St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Rick Ankiel sits in the dugout during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies Tuesday, May 5, 2009, in St. Louis. Ankiel was injured after he hit headfirst into the outfield wall chasing a fly ball in eighth inning Monday night, but escaped with only soreness from the collision. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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let’s talk about sports here for a second.
i am deeply committed to NCAA basketball, as some of y’all might know, and think that the players, coaches, the whole system in general, while not without flaws, are all conducive to a more entertaining, passionate game for the spectator than, say… the NBA. i haven’t watched or cared about the NBA since before michael jordan retired the first time. recently, though, i spent a lot of time reading up on players i remember caring about deeply, both IRL and in the context of NBA Hangtime for Super Nintendo, which i was fucking killer at, and recalled/learned these facts:
- Space Jam: it really existed
- the totally brutal murder of michael jordan’s father and how emotional everyone was about it
- charles barkley was pretty lovable even back then
- shaq. Kazaam also existed. “My game’s like the Pythagorean Theorem. It ain’t got no answer.” i could probably talk about shaq forever.
- karl malone had three illegitimate children, by two different women; two of whom he had a relationship with, and the other one he decided not to. karl malone is also a very intense republican, i mean, i’m just saying. this guy was a source of inspiration to me in my sports videogaming days.
- michael jordan’s son jeffrey plays for the fighting illini’s basketball team
i guess NBA basketball is pretty exciting these days, because of players like lebron james and kobe bryant. even shaq is still around. but i will still refuse to watch it. WHO KNOWS WHY. i have convinced myself that it is essentially watching some giants pick up a thing smaller than their hands and putting it inside of another thing that is smaller than their hands… just kind of boring.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.





