Secretly pulling for the Avengers. Am I the only one?

Well it's almost summer and you know what that means....summer blockbuster movies!!!  Yay!!!  First up this year is Marvel's The Avengers.  This one has plenty of star power with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlette Johansson amongst others.  The budget also was through the roof.  It costed a whopping $260 millon to make.  It is projected to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year.

But lurking in July is the juggernaut.  The one everyone, including me, has been waiting on.  The Dark Knight Rises.  After the success of The Dark Knight, including a riveting academy award winning performance by Heath Ledger, expectations are that DKR will smash all other movies in 2012.  I can't lie I want to see it.  I'll probably be one of those people standing in line at some unGodly hour to get good seats in the IMAX theater.  I STILL HOPE AVENGERS KICKS THE HELL OUT OF IT THOUGH. Like anything that becomes big too many all of a sudden, Nazi, know it all, Batman douche bags have come out of the woodworks.  I'm not sure where these people were when Joel Schumacher was destroying the last Batman franchise but they're here now and they are unbearable.  So seeing as how awesome the Avengers trailor was and how awful the new Batman fans are I've decided that I'm now pulling for the Avengers.  The Dark Knight Rises will undoubtedly smash the HELL out of Avengers but hey I'm just telling you where I stand.

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We've been without Rose all year

Once again.  Black nerd.  Me.  I'm it.  But let's go one step further.  I'm a Black nerd from the Midwest (Northwest Indiana).  We Hoosiers from the northwestern tip of the boot are Bulls fans.  That said, with the NBA playoffs in full swing, the Chicago Bulls have lost their superstar point guard Derrick Rose for the remainder of the playoffs.  Saturday night while facing the Philadelphia 76ers Rose jumped and when he landed  suffered a torn ACL.

Seeing as how Rose is clearly the best player and the leader of the team, the pundits and analysts have pronounced the Bulls dead.  I think not.  Let's examine things. The Bulls played 27 games without Derrick Rose this past season due to his assorted injuries.  Of those 27 games they won 18 games including a win against the Miami Heat (the favorite to win the Eastern Conference).  In fact shortly after Rose's return they faced the Heat and Rose only scored 2 points.  So I don't think it would be....prudent to count the team with the best regular season record out because of Rose's absence.  This has all the makings of a tortoise and the hare kind of story.  We all know what happened to the hare.