It's good to be a sports fan. We've evolved...at least I hope we have. For instance: last night I watched an epic game between the Twins and Red Sox. Sure it didn't end well, but man what a game. Then after the game, I flipped on the sound to the Heat/Mavs game. Again: Man what a game!
So here's how sports fans have evolved: before, we would spend endless hours today debating which sport was better based on these two case studies. But to do so, we would appeal to some objective truth that would classify one sport as being better. But there really isn't any objective truth, at least, no objective standard of truth that we can appeal to. Here's my point: the new sports fan is a post-modernist. He realizes that you really can't compare basketball to baseball, so he's left to enjoy both sports. And that's what I did last night. I enjoyed the Sox game, even though they lost and then watched an awesome Heat comeback. I implore you to to become post-modernist sports fans. Stop trying to tell me one game was better than the other because in doing that, you must tear down both games, and you no longer have the focus on what was good about them. Just enjoy the games.
The thing of it is: I won't recap the games for you because I don't think I could do justice to the narrative character of each one. And that's what else is great about sports. Each game is a story, with characters, struggles, plots and plot twists that no great writer, no matter how great, could ever pen.
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Finally, the game of tiddle-e-winks has a chance to grab some fans and serious coverage. Here are the dramatic play-by-play results from last year's National Competition held in Big Ugly, WV (note: imagine hearing a lonely cricket)
The "real thing" of it is(this comment sponsored by Coca-Cola), I love to watch sports. I might be a little bit too much of a sports fanatic; so much so that my fiance can't stand that I "want" to watch every Indians game. She says, 'well you watched last night or last week'. She doesn't understand that each game is different, and the more games you watch, the more likely you are to see something special. I don't know when the next Indians no-hitter will be, but I don't want to miss it. Sports on television is the ultimate reality TV.
An Indian fan that has a fiance who cannot understand the game and her Indian fan of a fiance? That's not post-modern that's reality. If the two can ever mesh, it's a miracle on par with parting the Red Sea or finding life on another planet
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