To All The Tweets I've Lost Before

Why do people do this to me?  
My work continued the tradition of scheduling things I have to be at in concert with important sports events.  I literally was scheduled to work all seven games of the NBA Finals.  Gosh! Don't people know that you have to schedule life around sports! 
I bring it up for a couple of reasons:

• When you don't watch it live, you don't get to participate in the conversation. 

A couple of things are happening all at once.  You have to go dark.  This is nearly impossible during the NBA Finals.  Even the most causal of observers are interested in this series.  You say, 'shouldn't be a problem; you work at a restaurant with no televisions, just turn off your phone, you'll be fine'; the only problem with that logic is, that every server is checking their smartphones for updates & trying to talk about it with each other & the kitchen crew is listening to it, on the radio.  I have spent much of my life trying to go dark with ruiners at every turn.  It's hard out here for a pimp! 
So, lets say you do the impossible & go dark.  Now your watching the game, by yourself, at 1030pm, and all of your input in the conversation is irrelevant because the game is over and/or someone else has already twat what you would've twat.  In high school when I would record the must see sport event du jour, at least I wasn't missing out in the conversation.  Plus, I would often have Nick or Jerry join me in watching whatever event it was.  Which leads me to my next point. 

• Sports are generally, the only must see television that's left

In this day & age of Twitter, Hulu, Netflix, TiVo, torrents, there is not a lot of immediacy that remains.  People can watch entire seasons of shows in a weekend or at whatever pace you choose.  It's a pretty respected social responsibility to curb your conversation, if someone in the circle hasn't seen something yet.  I remember, being in 6th grade and watching Beverly Hills 90210 while on the phone with Nick, breaking it down like Howard Cosell. With Twitter, you get to do that very same thing, with millions of people, all at once.  Given all the ills of social media, that's pretty fantastic. 


With all that being said, here are the tweets, I would've twat, If I could've twat, what I wanted to tweet. 


Three of the five games, my recording started on the entrances with Niggas in Paris as the music.  Great way to get hype for the games.

Its good to see LBJ reaching out to the international soccer community, with his life threatening monthly pains.  Even better, was the hockey community's reaction to his cramps.  I do wonder though, if the greater the athlete you are, the greater the pain of the cramp or are all cramps created equally.  I was also kind of hoping that a white trainer would start throwing bananas at him to curb the cramps and it would be misunderstood as a hate crime.  

Pretty rough week for the ASU faithful.  We were all waiting for The Beard to find his Eddie House/Byron Scott NBA Finals swag, but it just never happened.  All the while, UofAids is advancing to the College World Series.  For proper context, baseball is ASU's thing in the same way, basketball is UofAids thing (football is a toss-up, slightly favoring ASU).  In the year that the most MLB producing school is on probation, f'n UofAids is in the CWS. For my boys, Robert & Kyle, this is their nightmare! 


Stuart Scott is terrible.  I know he had some crazy tragic reason for this, but his lazy eye is frickin distracting, he's not a good host, he kept transitioning to LBJ, after he already talked to him.  


I really missed Charles Barkley & the TNT postgame show.  I heard Michael Wilbon say this week that Chuck is the most important voice in all of basketball right now.  Sounds pretty ridiculous, but I think he's right.  Chuck is usually proven right with his insights of the game, he holds players to higher standards & he has transitioned from former player to legitimate contributing media member.  


The greatest injustice of this Finals was that Juwan Howard, Cole Aldrich & Royal Ivey got playing time.  It felt like a D-League Make-A-Wish moment.  


I loved that moment when LBJ checked Chalmers for celebrating in the 3rd quarter.  Good leadership moment, even when the game is essentially over.  LBJ has officially crossed over into Kobe/Tom Brady territory for me, where I don't necessarily 'like' them, but their skill level is so unmatched, that I have to respect it.

As the clock ticked down to 00.0, I had to pop a little champagne, in light of the fact, that the River-Canal San Antonio Demon Spawn had not just won a title. 

Coach Spoelstra got his Trent Dilfer award for not pick-sixing his way out of a championship.  When your expectation level, is JUST DON'T F THIS UP, you can usually succeed. 

I really hope that Durant soaked in this entire moment.  I hope he watched the Heat fully celebrate.  I don't wanna see a smile on his face until he gets his title.  I wanna see him develop that inner 'f it' inside him.  I know Westbrook has the 'f it' inside him, but Durant needs to be the leader of this team.  

I love Coach Brooks' speech to his players with about 3 mins left.  Crazy classy! "Treat them like champions, because they beat us fair and square"

Bill Russell is the purest definition of clutch!!!!!! 11 NBA Titles in 13 years (85% championship rate)! 2 NCAA Championships! 1 Gold Medal!  As a player/coach, he became the first black head coach in NBA history!  21-0 in NCAA Tourney, Olympic medal round games & NBA game 7 & 5 games; literally never lost when it mattered most!  The NBA Finals MVP trophy is the most appropriately named trophy, in the history of all trophies. 

Thank you for enduring my Bill Simmons-esque ridiculously long post.