It’s All in the Season
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by user LastRow
Please pardon me if I have to stop a few times as I type this to check my trousers to see if they’re still dry. I’m just having a hard time controling my bodily fluids from releasing these days due to the fact football is upon us. The dog days of summer can mean only one thing; pigskin camps are in full swing across the country at both the professional & the collegiate with the first actual games coming in no more than a month from now. Finally a season that actually, for all intensive purposes means a whole hell of a lot on a weekly basis.
Yes, the dog days of summer actually mean too that the baseball pennant races are actually starting to heat up. For this is the time the season truly begins to mean something. If one sits down and thinks about it, baseball’s real season doesn’t begin until after the trade deadline. Sure, Yankees & Sox fans will tell you every game in the 162 games matters, but honestly do we really need 162 games to find out the best teams in baseball? Couldn’t Bud Selig do something about this just as he created interleague play, the wild card position, and the ever popular All-Star Game tagging it “This One Really Counts”? By the time we reach the All-Star Break, fans are tired of seeing the Royals or Pirates try to play baseball…It takes far less games to show the country they suck. This might just be me, but I could give a shit about a game the last week in April between Seattle & Oakland when there’s 140 games left. To make this game have some value to it as it would currently have, perhaps shortening the season would accomplish this. As of now nobody can tell me a game the last week in April has value to it, but shouldn’t it? The best thing about 162 games…It sure does wonders when you’re trying to catch naps on the weekend!
This same thing holds true for the NBA…We all are aware that the official NBA season doesn’t really begin until the first of the year. For some it actually doesn’t begin until after the All-Star break. No this isn’t as extreme as baseball, but all teams do is try to pace themselves for the long haul. This is very understandable, but why not shorten this season a little too? I’m sure NBA players wouldn’t have a problem with this…Let’s see, report to camp in October for the real season to begin in April. Tell me a fan that gets all hyped up for a Knicks-Raptors game in early December? New York fans can’t even stand to watch their team play 82 games, so why in the hell should we be forced to? Besides, this would mean less of having to hear Stephen A. Smith…This is definitely a good thing!
Perhaps this is why the sport of football has become our “National Pastime”? Sorry baseball, “Chicks don’t dig the longball anymore”…Something about shrinkage? Football, no matter on NCAA or NFL level, every game has an influence on a team’s season. There’s not a single week that goes by where winning every game is necessary, this same thing can’t be said in other sports. In the NFL, if a team starts out 0-2 odds are they’re not going to make the playoffs. Same holds true on Saturday’s in the fall…Though losing one game (depending on when you lose it…Thanks BCS) can F-UP the season. There’s not a single football game on a teams schedule that break the season…Other sports can’t say this. You know that cupcake opponent in week one, & two of the college football season that we all laugh over, the 60-3 outcome. That in fact means something other than paying the visitors a nice lump sum to come and get their ass kicked.
Oh my God, I can’t believe I’m mentioning this, but even NASCAR has made their season more interesting & meaningful by adding the whole “Race for the Championship” thing. Astonishing, but all their races matter too…Well, to those who pay attention to that sort of stuff. BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY! Be right back…Time to check my drawers, I GOT TO PEE!
Okay, everything checked out! With football we are working with the mindset of, um should I say a prostitute. We know what we’re getting…No wasted time here boy. Enjoying every minute of it because once it’s over, it’s over! With all other sports we tend to find a mindset of a stripper. Hangs around for a while, works the room, comes back over to have a drink…All the while buttering us up into thinking we’re going to do our best Big Papi impersonation and leave the club with a walk-off tater. Only to find out later you’re going home with a pulsating Louisville Slugger in your pants that hurts like the dickens. As we all know this doesn’t feel to good, thus another reason it’s so pleasant to see the arrival of football season, giving us more bang for a buck & “The Twins…Here’s to football!
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Date
Wed 08/02/06, 4:11 pm EST
