Multimedia Trash Talk

In one of those "Living in the Future" sorts of moments, our regular lunchtime pick-up basketball game has an email listserver. Pretty much every day there's a game, there's some email chatter and trash talk. My signature comment is to describe one of the other players as being "Weak like a really weak thing."

One of my colleagues from the bio department decided to up the ante, and videotape some trash talk:

Of course, this couldn't go unanswered:

(It helps if you know that Steve's a biologist doing research on the canopy structure of moss...)

There's been a recent elevation in the level of trash talk on the email list, which has unfortunately coincided with a dramatic decrease in the quality of play. I think the two are unrelated, and hopefully, this video won't send us into a total tailspin...

(It should also be noted that, objectively speaking, Steve is probably the best basketball player in the regular crowd. I'm in the top three or four, depending on the day.)