Love & Hate

Congratulations to the Pistons for beating the Heat, advancing to the NBA Finals, and proving my pessimism wrong. Love from the Freep here and the Detroit News here. Of course, there are haters. Like Marc Stein on ESPN.com here. Hater might be a tad strong, but we all know the national media hates Detroit (especially the hateable Dan LeBatard, but everyone hates him, so who cares?), so you can expect to see a lot of praise for the Spurs and little for the Pistons over the next couple of days. Of course, the Spurs are the best TEAM they've played so far and deserve much of the praise they get, but there's a lot of sports reporters who would have preferred Spurs-Heat. Oh well, I guess we'll have to settle for a Finals where something like REAL basketball might be played.