Every now and then all the sports related events in my life happen to occur on the same day, and sometimes they happen in a positive way. Today the Boston Celtics beat the Lakers, which doesn't make me happy because I like the Celtics, it makes me happy because I hate the Lakers. My softball team also played today and we won 12-5, which were helped by my two hits, two RBI's and run scored! Boo. Yah.
The only thing that kept today from being perfect were my S.F. Giants blowing their game in the ninth inning by giving up three runs. Guillermo Mota, you can go suck a lemon.
Alas, I try to focus on the positive things in life so that will be the last mention of the Giants game. First up, game 4 of the NBA Finals. The Celtics played a team game to win game 4, getting a huge boost from their bench. With Glenn "Big Baby" Davis, who after an and-1 play started to drool a little bit while he was yelling in excitement, and Nate Robinson providing 30 points off the bench, gave the Celtics the win.
The Celtics bench outplayed the Lakers bench by leaps and bounds. They outscored them 36-18 and just had far more passion. Which I really think is the biggest difference between these teams. Between the first teams and the bench, and that is passion. The Celtics players, everyone from the future hall of famers to the ultimate bench warmer, Brain Scalabrene, were passionate and excited for the whole thing. When you looked at the Lakers, Kobe Bryant is the only one who really looks like he cares. Pau Gasol has his moments but for as good as he is he can't carry that team.
I'm excited for Game 5, I want the Celtics to win this series. But please announcers and sports writers, stop calling every game in the series critical or crucial, like the other games aren't. They're all critical, they're all crucial, every game means something. It's not like Phil Jackson (the Lakers coach) tells his guys, "Hey everyone, this is game 2, not a biggie, if you want to mail it in tonight that's cool. Not critical." He doesn't say that because he knows and we know that every game is critical, you don't have to tell us like it's some kind of revelation and your astute prowess at realizing this is God's greatest gift to mankind.
On to the softball game. Coming into tonight's game we were in 3rd place and tonight beat the 2nd place team. We came out in the first inning scoring three runs and kept them scoreless through the first 4 innings. We were able to score more and more and by the last inning we were up 12-1. We did give up four more runs in the last inning but still came away with an impressive win. I'm very excited for next week.
Next Up...A high school graduation, work and a season premier of True Blood.
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