Why I Don’t Give A Crap About The Olympics
This year, in particular, the Olympics have little to none of my attention or focus. I plan on spending more time watching Who’s The Boss reruns than the Olympics. Sure, I read the sports page every morning and I take note of some of the medal winners. I too, was pissed, yet not that surprised, about the “Dream Team” of crappy, self-serving NBA players that this country turns out that got their asses handed to them by none other than Puerto Rico. But other than that, there are no interesting stories with this Olympics. Even though the press keeps harping on the possibility of terrorism, and how real the threat is! Sorry, if the “very real” threat of terrorism doesn’t get my blood pumping anymore. Maybe its becuase every day for the last 2.8 years I’ve read about the “very real” threat of terrorism.
The only other story that is even a bit intriguing is the story of Michael Phelps, the guy that (until today) had the next chance to beat Mark Spitz and his 7 gold medals. All sounds like gravy for Phelps huh? But if you think about it, this guy has a “real threat” of a s***
-storm floating over his head. I mean, this guy is the only guy in this Olympic games that can get 6 gold medals and hear his entire nation collectively go “Awww, you almost made it! Better luck next time!” Right? Tell me I’m wrong. He could win 5 gold medals, two silvers and a bronze and people would be patting him on the back saying, “Too bad…but you gave it a good try.” How much would that suck!
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. The Olympics really have no interesting happenings…thats too bad. I don’t know what they could do about it, other than maybe giving me a good source of when (what channel and what time) of the different events are showing, so I could make time to see the events I would like to see. Yeah, thats a good idea. That way I could make an effort to see the events like Tae Kwon Do, Baseball, and maybe a game of two of softball, so I can see that cute Jenny Finch toss a few innings. Unless its on opposite the Cardinals game.