Two very important messages

A quick afternoon post for your reading pleasure.

 

I forgot to share a story from the weekend with you that may also serve as a warning. The simple message: Don’t put saki in the microwave.

 

It was Friday night and I was hanging out at dedicated reader/commenter Rosie’s house. It was just me and him until three other guys showed up. They had been eating sushi at some restuarant. They decided to bring home a couple bottles of saki to add to our drinking menu. 

 

You can’t drink saki at room temperature, so we decided to heat it up. Boiling water on the stove and setting the bottle in the water would be the practical way, but not the easiest or fastest. They decided to use the microwave. They used a glass beer mug and filled it up about half way with saki before putting it in the microwave. Rosie and I were into a very intense game of “Mario and Sonic at the Olympics” on the Wii. The next thing we heard was a very, very loud PUFF sound. To me it sounded like someone dropped a heavy bag of dog food or something.

 

I went into the kitchen to see the look that said “What the hell just happend?” on three faces. What had happened is, as soon as one of the guys pulled the mug out of the microwave, the saki exploded like a mushroom cloud. Saki was covering the ceiling and cabinet. You know when you boil water with out a lid and the moisture builds up either on the ceiling or the overhang of the stove and turns to water and drops back down? That’s what was on the ceiling. There was droplets of saki in a perfect circle above the mug. It was an amazing experience, or experiment. WE thought about calling Mythbusters after we couldn’t find an explanation after we Googled “saki, microwave, explosion.” 

 

Moral of the story, when you want to drink warm saki, take your time and use the perferred method of heating it on the stove.

 

Nevertheless, the saki was fantastic that night.

 

As for tonight, It’s Game No. 2 for Team River City tonight at 8:35. On the schedule is our most heated rival, Secure Morgage. It’s our most heated rival because, for the most part, we are all friends with each other and we also seem to play the closest games. Last year, we played three times and all three came down to the final shot. We lost the first game of the year to them but then beat them in the second meeting and in the playoffs. Tonight should be no different. I just hope I can make a few shots without having to get help from the bank. 

 

GO TEAM RIVER CITY!!!

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“Big” Time win for Cavs

 

 

What a “big” win for the Cavs last night. Get it? “Big.” Because everyone calls the Celtics trio of Allen, Pierce, Garnett “The Big Three.” Yet Cleveland’s “Big Three” outplayed them, at least statistically.

 

Well, I guess Cleveland’s “Big Three” should really be called the “Huge 1 1/2 and 2 more.” LeBron is so good he does more than one man should be able to do and therefore gets the 1 1/2 lable. As for D-Good and Z, they are having very, very, very, very good years, as far as very good years for Drew Gooden and Zydrunas Ilgauskas go, but they aren’t anywhere near as good as any of the three from Boston. If you had to pick two players out of Gooden, Z, Pierce, Garnett and Allen, Gooden and Z would be the last two picked. Therefore, they only get labled as “2 more.”

 

Bottom line though is LBJ, Z and D-Good played great and better than the true “Big Three.” It was great to see LeBron make some big shots and then jaw with Pierce and Garnett. When LeBron is talking trash, he gets better. It was like a playoff game the way he battled and the intensity he showed. Last year, you never would have saw that out of him in November. Not this year. He knew he had to play great from Game 1 and he as done that. The M-V-P chants heard in overtime may have been the earliest in the history of the NBA but no one has been such a clear cut MVP this early in the year. He’s the Tom Brady of the NBA right now.

 

It’s a shame he didn’t make the shot to win it at the end of regulation. I would have loved to see his reaction and what he said to Pierce. But if he makes that shot, we would have missed the most impressive part of LBJ’s game. The way he rebounded from that missed shot and dominated the overtime period for 11 points. It was like the missed game winner only made him play better and prove more. 

 

It was also great to see D-Good come up with a huge game one day after Varejao came out and said he didn’t want to play on Cleveland anymore. D-Good said “the Cavs don’t need him when they got me.” His third quarter was classic going 8-for-8. It was almost as classic as his rat tail last year, which is almost as classic as the shaggy beard he’s got going this year. Got to love a beard man who looks that bad in it but just doesn’t care. D-Good is like the anti-Andy, as in he makes shots, and his beard is the anti-Andy hair. It be long until Gooden’s beard looks like Andy’s hair.

 

The best part about this game is that everyone has been already crowned the Boston Celtics Eastern Conference Champions and decleared the Cavs dead in the water and bearly a playoff team. Cleveland proved last night that is not the case. Yes it was only one game at the end of November, but it sent a message that the Cavs will not simply give up their conference title. They might not have “The Big Three” but as long as they have LeBron, playing like a “Huge 1 1/2” they’ll be just fine.

 

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