I Hate Sports Right Now
I hate sports right now. And I’m starting to suspect I have for a long time.
Dead dogs and gambling, that’s what put me over the edge. But don’t get me wrong, Michael Vick and Tim Donaghy aren’t the reason I hate sports, they’ve just revealed it. They’re just the most recent examples of both institutional and individual failures that have finally broken me down.
I’m sick of writing and reading about steroids. (The irony of the site’s name is not lost on me.) Some guy on the Tour de France gets suspended. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. Golf is going to start testing. Fantastic! It’s the same thing all the time, isn’t it? I get it, nothing’s real anymore. Even Bear is a fucking fraud. And I’m OK with all of this. I was perfectly fine with everything being a charade. Charades is a game, so is baseball, bicycling, whatever. Steroids doesn’t explain why I don’t like sports. Steroids haven’t made sports less fun. Could it then be the constant steroid coverage then? They’re certainly self-important enough to kill any love I ever had for anything. I’m looking at you Curt Schilling. Everything in my lifetime of watching sports has been a sham, apparently. I could come to terms with that, if only everyone would stop telling me about it all the time.
But even then, there still should be amusement somewhere, couldn’t there? Bengals getting arrested just no longer amuses me. I can’t take the A-Rod is gay jokes anymore. (Mostly because the majority of them just aren’t that funny.) All that peripheral stuff. And that’s all there is right now. Probably, it’s the fact that it’s the sports death valley of July that’s making me realize that sports just aren’t doing it for me. There’s just baseball games that don’t really matter that much.
And there it is. All this stuff that gets me down. None of it is actually sports. It’s the stuff around sports. It’s Michael Vick’s disturbing private life and Barry Bonds training regimen. Of course it’s depressing, because at that point it’s just news. News sucks. That’s why we turned to the sports section in the first place, skipping the front page, because news sucks. The front page is serious tales of layoffs, death, and politics. Each is worse than the one before. It was nice to read about grown man in pajamas hitting balls with bats, etc.
But sports now isn’t about box scores, it’s about police blotters. Which makes me realize, it’s just a game, but it’s not the game that’s got me down.
It’s everything else.
So, I’m going outside to play some sports. Talk to you tomorrow.
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