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A Painful Ending or a Quick Death?

As I think, I often find myself humming songs.  Over the last summer, I asked TEXSun if we could link songs or cuts to the site.  I don't know how all that works, but I sure wouldn't want to run afoul of Lars Ulrich or antyhing.  When I reading ZonaFlash's melancholy rip-off of Hunter S. Thompson , I found myself humming U2's Stuck in a Moment.

[Note by Phoenix Stan, 04/29/08 11:26 AM PDT ]

The people have spoken - winning audio track has been added....

Lose yourself


Star-divide

During halftime, I met up with Phoenix Stan and we shared the same emotions he expressed in his post-game write-up.  If Boris stays on this side of the Maginot Line, the Suns are going to be tough to beat in Game 5.  Add in a few more touches from Amare and the Sp*rs are in trouble, no doubt about it.  Is that really going to happen, though.

I remember leaving the game humming, It's a Beautiful Day and taking the time to enjoy the crowd of relatively happy fans (yeah, there were a lot of persons just happy to be a playoff game, but I think if they weren't there and the crowd was filled with the likes of Stan and me the crowd would not have helped the team).

By the time I came home, I was smiling a looking forward to Tuesday.  I had my nose put back into place today (I broke it last Tuesday playing soccer before Game 2).  I can home with a smal splint and a bandage on my nose.  JSun2, recalling the Nash Gash Game he and I went to last year, said, "That's just like Steve Nash.  I think we'll win tomorrow." (He also routinely says, "I hate the Spurs because Robert Horry is a dirty player.")

Win or lose, these are my Suns.  The Suns that have been giving me the same roller-coaster ride for thirty years, with a few different conductors: Gar Heard, KJ, Barkley, Rex Chapman, Starbury, Tim Thomas and now ... Shaquille O'Neal.  Shaq is just nuts enough to think he can actually win this.  He's also charismatic enough to make his teammaters think he can win.  I mean, he's never lost a press conference, has he Walton?

I really can't help myself.  It's a dysfunctional relationship

I'm kind of like the dumb girl that keeps coming back to her loser boyfriend, hoping that I can actually change him.  Like I said, I now serve my Shaqtus Overlord.

Sometimes, you just get stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it.  Friday was a bad day, but if the Suns pull off this one, Game 6 is ours and it will be a blast.  If my memory and math serves, the Suns are 5-2 in elimination games since the Nash/D'Antoni era started.  Why would we expect Coan Antoni to change anything now?

 

See you at Seamus McCaffrey's on Thursday. 

Bluntman got a really cool cover of the Rocky IV song No Easy Way Out by Bullet for My Valentine (it was the snow training montage).   

What song will you be singing in your head?  If it's not in the poll, add your own.

 

 

 

Poll
Which song will you be humming all day Tuesday?
No Easy Way Out (Robert Tepper or Bullet for My Valentine)
5 votes
Lose Yourself (Eminem)
40 votes
Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
15 votes
One Shot at Glory (Judas Priest)
23 votes
99 Ways to Die (Megadeth)
19 votes

102 votes | Poll has closed

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As I clicked on Lose yourself, I said to myself “Where’s there’s no easy way out?” Darn!

by presbot on Apr 29, 2008 12:58 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

My Song of Choice

Me being the classic metal head it will have to be something epic. Overall though I have no real confidence that the Suns can take back this series, unless they can win the next two. Until then I’ll be rocking to some fun but defiant metal from Manowar such as Heart of Steel, I Believe, or King of Kings.

We may go down, but as long as we go down in the blaze of glory I can live with it.

"Troops in desperate straights know no fear. Where there is no escape, they stand firm; When they have entered deep, they persist; When they see no hope, they fight." Sun Tzu The Art of War

by Turambar on Apr 29, 2008 1:48 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Blaze of Glory is the correct choice for Suns fans

Because all our sins in the first 3 games, salvation is too much to ask for, but we can ask to get shot down in a Blaze of Golry rather than on our knees.

Where doubting Thomases believe

by ZonaFlash on Apr 29, 2008 5:59 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

I voted Wanted Dead or Alive

as a proxy for Blaze of Glory since they are both Bon Jovi songs.

Where doubting Thomases believe

by ZonaFlash on Apr 29, 2008 6:03 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

actually, scratch above and put in this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVWNZPOUhO8

“what can I do….cause I…I….I….I’m feeling blue…..”

by be-the-ball on Apr 29, 2008 9:13 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

or a song on what we're going to do to the spurs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1wZQzpeKA

or a message to the spurs when we come back and win the series (below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbGur1dz9k

sorry…just like the next song (below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qen3Xovtfc

smooth…..(when I think of the good parts of basketball..which are a lot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfzWj5a_Y4

if we win tonight…the suns will become invincible!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0KWAIf-o5Q
(ps..I want to dress up like darth maul and go to a game)

(my favorite youtube video of all time)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRzEpR71HA
(NO KIDS…only watch if you’ve seen the movie seven)

by be-the-ball on Apr 29, 2008 9:31 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Fade To Black

Mettalica

“Look to the sky just before you die. It’s the last time you will.”

by Wayne Vore (ATS) on Apr 29, 2008 6:42 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Tooo old for you guys

I admit, I have never heard any of those songs. I guess I have one foot in the grave at 48. However, I cannot imagine a more appropriate song than “Eclipse” by Pink Floyd. Especially apropos are the final lines:

Eclipse
(Waters) 2:04

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that’s to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

You can listen to it if you can find the album, “Dark Side of the Moon”, but I warn you, the mood is pretty dark. I guess in this case the Spurs are the moon.

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Apr 29, 2008 6:59 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

nice

one of my favorites!!

by be-the-ball on Apr 29, 2008 9:31 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

A MUST READ ARTICLE!!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/jack_mccallum/04/29/playoffs0505/index.html?section=si_latest

It might be somewhere on this site already, I apologize if it is, but I really liked ready this, very funny on the shaq / gentry / Ferrari bet!
(side note..I couldn’t find out how tall Alvin Gentry is / curious)

by be-the-ball on Apr 29, 2008 11:17 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm excited for tonight.

Of course, I’m also a sucker and a masochist.

So, there’s that, too.

by DaPHXisin on Apr 29, 2008 2:03 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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