An Email Surprise

[ceebeegee]

Last night, after getting back from the game, I found an email from Peter, asking about the show and what time it gets out. Something like "I really want to see tomorrow's show but I need to know..." I replied, "You'll be out by 7:00." I checked this morning and he'd sent another one saying he'd gotten a commercial gig with some NBA guy (Tim ?--for San Antonio? Do they have an NBA team?) and he couldn't come see the show, unfortunately. I'll reply tonight and push for the Shakespeare showcase in January.

Comments

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

San Antonio Spurs.

Not that I follow much basketball.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Huh. San Antonio seems like kind of a small city to get its own NBA team.

[jayspec.livejournal.com]

Tim Duncan?

The Census says...

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

I can't find the 2000 Census data (no time to look) but according to the 1990 Census, San Antonio was the 10th largest city in the country at 935,933.

That's more than twice the size of either Portland or Denver, both of which have NBA teams.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Yes! I think that was it. Thanks Duckling.

BTW, you're invited over tonight after the show to carve pumpkins. (BYOP.)

Re: The Census says...

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Really! Wow, I never would've guessed. You don't hear that much about it.

Re: The Census says...

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

It's a rather boring city, I understand, and quite eclipsed by Houston and Dallas.

Interestingly, I found the 2000 Census data and discovered that San Antonio has moved up to #9 with roughly 1.1 million people. It's bigger than Detroit now.

Of course, the picture changes quite a bit if you look at metropolitan areas, which is really what determines the viability of a sports franchise. But it's still 29th at 1.6 million, well ahead of New Orleans (34th), Salt Lake City (35th), and Memphis (43rd), all of which have teams.

And if you like useless trivia, the largest metro area without a basketball team is San Diego (17th, 2.8 million). The top 16 all have one.

[planga.livejournal.com]

Man, this had better not be the Tim Duncan I went to high school with. People I went to school with keep getting famous, and for things I'm not too excited about. Tim would be some sort of "sports" figure, and of course Mandy Fisher is a high-class whore now (well, she probably prefers "model").

-Chris "all I'm saying is, where's my fame?" Combs

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

I can't find any record of where he went to high school, but he would have been class of '93. He played for Wake Forest from '93-'97 before going pro.

It's probably not the one you knew, though, because his bio says something about him being a promising swimmer until his local pool was destroyed by Hurrican Hugo, which doesn't seem likely to have hit Ohio.

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

Of course I should have signed this:

Michael "Keeper of useless information" Brown