The Spurs won the NBA

That's a lot better than the Lions' shocking performance in the rugby. Three points isn't very good, is it? Anyone who can explain why England are good after New Zealand battered them to pulp will receive a special prize, courtesy of Marv.

Yes, folks, you can win, free of charge, a night out with Jerome!!

Perhaps I'll enter myself. I haven't seen the old bugger for a while and have yet to reprimand him for his insults to folk music, in person. (Although chicken lunch mania is this weekend. I have a feeling I will exceed government drinking guidelines.)

Spurs fever

Some people should appreciate their friends and treat them more kindly

Putting people's CDs in the toaster is mean and people who do it should be ashamed of themselves.

Jerome Doesn't Like Folk Music

So at 4 o'clock this morning he put my CDs in the toaster.

More stuff about the Spurs. I don't understand.

From the way Hubie Brown was calling game 1 tonight you'd think:

a) The Pistons were up by 30 at halftime

and

b) The Pistons were the only team on the court.

But then Manu went to work and suddenly the Spurs did indeed exist.

Game 2 will be much more intense and stressful. If Rasheed Wallace is a bigger factor, or any factor at all in game 2, the Spurs will have their hands full.

Damn. I was disappointed the Heat lost. I wanted Shaq the Villian in the Finals. But this is just as stressful to watch. So intense. So physical.

GO SPURS GO!!!

Combat trousers

Jerome likes combat trousers. The side pockets have solved people's storage needs for many years.

He is in Hobbiton this weekend having an emotional reunion with little Rence.

Spurs Rule, by Mike Nawrocki

Jerome, you have to respond to this. I'm working hard here putting this stuff on your blog.

Here's a title: why Spurs Don't Rule, by Jerome.

An e-mail from a crazed Spurs fan in south Texas:

You better get on the stick with your blog, Bub. I finally found it and you refuse to update it. Come on, they won the Western Conference Finals, doesn’t that deserve some kind of entry? The coverage here has been great. Academy Sports ran out of their Spurs paraphernalia the first day (they sold a million dollars in Spurs gear). The caps look pretty nice. People have gone Spurs nuts, but as usual, they express this as emphatic waving, smiling and cheering. Got to love San Antonio.

Spurs fans are as great and compassionate as any group of fans I know, although I may be slightly biased.

And I do have a lame excuse for not blogging, even as the Spurs blazed past Phoenix. The computer was in a bag for over a week as I sanded off all the joint compound in the office. There is still a lot of work to be done in this room (Bob Vila I ain't), but at least there is a place to hook-up our laptop again. And then I was in Chicago and was at Grinnell's Ten Year Reunion weekend for Emily's class (she graduated in 1995, so it was technically my 11 year reunion, although I was the sole visitor from 1994).

I have a few things worth posting from the reunion weekend, as does Emily, I'm sure. Eventually I'll get around to that.

But that is neither here nor there. The point of this post is to say I hope to start posting with some regularity and
SPURS RULE!!!!!


Where's Shaq? Where's Kobe? Bring on the Pistons!!!!!!

This should be a great Finals. I don't know if I can take the stress. When the Spurs were in the 1999 and 2003 Finals it was foregone conclusion they'd beat the inferior Eastern Conference opponent. Not so this time. Detroit is tough, battle-tested, and there defense is a good as any north of the Alamo.

Ironically, the Pistons/Spurs series will feature two of the greatest defensive teams in recent memory. The irony being they both share nicknames of things that make things go.

To hell with irony. To hell with the Pistons.

GO SPURS GO!!!!

Happy birthday, Jerome's blog

Jerome's blog is one year old today.

To celebrate, here are the comments Jerome has posted during his year in the blogosphere:

Marv, you don't know shit about rugby

Dude Trinny is FIT. Marv I am very impressed that you know who Rodman is. Words from the Lord

The world waits for an authentic Jerome post. Till then, keep writing, friends of Jerome.