Still on vacation, and I haven’t been keeping up with the news.
Not keeping up with the news usually does not preclude me from expressing opinions on such, but today I’ll use it as a convenient excuse.
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I’m off to the beach today, but I wouldn’t dream of leaving you without some audio content, courtesy of today’s episode of Math and Musings.
Enjoy.
You heard it here first… the Denver Double. When the Denver Nuggets dispatched the Miami Heat Monday night it made Denver the city of champions, holding the NBA and NHL titles concurrently for, I believe, the first time. For any city.
And it lasted for 24 hours.
Vegas strikes again.
Tonight and tomorrow night may bring the close of the NBA and NHL seasons respectively. Both teams up three games to one have a potential clincher at home, Denver tonight and Vegas tomorrow. Of course this would spoil the “Miami double” of Heat and Panthers championships, but this is nothing new. Nine times previously, teams from the same city have appeared in the NBA and NHL finals in a single year, and nine times we have not seen a sweep.
Looks like make that 10.
However…
Overlooked in all of this has to be the potential “Denver double” (love that alliteration) if the Nuggets prevail this evening. With the Colorado Avalanche winning the 2022 Stanley Cup it will mean that the city of Denver has technically won two of these things consecutively. The NBA finals ended before the NHL finals last year, so even though the games are 351 days apart it’s technically two in a row.
Day One at statistician school they tell ya, Be willing to adjust your hypothesis as new facts come in.
Forty-one laps around the sun complete. As goes the usual procedure I’m celebrating by producing a new episode of the “TV” show and posting it online. Yup, Politics After Dark episode 324 available here. This is the first one I filmed 21st-century style, straight-up phone to YouTube. Probably a lesser quality but a billion times easier. The episode’s only seven minutes long, but I figure with 15 minutes of podcasting every week I don’t really need 30 on “TV” once a year to say the same things.
So for the full story, tune in Friday to Math and Musings. Until then? Enjoy the vid.
Go to the pool? Check.
Go to a BBQ? Done.
Pick strawberries? Did that too.
Watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Of course. It’s tradition. And watching it with my progeny this year has created a new tradition, his rite of passage complete.
But he’s gotta watch it about 600 more times to catch up to me.
This weekend marks two years since I joined the rest of the world in hosting a podcast. It’s been a really fun hobby for me, allowing me to regale listeners with tales like this one, in which I accidentally end up watching golf with a former president.
Enjoy.
Three of the four teams vying for championships in hockey and basketball these days have never won titles before. Only the Miami Heat, winners three times already this century, have hoisted even one trophy in their histories.
A part of me wants to see Miami win another, this time sans LeBron, and setting up a potential Miami double. The “Florida” Panthers do play in Miami, after all, and certainly would count.
For what it’s worth the Marlins are only four games out in the NL East and the Dolphins did make the playoffs last year for the first time in six years.
Hmm…
I love the idea of a Memorial Day sudden-death NBA playoff game in Boston, though historically I’ve had some bad luck with such. (I had my car broken into in Boston back in May ’08 while watching the Celtics play the Pistons. Not a Game Seven nor Memorial Day proper, but just as raucous and, well, memorable.)
Game Seven tonight comes to the American South as well, as the Dallas Stars host the Golden Knights of Las Vegas in the NHL’s Western Conference Finals. Winner will play the Florida Panthers for the Stanley Cup as Stanley rolls over in his grave watching warm-weather teams compete for his eponymous award.
Memorial Day? We’re all spending the day looking at our watches waiting for the action to start.