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March 16, 2006
Mudge Madness
Basketball thoughts of the day:
This is why I hate basketball. And by the way, "Starbury," you and your selfish, useless little punk ass can go lay down in rush hour traffic any second now. If you're so damn good, being the "best point guard in the league" and all, then how come the team your bitch-ass punk self leads is the worst team in basketball, at 18-45? If you were really any good, wouldn't you have led your team to even an 8 seed by now, instead of missing the playoffs for years on end? I realize -- and Corey will be the first to tell me -- that I don't see any NBA players close up, and that most are good men whose attitudes aren't reflected by disgraces like Stephon Marbury, Allen "Practice" Iverson, Latrell "Feed My Family" Spreewell, or Sam "Whine" Cassell. Fine. What I do see/read about all the time are selfish, me-first, immature jerk players like Stephon Marbury. And it's not a media conspiracy that puts words in Marbury's mouth (or AI's, or Spree's, or Cassell's); these guys are only too happy to share their selfish thoughts. And so I despise the NBA on character issues.
This is why, despite hating basketball, I do truly enjoy March Madness every year. I had Winthrop picked on one of my boards, and there were a bunch of us with adrenalin rushes this afternoon watching the last few seconds of this game. For the record, I thought that Lofton travelled. (In case you haven't figured out by now, if a call goes against a team when I am cheering for them, it is a bad call no matter how the rules might suggest it should be called; similarly, if a non-call might have been called, if the team I am rooting for would have benefitted, then the ref is blind. That's just the way it is. Deal.)
If I win the pool I am in... well, let's just say that I would be able to enjoy one very extravagant evening out at dinner or in post-dinner socializing. So you might want to be cheering for me, just in case I decide to have a "Help Mudge Spend His Pool Winnings" reader contest.
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