The Sports Guy was in rare form again today, two quotes stuck out from his article, one from him and a side bar from Kevin Jackson:

First the SG:

(By the way, out of any Pearl Jam song, this is the one that gives me oneof those party flashbacks -- you know, when you hear a moment in a songand it makes you remember standing in somebody's kitchen at 4:45 a.m.,bombed to smithereens, holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer in theother, waiting for the guitar transition near the end to wrap up soeveryone still awake could scream, "She loved him!" at the same time ...and you can't even remember where you were or who else was in the kitchen.Have to love the party flashbacks. They're almost like acid flashbacks.)

I've got four such songs, three of which fit perfectly with his description of the moment:
1) "American Pie" - all night party with the Mert Man, must have played this song from 1am to 8am when I tried to go roller blading and couldn't get out of the door. "Play it again..."
2) "Closing Time" - called in the national John Garabedian "Open House Party" and requested this one Saturday afternoon after we had six too many, still think of that every time I hear the song.
3) "Freshman" by the Verve Pipe - we were at a party at the house of a guy named "Blah" and this song was on repeat for the longest time, we were 21 but most were not and it got busted shortly after.
4) "Black" by Pearl Jam - on our way to the biggest FB game of the year, we were told once we hit the tracks going into Hilbert we were to focus solely on the game. At that exact moment this song came on and brought us into town, but we lost 7-3.

Now from Kevin Jackson:

For me, it's impossible to separate the Sonics and Pearl Jam in mymemories. I still vividly recall the night it became cool to be a Sonicsfan again -- when GP led them out of the tunnel wearing short black socksand all-black shoes before Game 1 of a first-round playoff game at GoldenState in 1992. (The seventh-seeded Supes went on to upset the No. 2Warriors in four games, punctuated by a Kemp dunk-for-the-ages over AltonLister in Game 3.)

Two things stick out to me here:

1) Alton Lister was still in the NBA in 1992? I didn't think he made it out of the 80's. WOW!
2) The Warriors were the #2 seed in the Playoffs at one time. Double WOW!