Baseball 2011
I was going to make some 2011 baseball predictions, but (a) I really don't know enough to make educated guesses and (b) I really don't care.
And considering how obsessed I used to be about baseball, it's weird. I have a ton of baseball cards and books, and was a huge fan of fantasy baseball (Hell, draft day used to be one of my favorite days of the year)
But now... it's not even 'meh'. It's 'ugh'.
Maybe it's just because I've given up hope that the teams I root for (The Indians and Cubs) will ever win and that the game is too biased towards the teams that can outspend the smaller market teams (sports seems to be the one area that I'm a Socialist)
I don't think that steroids themselves were the problem, but I think that the concentrated effort of people to pretend that the 90's and ealy 00's didn't exist is really disheartening. Look, I think Barry Bonds is as much of a jerk as anyone, but I still think he should be given credit as one of the best players ever.
I don't know what it is, exactly. And because I can't tell you why I lost interest in the game so dramatically, I have no idea when (or if) I'll get back into it.
But it won't be this year.
And considering how obsessed I used to be about baseball, it's weird. I have a ton of baseball cards and books, and was a huge fan of fantasy baseball (Hell, draft day used to be one of my favorite days of the year)
But now... it's not even 'meh'. It's 'ugh'.
Maybe it's just because I've given up hope that the teams I root for (The Indians and Cubs) will ever win and that the game is too biased towards the teams that can outspend the smaller market teams (sports seems to be the one area that I'm a Socialist)
I don't think that steroids themselves were the problem, but I think that the concentrated effort of people to pretend that the 90's and ealy 00's didn't exist is really disheartening. Look, I think Barry Bonds is as much of a jerk as anyone, but I still think he should be given credit as one of the best players ever.
I don't know what it is, exactly. And because I can't tell you why I lost interest in the game so dramatically, I have no idea when (or if) I'll get back into it.
But it won't be this year.