3 seconds in the cage is...

So if you've stumbled across this page in your spare time on the internet, you're probably wondering what this is. To help you get acclimated I've made this helpful multiple choice test

3 seconds in the cage is

A) The amount of time I would last in a cage-fight.
B) A weak attempt to refer to both basketball and MMA in the title.
C) A self-indulgent sound-off about two things with little common ground
D) All of the above.

If you chose D, you were correct. Of course if you chose A, B or C, you were also correct which is why multiple choice tests are silly. Anyway, that's what this is. A chance for me to put pen to paper (so to speak) and give the thoughts that are liable to cross through my brain at any given moment of the day a permanent home.

You might ask, "why MMA and basketball, what could they possibly have to do with each other?" The answer is nothing. Well, almost nothing . I mean they're both sports but other than that, they only things they have in common is that I like them both, which I guess will have to be good enough.

I consider myself pretty well informed about both sports, although it's easier to be well-informed about MMA than it is about basketball. For one thing, the schedule of major events is a lot less busy, for another just about everything you could want to know is out there on the internet. Fighters don't keep secrets, they tell you what they think. In the NBA, there are "insiders" with "sources." In MMA, Franklin McNeil saying "Dana White told me such-and-such" is the closest you get to an exclusive source. Everyone's being interviewed and the videos are being posted online. So while I know my way around both sports (from an observers perspective only), I am more comfortable with MMA.

Hopefully this first post didn't sound too much like some 14 year old's first live journal, where she says "I know nobody will read this but..." If it does sound like that, it's only because I am the internet blog equivalent of a 14 year old girl.