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Two short sports rants
Posted by Doughboy on Aug 6th, 2009
2009
Aug 6
1. The AFL folded the other day. Shocking, considering ESPN’s endless hype, isn’t it? What will they now show on Tuesday nights in the summer? More poker and WNBA?
But seriously, how many football leagues have folded the past decade or two? At least four, maybe more. How many baseball and basketball leagues have done the same? Any? Needless to say, they’ll keep trying “minor” league football — and fail each time.
I maintain football is not nearly as popular as we’re told it is. It thrives thanks to a media that loves it and covers it incessantly (often ignoring any negative info), gambling, alcohol and most importantly, the fact that it’s played just once per week, therefore generating endless hype that causes even me — one who doesn’t enjoy the sport at alll — to have some interest by Sunday afternoon.
Play MLB only once per week and 90% of the stadiums would draw 80,000 fans or more.
2. How is it that Dodger fans continue to not just cheer, but idolize Manny Ramirez? I am not one of those who thinks steroids are a huge deal at this point, but in LA, they do show their idiocy by treating a cheater (remember, McGwire, Bonds, Clemens and many others have never tested positive while Manny has twice!) like a celebrity.
Oh wait, this is LA. They tend to celebrate villains and hypocrites in that culture. I happily left four years ago this week.
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