Death Defying

Here is a review of my Saturday.  It involved mostly things that were not sports but I’m posting it anyway, even if it does mostly look dumb.  Saturday was a nice day for myself:I did some snorkeling and lost (another) fin.  Don’t even ask, it’s another stupid story.  If BP is ocean polluter #1 these days I am #2, every time I go out these days I lose a mask, fin, dignity, whatever.  Anyway, it was a bust and the water was cloudy:I tried snapping some pics with my snorkel camera but they were basically garbage so I’m holding off on posting any review of that thing until visibility improves.

So that was the morning, whatever.  The afternoon was nice though and it involved, as you can see here, the world’s gayest waterslide at Cold Springs Trail.  Was the water cold?  Not really!  Did I risk life and limb by going on the 2-foot drop?  Maybe!  How exciting!  Anyway the hike was nice, beautiful weather, saw a snake, avoided all the poison oak, I am basically like Bear Grylls only more manly pretty much.  You do not want to mess with me because I will out man you.  I even watched the hockey match game this weekend.  Or part of it, really.  I’m not going to lie to you I wasn’t totally into it.  I am very organized and the idea of a team in Chicago being in the Western Conference just bothers me.  If I had taken a proper camera I would have had some nice pics of beautiful vistas and flowers and whathaveyous but really I’m too lazy so you have to settle for this (sideways, encoding and flipping 3gp files is hard!) video of Australian roommate Josh going down the waterslide as well.  Look how close he comes to dying there. Good work, Josh.

Should we talk about sports while we’re here?  Yeah, we might as well.  We’ve got the Lakers and the Celtics in a battle of the two most insufferable fan bases (no offense to RK who has been a die hard even when they had Cedric Ceballos and nobody else) so I have no idea who to root for.  Let’s all waste ink/electrons arguing about competitive imbalance in baseball but let’s hype this as a matchup for the ages even though these teams have won more than 50% of all NBA championships combined?  WHAT?  Are you hearing me internets?  Is this thing even on?  So dumb.

The Dodgers are more fun to watch thanks mostly to John Ely who is like Jamie Moyer if Jamie Moyer wasn’t 50 years old.  So it remains to be seen if he’s actually a real guy or just a kid whose started out hot but the second time through the league he’ll get crushed but for now the top 4 of Kershaw, C Bills, Kuroda, and Ely actually is surprisingly serviceable.  Torre continues to treat Troncoso like a rented mule and for whatever reason the offense has disappeared (luckily disappearing vs. Arizona doesn’t equal a loss).  And also how about a nice backslap for picking the Reds and Braves to contend?  So what if it was 2 different years.  Stop all the hating.