Meet Gunner. He’s a 2 year old German Shepard and Poodle Mix who lives in North Carolina.

If you happen to see this thing on the street; RUN! He’s got the herpes!

Why in the world am I telling you this?

Good question. Last night, I was doing my best to focus on Game 6 of the Bulls vs. Celtics series, which has been a classic series in NBA Playoff history. Unfortunately, I had to be on a conference call for most of the second half of the game and was only able to sneak an occasional peak at the score of the game. Luckily, or so I thought, Gunner’s owner was chilling on my couch and keeping me updated on the important developments in the game.

Once I concluded the call, the aforementioned owner had already fired up the PS3 and wanted to challenge me to a game of NBA 2K9.

“What happened with the Bulls/Celtics game?” I asked. “Oh, the Celtics won.” he replied. I said to him “That’s a damn shame. I really wanted to see that series go seven games.”

I proceeded to embarrass this guy by handing him four consecutive losses before he finally called it quits for the night.

The Playoff game became an afterthought, that is until about 5am this morning, while I was waiting for a video project to finish rendering and I turned on Sportscenter. They must have talked about this spectacular three overtime thriller, which the BULLS won, for at least forty minutes of the sixty minute program. I believe there were seven plays from this game included in their countdown of the top ten plays of the day.

I couldn’t believe this dude had made the hasty decision of deciding the game was over, knowing that all of the prior games in this series had come down to the wire.

So as retribution for this careless error, I’m going to spare him the personal embarrassment he deserves for this bad judgment, but can’t let it go unpunished. I’m now informing the public that his dog is infected with the herpes virus. I found this out by glancing at a vet bill that he left laying around, which specifically itemized Herpes Treatment for Gunner as the reason for the invoice.

Hopefully, a valuable lesson will be learned here. If you lie to me about the score of a basketball game; I’m going to tell everyone your dog has herpes. Seems fair to me.