can’t afford to rebuild post-Kobe, and New York has literally nothing to offer in return. They’d have to trade everyone on the team, the maintenance staff, and the top three floors of office space at Madison Square Garden. Luckily, it doesn’t seem like the Lakers are ready to deal yet.

Tiger Woods is a dad! Dan talks about following in your dad’s athletic footsteps. Keith thinks it might be a bit early to fit the kid for spikes.

Given how attractive little baby Woods’ mother is, and regarding the roulette wheel that is genetics, Keith reminds Dan that when Alexa Joel was a kid, she looked like an “If They Mated” bit. Mind you, Keith had wondered, prior to saying that, what the most delicate way to express himself was. I’m not quite sure that was it.

It’s ‘Turn Off Cable for a Month’ … month again in the Patrick household, so Dan will miss not only Hannah Montana, but Countdown, as well. Sad. However, stock in Hooters is expected to rise dramatically.

There’s allegedly a video that shows Kobe Bryant spouting some smack talk re: the Lakers organization and his future with the team. Keith wonders what would possess Kobe to say that stuff in public. In front of a camera. How does no one, not the government, not athletes or celebrities – how does no one understand that things are recorded, that things they say are preserved?

Jason Giambi’s supposed to meet with George Mitchell this Thursday. Keith thinks the two main concerns in what he says will be, one: Giambi wants to be sure neither Major League Baseball nor the Yankees will go after his contract, and two: Giambi doesn’t want to name names – outside of that, what does he know? KO says he may name people outside the game, maybe distributors, trainers, strength coaches, etc. Maybe he just won’t name any new names. But he’s got to say something. He stood up; he took a moral stance when he made that half-assed apology a month or so ago – now it’s incumbent upon him to take the initiative and do something about the wrongs he sees as having been perpetrated.

In breaking news, Keith respects people more when they admit they were wrong (shock) – Dan asks if that includes Pete Rose. Well, yes it did, Dan, and that kinda’ bit him in the ass, remember?

Ok, more word on Keith’s stress fracture – evidently it was bone spur on top of his foot which caused the break, and it had him doing his Greg House impression for five weeks.

Joe Girardi: Is he still in line to succeed Joe Torre? Does he go to the Orioles? Keith doesn’t think the Orioles are as lost a cause as everyone seems to think. They’re just a victim of an old, bad decision to focus the entire team’s image around Cal Ripken, Jr. They rode that pony a mile too far. They, in fact: “Cal Ripkin’ed themselves into a non-competitive situation.”

A golfer in Reno accidentally started a fire that consumed 20 acres of land, and a guy on Long Island is lucky he didn’t set his own stupid ass on fire after trying to steal gas by drilling a hole in a gas tank wiiiiiith an electric drill (yes, it was on Newsmakers last night, but I didn’t mention it then. I’m mentioning it now).

In an attempt to entice Dan to watch, Keith says nudity on Countdown could be negotiated. I … don’t know how to feel about that. Well, anyway, whether Keith’s nekkid, wearing a sombrero, or is merely his usual be-suit-ed self, we’ll be watching. And we’ll see you then.