It’s Basketball Season
Posted by SBG on Saturday, October 28th, 2006 at 5:16 am
Lucy and I are headed off to North Carolina for the weekend to visit some friends. Is there a more basketball crazy state?
No, I don't have a golf game scheduled with Mike Jordan. That old knucklehead! I hate taking his money on the course all the time.
See you next week, when I start my season long lament on the state of the T-Wolves!
SBG
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Ah, the joys of flying. I'm sitting in line at US Airlines. They have our flight delayed. If we aren't stopping in Charlotte, and we're not, we have to stand in line. They have the flight delayed so that we can't make our connecting flight. I have two people in front of me. None of of have moved in the last twenty minutes.
They have one line rerouting us. They have six or seven lines doing nothing. Lucy wonders why I don't like to fly.
This is absurd. People who are stopping in Charlotte or who have later flights are being helped first. People who need to be rerouted are standing in line without help. This is the stupidest fucking arrangement ever.
It's probably because US Airlines will have a flight to Charlotte today and they can help you with that. For other cities, they probably have to use a different carrier.
The other possibility is that the next Charlotte flight leaves a lot sooner than flights to other cities.
Sad to see that Joe Niekro died yesterday from a brain anuerism. I will always remember his pitching for the Twins, his "emoryboard incident" (I was at that game!), and his subsequent appearance on the Letterman show. He'll be missed.
Now that the WS is over, weather here in StL is perfect. Of course.
Does Indiana love basketball more than North Carolina? North Carolina spawned the Duke Blue Devils, so that should knock them down a few pegs.
This transplanted Hoosier planned on sticking up for Indiana in this thread.
Over 40,000 people showed up to the State Final game featuring Damon Bailey, and another big crowd was there to watch the "Big Dog" Robinson v. Alan Henderson final a few years later. The high school association has done their best to wreck the tradition by installing class basketball, though.
Hopefully Sampson can get IU back to the top; it wasn't fun to watch one of the the best crops of high school talent leave the state during the Mike Davis era.
As another transplanted Hoosier, I too have to stand up for the homeland. When I've been to the Fieldhouse, I felt how I figure religious people feel in Jerusalem or something.
My Indianapolis high school would usually play a game or two in Hinkle every year, forget if it was during the sectional or regional play. One of my big highlights was broadcasting a game for the school radio station from press row at the fabled Fieldhouse.
My parents met at Butler, so I've been to Hinkle quite a few times. Dad knows the men's head bb coach somehow from when they were at Butler in the late 70s.
Back when I gave two hoots about college basketball, I was an IU guy.
On the ground in Charlotte. Moss misunderstands. The flight that was delayed was to Charlotte. We are heading to Raleigh. Those who didn't need flight changes were helped first. Those who did need flight changes on their connecting flights (like us) had to wait forever.
That was the most turbulent flight I've ever been on. We got pushed around pretty good. It was hold on! for long periods of time.
I've been to Charlotte couple of times before. What we noticed right away, besides the pictures of Dale Jr. was smoking in the airport.
Oh, and this place in the terminal was renting or selling headphones or something and "Disco Inferno" was blaring out of the stand. Hello, 1977! I must admit that I like that tune, though.
Juuuuuuunior!
Damn Carolinans trying to take both sports Indiana stands for--basketball and racing.