I don’t have a ton of sports stuff to talk about. I’ve been trying to pull back from being so involved in the banter and the media of it all. Like anything else, sports is really centered around this idea of keeping you hooked full time. If I remain hooked full time then I find that I am less focused on the game and more focused on the narrative and the hype surrounding the game. Football is the worst for that. There is not a real break at all. Now its about who is going to the combine and who is getting hyped ahead of the draft. Who cares? Stop making mock drafts, because you don’t know anything. Most of these pundits are generating fulfilling predictions that they use their media cudgel to force on teams–as if a team didn’t draft as they predicted then THE TEAM made a mistake. Sure, teams make mistakes but it generally isn’t because they didn’t go with your guy and thereby damaged your pick reputation.
I had to stop listening to all of it–especially as a Giants fan. I don’t know what will fix the team. Honestly, it comes down to good coaching, flexibility on both sides and a schedule that allows for really beneficial matchups. That truth applies to High School and college as well, where I do have some skin in the game. I want to see these boys become greater success stories. It is going to take a lot for that to happen. It starts and ends with them, of course, but the stuff in between matters.
Some Thoughts:
- That is more than 84 words… Meaning I can really put more than 500 in an hour even given some breaks in between, but 8.4 a minute average still feels safe. I ought to be able to do that on any given day–even the ones where I really don’t want to.