The NBA Lockout/Strike
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:51 pm
In the deep, dark past, one might refer to a "Mexican Standoff," as a battle in which both sides lost.
The NBA dispute is one in which one can fervently hope for (and actually realize) a Mexican Standoff.
The odious owners and greedy players cannot decide how best to slice up the ridiculously generous pie of league basketball revenues.
Although basketball is a wonderful game, I can't imagine why people pay the prices they do to sit through 48 minutes of this spectacle. Most of the season is virtually meaningless, as every team with even a rumor of a winning record makes the playoffs. The best teams are merely taking the regular season as the time to get in position for a playoff run - which is the REAL NBA season.
The highly-paid hot dogs are a stark contrast to 99% of the audience, which is invariably lilly-white. Their ubiquitous tattoos and ridiculous hairstyles make them look oddly like the poor, misguided street urchins who emulate them, and the real inspirers in our state prison systems.
Ironically, a season reduced to a third of its current length would be just as likely to distill the leagues down to the best teams, and the NBA champion would not be compromised in any way by virtue of a shortened season.
A large percentage of America couldn't care less about the work stoppage, as we have no local team to root for and don't identify with any players in any event. Their TV ratings would be the envy of PBS, but probably no one else. Most nights, I'd just as soon watch HSN - which I've never actually seen.
The NBA dispute is one in which one can fervently hope for (and actually realize) a Mexican Standoff.
The odious owners and greedy players cannot decide how best to slice up the ridiculously generous pie of league basketball revenues.
Although basketball is a wonderful game, I can't imagine why people pay the prices they do to sit through 48 minutes of this spectacle. Most of the season is virtually meaningless, as every team with even a rumor of a winning record makes the playoffs. The best teams are merely taking the regular season as the time to get in position for a playoff run - which is the REAL NBA season.
The highly-paid hot dogs are a stark contrast to 99% of the audience, which is invariably lilly-white. Their ubiquitous tattoos and ridiculous hairstyles make them look oddly like the poor, misguided street urchins who emulate them, and the real inspirers in our state prison systems.
Ironically, a season reduced to a third of its current length would be just as likely to distill the leagues down to the best teams, and the NBA champion would not be compromised in any way by virtue of a shortened season.
A large percentage of America couldn't care less about the work stoppage, as we have no local team to root for and don't identify with any players in any event. Their TV ratings would be the envy of PBS, but probably no one else. Most nights, I'd just as soon watch HSN - which I've never actually seen.