CIVL Station Manager resisted the urge to submit a shuffle from Toronto prior to the Raptors’ game five close-out opportunity at home, and he’s lucky that he waited to get home to Shabby to do so, because if he’d gone with his predictions before the game, he’d’ve been…
“Dead Wrong” – Cancer Bats
Great Canadian band from the great Canadian Shield, perhaps most well known for their inclusion in one of the NHL 2K games, or something, and then of course their brilliant trash cover of the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” I won’t be mistaken about the series, though. Kings of the North, finally.
“Long December” – Counting Crows
It may not be Hollywood, but the velociraptors will be bedding down in SoCal one more time for the final game. Oakland is to host Oracle, and I’m pretty sure it’s B.C. representing with the now legendary “Let’s go, Raptors” chants by the Bay. My brother lived in San Francisco for a few years and also bought this record.
“Too Much” – Carly Rae Jepsen
I almost extended my trip so I could stay to watch the team finally bring home the bacon, but ultimately, I think that might have been “too much” for my little North Toronto ticker to take at this point.
“Jurassic Park” – Weird Al Yankovic
You know, I was there, in the dark, mere moments before saviour Masai Ujiri took his now famous walk through notorious Jurassic Park, named, like this song, after the film that so captivated our imagination on the year we dared to dream of NBA supremacy by the Lake of Onterrible.
