"Red Sox Collapse", "Bruins Stumble Out of the Gate", "Patriots Have 32nd Ranked Defense", "NBA Lockout Hits Day 1,2,3....135,136,136.."
Between all the beer, fried chicken, unmotivated linemen, and greedy owners and players, I think that putting away the blog for the last few months might have been good for my health.
The real reason for my return to blogging is because the NBA lockout is over. The players and owners have come to a consensus over how to split all Basketball Related Income (BRI) for the next seven years. I'll leave out the painfully boring details of how everything shakes out, but suffice it to say that the owners got a much better deal than they did last time. I followed the progress of the lockout as obsessively as Jerry Sandusky follows a 10 year old. Knowing everything about the lockout and what everyone was arguing about was my goal. There were times where the experts tweeted that they were close and I stayed up until 2am hoping for a deal. I got trolled more than the Three Billy Goats Gruff, and proved the old saying of why they say you should never assume anything.
So what does an NBA fanatic do when there isn't basketball? I did what Bill Simmons did, tried as hard as I could to like hockey. The Bruins turned me into a big fan last year during the playoffs and I thought that following them would keep me occupied until the NBA figured it out. Well, that didn't exactly work out great. Don't get me wrong, watching hockey is a great time, but when I'm making up reasons for why a ref has blown his whistle because I don't know the rules, some of the fun is taken out of it. Thanks Tyler Seguin, Zdeno Chara, and Brad Marchand (my favorite Bruins), but now that I have Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce, and KG back we may not be seeing much of each other anymore.
Time to raise Banner 18 and then sign Dwight Howard next year. Expect another blog when Free Agency starts, possibly before seeing as how my class is ending and I'm unemployed.
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