Sometimes Sports Does That
Today's sports section in The Miami Herald asks a poll question about Brazilian fans crying after losing to Germany in the World Cup Semi Finals.
A) It shows their deep passion for the sport.
B) Get over it, it's only a game.
I have a third option.
C) I guess I bet too much money on that game and how am I going to tell my wife.
I did not have a dog in that fight and I certainly did not bet money on a team that would be playing without one of its best players. Germany really covered the spread on that game and as thing like that go I wonder if the Brazilian coach is looking for another gig.
Tom Hanks said there's no crying in baseball in the movie: A League of Their Own. I watched the Chicago Cubs flame out in 2003. I don't remember the camera man panning the crowd looking for sobbing Cub fans, but that doesn't mean a few tears weren't shed, maybe not in public on TV, but privately, after they got back to the car, or at home staring in disbelief at a screen. I don't know how I would have been able to console my late parents, had they lived long enough to live through the Bartman Affair. When you see the towel covering the face of an athlete on the bench you can be sure he isn't covering up an ear to ear smile.
I think Miamians were secretly pulling for Brazil. Those folks bought a lot of our condos after the recession and they really like a party. German tourists are so yesterday.
Meanwhile, the other big story in Miami is Lebron James and his team and contract for the next year. One minute Channel 10 wants to say they are the place to watch when the tropics go haywire and will lead with weather in the tropics in the first three minutes of each news program. Yesterday, the tropics were quiet and I bet the news director wished he could have skipped the tropics and gone NPR on James and an in depth analysis of how a single player can turn a whole league upside down. If LBJ goes back to Cleveland there is going to be a lot of crying in Miami.
The sports world has its moments and these days where a lot of things are really hard to understand, sports can provide a time away from a job,lack of a job, the traffic, the weather, health issues, wars, a dysfunctional government, immigration, and a lot of other issues. Sports are relatively simple and cut and dried. And there is always next year, tomorrow, or another race, or you can change the channel and look for another hiding place.
A) It shows their deep passion for the sport.
B) Get over it, it's only a game.
I have a third option.
C) I guess I bet too much money on that game and how am I going to tell my wife.
I did not have a dog in that fight and I certainly did not bet money on a team that would be playing without one of its best players. Germany really covered the spread on that game and as thing like that go I wonder if the Brazilian coach is looking for another gig.
Tom Hanks said there's no crying in baseball in the movie: A League of Their Own. I watched the Chicago Cubs flame out in 2003. I don't remember the camera man panning the crowd looking for sobbing Cub fans, but that doesn't mean a few tears weren't shed, maybe not in public on TV, but privately, after they got back to the car, or at home staring in disbelief at a screen. I don't know how I would have been able to console my late parents, had they lived long enough to live through the Bartman Affair. When you see the towel covering the face of an athlete on the bench you can be sure he isn't covering up an ear to ear smile.
I think Miamians were secretly pulling for Brazil. Those folks bought a lot of our condos after the recession and they really like a party. German tourists are so yesterday.
Meanwhile, the other big story in Miami is Lebron James and his team and contract for the next year. One minute Channel 10 wants to say they are the place to watch when the tropics go haywire and will lead with weather in the tropics in the first three minutes of each news program. Yesterday, the tropics were quiet and I bet the news director wished he could have skipped the tropics and gone NPR on James and an in depth analysis of how a single player can turn a whole league upside down. If LBJ goes back to Cleveland there is going to be a lot of crying in Miami.
The sports world has its moments and these days where a lot of things are really hard to understand, sports can provide a time away from a job,lack of a job, the traffic, the weather, health issues, wars, a dysfunctional government, immigration, and a lot of other issues. Sports are relatively simple and cut and dried. And there is always next year, tomorrow, or another race, or you can change the channel and look for another hiding place.
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