The Detroit Red Wings are out. Again. This time it was a 2nd-round failure as opposed to last year's 1st-round bye-bye. Depressing. I love my Wings. I hate when they lose.

They gained the President's trophy again this year (the best regular-season record in the league), but come playoff time, they couldn't keep up with the young bucks that were faster and more physical than them - those pesky Calgaryites. They went down in six games. Sigh. The team will likely see its first major tear-down and rebuild in years as this dynasty has officially come to an end. They have had too many players pushing forty for too long now.

But the Detroit Pistons are on a roll, and they have a great chance at a championship series spot. They are a marvelous defensive unit, and these guys kept the New Jersey Nets to 56 points! in game one on Monday. Ben Wallace is, I as have said here before, the most driven and exciting player in the game today. Rebounding, blocks, steals - he does it all.

Friends. I am so tired of the Friends eulogies all week, everywhere I turn. A show by morons, for morons. All the show's men were, of course, total dufuses, incapable of any common sense, rational thought, or general purpose whatsoever. Hollywood doesn't know how to portray men any other way. The usual TV sitcom: all men are hapless, bumbling idiots. And goodness, as a friend of mine always says, life goes out and imitates "art" (bad art).

Time to go. Pistons game is on.

Update: the Pistons won game two easily, 95-80.