Wind, Rain & Heartburn

This is the big bad Ernesto, for those out there who do not know where Boca Raton is, I am sitting in between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale on the east coast... The portion of the state with just a little feeder band --- actually that band is directly over me right now.




So here is the 5AM map from NOAA. Hey, Ernesto finally made landfall.

It has just been some wind, and heavy rain at times, the heart burn is from the pepperoni pizza I had at 1:30 this morning; not from the horrible storm but the USA vs Germany game is not helping.

But as I sit here at roughly 7AM I have on ESPN 2 and am watching the US National Basketball Team play Germany. With 5:20 left in the second quarter, the Big Dirk was 1-6 from the floor then drained a long 2, but Heinrich drained a long 3 to counter. I really wish ESPN would just be honest with us about where the commentators are; it's pretty obvious that they are not in Japan. Seriously, every NBA telecast that I have ever seen has the play by play guys doing their opening from center court. Not the FIBA games, we have not seen the two announcers. ESPN must feel that we are all morons, I wish there was another sports channel sometimes. Just be honest with me and it'll be ok. I am not asking for a divorce like the Sports Frog did (still working out the kinks of hyperlinking), I just feel we could use some time apart, it might work out for us better in the long run.

This is a rough game for Team USA, Wade and Carmelo are a combined 2 for 16ish with under two minutes in the first half. Those filthy Germans now have a two point lead. One of the commentators just mentioned that their statistics don't match up with FIBA, gosh maybe if you weren't half a world away you would have matching statistics. Come on ESPN, you used to be better then this.