Empty the Bench

Since posting about Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ongoing Lakers blog on NBA.com, we here at Empty the Bench just haven’t been able to pull ourselves away from his thoughtful prose. As such, we’ve decided to regularly reprint select passages of Flea articulately expressing himself through words. This edition’s excerpt wrestles with complex issues ranging from the motivating power of failure to the ethics of winter sports.

As always, if you have any favorite Flea passages of your own, please do feel free to post them in the comments section.

perhaps the lakers needed to spend some time in a dismal slump
in order to truly see the necessity of an intense defense
and a committed and heartfelt style of play
one can only hope………
good to see that lamar seems to begetting back to form as well
and certainly that is a major factor
kobe playin sick last night, sucks it up for the righteous cause
go lakers

i was snowboarding during the all star break just like radmanovic
except i did not fall
i cruised down the mountain at high speeds having the time of my life
i am disappointed in his dishonesty about the whole affair
but certainly not as disappointed as he probably is
and at least he came clean about it
laker fans are not happy about the whole thing

come back luke come back kwame

Move over Donald Hall, we have a new candidate for Poet Laureate.