More NBA!! (at least it's not hockey...travis)

1st: read JWest's comment on the last post. Priceless.

2nd: last Bill Simmons (BS) related post for a while. promise.

3rd: BS reminded me of this the other day. Remember in the golden days of our youth when the NBA was a big deal and NBC showed games every weekend? We're talking the Jordan years (i am slightly too young for the bird/magic years). All the NBC commercials for upcomming games were hyped the exact same way, for years. It went:

BULLS!! KNICKS!! IT'S THE NBA PLAYOFFS ON NBC!!

By now you're either humming the little promo song to yourself or you have no idea . Either way, it's really fun to announce lesser sporting events with this same formula. For example:

DUCKS!! SENS!! IT'S THE STANLEY CUP FINALS ON VERSUS!!
dada dada dum da da da...

I know, i'm still laughing. I actually had a really good chat with travis about the NHL last night. He knows his shit. The thing is, he is one of the 5000 people in North America who DOESN'T need to be sold on hockey. I am a huge sports fan, and i couldn't name ONE player on either team in the Stanley Cup finals. that's sad. and it's not my fault. the combation of over-expansion and the missing season left us with a bunch of nobodies playing an interesting game who's rules i don't understand and results i don't care about. might as well be ncaa lacrosse.

'CUSE!! BROWN!! IT'S THE NCAA LACROSS FINALS ON ESPNU!!

more simmons

i can't believe i forgot to tell JWest this, but bill really hates 90% of tv's color comentators. that's why he liked jeff van gundy so much during these playoffs. HE ACTUALLY KNOWS WHATS GOING ON BECAUSE HE'S IN BASKETBALL. bill said this made him realize that color men should have to retire after 10 years of not being in the sport; after that you just think your right all the time, but the game has passed you by. His first three mandatory cuts: tim mccarver (who i despise to no end), billy packer, and....joe morgan.

oh he gave amnesty to bill raftery pat summerall, and hubie brown, for obvious reasons (still spinnin'...)

Yahoo! Sports announcement

As I'm sure some of you have seen, there is a message at the top of the league page. It reads as follows:
Due to scheduled server maintenance, Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Games will be inaccessible on Wednesday, May 30, starting at 10pm PT and lasting approximately six hours. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Yes, I realize that this won't go into effect until 1 a.m. right coast time, but I'm still mad about it. What if a west coast game goes into extras or has a rain delay. Do they really expect us to wait until the morning to see the outcome of a game, and how it affects our scores. That is just outrageous. I think I may suffer raker withdrawls.

Travis this post is of no concern to you since you always have to wait until the morning to see the outcome of games, unless you have purchased the raker since we last talked. If you still haven't, then maybe now is the time. It could turn your team around.

quote pt. 2

sorry, but bill is on fire today:

watching this Cavs-Pistons series is like pulling teeth. Have you ever seen a Final 4 team with worse coaching and a worse offense than the Cavs? It's like watching 5 complete strangers playing pickup with a drunk from the neighborhood yelling instructions at them.

simmons

today's quote

I will never get used to this: One of our most white-bread American cities roots for an NBA franchise named for a musical movement created by African-Americans. It's genuinely insane. You can brainstorm with your buddies all weekend to come up with a name for a sports franchise that makes less sense -- there's no way you're topping Utah Jazz. Not even with Dallas Indians.

Bill Simmons

Survey

it's early, and it pales in comparison to my love of fantasy baseball, by a lot, a lot, but is anyone in the league down for football in the fall? my best buddy here in the city is a skins fan and really wants in if we do. i justified it to the wife as being less intense from a time standpoint because they only play once a week and it's way down my sports depth chart (mlb, nba, golf and tennis majors, ncaabb, wsop, world cup, then nfl, tour de france, olympic swimming, mma, nascar, ncaafb, and hockey fights (the rest of hockey is down with horse racing and modern boxing as sports that should never be on tv again).)

let me know and rank your sports too if you're feeling it (stand up for hockey travis; i respect it, i just can't watch it)

for JWest

"Ken Griffey has put a strangle-hold on his spot in the 3-hole with power hitting like the mid-90s Griffey. As long as he stays healthy, there’s no reason to believe he can’t keep up this pace. He still has an inordinate amount of talent and he’s not decrepit yet…"

Mat Snyder TMR "Around the NL Central" 04/24

I love "inordinate amount of talent".