SOMETIMES I WONDER....



Canada. We can't hate it, or at least we shouldn't. Hell, most people outside of New England, thinks Maine is basically part of Canada or something along those lines. Unfortunately, Canada keeps giving us reasons to. Not our fault at this point. One of these cases is the pointless "sport" of curling. Canadians are crazy about this sport. I think it's because it involves ice, just my opinion. Curling, shown in the video below, is kind of a shuffleboard-type game except the surface of play is ice. People on ice skates try to keep a clean sliding surface by sweeping ahead of the moving object. Anyway, this is an Olympic "sport". Do I know why? Does anyone know why? No. I just hate how the Olympics can now consist of "sports" that people make up and just because they're kind of hard or seem impossible, the "experts" consider an Olympic "sport". No more! Old Olympics is all we need, maybe except including baseball. I'm tired of curling being in the Olympics and baseball isn't. I'm done with it!


STUPID CURLING

GOOOOAAAAALLLLL!



Why isn't "soccer" popular in the United States? No one cares or seems to care. Kids all across the nation seem to have a vested interest in the sport but yet little seem to care after high school. Major League Soccer (MLS) is almost forgotten about by major America. Highlights of their games are rarely even shown on Sportscenter on ESPN unless there is some ridiculous goal but yet in Europe if you refer to the sport as "soccer" and not futbol, it's a crime. Even if you don't like the sport regardless what you call it, your life might be in jeoparody. What makes me more angry that it's not popular in the United States, is that it's so crazy obsessive in Europe. I'm not shy about it, I hate the sport. I know the rules and I get the game so it's not ignorance. It's just not exciting at all except for the two times there is a goal scored a game. It's a monster across the pond and an annoying fly that wakes you up in the morning here and I'm tired of it! Ideas to fix that are always welcomed.

INSTANT REPLAY



Major League Baseball over the last couple of years has instituted an instant replay feature ONLY for homeruns. I don't like it. It's not necessary. Look, I get what it's trying to do and MLB executives want the managers and players to stop crying when a call doesn't go their way so they try to make everyone happy with an instant replay. Unlike football though, rules for baseball have barely changed over the last hundred years or so. Football instituted instant replay because the pace of the game is a lot faster than it used to be and the officials sometimes have a hard time keeping up with it so they need cameras to help them out. The rules in the NFL have changed about every year and it is a game of inches all over the field. So the percentage of making a mistake is pretty high therefore instant replay is a reasonable solution. I just don't like how instant replay has taken away from that human error part of baseball and kind of makes the umpires feel insecure, as they should. I want the integrity of baseball maintained and no more instant replay. Even if that means 2 or 3 less homeruns for my favorite team a year. I can handle it.

IS THERE A DRAFT IN HERE?



One of the biggest days of the NFL season is the day of the NFL draft. College football players that were superior in college, now get a chance to play for money. It's a great opportunity for them and the NFL gains youth. The football season usually runs from August with pre-season to late January or early February. The NFL draft occurs in April. The coverage of the draft lasts, oh I would say about, nine months out of the year. Really? Believe it. It's uncalled for. Sportscenter on ESPN constantly has "experts" like Mel Kipper Jr. and Todd McShay on to explain who the first five or ten players are going in the draft. We all know. It's a pretty easy guess. Well this team gets the first pick cause they suck so how about they take the best player available? It can't hurt. Then the actual day of the draft comes and it's like 348925 days long and annoying. Then there is constant analysis and scrutiny from the "experts". A few days before the draft is fine for coverage and maybe a day or two of re-cap after, that's it! The draft is huge, but we can make it a less-than-one-week event. Easily.

JUST B. U.

In sports, as in life, it seems like just when all is lost, something happens that makes the hope arise within and different things start adding up and coming together. At the lowest point, giving up seems like a great choice but then something hits you and forces you to keep trying and maybe, just maybe, something postive might happen. That's what happened to Boston University on April 11th in the College Hockey National Championship game against the University of Miami in Ohio. Miami had a 3-1 lead with a minute left and gave it up! How does that happen?! It shouldn't, but it did. Overtime was enforced and Boston came out on top. It wasn't supposed to happen Miami! How do you even let that happen?! Concentrate for crying out loud! They hadn't scored two goals all game let alone being able to score two in less than a minute! Congrats to Boston and maybe some talent was involved, but I doubt it. That shouldn't happen....EVER!

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?




No, I do not reside in Seattle, but I am in New England. Here's my deal; I don't complain about weather nearly as much as most New Englanders. The weather sucks to put it politely. It's not shocking to wake up in late April and see a little snow coming down. This is another reason why it can suck to be a Red Sox fan. Opening day is an awesome time in the baseball season and is nearly as exciting as the World Series itself. I, unlike many optimistic Boston fans, prepare myself mentally for opening day. I know that there is around a 78% chance that Boston, unless away from home, will not actually open on opening day and it's starting to get slightly irratating. "Hey dude, the Red Sox open up on Monday and I can't WAIT!" says intoxicated and overly excited buddy the weekend before opening day. That's not me. I hate setting myself up for disappointment. Hyping myself up for an actual baseball game on the date scheduled for opening day is not on my agenda. I hype myself up for the day after the scheduled opening day and even that's risky. This year proved me right once again but, nevertheless, leaves an awkward taste in my mouth. "Opening Day" means: "opening day?.....maybe?.....we don't really know yet." I'm tired of it!

"WOULD YOU PLEASE MOVE THAT GIGANTIC COTTON CANDY!"



One of life's luxuries is being able to enjoy a sporting event live right at the site of competition. One of life's many unnecessary distractions is a disrupted view of that particular sporting event. Fenway Park, one of the worlds wonders, is a great place for a baseball game for not only you, but an entire family. Everyone there loooves the Red Sox and is just there to have a good time. A good time though, can easily be turned into unfortunate series of violent actions. Fenway is famous for not having a bad seat in the place, but there is always a downside to every perk. In this case, people in the stadium are packed pretty tightly together and when a beer or other Fenway commodity is needed, it forces others in the row to have to stand up and allow the passer-by through. With my luck, this happens in front of me constantly throughout the game, EVERY TIME. It never fails! Luckily, I'm a fairly nice guy in person and not while I'm here blogging, so I bite my tongue and move on with my luckless life. Other guys, mainly Boston natives, feel the need to get very angry and cause a fight whether it's verbal or physical. This, in my oponion, is well deserved and well needed. Obnoxious pieces of equipment like cotton candy or an umbrella or whatever you may bring to ballpark takes away from the game. Cut it out and wait until between innings or something! SIT DOWN UP FRONT!