Tupac vs. Biggie / East Coast vs. West Coast
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by user Manny Stiles
Yeah, homies... we gon brayk 'dis down ole' skule stiles...
Tupac v. Biggie? East Coast v. West Coast?
I know what you're thinking...(Somebody please get this fool off this site immediately!)
Hear me out...In the case of Rap vs Music, Entetainment vs. Sports, East Coast vs. West Coast:
For illustrative and illogical purposes; Biggie Smalls will represent the West side and Tupac will represent the East side! For reasons about to be explained-
East Coasterners! Atlantic swillers...
The sports world caters to your every fanciful whim. Yes, there is DEFINITELY East Coast Media Bias!
-Why shouldn't there be? More sports-rabid Population in a crammed area with lots of teams and no reason other than sports to live. More news coverage and extensive mid-market coverage, too. Complete saturation of negative media - face it, all the bitchy writers are from the northeast...
- Newspapers get printed EARLY in the morning, so people on the East coast know already what the rest of us are just finding out.
- Tupac represents the East Coast Media because he was brash, in your face. He has bigger balls than you and will show you. Just like a sports fan from the Northeast.
- Tupac cut right to it. No dancing around the tulips, he gave you reasons to shoot him! East coast fans won't tolerate B.S. in their teams (except Jets fans)but they often cripple their teams ability to succeed by demanding unacheivable gains at all costs all the time. (McNabb didn't choke, Eagles fans suffocated him)
West Coasterners! Pacific putrifiers...
West siiiide!! The least coast gets all the love because the writers are done their story and in bed while our games are just rolling. There is an East Coast bias!
- Why should there be? Let's see... Bonds, 2 time MVP Steve Nash, How many heismans? East Coast fans have no idea what these guys play like (especially Nash - who deserved 100% of both MVPs) and East coast fans can't comprhend time zone changes...you know when it says 9 eastern/8 central?? Yeah, the rest of the world has to pay attention to that.
- Whe west coast teams come East, they schedule games at 12:30PM (9:30 Pacific Time) knowing it's an advantage since the travelling team can't party as hard the night before, why can't teams in the West start a game at 10:30PM local time (1:30AM Eastern time)?
- The West coast is Biggie because it' more laid back, things to do, options to explore. Biggie could be hang'n wit' hoes, slang'n rocks or count'n dead Presidents (although Franklin's on the $100 and he wasn't Prez). In the West, we can go mountain climbing, skiiing, kayaking, get a workout at the gym and still be home in time to watch the game you fell asleep during. We have options...you have sports.
- 'The West Coast doesn't have tradition' - says one lifetime East Coast fan. Like there are a bunch of 97 year old Yankees fans that remember jumping on the bandwagon 25 championships ago. True sports traditions last as long as the oldest announcers. When Vin Scully dies, (or Peter Gammons) nothing will matter anymore, the DH generation (1974-1994) will just be known as the steroid/interleague configuration generation (1974-?).
- OK seriously - the East Coast sports media covers sports with nauseatic passion. There are VERY few good talk radio stations or decent 'news/sports guys' compared to back East. Even when there is 'local sports' it's PAC-10 coverage which isn't saying much unless student bodies are being shown.
-But with all the media coverage comes the "bitch about 'em, fire 'em, kill 'em" crowd of negativity that I don't miss - People that complain about 'their' team is like a person that vandalizes his own house!
-PLUS on the west coast, you get 10am football games on Sundays; you get to get drunk at the Super Bowl party, sober up before you drive and you still might make it home by dark!
-Then there's the weather in general!!! It's truly always sunny in Phoenix. I am happy most of the time - sunshine prozac! I see mountains every day. It makes you keep sports into a proper perspective. In the West, the nice weather allows kids to play outside more often, instead of turning into fat videomasters. West coast food is healthier - not gravy on everything!
As a East Coast kid: I always got a little mad when the newspaper couldn't give boxscores for the Twins-Mariners game. I won a California Angels sticker in a box of Honeycomb cereal and instantly became an Angels fan because I knew absolutely nothing about them. Until Doug DeCinces got traded there. They had him, Bobby grich AND Rod Carew! That's my team!!! But I would never know whatb the scores were. I almost became a Redskins fan when I thought they played in the STATE of Washington... too bad. So I adopted the Seahawks for a few years...
living in the West: Sports fans (and people in general) are more laid back than East coasties. This doesn't mean they're not passionate. You just won't see people mow their yard in the shape of their team's logo, sing a cheesy no-hit-band's song about this year's team or get a Red Sock tattoed on themselves in the West.
Visiting the South: Is the South just plain forgotten altogether when it comes to sports?? Seriously... if two rednecks with 18 teeth play a game, will anyone be able to keep score? Hey dirtysouth, (that includes you, too Whalers fans) the rest of the world figures you sense an (north) East Coast Bias as well.
Ultimately, I'm not saying it's better to be one or the other and clearly there are diadvantages to both sides. I happen to prefer Tupac in rap; East Coast sports fans may generally have more sports knowledge and understanding of tradition, geographical allegiance and history but West Coast generally has better sports opinion (West Coast people are generally more sensible and level-headed) and more knowledge about the games.
I think East Coast and West Coast sports fans can learn from each other.
Like most things, if you understand both sides of the issue, you realize it's never a problem as much as it is an opportunity!
Date
Mon 07/10/06, 8:37 pm EST
