Come clean everyone, you are watching/listening/reading about the World Cup, aren't you? Why? Do you even know? Nope you don't, but I have an idea. Real football has the Super Bowl for pros and the BCS for college; baseball has the World Series; basketball has March Madness for college and pros have the final games of the playoffs; and hockey has it own playoffs and the Stanley Cup (side note: Game Seven of the final Stanley Cup is the best of all the playoffs, and I don't follow hockey). But do you follow ALL the games leading up to each sports playoffs? Or do you get involved in the tail end of the playoff series? If you are like me, you get involved in the final game or the biggest EVENT of the related sports playoffs. Super Bowl-an event, not a game any longer; March Madness is more than games, it is an event spread over three weekends leading to the "Final Four"; baseball has its playoffs to see who goes to the World Series; and finally hockey has a season that culminates in the Stanley Cup. So this brings us to soccer (no it is not football it is soccer!) and the World Cup. The World Cup is an event and we all love events, even if we don't understand a single thing related to that event. We will set parties up around the event; we will work schedules around events; and we may even play hooky from work for the event.
The truth of the subject is the vast majority of us US are viewing the World Cup not because it is the sport of soccer, but it is time for another event to take place and we are all in! Now go win the damn thing won't you!!!
Jun 22, 2010
...has Tribe baseball apathy hit the Dolans?
It has been a while and a ton of things have happened, and nothing is good :+( The Cavs, lead (a term used loosely) by LBJ did the best fold-a-roo since...well I'm hard pressed to find a time a Cleveland team performed so atrociously in an important game. At least Jose Mesa threw the ball in '97 and not the entire game; season; and possibly the franchise! the Browns FINALLY made a RIGHT step with the hiring of Mike Holmgren. At least you have the feeling that someone is in charge and someone who KNOWS football. The QB debacle is over, but still not settled. But at least we have a proven QB in the mix. Not sure? Then I ask you to read all the names of QB's since '99 and you'll see what I mean. Just a few weeks from now Browns camp opens and the football season sheds hope to all of us. And that brings me to my beloved Indians.
Sadly, it pains me to say this but I have no interest in following them now. Did not say at all, simply said now. Why? Well if I wanted to follow the minor league players, I can travel less than 10 miles to Eastlake and watch the Captains and not have to get a second mortgage to take the family of 4; feed and drink them; and get choice seats. Rather do that then spend what little hard earn money I have left to watch baseball at the Jake (still refuse to call it anything else). The two times there I have witnessed a team that has deplorable fundamentals; a bullpen that seems afraid of its shadow; a batting line-up that cannot hide both Branyon and Peralta at the same time. They may be really nice people no doubt, but has anyone seen a smoother left-handed strike out swing than Branyon's? Or a batter that has those deer in the headlights look like Peralta? And as far as Luis Valbena, I can loose 35 lbs, and he would STILL be batting less than my desired weight! Now there is talk of trading ANOTHER quality player away in Carmona? Yes, I know he has struggled, but is it that far removed from the Yankee infested midges game that he was soooo dominant? C.C. Sabathia; Cliff Lee; and Victor Martinez all traded for roster filling bodies for Eastlake; Kingston; Akron; and Columbus. And I am supposed to be excited to go to the Jake to see what......NOTHING! I am not one who goes to see the other stars come into town, I want to see my stars, not theirs. And until such time, I guess my Tribe apathy is growing and that my friends is a BIG PROBLEM for the Dolan's.
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