Inveigh: Feeling Bullish

Inveigh 03.24.10	you know what's sad? three of these artists weren't even on the site when I started making this list. c'mon Sputnik, I expected better from you.
Inveigh 03.24.10	ah, boxing is third for me behind basketball and football
HugCrewLoveRoll 03.24.10	Hockey.
Slipping Away 03.24.10	Basketball is cool, but im more into football, tennis and interestingly enough supercross right now.
Inveigh 03.24.10	hockey, eh? I've been trying to get into it since the Blackhawk's ressurgence, but I've been unsuccessful thus far.
Inveigh 03.24.10	Supercross... that IS interesting. Now when you say football are you referring to American football or rest-of-the-world football?
Slipping Away 03.24.10	actually probably both
Inveigh 03.24.10	I assumed American at first, then I remembered how worldly the Sputnik community is.
Slipping Away 03.24.10	Yeah I meant american football but I took a year off from watching soccer and now I'm getting back into it
AnotherBrick1 03.24.10	ew sports
bungy 03.24.10	I love basketball
Inveigh 03.24.10	sweet, another hoops fan. NBA, NCAA or FIBA mr. bungy? also, anyone wanna talk Chicago hip hop?
AnotherBrick1 03.24.10	although it was pretty sweet the one year where my cousins team got to play in the NCAA
Inveigh 03.24.10	what was your cousin's team?
Slipping Away 03.24.10	Lupes good but thats all I know bout chi town hip hop
intothepit83 03.24.10	if wade goes to chicago, i will suck your dick blake
Inveigh 03.24.10	looks like I got some serious recruitment to do! Manukid: you don't know Common or Kanye? Not that Kanye's good anymore, but The College Dropout was pretty great. Check out those two Common albums in the list, you'll probably dig em if you like Lupe.
intothepit83 03.24.10	he aint leavin the MIA, trust me. heat have too much money to spend this year. they are the only team that have enough cap space to re-sign wade and sign an amar'e stoudamire or a chris bosh(hoping for bosh personally), so keep wishing
AnotherBrick1 03.24.10	he played for austin peay, who i bet no one has heard of but they got beat my louisville. my cousin was the mvp for the team though which was pretty cool.
Slipping Away 03.24.10	actually I did but I'm not a fan of eithers music. Heard the newest common album and went ugh although I do know his old stuff was better. But yeah maybe I'll check him out. I do like roses from Kanye.
intothepit83 03.24.10	austin peay in tennessee, right?
Inveigh 03.24.10	^Knicks can do that too. Chicago doesn't need the money to sign an extra player though, we already have 3 players better than anyone on the Heat besides Wade (Rose, Noah and Deng). I would say Rose will be better than STAT, Bosh or Joe Johnson next year. But you're probably right, I doubt Wade leaves. However, he is from Chicago, and just bought a second house here downtown last summer (he already had one in the burbs, the rumor was that he bought the one downtown to be in close proximity to the United Center during the season).
intothepit83 03.24.10	well, he was on the radio the other day saying how chicago would be a nice place to play, but the one reason he doesn't live there year around is because he hates the cold. and basketball is mostly a winter sport, so good luck gettin him outta 75 degree weather during winter
Inveigh 03.24.10	yeah, I know he hates the cold. All NBA players are like that, which is weird, because football players never complain about it and they're the ones playing outside. But Wade lived here for the first 18 years of his life and then to college for 4 years in Milwaulkee, so he's got to be used to it. But yeah, I'd say it's less than a 10% chance he actually comes here, maybe no even that. AnotherBrick1: I remember Austin Peay, I actually remember that game against Louisville. That's really cool man. I only played for an NAIA school (Missouri Baptist University) for one year before I transferred to Northern Illinois University. I walked on at NIU but decided to quit and focus on my band that I was in at the time. Manukid: definitely check out older Common, both of his two newest discs are cringe-inducing.
BigHans 03.24.10	My favorite Bulls ever: Bill Cartwright, Stacey King, Will Perdue, Craig Hodges, Bill Wennington, Randy Brown, John Paxson, Charles Oakley, Ho Grant, BJ Armstrong. I was a huge Bulls fan until MJ retired the first time. I was fucking catastrophic when that happened. I switched to the Pacers and Miller time out of shock.
