Reconciling My Hate of Jocks & Pro Sports In General And My Newfound Enjoyment of Baseball.

[p0tat0es]

Get to go to a Mariner's game for free...woo hoo. That just means I'll have more money to spend on $5.00 Budweisers (or upgrade to Redhook for $6.00). Up until a few months ago, I was ardently opposed to sports. I felt (still do, I guess) that there is no way to reconcile artisticness with athleticism. That's probably rooted in my high school experience, where the jocks were popular and the punks (or whatever we were) were maligned. I have a hard time taking seriously a song sung by a basketball player. I suppose it's unfair of me to characterize people who play sports as unfeeling meatheads, more concerned with the 3 basic food groups (beer, football, & date rape) than any real emotional output....but some of these folk make such easy targets! So here's my quandry: recently I attended a Mariners game @ Safeco Field (which I voted against, and they went and built the fucker anyway), and since then, I've sorta started following the games. Methinks that I'm gonna have to renounce my Card-Carrying Indie-Rawk status...banned from the Cha Cha for life (so sad). I can do without any further examples of music & sport doin' the nasty and producing misborn offspring such as Hootie & The Blowfish, or Shaq, Deion Sanders, and Ken Griffey, Jr. trying to rap, or Master P playing basketball (a surefire way to make anyone say "UNNNGH"). Funny enough, I'm going to the game with my friend Chris, who while serving a 5-year "sentence" in the US Marine Corps, used his time to plaster the barracks with anti-government propaganda...not someone I'd expect to want to participate in a viewing of the "All-American Game."



And besides...Edgar's a pimp.

Comments

[kill.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't hit small things with sticks, or throw round things through other things, both while wearing a uniform with tight or short pants, I think yer okay.

Perhaps it's just a distraction for the beer drinking. Because man can not live by beer alone.

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[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised just how far beer can get you tho...no danger of me in tight pants, that much is for sure.

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[kill.livejournal.com]

Not even while listening to Duran Duran's Rio?

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[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Welllllll...maybe, since it is Duran Duran...

I'm off to go watch the people who actually get paid for wearing tight pants and hitting little balls with sticks.

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[kill.livejournal.com]

Well, here's one jock's view (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=308051) on this (complete with point and counterpoint).

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Re: Jock Rock

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Mr. McSorley's comments are interesting...however I feel I must take his comments with a grain of salt. According to his profile, he is a)14 years old, b) lives in Trenton, OH, hotbed of political and philisophical thought, and c) quotes profusely the likes of KoRn and Limp Bizkit, whom can be seen as the musical equivalent of football and hockey.

[sillyape.livejournal.com]

'S okay, Ed.

I've been to a couple Broncos games, the Mariners, the Sonics, and I'm still allowed in the Cha-Cha.

It's a dirty secret, but we all have our crosses to bear.