Dilemma

I’m at a loss ... I can’t decide which sport to ignore more ... baseball, ice hockey, football or basketball!

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Girls' Basketball

Watching the Supreme Court confirmation vote on Brett Kavanaugh, I an disappointed but not surprised to hear the screeching harridans in the Senate gallery continually interrupting this process ... with screaming (mostly) female voices. I realize that these disruptions are the price we pay for our democratic freedoms, but these childish outbursts do nothing but demean the decorum of our legislative process ... and bring shame, once again, on the distaff side of our society.

Will such disruptions change any voting in the coming midterms? Certainly we know how the dozen or so banshees who were ejected from the  Senate will vote. I expect that many Republicans might put some footage from this hysteria in their campaign ads ... maybe juxtaposed with Justice Kavanaugh coaching his young daughters at basketball.

I certainly hope so.

Over-Heated

The Miami Heat have won the National Basketball Associations (NBA) title for the second straight year … see: AP Story.  I haven’t been interested nor watched the seven games that it took, but have been enjoying the over-heated sports theater surrounding this series.  Clearly, the public has been caught up in the drama of the tense back and forth between Miami and the San Antonio Spurs and the TV stations and team owners have hit the jackpot with advertising, attendance, and sports paraphernalia revenues.  It’s capitalism at its very best.

But is it legitimate?  Clearly LaBron James is the dominant and determinant player and, I believe, could have, if he really wanted, caused the Heat to sweep the series in four.  But why try too hard when there is so much lucre to be gained from a seven-game series?  I predicted that this series would take seven games just as I predicted that Miami would win game seven.  This is reminiscence of the baseball World Series sham that developed during the early part of the twentieth century.  Basically, the players then were colluding and purposely extending the World Series to fatten their paychecks.  The baseball leagues and fans eventually caught on and, to cure things, players were only paid for the first four games … see: Wiki Answers.

Perhaps the equivalent will now happen in the NBA?  But I kind of doubt it …

Tattoo Taboo

The National Basketball Association's season is close to being cancelled ... see NBA Hiatus?  If all these NBA players end up on picket lines ... what are tattoo parlors around the country going to do for business?

(I realize that this entry is a little snarky, but I couldn't help myself.)