The Dog Days
I was in the main break room of our office earlier today, warming up my lunch, and the TV in there was sitting on with no one watching it. It had been left on the NASA channel, which might tell you a great deal about the people I work with. I, being apparently the last bastion of hope to shepherd these poor saps out of Greater Nerddom, changed the channel to ESPN.
If you watch ESPN these days, all you’ll see is the same episode of SportsCenter over and over again, and that’s great if you want to watch highlights without watching any actual sporting events. So the top 10 plays of the day came around, and I realized *groan* that we are in that awful time of the year again: the dog days of summer, when there is nothing in the wide world of sports to be interested in. I could tell this without question because the top 10 plays of the day were all in either baseball or professional drag racing.  No, not Nascar; I mean the super-charged rockets with wheels that go in a straight line for 3 seconds and then either blow up or throw out parachutes. I didn’t know they had championships for that kind of thing, but they showed a clip of a trophy presentation for a girl that had won her race, presumably without blowing up. My questions about the sudden appearance of semi-attractive women in car racing constitute another topic entirely; the more important issue right now is that two or three of the top ten plays on a Monday were from drag racing, and the rest were from baseball. BAH!!!
I need say no more, except this: oh how I am looking forward already to the kickoff of college football season!
