2011: The year the NBA playoffs were so good, I couldn’t stop myself from writing about it every two seconds. And, as you can only say so much through Facebook status updates, I ended up here. (The blog name is a hopefully-not-copyright-infringing homage to Bill Simmons, one of my personal heroes, who originally called himself the Boston Sports Guy.)
I generally despise man-on-the-street interviews and all other “Let’s see what America thinks!” news segments, which is essentially what everything I put on here is going to be. But when it comes to sports … do the pundits (ex-players and ex-coaches aside) REALLY know that much more about what’s going on than anyone else who closely follows the games? As Bill Clinton* once said while judging a cankle contest on “Family Guy,” “Who knows? That’s the fun.”
* Wasn’t really Bill Clinton. And now I’m stealing Joe Posnanski’s schtick. I’ve ripped off my two favorite sports commentators in one post. Better end it before things get ugly.
The Austin Sports Guy 