Damaramu

Well, I'll watch it but I don't have to like it when he's in there. I can root against him, like I'm doing now. As for the Lakers, yeah they've actually become kind of likeable. And this is coming from a historic hardcore Laker hater. Maybe 909 was right, maybe Shaq was the problem! Because the last few seasons without him I haven't actively hated the Lakers, just not cared. This season I kind of got turned off of the Suns after they got Shaq. I thought it was because they weren't as exciting, but maybe it was fat boy. Then again I still don't like Luke Walton.........

I hate hearing about him ALL the time. I'm tired of having him shoved down my throat anytime I watch anything sports or NBA-related. I'm tired of people trying to claim he's better than Jordan (guess what? Jordan never lost a finals let alone get swept!) It has nothing to do with other people liking him. People like Chris Paul, I like Chris Paul. I've been told Lebron James is the best player in the NBA since he was in HS. I'm tired of it. I react badly when someone is crammed down my throat.

Lebron James is the most unlikeable player in this year's field. Anyone other than him is fine. Seriously, everywhere I turn I see that guy. And, I have to basically watch any game involving him on mute or else I'm driven up the wall by the verbal BJ's for the most routine plays.

Well I hope D-Wa......Lebron James doesn't get all the horseshit calls throughout the rest of the playoffs. It was absurd he had more FTA's than the whole Celtics team. Bullshit flop there at the end. Hopefully the Celtics get the benefit of the bad refereeing at home in game 7(because you know there will be bad ref'n). Also I hope to never hear that chick call another game involving Lebron. Everything the guy did she had to launch into a long praise of how great it is and how much better it is than anybody else. "Lebron is bleeding. Look at the consistency of the blood. It's just so strong, the NBA has never seen blood like that before."

These two teams do seem to play ugly ugly basketball against each other. The Celtics with 9 FTA and the Cavs with 23 through 3Q is absurd.

No, not IMO. She's irritating the shit out of me.

Now I remember why I hate this chick doing colour commentary on this game, she's Lebron's biggest fan. God I wish this series would end, I don't want to be witness to anything. The officiating is also monumentally shitty right now. The Celtics are getting whipped on and nothing is called but the Cavs are barely touched and the whistle blows. Ugh.

I don't think Kansas will get in trouble over the Arthur thing. As for the paying players, it'd be cool if they could be paid as if it was a student job. I mean if some dude can get an internship in college making 15 bucks an hour (which an engineering friend of mine did) then why can't a football/basketball/whatever player get paid 7.50 an hour? Don't give me any of this "we must maintain amateurism" crap, that was out the window long ago. Hell football players have been paid since the sport started.

Yeah the worst had to be where we learned the signifigance of Jacks's tattoos. It seriously felt like a throwaway episode.

Well, maybe you're right Matt. I tried this dude's method today and I felt like I was going to puke for the first time in like forever. I did 3x10 of bicep curls with the machine (90 lbs for 2 sets and then 70 for the last), 3x10 shoulder press (90 lbs), 3x10 behind the head pull downs (90 lbs), 3x10 front lat pull-downs (90 lbs.), 3x10 tricep pull downs with a rope (90 lbs), 3x10 bench press (135 pounds) then i did 20 with the bar, 2x10 incline bench (only 110 lbs and i was about to die at this point), 3x10 lower back extensions, 3x10 seated row machine (120 lbs) and then I tried to do my abs on that chair where you hang and kick your legs, but I got through 10 and I was spent and felt the puke rising. So I guess it was a good idea. Although, for some reason, my forearms and wrists ache when I do a lot of the pulling exercises. I don't like that feeling at all. Also seeing how I can only do 90 lbs. on most things I feel like a weakling, but we all gotta start somewhere (despite the fact i've been doing this seriously for like 2 months now).

How is it 100x better? Before I was doing full-body 3x a week. Now I'm doing one week upper 2x and lower 1x and the next lower 2x and upper 1x.

I don't know if I could get 5 reps of an extremely high weight. I was benching with a friend and I could only get 2 reps of 195 up. Yeah yeah, I'm a weakling. I need to get stronger obviously. So what would a pyramid for me on bench look like judging by that weight? This workout the guy suggested to me at the gym (posted above) seems like it'd help condition me, but I don't see myself getting much stronger doing it. I guess if I did high weight, but I doubt I could do 3x10 of a really high weight. I swear they have this workout for everyone and just suggest it to newbies like they think they don't what the hell is going on. Whatever, I'll give his method a shot to see if it helps me get leaner, I probably need to get leaner and in better cardiovascular shape first for rugby. I may not be weight lifting strong, but I've been told I tackle pretty damn hard. Then again, a lot of that is technique.

I think everyone in the ship was a Skrull. It looks like (from reading New Avengers and Captain Marvel) that the Skrulls don't know they're Skrulls. To infiltrate they have believe they're that person. As evidenced by the Elektra Skrull. Then I suppose "He loves you" triggers them to realize what they are. This is interesting. I think Mockingbird is a Skrull, she just doesn't know it.

Yeah, I don't know about the rest of you guys but I'd like to rail Cat Osterman.

Dude, you just gave me an idea for a new gym. I'm going to have to open one now.....

