Comments on: in the zone http://jimski.nopaper.net/2007/02/05/in-the-zone/ ten years in the making Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:16:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jimski http://jimski.nopaper.net/2007/02/05/in-the-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-29772 jimski Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:53:03 +0000 http://jimski.nopaper.net/2007/02/05/in-the-zone/#comment-29772 Basketball has no power over the Gateway City: Baseballville USA has no NBA team, and in the space where there should be college ball there is only <em>suck</em>. A friend of mine is a St. Louisan only because his parents moved here during the '50s for the university. "Yay Billikens!" his parents' family said encouragingly, as at the time the Bills were a Thing. <a href="http://slubillikens.cstv.com/trads/billiken.html" rel="nofollow">What's a Billiken?</a>, America says now. And to America, I respond, "A basketball player too poor to get accepted elsewhere." Basketball has no power over the Gateway City: Baseballville USA has no NBA team, and in the space where there should be college ball there is only suck.

A friend of mine is a St. Louisan only because his parents moved here during the ’50s for the university. “Yay Billikens!” his parents’ family said encouragingly, as at the time the Bills were a Thing. What’s a Billiken?, America says now. And to America, I respond, “A basketball player too poor to get accepted elsewhere.”

]]> By: Will http://jimski.nopaper.net/2007/02/05/in-the-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-29566 Will Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:25:12 +0000 http://jimski.nopaper.net/2007/02/05/in-the-zone/#comment-29566 The only true downtime comes after basketball and before baseball. We're now in the pre-March madness phase, followed closely by who-really-cares-NBA playoffs. I don't normally give a hood's wink about basketball, but now that I'm in a college town with a top 10 team I expect I'll watch at least one game at a sports bar with some friends. I should probably find out who the hell the players are before that happens so I don't look like a tool. Or I could just keep my comments decidedly vague. "Man, our defense is amazing this year." "Did you see that shot at the end of the last game? Wow!". The only true downtime comes after basketball and before baseball. We’re now in the pre-March madness phase, followed closely by who-really-cares-NBA playoffs.

I don’t normally give a hood’s wink about basketball, but now that I’m in a college town with a top 10 team I expect I’ll watch at least one game at a sports bar with some friends. I should probably find out who the hell the players are before that happens so I don’t look like a tool. Or I could just keep my comments decidedly vague. “Man, our defense is amazing this year.” “Did you see that shot at the end of the last game? Wow!”.

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