Sham
10-13-2009, 10:32 PM
Hello.
Considering that this is my first post on this site, the following message like look like it's some kind of illicit spam-based japery. But it isn't. It's legitimate.
My name is Sham and I run ShamSports.com (http://www.shamsports.com), the site that Bruno often cites as being the best NBA salary resource on the web. I also wrote a guest post for 48 Minutes Of Hell (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2009/09/04/sham-on-the-spurs-cap/) a few weeks back, turning some bad jokes about Brian Cook into an overview of the Spurs salary cap situation. I am hoping that these two things will be enough to convince you all that I'm not here to date rape you or something.
By mistake, I have managed to land myself two tickets to tomorrow night's preseason game versus the Clippers. And I don't want them. Here's the thing; I'm an idiot.
In the midst of tweeting an assortment of wisearse comments during tonight's Bucks vs Bulls preseason game, I noticed that Blake Griffin (@blakegriffin) had posted a trivia question:
There are 4 players in the history of the nba to score 50+ points w/ 3 different teams name 3 of the 4.
Because of pure luck, I happened to know that off by heart, and Tweeted back to him instantaneously:
@blakegriffin I can do you one better; Bernard King, Wilt Chamberlain, Moses Malone, and Jamal Crawford of all people.
I was pleased with myself, like any man sitting up at 3am answering trivia questions would be.
Little did I know that Blake's question was actually part of a competition to win tickets to the Clippers/Spurs preseason game tomorrow. In my overzealous nerdity, I'd not read the fact that it was a competition, and yet I'd actually won the bastard. (It's a rare and special day that you win a competition you didn't even know you were taking part in.)
Blake announced my accidental triumph with this follow-up tweet:
Congrats to @ShamSports decided to over achieve and name all 4. DM me your name.
As anyone who has read my profile will notice, I live in England, which is about twenty jillion miles away from San Antonio. So this presents a problem. The tickets are no good to me, and so now I had a choice. I could either;
a) Locate, quickly, someone willing and able to take these tickets off of me.
b) Admit to Blake Griffin that I'm a stupid fool who just scuppered his competition with prizes, because I didn't realise it was a competition with prizes.
Whoops.
Due to the deep shame that B would bring, I have gone for plan A, and am willing to give the tickets to anyone who wants them. Unfortuantely, I don't know anyone in Texas, let alone in San Antonio, so now I've resorted to having to give them away to random people. Worse still, I have to do this very quickly, which allows no time to get picky.
So if anyone from San Antonio has nothing to do tomorrow and wants free tickets to a bad preseason game, then either respond here, email me at my website, or both. And please do it quickly, because I need your real name in order to pacify Blake Griffin and save my own face.
:depressed
(It's first come first serve, of course.)
Considering that this is my first post on this site, the following message like look like it's some kind of illicit spam-based japery. But it isn't. It's legitimate.
My name is Sham and I run ShamSports.com (http://www.shamsports.com), the site that Bruno often cites as being the best NBA salary resource on the web. I also wrote a guest post for 48 Minutes Of Hell (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2009/09/04/sham-on-the-spurs-cap/) a few weeks back, turning some bad jokes about Brian Cook into an overview of the Spurs salary cap situation. I am hoping that these two things will be enough to convince you all that I'm not here to date rape you or something.
By mistake, I have managed to land myself two tickets to tomorrow night's preseason game versus the Clippers. And I don't want them. Here's the thing; I'm an idiot.
In the midst of tweeting an assortment of wisearse comments during tonight's Bucks vs Bulls preseason game, I noticed that Blake Griffin (@blakegriffin) had posted a trivia question:
There are 4 players in the history of the nba to score 50+ points w/ 3 different teams name 3 of the 4.
Because of pure luck, I happened to know that off by heart, and Tweeted back to him instantaneously:
@blakegriffin I can do you one better; Bernard King, Wilt Chamberlain, Moses Malone, and Jamal Crawford of all people.
I was pleased with myself, like any man sitting up at 3am answering trivia questions would be.
Little did I know that Blake's question was actually part of a competition to win tickets to the Clippers/Spurs preseason game tomorrow. In my overzealous nerdity, I'd not read the fact that it was a competition, and yet I'd actually won the bastard. (It's a rare and special day that you win a competition you didn't even know you were taking part in.)
Blake announced my accidental triumph with this follow-up tweet:
Congrats to @ShamSports decided to over achieve and name all 4. DM me your name.
As anyone who has read my profile will notice, I live in England, which is about twenty jillion miles away from San Antonio. So this presents a problem. The tickets are no good to me, and so now I had a choice. I could either;
a) Locate, quickly, someone willing and able to take these tickets off of me.
b) Admit to Blake Griffin that I'm a stupid fool who just scuppered his competition with prizes, because I didn't realise it was a competition with prizes.
Whoops.
Due to the deep shame that B would bring, I have gone for plan A, and am willing to give the tickets to anyone who wants them. Unfortuantely, I don't know anyone in Texas, let alone in San Antonio, so now I've resorted to having to give them away to random people. Worse still, I have to do this very quickly, which allows no time to get picky.
So if anyone from San Antonio has nothing to do tomorrow and wants free tickets to a bad preseason game, then either respond here, email me at my website, or both. And please do it quickly, because I need your real name in order to pacify Blake Griffin and save my own face.
:depressed
(It's first come first serve, of course.)