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Broncos training camp opens July 29th.
First preseason game is the Hall of Fame Game on August 5th.
Between now and then…it is sports purgatory. It’s not hell, but it’s not heaven either. There is baseball - which I’m just not digging this year.
RABBIT TRAIL
The Elders and Pastors were talking about what would bring baseball back to the limelight of the sports. (Yes, we talk about other substantive issues but all work and no play makes for miserable working conditions.)
I think it was Ray who said - have Barry Bonds hit 755 but just as he rounds third base have the police run out on the field and arrest him for steroids or perjury or whatever. Have it planned so that Selig and Aaron could be there, have the place go nuts for Aaron instead.
If that happened…I’d return to baseball for life.
END OF RABBIT TRAIL
Sports Heaven is January/February/March - college bowl games, NFL playoffs, March Madness.
Sports Hell is April/May/June - We get a few days off during the opening week of baseball but after that - does baseball really matter in May and June.
Somebody is going to note that the NBA finals take place in June to which I say - exactly. I’m a Spurs fan (from the days of David Robinson) and even with them winning this year - it was painful to watch. The NBA game is so much slower and less passionate than the NCAA version. Why is that? It’s the same sport (theoretically), right?
This is purgatory. The upswing starts in August.
I can make it. I can make it. I can make it.
4 responses so far ↓
1 loren k // Jul 12, 2007 at 2:52 pm
you know…i would have really liked to have seen lebron play some of the ol’ college ball.
in many ways i have a grudge against him. he stole that from me.
people who grew up when michael was playing college ball will remember that, not so for my generation and lebron.
aye, the sadness.
2 ray // Jul 12, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I ache for your suffering heart. Ache, I tells ya. Sports purgatory is a matter of perpective. In baseball though, every one of those games do indeed count. Take the final week of the season - this year it will be soooo sweet to see the Yankees miss the wild card by a game or watch the Giants twist in the wind in the NL West. Yes - it is a long season - but then, for those of us who love a long after noon at the ball yard - November to April can be such a long, long, long, longggggggggggggg winter. Selah.
3 Chris // Jul 14, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Yes! Yes! I dream as well…
You’re right this is such a tough time to be a sports fan. I am worrying myself to death snooping for new insights/news about my Buccaneers!
4 jill // Jul 17, 2007 at 1:18 pm
you obviously haven’t lived in atlanta. baseball love lasts all summer. and i wish it would go away.
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