The Worst Sports Day of the Year
It’s bad enough for the five months baseball isn’t in season, but at least during that drought there are the other three major sports going on to make up for the loss (I refuse to acknowledge NASCAR as bigger than the NHL). But a day in the middle of the Major League Baseball season with absolutely no games equals one bored son of a bitch. On the other hand, the episodes of Burn Notice I watched in lieu of the Mets were no doubt less painful.
It’s just amazing how much of a wasteland this yearly hole in the middle of July is. After no doubt talking about the All-Star Game for much longer than it deserved, ESPN must have had the British Open starting tomorrow as the news of the day. I’m sure they would’ve preferred Steve McNair to have been killed yesterday — would’ve filled the void well.
Oh wait, there’s the Tour De France, and Lance Armstrong is in it again! That’s news, right? Or do we not care until it’s official that he’s won again? I guess it’s the latter, considering the actual race probably gets less viewers in the U.S. than cup stacking tournaments. I watched one of those during a lunch break once. It was fairly impressive. Those kids need to be distributed to bars across the country to set up and clean up beer pong tables in 2.1 seconds.
Tomorrow the grind starts up again, both for the Mets fan in me, and my fantasy teams. I have to say that my fantasy teams are performing above expectations — the opposite of the Mets. I’d trade my two first-place rankings for Oliver Perez to walk less than a batter an inning tomorrow. That contract is working out. Sigh.
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