Hello Celebritys

Ok, as great as this summer has been for sports, I need it to be over. It started off great with all the college football realignment rumors, and then we had NBA free agency, the World Cup, and couple other things I am forgetting right now. All of that was great and entertaining. I am bored now though.

Baseball is not interesting and does not entertain me. I hope the Rangers have success, and I hope they make a deep playoff run, but I just can’t get into them. I can’t take it anymore! I need football season to get here ASAP!!

Cowboys training camp gets underway on Saturday, TCU starts up at the beginning of August, and that helps some, but it still doesn’t fill the void of real games. I need some action, because this is getting boring.

This is a day I always dread. This day starts what is the longest, most boring sports season in all of sports...Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season.

I will never get peoples fascination with baseball. If you like playing it, that is one thing, but I just don’t see how people sit down and watch a baseball game. It is the slowest, longest, most boring, most drawn out thing I have ever seen. Hey, let me sit around while it takes you 15 minutes to walk from the bullpen, then throw 35 warm up pitches. Weren’t you just warming up in the bullpen?

I also HATE that there is no time limit. Yes, they have nine innings, but those nine innings could take two hours or six days. You never know.

Add in the fact that it’s the most individualistic team sport there is, and my interest level drops way below zero.

I’ve been saying that this is THE worse day in sports, but it can be debatable. Another terrible day in sports is when the NBA and NHL seasons are over and it’s just baseball all..summer…longggg…. There are no other sports going on so it is all you see on SportsCenter and they run that damn Baseball Tonight show all the time. I CAN’T HANDLE IT!!

This is a day I always dread. This day starts what is the longest, most boring sports season in all of sports...Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season.

I will never get peoples fascination with baseball. If you like playing it, that is one thing, but I just don’t see how people sit down and watch a baseball game. It is the slowest, longest, most boring, most drawn out thing I have ever seen. Hey, let me sit around while it takes you 15 minutes to walk from the bullpen, then throw 35 warm up pitches. Weren’t you just warming up in the bullpen?

I also HATE that there is no time limit. Yes, they have nine innings, but those nine innings could take two hours or six days. You never know.

Add in the fact that it’s the most individualistic team sport there is, and my interest level drops way below zero.

I’ve been saying that this is THE worse day in sports, but it can be debatable. Another terrible day in sports is when the NBA and NHL seasons are over and it’s just baseball all..summer…longggg…. There are no other sports going on so it is all you see on SportsCenter and they run that damn Baseball Tonight show all the time. I CAN’T HANDLE IT!!

From RealGM.com

Manny Ramirez is endorsing an energy drink named "Sum Poosie," according to Dylan Hernandez from the Los Angeles Times.

I think this is hilarious and just another example of “Manny being Manny.”

From RealGM.com

Manny Ramirez is endorsing an energy drink named "Sum Poosie," according to Dylan Hernandez from the Los Angeles Times.

I think this is hilarious and just another example of “Manny being Manny.”

I was reading the DallasNews.com Sports Media Blog yesterday and Bary Horn had this posting:

With TBS' division series playoffs two days old, I just asked Turner Sports where D-FW fits among the 56 major markets metered for overnight ratings results. I figured we'd be close to the bottom of the barrel and the worst market with a major league team. I was almost dead on.

Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 54 with a per-game rating of 1.4. That translates into about 35,560 homes. Only Tulsa and Houston, home of the Astros, have shown more disinterest.

Now as you know, I hate baseball and there are a lot of other people out there that feel the same way, but those numbers were pretty shocking to me. I knew this wasn’t a big baseball area, but I expected there to be more interest.

That got me thinking, which sports phrase is more outdated…Baseball being called “America’s pastime” or the Dallas Cowboys being called “Americas Team?” Just think about it.

Let’s look at “America’s Pastime” first. We all know that baseball has been around forever and used to be one of the hottest things around, but it isn’t like that anymore. There is a whole generation of people who fell out of love with baseball. Whether it be because it is boring, or the cheating, or whatever. It has become less popular. I think most people would agree that football is now the most popular sport in the U.S. and should be labeled accordingly. NFL and College Football dominate the TV, newspapers, radio, etc…So should football be considered “America’s pastime?” I think it has more of an argument than baseball does now.

Now, onto the Cowboys and being called “Americas Team.” As a Cowboys fan it hurts me to say it, but the Cowboys haven’t been relevant on the field for over a decade. They haven’t won a playoff game in ages and can no longer say they have the most Super Bowl Trophies. So, if they haven’t been productive, how can they be “Americas Team?” Yes, the still dominate TV ratings and sell a lot of merchandise, but if they aren’t winning, are they still relevant enough to have that label? Should the Steelers carry that label now?

I have been thinking about this for a while now, and it is hard for me to make a choice. There is really no right or wrong answer, but I am trying to make an unbiased decision. I feel like with the Cowboys still being the most watched football team and how much they are in the news, they have a more legit argument for being called “Americas Team” versus baseball claiming they are “America’s pastime.” We all know baseball isn’t the most popular sport anymore.