Re: Kobe!

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Can we finally stop merely speculating about your homosexuality and consider it a done deal?


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 3:56 PM
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But then what would become of the blog?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 3:57 PM
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It could be devoted to finding Ogged appropriate dates, rather than uselessly trying to fix him up with women?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 3:58 PM
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Ogged likes a man with big hands.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 3:59 PM
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Win a Dream Date with Michael Phelps! He'll teach you how to snap your hip in three easy lessons!


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:00 PM
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If loving Jordan is gay, I don't want to be straight.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:01 PM
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6, meet 3. You're single, right?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:01 PM
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SCMT gets it right; Michael is a special case.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:02 PM
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7: I dunno if it will work out, LB. Some guys palm, and other guys want to get palmed.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:03 PM
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Try to appreciate the clip, purierencers.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:05 PM
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but nobody moves like Michael. So beautiful.

I've thought about this a bit, actually. I think the reason people concede that Jordan is the greatest of all time so readily has nearly as much to do with aesthetics as with his manifest skills. There have been times when Kobe was as offensively skilled (or more so) than Jordan, but Kobe hasn't ever moved with the nearly mythic grace that Jordan did. Kobe's last second layup against the Suns last year is instructive: he made it, he won the game, but the move itself is awkward if effective. Jordan moves (or moved) as I'd expect the guy from the Codex to move if he jumped off the page. Just a joy to watch.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:06 PM
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Shorter Tim: That Jordan, he's man pretty.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:09 PM
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Once you go black, you never go back. Tim and Ogged are lost to one another.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:09 PM
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SCMT and ogged are unquestionably right. The rest of you are just weird.


Posted by: Idealist | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:13 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCdwuRE5tA&mode=related&search=


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:14 PM
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No. 2 really hurt bcause i was a cav fan

funny i remember all these;' they're from the last time i watched basektball, basically


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:15 PM
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The highlights are great, but you could always tell it was Michael even when he was just dribbling up the court. Ok, I'm getting downright Labsian now.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:18 PM
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7: No, no, you have to put on "Ask" first.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:20 PM
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Ogged and Timbot have it right. That clip is balletic.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:22 PM
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The highlights are great, but you could always tell it was Michael even when he was just dribbling up the court.

Totally. Even his misses are pretty. I just watched this . A single game, and there are more than a handful of moments that are just...humbling. Even the miss.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:23 PM
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I do have to say that the one when Starks and Oakley had him cornered and he does a little move that almost makes both of them fall down and then abosofuckinglutely hammers it down on Ewing while drawing a foul in Madison Square Garden in the playoffs* is the best.

*ok maybe it wasn't the playoffs, but still. the one where he goes around one hawk and then does an up and under through two more is pretty awesome too


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:26 PM
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Ha, I just watched that, too. And he was still a little awkward then; it was his first or second year in the league.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:26 PM
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I feel the same way watching clips of Jim Brown, like he's just moving in some medium other than air that makes everything easier for him. But, unlike Michael Jordan, we also have access to extremely hot clips of Brown getting it on. Jordan always seems kind of awkward-looking to me off the court.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:26 PM
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I don't follow basketball at all, but that Jordan shot is lovely.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:31 PM
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Man, that Raquel Welch sure could act.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:33 PM
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25: I wasn't entirely sure she was acting.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:34 PM
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That Raquel Welsh clip provides (finally!) the explanation for Jessica Simpson's new hair color.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:35 PM
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Not actually Mike, but almost.


Posted by: Jake | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:49 PM
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In some old thread, I think Timbot and I both admitted that that ad made us a little misty.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 4:56 PM
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29: "misty" s/b "moist".


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 5:25 PM
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Jordan's beautiful, but then I'm a straight chick. I don't know what Tim's and Ogged's problem is.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 6:07 PM
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They have eyes?


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 6:31 PM
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Jim Brown and Raquel Welch


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 6:34 PM
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Mancrushes on athletes do NOT indicate one is gay. Quite the opposite. Gay men are uninterested in team sports. Obsessive mooning after great athletes is a straight guy characteristic.


Posted by: marcus | Link to this comment | 05-21-07 10:06 PM
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