I'm at the Wizards game last night, and with the score tied 105-105, Milwaukee set to inbound the ball, 27 seconds on the clock, the couple sitting in front of me decides it's time to leave. They wanted to beat the rush? Seriously? This is why I favor the death penalty.
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No Conscience
04 Jan 2007 09:57 am
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The final 7 seconds of that game were scary. Gilbert's whole attitude as he sauntered up the court was something else. The other nine players out there were all in a rush, but Gilbert was just strolling around like it was a day at the beach.
One icy motherfucker.
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I think the crucial question is if Matthew has enough connections to finagle a ticket to the birthday bash....
And tangentially, have we all noticed that Antawn named his baby Antwan?
That effort was two days after the shoulder injury.
Forget the last second shot (ok, don't), but what struck me is that he was flying around the court for rebounds two days after a pretty bad shoulder injury. In a regular season game.
"This is why I favor the death penalty."
Had you taken matters into your own hands and beaten them to death, you might have been prosecuted, but no jury would convict.
And tangentially, have we all noticed that Antawn named his baby Antwan?
Yeah, he says his parents never meant to spell it "Antawn" and that it was all just some kind of screw-up that he's hoping his son can avoid.
This is why I favor the death penalty.
The members of the Cleveland sect three rows in front would have taunted you all with shouts of "LeBron, LeBron, LeBron"!
Meanwhile, would SOMEONE please vote for Gilbert to start for the East in the All Star game??? If he loses out to Vince Carter, of all people, we're going to have the whole second half of the season to deal with Gilbert's hurt feelings. Maybe he'd beat Kobe's 81.
I favor the death penalty in such situations even if its my own blood that has to go down. My brother scored a free ticket to the Fiesta Bowl. He was at what would become one of the greatest college football games ever played and he left at the begining of the fourt quarter because his car was on the other side of the parking lot and he couldn't fathom being out past midnight (the guy is 30 years old for christ's sake). I'm keeping my ski mask and leather jacket ready in case there is a call for patriots to do their duty.
Come on- they're just edging close to the exits. Surely they were still watching the game!?!
Or maybe they just go to the games for the halfgame show and the tasty nachos.
We need Gil stewing over the All-Star game for the second half of the season.
Preston is right. People do this and watch the final moments standing up near the exits.
Of course, in the NBA, 27 seconds is what, 10 minutes?
i was so glad i made a point of watching that game last night. that shot was why i love gil, and love basketball. though not the same stage obviously, same swag as west in game 2 of the 1970 finals. zero was so icy, love it.
i love how i have ever more ammo against my best friend, the semi-bandwagon cavs fan. now we need a revenge win against the cavs.
and i agree, we need gil stewing over the all star game. i think his head is on straight enough (as much as it can) to use it correctly.
Come on- they're just edging close to the exits. Surely they were still watching the game!?!
They were in the hallway before play resumed. It was an appalling spectacle. Even the confused Japanese dudes in the luxury suite a few rows behind me were riveted. But not these two.
Matt, it was just a basketball game. Why would anyone consider that interesting in the first place?
Far, far greater infractions merit the gas chamber. Can someone tell me why in the hell anyone writes checks these days to pay for anything? You're in the goddamn express lane in the grocery and some idiot gets to the end of writing the check and he's left his ID in his car? WTF?! Every bank on earth offers a debit card attached to your checking account. Save your goddamned checks for paying bills through the mail. Otherwise we'll have to kill you.................
In that case, shoot 'em. And I'm not even that big a basketball fan.
an age-old phenomena. I was at a frantic Rockets and Suns (Barkley era) game when, in the final minute, 3 big guys in front of us got up to leave. Trouble was, they stopped to get one parting look, blocking the view of everyone behind them. Words were exchanged. Thank god for the pregnant lady beside me. So yeah, Matt, let em go.
Is the title of this post a coincidence? "No Conscience" - I think Charlie Bell described Arenas as having no conscience after the game. (Bell was guarding him on the last play.)
Attending a Wizards game makes the death penalty redundant.
I long ago stopped going to baseball games and other sports events with my brother because he always wants to leave before it's over, and I always want to see the ending unless it's a rout. Why bother going if you're not going to see it to the end, especially with what tickets cost these days? Would you leave a movie ten minutes before it's over? Unfathomable to me.
Yes, surely there is nothing more important than a basketball game. Not children overdue to be picked up at the babysitter, not a wife feeling ill and wanting to get home before she got sick or (more happily) a wife not feeling ill and REALLY wanting to get home. Christ, man, its only a game.
So this crap happens outside LA? Go to a Clippers game: crowd arrives late in Q1 leaves at the end of Q3. But then again, in this town we can always count on th Clips and Kings to avoid OT by losing.
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Sometimes there is a bright side to this. I'm a Red Sox fan who was at the sixth game of the '86 Series in Shea, and I found grim solace in the fact that lots of people--presumably Mets fans--headed to the exits after the top of the ninth.
Obviously they were Bucks fans, they knew their team was going to blow it at the buzzer, and didn't want to stick around and witness the heartbreak. Have some mercy. We've all been there.
Best example of this in LA is the Kirk Gibson home run on 2 bad legs to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. As the ball clears the right field fence, you can see a pair of brake lights in the Dodger Stadium parking lot behind the stands. Now THAT'S an LA fan.
Agent Zero is my hero.
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on his radio show today, Jim Rome declared Gil to be his favorite player in the A. I'm not sure whether this makes him more or less awesome. (I suspect it makes him a great deal less FreeDarko, however. Of course his only real challenger for "Most FD" status is Amare, so all is not lost.)
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Heads in the Sand
No. They wanted to be close to a beer line TV so they can see replays of the game winning shot. This is one reason the death penalty is unethical - innocent people may sometimes be caught up in it.
Posted by LowLife | January 4, 2007 10:03 AM