I love sports. I mean, really love sports. I’m talking about sick obsession, “Disturbia” type love. However, I’m having a problem with a certain area of the country that has me wondering how much is too much and asking where the parity is in professional sports these days.
Of course, I’m talking about the dominance the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts are having at the exact same time this year. You name it, that region is somehow in the news. Truthfully though, I only have a problem with two of their teams, for two completely different reasons.
1. Baseball: The king card on my list of Massachusetts sports teams is the Boston Bloody Socks. As I’m writing this, the Sox just won their second World Series title in three years, sweeping the Rockies like they did the Cardinals in 2004.
To be honest, I thought the Red Sox had as much a chance to win it all as any other team in the playoffs did. I wanted the Rockies to win just on sheer good feelings alone. To win 20 games in a month’s time and sweep two different playoff series is unheard of. If anything, the eight-day layoff was just too long.
My problem comes with how many people I’ll have to hear saying how great the Red Sox are, how they are their favorite team, and how they’ve been with the team since 1918.
Question: If the Red Sox win a World Series, and Thibodaux is easily 1,500 miles away, how long does it take for 100 people to say they’re Red Sox fans?
Answer: I’m not sure, but I can bet you’ll see more hats with the italic red “B” around campus real soon.
2. NFL: The ace in the hole, or should I say snake, is the 8-0 New England Patriots of the National Football League. The last time I checked, teams that score 52 points in a game usually play on Saturdays.
Honestly, the Pats are playing on a Madden 2008-like level as opposed to every other team on this planet. The match up with the Colts next week will be the only story talked about on Sportscenter all week. Trust me; I just got an email about it.
New England has scored 30 points or more in every game this season including the whopping 52 against the Redskins Sunday. The nail in the coffin came Sunday from a fake spike for a touchdown and going for it on a fourth-and-one instead of kicking a field goal.
Apparently when you get caught cheating, you run up the score on every team you play like Steve Spurrier did at Florida. Mark my words, something’s going to happen to New England now until the end of the season. I don’t know what it is, but it will be well deserved.
So in summary, Boston is at the top of my list of places that really needs a reality check. Wait a second, I just got an email from Bill Simmons of ESPN fame. I guess he’s suing me for stealing his shtick.
Did I ever tell you guys how much I love the city of Boston?
