It's that time of year again!  The playoffs are about to begin.
And, yes, I am going to do the tabs on the playoffs once again.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the tabs, they are 
fairly detailed play-by-play notes from the games I watch.  If
you would like to see an example of what one looks like, ftp
to the wuarchive and take a look:
        ftp ftp.wustl.edu
        login: ftp
        password: yourname@youraddress

        cd /doc/misc/sports/nba/1994/playoffs/tabs

or go to my ftp directory:
        ftp ftp.netcom.com
        login: anonymous
        password: yourname@youraddress

        cd /pub/pa/patricia/tabs
        mget ny-ind5.94


The basis for this message is a calling for those who want to
receive the tabs directly via e-mail.  If you want the tabs by
e-mail, send me a note (patricia@netcom.com) with "Add tabs" as
the subject [required - I have 3 mailing lists and I need to know 
which one to add you to] and your correct e-mail address in the 
body.  The messages are going to be hand processed.  I will also
be posting the reports to rec.sport.basketball.pro and any 
relevant alt.sports.basketball.nba newsgroups.   I will also be
placing the reports in my ftp directory (see above).  This service 
is free of charge and brought to you by my own good will.

Note: Please be sure that you really want to receive these via
e-mail before you subscribe.  If I get over 800 subscribers (the
nba-daily mailing lists have over 1550 people on them, which is
why I'm a little concerned), I'll have to request a second tabs 
mailing list and that will take about a week to be created.  Plus 
the rate of distribution among the members is slower the larger the 
list gets.  

Both TNT and TBS are going to be showing games, but as I have to
sleep sometime (and work is not an acceptable place to do so), I
will only be reporting on probably two games per week night.  Last 
year, I was able to send the reports out about 30 minutes after the 
end of the last game of the evening.  I will be moving to Dallas 
(yeah!) in two weeks and might miss a few games due to that.  The 
games I watch will be the ones that I'm interested in, I think will 
be exciting, on the same station, earliest, or by flip of a coin.  
[Jim Jackson is the studio host for April 27-29 on TNT, so whatever 
they are showing, I'm watching.]

My team is not in the playoffs (next year!), but I do have teams 
I'll be rooting for.  I do try to keep my biases out of my 
reporting and I have been known to go bonkers on exciting plays, 
even for players I don't like.  Basically, I love good basketball.


Let the games begin!


patricia