For those that aren't into baseball the NBA playoffs marks the end sports until football starts back up again. Even though I'm a huge basketball fan I find that the regular season is too long at times. About a month or so after the All-Star break I find myself just waiting for the playoffs to start and I still find the playoffs to drag out at times (changing the first series to 7 games instead of 5?). How do you guys pass this time without sports??? Myself, I couldn't wait until July so I went out and bought Ncaa Football 2005 just to tide me over until football started back up again. Being that I go to UF and all, there is a big buzz surrounding our team and new coach this year and right now it just seems like August is far too far away.
the period between July 15th and August 15th is the worst time period in sports (if one is a basketball fan first)
For people like me who don't really give a damn about football and baseball (unless Astro is in playoffs again), the NBA off-season is truly miserable. If my basketball addiction comes back during the summer, I'll have to go out and hoop in the texas heat, or play NBA Live on my computer.
Do what I did. I used to hate baseball, but then I just forced myself to watch, and now I can't get enough of it.
I started watching baseball when the Astros got into the playoffs (series against ATL) but I'll only watch the Astros when the Rockets or Texans aren't playing
Well, if you like the NFL, you can listen to the sports talk shows and their 24/7 coverage of the draft. Surely you want to know if the Seahawks will use their 3rd round pick to select Meestuffah Yomahma of Anabolic State or whether they want the receiver from Payola U whose 40 yard time at the combines wowed the scouts even though he never wowed the defenses he played against. Compelling stuff indeed.
I've tried very hard over the years to like other sports, but they never stick (MLB kinda, but only the Stros) so I love all the basketball games that are on...
Yeah, the off season of the NBA is pretty tough for me. While I mainly watch the Rockets during the regular season (tons of games--my friend has league pass), I really get into the playoffs. If i'm not working or out with a friend--I'm watching the playoffs during the summer. I start a countdown after the last finals game to the preseason and I start getting hyped up. Sometimes the NBA season does get stretched out, even as a fan sometimes I get fatigued by rooting for the Rox a little too hard. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a player or a coach! College football is my second favorite spectator sport, so I get pretty interested in that. NFL, not so much...But it definitely is a drag waiting to get those first reports on the Rockets training camp. There's always the draft, though. And, we actually have a 1st rder this year!
Baseball sucks. I try to spend the time catching up on other stuff (re-introduce myself to my kid, work out, write software, author DVD's, etc.) -- droxford
so, given the choice between sports on TV and a woman... which one would most of you pick? Or would you try to have both at the same time?
ah, baseball, NFL draft forecasting, masturbation... all good suggestions but there is really only one cure for NBA withdrawl. HOMOCIDAL MURDERING SPREES. Why do you think the Son of Sam went maniacal when the soon to be NBA champion Knicks weren't on the court?
Lets see.... Get out and enjoy the summer. Of course I live in Minnesota and gotta make the most of it.
Indeed. I find those odious days to require drastic measures. Drastic measures. I feel, and I'm sure my signficant other would feel as deeply... nay, deeper still, the desire to take measures in hand, why, in both hands, with what poetry can be brought to bear and low, low, low and behold we come to grips. And of a sudden, face to face, breast to bosum, fate is realized. Not knowing the world's turgid ways, we pass them by. Untouched.
