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Watching the last play live, I thought it was a legitimate foul, watching the replay, I thought it wasn't, and now seeing the still photo, I see that it is. Good call there, no worries. Miami got a little help from the referees tonight, but nothing extreme. Obviously, the NBA wants this to go 7, and if the Heat got a couple extra calls tonight, the league will probably return the favor for Dallas in Game 6. Really, I think this was a pretty even game that was ultimately decided by one stupid play which was the timeout call. Yeah, Dallas might have missed the shot anyway, but I would have a lot rather seen the game decided by a 20 footer from Dirk than by Josh Howard not knowing whether the Mavericks had one or two timeouts remaining. On the balance though, I'm still not all that upset. Why? Because I still feel really strongly that the Mavs are going to take it in 7. The Mavs dominated both games in Dallas, and twice were one shot away from winning in Miami. They'll blow the Heat out in Game 6 riding the angry emotional tide of this game and the return of Stackhouse, and while Game 7's more likely to be a classic than a blowout, I think the Mavs' depth and talent will be too much for the Heat. Don't forget that Dirk's a much better player than he's shown in the series thus far, and he's waaaaaay overdue to throw down 50 points on Miami.

Come on now. Us Dirks are supposed to stick together. At least til the Finals are over.

Are you telling me that Impact may actually be worth watching now? I may tape an episode and fast-forward through it to see if anything looks interesting, but I don't have very high hopes. The last couple times I tried to watch it (admittedly months ago), it was AWFUL.

I kind of feel like a dick about that last post, but I'm so proud of my analogy that I can't bring myself to delete it. So....sorry, but not really.

This is way worse than Napoleon Dynamite. That at least had a decent runtime. I'd compare it maybe to King Kong where at the beginning it was kind of interesting, but it just went on and on and on and on before the beast went to the top of a tall building and his life ended. (Not trying to give you any ideas Marvin.)

The right answer is that there needs to be a massive screwjob leading to a disputed title. Something like Lita brings Edge a weapon when the ref's down and the ref wakes up just in time to see RVD hit a Van Daminator. He rings the bell to DQ RVD as he goes for the cover, then VKM comes out and restarts the match saying that under "WWE rules" he can change the stips whenever he want, and even though RVD's pinfall didn't count earlier, now it's no DQ. RVD takes out Edge again and when he goes for the 5-star, Cena comes out to hit him with the chain. Then, after the interference, Edge hits RVD with the spear and pins him. That would be enough dissidence for both brands to be able to legitimately recognize their men as champions. Unfortunately, what we'll probably see is a quick Cena interference on both men, followed by Edge winning almost clean. Then, the next night on Raw, it will be "Edge is the real champ and now he has to face Cena who's way better than RVD" whereas at ECW, it will be "oh well, RVD still has the belt that Paul E. handed to him and now he's gonna defend it against Big Show."

That Eeyore comment was pure gold. My goal for the day for tomorrow is to work Eeyore-esque into an everyday conversation.

Too funny. I actually couldn't remember who's mannerisms those were until I read the comments. I think the best is that the crowd's giving him such a massive pop the whole time.

Cena will cost RVD the title, and then spend 30 minutes cutting a promo about it, explaining the whole thing as slowly as possible in an extremely coy manner with a gigantic smirk on his face while staring directly at the camera. I can hardly wait.

Terry punched someone in the balls. I'd like to argue that, but I can't really. Stackhouse made a play on the ball and accidentally took Shaq down. This is the most ticky-tack suspension I've seen yet, and they did it in the FINALS. Absolutely fucking ridiculous. You don't make a statement by suspending a star player in the most important series of the year. There's a reason that every other sport has an appeals process for suspensions. People like Stu Jackson and Dick Bavetta basically think they can make themselves famous by making dickish grandstanding moves that alter the course of series.

By the way, Avery Johnson has balls like grapefruits. From the story:

Since I triple posted, when I only meant to double post, I'll just say that I guarantee that this will cost Dallas Game 5. I don't care how much motivation it gives them, Stackhouse is too valuable for them to win a road game without him.

This is MOTHERFUCKING RIDICULOUS. GODDAMN BULLSHIT. If Stu Jackson were here right now, I'd show him what a flagrant foul is by taking my fist and punching him in the testicles shoving it up his sandy goddamn vagina.

Boy, I sure love to watch DICK BAVETTA referee. I don't tune in to see Dirk or Shaq or D-Wade, I just like to watch DICK BAVETTA blow that whistle. When he gives everybody technicals, that's just some entertaining basketball. I think for the next game, ABC's commercials should all focus on the real STAR of the series, DICK BAVETTA. God, that guy's a self-absorbed prick.

It really depends on what you can afford. If you're in your early twenties and working a shit job, then $50 is fine. If you've got a real job, and this is a lifelong friend, you should probably step it up a little bit.

