Submitted by | New Socks

Alas...... What a wonderful night it was last night. We didnt win, but we didnt get creamed either (although there were a coupla times we had a "glazed" look).

Doing the game with Fans like Sass, Jezzie, Jezzie's Parents, Swooooops and Swooopsie Bro made me a much much bigger fan that I already was. Not just of the Storm, but for the other 12 teams in the league.

So, with out much further adieu, here is the report from the Sock Drawer:

When Mac (The Mr. Sock) and I got to Staples they were just hanging the balloon rainbows in front. The temptation to run around with a lighter and let those babies fly was tempting. We resisited.

We met up with the infamous Sass and Jezzie and Jezzie's parents, who may have not been famous before this night, but they established a special place in the Socks' heart. What great people. Way to recruit em Jezzie.

We were all standing there talking when StorminCalif (Swoooptastic) and her bro were standing virtually right next to us. Who knew!! Swooops girl, you are quite funny. You had us on the giggle quite a few times. Your little bro is a great sport. He will go down the the Storm Fan hall of fame for being one of the first ones to don the rain garb with us.

Jezzie, thanks again for hookin us up with some Storm stuff that we obviously cant get anywhere else cept the Key. I totally jonesed when you started pulling all that stuff out of the bag. Best part though was when Mac came back from taking the backpack to the car and he was sporting his brand new Kamila T-shirt. He had a HUGE smile on his face. He was so proud!!

Dinner was pretty good, I guess. Beware of the grass covered fries.

After Sass, Swoops & Jezzie's mom did the team effort thing for the bathroom run in the resturant, I decided I had to go. There was a line like 15 deep and it was noisey. About 30 seconds after I went into the stall it got deathly silent in the bathroom. When I came out it was completly empty. I stood in place. Every scenario of every scary "in the bathroom alone, someone is gonna get killed" movie ran through my head. I moved my foot to see if I was in slo-mo (thats what happens before the shooting starts) I tried to think of what color my green jersey would be once I bled through. Ok, so maybe I was a bit paranoid, but COME ON! 15 people in line and I was only in there for 2 mins tops. OH NEVER MIND. It was funny then.

We went though the metal detector with no problem. We had all our rain gear (and one very conspicuiously hidden Diva Weave) in a bag which the lady checking bags decided she needed to go through with a fine tooth comb. Lucky for us and Sass (who took a shine to the Diva Weave) she didnt find it. More on the weave later.

I felt honored to learn the mojo behind the Spirit Fingers. Jezzie has some awesome powers. I think alot of it stems from the pimp ring, but I could be wrong.

I was happy to share my method that is used on opposing teams during free throws. Once the group got it down (there was some lack of true effort a couple of times (sass) and then one time where the lid wasnt quite sealed all the way (Jezzie) but after a few trial and errors everyone got it down and we held them down to 60% I think on FT. See Jezzie and Sass at the next game for the proper form.

The music was dope. It was so good at times it was distracting. Half time they busted out Chaka Kahn. Mr Sock and I got a groove on at the seats. Who knew that big white boy knew all the words. Go white boy go white boy go!

Actually Sass and Mr. Sock were jammin alot to the music together. This cracked me up. I didnt know what they were singing together half the time, but they had it going on. When Mr. Sock popped out with "ring the bell sucka, school's in session" after a good play by the Storm, Sass jumped out of her seat and got her groove on. Shake ya ass, chica!

Oh yeah. I got to witness the chest bumping first hand. It was pretty cool. If this game aint fun, then what the heck is the point, ya know.

The shocked looks on our face when the Sporks were doing the tunnel thing was priceless. It was supposed to be something resembling the electric slide, I think but after a second LL was in the middle of the pack like she wanted them to dance around her.

Some Sockisms:

If she is THAT damn "Smooth" shouldnt we be calling her Ex-Lax?

After a hook shot by the diva- phhhhht, you seen one LA Hooker, you've seen them all.

SC announcer: "Now at the line, Delisha Sunshine Milton" Socks: They couldnt do that with Byears; if they did it would have sounded like "Now doing a line, Latasha Byears."

When LL hit the floor once socks asks, "are you sure its beach night and not country night?... sure looks like a ho-down to me."

During a whining session by Milton, The Socks Family busts into a rendition of "Big Girls Dont Cry."

Sass calls one play a gift from God, or devine intervention. Socks explains that God is for sure a Storm fan. Offers proof that not once is Spark mentioned in the bible, but The Storm is mentioned quite a few times. Just ask Noah.

There were plenty of other isims from the whole party, these are some of the ones that I remember the most. My gut hurt from laughing the whole game.

Ok, I made a Diva Weave. It was from a rope that I frayed out and spray painted black and stuck in a hair scrunchy. Sass took an instant shine to this one. She had her mojo going on with it for a while. Jezzie encouraged her to keep her grip on the weave; it seemed to be working. There were mixed reactions around us when the Sassy one stood up and twirled the weave. IF I get up to SeaTown for the games in Aug, Ill try to make as many as I can. I would love to see them twirling all over the key.

With about 8 mins to go in the second half we broke out the rain gear. It worked like a charm. The Sparks seemed confused by it. They started making tons of mistakes, and well it inspired the Storm. It is when they went on their run. Personally, I would like to see the home crowd adopt this tradition of putting on their rain gear when the Storm starts coming down hard.

After the game, I stood over the tunnel with my slicker still on. I called out to a couple of players. LJ looked up and gave me a big ole smile. Simone got a big A grin on her face, shook her head and said, "girl, you're crazy". Those reactions made the whole trip go cherry!!!!

At one time they were playing commercials during a time out. The one for Pepsi kept going even after play started back up. It was during a free throw for the Sparks. It just kept going and going and going. I cracked up.

Some of the game things I noticed. No Sandy. I mean she was at the game, but her shot was lost some where over Oregon. Last game she was the difference. This time they were all over her like stink on sh*t. They shut her down. If she had even gotten a lil hot, it might have made a difference.

Tully never went in. I think she could have made the difference, at least on D, which there was none.

It seemed that Anne was doing some weird subbing. It was like if she didnt like one mistake, boom, out ya came. It was almost Dunnish.

Nice to see D-Mac in. She looked a bit out of sorts, but hey, what do you spect?

At one point during a time out the coaches were in the middle of the court, and the team was huddled by the bench. I can just imagine what the coaches were saying. Im sure it started with the sentence, WTF.

I had a blast. I am working my tookus off to try to get up there in Aug for the LA and MINN games. Keep the fingers twisted. If you guys up there are half as much fun as Sass, Jezzie and Swoooops were, I cant wait.

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