I want to bail out my bros . . . on Wall Street

Doug Christie might not write the headlines in the sports pages all the time, but at least for one morning, he can grab a newspaper and see himself in ink.

Except this isn’t your Sunday morning sports section. It’s the Wall Street Journal, the default “Billy Madison’s Newspaper Over Piss” choice for all sports fans.

Christie and his wife decided to do something most NBA players are incapable of — putting out a press release.

And in that press release, Christie spoke in words that would flunk most NBA players in English 101 — complete sentences.

And in those complete sentences, Christie broke the Wall Street NBA Glass Ceiling. He and his wife want to help bail out the AIG financial crisis.

Ohhhh, bail! Yeah, like when we bail out teammates after arrests, right?

D.C. sports blogger Dan Steinberg posted a few pictures of Gilbert Arenas’s pool a few weeks ago with the disclaimer that, “(Arenas) told the Wizards he was OK with them appearing on my blog.”

But yesterday, Agent Zero voiced his displeasure at how those pictures caught into the blogdome’s viral effect through his own blog:

I’m actually disappointed that those pictures are on the net. That’s part of my personal life that got out. I’m disappointed that somebody that doesn’t even work at my house any more took pictures and put them on the Internet. I don’t know if he sold them or if he just put them up there, but I think it’s wrong. But hey, that’s something that comes with the territory I guess.

The thing is with somebody like that, you trust them to be on your property and then they take pictures and put them online. It’s not what I expected. I found out because Daren from the Wizards PR told me, “Hey man, I saw your pool.” So I go, “Oh yeah, you stopped by?” “No, they got pictures online.” “Pictures online?”

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