Funnimetric

1. For a reason I can't quite articulate, I see like of sports as a sign of mental health so I bribed my son with a day of unfettered access to his new Wii if he watched fifteen minutes of the game. He ended up watching the whole four quarters.

2. Sports are men's non-intellectual, but down-to-the-soul, elemental pleasure like America's Top Model or The View is for women. For "atmosphere," I watched the game with the sound on, but sports commentary almost never gets beyond the banal, as per the previous statement.

3. My own contribution to worthless sports punditry:

The Celtics' tough defense held the Lakers to less points, facilitating a Boston victory.

4. Kobe's good- he reminds me of myself without the inside game or defensive ability- but he's not better than Jordan, Magic, or Bird. I'd take Olajuwon over him too, I think.

5. Did the Lakers draft the whole country of Slovakia?

6. The replay of the Laker-Celtic rivalry during halftime was interesting and brought back some good eighties memories for me. An expanded hour-long documentary would be good. The half-half faces were dumb. I still would have preferred, for halftime:

7. Hancock seems like an interesting movie. Columbia has given it the best marketing tie-ins since China Syndrome and Greenpeace.

woops! Here's the trailer:

The China Syndrome (Special Edition)

8. GMC says that they're "professional grade." What does that mean?

9. One of the commercials featured a guy who called himself a "couch surfer," somebody with "a lot of friends, but no place of his own." You'd think sports fans wouldn't be sympathetic to the hardships of runaways turned male prostitutes.