Comments on: For your Saturday entertainment …

By: alan t.

alan t. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:47:52 +0000

Not to belabor the point, since this is about Jimmy Buffett monetizing the Yuppies and the slackers, but that lambbone comment still has the eyes rolling into the back of my head. I just looked it up, it's even more outrageous than I originally thought.

This past regular season, James was called for one foul every 22 minutes. Yet very clearly, that guy clearly barrels into somebody once every 22 seconds.

By comparison, a guy like Greg Oden, who was a rookie and still lacks referee respect and makes contact less than James, gets one foul called against him every 5.5 minutes.

Even when Shaq was at his peak of respect and won the MVP in 2000, he was called for 3.2 fouls per game. Yet James, who's a smaller version of a ramming Shaq, gets 1.7 calls a game, nearly less than half of what Shaq got called against him during his MVP season. Ridiculous.

Even Michael Jordan, when he first won the MVP in 1988, averaged 3.3 fouls per game. And that's when hand-checking on defense was ALLOWED! And yet James is whistled for half of what Jordan got called against him, and hand-checking on defense is now prohibited?

Seriously, there must be 29 head coaches out there who want to file a class action lawsuit against the NBA and David Stern. As a fan who doesn't enjoy a sham, I think I'll join it. It's just not right.

And I agree with terje. Both as to Buffett and Parrotheads. I liked Buffett's stuff a lot up through 1979, I bought the records. But then during the 80s, he figured out how to make a buck from his tours, his books, whatever. All of his stuff became a bad excuse for commerce.

What is this world coming to? Ozzy is now a whore for Samsung on top of everything else?

By: alan t.

alan t. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:32:00 +0000

1.7 personal fouls per game this year. For as many times as that guy initiates contact during a game, both offensively and defensively, that's a pretty bad joke.

The NBA knows that people come to games specifically to see a few of the stars the NBA props up in their star system, and James is one of them. People don't buy tickets to see the specific star sitting on the bench in foul trouble. If you don't comprehend this extraordinarily simple concept, then I don't know what else to say.

Anyway, what does your nonsense have to do with Jimmy Buffett? And what other celebrity has ever been booted out of an arena by a referee? The answer is nobody. Ever. I believe Usher, Josh Cribbs and their egos should have been ejected a long time ago, but that's just my personal opinion.

By: LambBone

LambBone — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:48:25 +0000

alan t. -
Lebron average 2 personal fouls per game for his career. 1.7 this year. That's about one every other quarter. 169 quarters represents more than half a season of basketball.

So yes Lebron does get called for personal fouls. And no – you don't know what you are talking about.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:26:45 +0000

I don't know … I think terje might have a good point. If I had the choice to either rent a room to a Parrothead, or rent a room to one of the 9/11 guys, I'd rent a room to one of the 9/11 guys. The 9/11 guy won't walk around my house wearing a grass skirt and a coconut bra, and you know for certain that he has a job.

By: terje

terje — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:33:53 +0000

i won't rest until margaritaville is seized and it's inhibitants jailed.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:18:33 +0000

Terje: LIGHTEN up man–I always knew you were a rapper—crack a Great Lakes and chill.

By: terje

terje — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:35:15 +0000

in a just world parrotheads would be declared terrorists and jimmy buffett would be tried at the hague for crimes against humanity.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:53:34 +0000

The only celebrity in NBA history to get kicked out of a game by a referee. In 169 consecutive quarters of action they refuse to call even one personal foul on LeBron, but they give the Cheeseburger in Paradise guy a Flagrant 3 and boot him out of the building.