Two Seemingly Unrelated Points

This year the rain has been so heavy in the Missouri area west of St. Louis that the River Des Peres has been at full stage basically all spring and, so far, all of the summer. Normally, especially in south St. Louis city (and Affton, a close southern suburb), where it drains into the Mississippi River, the River Des Peres is just a big open ditch that smells vaguely of sewage and eggs.

That makes sense, since it is an open sewer.

Anyway, tonight the wife and I were on our way south to the South County Mall, and as we're crossing the River Des Peres on I-55, there was a dude on a jetski merrily making his way around in the waterway.

To reiterate: it's an open sewer. And he's screaming down it at 30 miles an hour, probably with his mouth open. Dummy.

Just the day before, the Boston Celtics won the 2007-08 NBA championship with a 131-92 ass-whipping beatdown of the Los Angeles Lakers, partly because of one of the most successful high-school-to-pro players in history, Kevin Garnett (who is slightly less successful than Kobe Bryant, another high-school-to-pro guy).

Garnett, you may recall, was traded in the summer for seven players. One guy. For seven guys. And cash, too!

Since the NBA rosters are only 11 players, you might as well say that Garnett went to the Celtics, and the Minnesota Timberwolves got an entire starting lineup (five players) and two benchwarmers, plus enough money to buy a case of really nice beer.

And now the Celtics are World Champions, whereas the Timberwolves finished the season with 22 wins and 60 losses (to be fair, they finished 2006-07 with 32 wins and 50 losses).

How are these two points related, you may ask?

Simple.

Both JetSki guy and T-wolves General Manger Jim Stack are, at this moment, probably feeling pretty badly.