What the fuck is up with sports?

All right, sorry for the delay. I'm sitting here waiting for my class to start, and I figured, I have a half hour to burn (I should be reading but, meh). I hope my title grabbed you. I meant it too! Dude, fuck sports. What am I some sport-hating stuck up son of a bitch? I don't know. I just think our society places far too much importance on sports and athletics, and I suppose actors and movie stars etc.

Please, don't get me wrong, I enjoy an occasional sporting match on the television, or go out and watch a movie in the cinema theatre. And really, I don't even mind if you really like sports and say, watch all the games you can see on TV (why was I all in like 1920s mode earlier? wtf?), or even buy season tickets to your favorite team. By the way, when you write "wtf" do you need the question mark or is it implied? Sometimes, I'm saying wtf and I don't even mean it as a question. Like "You ate all my cheese?! Wtf?" Anyways, my real beef with sports these days is all the fucking attention it gets outside of the actual game. It just bugs me. I like watching baseball for example, but tell me why anyone needs to watch fucking 2 hours of commentary and recaps after the game you just watched!? Fuck that. Sports are not that important.

Also, I guess I just don't understand why someone from Michigan would root for Arizona when Arizona is playing New Mexico. That's a bullshit example, I know but the point is, sports teams have locations associated with them to bolster local pride (or national in the case of the Olympics). High schools have sports teams so people from Eaton Rapids have a reason to like Eaton Rapids and hate Charlotte. Will brought up a fair point, that sure, you've got relatives somewhere so you can root for that team. That's fine, but I refuse to believe that half of this fucking country has relatives in New York, and the other half has relatives in New England (That's not even a place! wtf?).

What really gets me is the fact that some people want the Supreme Court to get in and regulate for drugs. Fuck that! Like those dudes aren't busy. They've got better shit to do than keep an eye on some bulked up meat-heads (I'm jealous) sticking needles full of growth-goo in their asses. They want the legislature to pass laws for sports! Why not use the time to pass a marijuana law that benefits some people eh? Besides just wasting time, I really hate the idea of using our government to regulate our sports. This brings me to my final point.

Sports are around for ENTERTAINMENT! That's it. Those sweaty ass-holes run around pushing each other so I can sit on my couch, or in the stands and cheer. I don't think they should get paid nearly as much as they do, nor get nearly as much attention as they do. In the Roman times, entertainers were the lowest of the low. All their job was to do was to make me happy. Think about it. An athlete doesn't provide a product. An athlete doesn't teach me something, I don't get smarter. I could even argue (I'm not going to) that athletes don't even provide a service.

Weirdos

I think the vast majority of readers here, as many as 300 or so, have had a similar experience. Or maybe it's just me. I have a hard time paying attention in any non-linguistics class. I'm serious, so far, in all my linguistics classes, I've been able to pay attention and am generally quite interested in the subject matter. I guess I chose a good major for myself. But unfortunately, since Michigan State is a liberal arts university I can't just take classes from my major and be done with it. The university requires its graduates to be well versed in many blah blah blah. So I, and all the other students are forced to take classes like Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities and Integrated Studies in Biology. I can't manage to pay attention in them. I'm only taking them because I have to and I'm only going to them because I'm concerned about my GPA for grad school. Well, I'm also taking a Programming class this year, it's not a university requirement but it's a prerequisite for Computational Linguistics.

I have trouble paying attention in that class too. Not because the subject matter is particularly boring, (it is, but it's not too bad) but because there are so many freaking weirdos in that class. It's in the College of Engineering, so I suppose it can be expected, there will be some nerds. But come on. The other week, I was sitting there, just trying to take it all in, trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with these people. I don't understand how so many of them have such greasy hair. You've got to take a shower. That's the rule in this society, and everyone is required to follow the rules. I wont have any of this independence and free will. Anyways. There are two guys in particular. They're just fucked up looking dudes. Both with greasy hair. Anyways, while I was sitting there in disbelief, I decided to draw them. I'm not a great artist, but I'm actually pretty pleased with how accurate these pictures are. If you saw the guys, I think you'd agree these are pretty accurate profiles.