The NIT is in full swing, Spring Training is half over, and we have a new Healthcare law. Talk about kissing your sister!
The Frightening Illini are struggling through wins in the NIT, the little sister to the NCAA tournament. There is talk that big brother wants to put these 32 teams in the Big Dance. If that happens, can you imagine who the NIT is going to get to go the prom with? The teams they have to choose from will be tantamount to choosing last on the playground; and we all know who gets chosen there. Guys like me who are slow, not very good, have no following, but are fun to have around because we usually come up with an occasional punchline. They should do what Illinois does in its basketball tournament. Invite everyone, seed the regionals and let the big boys pound on the little guys until someone comes out on top. Do away with conference tournaments and let everyone in to the prom.
I went to the Cubs/Royals game yesterday with my good buddy, LLoyd. We had a great time and sat with some very funny people from Kansas City. I know, not many people from Kansas are funny, but these folks were genuinely funny and had a keen understanding of just how bad their team is. So did we, and we exchanged some good natured barbs, and took shots at our own teams. The outcome of the game, though left us all with that, "Just kissed my sister/brother" feeling. A TIE!!! What the heck was that? Oh, sure, its spring training you say, and we don't want our millionares hurt...Babies....I paid 20 dollars for that ticket in the corner,and another 11 dollars for my dog and a beer... and I want a winner, not a bunch of whiners!
Finally, Joe Biden did something relevant that showed me he is a normal guy. Yesterday in the news conference called to watch the President sign the healthcare legislation, Joe said something that was caught on tape because his microphone was open. After introducing the Pres, he turned the Commander-in-Chief and said, "This is F----ing important!" Everybody is outraged he would use such language.
Me? I think it was fantastic. Someone in a higher office spoke the language of the people.
Doughnut
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Reflections on a Super Game and Event
Time flies when you're having fun, or so I've heard. Yesterday's Super Bowl was fun, and the game went by too fast. Surely they could let it last longer than the three hours or so it took. I mean, how many times were we interrupted with boring commercials, and halftime show of old rockers that barely know their own songs? The game was Super though, and Ifelt bad for Peyton at the end, but also good. I mean, after all, his dad helped that franchise for so many years! Maybe he threw that last past TOO the Saints player and not to his man...HMMMM. Do you see a conspiracy here?
Our family did what we have done all season, got together for the game. Me, Dorothy, Jim, Debi, Aunt Debbie, Akkadian, Osiris, we all piled into the living room. The dogs played on the floor while we ate on the couches and fed them leavings. We laughed, we trash talked (Debi and Jim were for the Saints, the "Adults" were for the Colts, the dogs were, well, dogs.) At half time while The Who lip-synced their way through their hits, we ate Italian Beef from Portillos of Chicago. (it was sent to us by Aunt Debbie's ALMOST daughter in law, Erin....Come on Nick, get off the fence.) At the end of the day, I was five pounds heavier and I had a tummy ached the size of Rhode Island....
I really think that the NBA could learn from the NFL. Instead of all this best of 5 and best of 7 stuff, have a REAL TOURNAMENT. Let the top eight or twelve teams into the tournament, play all the games as losers go home, market the dang thing like a big party, and get it over with! ONE and DONE! There should be no time to lose. Play the games in large domed stadiums and get it done! In the NBA, the season is over in April, and the playoffs last to JUNE! We are well into baseball.
Now you know why I love HS basketball and college basketball. All their tournaments find true champions, those players that put it on the line, not slough through 5 or 7 games, then turn it on for one final game. All the games they play are finals.
Here is a hint also to the NCAA...DON'T EXPAND MARCH MADNESS. It is not always about the money.
Doughnut
Our family did what we have done all season, got together for the game. Me, Dorothy, Jim, Debi, Aunt Debbie, Akkadian, Osiris, we all piled into the living room. The dogs played on the floor while we ate on the couches and fed them leavings. We laughed, we trash talked (Debi and Jim were for the Saints, the "Adults" were for the Colts, the dogs were, well, dogs.) At half time while The Who lip-synced their way through their hits, we ate Italian Beef from Portillos of Chicago. (it was sent to us by Aunt Debbie's ALMOST daughter in law, Erin....Come on Nick, get off the fence.) At the end of the day, I was five pounds heavier and I had a tummy ached the size of Rhode Island....
I really think that the NBA could learn from the NFL. Instead of all this best of 5 and best of 7 stuff, have a REAL TOURNAMENT. Let the top eight or twelve teams into the tournament, play all the games as losers go home, market the dang thing like a big party, and get it over with! ONE and DONE! There should be no time to lose. Play the games in large domed stadiums and get it done! In the NBA, the season is over in April, and the playoffs last to JUNE! We are well into baseball.
Now you know why I love HS basketball and college basketball. All their tournaments find true champions, those players that put it on the line, not slough through 5 or 7 games, then turn it on for one final game. All the games they play are finals.
Here is a hint also to the NCAA...DON'T EXPAND MARCH MADNESS. It is not always about the money.
Doughnut
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