Friday's Forecast - Snowy with a chance of Awesome

Well Christ on a friggin stick it's Friday once again. The week is over. It's time to forget about your trials, tribulations and pending lawsuits and get drunk with the ones you love. If that's not your bag or you're just a complete melvin then perhaps a board game. I hear the Trivial Pursuit is a real larf. However, if board games aren't your thing either than just do what most Americans do - sit on your ass, watch TV and try to forget about all of the ways life has found to kick you in the crotch over the course of your life. And what better way to do that than to watch the world-wide leader in sports. No - not Nick GAS. I'm talking about ESPN - the bee's knees, the honcho, the prince.

What's on? I'm glad you asked.

Friday Night:
ESPN 8 PM Washington Wizards v Cleveland Cavilers

Washington's former Bullets sans Gilbert don't particularly interest me. The Cavs, however, are always worth a look to see how miserable Lebron James is. His team sucks. They just traded for Ben Wallace and I'm not entirely sure if that makes them much better. For the most part it just keeps Larry Hughes away from him. Larry Hughes once played for the Sixers and people thought he was good. He's one of those athletes who encompasses untapped potential and at some point in their career you have to change their label from "lots of potential" to "lazy fuck who pissed away talent". It's tough to make this sort of transition but I firmly believe Larry Hughes now falls into the ladder of the two categories. He's had his chances and now he's just going to go bother Chicago. Swell. Anyways, I'll be looking for Lebron counting down the days until he becomes a free-agent and says "ta" to his home state of Ohio and leaves for a state that's worth a damn - a state near water!

ESPN 2 9 PM - Friday Night Fights presented by Just for Men: Richard Gutierrez vs. Jose Varela

What's great about this is that I know both of these guys. That's more of a half truth in the sense that I have no idea who either of them are. Boxing is great because you can watch it without volume and just check in from time to time to see if anybody died or at least fell down. It's one of the more primitive sporting activities mankind partakes in but it's a wing-ding doodle of a time as the kids say. My favorite part of boxing broadcasts is when they tell you a few nuggets about the fighters. I think the reason they do this is because they know only hardcore boxing fans know who both of these fighers are and they're trying to get people to give two shits about either one of these guys. It can be done easily when they guys are of different ethnicity but judging from the little information I can google they're both Hispanic. I'm sure we'll be hearing about how their childhood was awful or how when they were 12 they beat the hell out of their soccer coach and that's when they knew they were destined to become a fighter. Tattoos also make boxing fun. Can you find out the meaning of all of them? They say a lot about a person - chances are if they are ambiguous like a barbwire around the bicep or they're name on their back (presumably in case they're shot, left for dead without their wallet on them) then they're just one of those guys who thought a little ink would make them badass and get them laid. I saw this one kid who had some retarded haiku about how you should live well and love a lot - needless to say, he was a pretty big douche. Watch for the action. Stay for the tats.

Tomorrow mornin - Saturday's action.