2021-0204. Thursday. 917 PM. baked take. Three- count 'em- three NHL games were postponed due to covid protocol or contact tracing breeches. (I'm not sure if breeches is the right word there.) By my count, that's the most games postponed in one day this season. I also heard on the Altitude Sports Network call of the Nuggets game, at LeBrons, in L.A. that the Avalanche will be off until February 11. I don't know if the players are going out carelessly or if the league is cracking down, but one thing is for certain: this break for the Colorado Avs is timed perfectly with Nate Mac's lower body injury.
At the designated time (after the Trail Blazers game ended), I turned on the NBA game on TNT to see a rather surprising sight. It was a Lakers home game; I know because I saw the logo mid-court, but there was a team in blue playing a team in red. No purple and gold! "Who's playing in the Lakers' arena?" my eldest daughter asked me. I enjoy her clever wit at times. I later saw the LeBrons wearing some alternative blue uniform and the Nuggets, their opponent, wearing some alternative red unis. I'd always seen Denver's basketball team wear navy and gold outfits, if not their whites. Perhaps I'm not entrepreneurial enough, but I like simple, consistent sports team uniforms. Obviously, the NBA, like other professional sports leagues, is losing money on lack of gate and concession sales in this pandemic. One way to make up some cash is to create new jerseys to sell. New merchandise equals new interest and more stuff to buy, but it just confuses an old schooler like me .
"If a ball never lied in its life, it never lied more than it did right there." After one of the Nuggets players (probably Jokic or Murray) was called for a touch foul, according to one of the guys on the radio call for Denver at Los Angeles on the Altitude Sports Network, Kyle Kuzma missed both free throws, one of which was air-balled. "Ball don't lie.", made famous by Portland's Rasheed Wallace, is one of the greatest commentaries of sports justice ever! If the fouled player misses the free throws after a questionable call, all parties seem to concede that it wasn't really a foul after all because the ball don't lie. This prompted the quote above. It got me to thinking how it'd be nice if we could secure justice this way in other areas of life. When the bride gets upset because she can't find something and accuses me of losing it, she could just go outside and put up a couple of shots from 15 feet. If she misses, I'm in the clear: "Ball don't lie, baby!"
(Image credit: Jacopo Meazzini- Pinterest) I started a 21 day reading challenge in the YouVersion Bible app. I've decided to wake up half an hour earlier to fit it in my abundantly full lifestyle. This morning, I read four consecutive chapters in Genesis, giving account of Jacob, Esau and Joseph. Directly following the well-known account of Joseph, his coat, his jealous brothers, his slavery and landing in prison due to a scorned woman's accusations, there's this much less known account of Joseph's older brother Judah. I assume it's the same Judah from which the tribe comes and from which we get one of Christ's titles: the Lion of Judah. Greatly, he may be remembered, yet in the 38th chapter of the inaugural book of scripture, Judah had sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, because she was disguised and he thought she was a whore. He had been recently widowed and it seems she was upset that he didn't give her to his third son as a wife after his first two sons died as her husbands. I guess he needed release and she wanted to trick him and it ended up saving her life. You can't make this shit up.
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