I Don't Wanna Be A Player No More
Are sports a waste of time?
I don't mean playing.
I mean watching.
I don't mean watching your family.
I mean the playoffs.
Week Four.
Sheet like that.
I suppose if you have skin in the game it makes sense.
Financial cents.
But I'm getting the unnerving feeling that it's a net loss.
Whether you're gambling on the outcomes or not.
This is surely due to a number of factors.
Old(ish) age, for one.
All my childhood players retired long ago.
The game is somewhat unrecognizable.
CTEs, concussions, big puffy helmets.
I don't think I've ever worn a jersey of another person.
And I think that might be it.
Because I thought I would play Major League Baseball.
And this is from a boy who played his first year of organized ball in my double digit years.
A late bloomer because I didn't want to burden my family with little league dues and travel logistics.
Streetball good enough.
I have always been a bit of a dreamer.
But the truth is, I wasn't anywhere near good enough for the Bigs.
In my mid-30s, I became a legend (in my own mind) around these parts in slow-pitch softball, but that's about where I peaked in team sports.
Crushed.
Oh, and don't get me started on my character in Power Pros Baseball.
Goat of Goats!
And so I sit and watch a football game with 3 minute commercial breaks, questionable officiating, and well, no skin.
Yawn.
While people live and die on the outcome.
On the field and off.
Wearing jerseys of themselves or others.
One thing I learned about fans in anything athletic is that they love and hate vehemently dislike simultaneously their team, their league, their ownership group.
Fanatical.
It works the other way, too.
This is true of fans in all areas.
And it's contagious, if you let it be.
But I don't gamble on games.
Watch replays condensed at most.
And it's all because, I think, I made a call a long time ago.
Ah, maybe I'm just vehemently disliking.
Like I'm wont to do.
I'm just not a player.
I still crush a lot.
Coke Zero cans and Doritos.
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To athletes.
Be careful what you're risking now.
Only one game out there worth playing:
The long one.
Take that NIL money, tho.
Me?
I'm tired again.
Re.
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