WHY WE WRITE

This story seems a little overblown, but it's interesting, nonetheless.

Similar, personal story: my wife and I thought about postponing our wedding because we'd heard it the weekend of a Cardinals-Cubs series, in which case her dad and I wouldn't have been able to be in the same room, much less become family. We were wrong about the schedule, so everything went ahead as planned.

Stories like this are why I'm so interested in the moral, political, and social dimensions of sports. Sports just affect us so much, even if we're not sports fans, even if we can't see how they're affecting us. Sometimes, it's because we're letting them affect us too much; we let it get personal or worse, tribal. Sometimes, it's that the actors in the sports are getting too myopic and not seeing how they hurt the sport, the fans, or even themselves. And sometimes- quite often, I would say- the sports affect us, and it's harmless, maybe even beneficial.

In each case, it's worth exploring. It's worth identifying what's what, and calling out the people responsible. Because sports and our obsession with them aren't going away- or at least, they aren't going to without a lot of discussion.

Programming Notes

Later today, or maybe tomorrow, I'll write a pretentious "What does it all mean?" wrap for the World Series. SPOILER ALERT: I'm not angry. I can't really focus on it right now, 'cause, y'know, I'm not angry.

In about half an hour, I'll start watching Illinois @ Penn State. I have high hopes- college football has WAY more hypocritical bullshit than other sports, and I'm an Illini, so when they start playing like boiled lobsters, I'll be amusingly upset for you.

Bottom line, I'm going to keep doing this. I think a few people like this, and most importantly, I'm one of them. So let's go.

HAPPY FLIGHT!

Colby Watches Sports

I like to watch sports. I like to say dumb things about them while I'm watching them. And, if I'm particularly invested in a certain game, I freak out over it in ways that some* of my friends have called "mildly amusing, if I have absolutely nothing better to do."

*- One.


So I'm going to put some of those things on this blog, if only to quit polluting my friends'* Facebook and Twitter feed.

*-Friend. I've only got one.


I might also put other crap up here. I like thinking about the structure, economics, laws, and communities surrounding sports, too. So if I have anything particularly profound to say about that*, I'll put it up here, too.

*- I won't. But it'll be something I think is profound, and this is the fucking blogosphere, self-aggrandizement is the coin of the realm.


One more thing: I'll curse. Quite a bit. So watch out for that, ankle-fuckers.