Thoughts

Ladies and Gentlemen, please let me welcome you to the worst time of year. I know this post is, as you will see, a few days past due, and for that I do apologize.

Why, you ask, is this the worst time of year? Baseball. In the grand scheme of things, Major League Baseball and I have no beef with each other; it is however, the root of my complaint to you today. As of Thursday, as the NBA season came to such a (poor) end, there is mostly nothing sports-wise of merit to watch until the regular season of the NFL is underway in the fall.

There is the occasional reprieve, but for the most part, the summer has nothing on TV worthy of your attention. Baseball, boring in its own right, can be summed up in three highlight clips the following morning; there is no need to watch an entire game unless you are physically present at the stadium.

So many channels carry sports programming and yet you will be hard pressed to turn one on this (or any) summer and find anything besides baseball. Usually the Stanly Cup Playoffs go further into the summer and buy us a little breathing room before this wave of boredom encroaches upon us. Let us not bring up my thoughts on how much I miss the NHL right now.

Here's waiting for fall...