Postseason Blues and Officials Stripes

I know it has been a while since I have written.  My only excuse is a lack of interest and too much to do.

I found the baseball playoffs less than interesting.  Maybe the biggest reason is a lack of available games on television.  The American League seemed to always be on FoxSports1, while TBS and TNT seemed to be the general outlet for most of the games.  The World Series finally made it to the big stage on Fox, but by then, casual fans are more interested in football.  Tends to happen in early November.

I am not sure why Major League Baseball is so set on destroying it's fan base.  Let's take the biggest stage in baseball and hide the majority of the games, especially the Toronto Blue Jays.  The winner of the division with both the Yankees and the Red Sox are still a mystery to most baseball fans because their games were afternoon starts on the obscure FoxSports1.  Also, let's start playoff games so late that future fans can't see heroes being made because they're in bed instead of watching the game.

I remember the split concentration at school, wondering how the playoff games were going.  I ran home from the bus to find out what was going on.  Kids don't see it that way today, noses in their smart phones and wrapped in the world of texting their friends, FaceTime or Skype.  A number of the best player who will spend time in the Major Leagues someday have probably asked the question, "Who's in the World Series?"

Hey, MLB, get this stuff right.  A great game will go down the tubes because you sacrificed future fans for current money.

-I was going to skip the noise around Greg Hardy and the domestic violence charges that were expunged.  In light of the pictures that came forward, it brought to mind the subject of character and sports.

Sports reveals character.  The large number of appearances of NFL players on police blotters shows that we are a society of settling for the look of a winner and not actually being one.  We look like a winner in high school, and it's okay he slapped his girlfriend around.  In college, he split her lip, but he could play ball and we needed it to bring in those alumni dollars from a great football program.  Now he's in the NFL and it's big news that he engages in domestic violence.

Women, girls and children being sacrificed on the altar of football.

-My volleyball season as an official was good enough that I have a number of games lined up for next fall.  I passed the basketball official's exam and have a number of games scheduled, starting this Thursday.  Primarily elementary basketball schedule at the moment, but will possibly see some middle school and maybe even freshman games before the end of the season.

However, I have discovered there are almost 3,500 basketball officials in the stat eof Indiana.  Seems like too many to me.