6 Thoughts
1) Oooooh, big beatdown in Chicago, like passing a government-rampage-takeover of the health care system, baby! Four and a half game lead, and the season-series tiebreaker, on Chicago with twelve to play. That seems like it should be enough to get Miami in the playoffs. Socialismo o Muerte, Joakim Noah! Let's do it political-system style, acknowledging in advance that it is a terrible, terrible idea.
2) Running the show like Obama, accepting the double teams and semi-outrageous but predictable racially-coded criticism, looking them over, and then dropping the ball - or the bill - to open shooters like Jermaine O'Neal, Udonis Haslem (and...Nancy Pelosi?), was Dwyane Wade. He took only seven shots, making five, and scored 12 points. But his 10 assists led the way, along with 5 rebounds and 2 blocks in only 29 minutes. It was clearly uncool when Kirk Hinrich, during a third quarter timeout, claimed that Wade was born in Nigeria, and that sharing the ball with his less-gifted teammates was "tearing down the fabric that makes the NBA great." Man, those white guys from the midwest can get really, really angry!
3) Paying the role of Rahm Emmanuel, getting tou- alright, this is retarded. I don't really know anything about Rahm Emmanuel (or health care, or politics, for that matter) except that he seems like a complete putz. Short man's disease. Quentin Richardson is the opposite of a putz, and went to the block early and often, scoring 9 post-up points in the first quarter. Tonight was a TNT broadcast only night - always brutal. Kenny Smith and Barkley, at the game, spent a lot of time talking about how Miami never posts Quentin Richardson, which is just incorrect. They usually do post him when he has a mismatch - the problem is, at the small forward, he usually doesn't have a mismatch. Kenny and Charles never let things like not seeing the games, or flawed analysis, stop them from flapping their gums...juuussst like Republican Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who vowed that heath care would be Obama's Waterloo! We're back! See how we did that, we brought it right back around and finished, like a stumbling Mike Beasley drive in garbage time!
4) How is Derrick Rose like Sarah Palin? Inability to finish. 5-16 from the floor for DRose tonight.
5) In the Rush Limbaugh role? Chicago's Chris Richard. Why? They are both fat. Also, always funny to compare Rush Limbaugh to a black dude.
6) Okay, okay, enough, the game was terrible, over halfway through the first quarter. The Bulls have a ton of injuries and look like they have packed it in - didn't play hard. Streak now stands at one, after the 104 game streak ended Monday night against New Jersey. Thanks to M.Minutos for filling in.
A lot of people wrote in to mourn the loss of the streak and ask how the Wilco concert was. Okay, that's a lie - a lot of people did write in, but mostly to say how great it was that I didn't write the blog that night, and that they prefer M.Minutos. Of course, that was before the brilliant political analysis you've read here tonight!
The Wilco show was great, they are great, and it was a great performance. Tough to say that they were better, though, than the sweet, sweet sandwiches we got from famed South Beach sandwich walkup La Sanwicherie on 14th Street before the show. Prosciutto, tomato, and mozzarella for Thor; Salami, provolone, lettuce, tomato, and pickles for Dos. Stinky!
Best moment at the show itself: when I went to get us two beers just after intermission, ordered two Coronas since we had already been drinking those, and was handed, like literally two fifty ounce cans of beer. I was stunned - each can of beer represented about three days worth of liquid intake for me. I wanted to ask if they had anything smaller, but really, could there possibly be a gayer move than sending back any type of drink because it is too big? I mean, especially if you are a dude? So I paid - $12 each! The Captain pointed out when the bartender put them on the bar I should have been like, "Is that that biggest can you have? Hmmm. I think I am gonna need two then..." Look, in the final analysis, it didn't stop us from drinking them, and if anything, it just made the singalong in "Jesus, etc," even a little mo' dreamier.
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Cheers, and see you tomorrow night in beautiful downtown Milwaukee! Where I have actually been - M.Minutos is from there!!!
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