Sweety,

I know you're not stressed to the max yet. It's only been what, about 35 games so far that I've been glued to the NBA on TV? Or on the computer chatting about the NBA? Or writing again in blog?

We both know by now that this is just the tip of the iceberg since I retired last month. You're probably thinking  "Good lord I didn't think he could possibly spend anymore time on the NBA than he's done before but it's even worse already".

Guilty on all charges. But not once yet have I gone a week yet without taking out the trash when you asked me to. What was the longest so far? 5 times you asked me maybe? And that was just because we had go looking for the dog because I forgot I let her out to go potty, otherwise I would have not forgotten the trash. And I do feel really bad about us having to go to the pound to get her out. You'd think she wouldn't do something like go clear over to Hawthorne. I mean a little dog like that gets 17 miles away in less than 12 hrs? She must have been motoring. . That broke my heart but like I told you she's never been that smart. I bet if she could talk she'd be the first to admit that she was not paying attention as usual and took a left when she should have turned right. You'd think after she came close to getting the old lethal injection three times last year she'd learn to stay put by now wouldn't you? But all's well that ends well even if 176.00 to get her out was highway robbery.

I admit going to sleep while watching taped games on the bedroom TV and waking you up because the TV starting blaring when I rolled over on the volume control was wrong of me.

And you're probably right.  Paying the cable company extra money to run a connection to the TV in the bathroom was probably something I should have discussed with you first. But you do have to admit that hooking the TV in the kitchen to the coffee machine timer was pretty darn ingenous of me. and you can't deny that I had the sound turned down so that when we got up you didn't have to listen to people announcing games on the tape. You gottta give me credit on that one.

Anyhow honey, I really do love you and appreciate you letting us eat in the den every night in front of the new flat screen. Is that one heck of a picture or what? Who would have thought that the time would come when they made TV's like that so big and so clear that you could actually watch 4 games at one time and  tell what was going in each corner of the screen?

Well I know you're busy so I just taped this letter to the fridge so I wouldn't be breaking in on whatever important thing you're doing and disrupt you like I seem to be doing all the time since I retired.

Me

P.S. I'm going to program the games for tonight right now. If you have any preferences this  is your night. You get to choose. After the Laker game we can watch either the Bulls-Toronto or Miami-Detroit, Clippers-Sonics, or Bullets-Knicks. for the second game and I'm serious here sweety, you even get to choose all three other games we tape for tonight while we watch the first two. I won't even make a suggestion. That's how serious I am about wanting you to know how much I love you.

P.S.S. I don't know if you noticed but I got us stocked up on beer and pretzels in the fridge. Well actually I'm not that senile yet. The pretzels aren't in the fridge. I may be a moron but even I can tell there's no room in the fridge for a bag of pretzels even if that's where they belonged. Got a good price on the beer so that's why there's 18 cases there. You gotta admit I still got an eye for a bargain. Love ya.

If you are  sick of Charley Rosen's vicous attacks on players, his inability to be objective, his never ending negative columns please write to me MARK HOLLY at VelvetProductions@msn.com and join me in the CHARLEY ROSEN MUST GO campaign.

You can also help by copying this message and pasting it to the bottom of every blog entry you make on your own blog or post on others. This is gonna take some time but we the fans have a right to demand that Fox listen to us and get this travesty out of our lives.