My wife hates the word pussy used in that context. As in why should a reference to that denote weakness. She’s pretty feminist. That being said, I’ve heard the word escape her mouth on a rare occasion in certain situations. She says this is because sometimes that word just fits better than any other. Meaning, in our society that word in that context describes what we mean better than any other, regardless of whether or not it should. Also, it’s never ok if I use it.

First , the joke…”dick game”?

Now, seriously, we can talk about a “lazy game” or being, hopefully not too much, optimistic a “pity game”.

how about the fumundah game? as in, that game stunk like shaq’s fumundah.

umm… how ‘bout the py game? If you want, you could pretend that it means “party” game. As in, “the Spurs were out all night pying last night, so they were all dehydrated during the game.”

ok… Idea #4 – we call it the “frenchy” game?

I hardly contribute to this blog, and I’m all for the elevation of language, but hasn’t pussy been used for quite some time to describe someone who is weak? Is that usage a direct result from the usage to describe the vag? M-W attributes the origin of pussy to old German and Scandanavian for a word to describe a pocket or the vulva. I try to avoid using the word entirely, but I believe that while a word can have two normative meanings that doesn’t mean those meanings are correlated.

Can the term still be applied to a WNBA game? j/k

I am convinced that this blog [especially with the talent that is here] could be wildly popular, but the coarse and vulgar language keeps people away in droves.

the inner labia game?

I love the symmetry of our series win; it’s so poetic. The Suns trade KT, the only guy who adequately covered TD, because he made too much money. He eventually lands back with us and plays a key role in our win. They trade for Snaq, paying almost 2 1/2 times what KT was making and are locked in for two more years. Snaq misses more free throws then our victory margin and has only negative impact on the outcome. Grant Hill chooses Phoenix over us and they sign him knowing he’s injury prone. So, of course, he gets injured right before the playoffs, plays some anyway, but brings nothing and actually hurts them while on the floor. So the guy they start in his place, BD, plays adequately but throws the ball away at crunch time. What’s more, because BD is the center of their offense for much of the series, Amare gets pissed and pouts that he should be “the man” (which, of course, shows that he’s a punk). And we beat them this year in 5, just to show that last year was indeed a fluke … we took too long last time. Now that’s chingon.

...somebody brought up Vinny Del Negro. Yes, DennardC, he was, in fact, the man.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xHBAAlXqwyw

I haven’t commented on the whole “pussy” game matter yet. I am just not sure how I feel. I am always a big prononent of good writing and high-minded language (which I think we have a generous amount of here at PtR), and I think the use of the term is neither. That being said, I think much of the merit of blogs comes from the authenticity and raw frankness with which they approach sports.I think Stampler is absolutely right to point out how much we swear when actually watching a game (I’ll tell you right now I have a mouth that would make a sailor blush). Either way, I think the fact that the conversation even occured speaks to a thoughtfulness on this community’s part, and I am proud of it (even though I waited so long to chime in). To be honest, I didn’t really think twice when I read the game 3 recap.

Do any of you guys remember that one season that Del Negro (it may have only been half a season i have a hard time remembering anything before 2003) played out of his mind, like he almost approached what would have been dependable role player status on our ‘05 team. Anyways i just remember watching a game and it may have been against New Jersey and whoever was doing color for the Spurs back then, it may still have been Dave Barnett’s first stint, was saying that Del Negro was excited about playing in front of his family and wanted to give them something special, and like right after the announcer said that Vinny rose up over like 3 guys and threw it down. It was an incredible dunk for anyone but especially for him. Of course he never did it again. Oh and just to make this post lamer and to go along with the symmetry thing gutierrez was talking about, don’t vinny and manu have similar noses, and isn’t Vinny working for the Suns in some capacity.

I wrote a recap of game 5 at 48minutesofhell.blogspot.com. Nothing special, I think I was too overcome with joy to actually have anything thoughtful to say. Either way, if you get a chance I’d love it if you guys could give it a read. And thanks in general for being supportive of my writing there so far. As I wade into unknown waters its nice to know there is a group of people who is supportive of my writing aside from my buddies.

I just wanted to chime in along with everyone else and say how much i appreciate this site. I as well get made fun of by my wife and others for live blogging or just blogging in general but i don’t care because getting to read honest and intelligent (mostly) thoughts on a team that I definitely care is really important to me. I’m sure everyone else feels this way but when i long on to read comments after or before a game and i have thought the same thing or felt the same way as the majority of you is a really cool thing. I like espn.com and some of those guys, but i don’t check that site several times a day like i do ptr to see if Stampler or Powell have posted anything. More than anything i appreciate those two guy’s honesty and integrity when it comes to approaching the game and more importantly life in general. I honestly don’t care about using the “P” word or not. I’m in law school and i just finished a Constitutional Law class (having law finals during the playoffs, not good, oh and my wife should be having our first kid this weekend, so i especially appreciate ptr right now, its one of my few outs) i am in no way an expert and i won’t get all preachy but our right to freedom of speech has been viewed by the highest court in this great nation of ours as one of the most important fundamental freedoms we have. To some justices its been the most important. But even though this right has been given much deference, there are still limitations to it, and several of them have to do with group libel and offensive speech. Historically group libel has not been protected by the 1st amendment (which may be what Matthew is upset about, and rightly, the fact that the P word degrades women). Offensive speech in some contexts has been protected therefore constitutional, and other times it hasn’t. For example Carlin’s 7 words you can’t say on tv bit was aired at 2 pm on the radio 30 years ago, and the court said that type of speech is not protected when played on the radio during the day. It was more of a time, place, manner thing because kids could here it. Anyways sorry for that i hope no one read all that because its really boring but unfortunately its been my life for the last year, but all that to say is yes this blog is great because above all you guys every single person in here keeps it real when it comes to our boys in silver and black, which is what we all have in common. However not all things are absolute in life and sometimes regulation is necessary to make sure everyone can enjoy what we have come to enjoy at ptr.

“one mans vulgarity is another man’s lyric” – justice harlan

and i’m sure the converse of that is true as well.

i swear i’ll never post something this boring ever again