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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
this week, none of my 214 posts attempted to give an answer, or to convey anything even remotely definable as "helpful," but thanks for playing.

Short notice travel?

Almost a week ago to the hour Thurgreed PM'd me. He had a gym available from 10-11 AM on Saturday- if I could make it we could play 1 on 1. By 10 PM I was landing at La Guardia.

Believe me the ticket was quite expensive, but I thought it would be worth it. We promised that it would just be "our secret" no one would brag here about who won or whatever, it was just for the love of the game.

Next Morning I get to the gym about 9:50, and there's good old Thurgreed. we realized we hadn't really talked about rules. there were so many things to hash out- possesion? take back? 2/3 or 1/2? To be honest, lots of them we argued about a little.

Finally we were down to last points: Thurgreed insisted we use a women's size ball! Don't ask me why, his hands were normal sized- sure they were the soft hands of someone who hasn't done much physical work- but still the smaller ball didn't make sense.

For my part, I argued that since we had met on a lawyer's board, a basket by a black guy should only count for .75 of the points a white guy gets. I told Thurgreed this would reflect the lingering prejudice that the man uses to keep his comp down. Really this was just a ploy, and I was willing to throw this in to get the normal size ball.

Well soon enough, he's telling me I need a helmet and I'm telling him his basketball-rap is "whack," and to be honest we're not getting anywhere. After a long time He says he's going to ignore me, and starts to leave! that's when I suggest, I'll give in on scoring if he gives in on ball size, and he agrees.

First play, he flies by me, and rises.......and clanks the ball off the rim- turns out he can't dunk the bigger ball anymore- the 1 inch would have made the difference. I grab the board and then.....12 kids and a coach get there. It was 11, they had the gym and kicked us out. Final score 0-0.

So no, it turns out it wasn't worth the cost of short notice travel.

You forgot to mention your 80s Danny-Ainge-style short shorts.



TM