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« Backstage At Disney World | Main | London, Reloaded: Day One » June 22, 2006Storm 80, Mercury 87My friend Bill Hays and I were at Key Arena last night to watch a very lackluster Seattle Storm lose to the Phoenix Mercury, 80 to 87. The Times has the coverage: And Bird probably didn't have much of an appetite after the disappointing defeat before a crowd of 7,536, which dropped the Storm below .500 at 6-7. It was the team's third loss at home this season, matching last year's KeyArena total. The only good thing I can really say about last night was that we didn't lose by as much as we could have. At one point, the Mercury were leading by 16 points; we successfully closed the gap to seven by the end of the fourth quarter. It was the trifecta: Lauren's been hurt, and was lagging; Bird and Lennox couldn't shoot; our defense wasn't gelling. As it was Bill's first Storm game, I kept leaning over to him and apologizing with, "Really, they're great. They're just having an off nigh-" ... and then Diana Taurasi would throw in another three-pointer. (sigh) In other Storm news, this week's Seattle Weekly has a piece ("A Gender Gap At The Key") about the (surprising) lack of Storm presence in the Sonics/Key Arena debate: The Storm, remember, is also owned by Starbucks CEO Schultz and more than 50 partners. The women draw upward of 8,000 fans per home game, of which they play 17 a year, not counting preseason and playoffs. In 2004, they were WNBA champions—selling more than 17,000 tickets to each of the home games in the league finals and notching Seattle's first world championship in any professional sport in 25 years. The Storm captured the hearts of a "world city" that's prone to pooh-poohing pro athletics as the undereducated brute of a dynamic, heady arts-and-entertainment matrix. It's a good read. We're playing the Silver Stars on Friday; hopefully, our game will be together by then. Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 22, 2006 2:03 PM. Posted to Seattle Storm. CommentsTotally off topic but might I suggest you replace this "..having an off nig-" with this "..having an off nigh-" because landing on that hard "g" ain't right. There is no hard "g" in night. Also: racist. ;) But seriously - change it or I won't be able to sleep.
Posted by: Allie Well, if you won't be able to SLEEP... [grin] Posted by: Gavin Shearer Post a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)« Backstage At Disney World | Main | London, Reloaded: Day One » |
