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Thursday, September 25, 2003

Free Kobe Bryant!
Just kidding -- this post has nothing to do with Kobe. A debate is raging over at Don Barrett's LARadio.com site over whether it's accurate to say that the Lakers are aiming to "4-Peat" this season.

It all started when L.A. Clear Channel exec Roy Laughlin -- whose 570 AM KLAC will carry the Lakers games this season -- mentioned on the site that the team was about to go after a "4-Peat."

Never mind that the cliche doesn't even work: "4-Peat"? See, "3-peat" rhymes with "repeat." And even "3-peat" is truly ridiculous. But at least you see where it's coming from.

In response, LARadio.com readers pointed out that you couldn't say the Lakers were going for a "4-Peat" anyway. Hello, they didn't make the finals last year -- so their string ended at three championship titles.

But Laughlin says he'll consider four nonconsecutive wins a "4-peat" as well -- and presumably will promote it as such on KLAC.

"4 wins is a 4 peat as well," he writes the site. "My notes are in some ways are like dog whistles - only the really smart folks can actually understand what I am saying. The less enlightened argue on a base level that is so simplistic I was never going there - like I do not know the Lakers did not win last year? Duh."

Whatever. Here's a new topic: How do radio executives have time on their hands to debate the merits of using the phrase "4-peat"?

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