jimmykc

I don't have any problems with people having strong opinions regarding social justice or politics, I just don't think athletes have any more credence than any other group and I tune into sports for recreation and not social education. I would feel the same way if our plumber or cable guy showed up at the door in a political tee shirt and began to tell me about his views on our society. How about we all just continue to do our best to perform our jobs to the best of our abilities and confine our opinions to the ballot box?

Reassessing my post of this morning, I feel somewhat more sanguine tonight about the NBA. It is just the expectation that athletes must make a political stance on everything which rubbed me the wrong way. I suppose I just want to see them play ball and not correct all of the problems we have in the world now. I have a long and enjoyable history with the NBA and this year has not registered with me. The first team I can remember seeing on tv was the old George Mikan, Slater Martin, Jim Pollard, Vern Mickelson Minneapolis Lakers in the fifties. Later I remember hiding my old am radio underneath the covers and listening to Clyde Lovellette and Bob Petit's St. Louis Hawks go against the Bill Russell Celts . I switched to the Celtics when they got Jojo White and Nate Archibald, both of whom I got to see perform live in college. And finally, the GM of the Celtics (who was Jan Volk after Auerbach) comped my family four seats on the parquet at the old Garden as they beat Rick Pitino's Knicks. Bird was hurt and watched from the bench but I did get to have a few words with Kevin McHale and slipped a quarter between the gaps in the floor. Anyway, I'm sure I will eventually muster some NBA enthusiasm when (maybe) some NU players perform for a team some day. Just not this year.

Don't know about KD or KG but another KR would be "Vunderbar" with me. (That's Kurt Rambis for all you whippersnappers)

Sorry to start this "holiday" with a bitter screed, but for the first time in the past past 70 years I managed to neither see nor hear a single basket of the NBA finals. With no ex- Nebraska players involved, with the Lakers being my traditional least-liked team, and with Heat having no players of interest, I just didn't care. No fans, no superstars without political agendas, and no interesting story lines=no reason to care. I guess I'll just blame it on China and move on to college sports.

Appropriate reading for this O.T. thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test#/media/File:KoolAid_1stUSEd_front.jpg

I haven't taken the time to look this up but would be interested in whether Gordon or Erstad will be perceived to have had the better major league career for a UNL grad.?

I surmised the Nebraska connection would make the topic a bit less O.T. That and the tendency of those who post here to go about their business wearing only a shirt.

https://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/say-hello-to-smiley-ball-the-worcester-red-soxs-new-mascot.31649/ To add a bit of levity to an otherwise dismal sports and world news day. Feel free to remove this thread when you want, Matt.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Wunderbar+Commercial&&view=detail&mid=05D271EAE972D6493CFE05D271EAE972D6493CFE&&FORM=VRDGAR

Just vundering.

Does anyone know whether his name is pronounced Wilhelm or Vilhelm? I vould be wery interested to know. Danke.

Sort of a bizzaro Rosenthal.

Very unusual for a player to stay with the same team for his whole career. Best wishes to him for the next phase of his life.

And there's always the New Braunfels Wurstfest to look forward to.

Winner,winner jerky dinner-but wait, this may have to go to arbitration since you have lost some of your initial gain-and Silverback has not yet checked in.

And it didn't even mention his great hair!

Okay, now for the serious stuff: Every poster should now list his pre-pandemic and present weights. The winner with the largest gain will get to eat all of Cip's expired beef jerky leftovers.

And in 1948, 50 out of 50 pundits and pollsters picked Dewey to beat Truman in the presidential election.

To summarize, I expect we'll adopt a "baseline to baseline" approach.

With all the sad and crappy news which we seem to deal with this year, I figure we might need a laugh occasionally. Since I have basically been watching movies for the past six months (some recent, some revisits of favorites, many I have missed over the years), I thought I would list three I hadn't seen which actually caused me to laugh out loud. Feel free to list any others which are worthy and beware, because my own sense of humor may be somewhat warped. 1. The Dead Don't Die- 2019, 2. Living in Oblivion-1995 3. Clerks-1994.

Our basketball history melting away. RIP to all.

Anyone interested in learning about MLK should also read Hampton Sides excellent account of his demise. https://www.amazon.com/Hellhound-His-Trail-Electrifying-American/dp/0307387437/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1O7E5VCAGQS3W&dchild=1&keywords=hellhound+on+his+trail+by+hampton+sides&qid=1598726252&s=books&sprefix=Hellhound%2Caps%2C207&sr=1-2

This seems to be going well. I can hardly wait for the season to start!

What happened to the "no political posts" rule? We get plenty of this stuff on all of the other media. By the way, does anyone ever wait on actual evidence before jumping to conclusions any more? Otherwise why bother with a legal system at all, just take a poll on twitter and mete out whatever justice the majority mandates? It would bypass lawyers altogether.

Might one add, "That's the Pitts", or is it too early and hot?