| Aug. 17th, 2004 @ 08:04 pm Here We Go Again... |
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Current Music: 'Don't Be'-astroPuppees
Yeah, more Olympics.
First things first: In the paper yesterday, there was an article by some guy. He said that since the men's basketball team lost to Puerto Rico (and since I haven't expressed my opinion on that yet, UGH, YUCK, etc), and also said that since Michael Phelps couldn't beat Mark Spitz's record, the USA wasn't dominant in any Olympic sport anymore. Um, bullshit. Hello, they're called WOMEN, ever hear of them? The women's basketball team's beating their opponents by, what, an average of 35 points a game or something? That's what the men should be doing, yeah, but they're not. So while the women are on route to getting a gold, the men get half the front page of the sports page, and the women get a 2X2 blurb on page 8. And there's the softball team, too. In four games, their opponents haven't even SCORED. If that's not dominate, well, what is?
And speaking of softball, last night I watched USA and China, and the night before I watched USA vs. Japan. Japan played a really good game, although I have to admit that they kind of had a cheap loss. If after the seventh inning the game is tied, the runner who made the last out in the previous inning starts the inning on second. I don't get it. I know it's meant to speed the game up, but I think it compromises the purity of the game. Anyway, during the China game, it was slightly distressing. The commentators were saying that the Olympic commitee was considering cutting softball from Olympic sports because of the USA's dominance and also the fact that since the Olympics were being held in smaller cities (Athens is considered a 'smaller' city), there wasn't room or something. So you're going to cut a sport so smaller cities can host the Olympics? Don't get me wrong, it's a huge honor for any city to host the Olympics, but I mean, softball is a legit sport and should be in the Olympics, and if your city can't have room for a few fields...well, whose problem is that? As for the US dominance, well...I don't know what should be done about that, or what can be. But I know that there would be a LOT of pissed off people if softball was cut.
Anyway, the women's basketball team plays tonight at 4:30 in the morning. I'll probably just stay up...but the softball team plays at 7:30. So I don't really know what to do. I' watching the basketball for sure, though. That's about it, see you. |
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