Slog - Comments on Sonics Death Watch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch Over the weekend, I mentioned to a group of friends the 200-word column by a National Book Award-winning author that runs every week on the back page of The Stranger, and one person in the group--a former editor at The Stranger!--had no idea what I was talking about. Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy the XIIIth installment of Sherman Alexie's weekly short story in a box: These are my three favorite Sonics memories:1. In 2002, during a home game, Gary Payton twisted his knee at an obscene angle. As he, screaming in pain, was carried back to the locker room, I... Copyright 2008 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:30:15 -0800 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:24:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by SeMe i loved sonics death watch, just flat out great writing, mos def worthy of a bigger space, but it was great, reading it makes me want to key Howard Schultz's car. it speaks to the need of keeping a sports section in the Stranger.

vin aker was such a waste of space, but I kind of liked him after I found out he was a manic depressive and a fellow drunk.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997574 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:36:07 -0800 Comment by SeMe vin baker.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997583 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997583 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:37:52 -0800 Comment by angela garbes sonics death watch is the first thing i read when i pick up the paper

]]> angela garbes http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997609 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:47:55 -0800 Comment by SeMe and of course eat and tell...=)

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997620 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997620 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:51:34 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Me too -- and I don't care about basketball at all.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997621 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:51:46 -0800 Comment by Gomez Vin Baker, a professional athlete who needs to stay in top shape, having ordered a pizza in the first place should have been a warning sign ;P

That said, great work by Alexie, even if I'm not fond of how pieces like his fuels the false hope of diehards who will hold out hope the team will stay until the moving trucks finally wheel out of Seattle Center.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997676 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:08:41 -0800 Comment by K Is that before or after the "rad dyke plumber"?

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997702 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:15:47 -0800 Comment by max solomon i see no reason why SDW should stop when the season ends. there's plenty of dying left to write about.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997717 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997717 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:21:04 -0800 Comment by six shooter Sherman Alexie has done more for the Sonics than Howard Shultz has done for coffee.

I would gladly vote for the city to build houses for both him and Dan Savage.

]]> six shooter http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997728 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997728 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:26:05 -0800 Comment by Bastone Oh yeah, Alexie wrote that stupid book about the hulking Indian serial killer, innit? His Sonics stuff is even worse.

]]> Bastone http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997781 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997781 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:44:04 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways zzzzz

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c997797 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:49:29 -0800 Comment by cw @10: Bastone, you clearly didn't read the book, because the hulking Indian was not the killer.

I assume your literary criticism is on par with your basketball knowledge.

Oh and by the way, it's 'enit'.

Congrats...you went 3 for 3 from the line (hint: that's basketball talk).

]]> cw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998070 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998070 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:02:41 -0800 Comment by carney i don't give a shit about the sonics but i love that column.

]]> carney http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998234 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998234 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:27 -0800 Comment by Ryan This reminds me of my favorite quote. John Cleese in the movie Clockwise:

"It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."

I feel like Alexie is setting us up for just this type of payoff.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998319 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:40:37 -0800 Comment by Bub The Sonics Death Watch column is great. My favorite is Alexie's post about watching highlights of Shawn Kemp with his wife. However, I only found the column by accident because it is buried in the back with all the smut ads. I recommend that it be prominently displayed in the first few pages, perhaps in that little corner on the Last Days page. It is a limited column, so we can do without the random "guest columns" for a bit.

]]> Bub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/sonics_death_watch#c998427 Sports Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:24:17 -0800