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March 11 (Thursday) Currently its saturday night and I was actually doing research on Lexis Nexis for law school while watching the big east championship. Dennis is suppossed to be over here soon, at which point will probably stop watchng basketball and start watching the discovery channel. But this column isn't about tonight, its about my trip to the two early games of the big east tournament. How could I possibly afford to go to a sought after double header like this? Brian's cousin is some assistant AD for St. John's and gets free tickets. ANd he's always gets the tickets for Brian, but he doesn't let him know until the last minute. So I didn't know until I got a phone call at about 10 that morning. So to cut to the chase Brian gets to my house, we play a couple of games of Tony Hawk 3 and than head to MSG. We get there halfway through the first half of the Pitt - Virgina Tech game. Brian's cheering for Virginia Tech because he put money on them. Actually he's not cheering for them, just for them to stay within 14 and a half points. But before I forget I have to say how awesome my seats were. I had seat one in section A of 55 something. What does that equal, front row seats at the top of the NBA three point line. It doesn't get much better. We were also behind all the reports. Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan were right in front of us which lead to numerous jokes about Jason Kidds wife. Also, about 50 feet away was Jay Bilas. I wish I drank more so that I would have actually thrown something at him and gotten kicked out instead of just talking about him. He was so close, if ever in my life I had a chance to commit aggravated assualt on him, it was now. But I didn't so that will be just one of the other great regrets of my life. Continueing on with the story, we were sitting next to a couple of guys from New Jersey who were in their late 20 or early 30's and were degenerate gamblers as we would later learn. At first I thought the guy was cheering for Pitt, but then Brian realized that he was cheering for the under. He cheered pretty loud, calling out to Krauser to slow it down and miss - even the reporters looked back at him and laughed. What was good about the guy was that he also wanted to get a picture with each mascot. Which was exciting because who doesn't love mascots. Brian also gave me $25 he owed me for some stuff so I had some money to but $6 beers. Well Pitt wins, but not by 14 so Brians happy and the SU - BC game is on next. I'm excitied to see Syracuse. But they lost so that sucked. But highlights of that game included the guy next to me complaining constantly about Josh Pace's lefty hook shot. Also, at halftime the syracuse orange faces off against the BC eagles one on one. Brian gave me an over under of 7, which I took the under. The oragne Won 4-2. Mainly because the eagles kept trying half court, over his head backward shots. The second half started and the eagles was walking around when he noticed my orange SU hat, which he took off and through on the ground. I told him he better not ruin it because it cost $20. Brian taunted him for missing all those half court shots. Unbelievably, the eagles went out of character, leaned over and told Brian that he hat hit it yesterday. So the eagle left and the only mascot I hadn't come into close contact with was the syracuse orange, most possibly my favorite mascot ever. Well used to be my favorite mascot. No matter how hard we yelled, me brian and the guys next to us, he never came over. Now the thing is my neighboer, Teresa Jones suppossedly went out with last years orange. (She has a thing for mascots, I believe she hooked up with Delaware's mascot too - in Syracuse so I assume the guy was lying.) Her ex-boyfriend the old orange as I will refer to him even lived with her at her parents house for half the summer. I never went over to meet him because he was just some italian kid from long island and I know enough of those. But at that moment I wish I did meet him. What I wanted to do was call Teresa, get the old orange's number to see if he knew the new orange and than tell him how much he sucked. I never initiated this plan but I may still do it. At the very least I will let Teresa know how much the new orange sucks the next time I see her. As I said Syracuse lost. But Brian was waiting to here from his cousin about night tickets (which he got) But he had another friend lined up for them, but he wasn't going to get out of work for awhile. So we went the bar in MSG - Play by Play where we got a couple of beers and sat down next to Butch - a syracuse alum from springfield, Mass. Butch was mid forties and slightly drunk and talkative. Finally, all the hanging out with old phi kap alumnis and shooting the shit would pay off. Brian whispered to me "Dude, I think if you keep talking to this guy he'll buy us some beers." "I replied, dude, I'm way ahead of you." Butch did buy us some beers, but only one round, I was hoping for two. But still my hook up rate with middle age men is way better than girl my age. Some other old guys sent some beers down our way too so it wasn't that bad. But the best part of the night was the bud girls who were walking around. They came over to us and we asked for a t-shirt. But they only had one t-shirt left. She said she would come back if she had more. But when she came back she still only had one t-shirt and asked us who bought the tickets. I thought fuck, she's going to give it to brian because he got them. But the fact that he got them for free from his cousin didn't presuade her. Minutes earlier I learned that Brian's girlfriend was a bud girl in college so he got all the shit for free. I alerted the bud girl of that fact and she simply handed the t-shirt to me. I think the real reason is that she liked me better and thought I was better looking and taller. But it doesn't matter because I have the t-shirt and will be wearing it monday when Brian picks me up for con-law. Finally, Butch left but before he did I finally disagreed with him about Rush Limbaugh and sports center. Butch was upset because he thought RUsh got fired for giving his opinion, which he was hired for. Brian said he should just have said mobile quarterback and he would have been fine. I didn't say that Rush was actually hire about sports center to give opinions abouts sports, not the made up liberal media. I could have also told Butch that Rush quit, he wasn't fired. He could have come back the next week and taken the heat. But I didn't say that, I just said how I feel white athletes, like Mike Alstott get overrated because they are white. Butch had to leave before I could get into how NBA attendence is higher for teams that have more white players, but just the fact that I brought up my feelings about overrated white athletes seemed to have startled Butch. This last part was a little unfair to Butch because he was a good guy and I did enjoy talking sports with him for an hour or two. Really, how can't you like a guy named Butch. But right after Butch left Brian's friend showed up so I wasn't needed any longer. I went home, ate a frozen pizza, took an hour nap and woke up for some more big east basketball. Than I spent the rest of the night playing video games and watching "In a Fix" on TLC. God I want to have sex with Jenie, when of the people on the show. She's so dreamy. She's hot with awesome boobs and she can build things. Well, theres 2 minutes left in the pitt-uconn game and uconn just hit a three to go up by one. I have to go and give that my full attention. |
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