CSN Bay Area

Every day of the pre-Super Bowl fortnight provides another heaping bowl of “I’m losing the will to care.”

Now we’re moving off Ballghazi (not original, but Deflategate is too derivative) to Richard Sherman’s analysis of clean-cut boyish hero type Tom Brady, whom Sherman asked “You mad, Bro?” after Seattle’s 2012 win. That exchange resulted in this soliloquy:

“He was pretty much saying that we were nobodies," Sherman said Wednesday. “And we should come up to him after they got the win. He said stuff like that throughout the game. So we should just take that pretty well? Sure, can I get your autograph, too?

“I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise. In that moment of him being himself, he said some things and we returned the favor. Unfortunately, he apparently didn't remember what he said (Brady claimed amnesia on his Monday radio show). I’m sure also in those moments when he's yelling at the ref, he's just saying, ‘Good job. You're doing a fantastic job. Keep it up.’”

Sherman’s just confusing Brady with Andrew Luck.

[RATTO: Goodell's speech will ignore how NFL became America's heroin]

X X X

Sports owners always like to kvetch about the accuracy of Forbes’ math when it values team franchises – either out of modesty, obfuscation or just plain orneriness.

But we have chosen to take their numbers at face value to make a point about the Golden State Warriors, namely that these are the happiest times the franchise have ever known.

Joe Lacob and Peter Guber (and some other guys) laid out $450 million, and the team is now listed of having a value of $1.3 billion, which means it has nearly tripled in value. Part of that is the new arena plan, part of that is Donald Sterling shaming himself for $2 billion, and part of that is Stephen Curry making Lacob and Guber the luckiest bastards ever.

[RELATED: Forbes: Warriors' worth up 73 percent this year]

Put another way, Pete’n’Joey, Ltd., have made approximately (and we’re not counting tips) $514,839 PER DAY since buying the team on July 15, 2010. And that’s just the tawdry stuff.

• Their 200-141 record (yep, Wednesday’s was their 200^th win since hurling too much money at Chris Cohan to free the state from its 15-year nightmare) makes them the first owners to have a winning record since original owners Pete Tyrrell and Steven Kim. They are also the first owners to know three consecutive playoff seasons since the halcyon days when Franklin Mieuli oversaw nine playoff appearances in 11 years.
• Lacob has learned from his early P.R. gaffitude (okay, maybe not the Mark Jackson thing), and hasn’t done any halftime shows since he guessed wrong on Chris Mullin Night.
• Lacob is famous for not insisting on the Kevin Love trade that would have undone his team.

[RELATED: Instant Replay: Warriors handle Rockets, break franchise record]

X X X

One more reason why Boston deserves the Olympics and we don’t – we like our free speech.

The web site MassLive obtained a copy of a signed agreement between Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and the United States Olympic Committee that blocks city employees from making negative comments about the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee, or the USOC. City employees are barred from making comments that “reflect unfavorably upon, denigrate or disparage, or are detrimental to the reputation,” and must in fact actively promote the Games (if Boston get them, which is still not certain).

Weirdly, both USIOC and mayor’s office spokesmen said the clause is just “standard boilerplate language for the Joinder Agreement with the USOC that all applicant cities have historically signed.”

We therefore await the first city employee who says that the Olympics are going to be a huge pain in the ass who will keep his or her job. We are less than optimistic. Boilerplates burn just like hotplates, and the skin doesn’t care how it got seared.

X X X

And finally, Hope Solo got a 30-day suspension for mouthing off to a cop while her husband Jerramy Stevens was being arrested on a DUI. She’ll miss two national team games against England and France, but then she’ll have learned her lesson. I’m sure of it.