Two Heavyweights Again

by ZonaFlash on Apr 9, 2008 8:46 AM MDT

Even though the regular season is packed with "Contendas," we can still always pretend as if there are still only two teams that mattered.

Coaches like this analogy, because if one wins, then its because you beat a great team. And if you lose, hey, it was a heavyweight battle! A great team had to lose!

It's like a colleague of mine named Lei Z----. We just called him Lay-Z. I was in Japan with him, and everywhere we went, he would tell the customer "That's Impossible!" at the top of his lungs. He'd practically throw a hissy fit. But it was perfect because if we succeeded, it was because we were so smart. If we failed, we were so smart for knowing that it was impossible. Now THAT was smart. Yes, he had not one but TWO PhDs.

Here is an extra line, because apparently a picture is worth less than the 300 words required to post a diary. Who knew?

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ohh man..

I hope we beat them by 30 tonight...just like the Jazz did.

I'm sleeping on the couch tonight...My wife is wearing her Tim Duncan Jersey to watch the game. That is such a turn off. =(

by PanamaSun on Apr 9, 2008 9:43 AM MDT reply actions

Ugh.

That's like when my girlfriend cheers for Jason Terry, Luke Walton, or Damon Stoudamire because they went to Arizona. Hey, I went there, too, but when they suit up against the Purple and Orange, they're dead to me.

And as much as she loves Steve Nash, nothing conflicts her so much as bringing up the Santa Clara upset in the tourney. As it was before my time as a Wildcat, it's one of my favorite sports memories ever. Nash running out the clock and hitting clutch free throws with his skater hair flopping in his eyes. I'm a Phoenix native who grew up going to Sun Devil games, so since 1997, I've been deeply confused about all things collegiate between Tempe and Tucson, though when they play each other, tie goes to the Sun Devils, no matter what my diploma says.

by Mike Lisboa on Apr 9, 2008 9:52 AM MDT reply actions

huh?

There's just no way you can root for the Scum Devils if you attended Arizona, let alone graduated from there? I'm with you on the not rooting for former Wildcats who end up on other teams, but man, the UA/ASU rivalry is pretty much an eternal conflict which allows no exceptions. If Arizona football goes 1-14, it's still a winning season as long as that win comes against ASU. I even had trouble rooting for Eddie House when he was with the Suns.

You sir, are a sports bigamist! Bear Down, or turn in that diploma!

by SoCalSun on Apr 9, 2008 11:01 AM MDT up reply actions

Just don't raid my compound.

Admittedly, I'm guilty of sports bigamy when it comes to ASU/UA. Even now, 10 years after enrolling at UA, I can't bring myself to root for the Wildcats versus the Sun Devils. I thought maybe this past college football season, I'd turn a corner in the Territorial Cup game, but no, I couldn't do it.

It's a shameful way of life, to be sure, but what can I do? The heart wants what it wants.

by Mike Lisboa on Apr 9, 2008 11:16 AM MDT up reply actions

bumpy ride!!!

yup,i hope we win tonight but its going to be one hell of a game i bet you guys..."Come hell or high water" we'll make it!!!! go suns go !!!
oh and zonaflash i like the graphic back ground...right on the face........

by wapsobsidians on Apr 9, 2008 11:08 AM MDT reply actions

An Epic Battle

Tonight shall be a legendary confrontation, bordering on epicness of the Lord of the Rings. I expect this game to be watched from the Halls of Valhalla all the way to Timbuktu. It will be that anticipated.
And yet despite though I feel that we have all the tools to crush these scum sucking whores, I worry that we have not taken a season series from them in centuries. Perhaps tonight will be the night where we can finally say for certain that the Suns are indeed far superior to the Sterns.

GO SUNS!!!

"Of old, the Skillful Warrior first ensured his own invulnerability;then he waited for the enemy's vulnerability." Sun Tzu