After the Brownie meeting last night, my daughter's friend (who was joining us for dinner) noticed the handmade sign my daughter had created out of construction paper and taped onto our window. It was blue with a basketball on it, with the words "We Believe" in bright orange letters. Actually, it said "We Belive" with a little pointy insertion mark between the "i" and the "v" and a floating "e" squeezed in where it should have been in the first place. In any case, the sign proclaimed our family's belief in the home team, the Oakland Warriors,* in spite of the fact that they had lost two games in Utah.
As we entered our house, I overheard my eight year old daughter commenting to her little friend, "... yeah, and if Pietrus just made even ONE of his freethrows, the Warriors would have won the game." I had to chuckle, since she was sounding like some guy in a sports bar, talking about the game over a couple of brews. Even funnier was her friend's response, "Yeah, I know ... they shoulda won that game."
Fortunately for all the believers in the Bay Area -- and even those, like my husband, who merely Want to Believe -- the Warriors showed up to play tonight and won Game Three of Round Two of the playoffs by twenty points. B-Diddy and his boys made a serious statement, in case anybody's belief in them was starting to falter. His dunk over Kirilenko was incredible. Or, as Coach Nellie put it, "Awesome, baby, awesome."
I'm sure the guys selling the "We Believe" t-shirts on the street corner are very happy after tonight's game. Sales should be brisk tomorrow. I hope I get one for Mother's Day.
* Yes, I know they are still the Golden State Warriors ... but we all know that they play in Oakland, baby.
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