Sports Are Worse Now

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Looked at the box score from the Cleveland Cavaliers game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

The two teams combined to shoot eighty-one 3-point shots.

They made 27 of them.

That must’ve been fun to watch!

Baseball made some changes before the start of last season to speed things up and encourage guys getting base hits because everyone was trying to hit homers…and they were striking out at record numbers.

Hockey has been unwatchable for a long time as goalies wear pads as big as my bed mattress and everyone is dressed in armor so when the team heads into the offensive zone they have to shoot through 5 goalies.

And football?

Good Lord!

The refs called about 50 penalties on Sunday.

The quarterback is protected as he should be, but it’s led the QB’s to cry for a call on every play.

I know a guy who plays QB for the team everyone loves around here…

…he flops around on any play that goes wrong.

3rd and 15?

Incomplete pass?

No problem…

…just pretend that the guy who touched you hammered you and then cry.

15 yards! First down!!

Problem being that when I tell my boys that sports was better back in the day they show me photos of the muscle-bound, speed freaks who play the game now.

Quarterbacks are also breaking passing records because everything is now considered a pass. A pitch that goes forward, behind the line of scrimmage is now a pass?

Shit, I could throw for 400 yards.

Rushing records are also being broken as the entire team gets behind the guy and pushes him into the end zone.

Yet, I believe that the single thing that’s going to ruin sports is the gambling.

This coming generation appears to be placing a bet on everything!

“Don’t score!” Sam was yelling one day as the team he was rooting in a college basketball game headed towards the goal.

I gave him a look.

“I bet the first half under,” he said.

And the contracts?

$800 million for a really great hitter who plays okay defense and has zero speed?

I thought about Rickey Henderson who just passed.

What would he have received in today’s game?

He hit .330 with 30 homers and 100 steals and played great defense.

Ah well, what the hell is the difference?

There will be robots out there soon enough.

We can all just sit back and bet on our favorite bot.

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