BigHans 03.24.10	Why would Wade bitch about the cold? Didn't the dude play college in fuckin Wisky?
intothepit83 03.24.10	he did, but after moving down here he said he'd never live up there again during the winter. he hated it
Inveigh 03.24.10	BigHans: dude, LOVED those Bulls teams. Cartwright, King, Hodges, Wennington, Oakley and Grant were my all-time faves as far as lunch pail and hard-hat kinda guys go. King's also awesome calling the games on TV now, Wennington does the radio broadcasts. I switched to the Pacers for a bit in the mid-90s when Jordan was retired (not switched per se, but followed more closely). Definitely had a Reggie Miller jersey. You been to Conseco Fieldhouse? I just saw Metallica there last September, I was about 8 feet from the stage -- it was awesome.
Inveigh 03.24.10	aw, Josh D you're killing me! I don't know what you consider "popular" sports, but basketball is far more entertaining than hockey or baseball. A baseball game will be on for about 3 1/2 hours, but only 10 minutes of that is actual baseball action. The rest is just players stepping in and out of a batting box, adjusting their hats/gloves/helmets, scratching themselves, spitting, making weird hand signals and generally doing other stuff besides throwing, catching or hitting.
AnotherBrick1 03.24.10	haha speaking of that, anyone watch that south park last night about baseball?
Inveigh 03.24.10	wait, which one was it? I thought the new one didn't come on until tonight, was it a rerun?
Deviant. 03.24.10	What is this 'basketball' you are talking about? I am unfamiliar with ze term
Inveigh 03.24.10	it's an American sport designed to get dudes into bands like Ulcerate
porch 03.24.10	Ping pong for me
AnotherBrick1 03.24.10	it was probably a rerun but it was the one where the kids keep trying to lose so they can finally be done with baseball. it was fucking hilarious
bungy 03.24.10	NCAA and NBA, I follow the NBA very closely.
Inveigh 03.24.10	AnotherBrick: ahh yea, I've seen that one -- very funny. pretty pumped about new episodes starting tonight. bungy: I'm an NBA guy too, I find it to be a higher quality of basketball than NCAA. Other than the Bulls, I love watching the Nuggets.
intothepit83 03.24.10	u should try full contact wheelchair rugby, or a new sport i just invented: Who Drown's First?
Deviant. 03.24.10	"it's an American sport designed to get dudes into bands like Ulcerate" Sounds like a pretty solid sport to me haha. Never actually sat down and watched a whole game, but it's something I could see becoming addictive if I had the time for it
bungy 03.24.10	Yeah, people who refuse to watch the NBA, but watch college piss me off. I was a Sonic fan, but I still follow the Thunder who are doing awesome for they amount of experience they have. Their time will come. The Grizzlies have also been fun to watch turn into a great team. They just have no depth to make a playoff run. ...some random NBA thoughts I felt like sharing.
Inveigh 03.24.10	I actually got started playing when I was a kid just because I grew up in Atlanta and there really wasn't much else to do -- all the peeps in my hood were constantly playing. Oh, and I made that joke bc that's how I got into Ulcerate (and a lot of music, actually); I watch basketball on mute while listening to music. It's quite a musical sport, actually. When a team/player is playing well, there is a sort of rhythm to their movements and actions that's just so damn.. musical, to me. I wish I knew how to describe it better.
Inveigh 03.24.10	bungy: I'm with you on both points. I love the Thunder's roster. Westbrook, Durant, Green and Hardin is one of the best young cores (if not THE best) in the NBA. Really, the only group of young guys that's on par with that is Gasol, Gay, Conley and Mayo with the Grizzlies. Both teams are a lot of fun to watch. Also, Segre Ibaka has been a very pleasant surprise for OKC this year.
intothepit83 03.24.10	i love the nba, it's just gotten a bit too predictable. you always know who the top 4 seeds are in the conference b4 the season starts, and u always know which of those 4 teams will win the championship b4 the allstar game. i love basketball, but the nba needs some improvement. i vote we allow guns on the court for defense and setting picks. what do you all think? hell, gilbert could be the pioneer!
