I know that everyone is wrapped up in the surging Milwaukee Brewers, who are finally starting to look like the team everyone thought they'd be when making their preseason predictions.
But if it's great, great sports on TV that you are looking for, get set to start watching tonight as the NBA Finals get underway when the Dallas Mavericks take their talents to South Beach to play the Miami Heat.
For one thing you'll see the best athletes in the world. For size, strength, speed and gamesmanship, no sport matches the NBA.
I really want to continue hating LeBron James but I may soon agree with Scottie Pippen that James is the best ever to play the game. Of course, he needs to win some championships to earn that title, but this may well be the first of many.
Against Chicago, he was absolutely amazing. He truly was the leader of that team on offense, on defense, before the media and even when he was sitting on the bench. He took the league MVP, Derrick Rose, and turned him inside out and hung him out to dry.
The Heat, who are out to prove that you can, indeed, buy a title, have two of the greatest players in the game in James and Dwyane Wade. And after a season of fits and starts the team seems to be coming together at the most opportune of times.
Just to prove that Miami is not the only team with someone to hate, we have Dallas, and perhaps the most obnoxious owner in all of sports, Mark Cuban.
His players and staff and Dallas fans may love the guy. He spends money like a drunken sailor, except that gives a bad name to drunken sailors everywhere. People who've been there say the Mavs' locker room resembles the palace of a Saudi prince.
Watch him behind the bench in his T-shirt and his billion or so dollars, screaming at the refs, jumping up and down like a marionette and you just want to slap him across the face and shout "act like a big boy."
But his money has put together one hell of a basketball team. The Mavericks roared through the playoffs with nary a moment of hesitation. It's possible that Dirk Nowitzki is the best white basketball player in the history of the game. He's in the same class as Larry Bird and Jerry West.
The Mavericks are a team of guys who don't have much time left to get a title. Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Petra Stojakovic, Jason Terry, Shawn Marion and Caron Butler (from Racine and not likely to play) are all over 30.
The Big Three for Miami are all in their 20s.
These two teams met for the NBA championship in 2006 and Dallas took a 2-0 lead in the series before losing. That loss sent Cuban into spasms of hatred for anyone who ever wore a black and white striped shirt and carried a whistle. The fines were legendary.
The Mavs have some great shooters. The Heat has some great slashers. Both teams play breath-sapping defense. They both have great looking cheerleaders.
But the Mavericks have a hunger born of veterans without a title. They have about as much chemistry as I've ever seen in a basketball team. And that's why I'm picking Dallas in six games.
I know we are all wrapped up in the Brewers. But if you are looking for excitement, tune in beginning tonight.
With a history in Milwaukee stretching back decades, Dave tries to bring a unique perspective to his writing, whether it's sports, politics, theater or any other issue.
He's seen Milwaukee grow, suffer pangs of growth, strive for success and has been involved in many efforts to both shape and re-shape the city. He's a happy man, now that he's quit playing golf, and enjoys music, his children and grandchildren and the myriad of sports in this state. He loves great food and hates bullies and people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
This whole Internet thing continues to baffle him, but he's willing to play the game as long as OnMilwaukee.com keeps lending him a helping hand. He is constantly amazed that just a few dedicated people can provide so much news and information to a hungry public.
Despite some opinions to the contrary, Dave likes most stuff. But he is a skeptic who constantly wonders about the world around him. So many questions, so few answers.
