As a lifelong baseball fan since last August, I too have been thinking about why I avoided sports for so much of my life and so much of it was simply identifying as an ART person, I just wrote sports off as something interesting or worthy of my time and attention. Where was Troy Bolton when I was a teen!?
What really turned me into a FAN was watching so much baseball last fall, I started to recognize that there is an element of human experience and self expression in sport that is also a part of art.
Yes of course professional athletes are millionaires paid by billionaires and the _spectacle_ of it all is capitalism at it's finest, not unlike Hollywood movies and TV really, and there is plenty problematic about pro sports.
But at the end of the day, these players are doing their thing, the thing that they *love*, that makes them feel *ALIVE*.
And as you watch game after game, as you follow the wins, the losses, the hot streaks, the slumps. You watch these grown men literally jump up and down when they win. The unabashed tears and emotion when they loose... There is just so much of LIFE in sports! You can experience the entire spectrum of human emotions in a single game of baseball!
Then on top of that you add the community, the rituals! The drama and the gossip!
I am SO IN.
Baseball is my first love, but I can get on board with basketball too and I am also a fan of the Toronto Tempo. The WNBA has all of the above and then you add in the SEX and wow. I'm having a great time.
Loved hearing both of your voices. Wishing you a happy lazy river summer.
As a lifelong baseball fan since last August, I too have been thinking about why I avoided sports for so much of my life and so much of it was simply identifying as an ART person, I just wrote sports off as something interesting or worthy of my time and attention. Where was Troy Bolton when I was a teen!?
What really turned me into a FAN was watching so much baseball last fall, I started to recognize that there is an element of human experience and self expression in sport that is also a part of art.
Yes of course professional athletes are millionaires paid by billionaires and the _spectacle_ of it all is capitalism at it's finest, not unlike Hollywood movies and TV really, and there is plenty problematic about pro sports.
But at the end of the day, these players are doing their thing, the thing that they *love*, that makes them feel *ALIVE*.
And as you watch game after game, as you follow the wins, the losses, the hot streaks, the slumps. You watch these grown men literally jump up and down when they win. The unabashed tears and emotion when they loose... There is just so much of LIFE in sports! You can experience the entire spectrum of human emotions in a single game of baseball!
Then on top of that you add the community, the rituals! The drama and the gossip!
I am SO IN.
Baseball is my first love, but I can get on board with basketball too and I am also a fan of the Toronto Tempo. The WNBA has all of the above and then you add in the SEX and wow. I'm having a great time.
Loved hearing both of your voices. Wishing you a happy lazy river summer.
With love from Canada,
Your #1 Fan