Ugly Nugglets

Thank God for hockey, because basketball is just starting to get ugly. I'm sitting here watching the Nuggets game and, while the calls aren't going our way, I'm wondering "Do the refs ever think of what it's like to watch these games?" I couldn't care less who wins, really, but I at least want to see a good game. When the game is being stopped every 15 seconds for one reason or another, not only is the 8:30 game extended far past my bedtime, but I find myself hating everything about the sport cause everyone involves seems to be a complete pussy (except, now it seems, the 240-year-old Doug Moe, who's sitting on the sidelines).

I watch some of the fouls: brushing your chest against someone, touching their finger tips long after a shot has been released... they're all so lame, and after which, the person who got "fouled" has to have seizures on the floor, and yell "RAPE!!!", or else they pout about it until the Earth's end. The worst thing about it is that it's only in this series. In all the other ones that I've seen, there's been good solid basketball all-around, and it's generally because there's a flow. And the most important thing is that without all the fouls, there are less free throws, which are the most vile, stupid, mind-numbing, game-wrecking moments in sports. There's too much emphasis on them, and they ruin most games in the final minutes.

I mostly blame the whole National Basketball Association, as I can see them sending the most experienced refs for the playoffs (naturally). But these also end up being the oldest, most conservative refs, who were told to blow their whistles, and make sure that none of the players end up in the skybox, going after fans. While it's important, it has to be bad for the ratings and overall acceptance of the sport nationwide. Sure, it seems popular enough, still, but outside of my apartment, I'd probably be hard pressed to find too many people who watched more than 25% of the (enter team of choice)'s games this year.

Perhaps I'm way off on most of this shit, but now that the game is reaching two and a half hours, all the while going 200 fouls per hour, I'm just about ready to shoot myself in the fucking head for wasting my time, while I could've been intricately researching when the next Avs game is, just so I can see someone get their block knocked off... Charlie Brown style.