Blogging May Be Slow, But Some Parting Thoughts...

1. I enjoy listening to podcasts, but I often find them depressing. I think the nature of the podcast makes one feel like an outsider, non-participant, and over time, disengaged. The irony, of course, is that podcasts are designed to be intimate and feel like "discussions," but there is nothing being discussed, only people being listened to.  Podcasters are not your friends, but they want to feel like them.

2.  Oberyn Martell, RIP.  Well, GOT did it again, and managed to rip the hearts out of its fans.  On a positive note, Martell got what he wanted: a public confession from Clegane.  What's the lesson?  Don't get cocky...?  Who knows...the lesson from GOT is "all men die." So Martell died like he lived, with style.

3.  Skimmed a Michael Connelly novel.  Who read these things?  Skimming worked perfectly fine.

4.  Prediction/Hope: Spurs will win the NBA finals.  Duncan will move up historically relative to Kobe.  It will be a victory for team basketball over individual bball if the Spurs manage to beat the two MVPs - Durant and LeBron - back to back - ie win major series without the best player on the court (and in the case of OKC, not even having the 2nd best player on the court).  If the Heat win, however, where does that put LeBron historically?  The guy will be in his prime with a three-peat under his belt. Not bad.  And it won't be a Kobe 3-peat either where he played second fiddle to Shaq and somehow everyone chooses to forget. It will be a legit LeBron took the team over and lead them to a 3-peat. Hmmm...

5.  World Cup begins soon.  I haven't been paying attention at all because I know the tournament will be incredibly engrossing and time consuming by itself.

6.  Random BBall thought: David West is the heart and soul of the Pacers. Now remember those CP3 Hornets teams with David West and Tyson Chandler...both guys who have now proved themselves pretty damn good on other teams, when healthy.  Does this disrupt the narrative that CP3 brought the Hornets to the playoffs all by himself and basically took a good Lakers team to 6 games?  And also, CP3 still hasn't gotten to a conference finals with some pretty good teammates.  Granted, he always loses to good teams, but still...I think the lesson is not that CP3 isn't great - he is - it is that under 6ft players in a sport like BBALL are rarely MORE VALUABLE to team success.