The End is Nigh

Could not resist the post here. One more sign of how full of themselves players in the NBA are (and delightfully tied to and not allowing the Lebron "Derision" to die down), Dwayne Wade actually had the audacity to compare a string of potential losses with his new "superstar-studded" team this upcoming season to the tragedy of the Twin Towers. Dwayne's exact quote was: "Of course, there's going to be times when we might lose one or two games in a row, three games in a row, you never know. It's going to seem like the world is crashed down...You all are going to make it seem like the World Trade has just went down again".

Aside from his delightful grammar and his shortening the World Trade Center to World Trade, or maybe just making assumptions about his team's impact on global trade with the world trade reference (given something like the chain of jersey sales which would impact importers, exporters and manufacturers from China all the way to Miami), I loved his belief that anyone could equate the losses of a few self-centered infants to the tragic deaths of thousands.  I liked his clarification, and "apology" even more as he was quoted (note: quoted, again) as saying it was never his intent to compare basketball success to the tragedy of 9/11 and the destruction of the Twin Towers and that his comments were "taken completely out of context".

Seriously, I watched the interview. What context did he think was incorrect? Did he think he had actually muttered these words only internally and the governor on his grammatically pre-school mouth had malfunctioned? Did he think he was character in one of those old Japanese Godzilla movies? You know the ones where the dubbing into English from Japanese was so bad that it looked like a Milli-Vanilli lip syncing concert gone haywire? Dwayne opened his mouth and someone else placed the words out there like a ventriloquist? Maybe he thought that all of the reporters were just out to get him with misquotes (I think the National Enquirer ran a concurrent piece about his being the father of Hannah Montana or the Lebron, Wade, Bosh threesome being stranded on an island off the Keys with Ginger and Marianne). Whatever the case, Dwayne managed to make Lebron look only half as stupid with his comments (note: half as stupid, which proportionally, given the stupidity involved, is still a multiple of stupidity greater than anything you or I have ever done. Really.).

When do we get tired off these professional babies and megalomaniacs? When do we stop treating them as deities? This guy, in question, and his two teammates can throw a round ball through a peach basket hoop. They can barely, collectively,  string together a sentence and they think more of themselves than Donald Trump, which we all know is hard to do. Why don't we just do the smart thing, vote with our feet. Watch college ball. Heck, turn on the Italian or Greek basketball leagues. At least maybe our viewership would help to bail out the financial crisis in Europe through higher revenues (I still think the EU should have paid E1bn to Americans to summer in Greece and Europe to better effect than spending it directly on the Europeans themselves). Better yet, why don't we sell Miami and its contents to Chavez. At least that way there would be competition for the title of biggest fool.

Whatever we do, could we get these gentlemen a tutor. If they are going to say such stupid things, maybe they can at least do so and sound intelligent.