Yeah he didn't come up with the circuit but he came up with something I'm a little bit wary of. But, I haven't changed my workout in like 2 months so I'll give it a shot. The change should at least produce results. Before I was doing full-body 3-days a week. My full-body consisted of: squats, hamstring curls, bench press, lat pull-downs, bent-over row, shoulder presses and front pull-ups (where you hold the bar in front with a close grip and pull it up). He suggested doing upper body twice a week and then lower once, and then the next week do lower twice a week and upper once. And he said do abs 5-days a week and do 30 minutes on a treadmill 5-days a week. And he showed me some core building exercises with a medicine ball. His upper consisted of: bench press, lat pull-downs OR bent-over row, shoulder presses, skull crushers OR kickbacks, bicep curls (gag) and lower back raises. His lower consisted of lunges OR squats, hamstring curls, leg extensions and calf raises. It doesn't seem like I'll get too much stronger doing that. I guess if I put a lot of weight on the bench and the squats it would help build strength. And he wanted me to do 3x10 of everything. Sometimes I think these guys come up with the same thing for everyone and just claim it's for that one person. Just like the enrollment fee. Every gym I've ever gone to has waived an enrollment fee. I think they just have those there incase someone doesn't protest to make extra money. If the person does protest they say "You know what buddy? I'll waive it just for you if you join today!"

VX? Anyone? I joined a new gym and I get one of those personal assesments for free. They claim they'll come up with a workout plan tailored to me. I never trust those people because it seems the workout plan is more often than not a circuit workout.

Yay the Celtics pulled their heads out of their asses. But, the way this game started worries me for a Game 7 or a late 4th-Q Lebron surge.

Is this the Boston Garden or downtown Detroit? I've never seen so many muggings.

See, I just don't think he plays beautiful transcendent basketball. You know who does though? Chris Paul. I wish the Hornets were staying in OKC and we weren't getting the Sonics. Everyone claims Lebron is the most fun to watch. I've never found that to be the case. I used to think Nash was the most fun to watch in the NBA, but now I really think it's Paul. I wish he received some insane amount of hype, I might actually be able to get behind him for it.

I remember middle school. It was 7-9 for me. It's what started my descent into the "fat" years that I'm still trying to break out of. I was fairly in shape, because I was a wirey kid that was always on the go. Well I go to seventh grade and I was playing football and wrestling then I met my best friend for the next 3 years named Elijah. He was this fat little kid with long hair that played guitar. We started hanging and I quit playing sports and got into music and started learning to play guitar and all I really ever did was eat, hang out and watch TV. Never really did a whole lot. Then he started getting me into smoking and what not. Nowadays I don't smoke pot, but I really don't see any problem with anyone doing it. Back then I thought it was like the devil's work or something, but after some convincing I started doing it. It just made me lazier and fatter really. So we get to high school and he breaks into my moms drawer (looking for rolling papers, because he thought for some reason my parents may have them) and goes through her stuff when I'm asleep(and my parents aren't home) and my parents can tell someone was in there and everyone gets in trouble and we aren't allowed to hang anymore. Since we can't really hang out outside of school we slowly fall apart and in 10th grade I begin to hang out with my group of friends that I'm with now. None of them smoked and all of them were just pretty big nerds. So I hung out with my nerdy friends and that didn't really inspire me to get into shape either. lol. So I still didn't play any high school sports and as a result I never had a date in Jr. High or HS and was made fun of a lot for being fat. But, that still didn't really inspire me to get in shape. Funny thing, the reason I started working out and trying to get into shape (which has been a 5 year process for me b/c i eat shitty food and can't seem to stay dedicated) was because I got heavy back into watching sports and I was like "Well that guy's all in shape and I'm a big fat dumpy guy". That and wanting to meet chicks in college probably helped with that too. But, because I spent all of Jr. High getting stoned and all of high school playing video games I didn't really know how to talk to girls. So college was a fun learning experience filled with much trouble, but I guess it worked out. Of course I think back to my eating habits in HS and the beginning of college and I realize that I sure did eat like a pig. I think at my heaviest I got to like 295. I never quite broke the 300 barrier. Now I'm at like 255 and I seem to be stuck here.

Maybe he's like that assistant on Playmakers that helped McConnell find a girl? He takes videos of girls and cheerleaders so Tom Brady can decide what his next conquest will be when they swing through the city again?

He gets way more hype than is humanly deserved. You're, what, 23? Good thing you weren't really around for the Jordan era. Yeah I'm 23 and I didn't watch or care about ESPN when the Bulls won their 6 titles, thank god apparently.

He gets way more hype than is humanly deserved. He gets way mor ethan the Celtics. At least the Celtics are a team and not believed to be one superman that can single-handedly defeat any team in the NBA. Plus the color guy is usually busy slurping Lebron too during any game. And the whole "We Are Witness" ad campaign really drives me crazy. And I said you were anti-celtics because of you talking about how you were rooting for them to lose after the Atlanta series because you didn't like the way KG was acting. It has nothing to do with me being unrealistic. I just don't like what I don't like. Sorry if that upsets you or confuses you Ripper.

I'm about as pro-Boston and anti-Lebron as you can get. So I have two things vested in this series. Meanwhile Ripper has admitted to being anti-Boston and he seems pretty pro-Lebron. So maybe we're just cancelling each other out here.