Things I Don't Care About
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by Ibearg
The last week or so I've found it's been tough finding things in sports that I'm particularly interested in. The NBA draft already happened, free agency has been relatively boring, the NFL doesn't start up until September and unlike the obsessed masses in this country i can't get fired up about training camp. Baseball and my team the Yankees in particular have been getting more interesting recently; the Yankees after all have won 10 of their last 13 games. However it's tough to get realllly fired up about it when they're still 8 back in the division and 7 games back of the wild card with 3 teams ahead of them. The much easier task however is finding things that are being covered and i have absolutely no interest or at least very little interest at best.
One thing I'm not interested in is Yi Jialian. I'm not sold on the fact that he's really that good. He could likely be the Chinese version of Toni Kukoc, which isn't bad, Kukoc was a very useful player for awhile, but he was also by no means a star. So I'm supposed to be interested in a player who MAY be a decent player, and whether or not he goes to Milwaukee. Am I supposed to be shocked his Chinese team won't allow him to go there? The Bucks knew all along there would be issues and they took him anyway. So when he goes back to China or gets traded let me know until then I don't care.
Another thing I'm not interested in is the Barry Bonds home run chase. He's going to break the record eventually whether it happens in July or September it will happen. While he did take steroids we can't necessarily prove anything and therefore we can't do anything about it. I've accepted it as reality and now I'm ready to move on. I'm certainly not going to celebrate this accomplishment by this guy. So when it happens let me know, I'll say good for him and move on about my day.
Also don't care about Pacman Jones coming to training camp. He's not playing this year right? As Allen Iverson said 'what are we talking about? we talkin' bout practice. not a game, not a game, practice.' Why exactly am i supposed to care about a player who won't even be playing in preseason games, much less regular season, coming to practice?
