Since my last post, my wife and I had our son (Johnny), purchased and moved into a house, and finished up my first full year of teaching. Top five things I did today:
1. Fed my son with a bottle. It was his first bottle, and he ate like a champ. No surprise there.
2. Organized my first real garage. It has a lot left to do, but we are able to pull the car in.
3. Found out I have the NFL network. Digital cable forever!
4. Bathed my son for the first time in our new house.
5. Started to learn Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" on the guitar. Part of our digital cable has guitar lessons. Digital cable forever!
In honor of yesterday's NBA draft, if I was starting a team with draft picks of my generation (debatable, but I will say 1982 on), here are my picks:
1. Patrick Ewing
2. Xavier McDaniel
3. Karl Malone
4. Tim Duncan
5. Charles Barkley
Now I am just like the Sonics, no point guard and too many 4's. I am okay as long as the Seahawks don't go to Oklahoma City.
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Congratulations on Johnny, the house, and Kevin Durant (in that order).
Okay, my top five draft picks since 1982 are as follows (this is based on a combination of raw ability, the course of their careers, and how much I liked them as a player. Your seems to also be like this since we are both leaving Jordan out.):
C: Hakeem Olajuwon
PF: Charles Barkley
SF: Dominique Wilkins
SG: Reggie Miller
PG: Jason Kidd
honorary SG: Byron Scott
Yes, there are few people who would pick Xavier McDaniel over Michael Jorden, but I am one of them. I never could forgive Jorden for beating the Hoyas in 1982, and keeping Ewing out of the finals in his prime.
By the way, I thought I was Ewing in my backyard.
I always wanted to be Magic in the backyard. My physique was such that I resigned myself to being Barkley.*
*Note: At the time I equated being chubby and having a proclivity for throwing elbows to being Barkleyesque.
Let's talk about baseball. How about that Manny Ramirez, here's a character!
Give it up Willie.
I would rather have Shawn Kemp than Charles Barkley. I don't know what I was thinking.
I'm sure that Shawn Kemp holds the NBA record for most illegitimate children.
Man Ram is no Carl Everett.
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