It’s January 12th & Scotts Saying…
….I AM LEGEND.
After watching the game last night from the Worlds Most Famous Arena, I looked back fondly on their organ music, their passionate fans, their dancers….still, it left me wanting more. Sure, it was great not to be subjected to Souljah Boy three times a game, but I think the NBA could do better. So does someone else. I LOVE his suggestion for the Raptors music. Very fitting.
For all you Vince haters (delusional as you may be), you’ll love this article from Jersey. This was, of course, before the game. A game in which the Nets could have handed the Celts their second straight defeat if they hadn’t pulled up lame and only scored 9 points in the fourth.
A while back in our forums, we were going back and forth about the East and how they were supposed to be so much better and almost as good as the West this year. We aren’t the only ones surprised by how things have turned out.
Remember last month when I said I was sitting on the edge of my seat to see what the NBA would do about the early Shaq-dismissal in Atlanta? Well, good things come to those that wait. I think it’s the right decision, but wonder if it had been an early toss of, say, Rasho, would the league make the same decision?
Tell me you wouldn’t love to see this on the next episode of COPS.
What do these guys have in common: Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Brandon Roy, Chris Bosh, Deron Williams, Josh Smith, Al Jefferson? They all are 23 years old. Not a bad crop. Just a year younger: Dwight Howard, Chris Paul.
I don’t even know who the competition is, but I pick Moon as the runner-up in the dunk contest. If the lemming Toronto fans are impressed by his skills, the judges will be too. It will be interesting to see what he is like after the experience, assuming he will be in the Rookie game as well. That’s a lot of stuff to do in a couple of days and you can’t tell me he ain’t gonna be hitting the streets of N’awlins.
Isiah says he still isn’t leaving. If nothing else, it means that the punters who want to boo will still buy tickets for a while. Wonder if Cluck Jerksky could charter a plane for some of the 300 level wingnuts to lend their support? After all, the Knicks did pick up the pace against what seemed to be a bored Raptor lot. Thankfully the Raptors hung on, otherwise some bloggers would have been a little less lighter (and higher pitched) today. Mind you, nobody would hear the higher pitch in your voice….um, unless you recorded a podcast…..
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w00t.

I have a high pitch voice?? Nooooo…..do I?
is it weird that i am not a huge fan of live games? i mean, for playoff games, there is no other way to do things, but regular games, i can’t stand it. with all the crap music, stupid events, and chicks running around, i get distracted. what can i say, i have ADD.
as for the music, i am definitely over carter. i’m not over how bad that trade was though, makes me nervous thinking about how bad a gm babcock was.
btw, Cluck Jerksky…bloody genius.
i didn’t think you were high pitched.
Not high pitched at all…although, if you followed the lead of those at raptorstalk and severed your left nut, you would be.
Great job on the podcast, by the way. I look forward to when you guys team up.
Scott.
Not a huge fan of live games either. High school ball? Sure. At NBA games, though, I get the feeling of sitting on a giant conveyor belt, with hundreds over super-enthused salesmen and marketeers plying me with products as I pass by. It’s a fact of life at any pro event but it’s an unsettling feeling — like walking into a real estate seminar with a sack with a dollar sign painted on the side.
It is so bad at Raptor games now that they add a logo to the live shot on the scoreboard. Tim Hortons, Ford, etc. You can’t even look at live video in the confines of a building in which you paid for your seat and not get hit by an ad. I’m convinced we will see the Raptor mascot wearing a Fubu bandana at a future game whilst sipping from a bottle of Coke and gabbing on his Bell mobile. Of course, I’ll see this while eating my $13 prime rib sandwich.
Truth. It’s gotten to be a cross between Disneyland and… well, I don’t know if there’s a metaphor for the price gouging that goes on. I won’t grump about it, but suffice to say that the United Center isn’t far from Little Italy, and there are about 50 million better options than a $9 paper tray of nachos.
You’ve gotta fight. For your right. To paaaartay!
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again. The difference between people in let’s say, France and people in Ontario is simply this… we complain to ourselves, they complain, get people to sign a petition, start a rally, stand and protest, get the news involved, and finally win.
Granted this isn’t the case 100% of the time, but the reason why corporations keep doing this to us in Ontario is because we let them. Ontarioans either do not care, or feel they do not have time to care.
The most I did was boycott Esso after they started showing me commercials as I pumped my gas.