Is it possible to feel nostalgic about something you never experienced? It happens to me most often when I hear old radio broadcasts from the 50's (or 60's or whatever). The only word I can think of to describe this feeling is "nostalgia," but that seems wrong. Is there even a word for that? I mean, besides "crazy" of course, that was a given.
The Final Score on FSN is better than SportsCenter. The Final Score actually shows highlights! From hockey even! It's a crazy formula, but somehow, it works.
Speaking of sports, the Detroit Pistons are sinking fast. And I'm strangely ambivalent about the whole thing. We may not even make the playoffs this year, and I don't care either way. I don't know what it is about this team, but something is just wrong. I've pretty much given up on this season, and I think the Piston's have too.
Speaking basketball, since I'm assuming the Piston's are toast, I'm now rooting for the Hornets and the Magic. That would be my dream final. But we'll probably get a ho-hum Lakers-Cavs.
Speaking of the Lakers and the Cavs.....um.....hmm......I got nothing. I hate Kobe?
This has been a pretty slow off-season at the Tux Shop. I'm actually looking forward to prom season, just so I have things to do. Well, sort-of.....I am lazy....and prom season is a lot of work....maybe doing stupid busy work isn't SO bad....
There was a sale at Border's books the other day, and I bought 4 (rather large) books that I have never read. But since I am insane and have weird arbitrary rules about things, I won't add a book to my collection until I have read it at least once. So I have them in a separate corner of my room by my closet, instead of with the rest of the books. But now I feel obligated to read them, so that I can officially add them to my collection. Even if I don't really want to read every night, I feel like I have to, just so I can put the books away where they belong. It's like I voluntarily assigned myself homework on accident. Weird.
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I laughed at the book thing. All of my books that I haven't read? Under the coffee table, waiting to be pulled out. Books I have read? Bookshelf. Can't be bookshelf material unless you've been read...
So you can probably guess where your Carl Sagan book is...someday, Kev, someday...
I can't watch them anymore. They were on TV awhile ago, and I just hated watching them. I miss Chauncy. I want Rip to not come off the bench. I will be very very very curious to see what they do this offseason. But yeah, like you, I'm done with Piston's basketball this year.
And of all the West teams, I'm probably rooting for the Nuggets and Chauncy. I wish him the best.
And from the East, and this will sound bad, but the Cavs. LeBron is a good guy and deserves his moment that'll put him amongst the all-time greats...and besides it won't be at the Pistons' expense anyway.
I think it is definitely possible to feel nostalgic about something you haven't experienced. I think it is "nostalgia about simpler times".
I agree that SportsCenter often sucks. If you haven't checked it out yet, read the ESPN Ombudsman. It's awesome because she calls them out for being high on themselves and not exhibiting appropriate journalistic behavior.
I am pretty ok with the Pistons tanking (they've had something like 19 losses in 24 games including a 9 game losing streak??). I think it is because we recognize there was a definite curve with them. We all knew that there was going to be a downslope to their excellence. Hopefully this will help them implode the team (bye bye Rip and Sheed) so we can be good again. I think the Pistons are the team that Detroiters are most fairweather over. Thoughts?
I am all about the library. Columbus has a great system.
I don't know, I saw a hell of a lot of fairweather Tiger's fans when we made the world series...myself included. But I think I have to agree with you, the Piston's have the most fairweather fans.
I liked the Ombudsman article. ESPN definitely hypes its reporters too much. It's like SportsCenter has become a sports-gossip show, which begrudgingly shows a few highlights to appease the older crowd. That's why I like The Final Score. More highlights, less talk.
I do like the library, but I just normally prefer to own the books. What I use the library for is experimentation with new genres/authors. When I went through a stage where I read basically nothing but biographies, the library was the place to be.
I would say the Tigers are where the fairweather fans are. The Pistons are coming off of 259 consecutive sellouts at the Palace, a stat in which not even the other great powers in the NBA can boast about. I think that says a lot about the fan base for Pistons basketball.
And I remember a year or two before the Tigers got good, when interleague play was going on and the Dodgers were in town. Interleague is supposed to bring more fans in, and with the Dodgers, a history-filled team, in town I assumed the place would be jumping. Instead it was dead and we were able to work our way down to the railing on the 3rd base side. Two years later, the place was packed. Fairweather.
Yes, the consecutive sell outs makes a strong argument - that's over 6 years. What I was thinking is when the Tigers were historically bad, they were in the papers and on TV what seemed like every day. Although much of that attention was probably because they were historically bad.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if the Lions were ever good enough to have fairweather fans, how many there would be. (a crazy hypothetical, I know)
You can't call the current fans of the Lions fairweather, there have been nothing but clouds for decades. But if the Lions ever made a Super Bowl, I think there would be a bigger swarm of support from non-fans than the Pistons or Tigers ever got. But does that make them more fairweather, or less? I'm not sure.
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