The Daily Nooner 6/8/06

As most of you know, my long nights of partying and get wasted are way behind me now. Over that past few years I have had a handful of drinks. Well here is a bad idea, to do that for about 2-3 years and then one random Wednesday night get totally shipwrecked. It makes for a long Thursday. It made for a long Wednesday night, too. It is never good when you wake up in the morning still dressed in your bed, but realize you have somehow come home without underpants. That is an odd, drunk night.

I think it was this winter, when I was visiting my parents for Christmas, I was talking to my oldest brother about the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy. I am a huge conspiracy believer in all kinds of random things, but my brother is certainly a skeptic. And the reason he told me he is always a skeptic of conspiracies is that, “nobody can keep a fucking secret…..nobody!” And the more I think about it, the more he is totally correct. I have friends and acquaintances here in town who think that some stuff that happens can be kept secret, well it can’t. Everybody knows, pal. A good friend of mine has something that he does not want a lot of people to know, but what he does not realize is that everybody knows there are no secrets. There is something else that happened with a friend of mine that she probably doesn’t think anyone knows, or doesn’t really want anyone to know. Guess what sweetheart, everybody knows, there are no secrets. So what does all this mean, nothing really, but my brother is pretty smart and I am starting to believe his theory that nobody can keep a secret about anything. Well except for the JFK assassination.

AND

The NBA Finals start tonight, and it promises to be an entertaining series. The Miami Heat of course have 723 storylines about people trying to regain championship glory (Shaq & Riley) and veterans getting one last crack at a title (Mourning & Payton). All the Mavericks have is a bad ass team lead by the most famous German sports figure since Steffi Graf and Boris Becker ruled the world of tennis. Dirk Nowitzki is having that career year; this is his time to win a championship. And if he does it will be the exclamation point on the International invasion of the NBA. It will prove all these NBA GM’s have been right by searching out Europe and South America for great talent for the league. Yes Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have won championships with the Spurs and even Toni Kukoc won a few with the Bulls. But this will be the first time a foreign born and bred player will lead a team to a championship. I think the Mavericks will get the job done in 6 games. I just think they are too athletic and too difficult to match up with. Yes Shaq will be a load for the Mavs but at his best now Shaq scores 25-30 points. Whereas Dirk has the ability to go off for between 40-50 points. It should be fun, and for anyone who hates the NBA and thinks the games are boring and all that bullshit, the World Cup starts tomorrow.