I was sure that it was that they all had terrible first title runs that nearly killed their careers. If they continue to book RVD as weak as they did last week, the entire ECW promotion will fail miserably.

I know that the show has been discussed to death, but since the thread was down earlier, I still want to give my thoughts. There was basically one huge problem with the show. Yeah, the arena looked bad, and the production wasn't done right, but that stuff's all fixable, and they couldn't be expected to get that right the first night. The biggest problem is that everyone from ECW was treated as a total jobber! Honestly, they might have well just screamed from the rooftops: Our entire roster is terrible! Sabu and Sandman are treated like midcarders at best, and everyone else signed gives off the impression that they're below Velocity level. Justin Credible who's one of the more marketable stars they signed was squashed in a minute and a half by Kurt Angle. In case you forgot, Angle used to run an invitational every week where he'd squash local jobbers, and they'd usually last about 2 and a half minutes. That's longer than Justin Credible lasted. Basically, in the WWE hierarchy, former ECW champion is one step below local jobber. And the main event was even worse! They basically took the entire roster of new ECW guys, everyone they've signed for the new promotion (minus Sandman) that they think might interest people, and fed them all to the Big Show. To start with, he basically took on the roster by himself, and sent evey one of them running from the ring. Then they came back, and of the ten entrants in the battle royal, he eliminated 8 of them by himself. Then, Sabu who's one of about two people they're trying to give a little bit of a push to couldn't even eliminate Big Show by himself, he needed someone holding onto him from the outside to knock him out. Would it have been that hard to let Sabu hit a couple of cool spots, and just knock him out of the ring cleanly? Then the story would have been that Big Show was a total monster but Sabu was a badass and he was still able to best him. Instead, the story was "ECW's so full of jobbers that even ten of them have to cheat to be able to beat one WWE wrestler." I just can't imagine who thought the best way to bring back ECW was to bring in two WWE guys and have them squash the entire roster. You could summarize the show as: 1. Promo where WWE products representing WWE completely outsmart and humiliate Heyman and RVD. 2. "Comedy match" 3. WWE product squashes ECW product. 4. WWE product squashes 9 ECW products at the same time before taking a fluke loss.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Dwyane Wade end up doing the same thing to Miami's list that Dirk's doing to the Dallas list right now. I think that team's headed for quite a bright future, especially the way the rest of the Eastern Conference is going to shit. They'll be the Mavs' Finals bitches for years to come. And on that note, I don't think that win shares apply for basketball as well as they do for baseball. In baseball, you have so many players putting in a small piece that when someone gets a win share, they're really contributing in an above average manner. Basketball though is much more star-dependent and less easily measured by statistics so a star needs to be measured against other stars; not just on whether his contributions were good for part of his team's victory. Seeing Udonis Haslem listed on that top Miami seasons kind of invalidates it for me.

Trading away Andy Pettite rocks. I got Soriano for him. Oh, and also got rid Lowell for Corey Lidle as part of the same deal. Far and away the best trade I've made in any fantasy league. MVP races looks solid. I knew Giambi was having a good season, but I didn't realize he was actually playing better than Jeter. That surprised me a little. Nice to see Hernandez represent for my shitty Orioles too. Leading the league in win shares is pretty impressive when there are so few wins to go around.

HHH pressured/bribed Earl Hebner into overturning the decision for being a fast count, promising that he'd never attack him again "as long as he was a WWE official." Hebner, being retarded, agreed, and as soon as HHH had the title back, he fired Hebner and then beat the shit out of him.

Bah, I knew I forgot something tonight. I didn't wake up until 8 (out all night playing poker last night), and then I flipped on the Finals and completely forgot about One Night Stand. Too bad too, because this is one wrestling show I actually wanted to see.

LOL. I love that statistic. I always kinda liked Shaq, but that interview he had this week with Stephen A Smith really pissed me off where he was saying how he doesn't really care if they win a ring, and he'd celebrate for a couple days and give the ring to his dad but it's "just business" and it doesn't mean anything to him personally. When you hear Dirk and Jet talk on the other hand, you can really feel the passion they have for winning, when they talk about how winning an NBA title would be right up there with having children and getting married. I'll be really happy to see them hoist the trophy next Thursday. (OK, maybe Sunday. If it takes til the following Tuesday though, it just means they tanked a game so they could celebrate on their home court.)

I'm kinda pumped for that US/Czech Republic match tomorrow. That commercial about how the US is ranked 5th in the world and no one believes in them was cool enough that I had to put down $100 at 40/1 that they take the tournament down.

Nah, I kinda like the fist pump. The tongue thing's cool in it's own way, but it gives a little too much ammunition for the people that make fun of Dirk just because he's not the typical American type. (i.e. All this Hasselhoff shit, he obviously only brought it up as a joke.)

I don't know, I'm kind of thinking this might be the start of a trend again with the West just dominating the East. I think the best three teams in the league right now are Dallas, San Antonio, and Phoenix.