Posted on 07/28/2020 4:09:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
At the outset, I have to say that I’ve never been the biggest sports fan on the planet. So it isn’t a big sacrifice for me to say I’m not going to watch professional sports this year, or maybe ever again. I never actively shunned pro sports, and as a kid I wouldn’t have missed a Tigers or Lions game for just about anything in the world, I just found other things to do as I got older. But I’d wander back for interesting games or championships – there are few things a person isn’t directly involved with that are as exciting as a contest between great athletes when the stakes are high. But with the embrace of radicals like Black Lives Matter by all the leagues, I’m going to make a point of not watching any of it.
I won’t miss basketball at all. The game is boring. I know it’s “fast-paced,” but it’s really not. It takes forever and all that matters is the last two minutes. Each team seems to get 50 timeouts, which sometimes allows them to take the ball out at half-court rather than under the basket. I never cared enough to find out why.
It’s also just not exciting. The first time you saw a buzzer-beating shot to win a game may have been exciting, but haven’t you seen it a thousand times by now? And how many times can anyone get worked up over a 7-foot-tall guy with long arms jumping a foot to slam a ball through a hoop? It seems like everything spectacular that could be done already has been. It’s up and down the court like a really boring tennis match.
That the league has decided to overtake the NFL as the most-woke league in the world only made my resolve harder. That they’re going to paint “Black Lives Matter” and have messages on the backs of their jersey, and undoubtedly protest during the national anthem, killed what little interest I had in even knowing who won the championship.
As for the NFL, again, I don’t care. I didn’t grow up with a professional football team, I grew up with the Detroit Lions. Watching perpetual basement dwellers dwell in the basement is about as exciting as it sounds. The Lions have won one playoff game in the Super Bowl era (in 1991) and only make the playoffs via fluke.
Professional football for me is a distraction on the TV on Sundays – I don’t really look at the action unless it sounds like something exciting is happening. When the kneeling during the anthem started, I stopped even doing that. Now that they’ve gone all-in for Black Lives Matter, I’ll find something else to play in the background.
Baseball is back already (though games are being canceled due to COVID-19 outbreaks), and aside from videos on Twitter, I haven’t bothered to care. A 60-game season does mean anyone can win the World Series this year, but whoever does win will be there prostrating themselves on the altar of a bunch of left-wing radicals. I love baseball, but I love my country more.
It’s not that baseball players are kneeling during the anthem, it’s that the league has caved to the mob and brought politics onto the field. All these leagues have.
Sports served as a distraction from whatever else was happening in the world and our lives, now it’s the manifestation of the Democratic Party’s demands of conformity. I’m not interested in conformity. A bunch of different colored like-minded drones chanting anti-American slogans is not my idea of diversity.
If I want to be preached to, I’ll call a priest, not millionaires who play a game for a living. If I want to learn something, I’ll read a book, not seek out the “feelings” of someone in a profession known for having proxies take their classes for them. And if I want a distraction from the stress of daily life, I’ll practice self-dentistry before I give these pampered, privileged narcissists a second of my time.
Personally, if their whole seasons collapsed and had to be canceled because they snuck an infected super-spreader into their bubble, I’d be just fine with that.
Sports could have been bigger than ever, more important than ever, and could have helped bring the country together during the pandemic by being the distraction people need from everything we’ve lost. Instead, like everything else, liberal politics was rammed into it to the point that it’s just another appendage of the Democratic Party. You couldn’t pay me to be a Democrat, I sure as hell am not about to fund any of their fellow travelers. Until they get the politics out of sports, I’m getting the sports out of my
There isn't a lot of "woke" going on watching mostly white men strolling around America's country clubs every weekend.
-PJ
As is true with most things in life...the sports are talking themselves to Hell, no one is required to send them to where they are willingly going...
Me?
NCAA Track & Field
Golf highlights
Pro Ping pong
Bull Riding
NCAA wrestling
Biathelons
Do I watch these? Well since TV has morphed into subscriptions. Rarely.
Basketball: Flip a coin and the winner wins the game by two points.
Baseball: Take a nap for 3hrs and the team from CA, NY or TX wins.
Football: Who cares, its all rigged anyway to grab $$$ from gamblers.
I’ve now saved Americans billions of dollars and you don’t have to pay me a cent.
I couldn't agree more!!
I'm on it!!!
My father hated professional sports. He believe that they were all fixed. As he said about the NFL “Why should I watch a lot of millionaires pretend to hurt themselves?” I didn’t believe him until I saw the Injuries in College Football and the lack of same in the NFL. He even said baseball was fixed. The only sport he watched was professional wrassling —why because he knew it was fixed and all done for show. He watched the Olympics until the “Dream Teams” replaced the amateurs. It got to “Professional.” He has gone to his reward—and I am glad he is dead so he missed what his nation has become. He predicted this in a way— In the Cuban Missile Crisis he told me. “The day will come when Russia isn’t Communists, and Americans will flee to Russia for Freedom” I laughed at him—Now I am not so sure.
If you are streaming from a service (be it Hulu or something else) you don’t need DVR.
DVR’s are part of the old cable-TV mindset, where they decide when and how you can watch a show.
Streaming means you decide when to watch and includes the ability to stop, rewind, or ever pause and then continue watching the show 3 days later at 4 AM.
“One of the goals of Communists is to eliminate sports and the concept of a manly man. They are succeeding.”
Or failing?
One of the unintended consequences of destroying pro & college spectator sports is more people will actively participate in sports.
I’m going to predict the number of people who are active in golf, cycling, tennis, bowling, hunting, target shooting, jogging, weight training and such will increase over the next year.
I just loaned my four kayaks to a friend. He wants to buy some but there are none to be found.
Yes, I am done.
I have been a big sports fan most of my life. No more. Will never watch even one NBA or NFL match again.
It’s a totally “non essential” service. Too many ways to enjoy the rest of my life without professional sports. .
I ’m going to predict the number of people who are active in golf, cycling, tennis, bowling, hunting, target shooting, jogging, eight training and such will increase over the next year.
I agree, and if college football players and coaches pull this crap, I won’t watch those games, either.
I’m a 4th generation STL Cards fan, and I found the address of the executive offices, so I’m going to write them a letter telling them I’m done with MLB.
Here is the STL address and phone number:
Cardinals Executive Offices
Mailing Address:
700 Clark Street
St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: (314) 345-9600
Go to the MLB website, click on your favorite team, and you should be able to find the info for your team.
Kneeling shows their support for killing police officers and mass murderers and terrorists.
Probably mostly lesbians.
Hockey alone might be salvageable. No BLM BS as far as I can see.
Watched Pens/Flyers today - liked it.
Stephon Tuitt stood up to the mob. So did Ditka.
https://www.pdga.com/
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