BigHans 03.24.10	I've never been to Conseco, it was a different arena back in my fan days. When MJ left, I switched full on to the Pacers, mostly because I thought Miller was a God like shooter. Those were some great teams, with guys like the Davis brothers, Rik Smits (who shattered Bill Simmon's Unintentional Comedy scale when he shaved his head), Mullin, Jalen Rose, Mark Jackson, etc. It was kind of surreal when they took the 98 Bulls to game 7, a game the Bulls won purely on Jordan and Pippen barreling into the lane and getting calls. I was a big Pacers fan up until the Artest brawl. I decided that was it and went on like a four year NBA hiatus, save fantasy basketball.
KieranV 03.24.10	kansas sucks
bungy 03.24.10	I agree, the Thunder's potential is exciting.
BigHans 03.24.10	Should be interesting to see if Durant can take the scoring title. I'm guessing Lebron might tank some of their last games, opening the door for him.
Inveigh 03.24.10	intothepit: you're right I guess, but what sport isn't like that? at least, professional sport. Were New Orleans and Indianapolis not the two teams with like 13 game unbeaten streaks during the regular season? It came down to the Vikings, Saints, Colts and Jets -- only one of those teams was remotely a surprise. And didn't the Yankees go to like 8 World Series in a row a few years back? I'd actually say that all pro sports are equally predictable. If anything, no one picked the Magic to go to the NBA Finals last year -- everyone thought it would be Cleveland or Boston. BigHans: those Pacers teams were great. Up there with the early 2000s Kings and late 90s Jazz as the best teams to never win a title. bungy: the problem they're going to have is the same one the Bulls had a few years back: pretty soon everyone wants to get paid. Then again, the new CBA could change how all of that works.
bungy 03.24.10	Yeah, and I don't think this year is predictable, even though on paper the Lakers should never lose a game with the two best defenders, three talented seven footers, well Kobe, and of course Adam Morrison.
intothepit83 03.24.10	but see, in football(or as my cajun momma calls it, foozball), you don't know really how good these teams are until halfway to the season. u had no clue how good minny was until they were 6-0, and who could've predicted the steelers collapse? or how did the cowboys actually win a playoff game? or peyton would fall to brees in the super bowl? yes, the matchup this year was what everyone predicted it was gonna be, but look at new england beating the rams 10 years ago? or the giants taking out the pats 2 super bowls ago? and no one could have predicted the cardinals last year going from barely getting into the playoffs to almost winning the title? football's a bad example to compare to basketball
bungy 03.24.10	Well, who predicted that the Grizzlies or the Bucks would be so competitive at this point in the season?
intothepit83 03.24.10	but i'm not talking about the bottom four playoff spots. those are up in the air cuz after the first four in each conference, the talent level just drops. who cares, outside of their respectful cities, that the bucks and grizzlies might make the playoffs? they won't make it out of the first or second rounds. what i'm saying is that you know that two of the teams(celtics, lakers, cavs, magic) will be playing each other in the finals. you know it! it's happened the last 3 years
bungy 03.24.10	Na, the Celtics aren't going to win more than one playoff and besides that scenario there is impossible.
intothepit83 03.24.10	lol, don't count the celtics out yet. that's being too quick on the draw. you forget how good this team really can be when healthy
intothepit83 03.24.10	how is that impossible? it's gonna be the lakers vs. the cavs/celtics/magic
Inveigh 03.24.10	what you say is true intothepit, but it's because of the way football is played. Similar to why the NCAA is so unpredictable, the playoffs in football are one and done. So, there's a big possibility of upsets. All you have to do is win ONE game, therefore the best teams aren't always the ones that win. In basketball, each playoff match-up is seven games long, which means that 90% of the time the best (read, higher seeded) team will win. It's not that the sport is more predictable, it's just the format. It's money based. More playoff games = more money. If football wasn't such a violent sport, I think you'd see more games and playoff series in 3-game formats. Then stuff like the upsets you mentioned would probably never happen.
bungy 03.24.10	Good points
bungy 03.24.10	Good points
Slipping Away 03.24.10	Yay! my beloved 90's pacers got mentioned, reggie=god
BigHans 03.24.10	Manukind, check out Reggie's autobiography "I Love Being the Enemy." Its a little dated (came out in 95 right after the famous Spike Lee choking incident). Pretty good read, aside from the constant Cheryl Miller talk.
Slipping Away 03.24.10	Cool, I'll check it out and god she annoys me