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March Madness is upon us!!!
That time of year when our
TVs/News/Newspapers/Radios are consumed with College Basketball!
To say I could not care less would be an understatement! Let's say you took the amount I care and put it in a thimble, it would be like a tear in the ocean!!!! THAT is how little I care.
What I can't understand is why anyone else does???
Sure there is a certain affinity you may have for your Alma mater, but most of the guys I see losing their minds over this...may or may not have graduated HIGH SCHOOL!!!! PLEASE!!!
Yes, I understand the whole "bracket" thing...but I just don't get the level of investment they have in these teams!
I guess I am in the minority...I mean like black, Jewish, homosexual, double jointed, female astronaut with webbed toes minority!!!
I've never been a big "sports team" kinda guy!!! Rarely even watch televised sports. Oh, I'll watch football come fall...PRO football. Again, I have no interest or investment in college sports whatsoever!
Why?
One of my pet peeves (again there are many) is with sportscasters and the inane drivel they spout like it's the wisdom of the ages!!! Don't believe me?
Try paying attention the next time a game, any game is on. You'll hear such pearls of wisdom as these:
"Well Bob, if they hope to win they're going to have to maintain their lead" Captain Obvious.
"They're way behind at halftime Jim, they're going to have to score more points to pull out a win." Ya think?
"Larry, I talked to 'Superstar X' before the game and asked him what their strategy was to win against such a formidable team. He told me they hoped to play hard and outscore them!" Wow, really?
The other thing that bugs the shit out of me is the fools that yell at the players on the television!!!
At lunch I'll be sitting at my desk (which happens to be in the team room where the television is) working at my computer, sometimes whipping out this blog if I lost track of time. My back is to the TV. When I hear:
"SHOOT, SHOOT!!!"
"PASS...AW COME ON!!!"
"GET AROUND HIM...GO,GO,GO!!!"
I turn around and say "You guys know they can't hear you, right???"
All I get are blank stares...like I'M the idiot here!!!
March Madness means something completely different to me. Instead of being Mad for Basketball.
I'm MAD that it completely disrupts EVERYTHING, like it's actually important or makes a damn bit of difference!
Just an extra bit of bullshit to distract the masses from the things that ARE important...but this is not a political blog so I'll leave it at that!
Because I work second shift I have to DVR the shows I watch (not that many), problem is the DVR doesn't know if Duke VS Harvard runs into overtime so I record 30-45 mins of a game I don't care about instead of my show!
It wouldn't be that big a deal if those shows were also available "On Demand", even though I'd have to suffer through commercials, I get my show!
Thank God for the Mp3 player in my car I don't have to listen to the DJ's talk incessantly about it!!!
Put this crap on the "Sports" channels, and leave network TV and radio alone!
March Madness?
HELL YA I'M MAD!!!
Be Well Folks!!!
Beastly Bear
I can show up right in your "inbox"!
March Madness is upon us!!!
That time of year when our
TVs/News/Newspapers/Radios are consumed with College Basketball!
To say I could not care less would be an understatement! Let's say you took the amount I care and put it in a thimble, it would be like a tear in the ocean!!!! THAT is how little I care.
What I can't understand is why anyone else does???
Sure there is a certain affinity you may have for your Alma mater, but most of the guys I see losing their minds over this...may or may not have graduated HIGH SCHOOL!!!! PLEASE!!!
Yes, I understand the whole "bracket" thing...but I just don't get the level of investment they have in these teams!
I guess I am in the minority...I mean like black, Jewish, homosexual, double jointed, female astronaut with webbed toes minority!!!
I've never been a big "sports team" kinda guy!!! Rarely even watch televised sports. Oh, I'll watch football come fall...PRO football. Again, I have no interest or investment in college sports whatsoever!
Why?
One of my pet peeves (again there are many) is with sportscasters and the inane drivel they spout like it's the wisdom of the ages!!! Don't believe me?
Try paying attention the next time a game, any game is on. You'll hear such pearls of wisdom as these:
"Well Bob, if they hope to win they're going to have to maintain their lead" Captain Obvious.
"They're way behind at halftime Jim, they're going to have to score more points to pull out a win." Ya think?
"Larry, I talked to 'Superstar X' before the game and asked him what their strategy was to win against such a formidable team. He told me they hoped to play hard and outscore them!" Wow, really?
The other thing that bugs the shit out of me is the fools that yell at the players on the television!!!
At lunch I'll be sitting at my desk (which happens to be in the team room where the television is) working at my computer, sometimes whipping out this blog if I lost track of time. My back is to the TV. When I hear:
"SHOOT, SHOOT!!!"
"PASS...AW COME ON!!!"
"GET AROUND HIM...GO,GO,GO!!!"
I turn around and say "You guys know they can't hear you, right???"
All I get are blank stares...like I'M the idiot here!!!
March Madness means something completely different to me. Instead of being Mad for Basketball.
I'm MAD that it completely disrupts EVERYTHING, like it's actually important or makes a damn bit of difference!
Just an extra bit of bullshit to distract the masses from the things that ARE important...but this is not a political blog so I'll leave it at that!
Because I work second shift I have to DVR the shows I watch (not that many), problem is the DVR doesn't know if Duke VS Harvard runs into overtime so I record 30-45 mins of a game I don't care about instead of my show!
It wouldn't be that big a deal if those shows were also available "On Demand", even though I'd have to suffer through commercials, I get my show!
Thank God for the Mp3 player in my car I don't have to listen to the DJ's talk incessantly about it!!!
Put this crap on the "Sports" channels, and leave network TV and radio alone!
March Madness?
HELL YA I'M MAD!!!
Be Well Folks!!!
Beastly Bear
