Sacramento Queens

[scangadah]

Enjoy the rest of the season off......Just like every year.

 

[labbats]

*cowbell*

 

[350DRIVER]

Ain't no one slowin down the "Lake Show"...


They should just crown them 2004 champions now.


3 5 0

 

[Northern Lights]

Go T-Wolves!!!
Hopefully they don't get slaughtered by the Lakers

 

[pilotman2105]

Go T-Wolves!!!
Hopefully they don't get slaughtered by the Lakers

As much as I'm pullin' for the Wolves, Lakers in 5 games.

 

[JetSpeed219]

somebody needs to snipe shaq and kobe and "fix the glitch"

 

[Northern Lights]

This was supposedly from the LA paper and was posted on the KS95 website in the Twin Cities.

After reading I am more fired up than ever to watch the game tonight!

And by the way, it's Sid Hartman not Sid Homer.

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Forecast for Minnesota Is Broom and Bored
Minnesota is the curling capital of America. Or maybe it's Wisconsin. I don't
know, I get all those nondescript Midwestern states mixed up.

I just know those folks who live out there in the hinterland are familiar with
brooms, and next week when they turn on the TV and see a bunch of Laker fans
waving brooms above their heads, I don't want them to think we're challenging
them.

Most of us living here couldn't deliver a stone beyond the hog line even if we
could find a patch of ice, but anyone who knows anything about basketball can
see a sweep coming, unless the Lakers become bored, or Shaq finally hauls off
and decks Kobe.

THE TIMBERWOLVES are your classic "just happy to be here" basketball team that
gave its all to have the best regular-season record in the Western Conference,
which ought to get a snicker out of the Lakers.

There's no trying hard in the NBA, certainly not during the regular season, and
now the overachieving Timberwolves must play on after a draining seven-game
series against the Sacramento Kings, which they were lucky to win.

We all know the Lakers can name the final score tonight. Of course, they can do
that almost any night, which makes you wonder why they let the other team win so
often, but I just don't see any Mall of America incentive for Jeanie, Phil and
our regular-season slackers to return to Minneapolis next week.

It's pretty well understood now in the basketball world, although it might be a
few days before the rider arrives in Mankato with the news, that the Lakers are
going to win another title. The only thing remaining in question is the date of
the parade.

ONE OF the newspapers back there, and I can never tell the difference between
those small-town twins * Minneapolis and St. Paul * has a columnist, I believe,
by the name of "Sid Homer." That tells you a little about these yahoos.

Most of your Minnesota sportswriters go easy on the local teams, knowing they
have to be cooped up inside with many of their readers much of the year. So
they've already praised the Timberwolves for a job well done with two rounds
remaining. Imagine the look Phil would give me if I did that.

Patrick Reusse, writing for the Minneapolis Star Tribune after the Timberwolves
beat the Kings, noted, "The frustration is behind [Kevin] Garnett now. He has
carried his team through two rounds and to the Western Conference finals. Now,
it's fun, even if the big, bad, rested Lakers are the challenge that awaits."

Reusse then quoted Garnett: "I didn't want to be sitting by myself wondering*.
Maybe driving home after the game, wondering if I could have done more," and
concluded his column, gushing: "Stop wondering."

Obviously everyone in the hinterland is thrilled the team got this far, although
they'd prefer it if the Wild was still playing, which goes to show you the kind
of weirdos living there. (Winona Ryder lived in Minnesota. And we probably could
have seen it coming had we known she stole her name from the city she was born
in, Winona.)

Back here, of course, there was only a passing interest in whom the Lakers might
play next because "The Bachelor" season finale was on.

Frankly, I was pulling for Tara and Sacramento. The last I saw Mike Bibby, he
was dancing in Staples, and I worry now that there won't be anyplace for him to
continue in that cow town. And just imagine how upset Doug Christie's wife must
be

That's the thing about Sacramento. We know a whole lot about the Kings, but
beyond Garnett, a pair of wacko guards, Mark Madsen and the Big Stiff, a.k.a.
Michael Olowokandi, we don't know much about those who call Minnesota home.

Sure, I noticed their cheerleaders on TV, and I guess it was a long winter, so
the good news is they'll have four more games to work themselves into swimsuit
shape. And I did some homework about Minnesota. Bob Dylan called his Hibbing
home "a good place to leave," while Charles A. Lindbergh grew up in Little Falls
and took off flying the first chance he got. J. Paul Getty was born there, but
his museum is here.

Harold Stassen ran for president nine times, but no one wanted a guy from
Minnesota running the country. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born there, which drove
him to drink, leading to his death. Zelda, his wife, had a series of mental
breakdowns, which apparently is what happens when you marry someone from
Minnesota.

We also know Al Franken and Jesse Ventura spent significant time in Minnesota,
making it "the land of 10,000 lakes and two nuts."

But what we don't know is how Minnesota's sports fans will react to seeing their
team swept by the Lakers. They still have 193 days until the ice fishing season
opens, although it could be worse: They could be living in Nebraska and have
nothing to look forward to for the rest of their lives.

When the Twins made it to the World Series, the folks from Minnesota pulled out
the "Homer Hankies," and I sure hope Sid, the columnist, got a piece of the
action. (Watching on TV, though, it appeared as if there were 60,000 people
waving white flags as if to say we can't take living here anymore.)

For the next few days, though, we're probably going to hear a lot of nonsense
from the folks back in Minnesota about their plucky little team and their own
good lives with no fear of earthquakes, smog and blah-blah-blah. But let's face
it, even the Lakers left Minneapolis years ago. You get the chance, you go.

So don't let their sportswriters fool you; if the newspapers here were willing
to hire homers, they'd be lined up at The Times' door.