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Talk About Sports
After you do 'em or watch 'em, there's this other part
Organized sport has three primary parts: the part where you do it, the part where you watch it, and then there's the part where you talk about it. It's like the joke about the guy who couldn't truly get off after a week of desert island sex with a supermodel until he told someone about it.
Doing is awesome. I am totally down with doing. But talking has its attributes.
My favorite person to talk about sports with is my man, David Davis.
Dave's a New Yorker by birth, but a true Angeleno. At Huarache, he might order off-menu. Dave's the guy who helped me really get Los Angeles. Dave was my editor, back when I moved from the SF Bay Guardian to LA Weekly. My friend Dave is a mensch, but with an edge.
When we talk about the Lakers, it's just like checking in. Phil is a heavyweight LA cat in our lives, like Chief Bratton or Sumner Redstone, but more palpably present. And we see Kobe Bryant dunks and fadeaways and steals like we see fire in the hills, like we see digital billboards. The kid, now pushing 30 in the most boyish fashion, has altered our consciousness.
But me and Dave don't talk all high-falutin' and purty when we're going back over those games, boy! We're just 'bout it, whether the subject is racism or ERA and don't get him started about … well, actually, Dave's always struck me as objective about games not involving New York teams. A real pro. I love that about my man Dave.
One might talk to your main sports guy a ton, and still not talk about all of the issues taking up space in one's brain. But I got a lot out.
The Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera trade went through after our talk. (And I did not tell him that I first learned of Cabrera's greatness through MLB2K7. Not because I couldn't, it just never came up.) He would not be there when I learned later in the night that the Dodgers have signed Andruw Jones. He wouldn't be there when Allen Iverson sent a chill up my spine. Iverson's one of the all-time greats. It's a privilege to watch him play.
I talked about sports all day: at a party in Koreatown, a body-building conversation between me and this ex-con and a cool editor from the Times. We talked about race and physical superiority and how it was basically white cats who popularized steroids in baseball before Barry Bonds. Mixed company or no, there were no hurt feelings. It was just talk; nobody really got offended. It was simply another topic, like whether Steve Nash qualifies as a true artist. My vote is yes, based on his court vision alone.
Yeah, music's great, but I love talking about sports.
Donnell Alexander is the MOLI View's contributing editor for Sports & Fitness.
Doing is awesome. I am totally down with doing. But talking has its attributes.
My favorite person to talk about sports with is my man, David Davis.
Dave's a New Yorker by birth, but a true Angeleno. At Huarache, he might order off-menu. Dave's the guy who helped me really get Los Angeles. Dave was my editor, back when I moved from the SF Bay Guardian to LA Weekly. My friend Dave is a mensch, but with an edge.
When we talk about the Lakers, it's just like checking in. Phil is a heavyweight LA cat in our lives, like Chief Bratton or Sumner Redstone, but more palpably present. And we see Kobe Bryant dunks and fadeaways and steals like we see fire in the hills, like we see digital billboards. The kid, now pushing 30 in the most boyish fashion, has altered our consciousness.
But me and Dave don't talk all high-falutin' and purty when we're going back over those games, boy! We're just 'bout it, whether the subject is racism or ERA and don't get him started about … well, actually, Dave's always struck me as objective about games not involving New York teams. A real pro. I love that about my man Dave.
One might talk to your main sports guy a ton, and still not talk about all of the issues taking up space in one's brain. But I got a lot out.
The Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera trade went through after our talk. (And I did not tell him that I first learned of Cabrera's greatness through MLB2K7. Not because I couldn't, it just never came up.) He would not be there when I learned later in the night that the Dodgers have signed Andruw Jones. He wouldn't be there when Allen Iverson sent a chill up my spine. Iverson's one of the all-time greats. It's a privilege to watch him play.
I talked about sports all day: at a party in Koreatown, a body-building conversation between me and this ex-con and a cool editor from the Times. We talked about race and physical superiority and how it was basically white cats who popularized steroids in baseball before Barry Bonds. Mixed company or no, there were no hurt feelings. It was just talk; nobody really got offended. It was simply another topic, like whether Steve Nash qualifies as a true artist. My vote is yes, based on his court vision alone.
Yeah, music's great, but I love talking about sports.
Donnell Alexander is the MOLI View's contributing editor for Sports & Fitness.
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