As many of you have read by now, I was the third man in on the exciting "fatkids invade Catch" dining experience.
The rest of my weekend was quite different from the other two gentlemen. As mentioned in my last post, I am in California. I flew down to LA on Saturday, and was in San Diego by late that night. Sunday was meant to be a gathering for dinner of the five people I know in San Diego (Dave and Eunice have not met the others), but the plan had an unexpected change. My cousin's boss was driving up to LA for a Laker game when his wife (the boss') went into labour (I guess it would actually be "labor" down here). So there were these tickets, and, long story short, instead of dinner I was riding shotgun in a car blasting up the I-5 to LA and then sitting about ten rows behind one of the baskets to see the Lakers play the Trailblazers. (A side note: the Staples Center was not as big as I was expecting.)
I went to one Grizzlies game back when I (and the Grizzlies) lived in Vancouver, but the seats were pretty far away, so the players looked big like on tv, but that was about it. Sitting so close on Sunday, I got a better idea of how huge these guys are. It was also cool to be able to watch any part of the game that you want, instead of what the camera chooses. For example, I'm not the biggest basketball expert, but Kobe Bryant was really impressive, and seemed to be doing just a little (sometimes a lot) more than the other players, and not just when he had the ball.
The Lakers won in overtime, which was cool to see. I was also a part of the action with my "bangers", those plastic inflatable tubes that you bang together and wave around when the visiting team is shooting free throws.
So if you can get good free tickets to the Lakers, I'd say do yourself a favour and go.
Posted by warcode at November 04, 2002 10:44 PM