For the past week or so, sports fans have been inundated with events such as the Women's World Cup, The British Open, and MLB's All-Star Game. I have news for a lot of people.
We don't really care.
There are two lockouts going on at this moment.
"But baseball is America's pasttime..."
Don't give me that ish. Baseball is past its time.
"But the World Cup is once every four years..."
And you'll hate soccer next week after we're done analyzing every moment of it.
Even with all of that, this is the slowest time of the year in sports. I remember the day after the All-Star Game, there was nothing to talk about...not a thing.
Well, there was one (out of a grand total of two) thing to talk about, and we've been talking about it for over 120 days. The NFL lockout. You can hate if you want, but it seems pretty obvious to me that football is America's number one sport. We have turned 20 weeks of actual playing into a year long media event. We talk about it all the time. The draft was a big deal. As the lockout comes to a close (hopefully this week), we will talk about free agency and begin to don our jerseys again and Hank Williams Jr will begin to prepare his voice to yell out those words we can't wait to hear:
"Are you ready for some football?"
Yes Hank, we are ready for some football.
Football is exciting, it's action-packed and dangerous. Things that we as Americans love. So we need this lockout to end soon. There's been a lot of evil that we call crime (oh Ray Lewis) that's been going on since the lockout started...all by NFL players, so we need them to come on back to the field. And that's just the players, what will happen if we don't have a season.
"There's nothing else to do Sal" Classic words from Ray Lewis.
But anyway, we are in a boring sports state right now. ESPN is gearing up to show poker, and that is my tipping point. I can't watch poker...I don't even play poker. There is nothing exciting, there is nothing YouTube worthy in poker. There just isn't.
Speaking of YouTube worthy things, the other thing (number two of two) that we can be talking about is the NBA lockout. We're about 20 days into that, and there's absolutely no sign of that ending soon. We may miss part of the season, if not the whole season. I honestly think that we won't see much improvement on this lockout situation because the two sides are so far apart. It's come to the point now that some players will play in other countries until the lockout ends.
And with that said, the commish, David Stern will have his dream of globalizing the game of basketball bite him in the arse. I don't really know what else to say about this lockout situation because I have absolutely no faith in this being worked out anytime soon. It's all about money and there isn't a surplus of it, like the NFL has. The NBA just laid off over a hundred workers and the owners want a system placed in order to save them from themselves, but they've already set such a precedent that it would be hard to reverse their steps.
In other words, how are you going to overpay over-hyped players one year, then expect everyone else to be okay with not being paid as much?
Anyway, I'm done with this.
Stay tuned though.
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