Monday, August 11, 2008

Putting Boot to Ass

Oh man, work tomorrow is going to be fun.

The U.S. Olympic basketball team treated President Bush and perhaps a billion more fans to a game to remember.

With LeBron James and Dwyane Wade soaring for dunks that thrilled the raucous crowd at Beijing’s basketball arena, the United States pulled away for a 101-70 victory against host China on Sunday night.

Wade scored 19 points and James had 18 for the Americans in one of the most highly anticipated events of these Summer Games.

Houston Rockets All-Star Yao Ming scored 13 points for China.

Yao Ming is one of the most famous people in China, this is going to be a huge blow to the national ego.

I seem to have been able to score some tickets.  I’m going to see Holland play baseball against some other country that doesn’t really play baseball, so it should be a super lame game.  There is a good chance, however, that I’m going to score tickets to see the US soccer team play Nigeria, a game which will immediately followed by Argentina playing some other reasonably good team.  That should be a lot of fun.  It’ll most likely be packed with all the 1-0 action that we’ve come to expect from soccer.

The funny thing about the US/Nigeria game is that one half of the stadium will be full of Beijing’s drug dealers, and the other half will be full of their clients.  They’ll probably be sending text messages to each other to hook up before the Argentina game starts.

And for those of you who don’t know about Argentinian football, learn about the “Hand of God” incident in the 1986 World Cup.

Update: I just noticed something.  Yao Ming was wearing the number 13 on his jersey. I’m going to go into work tomorrow and tell all the Chinese that the reason they lost is because western numbers are more powerful than Chinese numbers.  If you think this is insane you have to remember that I used to have people tell me all the time that my cell phone number was “unlucky” because it had a lot of fours in it.  The Chinese are extremely superstitious, so this should be fun.  “See?  If Yao Ming had paid proper respect to the superstitions of the foreign devils China would have won.”