It’s 1994 All Over Again and I Don’t Feel Fine

When the baseball strike of 1994 hit I was absolutely positive it would not last.  I was a young teenager at the time and the idea of my favorite sport being taken away from me was unfathomable.  It wouldn’t happen.  It couldn’t happen. What ever collective bargaining was, it wasn’t going to take away the long standing game of baseball.  They’d been playing this game of baseball for over 100 years; the World Series had seen 93 fall classics.

I couldn’t comprehend Donald Fehr, a pale man with a terrible comb-over, talking about a salary cap.  I just wanted to watch my favorite game.  They couldn’t take it way.  They wouldn’t take it way.  On August 11th, 1994 they did.  It was incomprehensible.

When the player’s strike hit Tony Gwynn was hitting .394.  Matt Williams was on pace to break Roger Maris’ single season home run mark.

Sports Night Explains the World: An interview with Writer and Professor Patrick Bohn

Ithaca College is located in scenic upstate New York

“I’d like my career to be a cross between Joe Posnaski and Isaac Jaffe, the fictional producer of the late 90’s television show Sports Night.” This is the uniqueness of Patrick Bohn, assistant editor for Momentum Media and adjunct professor at Ithaca College.

“Sports Night explains the world, and yes, you should own the DVD’s,” Bohn goes on to say.  “There are two great quotes I use to define my leadership style, ‘If you’re smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you’ and ‘You didn’t expect me to substitute your judgment for mine did you?'”

Mr. Bohn believes the first quote helps him remember that his students are not just pupils, but intelligent individuals who can hold their own, sometimes contrary, opinions.  In his role with Ithaca College Mr. Bohn instructs young minds at the school’s prestigious Roy H. Park School of Communication.

Sports is Not Just About Sports

The comments on this article from ESPN are disgusting, surprising, revealing and embarrassing.

Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts reveals he’s gay

This is news people.  Too many people seem to think that sports is just what happens between the lines.  Well the very fact that it gives you emotional ups and downs proves that it’s more.

This story is not replacing something else.  You don’t have to read it. You don’t have to comment on it.  You don’t even have to agree with it.  It seems that people enjoy complaining about things they don’t have to complain about.  Also I’m tired of everyone trying to be the snarkiest person in the room.  Leave it alone sometimes, you don’t have to turn everything into a wisecrack.

This is why anonymous commenting should not be allowed on the internet.  I’ve recently evolved to that position, having opposed it for a very long time.  If you are afraid of saying something racist, homophobic, derogatory or stupid, then don’t say it.

I wonder what the comments would have been in 1946, for an article titled “Brooklyn Dodgers sign first black player?”

Smart Suff Goes Here

Hopefully it will not be full of gramer errors, and mispellings.