Is it Live or is it Memorex?
I love watching sports...live. Tonight I went to the Sixers vs. Pistons game and had a hollerin' and hootin' good time.
However, watching on this sport I so enjoy on TV just isn't the same. Though I love basketball and such, I'm no sports buff. I'll take Star Trek epsiode over watching a ballgame anyday. I prefer to play or be a spectator in a live performance. I wonder why that is?
I've tried to read the sports section in my WSJ, but get no satisfaction at all. As a consequence, I couldn't tell you the names of the players on my own team, save for Iverson, Snow, and maybe a couple of others. In the past, I felt a bit ashamed of that, but nowadays I simply know what I like about sports and what I don't.
Still, I'm going to bone up on some of the stats of these players. Then I can pursue my favorite sport of all: arguing!
Comments
If a man never keenly watches Star Trek, but instead casually browses episodes here and there, he never understand why Mr. Spock *sometimes* uses the Vulcan "pinch" and other times does not. If a man doesn't study his woman carefully, he will not understand why saying, "I'm not really in the mood to talk about that or anything else right now" will invariably precipitate an explosion of pending dialogue between him and his lady. It's subtleties that really explain how everything in the universe inter-relates, not the obvious.
How can one come to know the subtleties of basketball without actually playing basketball. One can't. Is that say that if a man plays ample basketball, he will be able to unlock the subtleties of BBALL and the mysteries of the universal? "God forbid" (see Paul's Letter to the Romans).
Before we can know what we're looking at, we must know what we're looking at. We can't understand the intricacies of basketball unless we've played it seriously on a few occasions. After that, you will know the chess moves- later, you can merely watch, and learn the beauty of the gambits, the fianchettos, and (my favorite), the queen sacrifice. Again, we must know what we're looking at before we can know what we're looking at.
Posted by: Socrates | March 6, 2004 03:13 AM