Monday, April 14, 2008
Sports Fans
Let me be the first to admit, that I'm not much of a sports fan. I like to watch pro football and soccer and know enough about most sports to at least follow a conversation between others about it. I know what an eagle and bogie are, what a screen pass is, that you have to hit a red ball before a numbered ball, the significance of "180!" and "full pull" and why you do a burnout prior to a quarter-mile run.
On the other hand, I don't quite know what the infield fly or dropped third strike rules are, why a drop kick is or isn't used, why hockey players are allowed to fight, or when is touching a foul in basketball and when isn't it.
Given that, I find the extremes of many sport fans had to believe. We have a few die-hard baseball fans in our office. The state team, the Detroit Tigers, is 2 and 10 as of today. From what I've read, they've spent obscene amounts of cash on super baseball players (the second highest payroll in the overinflated salary world of MLB) and were selected by Sports Illustrated (the magazine with the annual babes in bikinis issue) as winning it all. So far, even to my unexpert eye, they've sucked. But there's always fans who never say die, like the one blogger who said about the Tigers, "The good news is they are 2 of their last 5." And this line is what inspired this entry in the first place.
I guess that's why the only difference between fans and fanatics is what's in their attic.
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