Twinkle: NBA Playoffs

I hate them. Here's why:

1. They are on every night for months at a time. They start in, what, April (when basketball should be over) and go halfway through summer. I like college basketball as much as the next girl, but it is a winter sport for a reason. It's at its best in January, February, and March, when everyone is cold and bored.

2. There are hundreds of them, and they are on every night. How many teams are in the NBA playoffs? I'll tell you: a lot. And all of them do these series of games, and in every series they have to win four games. That adds up to a whole lot of f*cking basketball games. Give me an old-fashioned NCAA bracket and a super-exciting elimination tournament any day of the week. How can anyone get excited about/keep up with cycle after endless cycle of playoff series?

3. Some nights, I would just like to sit with the windows open and listen to the crickets. Instead, I hear the constant sound of the ref's whistle and the squeak of Nikes on a polished floor. That sound is fine in the bleak midwinter, but not in May. See #1.

Here's how the athletic year should break down, in my opinion:

Fall: Football
Winter: Basketball
Spring: Baseball

It is almost elegant in its simplicity, until the NBA playoffs come in and take up three months of precious spring/summer.

I am not one of these wives who b*tches about her husband liking sports all the time--I like sports too. What I don't like is Mr. Twinkle's time and energy being monopolized for three months out of the year for something so endless and so pointless. I stand by my original statement: I hate the f*cking NBA playoffs.

Does anyone else feel the same way? I know some of y'all follow sports much more than I do, but are any of you subjected to the playoff torture for months on end? Just wondering if I'm alone. I think after playoffs season, Lifetime should show three straight months of Designing Women, the Golden Girls, and Sex and the City.