I’ve been neglecting my sideblogs lately. Most notably News and Sports. If you only knew how odd that seems, coming from an avowed news and sports junkie.
But I’ve lost my stomach for national news these days. It is so dominated by this unjust and unnecessary bullshit war Bush created that every day it’s just more lies coming out of the White House that I can’t take it any more. I just want the election to happen tomorrow so I can vote his ass out of office and this fucking nightmare will be over. Hopefully. I don’t want to pay attention. I don’t need to pay attention. Until I hear that Bush is gone, it’s all noise.
So, I have little to comment on. Maybe I’ll start writing about other news items, or look at local New York City stuff or business or fluff news like the mainstream media does. But I won’t be covering world and national because it just pisses me the fuck off.
Sports is another story.
We’re in that strange period. Baseball is too early in the season to be of any importance. The overblown, drawn out NBA playoffs are NEVER important enough to care about until the last game of the championship series. Until then it’s too many best 4 out of 7 early rounds with too many mediocre teams. (College basketball with its single game elimination tournament style is so much more exciting, I think.) And the NHL, which often does give us exciting playoff games, devoid of the unnecessary roughness seen in regular season games, isn’t holding my interest either. Four teams are left that I just don’t care about.
The reality is, I really only live for football. Training camps open in late July and I can’t wait.
There’s a summer of political party conventions ahead, including the sure-to-be-protested GOP convention here in NYC just blocks away from my office. Baseball will be fun after the All-Star break. Maybe I’ll think of something to write about by then.
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You are so right about Bush, watching the news sickens me these days… We need to get him out…
I refuse to get mad about Bush anymore.
You sound like me talking about football. I am so disapointed that there hasn’t been more movement after June 1. I set up these little milestones to get myself through (draft weekend, mini camps, free agency, traning camp, pre-season, then finally the season) the off season and this one has been particularly sparse. Of course everyone is talking about my Titans maybe cutting Eddie George. That’s one football story I’m getting tired of hearing.
You’re a Giants man aren’t you? What do you think about the probably acquisition of Kurt Warner?
Re: Kurt Warner to the Giants. I find it ironic that the Giants were the team that caused him the most trouble over the past two seasons. What did they sack him, about a dozen times in two games? Plus a concussion?
I wonder if he’s physically up to the job. What toll have all those concussions had on him? Can he still grip the ball, with that broken thumb?