Dave-isms Vol. 1 (08-09 Recaps)

This is a Dave appreciation thread. It takes a special talent to mix humor with sports writing. Bedger's are certainly lucky. Going over old posts I came to realize how often I laughed last season. I thought it might be neat to snip-n-paste a few choice moments of last season's recaps. This list is by no means comprehensive. Add any I've missed in the comments! Not much care has been taken to retain the context of the quotes, sometimes intentionally, often due to laziness.

game 1 "we came out tight, switched to flat, poked our heads out like a post-winter groundhog for the predictable NBA “trailing team takes a stab” run, then faded faster than Gilligan’s hopes of getting lucky with Ginger."

game 6 "Mike Miller has the girliest hair in the NBA.  Ever."

game 7 "Does anyone else think that if Stan Van Gundy got a perm he’d be Ron Jeremy?"

game 8 "his daily sweet alley-oop from Sergio.  Just like taking your vitamins, kids."

game 10 "When Mike Barrett can look straight at your belly button as you’re releasing a shot you did it wrong."

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A little background first. My wife pretty much hates sports on tv or radio. She complained all season about the yelling (me), the noise (of the loud tv), and the time it takes away (from us being together). As the season drew to a close she started watching the games with me. We started winning by large margins at that point. I assumed this was her simply giving in to the fact that if she wanted to see me from 6-9 pm it was going to be in front of the tv with the Blazers playing. So she watched the playoffs with me. She watched us fall to the Rockets.

Monday I watched the Rockets play that gold/purple team. Being a fan of basketball in general I gained some respect for the Rockets. I was cheering for them, especially because of who they were up against.

Suddenly I was interupted. "Why are you cheering for Houston?" I was scolded.

"I want them to win. They have some great players. They play great D", I fire back. "Brooks just schooled the Fish!"

"I don't like the Rockets right now." she says quietly. "They beat us..."

Right then I realize– we have another fan. In fact, she recalled some fond memories of her grandmother chain-smoking, rocking in her chair and listening to the Shonz. She said her grandmother never missed a game, and preferred the radio.

Good times. Some sort of deep inner Blazer came out Monday, in post-season even.

Just thought I'd share that.

Anybody going?

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