A Cry for Help

When it all comes down to it, I'm not much of a sports fan. I can get into it during the playoffs, I can watch the Pats when they are playing well, I'll watch the Sox when they are fighting the yankees or making history - I keep an eye out, but I'm not the guy who wakes up and watches sportcenter before work. Thats what made this morning a little more disturbing.

When I woke up this morning, my roomate said 'did you see the game last night?' My response was 'did the Celtics go to overtime or something?' Far from it - in fact I don't know what happened to the celts. I do for the first time in years know what happened to the Pistons and Pacers. One of the worst brawls in sports history happened. So I threw on the ever constant ESPN news and watched. I watched with that kind of Rhode Islander driving by a car wreck feeling. It was unsettling, but I still managed to work the Tivo pretty hard - pausing, rewinding, slo-mo and all the business that the best invention in history allows. All said and done I watched ESPN news for 40 minutes, rivitedisgusted. I just made a new word!

So I'm really just left asking myself why I watched that and why I was so enraptured by it. Being a long time Knicks fan (technically not so much anymore because watching the Knicks the past few years has been as fun as watching your grandmother get raped) I do despise the pacers, but I don't think that really explains it. I had my mind made up in the first few seconds of footage - Artest shouldn't have went into the stands. He should have kept his cool and continued daydreaming on the scorers table about his upcoming rap album (I think it's called 'How Ron Artest Saved Hip Hop') . Better yet, he should have hopped back on to the court and pointed out the dickhead fan so security could have beat the shit out of him. That stuff is all clear cut, but I still don't know why I watched so long, or why I'm still thinking about it now. I always was the kid who kept walking past the fights in the hallway in high school. Maybe it was just because I'm a huge pussy…

Some douche at ESPN thinks that everything is going to turn out fine after the brawl. Well thanks douche - but that doesn't answer the questions I have this morning (which is technically the afternoon, but I slept all morning).

Sorry it took me so long to pitch in this week Bil - I've been busy too (mainly busy being pissed off at work).

Obligatory album suggestion - Lucero - That Much Further West. Alt-Country doesn't really cut it. More like Punk-Country. Great stuff. Wish I saw them when they came by with The Waekerthans a while back.

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