Sports Pet Peeve 2
Posted by Scott on June 12, 2008
New York
To those who live in New York, I am not complaining about you. This pet peeve is about the attention New York gets in the media. Yea, it might be a little “old-fashioned” to complain about it but it has not gotten any better. Being from Detroit, I do not want all the attention on the Detroit teams. I love how they are usually going under the radar. When the Tigers got all the press in the world…well, I’ll stop there and say look where that has gotten them. So, when I turn on ESPN I do want to know about the national sports. What do I usually see? The first story has to be about a New York team.
The best example of this is easily the Yankees. They are almost too easy of a target. How often does their sub-par year have to be the top, or one of the top, stories? They are not a good team this year. I don’t need to hear about them. A-Rod is out for a month! Oh no! Alert the world at the greatness that is what used to be the Yankees. The other day there was seriously a story about how New York baseball is struggling. It was explaining the Mets and Yankees seasons. Really? Both teams are below .501 at the time of this writing. It is not newsworthy. There is a great race at the top of the AL East and even better one in the NL Central. Let’s make those the top stories.
I could go on for a little while but this can get boring fast. Rangers have the biggest salary in the NHL, but still aren’t good. We must talk about that. Knicks are the worst team in the NBA. We need to make sure that Isiah Thomas is the lead story about the league. This is not a creative gripe, but it seems to me to be pretty valid. There are things in this sports world that are much more annoying, and I’ll get to those in future posts. I just figured to get this obvious one out of the way. How do New Yorkers feel about the constant attention? (That is a serious question) Do they like having stories about their teams when they are awful? I really don’t know. I do know that if the Lions were the top story when they were awful then we would hear about them every single day, and I am pretty sure I would get sick of that. Heck, I already am sick of it and the season is 3 months away.
