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The sports world is in a state of aberration right now. Just this week we have debates and uproars about the MLB Hall of Fame, Gilbert Arenas bringing a gun to work, the legitimacy of a BCS National Championship Game, and the off and on discussions about the Pacquiao/Mayweather fight. Everything that happens is dissected, analyzed, and spat out across the globe through multiple types of media. I don't think we realize that sports are just entertainment that is created through competition. Of course there's more to it, but the base of it all is we want to see competition and we always want it to be the best or it to get better. Even if we like seeing individuals excel it's still competition against the past greats. If you want to see your local teams do well then it's the competition against neighboring cities. Maybe the competition of sports have made us, as sports fans, more competitive as a whole.
I've discussed it before, but sports debates have gotten out of control. We can't just enjoy the sport anymore. Even when we watch a great Super Bowl like last year's Pittsburgh Steelers versus Arizona Cardinals classic, we immediately have to debate if it's the greatest, or better then the Pats/Giants. Instead of appreciating sports we pick them apart and turn them into something they aren't. There was so much discussion over the Indianapolis Colts decision to bench their players. For what? It doesn't mean anything to go undefeated if you don't win the Super Bowl and even then you are only the best for so long. Another team comes in and demolishes teams so they're considered the best. The NFL expands the season and a team goes undefeated and wins 21 games now so they're the best. There is no such thing as perfection in sports because perfection means that nobody can debate against it and we all know that's never the case in the sports world.
Sports have changed in the modern era with the technology that's available to us. We know every bit of information about every player and every team. We know the score of every game immediately and we hear analysis and debates within the hour of every contest that we view. It's me, you, the media, and everyone else involved that have created this monster and unfortunately there's no turning back now. Sometimes it was nice to be unexpected. Now we feel like we know everything. It was special to witness a great player like Michael Jordan or Barry Sanders play. Now when we attend games with the likes of Lebron James or Albert Pujols it doesn't have the same feeling to it. We've seen them on television so much that it's just another game. We're not satisfied anymore with just seeing the player, we need to see them do something great. We want the best, expect the best, and the best to help us feel like we've seen the best..jpg)
So take the examples I discussed up top. Did we used to care if a player made the Hall of Fame in his last year on the ballot or if a player did make the HOF on the first ballot? No or not nearly as much as we do now. Would a story like Gilbert Arenas' stupidity even made it out of the locker room and would it have caused such an uproar? Probably not. Would we be watching the national championship tonight and the whole time think about how much better a playoff system would be? No Way. Would we have all these back and forth battles in the media amongst two of the greatest fighters? No, we'd just have fight date and that's it. People sometimes don't realize that as the world gets simpler to communicate with it's gets more difficult to actually communicate with. (I really got my Sophocles on in that sentence).
So as I basically bitch about the state of the sports world I'm actually happier than ever of where we are. Without the state that it's in I wouldn't have the opportunity to express my thoughts on here. We as fans have come together to try to make sports better even though sometimes they seem like they currently are lackluster. We know how much better a playoff system would be for college football or how screwed up Hall of Fame voting is in baseball and at least we try to do something about it. So I may not be the man pushing everyone to donate to help cure cancer, but I'm trying to cure my own cause each and everyday. That cause is the sports world.
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