Is It November Already?

Issue: Time flies, huh?

Short Answer: Especially during the summer...

Reasoning: I looked around yesterday, and realized it was November.  With November comes a few things: Thanksgiving, cold weather, and the NBA.  Thanksgiving, I care about.  The other two things on that list, I could go without.  Sometimes I wonder why I live in Cincinnati, mostly when November rolls around.  Someone was telling me the other day, too, that they had read the Farmer's Almanac, and we are due for a horribly cold winter.  Didn't we just have one of those last year?  Can it happen two years in a row?  I thought that guy that invented the internet (Al Gore, for those of you who live under rocks) told us our planet was going to spontaneously combust because of all the warming.  Apparently, "global warming" means "warming everywhere EXCEPT Cincinnati, Ohio."  Great.  And now, I don't get my NBA either?  Good.

Here's the thing the NBA doesn't get, sort of like what the NHL didn't get a few years ago when it went on strike (I know you are shocked, but, yes, the NHL is still in existence, and some people, even outside of Canada, actually still care about it) - NO ONE CARES.  Sure, I know there are people out there who like to watch people like Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant, and Carmelo Anthony play basketball.  I would ask those people: Really??  I would rather watch college basketball, where the kids actually, you know, hustle and give a crap, than watch the NBA "superstars".  The NBA is boring.

I won't even get into the details of the lockout, because I don't care about the lockout.  I don't care why the players are being stupid and greedy.  And, I don't care why the owners are being stupid and greedy.  I don't care that games aren't on, and I don't care that highlights aren't on SportsCenter (sidenote: I actually do sort of care about this, because instead of showing NBA highlights (meaning the couple of sweet dunks in each game) ESPN is filling the SportsCenter time with more "analysis" of whatever.  Did you know LSU and Alabama were playing this week?  Really?  Turn to ESPN really quickly.  They are filling 99% of their air time telling me who is going to win and why, breaking down Nick Saban's office vs. Les Miles' office, and awkwardly interviewing players and coaches alike, none of whom really want to be there.  It's embarrassing.).  The NBA is shooting itself in the foot, and I don't care.  The longer it stays away, the longer they can keep Steven A. Smith off of my television screen, the better.