02/01/2013

• A Sports Blog… You’ve been warned…

  Happy New Years!!! Spent New Years Eve with friends watching The Chris Nolans Batman Trilogy and The Battlestar Galactica miniseries. A geek fest yes but with a running commentary worthy of a MST3K episode…

  Well, a sports rant is here. Move along if it bores you…

  I mean it, do not operate heavy machinery after reading this.

  What, can’t you take a hint???

  Okay I am NOT responsible for any yawns. Maybe you SHOULD read this if you’re having problems sleeping…

  Any hoo, my Cleveland Browns have cleaned house yet again since they came back to town after Art Model took a team from Cleveland and re-named them The Baltimore Ravens and won a Super Bowl. A new General Manager and a new head coach. I’ve mentioned before that while I don’t care much about sports, for some reason, Cleveland Sports fans are a long suffering lot. Snake bit also. We seem to see this play out a lot. Why, I don’t understand. Maybe there’s a curse or a constant black cloud hanging around the city. The Travel Channel ran a series about the Cleveland Browns and I thought it showed the city and the team in a good light. So, because my MP3 player doesn’t work in the car, I listen to sports talk and the moaning and speculation of who the owner of the team is going after. I mean, has anyone heard of these things, like building a team, takes some time??? With this culture of instant everything, if you don’t win now you could be out of a job really soon. I don’t get it. Never did. And when the Cleveland Browns left, the mayor and everyone else fought for the name to stay here and to have a team in the city. Why??? The team doesn’t do that much for the city. There are a lot of studies that show that having a professional sports team doesn’t do that much for the city. I’m sorry but I thought that blue collar jobs, not service jobs did more for a city. I mean, especially a football team, only has eight home games and have you seen the price for a game. Multiply that by four tickets, the usual stuff you buy at a game and you’re talking a lot of cash that most people don’t have. I’ve only been to two Cleveland Indian games and they were discounted tickets. And seeing how having a great TV at home, why go down there. And at this time of the year where the weather sucks in my neck of the woods. And all the changes in Browns team… I thought fast food had a higher turn over in workers but not with the Cleveland Browns. And if you get to work with that team, you can get a guaranteed golden parachute if you screw it up. SIGH… Where’s my golden parachute at??? So another wait for a few years to see if there’s a winning season and just when things were beginning to jell here. And for record, Cleveland is a Browns Town. The other two sports teams are secondary. Hey when the favorite saying is “Wait ‘Til Next Year” you know things are suspect. And the mood of the city.

  I could go on and on but the bathroom awaits to be cleaned and a few chores I neglected before heading into work to start my three day work week.

  Now, drink loads of coffee, Red Bull or whatever energy drink to wake up.

  CIAO!!!

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