I've never written a blog post before (do you count xanga?) but I thought I'd give it a try. You may have noticed that the name of this blog indicates that I will be writing about sports. This is true, for the most part. I guess I'll see where this thing takes me. But sports is something I care about, something I care about and enjoy enough to start up a blog. You're probably thinking, "Great, another dime a dozen sports blog." You may be correct, but I hope to put my own little spin on the many opinions I read about and hear about on a daily basis, all with a little bit of a West Michigan bias.
Now I don't do much with facebook, don't have a twitter account, and I think I may have updated my gmail buzz status once, so who knows how often I'll update this thing. But given the past week or so in the world of sports, how can I not be fired up to spout off about it? I've tried with my wife. It's just not the same.
Let me start with college football. Can you believe it? Unbelievable moving and shaking going on which will change the entire landscape and geography of what we've all come to love in the fall. Nebraska to the Big 10, being followed by maybe Texas and Texas A&M? Would they then add Missouri and possibly Kansas? 16 teams? How about the Pac 10. Colorado? What's pacific about that state? Where is Oklahoma and Oklahoma State going to end up? Will Texas forget about the Big 10 and go to the Pac 10? What the hell is going to happen to the Big 12? There will be no more Big 12! And USC? You got out of there just in time Pete Carroll. It's almost as if you had a pretty good idea about what was coming...
I don't know about you, but I am pretty excited to watch this all go down and then watch as schedules begin to unfold. A yearly UM - Texas match up? Will this mean the Big 10 will finally create a tournament at the end of the year? I'm sick of not watching Michigan play the last couple weeks of the college football season, not that it would have mattered at all the past two years. But eventually, UM will be back and those games into middle to late November will really matter.
How about Tom Izzo to Cleveland? Would he really do it? It sure sounds like he's close. Right now he's being wooed by Dan Gilbert and the rest of the Cleveland front office with their state of the art facilities and the ever present possibility of the king of basketball returning. But should he take it if Lebron doesn't return? Right now, it sounds like Izzo's not going to know that answer when he makes his decision. Unless he knows something that the rest of the entire media world doesn't...
I can't start up a blog without mentioning the biggest sports story of this baseball season that took place last week. Galarraga's 28 out perfect game. It means more now that the Bud Selig didn't overturn the last call and give him the official perfect game. When I'm 75 years old telling my grand kids about the "good ol' days" and baseball as I knew it, they'll say something about the 28 perfect games in the history of the game (I'm assuming there will be a couple more by the time I'm 75 - heck, there should have been three this year already! Does that mean baseball has really began cleaning itself of steroids?). And I'll respond, you know, actually, there's been 29 perfect games. And I'll delve into the class and sportsmanship that Galarraga and Jim Leyland showed after one of the worst blown calls I've ever seen. And Jim Joyce should be commended as well. He owned up to his blown call. He was in tears. Galarraga seemed like he was almost in tears after the game. And then he was the one to submit the roster card the next day to the umpire that blew his probably one and only chance ever at perfection? Unbelievable.
I shouldn't end this post without at least a mention of the World Cup. I'll be the first to admit that I am not much of a soccer fan. But maybe I can get up for it once every four years. I can appreciate what the World Cup means and what soccer is to the rest of the world. South Africa being the first African country to ever host a World Cup? That's pretty big news. And the US with a chance right off the bat to do something huge against England. Big stuff. Lots of things going on. But that's the beauty of sports, there's always something going on. Always a story, always a human interest piece, and always people like me who want to talk about it.
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