When Frank Deford seems to agree with me on NBA fights and has to rely on a charge of racism to get there, I will admit it shakes a little bit my confidence in my position.
Well, on the other hand, maybe it shouldn’t. It’s the press, not the public, that I’m criticizing. And if there’s one thing we know about the mainstream press, it’s that they’re frequently mainstream Democrats. And if there’s one thing we know about mainstream Democrats, is that they often do their best to draw and sharpen ‘race’ lines in a misguided attempt at equality. They’re as ‘race’ conscious as they are ‘class’ conscious.
So maybe Deford has a point, if only about his own profession.
Defense? What defense? Add in the fact that the Lakers didn’t get hot enough to make up for the lack of defense (Kobe dind’t shoot well againts Wade), and that’s that.
Oh, well, I missed the first half anyway watching Tenchi Muyo OVA 3 all the way through. Good stuff.
So, a stupid minority owner of the Bobcats attempts to break league rules by donating his shares, announces it like a jerk without checking first, and embarasses both his team and the league by making them block the transaction.
How does the AP report it? With words like “Grinch” applied to the Chairman of the Bobcats, because he had to do his job and honor contractual obligations. No mention of “idiot” applied to the minority owner. No, the AP sits squarely on one side of this matter.
It’s too bad this wasn’t Reuters, they of their “One man’s Grinch is another man’s Sally Who” policy.
My brother has dragged me back into Star Wars Battlefront II. It turns out the Capture the Flag stuff isn’t bad. Plus it might give me enough medals to get enough boosts to play through the plot.
Not that I’ve quit FFXII, oh no. I’m just playing that game pretty thoroughly, and what I’m doing right now (gathering loot from every map in the game I can access, now that I have the Thief Cuffs) is pretty dull. So having two games adds variety and interest.
Last night the Spurs lost, the Suns lost (ending a massive win streak), and the Jazz lost. Only the Mavericks won to pull into a tie with San Antonio as everyone else ahead of LA dropped a game. Even without Lamar Odom the Lakers have the same win percentage as the East-leading Pistons, and are within two games of the West leaders.
Idiots. No, not the Lakers. KCAL. KCAL tape delayed this game unfortunately, and they really messed up bad at the end. Instead of showing the final possessions of the game, they re-ran the previous possesions from before New Jersey’s final time out, complete with Stu Lantz’s commentary from before the play.
So I don’t know what the Laker defense looked like in the big possession when the Lakers were up three and New Jersey had the ball with 14 seconds left. KCAL never showed it.
Idiots.
How about that bench, coming in with energy in the back-to-back to bury poor Kevin Garnett and the Timberwolves!
The Bulls shot 50% exactly. Can the defense without Odom really stay this bad? Come on….
As a discussion of John McCain goes on, the probability tends to one that a die-hard McCainiac will, in response to an attack on his guy, change the subject bringing up Mitt Romney.
As a discussion of Mitt Romney goes on, the probability tends to one that a die-hard Mittster will, in response to an attack on his guy, change the subject bringing up John McCain.
In both cases, it’s a sign that the die-hard fan has probably lost the argument.
No defense tonight. Still missing Lamar Odom. Some exciting offense though. Kobe and Gilbert Arenas were unstoppable.