While I was perusing tonight’s boxscores on the prowl for potential highlight videos, I could have sworn that I saw Thaddeus Young listed with 25 points at one point. However, when I returned to the Bulls-Zards boxscore at game’s end, he only had 23 points. It was then that I felt my already tenuous grip on the handholds of sanity start to slip from my fingertips.
I’m going to be honest, maybe uncomfortably so, with everybody for a second. When I saw a boxscore which directly contradicted my objective experience with reality, I spent a good thirty minutes just looking in a mirror contemplating the nature of illusion. For the image in a mirror is merely that – an illusion. Who is to say that my eyes couldn’t be gazing inwardly towards the mirror of a projected reality that is the creation of a mind devoid of sanity? Such an experience would explain how a fabricated boxscore could become reality in my mind.
It’s lucky that Stacey King chimed in after Young’s final bucket with a helpful reminder to the fans that Young had just scored his 25th point. Evidently, Young was wrongly credited with a field goal earlier in the game that had gotten taken away from him by the time the game finished. If King hadn’t made that small, but ultimately oh-so-important, comment, I would still be gazing unblinkingly into my bathroom mirror. No more highlight videos would have been made tonight. In fact, no more highlights would have been made…ever. My intense introspection would have reached its terrible conclusion, and I would have become utterly detached from reality.
I wonder if the scorekeepers realize that they need to start taking their jobs a little more seriously.