(Get) A Sporting Life

Shit gets you down. A lot of shit gets you way down. And sometimes sports doesn't give you a break from shit, it only piles it higher and deeper. Granted my shit baseline is pretty deep these days. I've been unemployed for ten months and, if employers are to be believed, I'm simply unemployable unless 'you'd like fries with that' becomes my career path. So, you can imagine how "helpful" it is to me to sit down and watch Adam Wainwright blow out his Achilles tendon, or to hear the news last autumn about Oscar Taveras. And then we get to the St. Louis Blues. There is no way I can do a post-mortem because I simply cannot stand it or them anymore. They have mattered so much to me since I was a 10 year old kid that they have used me up. It turns out 36 years of futility is my limit. It is impossible for me to believe someone could be a fan, and I mean a real fan, and last longer than I did. Every year they trot out some Cubs "fan" who claims 70 ...

Thoughts after 30 minutes, Barca up 1 nil: Barcelona looks to be in a different class from Arsenal. Nasri needs to be subbed off sooner rather than later. Arsenal looks to be not only outclassed but frightened. Messi missed an easy chance. He won't miss a second. We shall see what the next half hour will bring.

So I checked what the Game Of The Week on FOX was here in SW Florida, naturally expecting to find a key playoff-determining game - probably the Twins/Royals since the former train here (and for that matter the Royals used to ). Silly me. I forgot the Yanks and BoSox were playing a meaningless game, which means they have to be on my TV. Fuck.  I guess it turned out that the game was postponed and I have no idea what they ended up broadcasting because by that time I had unenthusiastically cued up the Arsenal/Hull City match that I had recorded. What a game. A 2-1 Hull upset at The Emirates no less where the Gunners haven't lost in forever and haven't conceded a goal this season. Geovanni's strike for the equalizer was nothing short of magnificent and will make the EPL's highlight reel for the season, as will Myhill's save in extra time to preserve the win. So MLB (aka Bud Selig) can once again kiss my hairy ass. And fuck me if my Illini didn't just hold on defense...