June 28, 2005

2005 NBA Draft

The NBA Draft will be held tonight, and while I usually don't write about sports, today there is special reason. It is the NBA draft, and Travis Diener, a fellow Marquette University alumnus, is hoping to be selected. While a marginal pick at the end of the college season, it sounds like he's improved his stock quite a bit so that he should get drafted sometime in the second round.

A few months ago, I gave a ridiculous answer to a ridiculous question about Travis Diener's draft prospects on this blog. Since then, many Diener fans have stumbled upon that post (from Google), apparently thinking it was a serious discussion of the NBA draft. Anyways, that post has basically become an ad hoc message board in which Diener fanboys and fangirls have left 25 comments, easily making that my most commented on post ever (much to my embarrassment).

I was flabbergasted that anyone might confuse my idiotic ramblings with serious commentary, but I didn't know what to do. I thought about closing comments to that post, but truthfully, they were so unintentionally funny I wanted to leave them up. Another thing I considered was sending an e-mail to everyone who left a sincere comment, containing only one sentence: "You are an idiot." But that seemed too harsh. So I just left it up, as the comments kept coming in. In conclusion, this post is basically pointless, but I just wanted to point out the thriving community of Diener worshippers lurking on my blog to some of my regular readers who might only look at the front page.

Postscript: In case you're curious about the reference above to Google, apparently Google thinks my blog is some kind of font of information on Travis Diener. A search on his name returns this blog on the very first page! Adding the word "draft" produces the same result. No doubt that this post will soon appear very highly on the returned results page as well. Posted by mill1991 at June 28, 2005 01:53 PM | TrackBack

Comments

This is hilarious, Tim. I'm going to use this as an example of how much Google loves UThink blogs.

Posted by: Shane at June 29, 2005 03:32 PM

I happened to stumble across this again by typing in Travis Diener, and I also commented before when you first talked about Diener. Thanks for admitting you were wrong, or something along those lines. I think you will think this is humerous though. I sat and watched that stupid Draft for like 3 hours until Diener got drafted! Then I acted like a three year old and got all excited because he got drafted! Right there I think that makes me one of his top fans, besides his family. lol. Go Magic!

Posted by: Vanessa at June 30, 2005 11:39 AM

I couldn't agree more Vanessa. You ARE one of Diener's top fans!

Posted by: Jim at July 3, 2005 09:07 PM
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