LOCK OUT

Why did it take this long to write about the lockout?
Because I wanted to write this the same day as Kevin James' movie ZOOKEEPER comes out.

I'm sorry

Can you believe this?!
Countless commercials and advertisements through the NBA have a culminated into this moment of long awaited moment of mediocrity.

When I saw that ZOOKEEPER was coming out this Friday I initially thought it was coming out on DVD. Didn't they advertise this while the Lakers were being swept? How many times can a talking gorilla be funny? Anyway the lockout...

GOOD!!

I love basketball, I do. But lets face the fact, Basketball is a distant third place behind MLB. There are a lot of places throughout the country that would rather watch college football then watch the NBA. There are a lot of reasons why the NBA sucks, and money is part of it.

Every league has high paid athletes, but the NBA is known for having TERRIBLE contracts (Arenas, Redd, Walton, Baron Davis, The-guy-traded-from-Orlando-to-Charlotte-whose-name-i-forgot-cause-hes-terrible). Bad management and contracts aside, no one wants to watch prima donnas making ridiculous amounts of money play a lackluster regular season basketball, complain with the refs more then any other sport (tie with soccer), flop on the floor (slightly behind soccer). I will bring up the Christmas day game with the Heat and Lakers... again.

The most watched regular season game that no one should care about, because the players don't care. Phil and Kobe telling the media, "Playing on Christmas sucks." IT SUCKS FOR THE FANS, BECAUSE ATHLETES DON'T CARE. Think they care? Didn't seem like it when the Lakers were blown out by the 3rd. Why should they? Would you? Would you care if you were making 8 million a year to ride the bench the entire game? Would you care if you made 20 mil a year? Once the game is out of reach, I would probably start dreaming of my yacht and beach front home. But I'm getting slightly off topic.

Of course, who are the real losers? Us, me, you, yo mama.
I admit, I am a growing MLB fan, a big part of the reason why, is because I can afford going to multiple games in a season. Tickets to watch boring regular season (besides watching Grififn and the HEAT) are silly. Why should a consumer pay $50 for border-line bad seats, to feed bad contracts, for athletes who don't seem to care.

Hey dude, $50 isn't that bad...get a job.

Its not bad for one person, but what if you want to take your family to the game, that's $200 just on tickets, what about those $5 sodas and $10 burgers and pizzas. Gas to the game... You're spending over $300.

This is a lesson in humility. The NBA was becoming out of control. People who were making millions shouldn't be. Other professionals in this world who SHOULD be making more money (Doctors, humanitarians, teachers) are not.

Hey man, its capitalism, its supply and demand. People pay for it, why shouldn't they make the money?

Well, its caught up to them, and now 22 teams in the league are losing money each year. Millions lost. Fat fucking Cat owners losing money. Fucking GOOD.