the older i get, the more i think the braves suck


not really. what i really have noticed, the last couple years in particular, is the older i get, the more into sports i have become. which is scary. i have always considered myself a sports guy. watch a lot of sports. go to see my share live and in person. live on espn.com, si.com, mlb.com, nfl.com, etc. so that i can have an educated conversation on whatever sport happens to be your favorite. but it's getting worse. i never used to pay attention to recruiting. i just didn't care about that part of college football. whoever ended up playing at alabama i would root for. now, i already dislike a high school senior named tim tebow because he spurned alabama and i want another high school senior (andre "the giant", anyone?...ridiculous) from huffman high school to be the second coming of chris samuels. it's absurd. recruiting. now i pay attention, though. i've always liked the braves. dale murphy's always been my favorite player and always will. i want jeff francouer to be the next dale murphy. i love when they win. the difference, recently, has been that if the braves are sucking it up, i am sick. i am an ogre to be around. it's horrible. so far this season, all six games, every braves starter has either been rocked or pulled a hammy. not good. and it's killing me. absolutely killing me. the same kind of examples could be culled from any sport that i pay attention to nowadays. god help sarah and hannah during the upcoming world cup. i should go ahead and reserve a hotel room for the first week so i don't break anything here when the us gives up a goal.

i don't know what to make of this, but i do like it. sports, religion, politics...none are any fun unless you feel like you have some sort of vested interest.

maybe that's what i was missing. maybe i was into all of these things, but maybe it wasn't fun. it is now. for all of them. sports, religion, politics.

what changed? a lot. a little. who knows. something did and some things will.

god help me.

god help you.

go braves.