I have been a fan of professional sports all my life and have become quite dismayed to see the various professional sports enterprises devolve into subsidiaries of the gambling and entertainment industries. Neither of these two behemoths has much to do with the principles of sport, fair play, respect for opponents, adherence to coherent rules, and as a result they have tarnished them perhaps irreversibly.
One consequence of this has been the rise of "sports talk radio", a subsidiary of all talk radio, where you will hear some the most uninformed, bigoted, delusional, and just plain stupid commentary you'll ever hear. And then there's the folks who call in.
These people are not fans, they're consumers. There's a lot of intelligent things that can be said about the state of professional sports today, but not in the mass media. They are all part of the industry and they certainly don't want the consumer thinking.
So this is part therapy, part outrage, and part attempt to find some more intelligent commentary. I plan to post once a week at first just to see how it goes. Hopefully I can ramp that up over time. Friday will be post day.
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