a. definitely way more a shaq fan, but ultimately more a lakergirl and phil jackson fan. thus i was very happy with last night’s outcome when shaq started his first game as a sun and his first opponent under that circumstance was his former team.

our laker blog was en fuego, getting close to 700 comments during the game thread which is basically just a place for serious laker fans to talk about the game as it happens in the comments.

my take on the game? shaq looked way better in a heat uniform than this unmanly suns shit. also, i miss him as a laker. as nice a fit gasol is, i miss the big fella and im glad that hes back putting dents into the backboard.

in other LA Times blogs and their comments:

Fashion blog, All The Rage got 63 comments on the post about Lindsay Lohan’s latest photo shoot

our newest blog, LA Now, about the city and state got 36 comments in a morning post about Mayor Tony’s ex girlfriend, but less because of the topic and more because when our blogger quoted the former Telemundo newscaster she quoted the woman verbatim in omg Spanish, hilarity shock racism and rebuttal ensue

LA Now contributer and star columnist Steve Lopez responded to the who-ha in an afternoon post saying if you dont like seeing and hearing Spanish in LA, now would be a good time to vamoose. he got 34 comments.

stay tuned today to Top of the Ticket as it has the scoop that Ron Paul isn’t out of the race yet – (ok now you can call him crazy) but Andy Malcolm aint crazy, watch this post get hella comments as the “Paultards” come out of the woodwork