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I think it's a sign that the NBA's back that I actually find myself missing it. That hasn't happened in years.
I was kind of bumming about no more basketball when my phone rang around 2pm today. It was Little Scotty F. in Wisconsin. He's getting set to move back East but he took a break from packing to inform me that ESPN Classic was running a Knicks-Pistons game from 1983.
I flipped it on and it immediately brought a huge smile to my face. So much so that I decided to DVR every Classic NBA game they show. Which, as it turns out, is a lot. We are in the middle of an NBA marathon on Classic Sports. Today I recorded: Knicks-Pistons 1983, Celtics-Hawks 1985 (Bird scores 60), Bulls-Cavs 1990 (Jordan scores 69), Warriors-Lakers 1991 (RUN-TMC in full effect), Celtics-Blazers 1986 (Bird scores fortysomething, including SEVEN baskets with his left hand, I remember watching this game live on TBS), and 2000 Jazz-Sixers (no idea, I bet Iverson scores a bunch). And they're still coming.
I'm excited to watch 'em all, and, in the face of MSG's curious decision to stop running "Knicks 101" in the offseason, I intend to blog 'em all, over at High Socks and Short Shorts.
I feel like I have a purpose again.
Speaking of purposes, Baby Bungle is almost a year old. Wow.
Nobody got PatRileyturneddowndatroledat, so we are going to throw you a hint and reduce the value of the answer to 4 GP's. The role that Riley turned down eventually went to Kurt Russell. No googlin', no IMDBin', just you and your powerful brains please.
In the late-1970s-early 1980s, if you were growing up in NYC and you took a sick day from school, you could usually watch kid-friendly programming almost the whole day through: cartoons in the morning, maybe a little Price Is Right at 11, then in the early afternoon you'd start getting some old Brady Bunch reruns or something. There was only one hour during the day when there was absolutely nothing worth watching for a 9 year-old. For 6 points, what show aired on Channel 5 during this miserable hour?
Also, you may notice that I took down the ads. Not a decision of conscience but of practicality and aesthetics. I had only made about $4 over the month or so I had 'em up there, which means one of you was clicking an ad like every three days. Sad.
The good news is we can once again offer you 100% pure bungle, free of corporate interference.
To show you what I mean, check this out: The Pontiac Vibe is one wack-ass automobile. Yeah, I said it.
I was kind of bumming about no more basketball when my phone rang around 2pm today. It was Little Scotty F. in Wisconsin. He's getting set to move back East but he took a break from packing to inform me that ESPN Classic was running a Knicks-Pistons game from 1983.
I flipped it on and it immediately brought a huge smile to my face. So much so that I decided to DVR every Classic NBA game they show. Which, as it turns out, is a lot. We are in the middle of an NBA marathon on Classic Sports. Today I recorded: Knicks-Pistons 1983, Celtics-Hawks 1985 (Bird scores 60), Bulls-Cavs 1990 (Jordan scores 69), Warriors-Lakers 1991 (RUN-TMC in full effect), Celtics-Blazers 1986 (Bird scores fortysomething, including SEVEN baskets with his left hand, I remember watching this game live on TBS), and 2000 Jazz-Sixers (no idea, I bet Iverson scores a bunch). And they're still coming.
I'm excited to watch 'em all, and, in the face of MSG's curious decision to stop running "Knicks 101" in the offseason, I intend to blog 'em all, over at High Socks and Short Shorts.
I feel like I have a purpose again.
Speaking of purposes, Baby Bungle is almost a year old. Wow.
Nobody got PatRileyturneddowndatroledat, so we are going to throw you a hint and reduce the value of the answer to 4 GP's. The role that Riley turned down eventually went to Kurt Russell. No googlin', no IMDBin', just you and your powerful brains please.
In the late-1970s-early 1980s, if you were growing up in NYC and you took a sick day from school, you could usually watch kid-friendly programming almost the whole day through: cartoons in the morning, maybe a little Price Is Right at 11, then in the early afternoon you'd start getting some old Brady Bunch reruns or something. There was only one hour during the day when there was absolutely nothing worth watching for a 9 year-old. For 6 points, what show aired on Channel 5 during this miserable hour?
Also, you may notice that I took down the ads. Not a decision of conscience but of practicality and aesthetics. I had only made about $4 over the month or so I had 'em up there, which means one of you was clicking an ad like every three days. Sad.
The good news is we can once again offer you 100% pure bungle, free of corporate interference.
To show you what I mean, check this out: The Pontiac Vibe is one wack-ass automobile. Yeah, I said it.
posted by hans q. bungle at 02:01
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