Power of the Road of the Crowd (Simmons ESPN)

[RonMexico]

Secondly, he makes a great point about some of those calls in the last few minutes (the Barnes one is a toss-up)... but the Baron foul gets more ridiculous by the minute because refs are supposed to be taught in junior high not to blow the whistle based on a "hunch" or "expectation" but that's exactly what Bernie Fryer did.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Anyway, Bill Simmons will be rooting for the Suns in the Spurs/Suns series as he watches their, to quote the Sports Guy, "historically good" asses try to win a game against the Spurs, enjoy.

Fine with me.

[RonMexico]

What I mean is that it's like family (or friends) when you can talk BS and smack your friends around, but you would be the first to defend them if others did.

And I'm of the opinion that you can always be a fan of your team, root for them and still "make fun of them."

If you (and in this case, unlike my previous posts responding to you, I mean you specifically) can't see the difference and fun in that, then you're not having enough fun with your team.

Yeah, try being an Arizona Cardinals fan for 19 years... if you don't learn to laugh following that team, then plan on an early death.

P.S. I was hanging out with Denny Green last night and we came to the conclusion that the Mavs are who we thought they were!

[SrA Husker]

One of the things he brought up was luxury boxes being so far back in the Garden and Oakland. On that note, he has a point. I've always disliked the AT&T Center and their luxury boxes 12 rows up... the arena was built to make money, not to provide a proper game atmosphere by packing as many rowdy fans as possible into the lower level.