Obsessive Dysfunction

It's Back

 Okay, so a lot of people I talk to have nothing but negative things to say about the NBA.  You always hear, "Nothing but a bunch of thugs."  "Players only care about money"  "All players are selfish"  "Good ole days of Bird, Magic, and Jordan are gone."  Well, I am happy to say it is back.  I have always been an NBA fan, and have not stopped.  From Jordan's 6 championships all the way to Duncan and the Spurs latest dynasty.  And now, we are witnessing the Lakers vs. Celtics.  Seriously, all you old, crotchety, "I hate the NBA" people, give the NBA another chance.  Game 1 was so full of energy, and I am not even a Celtics or Lakers fan.  Although, I am a big Kevin Garnett fan from right here in Mauldin, SC.  Come on now, REPRESENT!!

Sportscenter - The Best Reality Show

I love sports.  I really do.  If I only had the ability to talk about 3 things the rest of my life, as long as it was Jesus, Family, and Sports, I would be just fine.  I was the kid who would watch Sportscenter from 8:00 a.m. to Noon every Saturday morning even though it was a repeat each hour.  When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a statistician.  Hey, I did not say I was a cool sports fan.  No I didn't want to be the quarterback, or even an announcer, but instead a statistician.  While I used to love sports for the stats, now I love them for the stories.  I mean seriously, if you love crazy, off the wall storylines, then you have got to love following sports even if you don't know the difference between a football and a hockey puck.  RIght now we have:

- A superstar quarterback arrested errr indicted (whatever that means) for allegedly leading an illegal dog fighting ring

- A guy chasing the most hallowed record in all of sports (Homerun Record) who is so bulked up that it looks like he has eaten the 1992 Pittsburgh Pirate version of himself, and yet says he has never "knowingly" taken steroids.

- Now an NBA ref is being investigated for "allegedly" fixing NBA games in order to help with some gambling debt, and get out of trouble he was in with the mafia.  The MAFIA!!

Seriously, to me these look like story lines that should be written by Larry David or maybe the writers of Law & Order .  Yet this is real life.  Isn't that crazy.

By the way, am I the only one that pretty much everytime a referee, umpire, line judge, anything in any sport blows a call against my team that will sarcastically yell, "Great Call Tim Donaghy"   Yes, I plan on running that one into the ground for the next 5 years or so.