On the day Tim Lincecum had his second no-hitter against the Padres, a Grantland article was published about the abysmal state of the Padres. Go ahead and read it. It will give you some background on the rant I'm about to go on.
Well I just re-read the article and now I'm really mad. I've gone to two Padres games this year (I don't even live in San Diego) and fortunately saw two wins. Apparently that was a remarkable feat. Looking up their record as of today, the Padres are 66-74 which gives us 3rd place in NL West. This honestly makes me wonder what is wrong with the teams in 4th and 5th place because if you read the Grantland article...there is alot wrong with the Padres. They should be last, but somehow we are not. The Grantland article is depressing in so many ways: the horrific ownership that made the terrible tv deal that only them rich (let me remind everyone Time Warner refused to carry Fox Sports San Diego for two years!), Matt Bush (I had blocked him out), trading away Mat Latos, I could go on but...let's not. It would be better for everyone if I just made my point.
I mentioned to my sister in July that I could be the Padres GM. She replied that being a GM is hard. I replied back, "Well, I couldn't be doing a worse job." If you read the Grantland article, you would know this to be true. Then my sister told me the Padres had interviewed a woman for GM. Intriguing! I can't be the Padres GM due to lack of experience, but Kim Ng may be overqualified. I hoped she would get the job, I knew that she wouldn't. She didn't. I haven't really bothered to learn the new GM's name because at this point he has to earn even that from me.
I wrote a post a couple of months ago about sports fandom and how uneasy I'm becoming with being a sports fan. I didn't publish it because I needed to sort out my thoughts. Owners are greedy. Players are greedy too, but they put their bodies in harms way for our entertainment. If I like watching sports (the best type of reality television if you ask me), what kind of person does that make me? I feed into the greed and watching people put their bodies at risk for our enjoyment (this doesn't include PEDs which I did publish a post about). I'm definitely not comfortable with anything of this: the avarice that permeates throughout professional sports is something I cannot support. Should I stop watching sports? Can I stop watching sports? All I do know, the answers to these questions will probably be needed before I am ready to give them.
