You know what I hate about the national sports media?

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Let's say it's the World Series, NBA Finals, Super Bowl or some type of NCAA championship. Let's also say in the case of the pro teams, you have a player who is a free agent, or in the case of either the NCAA or pro teams, a coach who is at the end of his contract.

Now one team wins the championship, and there is pandemonium, and the TV reporters rush to the locker room to interview the winning teams and their stars. What is the first damn question that they ask of the free agent players and/or coaches in the locker room?

"So will you be returning to the (team name) next year?"

Which of course never elicits a clear answer from the player/coach (their agent no doubt told them to be coy when asked the question). But you would think that the little blow-dried, tousled hair reporter could allow the team's fans 5 minutes, just a precious 5 minutes, to enjoy their championship before bringing up business and contract matters?

For a fan like me who has seen countless favorite teams of mine destroyed by free agency in the past, this is especially frustrating.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. What I hate about the national sports media is that they exist.

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2. And that they're impossible to avoid

Comcast recently added about 317 24-hour all-sports channels to its lineup, and that was in addition to two 5,812 already on the dial.

And to you sports-zealots who say "just change the channel," I say this: bite me.

I only really want four or five channels from the whole roster, but in order to get them, I have to buy "The Package" that includes the aforementioned 6,129 sports channels (and about 462 God-channels, too). So I'm paying for several dozen "classic golf" channels just so that my kids can watch Spongebob, for pity's sake.

And to you anti-tv-zealots who say "just turn the tv off," I say this: bite me, luddites.

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3. And even on the non-sports channels, there are constant "sports updates"

and the news stations have sports and the newspapers have entire sections every day just devoted to sports...

meanwhile, Americans win Nobels in science, and they make page three or nine.

But some asshole catches a football, and it's the front fucking page.

Every high school sports game gets dedicated coverage from every local media outlet; the high school orchestra could go twenty years performing concerts and get maybe ONE mention in the newspaper.

Joe Fuck high school quarterback gets a front page spread in the Sports section, while the kid that wins the DECA competition, or debate, or pulls in a fantastic performance in a play or jazz concert, or takes home the trophy for the state math contest - gets fucking nothing, except maybe beat up by the quarterback and his neanderthal friends, which violence is then overlooked by the school administration because, hey, they can't lose The Most Important People in High School!

Scientists are discovering shit that's so cool it's mind-fucking-blowing every day, and they get a half page every four weeks to make mention of it, while every goddamned day there are at least 4 pages of sports, and 15 minutes on the nightly news show about who caught what ball and when and rallied their Superior And All Important Might to DEFEAT IN BATTLE the other team of millionaire asshole ball catching morons.

[Orrex]

4. For shizzle

I live near Pittsburgh, and the nightly sports news is interrupted only long enough to talk about the shooting(s) in Oakland and the the traffic situation on the parkway east.

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5. kick

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6. Too many of them come off as a bunch of jock sniffers.

I agree, let the team enjoy a celebration period after winning. Media should be barred from the locker rooms for at least an hour after the games. No contact at all. Let 'em enjoy the moment without some media airhead shoving a microphone in their faces.

I do agree with posters above talking about the over emphasis on sports in the news when more important things are going on. It certainly lends credence to those who argue that sports are simply the opiate of the masses, keeping people's attention off the bigger issues of the day.

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7. They're all a bunch of kiss-asses and homers

There are so few that are rational in their coverage, it's useless to try to find them. Everyone else is too busy sucking up to athletes like, say, I don't know, BrettFavre.

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8. Heh. I was wondering what the odds were of seeing the words

"Brett Favre" in your post...I'm thinking yesterday was pretty annoying for you...;)

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9. Well, after every fucking football show on the planet spent hours licking Favre's ass

Gee, Brett has a good running game and a good defense and is doing well? Guess what, that describes his three MVP years, too! Wait, that would require sports "journalists" to get a fucking clue and learn how to draw conclusions from available data. That's much harder than giving out Dutch rubs.

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Seriously, go on have sex with them and get on with your life.