Real Life High Fidelity

* This is a lame story of my lame night last Tuesday. It might not be a good story but it is something that amused me. If you haven't seen the movie High Fidelity then this might not make sense to you. Also, I suggest checking it out. You can borrow the DVD from us if you want.

* So, last Tuesday I had about 2 hours to kill between work and a meeting I had to attend in Eagan. I hung around work for awhile, got some gas, ran to Target and still only killed off an hour. So I decided to check out a store near the Eagan Target. I think the store is called Mind's Eye Comics (couldn't find a website). So I decided to check it out. The store is kinda dumpy and lacks some organization but it was cool to see lots of old toys and video games I used to have when I was a kid. There was 3 guys working. Actually they weren't really doing much work, just sitting around. One guy (I think the owner) was surfing the net, the other was reading a comic book and the third was playing with a couple GI Joes, seriously. I walked around a bit and I decided to ask the owner if a Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin action figure I have still new in the box was worth anything. He replied with a very annoyed/snoty tone to his voice with "yeah, for about 2 days after his death was all over the news." I was annoyed. I'm the only customer in the store, the guy isn't busy and they're not doing anything. I walked around a bit more and started to think about how these 3 guys in this type of store remind me of Rob, Dicky and Barry in the record store called Top 5 Records in the movie High Fidelity. I'll explain more later. So, I decided to bug these guys a little bit more. I noticed they didn't have any of my favorite action figures from my youth. They were called M.A.SK. and they were the bomb back in the day. The vehicles could change into something else (car into jet for example) and there was a cartoon too. Good times. I asked the guy reading a comic: "Do you have any M.A.S.K. toys?" and he says: "You'll have to ask Gary." Well, Gary is standing right next to him and just looks at me. So I slightly turn my head to the right and ask it again: "Do you have any M.A.S.K. toys?" Gary says: "nope" and the owner said some more smart ass stuff about GI Joes vs M.A.S.K toys and that kind of junk which I mostly ignored. I walked around another minute or so and as I left said in a sarcastic voice "sorry to bug you guys." YES! I totally got them back. Really though, I don't know why I was annoyed, I really didn't care about good customer service at a store like that and I had no intention to buy anything.


Anyway, so once that little experience ended it definitely had the feel of the 3 guys working in Top 5 Records in the movie High fidelity. They often act as if the customers aren't important to them. They mess around a make fun of customers who don't seem to have the vast knowledge of music that they think they have. It's very funny and like I said, if you haven't seen it check it out.

Timberwolves

T-Wolves are 6-8 one month into the 06-07 season. The paper said that this is our worst record in a month since 1995. Kinda hard to believe since we sucked a lot last year. At 6-8 we are in a hole with the Western Conference being so tough but it is a hole we can get out of, even by the end of this week. Even though they weren't on TV for 4 of those 14 games I managed to see 11 of games on TV or at the Target Center. Here is my take on the first month.

* The Negatives: Ricky Davis and Mike James. I didn't notice it last year much with Ricky Davis but this year he can't score on the opposing teams best perimeter defender. Ron Artest, Josh Howard, Shane Battier, even Eric Snow all shutdown RD to the point where he was even hurting the team being on the floor. He seems to need a guy like Paul Pierce to take that defensive pressure off him then he can score 20pts a game a lot easier. RD doesn't play too much defense so we need him to score. Mike James just needs to find a groove. I don't think he'll put up numbers like last year but somewhere inbetween last years numbers and his numbers this year would help the team a ton. I think it'll help Ricky's game as well and we'll win more games no doubt.

* The Positives: The rookies Randy Foye and Craig Smith. Craig Smith came out in the 2nd game of the year and dropped 20pts on the Nuggets in 16mins off the bench. He hasn't had a monster scoring game like that since but everytime he's on the floor the team seems to play better. Also, he has had some sick power dunks as well as a half dozen monster bricks on dunk attempts, but hey those are even fun to watch. He's a great rebounder for his size having 10 or more rebounds in three games and he shoots a high percentage. Randy Foye isn't getting quite as many minutes as Smith with are log jam of perimeter players but he has had a half dozen good games while averaging only 14mins per game. His last three games were by far his best as he lead 4th quarter comebacks in all three. We still lost 2 of those 3 but it was nice to see him getting extended minutes in the 4th quarter and show his stuff. He had his new career high with 17pts against Dallas and a game with 6 assists in 15mins against the Hornets. These two 4-year college players have bright futures in the NBA.

Hopefully the two rookies both see more minutes the rest of the season and Ricky and Mike get their games rolling soon. It could get exciting if Rashad McCants can come back healthy and start nailing threes and dunking on people like he showed glimpses of last year. Oh yeah, and that KG guy he's still playing pretty money and there is no reason we shouldn't be able to improve our winning percentage from .428 to something above .500 by seasons end. GO WOLVES!