April 29, 2013
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115-101!!! Steph Curry Rocks
the Bay!!!
The Daily News1 Dazzlingly fun stuff. Woyers fans, hope you’re having a ball.2 Ain’t nothing better than being the best.
3 I think it’s time for the world to take Steph Curry seriously. I just think it is time.
4 Keep going, fellows.
5 Moving on, Part One: I’m tired.
6 But it’s a good kind of tired.
7 I used to say that all the time.
8 It’s a good kind of tired. The Warriors won. I spent the entire weekend helping people and enjoying a friend’s birthday party. I spent lots of time with my Dad. I got all sorts of work done. Oh, and did I mention the Warriors and Steph Curry?
9 Yeah boy.
10 Giants and A’s fans?
11 Yeesh.
12 Am I allowed to say that it’s a marathon, not a sprint yet?
13 The lovely thing about baseball is that it is a lonnnnng season.
14 You just don’t want to dig too deep a hole this early. At least the A’s got Cespides back, and he delivered.
15 Baseball is a marathon. You have to rely on averages righting themselves. I think. Yeesh.
16 Thank goodness we have the Sharks and Warriors.
17 We are so spoiled these days.
18 Still, my entire life being a nutso Giants’ fan has always caused me to be bummed out the day after any loss.
19 How’s that?
20 Only another fan of any sport will tell you.
21 I love being a brainwashed sports guy.
22 It’s fun to have real Avengers in life.
23 Ah, they aren’t REAL avengers. REAL Avengers are people who help others.
24 Anybody looking? <eyes dart back and forth>
25 I’m just saying that to be politically correct you know. I’m very pretentious.
26 What I was trying to say is that when we watch dazzling displays of derring-do and unnaturally super-human powers, we stand amazed.
27 Come on dude.
28 We marvel at athletes who are comic-heroes coming to life.
29 It’s reasonably human to lift ourselves into those sorts of feelings, and to experience what Coleridge coined a “willing suspension of disbelief.“
30 Coleridge would have been called a genius by Henry Winkler.
31 Everybody is a genius to Henry Winkler. I’ll bet when Lumpy Rutherford passed away last week, Henry Winkler said to somebody, “Frank Bank was a genius.“
32 Sidebar: I was at a birthday party the other night where the entire table gave a salute to the late Lumpy. Raised glasses and all. No lie.
33 Henry Winkler wasn’t there.
34 Nor was Coleridge.
35 To me, Coleridge was a crashing bore, famous mainly for coining the term, “willing suspension of disbelief,” which is a cool term that would explain our fascination with sports.
36 It’s just that I would never invite Coleridge OR Henry Winkler to a party.
37 Here is the original quote by ol’ Sam. It comes to us courtesy of phrases.org.uk:
<Me: Origin: Willing Suspension of Disbelief>
This term was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1817 with the publication of Biographia literaria or biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions:
“In this idea originated the plan of ‘Lyrical Ballads’; in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons or characters supernatural,
or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination
that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”38
39 Imagine inviting THAT guy to a party. Endeavours. Sounds like something that would be served at cocktail hour.
40 I have to give him credit for saying what I was just saying about sports and Avengers and Henry Winkler and all.
41 “Biographia literaria or biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions.“
42 Rallllllllly now.
43 Who TALKS like that?
44 <basketball buzzer>
45 Imagine that guy on Facebook. Ten friends, and after that post, nine would have unfriended.
46 The tenth would be Henry Winkler. “Coleridge is a genius.”
47 Aaaaaaaaaaay.
48 Welp, we’re getting into the three a.m. here, and I had a pretty amazing weekend.
49 I’m tired, and it’s Monday.
50 But it’s a good kind of tired.
51 One thing I’ll say about Coleridge: He’s good for when you have to crawl back under the sheets for a little
more shut-eye. <yawn> I’ll awaken when you finally open your other eye.52 Meanwhile, gottago.
53 Fly low.
54 Have a GREAT Monday, and We’ll see you again.
55 Peace.
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