Not Much for Pre-Game

You may be shocked by this...I LOVE SPORTS!  The first thing I do every morning is go to 4 or 5 different sports sites for my daily fix.  Before I go to bed at night I frequent the same 4 or 5 sites so I can sleep soundly knowing all of the up to the minute scores and stories.  If I am being honest I will admit that if one of my favorite sports teams is in action I may as well not even go to bed until the game is over.  If I do go to bed I will most likely have a hard time falling asleep and if I do fall asleep my mind will wake me up because it needs to know the score.  It’s a curse.  Take for example last night, Wendy and the kids were watching Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and I was watching the Sox.  I was really tired and went to bed around 9:30 with the Sox winning 9-3.  I passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow.   Around 11:00 pm my brain summoned me for a final score.  Thankfully the sports gods invented the iPhone and without much work I was able to see that the Sox had won 12-4..back to sleep.  Ask Wendy about the old days when I would turn the TV on a 2am when the Sox were on the west coast to see if they won or lost...
    As you can see I am a pretty hard-core sports fan.  There is one thing about sports I really don't have much of a stomach for.  PRE GAME SHOWS...Believe it or not I just realized that fact after 3X years on the planet.  What’s the point of the Pre-Game show?  Other than telling me about a last minute injury what possibly can a Pre Game show tell me that I don't already know?  I know if Josh Beckett is pitching the Sox have a better than 75% chance of winning.  Am I missing something here?  Why do I need to invest another 60 minutes in a Pre Game to hear talking heads debate the final outcome?
    Does it get any worse than Superbowl Sunday?  You can't watch the TV without getting an opinion.  This past Superbowl Sunday I turned on the TV and Martha Stewart was telling me why the Patriots would win????  In an hour of Pre Game for the Superbowl you heard this: Pats will win big, Pats will win in a close game, Giants will win a close game, Giants will win big, the Pats will be able to run, the Pats won't be able to run...I could go on and on but I will spare you.  The point is every angle is represented so what is there really to learn?
    I do offer one caveat.  Bill Simmons!  He is my long lost sports soul brother.  I will always read his predictions.  Did you know that a bird pooped on me the same day a bird pooped on Bill?  That fateful day in 2004 was the day after the Sox went down 0-3 to the Yankees.  The Sox never lost again.  Sorry I digress.
    As for today there will be no Pre Game shows for me.  My mind is made up as to how the big game will go.  My TV will turn on at 1:00pm.  Mom, are you coming over?

Comments

[audra]

I may need advice from Wendy. Not only does Matt get up in the middle of the night to check the scores he also has to turn on the computer to check how his fantasy baseball team is doing!!

[Mom]

Love you and all your little quirks! You are your father's son, only you have carried the sports thing one step further then Dad did. By the way, I'm there right behind you except I don't disect the sports teams as much as you do.

[K-Sea]

Audra, get him an iPhone. He can go under the covers and get his scores.

[Lisa K.]

Isn't that weird? I'm a huge fan of all things Sox, Pats and Celts but I also hate all manner of pre-game shows and refuse to watch them. Especially Red Sox ones, because I feel like it's just another way the Sox ownership is trying to sell me something.

Now having said that....GO GREEN!

[Lisa K.]

I also refuse to watch the "press conferences" after the games as well. How many times can Terry Francona be forced to say "he's seeing the ball real well" or "he really got good wood on that one"? It's insanity.

[Lisa K.]

Simmons is the man, despite the fact that he totally jinxed the Pats in the Super Bowl.

[Audra]

Shaun: He doesn't need an iPhone he just uses mine! When he is afraid that he will wake me with the computer - b/c now its in the bedroom - he uses Sugarbottomthat's what we call my iPhone - well he calls me Sugarbottom too - its complicated and there is alot of PDA involved when he says Sugarbottom.

Audra, both you and Shaun have issues...different issues, but issues all the same.

Shaun, I love you, but you are quirky.

[t5m]

You and my husband - cut from the same clothe (just different color). Hee, bad racial joke there. Both are rediculous with the sports and the Bill Simmons idolatry. BUT, love you both - AND it's better than having a female mistress.

So....we all know that you're a sports fan, the real question at hand is whether your "liberal" or "conservative"?!

Oh, and btw, there is no such thing as a "sports god", or an Easter bunny for that matter.

[The Sports God]

WAIT!! There's no such thing as the Easter Bunny???!!! WTF? Who ate the carrots I left out then??